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We’ve rounded up all the latest stories from Australia and around the world – so you don’t have to go searching.

1. Indonesian passenger plane found crashed in remote region.


The plane, belonging to Trigana Air Service, lost contact with air traffic control several hours earlier.

On board were 44 adults, five crew members and five children and infants.

The plane was flying between Jayapura’s Sentani Airport and Oksibil, due south of Jayapura, the capital of Papua province.

There were no reports yet of any survivors.

The carrier Trigana Air is among a list of airlines on the EU blacklist of banned carriers since 2007 reports the BBC.

Trigana Airlines is barred from operating in European airspace due to concerns over safety or the regulatory environment in its country of registration.

2. Police call off search for missing teen’s body.

Tiffany Taylor.

Police in QLD have called off a search for the body of missing teenager, Tiffany Taylor, who they presume to have been murdered.

The 16-year old, who was around 20-weeks pregnant, was last seen leaving a Logan motel on July 12 with a 60-year old man named Rodney Wayne Williams who she met on an internet dating site.

Queensland Police say the young woman had been offering sexual services for money over an online dating site.

Williams has been charged with her murder.

On Saturday around 40 SES volunteers and 20 police searched an area between the Warrego Highway and Fernvale.

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But the search was called off around 3pm and was not resumed yesterday.

3. Same-sex marriage: Warren Entsch’s bill to go before Parliament today.

The bill is expected to be introduced, then allowed to dwell in a ‘committee.’

Coalition backbencher Warren Entsch’s same-sex marriage bill will be introduced to Federal Parliament this morning, but it is not expected to go any further.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said he wants a constitutional referendum, or a non-binding plebiscite, to be held after the next federal election.

“The fundamental decision is that this Government in the next term of parliament will put this very important question to the people for their decision,” Mr Abbott said yesterday.

It is expected that the cabinet will discuss the timing of the plebiscite this evening.

4. Poll shows Tony Abbott’s standing as leader in trouble.

Preferred PM.

The latest Fairfax-Ipsos poll, in today’s papers, shows that had the election been this past weekend the Coalition would have had a 36-seat electoral wipeout. On a two-party-preferred basis, support for the government is 8 percentage points behind Labor on 46/54.

Malcolm Turnbull polls the highest as preferred Liberal leader and prime minister on 41 per cent to Julie Bishop on 23 per cent and the current PM, Tony Abbott on just 15 per cent.

Among Liberal voters Mr Abbott is 33 per cent to Mr Turnbull on 25 and Ms Bishop on 23.

5. Mother banned from IVF because of the way she treats her existing children.

At various times in recent years child protection authorities had removed the four children from her custody.

A woman from Victoria has been banned from undergoing fertility treatment because of her poor record caring for four children to several fathers reports News Limited.

A hearing before the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal was presented evidence that the woman, aged in her 40s, had verbally abused her children, telling one son he was a ‘smart alec’ and he’d grow up to be a ‘woman beater’, calling another a ‘bastard’ and smacking them.

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At various times in recent years child protection authorities had removed the four children from her custody.

An official panel denied the couple the right to undergo fertility treatment – which they then took to an appeal before the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

In a decision published late last week, VCAT said there were “too many potential risks to the health and wellbeing of a child born to the applicants.”

The tribunal found there was a “long history of substantiated concerns” recorded against her, ­including physical and emotional abuse, and medical and environmental neglect.”

At one stage the tribunal heard, she left her young son at home in charge of younger siblings, she also refused to sign permission slips for school, and had no beds at times in her home for the children.

“Even allowing for a degree of overzealous attention on the part of the department, the nature and extent of the reports, which have also originated from the children’s school and attention from police, are serious and consistent,” the tribunal found.

News Limited report that the couple’s last child died of SIDS and the grief stricken mother carried the baby’s ashes with her.

The tribunal ruled “In the tribunal’s view … there are significant and continuing risks to the welfare and interests of a child to be born to the applicants by means of ART (assisted reproductive technology) and at this stage, the tribunal cannot be satisfied that it is in the best interests of a child to be born for such treatment procedure to be made available.”

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6. Australia wins World Cup Netball.

The Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander said this win was a greater achievement.

“There is nothing harder in sport than being able to repeat success. Not only that, at a World Cup that was enormously difficult at home, it actually is harder,’’ she said.

“This World Cup has shown how competitive, particularly the top four are.

7. Victoria joins NSW in no-jab-no-play policy.

Victoria new vaccination policy.

The legislation shuts a loophole that would have allowed parents to get out of new requirements if they were “conscientious objectors”.

From January 1, kindergartens and childcare centres will only be allowed to enroll non-vaccinated children if they have a doctor’s certificate for a serious medical issue such as an allergy reports The Herald Sun.

Health Minister Jill Hennessy said it was necessary legislation because “vaccinations save lives”.

“It is simply irresponsible for people to ignore the science and choose not to vaccinate their child,”

“The choice of one parent not to vaccinate their child puts other children at risk of serious or potentially life-threatening illnesses.”

The new rules will apply to more than 260,000 children in early childhood services.

8. Pete Evans Paleo book out later this year.

Seven Network.

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Speaking on Sunday Night last night Evans says a print version of Bubba Yum Yum: The Paleo Way, for New Mums, Babies and Toddlers will be ready by the end of the year.

“The delay was our publisher got nervous,” Evans said.

“They were nervous at how the big retailers would respond to negative publicity.

“This recipe has been in print, in publication, for over 20 years, in America.

“I think it’s sold a million copies and never once was there any issue with it. There’s no recorded case of harm from that one recipe.”

9. Fathers urged to take parental leave to help close the pay gap.

A report has shown that fathers who take parental leave are 20% more likely to still be getting up during the night. The data from the first annual United Nation’s State of the World’s Fathers report shows dads who take parental leave are 20 per cent more likely to still be getting up during the night.

Chief executive of the Diversity Council of Australia Lisa Annese told News Limited that men must step up to the plate and take paternity leave if the gender pay gap is to be narrowed.

“The road to equality is littered with men taking parental leave,” Ms Annese said.

“Gender equality at work will never happen until we get gender equality at home,”

“That has to start from the first year of a child’s life, and that means having workplaces and a society that encourages men to take decent amounts of time off to participate in child rearing,” she said.

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10. Bear Grylls calls for children to be exposed to more risk.

Bear Grylls

A week after Bear Grylls was criticised for leaving his 11- year old son alone on rocks in the sea the TV action man has written an opinion piece for The Times saying that children needed to take more risks in life.

“When we try to strip our kids’ world of risk we do them a gross disservice. We teach them nothing about handling life.” He wrote.

“All children have a right to adventure… these moments allow children to get excited about the possibilities the world has to offer.

“They teach independence, initiative, self-reliance and resourcefulness: skills that will serve them for the rest of their lives

“None of this, of course, should come at the expense of safety.”

 

Grylls was forced to point out that his son was wearing a life-jacket and was “safe at all times… and very happy”.

“Let’s not deceive ourselves into thinking that removing risk makes our children ‘safe’. It doesn’t.

“Every adventure comes with risk. Otherwise it wouldn’t be an adventure.

“Being vigilant and managing risk is not the same as wrapping your kids in cotton wool. It is about common sense.

“I believe it is fundamentally unfair to put children in a holding pen until they are 18.”

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