Thursday's news in under 5 minutes.

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

1. Tragic news: domestic violence victim Tara Brown dies.

The young mother involved in an allegedly deliberate crash and bashing on Tuesday morning in Brisbane has died succumbing to her injuries.

Twenty-four year old Tara Brown, the mother of a three-year old girl, died surrounded by family.

Her partner, ex-bikie Lionel Patea, was charged yesterday with attempted murder. It is expected that today his charges will be upgraded.

He was also charged with one count each of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, attempted unlawful use of a motor vehicle, unlawful use of a motor vehicle and contravene a domestic violence order.

Police have said that the domestic violence order was taken out by Ms Brown just last week.

 The Courier Mail reports that on Thursday she asked police to help her fearing for her safety and showed them text messages from Mr. Patea but was told to seek help elsewhere.

The Courier Mail reports that police are now investigating that advice.

“The appropriateness of the police response … has been reported to the Queensland Police Service Ethical Standards Command and is currently being investigated by a senior officer,” an official statement said.

Friends have paid tribute to her on social media.

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

2. Syrian refugees to arrive by Christmas.

After yesterday’s announcement that Australia will take an extra intake of 12,000 refugees from ‘persecuted minorities’ from Syria the premiers of NSW and Victoria have indicated that those states will take about 4,000 of the refugees each.

The whole of the 12,000 refugees are expected by mid-2016, mostly from camps in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan – but many of them will be here by Christmas.

The measure is expected to cost $700 million over four years.

World Vision Australia chief executive Tim Costello told Fairfax Media it was a “good day.”

Appearing on last night’s 7.30 the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott said  Australia would not take Syrian refugees already waiting in Australia-run detention centres on Manus Island.

“We don’t want to reward people smugglers and we don’t want to reward people smuggling. So, we are very much going to go to people who have sought asylum, sought refuge on the borders of Syria, in Turkey, in Lebanon, in Jordan,” he said.

For more read this post here.

3. Melbourne rapist jailed for 17-hour sex attack spree.

Warning: this item deals with rape and sexual assault and may be triggering for some readers.

A Melbourne man who went on a 17-hour sex attack spree through the city has been jailed for seven years after he pleaded guilty to charges of rape, aggravated burglary, committing an indecent act and indecent assault.

23-year old Russell James Reid attacked a woman in front of her two young daughters in a shopping centre toilet as they screamed hysterically.

Reid indecently assaulted the mother as her children, aged five and two, screamed at him to stop.

Ms Dipietrantonio said she fought him and they then fell to the floor as her children “tried to come to her aid” before he calmly left the toilet and ran away.

He then exposed himself to a six-year old girl and soon after digitally raped a woman as she walked to work.

Reid told police in an interview that it was the woman’s fault because she gave him a “come f— me look” repprts The Herald Sun.

“Chicks look at ya and you don’t know what they’re after … she gave me the come f— me look. What was I supposed to do?

“It was a failed attempt at a kiss. Just trying to kiss a good looking sheila and it failed.

“(I) didn’t try to rape her, just gave it a crack and … she said no so I ran … back on my jog.”

Judge Jane Patrick ordered him to serve a minimum term of four years and six months.

A psychiatrist reported that Reid, who had never been diagnosed with mental health problems, was “in the throes of psychosis and was likely to have had bipolar-affective disorder or schizo-affective disorder compounded by the fact he was on the drug ice.

4. Childcare centre found at fault after children ingested sleeping pills on premises.

A Canberra childcare centre is found to have breached national guidelines after it was probed following an incident where three pre-schoolers ingested sleeping tablets.

The Conder Early Learning Centre was the subject of a childcare regulator probe in July after three children were found sleeping tablets and swallowed them.

Two of the children were rushed to hospital by ambulance where they were admitted for observation. They were released after 24 hours.

The Canberra Times reports that their families immediately withdrew them from the centre.

The centre was found to have breached national regulations around record keeping and staff failing policies

5. Report finds female surgeons feel obliged to give sexual favours.

Fairfax Media reports that three out of five registered trainees surveyed said they’d been bullied but that making complaints was “career suicide”.

The report says that “sexism was entrenched and endemic and sexual harassment pervasive, with women reporting they felt powerless to protest.”

One in three of the 560 women surveyed reported they’d been sexually harassed with several saying they felt “vulnerable and powerless when propositioned by senior male surgeons.”

6. Today is the day to ask R u ok?

Virgin Australia have partnered with R U Ok day and are providing free calls to its customers to any network within Australia tomorrow.

Research released by Virgin has shown that on average, we are spending two and a half hours a day communicating via social media, text and email but just twenty minutes on the phone to friends or loved ones.

Every year, about 2,500 Australians take their own lives.

For support call Lifeline 13 11 14. For crisis support call 000.

7. Melbourne tram and taxi rally to hit city today.

Better dust of your bike Melbourne readers as it looks like commuting today is going to be a bit on the tricky side.

The Rail, Tram and Bus Union has called a tram strike between 10am and 2pm, but trams will be affected from 8.30am and won’t return to full service until about 4.30pm.

At the same time taxi workers will rally on the steps of State Parliament in a protest about UberX.

8. Apple launches new Ipad at event overnight.

Apple has launched a new Ipad the iPad Pro overnight.

The iPad Pro comes with a larger 12.9-inch screen – a third bigger than the previous iteration – as well as a bigger keyboard.

Apple senior VP of marketing Phil Schiller said the Pro was designed for business users as an alternative to laptops.

As well as announcing the device, Apple unveiled two major new accessories – the “Apple Pencil”, a stylus-like device for writing and drawing, and the “Smart Keyboard”, an attachable case with a keyboard.

At the event Apple also launched the next version of its Apple TV streaming device, featuring a touch surface remote control, voice search and an App Store.

9. Hungarian TV camera operator fired for tripping Syrian migrants

A Hungarian camera operator has been fired after being filmed deliberately tripping up a Syrian refugee carrying a child as they ran away from police near the Serbian border.

Petra Laszlo, was working for a local TV station N1TV, which is run by the anti-immigration far-Right party, was caught on camera kicking refugees, including a young girl, who were fleeing a camp.

Another camera operator captured the moment Ms Laszlo films the refugees running away from charging police officers at the border village of Roszke before sticking her leg out as a father carrying his son runs past, causing them both to fall to the ground.

The video was widely shared on social media after it was posted by German reporter Stephan Richter on Twitter, with many condemning Ms Laszlo’s behaviour.

The migrants were part of a group of 1,500 people who had been waiting for hours at a refugee collection point near the Roszke crossing.

10. Queen says thanks as she becomes longest serving monarch.

The monarch replaces her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria in the record books after spending more than 23,226 days as monarch.

11. End of the world predicted.

Don’t worry about starting the Christmas shopping because it doesn’t look like we are going to make it to December.

The end of the world is coming – on September 28th if you believe the prediction by minority Christian groups in the US that the ‘blood moon’ will bring about global destruction.

A blood moon occurs when the moon passes into the shadow of the earth cast by the Sun so it appears copper red in colour.

This will be the fourth ‘blood moon’ since April 15 last year.

The good scientists at NASA have reassured us we will probably be okay,

“NASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small,” said a spokesperson.

“In fact, as best as we can tell, no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years.”

Phew.

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