Residents in Western Australia have been warned to brace for rainfall in excess of 500mm and damaging winds as Tropical Cyclone Zelia moves towards the coast.

The cyclone progressed to a category 2 system at 11am (AWST) with sustained winds near the centre of 95km/h and gusts up to 130km/h.

The system, which is moving slowly towards the coastline, is sitting about 180km north of Port Hedland.

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Bureau of Meteorology state manager for Western Australia James Ashley said the system "is expected to take a bit of a wobble to the west" before resuming a southwards motion tomorrow.

"A real feature of this system is that it's quite erratic and slow-moving off the Pilbara coast," Ashley said.

The cyclone is likely to develop into a category 3 before crossing the east Pilbara or adjacent west Kimberley coast around Friday.

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Ashley said areas in the path of the weather system could see in excess of 500mm of rain over the course of the event.

Meteorologists have warned residents between Port Hedland and Bidyadanga of the potential of a dangerous storm tide as the cyclone centre crosses the coast.

"Tides are likely to rise significantly above the normal high-tide mark with damaging waves and dangerous flooding of some low-lying areas close to the shoreline," the Bureau of Meteorology said.

Gales with damaging wind gusts of 120km/h are developing near the coastal fringe between De Grey and Wallal Downs.

This could extend along the coast between Bidyadanga and Dampier including Port Hedland and Karratha today.

The damaging winds could then extend west to Mardie from late tomorrow, if the system moves further west than forecast.

Damaging wind gusts to 120km/h may also extend inland to Nullagine during Friday.

Destructive wind gusts of up to 160km/h may develop between between Whim Creek to Wallal Downs tomorrow as Zelia moves closer to the coast.

Very destructive wind gusts of up to 220km/h may develop between Whim Creek to Wallal Downs tomorrow evening.

A flood watch is also current for catchments in the Pilbara and western Kimberley.

Visit the Bureau of Meteorology website for the latest warnings and advice.

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Visitors to a popular beach on Sydney's North Shore have been warned to watch out for blue-ringed octopuses after several bites were reported.

Mosman Council said multiple bites had been reported at Balmoral Beach over the last week.

The blue-ringed octopus is one of the most venomous animals in the world.

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If bitten, the venom can cause paralysis and stop breathing.

Anyone bitten is advised to seek medical assistance immediately.

"Council was notified by Royal North Shore Hospital that several cases had occurred, to allow Council to provide information to the community to raise awareness about taking care in these areas," a spokesperson for Mosman Council said.

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Police said WorkSafe would be notified of the death.

A 20-year-old man has been charged after he was allegedly caught with $3 million worth of methamphetamine inside his car in regional Victoria.

Police intercepted a Honda HRV on Horsham Road in Stawell about 2.20am yesterday.

Officers searched the car and found two phones, cash, and what is alleged to be methylamphetamine.

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The driver, a 20-year-old Keilor Downs man, was arrested at the scene.

Police allege a traffickable quantity of methylamphetamine worth $3 million was found inside the car.

He has since been charged by detectives with trafficking a large commercial quantity of methylamphetamine and was remanded in custody to appear before the Horsham Magistrates' Court today.

Stawell is located about 237km north-west of Melbourne.

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A teenage girlfriend allegedly at the centre of a love triangle that triggered a series of violent events before an Indigenous teenager died is expected to front a murder trial.

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned the following article contains names and images of a deceased person.

Cassius Turvey, a 15-year-old Noongar Yamatji boy, died in hospital 10 days after he was "caught, knocked to the ground and deliberately struck to the head with a metal pole" in Perth's eastern suburbs on October 13, 2022.

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Jack Steven James Brearley, 23, Brodie Lee Palmer, 29, Mitchell Colin Forth, 26, and Aleesha Louise Gilmore, 23, are on trial in the Western Australian Supreme Court for his murder, which they deny.

Prosecutors say Cassius' death was "the end point of a complex series of events that had absolutely nothing to do with him".

They started on October 9 when Forth, Brearley, Gilmore and another man allegedly "snatched two kids off the street" and punched, kicked and stabbed one of them.

The incident was allegedly sparked by a "love triangle" involving Gilmore's 14-year-old brother, his girlfriend, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and another teen of similar age and social media exchanges about the boys fighting.

The next event allegedly happened three days later on October 12 when a group of school-aged kids went to Gilmore's home and "almost certainly in retribution" smashed the windows of Brearley's car, the jury was told on the first day of the trial.

The following day, Gilmore's brothers warned her that a group of teens could be coming to their family home, where Brearley also lived, looking for a fight.

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Brearley, Forth and Palmer allegedly armed themselves with metal poles pulled from shopping trolleys and knuckle dusters and drove off to search for youths with Gilmore.

"Somebody smashed my car and they're about to die," a prosecutor told the jury Brearley allegedly said.

They allegedly found a group of about 20 school-aged teens, including Cassius.

Brearley was "hunting for kids with a metal pole" and Cassius and some of the other "terrified school kids" fled into nearby bushland, the court was told.

"Cassius didn't make it as far as the fence when the accused Brearley caught up with him," the prosecutor said.

"He was struck to the head at least twice."

The trial continues today when Gilmore's younger brother's girlfriend is expected to be called as a witness to give evidence.

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Retiring Labor MP Stephen Jones has revealed he is a survivor of child sexual abuse in his farewell speech to parliament.

Jones reflected on the achievements of the governments he had served in his valedictory address, including the establishment of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse by former prime minister Julia Gillard in 2012.

The four-year inquiry received more than 1000 individual contributions, held 8000 private sessions, and received 26,000 letters and emails which led to more than 2500 referrals to police.

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Jones said the royal commission allowed survivors to share their experiences, which was an important step because "for decades the victims had been denied; their stories, if ever told, were contested and they were told they were not true".

"We often speak in this place of strength and weakness," he said.

"We reduce those concepts of strength to mean power over others. I think there's another kind of strength.

"It's the strength that comes from the things that you overcome and the strength that knows it's more important to do things with and for people than to them.

"The royal commission was a really painful experience for survivors but a necessary piece of truth-telling and reconciliation.

"Survivors, including me, appreciate it – a point I've never disclosed because I didn't want to be defined by it and because I didn't want to detract attention from those who unlike me didn't have a voice and didn't have access to power to tell their story.

"There is power in being seen, being heard and being believed."

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Jones, who announced his decision to retire last month, served as a Labor MP for 15 years, most recently as assistant treasurer and minister for financial services.

He has not publicly revealed his plans for retirement.

Jones said he was proud of his role in the 2017 same-sex marriage plebiscite, the rollout of NBN and his work on gambling ad reform.

"Together over 15 years, we have achieved many things," Jones said last month.

"We have connected every home and business to the NBN.

"We have established a National Disability Insurance Scheme.

"We are building new infrastructure for new suburbs, and we are restoring Medicare.

"I am proud of the role I played in progressing marriage equality and gambling ad reform in my early years.

"I am also proud of the work we have done to secure the future of our steel industry, to rebuild TAFE and as assistant treasurer, fighting scams, protecting workers superannuation, making financial advice more accessible and affordable, and strengthening consumer protections for all Australians."

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Woolworths will soon bring video advertisements to screens at deli counters and checkouts at stores across Australia.

The supermarket's in-house media agency Cartology confirmed brands would have access to 4000 weight scale screens in deli and seafood service areas and more than 10,000 screens at assisted checkouts.

Customers at these point-of-sale areas will be shown moving vision advertisements of products available at Woolworths stores.

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Cartology's General Manager of Product Steve Geelan said the screens will provide greater exposure of brands and recipes for shoppers.

"In-store continues to play a critical role in our customers' shopping journey," Geelan said in a statement.

"Having built a connected omnichannel ecosystem, we continue to look for strategic opportunities for brands and partners to connect to customers and enhance their shopping experience."

"Through the growth and digitisation of our in-store screen network, brands have a creative canvas to reach and influence customers through branded video content that can drive awareness of a new product, inspire meal time planning at the deli and seafood counters, or influence and leave a lasting impact at the checkout."

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The screens will be added to stores in the next few months, Cartology said.

Cartology looks after targeted retail advertising at Woolworths supermarkets, metro stores and Big W.

It already operates 5300 screens across the Woolworths Group network.

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A British expat has spoken out about an "unfair" aspect of Australia's workplace laws that led to her missing out on $40,000 worth of entitlements while her colleagues got paid.

Laura Denby moved to Australia from England six years ago on a working holiday visa before landing a job as an IT business analyst a year later.

Having worked at the same Sydney IT firm – Xam Consulting – for five years, the company was sponsoring Denby's skilled visa application for permanent residency.

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Denby said she lodged her permanent residency application around September 2023 and was busy making plans with her partner to buy a house and start a family, once the visa was granted.

But all her carefully laid plans came apart 12 months later, when Xam Consulting suddenly went into liquidation in September last year.

"We didn't have any clue it was going to happen," Denby said.

Denby said the first she and the company's other 60-to-100 staff members heard about the business going under was when they were called into a meeting with liquidators. 

"It was very sudden, to say the least," she said.

It was at this meeting that employees were told of their rights under the federal government's Fair Entitlements Guarantee scheme.

The last resort, safety-net scheme guarantees Australian citizens, permanent residents, and a very limited number of visa holders will still get unpaid wages, redundancy pay, and other entitlements when businesses go bust.

After doing her research on the scheme, Denby said she realised that, as a temporary skilled visa holder, she was ineligible to get any entitlements under the scheme.

"Honestly, I was gutted, it just put me in a really financially hard place," she said.

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Denby said she was one of a handful of temporary workers at the company put in the same situation.

In Denby's case, the entitlements she would have received had she been a permanent resident amounted to about $40,000.

Meanwhile, Denby said she had kept in touch with her other colleagues, who had all since been paid out under the scheme.

Left without an income, Denby said the stress took its toll.

"I wasn't earning any money and I just signed on a new lease at my apartment, which I couldn't afford to break," she said.

"I was actually that stressed that I ended up getting really sick, and I went to the doctors and got diagnosed with an autoimmune disease."

Thankfully, Denby was able to find a new job through a contact from her old company, about a month later.

However, Denby said she was moved to speak out about her experience because it was so unfair on migrants like herself, who had been contributing to the Australian economy for years.

"As a skilled worker, we have to sign a form to say we're a resident for tax purposes …. but then we're not receiving any entitlements when times fall tough on us," she said.

In an online Change.org petition started by Denby, she called on the government to change the law to include temporary workers in the Fair Entitlements Guarantee scheme.

"Migrant workers contribute to Australia's economy but are excluded from the Fair Entitlements Guarantee (FEG) scheme. If their employer becomes insolvent, they receive no support. This is unfair and needs to change.

"Their exclusion discriminates against individuals who are in the process of becoming full-fledged members of the Australian workforce," she said.

A spokesperson for the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations told 9news.com.au that migrant workers were entitled to be paid any owed employee entitlements in priority to other unsecured creditors "provided funds are available in the insolvent estate".

Migrant workers could also be paid ahead of secured creditors from the proceeds of certain types of assets), the spokesperson said.

Denby said her employer going bust had set back her in other ways, including in her bid for permanent residency.

The IT worker was forced to withdraw her visa application when the company went into liquidation. 

While her new company was now sponsoring her, Denby said she was now back at the start of an 18-month queue.

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