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1. Police raid home of 17-y/o student charged over alleged Facebook threat.

A 17-year old school student has been charged with assaulting and intimidating police, two counts of resisting arrest and using a carriage to menace, harass and offend after police found alleged posts on social media threatening police.

Overnight the home of the boy was raided. The boy attended the same school as Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammad, the 15-year old Parramatta gunman who fatally shot a police accountant last week.

Police allege the teenager posted a video on Facebook of New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione addressing the public about the shooting with the caption “merryland [sic] police station is next hope they all burn in hell”.

In another post he wrote ” Serves you right” in reference to the shooting of Curtis Cheng “I hope them lil piggies get shot”

When they spoke to the student, he threatened and intimidated officers and he was arrested reports the ABC.

Overnight police raided the 17-year old’s home seizing two laptops and other items.

This morning police have revealed they are conducting raids across further homes in Merrylands in relation to the shooting of Curtis Cheng.

2. Two children fall from second storey window.

Around 6.45pm emergency services were called to the home after the two boys fell five metres from a bedroom window on the second floor of a two storey home.

Police say they were waving at neighbours before they lost their balance and fell.

They landed on the roof of a carport that gave way and the boys were rushed to hospital.

This morning they remain in hospital with bruising and one boy with a possible facial fracture.

3. 190 homes under threat in Victorian bushfires.

One person is missing near Lancefield, Victoria as bushfires continue to burn through central Victoria.

The CFA said about 650 firefighters fought more than 600 fires yesterday.

Yesterday Premier Daniel Andrews and Emergency Management Commissioner Craig Lapsley said that the annual fire season had begun, and that it seemed to be particularly severe.

“The message today is a very clear one, the 15-16 fire season is here now, it is absolutely on us and we need to understand that this is going to be a long, hot, dry and dangerous summer,” Mr Andrews said.

Firefighters are hoping that cooler conditions today will help their efforts.

For immediate conditions go to the Vic Emergency website.

4. High Court to hear Nauru centre challenge today.

A hearing before the full bench of the high court will challenge the legality of Australia’s role in the Nauru immigration detention centre today.

The test case focuses on the plight of a Bangladeshi pregnant asylum seeker brought to Australia from Nauru because of serious health complications – but she is facing imminent return to Nauru with her baby, now aged 10 months.

The Melbourne-based Human Rights Law Centre will argue there is no law that gives the federal government power to fund offshore detention centre arrangements.

“Australia should not be indefinitely warehousing people on remote islands, especially babies. The family is absolutely terrified of being forced back to an environment that we know is harmful and that we know is unsafe, particularly for women and children,” The Human Rights Law Centre’s Director of Legal Advocacy, Daniel Webb, said.

5. Children the forgotten victims of domestic violence.

A Queensland researcher wants the government to remember the forgotten victims of domestic violence.

University of Queensland’s clinical psychology researcher Professor Justin Kenardy has urged the government and the public to keep children at the forefront of their minds when tackling domestic violence.

“It’s encouraging the Federal Government has committed new funding to addressing domestic violence, but I encourage them to keep child victims at the forefront of their programs and policies,” Professor Kenardy told the ABC.

“It’s not just the partner who is traumatised by the experience but also the children either directly by physically being affected or by observing it.

“It’s the very young kids who can’t do anything about what’s happening to them.

“They can’t run away, they can’t fight back, they can only be victims.”

And he says physical violence is not the only concern.

“Psychological effects of domestic violence happen all the way through the ages of the children,” he said.

“So from the very young kids to the teenagers all will have experienced seeing or directly experienced violence and trauma and those effects can also be long term.”

According to Dame Quentin Bryce’s Not Now, Not Ever report, more than one million Australian children have been affected by domestic violence.

 For domestic violence support 24/7, call 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732). 

6. Report finds same sex marriage would boost the economy by up to $550 million.

A report, published today has found that legalising same-sex marriage could provide a boost to the economy of $550 million.

In the report, ANZ senior economist Charelle Murphy writes that there were 34,000 same-sex couples in Australia at the 2011 Census, up 32 per cent on the number in 2006 meaning there could be 38,000 possible couples who could marry locally by next year.

It would boost the estimated outlay on weddings every year in Australia by at least 8 per cent to 9 per cent.

“This figure does not include honeymoon expenditure, which would add to the stimulus — especially if foreign couples come to Australia to marry or if Australians are encouraged to stay at home,” she told The Herald Sun. 

7. California signs right-to-die-bill one year after the death of Brittany Maynard.

California has become the fifth US state to allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medication to dying patients and the first state to do so since the death of Brittany Maynard.

The 29-year-old newlywed from San Francisco in California was forced to move Oregon to take advantage of the state’s Death With Dignity law, which went into effect in 1997 after she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

California Governor Jerry Brown said in a statement on his decision, “In the end, I was left to reflect on what I would want in the face of my own death,” Brown said in a statement explaining his decision. “I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain. I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill.”

The law allows doctors to prescribe life-ending medication to patients who have been given six months or less to live. It requires two doctors to consent to the prescription as well as written requests from the patient for the medication. California joins Oregon, Washington, Vermont and Montana, which also allow the practice.

8. 11-year old boy in custody after killing 8-year old girl over puppies.

An 11-year-old boy in the US state of Tennessee has been held on suspicion of shooting dead an eight-year-old girl in a row over a puppy.

The boy has been charged with first-degree murder as a juvenile.

Police say he shot his neighbour, eight-year old McKayla Dyer on Saturday after she refused to let him see her puppy.

WATE-TV reports that the girls’ mother said they had previously had trouble with the boy.

“He was making fun of her, calling her names, just being mean to her. I had to go to the principal about him and he quit for a while and then all of a sudden yesterday he shot her.”

The Gun Violence Archive says 559 children aged 11 or under have been killed or injured in the United States in gun violence so far this year.

9. Homeless woman dead for seven-hours in McDonalds before anyone noticed.

The woman, who police say was between 50 and 60, was found dead on Saturday morning, having not moved for seven hours before fellow diners noticed something was wrong.

CCTV shows the woman slumped at a table, 24 hours after she first entered the restaurant in the district of Ping Shek.

10. Russian weather presenter forecasts perfect conditions dropping bombs.

It’s flying weather in Syria according to a Russian weather presenter who has predicted perfect conditions for airstrikes.

The report on Russian state channel, Rossiya 24 has given a special three minute forecast – on weather conditions for airstrikes in Syria.

Meteorologist Ekaterina Grigorova said “In Syria, the operation of the Russian Aerospace Forces is continuing and as experts have noted, the time chosen for it in terms of the weather was very fortunate.”

The screen behind her read “flying weather” and was accompanied by an image of a plane dropping bombs on targets.

“[The climate] in October in Syria will very advantageous for pilots,” She said, adding that that wind speed is low with rain will fall roughly once every ten days.

She did urge pilots to act swiftly to avoid the cloudy conditions that often set in over Syria around November.

11. The world is ending today.

Oh didn’t you know?

Yes this it according to a Philadelphia-based Christian group known as the eBible fellowship.

The group has told humanity to prepare itself for being “obliterated” by fire as soon as the clock strikes midnight.

Chris McCann, who leads the Philadelphia-based group told The Guardian: “According to what the Bible is presenting it does appear that 7 October will be the day that God has spoken of: in which, the world will pass away.”

McCann said that, according to his interpretation of the Bible, the world will be obliterated “with fire”, as God promised not to cause another flood on the scale as that which afflicted Noah.

A leader of the group, Harold Camping, had previously predicted that the world would end 21 May 2011.

When that day passed without incident Camping revised his prediction to October 2011, again November came as usual.

So today it is then.

There’s a strong likelihood that this will happen,” McCann said, leaving room for error.

“Which means there’s an unlikely possibility that it will not.”

We just think we might see you guys tomorrow.

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