A man has been charged after allegedly throwing a meat pie at another supporter during a clash between the Dragons and Bulldogs on Saturday.

Footage of the incident shared to social media, recorded by the alleged pie thrower, showed the man buying a pie at the stadium before throwing it into a crowd at Kogarah Oval.

Police at the stadium during the game were alerted to the incident.

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No injuries were reported, but police said the pie was "believed to have struck several people".

On Monday, police issued a Field Court Attendance Notice, charging the man with common assault and behaving in an offensive manner in public.

He is due to appear in Sutherland Local Court on April 15.

9News understands he will be banned from future NRL games.

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Australian medical professionals have issued an urgent warning to parents following a sharp rise in the number of young children swallowing button batteries. 

This year alone, two toddlers have undergone emergency surgery due to battery ingestion in South Australia, and authorities fear the situation could worsen.

One-year-old Adele recently endured a harrowing ordeal after swallowing a button battery. 

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"The first whole week in ICU was… the biggest nightmare we could have," mother Gintare Wilhelm said, while father Daniel said there were moments "that we thought she might not make it".

Initially, Adele's odd behaviour prompted her parents to seek medical attention. X-rays revealed that she had swallowed a button battery, which had lodged in her esophagus. 

The one-year-old underwent several emergency surgeries to remove the battery and treat the burns in her esophagus and now, after two months of recovery, she is doing well.

However, her parents are determined to raise awareness and urge others to take precautions.

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"Baby-proof your home, double what you think you could, secure your button batteries, dispose of them correctly," Daniel said.

Adele is one of two young children saved by medical staff this year after ingesting button batteries, prompting an urgent warning to other parents.

"Children can die from swallowing a button battery, if the burn is significant enough," Dr Sonja Latzel, from Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital said.

The hospital has witnessed a spike in cases, with three incidents already recorded in the first three months of this year, compared to only three cases in the entire previous year.

"You will not be wasting our time if you suspect a battery has gone missing, and your children are retching or struggling to swallow, drooling and refusing to eat or drink," Latzel said.

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Victoria's government is expected to announce sweeping reforms to bail laws as early as tomorrow.

Premier Jacinta Allan is set to announce the toughest bail laws in the country in an official announcement in the morning, with punishments connected to serious offending including carjacking and aggravated burglary expected to be tightened.

9News understands a ban on machetes is also on the cards, after ministers discussed proposals in a 2.5-hour cabinet meeting today.

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It comes as the premier was accused of rejecting a plan by then-police commissioner Shane Patton to fix Victoria's troubled bail system weeks before he was axed.

It's understood Patton suggested putting a three-strike limit on bail chances, but sports minister Steve Dimopoulos today quashed any suggestion the government dismissed the top cop's proposal.

"It's an assumption that we've rejected something. The premier said nothing's off the table," Dimopoulos said.

"The premier's made it clear that they're coming to us very soon with proposed responses."

The overhaul could be a major breakthrough for dozens of protesters and victims of crime who marched through the Victorian city of Bendigo, calling for tougher bail laws.

Rally leader Tanya Mallia, a victim of a home invasion, shared that she has been left traumatised after being held at knifepoint inside her home.

Protesters held up handwritten signs saying "bail laws need to change" and "youth crime do the time" as they walked through the city centre from Premier Jacinta Allan's electoral office and towards the law courts precinct.

"We want to make a change because our children are our future. We are sick of looking over our shoulders, Jacinta Allan needs to hear us now and something needs to be done," Mallia said.

"Our children are turning into preparators of crime and something needs to change now.

"Jacinta Allan please don't wipe this under the mat, we need to be heard now. We want action taken immediately. Do something now, we need to be safe."

The Bendigo woman said she struggles to sleep at night after an intruder broke into her home.

"I had an intruder come through my back door, didn't know him. He jumped the fence and he came in with a knife and he came charging and threatened myself and a bystander that I had in my home at the time," she said.

"He was chased out. Police were called and got him immediately. We feared for our life that night, it was scary. I haven't slept, every time I hear a noise I fear he is out there.

"The justice system just lets them off. No one needs to go through that it's trauma and it needs to be done now."

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The protest comes a week after nine teenagers were filmed allegedly punching, kicking and dragging a security guard at Bendigo Marketplace.

Police said the guard was set upon after he had asked the youths to leave the centre.

Acting Chief Commissioner Rick Nugent revealed last month he had already been in talks with the government about bail reforms and emphasised the need for the force to reset.

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Despite urgent treatment, the 39-year-old died at the scene.

A teenager has been charged today with allegedly assaulting two elderly women during a string of home invasions in south-western Sydney last week.

The 18-year-old boy was arrested yesterday when police raided a home at Merrylands and seized items linked to their investigation.

He's accused of breaking into five homes in Merrylands between 4am and 6am last Thursday.

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In two of the separate home invasions, women in their 80s were allegedly sexually assaulted and touched.

At one of the homes, the man is accused of holding a knife while attempting to sexually assault a woman. In another home, he allegedly sexually touched a second woman.

Crime scenes were established at each home, and an investigation into the attacks by detectives from Strike Force Beigy began.

The man was arrested at Dee Why police station on the Northern Beaches and faces 16 charges, including armed, aggravated sex assault, break and enter, and sexually touching without consent.

He was refused bail and is scheduled to appear in court later today.

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

The man was punched in the face and chased with a baseball bat in the late-night attack.

The woman described the final moments before the victim was shot and fell to the ground.

A stern warning has been issued to motorists after a woman was charged for driving through floodwaters caused by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred in south-east Queensland. 

Police were called to rescue a woman trapped in her car on Newmarket Road in Brisbane about 6am yesterday but arrived to find it empty.

The woman, a 58-year-old from Enoggera, had allegedly driven through the floodwaters when her car became submerged and began to float.

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Police later found and charged the woman with one count of driving without care.

She will face Brisbane Magistrates Court on April 14.

It is just one of many rescues emergency services have been called to since cyclonic conditions caused major rainfall, dangerous winds and floodings across south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales last week.

Yesterday, police freed an 84-year-old man who became trapped in his partially submerged car after driving past a road closed sign in Oxley.

On Sunday, police rescued a 61-year-old woman from Murarrie after her car became stuck in floodwaters on Wynnum Road in Cannon Hill.

On that same road in Tingalpa, a 59-year-old man from Cannon Hill tried to drive through flowing water and police were called to help tow his car.

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No one was injured in any of the incidents. 

Brisbane disaster district coordinator and acting assistant commissioner Rhys Wildman said there was "no excuse for ignoring road closures and driving through floodwater".

"By driving through floodwaters, you are putting yourself, your vehicle and first responders in danger," he said.

"The water may look shallow, but a car can lose traction in as little as 15cm of water."

Emergency services are still clearing fallen trees and debris from roads across the ex-cyclone affected region. 

Some traffic lights at roads and intersections remain without any signal.

Motorists who approach roads with non-working signals or flashing amber lights are advised to always give way to the right and drive with extra caution and care.

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Two tax breaks are "disproportionately" benefiting Australia's richest while simultaneously fuelling the housing affordability crisis, a new report by the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has found.

The report criticises the capital gains tax deduction for property, where only 50 per cent of capital gains made from an asset are taxed when it is sold, and negative gearing, which allows investment expenses to be deducted from income.

According to ACOSS's findings, the richest 10 per cent of households own two-thirds of all investment properties and are receiving 82 per cent of the $16 billion in tax relief the two breaks provide.

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The elite bracket also makes up 39 per cent of all tax deductions for rental properties, it found.

"These tax breaks disproportionately benefit the well-off in our society while millions struggle to pay the rent, let alone save a deposit to buy their first home," ACOSS chief executive Dr Cassandra Goldie said.

The report also found that since the introduction of the capital gains discount in 1999, the average house price has increased by 142 per cent while wages have risen by 44 per cent. 

These concessions were blamed for driving up the house prices by encouraging property investment in pursuit of the tax breaks while also contributing little to the housing supply as 81 per cent of investor loans were for the purchase of an existing property. 

The report wrote that the tax benefits are making it harder for people to transition from renting to home ownership and are contributing to the "unprecedented levels of unaffordability".

"Australia's absurdly generous tax breaks are supercharging the housing crisis and rising inequality in our society," Goldie said.

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"As long as our tax system encourages speculative investment in housing, the housing affordability crisis won't be solved just by building more homes."

According to independent modelling cited by the report, halving the capital gains tax discount to 25 per cent and curbing negative gearing could reduce house prices by four per cent.

This is similar to the impact of building an additional 1.2 million homes over five years — a target the federal government has promised under the National Housing Accord policy.

ACOSS wants the government to reduce the capital gains deduction from 50 to 25 per cent over five years, restrict negative gearing for new investments and also halve the capital gains deduction for super funds.

It said these measures could earn the government an estimated $19 billion over four years, which the organisation said could be reinvested into building 47,000 new social and affordable homes per year.

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The government's housing policies include 1.2 million new homes built by mid-2029, a $9.3 billion agreement with states and territories to support social housing and homelessness services, a scheme to help 40,000 households purchase a new or existing home, and tax incentives to support investment in new build-to-rent developments.

One of those latter tax incentives includes increasing the capital works tax discount depreciation rate from 2.5 per cent to four per cent.

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A woman is recovering in hospital after she was struck by lightning as large parts of South Australia were smashed by electrical storms overnight.

Around 47,000 lightning strikes ignited dozens of fires and triggered mass power outages across the state's south-east yesterday evening.

A 35-year-old was hospitalised after being struck by lightning around 10pm (10.30pm AEDT) yesterday near Millicent, 50km from Mount Gambier.

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The woman was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries, a spokesperson for SA Ambulance confirmed.

She was "breathing and conscious" after being hit by the lightning strike.

The electrical storms caused chaos across the south-east.

Crews were called to multiple grass fires after thousands of dry lightning strikes hit across Kalangadoo and Ngarkat Conservation Park yesterday evening.

Firefighters from SA Country Fire Service were still on the scene fighting blazes at 6am (6.30am AEDT) after struggling to contain the scrub fires through the night.

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Five trucks remain on the scene in Kalangadoo, 411km from Adelaide, following a haystack fire.

The out-of-control fire in Ngarkat Conservation Park has already razed more than 20,000 hectares and will likely burn for a number of days.

Six trucks remain on the scene in the park as the blaze continues to burn.

Heavy smoke can be seen from afar.

SA CFS said the fires were ignored after a "significant" number of dry lightning strikes sparked the dangerous fires.

Crews have responded to more than 100 incidents since 4pm yesterday, including trees and power lines brought down by lightning.

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The wild electric storms sparked more than 47,000 ground lightning strikes since 5pm yesterday, which caused power outages across the York Peninsula and the state's south-east, SA Power Networks spokeswoman Megan Grey said.

There are still 10,908 homes without electricity across South Australia, according to SA Power Network's map.

Grey said extra crews had been dispatched to address the mass outages, including crews from regional and metro areas.

The fires are not impacting power or restoration work.

Hundreds of homes in Yorke Peninsula towns including Ardossan, Arthurton, Clinton, Kainton and Price remain without power.

Mass power outages are also impacting homes in Penola, Coonawarra, Glenroy, Beachport, Boatswain Point, Bray, Clay Wells and Conmurra.

"Due to the large number of faults, power restoration is taking longer than normal," SA Power Network told customers.

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