Prowash has been fined more than $120,000 after a WorkSafe prosecution over the incident.

Rail operator penalised after a train ran a red signal on June 17, 2023.

The Serious Crash Unit is examining the scenes.

Lawyer Neil Weatherhead called the closure ‘sneaky’ and ‘unlawful’.

Tim Jago will appeal in June, claiming a miscarriage of justice.

A nationwide search is under way for a group of schoolchildren who buried a time capsule back in 1985.

It's been 40 years since the kids won a national competition to help Telstra, then known as Telecom, celebrate its 10th anniversary by burying items in a time capsule in Adelaide, South Australia.

All the participants were aged 10 at the time they put items in the capsule and are now hopefully approaching their milestone 50th birthdays. 

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The suspected arsonist threw homemade Molotov cocktails inside the property where everyone was fast asleep.

The parent company of Taco Bell Australia has announced plans to either close or sell off its national network of stores.

Collins Foods, which also operates hundreds of KFC locations in Australia, said in a statement to investors it has decided to exit the Taco Bell business.

If a buyer isn't found within a year, the group said it may consider other "exit options" for Australian Taco Bell stores. There are no plans to close any KFC locations.

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"Discussions are currently underway with Taco Bell International (TBI) regarding a potential transition of the business to new ownership," Collins Foods said in a statement.

"Collins Foods intends to complete the transition within the next 12 months, subject to formal terms being agreed.

"A further update will be provided, including estimated exit costs, as matters progress. 

"If a new operator cannot be identified and/or an agreement cannot be reached, other exit options will be explored."

There are 27 Taco Bell locations across Australia.

The US-owned Mexican fast-food giant first launched in Australia back in 1981, however a Sydney restaurant with the name Taco Bell's Casa took it to court.

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Taco Bell made a second attempt to crack into the Australian market in 1997 but it shut doors again after eight years.

In 2017, Taco Bell made its third and final venture into Australia with plans to open more than 50 stores by late 2021.

Managing director and chief executive Xavier Simonet said Collins Foods will continue to invest in its most successful operation, KFC, including expanding in Germany.

"Collins Foods has successfully operated KFC restaurants for over 50 years, building a reputation as a trusted operator," Simonet said.

"In a challenging economic environment, the customer remains at the heart of our business.

"We will continue to deliver high-quality food at accessible prices, leveraging the heritage of the KFC brand at a time when consumer trust has never been more important."

Following the announcement, former general manager of Taco Bell in Australia Krystal Zugno has been promoted to general manager of Australian operations for both Taco Bell and KFC.

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Young voters are forming a rallying cry for the federal government to address one of their greatest concerns: climate change.

The climate crisis has become so alarming to some Australians it's given rise to a little-known term called climate anxiety, also known as eco-anxiety.

Alexa Stuart, 21, has already spent years of her life anxious about the climate.

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The Newcastle environmentalist, who gate-crashed PM Anthony Albanese's campaign pitstop earlier this month to protest the federal government's climate policies, told 9news.com.au climate anxiety is a very real issue for many young Australians.

"I'd say from about 15 I've had climate anxiety," Stuart, a member of the climate advocacy group Rising Tide, explained.

"That's when things started to really sink in for me about the seriousness of the climate crisis, I remember like late nights trying to research the science of it and, and feeling quite emotional about it quite often."

Stuart recalls the devastating 2019/20 bushfires in Australia as a turning point for her passion – and horror – over the state of the environment.

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China's leader Xi Jinping said no one wins in a trade war as he kicked off a diplomatic tour of South-East Asia , presenting China as a force for stability in contrast with US President Donald Trump's latest moves on tariffs,

Although Trump has paused some tariffs, he has kept in place 145 per cent duties on China, the world's second-largest economy.

"There are no winners in a trade war, or a tariff war," Xi wrote in an editorial jointly published in Vietnamese and Chinese official media.

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"Our two countries should resolutely safeguard the multilateral trading system, stable global industrial and supply chains, and open and cooperative international environment."

Xi's visit lets China show South-East Asia it is a "responsible superpower in the way that contrasts with the way the US under President Donald Trump presents to the whole world," said Nguyen Khac Giang, a visiting fellow at Singapore's ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute.

While Trump has said he respects Xi, he interpreted the meeting between the two Asian leaders as a sign they were attempting to put the US at a disadvantage on trade.

Talking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said China and Vietnam were trying "to figure out how do we screw the United States of America."

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Xi was greeted on the tarmac by Vietnam's President Luong Cuong at the start of his two-day visit, a mark of honour not often given to visitors, said Nguyen Thanh Trung, a professor of Vietnamese studies at Fulbright University Vietnam.

While Xi's trip likely was planned earlier, it has become significant because of the tariff fight between China and the US.

The visit offers a path for Beijing to shore up its alliances and find solutions for the high trade barrier that the US has imposed on Chinese exports.

Vietnam and China signed a series of memorandums in areas including strengthening cooperation in supply chains, rail development and environmental protection, according to Associated Press footage of the signed documents.

Nhan Dan, the official mouthpiece of Vietnam's Communist Party, said that China and Vietnam will speed up a $US8 billion railway project connecting the two countries in a deal that was approved in February.

Vietnam is experienced at balancing its relations with the US and China.

It is run under a communist, one-party system like China but has had a strong relationship with the US.

In 2023, it was the only country that received both the US president Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping.

That year it also upgraded the US to its highest diplomatic level, the same as China and Russia.