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1. Three Adelaide kids found safe and well

Three young South Australian siblings — Ethan and Jayden Lawson and Sienna Dodd — have been found safe and well after a two-day search.

Ethan, 12, Jayden, 10, and Sienna, 6, had last been seen when they were dropped off football training on Wednesday night, Nine News reports.

Following an extensive search by police, they have been found and placed with “appropriate authorities”, superintendent Ian Parrot said on Friday.

“A man has been detained by police at this time for breaching his bail, but importantly the children are safe and well,” he added.

Police said yesterday they believed the children were with their father, Dylan Lawson, and their mother Shantelle, Guardian Australia reports.

It remains unclear exactly where the children were during the two days they were missing, however.

(Feature photo above: SA Police)

2. ALP and Libs tied in latest poll

The latest pre-election poll has found the Liberal Party and the Australian Labor Party are still tied on 50% of the two-party preferred vote, according to Guardian Australia.

The poll of more than 2,000 voters showed no change in the two-party preferred vote. It also revealed little change in the primary vote.

However the poll, which was carried out for Seven News, also showed a strong majority of voters support increased spending on health and education over corporate tax cuts, Guardian Australia reports.

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3. Melbourne landlord wins legal battle over Airbnb ad

A landlord in Melbourne has won a legal battle to evict her tenants, who had advertised an apartment for short-term rental on Airbnb.

Tenants Barbara Uecker and Michael Greaves had been advertising the entire apartment in the trendy inner-city beachside suburb of St Kilda for $102 per night.

It was originally found that the tenants had not been sub-letting the apartment, but instead had been 'granting guests a licence to occupy it'.

Nevertheless, Supreme Court Justice Clyde Croft overturned the previous VCAT ruling, and found the apartment was in fact being sub-let, which contravened the rental agreement.

4. Is Netflix ruining your sex life?

Modern couples' sex lives are suffering due to a rise in streaming television such as Netflix, news.com.au reports.

Cambridge University statistician David Spiegelhalter, author of Sex By Numbers, couples had sex about five times a month on average in the 1990s -- but that now, couples are only having sex around three times a month.

Streaming TV may be addictive, but is it damaging our sex lives? 

This 40% decrease is due to modern couples constantly being connected to phones and electronic devices, according to the UK professor.

According to news.com.au, Spiegelhalter warns that if this worrying trend continues, couples won’t be having sex at all by the year 2030, news.com.au reports.

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5. Michelle Payne lost her memory of her Melbourne Cup win

Melbourne Cup winner Michelle Payne says she lost her memory of winning the famous race when she fell from her horse last month.

Payne was injured in a fall in Mildura at a race meet in May. She was airlifted to Melbourne's Alfred Hospital where she underwent surgery on her pancreas, ABC News reports.

She is currently facing another month of rest before any return to racing.

6. Perth child psychiatrist charged with possessing child porn

A Perth child psychiatrist  has been charged with possessing child exploitation material in Western Australia.

Aaron Voon was arrested on Thursday night at Perth Airport when a flight he was on touched down, Perth Now reports.

Search warrants were carried out at his home and at his Cockburn Central business, where the 41-year-old treats children with mental health issues.

The name of his business was Successful Development and Therapy Centre, Perth Now reports.

7. Conviction in sex worker murder

A man has been found guilty of murdering sex worker Ting Fan in Adelaide last year.

Ms Fang was brutally bludgeoned with her stiletto shoe in a room at the Grand Chancellor Hotel on New Years' Day, 2015. Her throat was also cut with a razor in the grisly murder.

Picture supplied by SAPOL

On Friday, South Australia’s Supreme Court found 28-year-old Chinese national Chungaung Piao guilty of her murder, news.com.au reports.

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The Daily Telegraph reports that under state law, Piao now faces a mandatory life prison term and non-parole period of at least 20 years.

8. Clinton's latest Twitter burn

Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has send a scathing tweet to Republican nominee Donald Trump using just three words: "Delete your account."

Within two hours Mrs Clinton's tweet was retweeted 210,000 times, making it "now the most retweeted tweet of the campaign," according to Mrs Clinton's social media director.

The tweet has helped Clinton, who has previously struggled to connect with young voters, tap the dry humour of America's Millennials, ABC News reports.

9. SAHMs are happier, apparently

A survey has found that, if stay-at-home motherhood were offically counted as a job, stay-at-home mums would rank as happier than people in any other job.

Daily Mail Australia reports that the survey asked more than 3,000 respondents to say whether they were satisfied with their lives or not.

The survey, carried out for insurance group LV=, found that only one in seven stay-at-home parents (who are overwhelmingly women) say they are dissatisfied.

But there's a catch: According to the report, "Homemakers are happier than people working in any other occupation, but they work double the hours most people think."

Others in the top five were those working in hospitality and events management, creative arts and design, the charity sector, and leisure, sport and tourism.

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The least satisfied were working in marketing, advertising and public relations, Daily Mail Australia reports.

10. Diving instructor and student killed in Victoria

Two scuba divers have drowned in rough conditions off Mornington Pier in Victoria, ABC News reports.

An experienced 40-year-old female instructor, Leonie Hanson, was diving with a 39-year-old man of limited experience early Friday afternoon when the pair ran into trouble, police said.

Fairfax News reports that witnesses heard Ms Hanson, an Open Water diving instructor with Harbour Dive Australia, calling for help before she died.

Nearby restaurant owner Robert De Santis told Channel Nine News he saw Ms Hanson struggling to hold onto the other diver, who was unconscious, and crying out for help.

11. Bondi hoarders' house expected to sell for $2 million

The "hoarders' house" in Bondi, NSW is set to be sold by the NSW Sherriff's office in an attempt to recover around $160,000 in clean-up costs and legal fees.

Mary, Elena and Liana Bobolas, who currently own and live in the house, have refused to refuse the clutter from their property for years. According to Daily Mail Australia, have been the centre of controversy for decades as they resist council attempts to get them to clean up.

The Bobolas family managed to stop an auction planned for Thursday night with a last-minute stay of proceedings, but the challenge was dismissed.

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The selling agent says aid the auction process will now continue, unless the family pays its debts.

The buyers' guide for the property is set at $2 million.

12. Murderer Simon Gittany's lawyers say his conviction is based on "unreliable" witness

Killer Simon Gittany's lawyers have argued he should have his murder conviction overturned because of the "unreliability" of a witness.

Gittany was sentenced to a minimum 18 years and maximum 26 years in jail in 2013, for the murder of his fiancee Lisa Harnum, 30, in 2011.

Murder victim Lisa Harnum

Gittany threw Ms Harnum off their 15th-floor Sydney apartment balcony, but is currently appealing his conviction.

Crown witness Joshua Rathmell said during the trial he'd seen Harnum's fall.

But Gittany’s barrister Stephen Odgers SC argued yesterday at the NSW Court of Appeal that Rathmell’s memory of the incident was “unreliable," Guardian Australia reports.

The court has reserved its decision.

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