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1. Prisoners have thrown excrement at Hey Dad! paedophile Robert Hughes.

“Hey Dad! Cop this you kiddyfiddling f*ck,” were the words yelled by a prison inmate at former ‘Hey Dad!’ actor and convicted paedophile, Robert Hughes.

In a new book, Australia’s Most Murderous Prison: Behind the Walls of Goulburn Jail, James Phelps reveals how prison inmates took revenge on the now infamous actor.

Robert Hughes.

According to The Daily Telegraph, inmates rubbed faeces over his face, and filled a milk carton with urine and threw it at him, leaving him with it splatter over his body.

Hughes was told to “keep walking” by a Goulburn prison guard, with other prisoners yelling at him to “piss off”. After circling Hughes, the inmates taunted him saying, “This is Goulburn, mate. What did you expect?” As he was told to walk ahead, 30 general population inmates watched him be covered in “piss and poo”, and urinate himself out of fear.

At Hughes’ sentencing, Judge Peter Zahra, predicted this type of behaviour, stating that the paedophile would be at “significant risk” of “predatory behaviour”.

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Robert Hughes with his wife. Image via Youtube.
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This predatory behaviour predicted by the judge has left Hughes, allegedly, desperately calling his wife, Robyn Gardiner, in tears.

“I can’t do it,” Hughes reportedly sobbed to his wife. “This place is horrible. I thought I would be okay, but I can’t say here. I can’t stay in Goulburn. This place is hell. You have to get me out.”

A prison guard has said, “Hughes was a protection inmate because of his crimes. He was never going to be put in, or out, with general population inmates because they would have killed him.”

Goulbourn maximum security prison.

The officer said he doesn’t know how the inmates knew Hughes was coming, but they definitely found out.

“And they had armed themselves up with shit and gone out to meet him,” the guard said. “What they do is shit and then piss in the little milk containers they’re issued, and then they put their arms through the bars and fling it. You would be really surprised by how far.”

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Hughes was sentenced to maximum 10 years in jail for indecently assaulting a number of victims, including a child on the ‘Hey Dad!’ set.

2. Parents of William Tyrell are pleading for people to not forget their little boy.

In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, the parents of William Tyrell have labelled those who know the whereabouts of their missing toddler, “cruel and torturous”.

“For whatever reason, that somebody is not coming forward. That somebody knows who took him. That somebody is keeping a secret….,” his parents said.

William Tyrell.

“How long can you live with that? Knowing that there is a family who is desperate for William to come home. Knowing that his siblings miss playing with their brother. Knowing that there is a family who are shattered.

“It’s unbelievably cruel and torturous.”

It is just six weeks until the first anniversary since the toddler was taken from right outside his nana’s house. In June, the family launched the “Where’s William?” campaign, spurred along by at $10,000 donation from businessman, Dick Smith. William’s parents are concerned that people have given up on the missing little boy.

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“It’s been almost a year since William was abducted and although the police believe that William could still be alive…we fear that with the passing of time people may have lost faith,” his parents said. “As mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, daughters, sons, brothers and sisters we should all be up in arms that a complete stranger abducted William and that somebody knows what happened to him.”

3. #IStandWithAdam: The sporting community is standing up for Sydney Swans player, Adam Goodes.

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The sporting community has shown solidarity in supporting star AFL player, Adam Goodes. Fans and players from all sporting codes have individually stood up for Goodes, who has taken indefinite leave after racially-motivated booing.

#IStandWithAdam started trending on Twitter last night, during the Swans match against the Crows. Fans tweeted photos of themselves at the game or watching with messages of support for Goodes.

For photos of the celebration of Adam Goodes…(Post continues after gallery).

Richmond players wore their Indigenous Round guernseys in their Friday night game, and in the Melbourne players sported red, yellow and black arm bands representing the Aboriginal flag.

However, the most moving moments came from the Swans match, at the SCG, with Goodes’ team entering the grounds through a huge ‘RESPECT’ banner. The crowd, usually washed in red, was coloured with Aboriginal flags, Goodes’ number, 37, and signs saying “Love Goodes; racism bad” and “In Goodes we trust”. Team-mate, Lewis Jetta, honoured his first goal of the match to Goodes with a war dance, a similar celebration that Goodes did in May. The crowd also stopped to applaud Goodes for a whole minute in the third quarter.

In other sporting codes, Jonathan Thurston and Greg Inglis, both indigenous players in the NRL, promised they would show their respect through war dances if they scored a try in their matches. The number 37 was also proudly displayed at the V8 Supercars in Queensland.

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4. A second earthquake has been felt in Queensland, the strongest in a century.

A second earthquake has shaken the grounds of south-east Queensland, on Saturday night, with its epicentres 110 kilometres east of Fraser Island. A senior seismologist, Dan Jaksa, said that the earthquake was a 5.7 in magnitude and is the strongest in almost a century.

“This is [almost] equivalent to the earthquake that occurred in 1989 in Newcastle, which of course is the most damaging earthquake in Australia’s history,” the seismologist said. The quake was then followed by two “significant aftershocks” in just 90 minutes. The first was a 5.2 magnitude, and the second at 3.1.

Mr Jaksa said that this quake was 10 to 15 times stronger than the 5.3-magnitude quake that hit Queensland on Thursday, and that earthquake has been the cause of the recent seismic activity.

Future earthquakes aren’t easy to predict, says Mr Jaksa.

“Our earthquakes are a bit more random than they would be in say New Zealand…so for Australia I would say that earthquakes can be a bit more dangerous because they’re unexpected, completely unpredictable and can be a bit of a shock to people who are not familiar with these events.”

He also said that the quake felt by Queenslanders had the power equivalent to an atomic bomb, but major damage was avoided due to its location off the coast.

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5. A five-year-old has set up his own ice cream shop to buy medicine for sick kids.

Haylen Astalos first began his life of philanthropy on his fifth birthday party. His parents threw him a “five for five party” where guests could bring one $5 bill for Haylen, and then another for him to donate to a charity of his choice.

Haylen bought himself a monster truck, and decided to donate $100 to the Ronald McDoland House.

After touring the facility, making sure his money went to the right place, Haylen enlisted the help of family members to build an “ice cream truck”.

This is the most awesome shop ever.

When his mother asked Haylen what he wanted to do with his new-found hobby, Haylen replied, “I’m going to give all the money to the Ronald McDonald House. I will fill up my bucket and give it to them, then fill it again and again and keep giving it to them.”

On special occasions, Haylen lets his three-year-old sister, Farah, join in on the not-for profit store.

“I just want to help a bunch and bunch and bunch of kids so they can buy Medicine,” Haylen told the Good News Network.

Haylen has already reached his initial fundraising goal of $2,011, and his is on his way to the next goal, of $3,009.

And – don’t worry – this smart kid has already planned for when the weather turn’s cold.

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