Exclusive: A Melbourne father has spoken out learning his toddler may have attended a childcare centre where alleged paedophile Joshua Brown worked, as the former childcare worker's employment history is revisited.

A major police investigation saw Joshua Brown charged with 70 offences, including sexual assault, earlier this year.

The charges relate to eight alleged victims at a Point Cook early education centre.

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Earlier this week the state government established a dedicated website relating to the ongoing investigation, which publicly lists Brown's places of employment between 2017 and 2025 "out of an abundance of caution".

About 1200 families were also contacted to send their children for precautionary testing for sexually transmitted diseases.

Revelations emerged yesterday that Brown may have worked on more occasions than those listed on the government website.

Melbourne father Daniel* did not initially think his family had been impacted, until an updated timeline revealed a crossover between his two-year-old son's attendance and Brown's employment at a centre in the city's west.

"We didn't expect it, for us to be involved in it, and when we did find out my heart sank," Daniel said. 

"These are dates that the government weren't aware of, and yeah, it's just unfortunate that we had to find out that way," he told 9News.

Premier Jacinta Allan said the website was being "constantly updated".

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Because they were not initially contacted by the health department, Daniel claims his son was turned away from the test site and had to scramble to prove his toddler needed the test.

"To make such big mistakes in this, with young children involved between, you know, five months to two years and, you know, to be cutting corners and, …. the communication breakdown has been poor…it's very disappointing," Daniel told 9News.

Police are investigating if any alleged abuse occurred at the 19 other facilities he worked at.

Allan has assured parents the government is taking immediate action, yesterday appointing Jay Weatherill to review Victoria's childcare sector.

"Jay Weatherill is the best person for this work, he is the best person to lead this work," she said. 

But critics have argued the former South Australian premier, who oversaw the worst child protection failure in the state's history, is not the right fit.

"How on earth can we have confidence that this review will deliver the outcomes that Victorian families need?" shadow education minister Jess Wilson asked.

*Name has been changed for privacy

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Millions of Australians are relying on an inheritance to achieve major financial goals such as purchasing a home or retiring, but experts are warning the expectation of a windfall is creating a "false sense of security".

A survey by comparison website Finder found 8.8 million Australians were expecting family money over the coming years, with 43 per cent of men in line for an inheritance compared to 41 per cent of women.

The research comes as many Australians find themselves in the middle of a perfect storm, with property prices climbing for a fifth consecutive month and new research revealing a lack of superannuation among the country's smallest business owners.

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With the current cost of living, one in 10 respondents to the Finder survey said they were dependent on an inheritance to achieve their financial goals.

Almost one in five Australians said an inheritance would significantly improve their finances but they were not dependent on the money.

The survey also found that while 12 per cent of respondents expect to receive an inheritance, the financial boost would not have a major impact on their financial plans.

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Almost one in 10 respondents did not expect to get an inheritance due to family circumstances such as a lack of family or strained relationships.

Meanwhile, half of Australians said their family was not in a position to leave an inheritance.

Finder personal finance expert Sarah Megginson said the family money was increasingly viewed as a lifeline for many Australians navigating rising costs.

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"With the cost of living sky-high, it's not surprising that some Aussies are hinging their future financial security on an inheritance, but it's a risky strategy," Megginson said.

"Relying on money that hasn't hit your bank account yet can delay important financial decisions and create a false sense of security.

"Not everyone can count on a family payout, nearly half of Aussies say their family won't be in a position to leave anything behind."

Megginson urged Australians who expect to receive an inheritance to use this time to educate themselves on topics such as investing, tax implications and budgeting.

"A sudden windfall can disappear fast without a solid financial plan in place," Megginson said.

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Two elderly female tourists in Zambia have been killed by an elephant while on a walking safari in a national park, police said.

Eastern Province Police Commissioner Robertson Mweemba said the victims — 68-year-old Easton Janet Taylor from the UK and 67-year-old Alison Jean Taylor from New Zealand — were attacked by a female elephant that was with a calf.

Safari guides who were with the group attempted to stop the elephant from charging at the women by firing shots at it, police said.

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The elephant was hit and wounded by the gunshots.

The guides were unable to prevent the elephant's attack and both women died at the scene, police said.

It happened at the South Luangwa National Park in eastern Zambia, around 600 km from the capital, Lusaka.

Female elephants are very protective of their calves and can respond aggressively to what they perceive as threats.

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Last year, two American tourists were killed in separate encounters with elephants in different parts of Zambia.

In both cases, the tourists were also elderly women and were on a safari vehicle when they were attacked.

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Warning: This story contains the name and images of a deceased Indigenous person.

Zoo animals are treated better than an Indigenous teenager held in a cell for 22 hours a day in a troubled wing of an adult prison without water before he fatally self-harmed, his outraged family says.

Cleveland Dodd was found unresponsive inside a cell in Unit 18, a youth wing of the high-security Casuarina Prison facility for adults in Perth, in the early hours of October 12, 2023.

The 16-year-old was taken to hospital in a critical condition and died a week later, causing outrage and grief in the community.

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A lawyer for Cleveland's mother, Nadene Dodd, was scathing of the care provided to the teenager by Justice Department staff, as he gave submissions to the Coroner's Court of Western Australia on Monday.

"Cleveland was subjected to institutional abuse, cruel and inhumane treatment," Steven Penglis told the inquest.

The teen spent more than 22 hours a day in his cell for 74 of the 86 days he was detained in Unit 18 before he self-harmed, he said.

Over that period, he had four hours of recreation time, equating to about three minutes a day.

His cell had no running water and in the hours before he was fatally injured he asked for water six times, Penglis said as he recapped evidence heard during the inquest that started in April 2024.

Cleveland's grandmother Roslyn Sullivan said animals were treated better than her son was as a Unit 18 detainee.

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"You get treated more better if you're in the zoo," she said outside court.

"No running water, no tap to wash his hands, no tap to wash his body.

"That place shouldn't have even been there."

Cleveland threatened to self-harm eight times and requested medical attention.

The teen's actions were the conclusion of a series of events, including being denied bail, a failed attempt to call his mother on her birthday and severe, untreated dental issues, Penglis said.

"Cleveland's death was preventable and predictable," he said.

Nadene Dodd described her son's treatment as "horrific neglect" and inhumane.

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"It was both barbarous and criminal," she said outside the court.

"If people are not held to lawful account, then justice will have been denied."

Aboriginal Legal Service lawyer Julian McMahon said the inquest revealed there was a readiness across all levels of the Justice Department to accept the unacceptable.

"What happened at Unit 18 was horrific," he said in his submissions.

There was an "epidemic of self-harm" among a cohort of mostly Indigenous children, he said.

"By self-harm, I mean attempted suicide," McMahon said.

There had been at least 17 self-harm threats in the 24 hours before Cleveland fatally injured himself, he said.

Lawyers for senior Justice Department staff said their clients shouldn't be subject to adverse findings, including former director-general Dr Adam Tomison.

How the facility was run wasn't his responsibility and Corrective Services staff should have followed policy, lawyer Jerome Allan said

Tomison previously agreed children had been subject to appalling, cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment in Unit 18 under his watch.

The Justice Department apologised to Cleveland's family and said there were many issues in Unit 18 in 2023, including damaged infrastructure, excessive detainee confinement and staff shortages.

On the night Cleveland self-harmed, he was not properly supervised and should have been given more water, lawyer Tim Russell said.

"More should have been done," he said.

But the department did not accept Unit 18 was unfit for youth detainees.

The inquest previously heard Cleveland self-harmed about 1.35am and paramedics arrived at 2.06am, but did not get access to him for nine minutes.

Cleveland died, surrounded by his family, on October 19, 2023.

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A bottlenose dolphin has been rescued by the team from Sea World after swimming into shallow water in the Brunswick River on the NSW Far North Coast.

The dolphin was found stranded on a bank and had to be coaxed into shallow waters before it could be relocated.

"The animal did come high and dry on a bank so it did strand," Claire Madden from the Sea World Foundation said.

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"We decided to use a human chain, as sort of a net, to force the animal into some shallow waters," Wayne Phillips, also from the Sea World Foundation, explained.

Once secured, the dolphin was carefully examined.

Madden said the animal showed positive signs.

"Fish in his stomach so he's been eating, good body condition, no ocular disease," she said.

The dolphin was then transported in a van, monitored throughout the journey, and carried approximately 600 metres along a trail to a suitable release point on the Brunswick River.

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South Australia's seafood industry is bracing for the long-term impact of the state's toxic algal bloom, which could linger for at least another year.

Environment Minister Susan Close revealed today that new research indicates the bloom could remain for the next 12 months and beyond, and there's little that can be done about it. 

"I want to prepare people for thinking this is not something that is likely to pass quickly and is likely also to return at some point," she said. 

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The algae, according to Close, will subside to the seabed as temperatures decrease, "and simply wait on the seabed for conditions to return and to start a bloom again".

"What we're experiencing now is the effects of climate change," she said.

The impact of the bloom has hit the state's seafood industry.

Glenn Hill from Coorong Wild Seafood told 9News he is worried about job losses if the bloom worsens, mirroring the closures already experienced by some oyster farms and fisheries. 

"If the worst comes to pass, it will be a case of well, there's no food left," he said.

"If there's no food left, there will be no fishing."

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Despite the challenges, the government has sought to reassure consumers. 

"People should rest assured that buying seafood from SA is safe," Close said.

Adding to the environmental concerns, a large stingray washed ashore at Grange Beach, and a great white shark was found at Port Broughton.

The algal bloom is being closely monitored along metropolitan beaches, with concerns it could extend into the Port River and West Lakes. 

"We have to be prepared for this," Close said

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A former student of an elite private boys' school in Melbourne has launched a class action against the Christian Brothers over claims of repeated historic sexual abuse.

Now 60 years old, the former St Kevin's College student claims his teacher, Brother Welsh, made him stay behind after class several times in 1976, where he would inflict horrific sexual abuse on the Year 5 boy.

"The effects are terrible and ongoing, life-changing," the man, who did not wish to be identified, told 9News.

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"It leaves me in a state where I feel that I'm on a knife's edge.

"For me it was a matter of do as I say, don't say anything, nobody will believe you, your parents will go to jail."

Law firm Arnold Thomas and Becker has filed a writ in the Supreme Court alleging the Christian Brothers were negligent and failed in their duty of care to the former student.

"We are seeking compensation by way of damages for our client's pain and suffering … the cost of his medical expenses, and also in relation to his economic loss," Arnold Thomas and Becker lawyer Madeline Macriyiannis said.

The law firm is urging other St Kevin's students who have endured instances of abuse, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1990s, to come forward.

"We're aware of a number of people who have come forward and made complaints about other brothers at the school, and we allege that the Christian Brothers should have been on notice [and] that there was a risk to students such as our client."

The victim alleges his future was robbed by the abuse he allegedly endured at 10 years old.

"Everything slowly slipped away," he said.

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"What I believe I could have been, possibly earned, achieved in my life, I believe, has been sorely cut back, hamstrung, and torn away by my experience.

"[It] destroyed my employability, my earning potential, and… financially has ruined me."

The Christian Brothers Oceania Province said it intends to "rigorously defend" the claims.

"The allegations made in these proceedings are against a deceased Brother who has no other complaints known to the Christian Brothers of any impropriety of any type, including in the manner alleged," the congregation said in a statement.

"That parties attempt to publicly name this deceased Brother, who otherwise has an exemplary record, before any court has reached any finding of fact, is a gross distortion of the principles of natural justice and the process of the court."

Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).

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A paedophilic primary school teacher has shown no remorse for robbing eight young children of their innocent childhoods, instead attempting to blame his victims.

For years, Michael Anthony Lunn exploited his position as a trusted and admired primary school teacher in Sydney's eastern suburbs to sexually abuse eight children.

Aged between four and eight, Lunn singled out the children to prey on them, often inside the classroom.

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A number of the boys and girls told the NSW District Court that Lunn would call them up to his desk, pull them into his lap and touch their genitals.

One pupil, who was seven at the time, described wearing a second pair of underpants over her tights in a bid to deter her teacher from molesting her – but to no avail.

"Good girl," the court heard he told her afterwards.

Thinking about her thwarted attempt to protect herself now makes her cry, the former schoolgirl explained in an emotional victim impact statement.

Another told the court she would never be able to forget the "invasive and sinister" abuse, even though she was too young to understand what it meant at the time.

Lunn, now 71, faced sentencing for the historical sexual offences on Monday after a jury found him guilty of more than a dozen child sexual abuse offences in April.

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But he refused to show any remorse, contrition, or insight into the consequences of his offending on his victims, Judge Paul McGuire told the court.

Instead Lunn accused the children of concocting the allegations for retribution and claimed they had dreamt about the sexual abuse, but couldn't distinguish their dreams from reality.

Judge McGuire stressed the "very serious" nature of child sexual assault offences, which "rob children of their innocence and their childhood" and have lifelong consequences.

"Children are entitled to have adults give them protection and to not use them for their own perverse sexual gratification," he said.

The judge noted Lunn had been a respected teacher at the primary school, a sacred position which he abused to get unrestricted and unsupervised access to the "extremely young" children.

"The offender was entrusted by the parents, the school, the Department of Education and the community with [the children's] care and wellbeing," he said.

"[He] egregiously breached that trust."

His victims reported being scared about being reprimanded if they spoke up, or not being believed when they did.

Judge McGuire accepted the offences showed Lunn had a deviant sexual interest in pre-pubescent children, and determined he had a medium to average risk of committing further sexual offences.

He handed down a 19-and-a-half-year jail term, at least 12 years and three months of which Lunn will serve behind bars.

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The family of a western Sydney teenager who has been missing for a week have issued a desperate plea for help from the public.

Aanisha Sathik, 18, left home near Park Road in Auburn about 1pm on Monday, June 23, with no phone or money.

Police believe Sathik may have walked south on Harrow Road and entered Norman Park in Auburn about 3pm that same day.

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She is described as being of Indian/Sub-Continental appearance, 180 centimetres tall, of slim build, with long black hair in a bun and brown eyes.

Sathik was last seen wearing a black hooded jumper, long black pants with cream pinstripes, white shoes, and gold earrings.

Police have tracked her last known movements via CCTV when she was seen on the corner of Woodburn Road and Stone Street in Berala.

Police and family hold concerns for Sathik's welfare.

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Her father tearfully asked the public for help.

"Please find my daughter very soon," he said.

"We are asking you at home for help."

NSW Police Superintendent Robert Toynton urged members of the community to be on the lookout for the missing teenager around homes and backyards.

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Private waste companies in Victoria are being buried financially by residents continuing to illegally dump unwanted goods outside clothing donation bins

The problem, which includes items such as wardrobes and mattresses being left at donation points intended only for clothing, is escalating despite signs stating that "leaving items outside of bins is an offence".

"I've noticed bikes, scooters, just wheels and just rubbish," one resident said.

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Southern Cross Recycling Group (SCR Group) has been significantly impacted by the costs associated with managing illegal dumping. 

"We don't have a lot of problems about what goes in, it's really what is spilling outside of the bins that is completely inappropriate," chief executive Joe Carbone said.

SCR Group currently collects approximately 1.75 million kilograms of illegally dumped rubbish annually in Victoria, which costs about $500,000 to dispose of. 

The situation is expected to worsen following an increase in the Victorian Government's tax on landfill waste.

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"When you add that to our site fees, our permit fees, our disposal fees, it gets very close to where the charities were probably at 20 years ago, thinking 'is this worth it?'," Carbone said.

If illegal dumping continues in the way it does, charity bins are at risk of being phased out altogether because operators will be buried financially.

"Without these clothing collection points, we'd see a rise in (landfill), which is the last thing we want," Professor Alice Payne, Dean of the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT, said. 

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