The judge wants further information before convicting him on child assault charges.

Qantas will pay $120 million in compensation to the more than 1800 workers it illegally outsourced during the pandemic.

The airline today announced it had reached an agreement with the Transport Workers Union (TWU) over the compensation, after the Federal Court ordered it to pay three former employees a combined $170,000 in a test case in October.

That followed a High Court decision to uphold the ruling that Qantas unlawfully sacked baggage handlers, cleaners and ground staff in 2020.

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Under the agreement, the national carrier will set up a fund early next year to pay 1820 ex-workers impacted by the pandemic-era decision.

"This is an important step in bringing closure to these individuals and I want to reiterate our sincere apologies to those impacted and their families," Qantas chief executive Vanessa Hudson said.

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"We know this has been a difficult period for those affected and are pleased we have been able to work closely with the TWU to expedite this process and resolve it ahead of Christmas."

The TWU labelled the agreement a "huge result from members' unity over a four-year court battle".

In its 2024 annual report, Qantas said it had allocated an extra $70 million towards expected costs in relation to the case – one of the reasons its profit fell from $1.7 to $1.25 billion this year.

Police are treating the death of Sydney woman Zhuojun 'Sally' Li and the suspected death of her husband Jai-Bao 'Rex' Chen as a targeted double murder after a man's body was found this afternoon.

They are further investigating a theory that two suspects have fled to Taiwan and China after having murdered the couple and dumped their bodies in parkland in Botany, Homicide Squad boss Danny Doherty told media this afternoon.

Li, 33, was found dead on December 9, wrapped in plastic in bushland at Sir Joseph Banks Park in Botany, one month after she was reported missing by her mother.

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Upon identifying her, police said they held "grave concerns" for the welfare of her husband Chen, also 33, as he had also been missing for a month.

At about 2pm today, police located a second body submerged in water and covered by foliage at a creek in Botany, just 10 metres away from where Li was found.

The body is yet to be formally identified, however, Homicide Squad boss Danny Doherty said detectives were assuming it was Chen.

"There is a strong likelihood and the assumption that this is the body of (Chen)… This is an ongoing forensic search, we still need to identify the body which may be difficult due to the nature of the decomposition." 

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He also said detectives were treating both cases as a targeted double murder, with police saying Chen was most likely the main target.

Doherty also said that detectives believed the pair were killed at their Greenacre apartment and their bodies were then moved and dumped in Botany.

He confirmed that police believed multiple people were involved in the suspected homicides.

"More than one person had targeted both Sally and more likely Rex, (they've) murdered them and dumped their bodies on Foreshore Drive at Botany," Doherty said.

Sally's mother was at the home today and cleared out possessions.

Police are now working on the theory that there was debt or money owed by the couple.

Doherty also said that Chen's phone had been located in Queensland and believed a third party had been using the device.

"We believed it was used by a third party… that would be the people responsible for the murder of both (Li and Chen)," Doherty said.

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He also confirmed that two suspects are believed to have fled overseas, with detectives working with authorities in Taiwan and China. 

"(The suspects) had travelled up to Queensland, we retrieved (Chen's) phone in Queensland… from that, we were able to make further inquiries about two people that then travelled overseas," Doherty said.

"We now have…. liaised with Taiwan authorities and Chinese authorities we're looking at at least two people involved and both offshore.

"This is a targeted attack, one of the motives possible could be financial debts."

Doherty said on Saturday that police had seized a silver Toyota Avensis from an address in Sydney's city.

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He alleged the car was used to transport Li's body and dispose of it in Botany.

The car is not registered to Li or Chen.

"We have to keep an open mind, and when we do that we look at the possibility of a third party," Doherty said on Saturday.

"Not only in the suspected murder of Sally, but we also have to look at a third party being involved in the disappearance of Rex as well."

Police released images of the car stopped on the north side of Foreshore Road between 4am and 5am on November 30.

Anyone with information about the car and its movements is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.

Both Li and Chen have not been seen alive since November. 

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Eke Panuku officials say staff closed the bridge to investigate a sensor issue.

A court has opted to keep Australia's youngest-ever convicted murderer locked up for now amid fears he could act out thoughts of revenge if allowed to walk free.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was 13 years and 10 months old when he stabbed toddler Courtney Morley-Clarke to death after abducting her from a home on the NSW Central Coast.

He was sentenced in August 2002 to 20 years behind bars but was released in September 2023, before swiftly being returned to custody for breaching his conditions.

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The NSW Supreme Court today granted an urgent application to keep the now-37-year-old in jail for a further 28 days, under an interim detention order.

Justice Mark Ierace ordered the man to undergo psychiatric or psychological examination by at least two registered professionals, with their reports to be tendered to the court.

In arguing for an interim detention order to be placed on the man, barrister for the state government Gillian Mahony SC noted he had largely failed to provide a believable explanation for why he murdered the toddler.

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"It has not been understood why he did the offending that he did," she said.

The man also had a history of ruminating on thoughts of violent revenge towards those he perceived as having slighted him, Mahony added.

On one occasion while in custody, the man used a razor to slash the hand of a correctional officer who was serving him lunch, requiring 22 stitches.

"The evidence speaks to (the fact) that the defendant had planned that and had ruminated about that for some months," Mahony said.

"It was random to the extent it didn't matter who the person was that served the lunch – but it was a planned attack."

The man also made persistent threats towards another correctional officer, leading to a charge that he was ultimately cleared of.

While it was not disputed that threats were made, the criminal elements of the charge could not be proven, the court was told.

Mahony said the man's fixation on the officer was a considerable factor behind the application not to have him released on an extended supervision order.

"It relies upon the defendant being able to moderate and control his thoughts of revenge and that is something that he has not been able to do," she said.

Defence barrister Dev Bhutani argued a supervision order requiring a direct line of sight by an officer at all times was sufficient to reduce any threat his client might pose.

Since the threats were made against the officer in late 2023 and early 2024, there had been a significant de-escalation in the man's fixation, he said.

"The threats were live when the defendant found himself in custody, for what he thought was wrongfully," Bhutani added.

But Mahony pointed out the man had a history of non-compliance with supervision orders, which had landed him back in jail already.

One month after his release on the murder sentence, the man spoke with a mother who was dressing her young son near the community showers at Bulli Beach, near Wollongong, in breach of a condition that he not approach children.

His 18-month jail sentence for that breach was backdated to his October 2023 arrest making him first eligible for release on Thursday.

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Some in the community were “devastated” by the change, which will begin in mid-January.

The judge said he wouldn’t let the court be ‘an absolute laughing stock’.

A coroner says there is public interest in examining the circumstances of her death.

Emergency services were called to the scene around 5.30pm.