The first image from the unfinished SKA-Low telescope in Western Australia has revealed almost 100 rare galaxies in what is a promising indication of the future for the world's largest radio observatory.

The image was produced with just 1024 of the planned 131,072 antennas, or less than 1 per cent, at the station on Wajarri Yamaji Country, and shows an area of sky about the size of 100 moons.

In the image, 85 of the brightest known galaxies, which appear as pinpricks of light, are visible, millions of light years away. At the centre of each are supermassive black holes – black holes hundreds of thousands to millions of times larger in mass to our Sun.

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"The quality of this image was even beyond what we hoped for using such an early version of the telescope," SKA-Low Lead Commissioning Scientist Dr George Heald said.

"The bright galaxies we can see in this image are just the tip of iceberg."

The SKA Telescope works by combining the signals from many antennae spread over a large area into a single 'dish'.

"With the full telescope we will have the sensitivity to reveal the faintest and most distant galaxies, back to the early Universe when the first stars and galaxies started to form," Heald said.

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When the telescope is fully functioning, SKA says that studying the same area of sky will reveal more an 600,000 galaxies in a single frame.

"This is technically difficult work and the first step to unlocking the awesome science that will be possible," said Heald.

SKA (Square Kilometre Array) Observatory is an international and intergovernmental radio telescope project, the WA telescope on of two SKA telescopes being built in Australia and South Africa.

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The telescope today is a culmination of work from astronomers, computer scientists, and engineers from around the world over a decade, SKA-Low Telescope Director Dr Sarah Pearce said.

"It's amazing to see all this work come together to give our first glimpse of the brilliant images that will come from SKA-Low, promising us a view of the Universe we've never seen before," she said.

Hey, America: Give the Statue of Liberty back to France.

So says a French politician who is making headlines in his country for suggesting that the US is no longer worthy of the monument that was a gift from France nearly 140 years ago.

As a member of the European Parliament and co-president of a small left-wing party in France, Raphaël Glucksmann cannot claim to speak for all of his compatriots.

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But his assertion in a speech this weekend that some Americans "have chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants" reflects the broad shockwaves that US President Donald Trump's seismic shifts in foreign and domestic policy are triggering in France and elsewhere in Europe.

"Give us back the Statue of Liberty," Glucksmann said, speaking Sunday to supporters of his Public Place party, who applauded and whistled.

"It was our gift to you. But apparently you despise her. So she will be happy here with us," Glucksmann said.

The White House brushed back on the comments Monday, saying France instead should still be "grateful" for US support during World War I and World War II.

Can France claim it back?

Dream on.

UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural arm that has the statue on its list of World Heritage treasures, notes that the iconic monument is US government property.

It was initially envisaged as a monumental gesture of French-American friendship to mark the 100th anniversary of the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence.

But a war that erupted in 1870 between France and German states led by Prussia diverted the energies of the monument's designer, French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi.

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The gift also took time to be funded, with a decision taken that the French would pay for the statue and Americans would cover the costs of its pedestal.

Transported in 350 pieces from France, the statue was officially unveiled October 28, 1886.

Is France's government offering asylum to Lady Liberty?

No. French-US relations would have to drop off a cliff before Glucksmann found support from French President Emmanuel Macron's government.

For the moment, the French president is treading a fine line – trying to work with Trump and temper some of his policy shifts on the one hand but also pushing back hard against some White House decisions, notably Trump's tariff hikes.

Macron has let his prime minister, François Bayrou, play the role of being a more critical voice. Bayrou tore into the "brutality" that was shown to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his White House visit and suggested that Trump's administration risked handing victory to Russia when it paused military aid to Ukraine.

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Glucksmann's party has been even more critical, posting accusations on its website that Trump is wielding power in an "authoritarian" manner and is "preparing to deliver Ukraine on a silver platter" to Russia.

In his speech, Glucksmann referenced New York poet Emma Lazarus' words about the statue, the "mighty woman with a torch" who promised a home for the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

"Today, this land is ceasing to be what it was," Glucksmann said.

What is the White House saying?

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked Monday about Glucksmann's comments, and responded that the US would "absolutely not" be parting with the iconic statue.

"My advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind them that it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now," Leavitt said, apparently referencing the US fight with allied powers to free France from Nazi occupation in World War II and alongside France during World War I.

"They should be very grateful."

But the debt of gratitude runs both ways. Leavitt skipped past France's key role in supporting the future US during its war for independence from the United Kingdom.

Leavitt is one of three administration officials who face a lawsuit from The Associated Press on First- and Fifth-Amendment grounds.

The AP says the three are punishing the news agency for editorial decisions they oppose. The White House says the AP is not following an executive order to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

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A 20-year-old man is in custody charged with murdering an Adelaide father who was on his daily morning walk in a park.

9News has been told screaming was heard around the time of the alleged killing, with police yet to reveal a potential motive.

Rylie Everson-Clare, 20, faced court today charged with murder after Aaron Stahlhut, 54, from Marden, was found dead on a walking path in a North Adelaide park yesterday morning.

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The father is being remembered as caring, loving and generous by loved ones, with flowers laid where he died.

CCTV shows him heading down O'Connell Street in North Adelaide carrying a coffee, moments before workers heard a commotion coming from Brougham Reserve.

The man, who 9News understands was an executive with Hewlett-Packard, was found unresponsive and surrounded by blood.

Paramedics rushed him to hospital but he couldn't be saved.

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A woman who laid flowers at the scene early this morning said Stahlhut was her best friend.

She said he would be remembered as a wise, generous, and loving father, and that she couldn't think of any reason why someone would hurt him.

Last night police made an arrest a few blocks away on Margaret Street.

Everson-Clare made only a brief appearance at the Adelaide Magistrates Court where he didn't apply for bail.

The 20-year-old, who is charged with murder, stood silently in the courtroom and showed very little emotion during his hearing.

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Prosecutors asked the court for the accused to be held in custody under a mental health order.

Very few details were mentioned but according to the accused's social media, he was a former student at Westminster College and played football for Adelaide University.

It's understood he spent today being interviewed by detectives, and video of that interview has been handed to the defence.

Everson-Clare will remain behind bars for now, unless he decides to make an application for bail.

In the meantime, a mental health report has been ordered ahead of his charge determination in August.

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Scientists have made a major breakthrough for early diagnosis of a brain disorder afflicting some of Australia's football greats, which could lead to previously impossible treatment.

Caused by repeated head knocks, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is not unlike Alzheimer's, is frequently found in rugby league and AFL stars.

An autopsy after death has been the only method of certain diagnosis until now.

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Symptoms of CTE include memory loss, confusion, impaired judgement, mood changes, and motor problems, but a diagnosis can only be made by examining the brain after death.

Now, neuroscientists in New Zealand have made a breakthrough for early testing using brain tissue mainly from former rugby players.

"What we found essentially is that there's a pattern of inflammation around blood vessels in CTE which is different to what we see in people who don't have the disease," University of Auckland research fellow Dr Helen Murray said.

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The hallmarks of CTE are brown lesions on the brain, abnormal proteins called tau not dissimilar to Alzheimer's disease, but in different areas.

Associate Professor and Australian Sports Brain Bank Director Dr Michael Buckland said these findings could pave the way for a blood test to diagnose CTE earlier on.

"If these changes occurred or preceded CTE, its a possibility that you may be able to intervene, treat people early on," he said.

Dr Murray said that earlier diagnosis may mean CTE can be dealt with during someone's lifetime through "pharmaceuticals, resting, and letting that inflammation go away".

NRL legend Wally Lewis has been diagnosed with probable CTE via this new method.

"It just became almost monotonous – where I could not remember what I'd just been told in a general everyday conversation," Lewis told 9News of his syptoms.

Other NRL sporting greats including Steve Folks and Paul Green were both diagnosed with CTE after death, while hallmarks of the disease were also found in the brain of recently-deceased 20-year-old rising star Keith Titmuss. 

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AFL stars including Graham "Polly" Farmer, Shane Tuck, Danny Frawley, and women's premiership player Heather Anderson were also diagnosed with CTE through autopsy.

The NRL is taking the issue seriously, introducing a series of measures to protect players including a compulsory 11-day stand-down for anyone found to be concussed.

Dr Buckland says a living diagnosis will happen with new technology and funding, with significant progress possible in the next few years.

"I can see that in reach, I think we're getting close," he said.

"It's the first time brain banks from Australia, New Zealand, and the US have all collaborated to work together on a specific problem.

A group of western Sydney brothers and sisters is accused of turning into "vigilantes", after they tracked down a ute that was allegedly stolen from the family home.

Police say the family members sparked a brawl at Green Valley in Mount Pritchard this morning, which left one of the accused ute thieves in hospital.

Footage obtained by 9News shows an alleged car-thief, fresh from casing a Mount Pritchard family home, and another balaclava-clad accomplice about to make off with a Mazda Ute.

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Four days later, after 4am today, one of the men was wheeled into Liverpool Hospital.

He was allegedly intercepted in Green Valley by his alleged victims in darkness, cutting the joy-ride short.

Neighbours say they heard a street-fight, saying they people were "waving their arms, running around going crazy".

Then, police say one of the men accused of taking the ute was stabbed.

Police arrested four women – aged 19, 32, 33, and 59 – and two men, aged 26 and 21.

A family of alleged vigilantes tracked their Mazda to Taminga Road using an Apple AirTag.

Steven Tonga woke to discover his three sons and two daughters were all under arrest.

The family says it grew tired of waiting for police to do something about the case. 

"I think the police didn't care. When they report the car last week, nobody's come here at all," Tonga, said.

"They're friendly kids, my community know us very well, but they're not violent kids."

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said the investigation was being conducted by local police.

Three brothers and a sister have been charged with affray.

The injured man they say stole their vehicle in hospital under police guard.

He's expected to be charged

One of the accused car thieves is on the run.

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The victim’s flatmate describes how he spoke to him only a few hours earlier.

The Crown says she was pushed from a moving car by her partner, and then beaten.

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Joyriding in a stolen luxury car at dangerous speeds, a teenager shared vision of his fun online.

The 16-year-old is now one of the first people to be sentenced under novel "post and boast" youth crime laws in NSW – though it's unclear anyone watched his video.

Identified as Nadj, he was on bail and serving parole for more than a dozen offences when he filmed himself in the passenger seat of a stolen Audi Q5 in the early hours of August 18.

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He shared footage on social media platform Snapchat of the car reaching speeds of between 120km/h and 150km/h before it was abandoned prior to 2am.

The so-called "post and boast" offence falls under performance crime laws implemented across NSW in March 2024 to tackle youth crime.

The events took place in the northern NSW town of Moree, which has been at the centre of efforts to deal with the issue.

In sentencing Nadj, Children's Court magistrate Paul Hayes said it was particularly important to denounce offences that could encourage others to commit criminal acts.

"Posting and boasting glorifies crime," he said.

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The teen remarked posting was a "cool thing to do" among his friends, but the magistrate said there was no evidence anyone had actually watched the video.

Nadj was also sentenced for breaking into a motel room armed with a 30cm carving knife and stealing the keys to a Mercedes before enjoying a lengthy joyride as a passenger.

The teen pleaded guilty to all charges and accepted responsibility for his actions.

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The magistrate found Nadj's extensive criminal record revealed a disobedient attitude to the law, but accepted the teen's behaviour and approach to education had improved in detention.

He sentenced the teen to two years in custody with the possibility of parole after 14 months.

"If he hurts somebody in a car, in a high-speed chase; kills an innocent family, I would never forgive myself for it."

Jen's* 15-year-old son has been arrested more than 30 times in the past 15 months.

What started with running away from home quickly escalated into alleged aggravated burglaries, car thefts, and high-speed chases.

"We would continuously bring him back each time, try and discipline him as best we could… Then one day he just left. He took off in a really distressing manner, and he never came back after that," she said.

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"My phone would be ringing all the time, with where he's at next, what police station has picked him up."

Random calls from detectives frequently stopped Kate* in her tracks as well.

Her son was arrested multiple times for breaking into homes and stealing cars in 2023.

"I thought the next phone call I was going to get was that he had seriously hurt himself – or hurt somebody else in the community."

It's a fear harboured by both mothers, rising to the surface amid Victoria's youth crime crisis.

As the number of home invasions and car thefts mounted, so too did public backlash.

Comments on social media called for the parents of young offenders to face punishment themselves.

"That was me they were talking about – 'throw the parents in jail.' I've done nothing but work so hard to try and keep my son out of the system, to stop doing all these crimes. I do as much as I can," said Jen.

And for parents losing control of their children for the first time, there was nowhere to turn.

"What I went through at that time was so isolating, and I was so ashamed," Kate recalled.

"I felt so incredibly ashamed, and I had no support. I felt like I couldn't talk to anyone about it."

It's not just the wave of community anger these mums feel helpless against.

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Watching her son get bailed over and over was a never ending cycle for Jen, who's preparing to attend his 18th court hearing later this month.

"When this all started, I was pleading for him to be locked up," she said.

"The amount of times I've rung [the police] and said, 'he's on bail, but he's doing this.' They can't do anything about it until they catch him in the act,"

"It's just incredibly frustrating to be on this continuous rollercoaster. When he's out, I just think, buckle up. Here we go again."

The Victorian government announced sweeping changes to bail laws last week – making it easier for magistrates to remand teenagers in custody, and harder for repeat offenders to be granted bail.

They also re-introduced the offence of breaching bail conditions, and committing crimes while on bail.

Jen and Kate have questioned why it's taken so long.

"I have sent Jacinta Allan herself several – probably hundreds – of emails, trying to get help. And she's never once responded to me," said Jen.

"It feels like they've only decided to come up with these stronger laws from public pressure," said Kate.

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"I think the behaviour's been normalised in society now, because the government's failed to take action."

Both agree strengthening bail laws by themselves won't fix the problem.

"Fill those beds with these kids that don't deserve to be out in the community, but also have things in place for them to do," said Jen.

"Once they're in Parkville, there's no rehabilitation, no programs in place. My son gets to choose if he wants to go to school, he gets to choose what classes he'd like to go to. He gets to swim in the pool, he gets to go to the gym… There's not enough being done in there, and I just feel it's an absolute waste of time."

"Have they consulted with people on the ground dealing with this problem? The youth workers, the youth police, developmental psychologists? Have they consulted with experts to come up with these solutions? Or are they just making it up?" asked Kate.

*names have been changed to protect identities

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