Auckland is set to avoid the worst of the front with only a few showers for the region.

South Australia is set to remain as the home of the LIV Golf tournament until at least 2028.

Premier Peter Malinauskas announced the major win for the state government this afternoon after months of negotiation, and as the international championship has seen record crowds this weekend.

"We have now secured a deal to keep LIV Golf here until 2031," Malinauskas said.

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The deal comes with the option for the state to keep the tournament until 2031, with the latter three years contingent on the redevelopment of a golf course closer to the city in North Adelaide, which will be designed by Greg Norman.

"We want to make it easy for patrons and guests coming from interstate and overseas by having the golf in the CBD on a world championship Greg Norman-designed golf course," the premier said.

"We will now have something that is globally unique.

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"If a kid grows up today in South Australia and say, 'you know what I want to play on the same course Cam smith does', they can't do it. In 2028 they'll be able to do it, they'll be able to play where their heroes play."

Norman said he was up to the unique challenge.

"The hardest thing in the world is to build a balanced golf course and I want all these people here around here at LIV Adelaide to be able to go there and enjoy the golf course," Norman said.

The government would not provide details on how much the upgrades would cost taxpayers, but said it would be a significant investment, creating a world class golf course right next to the CBD.

‘Leave your bigotry and intolerance elsewhere.’

Westpac says its online and mobile banking services have been restored after customers reported having issues for at least six hours today.

Westpac took to X at 9.16am to initially apologise for the issues, which customers were still reporting by 3pm.

"We're aware that customers are experiencing issues accessing online and mobile banking. Our teams are working to fix the issue," the company wrote on X.

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"We're sorry for the inconvenience and will continue to share updates here."

At 3.13pm, the company updated that the services had just been restored.

"We appreciate your patience today, and we apologise for any inconvenience," Westpac shared on X.

Thousands of customers reported the outage to website Downdetector, beginning at 7.43am, with 2625 reports received by 8.43am.

Many others took to social media to complain that they could not access their money.

"I'm stuck on the highway for hours waiting to pay for fuel," an X user wrote.

Others complained it was not the first outage in recent months.

"Sorry but isn't this the 4th time this has happened in the past 3/4 months?" one X user commented.

"I literally want to buy myself some food."

Westpac responded individually to some comments on X.

"Thanks for reaching out and I'm sorry you've been impacted in this way," one reply read.

"Know we're definitely here to help you, and so we can best do this, are you able to send us a Direct Message? Thanks in advance."

A Westpac spokesperson told 9news.com.au: "We're aware some of our customers experienced issues accessing online and mobile banking today. Services are restored and we apologise to customers for the inconvenience."

She was granted compassionate bail to attend a funeral but never returned.

A witness can see a burned-out flat with smashed windows.

Communities across Far North Queensland are still facing empty supermarket shelves a fortnight after a flooded highway cut off access to the region.

The bridge has been rebuilt and grocery stores have re-opened, but shoppers continue to battle extreme low supply in some areas, including in Cairns.

Most shelves at one Woolies store in Cairns remain bare.

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A critical bridge on the Bruce Highway collapsed during the flooding last week and resulted in extreme delays in much-needed supplies of food, water and fuel to areas north of Townsville.

The Bruce Highway officially reopened across the Seymour River north of Ingham on Friday.

Melbourne influencer and food blogger Bianca, who also lives in Cairns for part of the year, shared footage of her local Woolworths store.

Fridges, freezers and shelves at the Cairns supermarket had been stripped bare as it desperately awaits resupply from a main distribution centre. 

"The shocking amount of rain that hit FNQ, causing flooding from Townsville to Cairns, didn't really hit us," Bianca said.

"However, because of road closures we are shut off from a lot of supplies as we are north of the affected areas… it's crazy and worse than Covid, if that was possible."

There are temporary limits in place for two per transaction for toilet paper, rice, bread, noodles, deli products and poultry at Woolworths stores north of Mackay.

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In a statement shared with 9news.com.au, Coles Regional Manager Brad Stewart said the supermarket giant was working on resupply but it could take longer than anticipated.

"Our team here in Far North Queensland and across the eastern seaboard is doing everything possible to ensure our customers can access the groceries they need in our region, however it will take some time before the shelves are restocked with everyone's favourite items," Stewart said.

"Since Friday we've managed to transport more than 1300 pallets of food and groceries, that's on average more than 110 per store, including fresh produce, meat, dairy, bread and grocery essentials like toilet paper, water, soft drinks, snacks, pasta, rice and cereals.

"We want to thank our customers for their patience and our team for being there for the community during this very challenging time."

A Woolworths spokesperson said its "number one priority" is getting much-needed groceries to impacted areas in Queensland.

"Whether that's meant having trucks poised at the edge of floodwaters to cross the moment they recede, or airlifting stock into communities," the spokesperson said.

"We thank our teams in Far North communities who have now been working for over a week to keep the doors open for our customers in particularly challenging circumstances.

"The Far North spirit has really been on show through our customers' support for our teams, and we would like to thank them for their patience and understanding as we've worked to replenish shelves with any stock available.

"We ask our customers to continue to be mindful of others and only buy what they need."

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The council says there is no risk to the wider public but they will be investigating.

Israel and Hamas completed the sixth exchange of hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners yesterday with just over two weeks remaining in the initial phase of their fragile Gaza ceasefire.

Israelis expressed relief as the three hostages – Argentinian-Israeli Iair Horn, 46; American-Israeli Sagui Dekel Chen, 36; and Russian-Israeli Alexander Troufanov, 29 – appeared to be in better condition than the emaciated ones freed a week ago.

Before being reunited with family, Troufanov was informed of his father's death in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack that sparked the 16-month war.

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Chen was meeting his youngest daughter for the first time. Horn's brother, Eitan, remains in captivity.

Armed, masked militants made the pale, worn men walk onto a stage and speak to a crowd before handing them over to the Red Cross in the southern city of Khan Younis.

The 369 Palestinian prisoners were later released.

A tense dispute earlier in the week threatened to derail the ceasefire and renew the fighting in Gaza.

US President Donald Trump’s proposal to remove the territory's over 2 million Palestinians and settle them elsewhere in the region also shook the truce.

But Hamas said on Thursday it would move ahead with the planned exchange after it said mediators Egypt and Qatar had pledged to “remove all hurdles” to ensure Israel would allow more tents, medical supplies and other essentials into devastated Gaza.

Trump on Saturday posted on social media that the hostages “seem to be in good shape," adding: "Israel will now have to decide what they will do about the 12:00 O’CLOCK, TODAY, DEADLINE imposed on the release of ALL HOSTAGES. The United States will back the decision they make!”

Israel has not imposed such a deadline, and it is not part of the ceasefire deal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he would convene the Cabinet as soon as possible to decide on next steps.

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In the occupied West Bank, released prisoners were greeted by a cheering crowd. Some appeared gaunt, and the Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said four were taken for treatment. Buses transported 333 others to Gaza.

The ceasefire took effect on Janurary 19. Before yesterday, 21 hostages and over 730 Palestinian prisoners had been freed during the truce's first phase.

The ceasefire faces a bigger challenge with the phase concluding in early March. There have not been substantive negotiations over the second phase, in which Hamas would release all remaining hostages in return for ending the war.

The hostages and prisoners released

The three hostages had been abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz, a community hard-hit in the October 7 attack.

Horn was abducted with his brother, who is not expected to be released in the ceasefire's first phase.

"Now, we can breathe a little. Our Iair is home after surviving hell in Gaza," his family said.

“Now, we need to bring Eitan back so our family can truly breathe.”

Chen was working outside when militants stormed in.

His wife, Avital Dekel Chen, hid in a safe room with their daughters. She gave birth to their third daughter two months later.

She told Israeli media she was overwhelmed with happiness to see her husband back in Israel, where he was meeting his youngest daughter, Shachar.

Troufanov, whose father was killed, was taken hostage with his grandmother, mother and girlfriend.

The women were released during a brief ceasefire in November 2023. His family said they were “overwhelmed with emotion and gratitude” Saturday. Russia's government also expressed gratitude.

Of the 251 people abducted during the October 7 attack, 73 remain in Gaza, around half believed to be dead. Nearly all are men, including Israeli soldiers.

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Concern has grown about their condition. One hostage, 65-year-old Keith Siegel, said Friday in a video message addressed to Trump that his captors treated him worse as the war intensified, kicking him, spitting on him and holding him without water or light.

The released Palestinian prisoners included 36 serving life sentences for involvement in deadly attacks against Israelis.

They include Ahmed Barghouti, 48, a close aide of militant leader and iconic Palestinian political figure Marwan Barghouti.

Israel sentenced Ahmed Barghouti on charges that he dispatched suicide bombers during the Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s in attacks that killed Israeli civilians.

Twenty-four of those serving life sentences will be exiled abroad, while 12 returned to the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem.

“When I saw my son, my soul came back to me again and I came back to life,” said Om Bashar, mother of Hassan Aweis, sentenced to life in 2002 on charges of voluntary manslaughter, planting an explosive device and attempted murder.

Israel also committed to releasing over 1,000 detained from Gaza provided they did not participate in the October 7 attack.

The Israeli Prison Service released the Palestinians in sweatshirts emblazoned with a Star of David and the phrase “Never forgive, never forget” in Arabic.

Some of those released into Gaza threw their sweatshirts on the ground and burned them.

The truce remains fragile

Netanyahu’s far-right allies are calling for the war to resume in March with the goal of destroying Hamas. The militant group remains in control of the territory after one of the deadliest and most destructive military campaigns in recent history.

Hamas may be unwilling to release more hostages if it believes the war will resume.

A new challenge is Trump's proposal to relocate Palestinians from Gaza, welcomed by Israel’s government. But it has been rejected by Arab countries and Palestinians, who fear they won't be able to return.

Human rights groups say the relocation could amount to a war crime under international law.

Trump also proposed that once the war ends, Israel would transfer control of Gaza to the United States, which would redevelop it as the “Riviera of the Middle East.”

At its height, the war displaced 90 per cent of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million.

Hundreds of thousands have returned to their homes during the ceasefire, though many found only rubble, human remains and unexploded ordnance.

The war has killed over 48,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many were fighters.

Israel says it has killed over 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.

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An 18-year-old driver was allegedly seriously assaulted after he did a burnout and his car skidded out of control, injuring six people, including two children, in NSW's Hunter Valley region.

Police were called to Bromage Road in Abermain, around 8km from Cessnock, around 12.05am following reports a car doing a burnout had crashed into a parked car, which then hit several pedestrians during an illegal street meet.

An eight-year-old girl was left with internal injuries and a woman, 31, was seriously injured after the car hit six onlookers during the street racing event.

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A blue Subaru Liberty AWD sedan had been driving east when it hit two parked vehicles, a white LDV and a champagne-coloured Mazda 6, police say.

The AWD then struck a group of people.

An eight-year-old girl remains in hospital with internal injuries and the 10-year-old was treated or minor injuries.

Two women, aged 25 and 31, remain in hospital. The 31-year-old was left with head injuries.

Two men, aged 24 and 25, were also taken to hospital.

The younger man suffered a fractured leg while the older man was treated for a foot injury.

The 18-year-old driver was also allegedly assaulted at the scene and suffered serious injuries.

He remains in hospital under police guard.

NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Dave Wardell said the driver was allegedly attacked by members of the crowd after the crash.

Four adults and two children, aged eight and 10, were watching on as cars took part in an illegal street racing event overnight.

"It is very, very concerning that we have got eight and 10-year-olds out at a street racing event at that time of night," Wardell said.

"Certainly that will be part of our investigation."

Seven people, including the driver, were treated by paramedics at the scene following the crash.

Police say the injured pedestrians were standing near a parked car when the crash took place.

One of the patients, believed to be the eight-year-old child, was airlifted to hospital by helicopter.

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A crime scene has been established and the Crash Investigations Unit is looking into the incident.

Wardell said the area was often targeted by dangerous drivers and street racing meets.

Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has footage is urged to contact police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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