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In an address to the National Press Club on Wednesday, new AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett will announce the new taskforce and flag a desire to recast the agency as a national security agency. Source link

A US Air Force squad known as the Hurricane Hunters has flown through the eye of Hurricane Melissa, which is packing winds of 282 kilometres per hour as it moves slowly towards southern Jamaica. Source link

Four teenagers accused of luring a 25-year-old man to a Shellharbour train station and stabbing him to death are taken into custody after their bail is revoked. Source link

A mining giant says its long-running Yandi iron ore mine in the Pilbara will be significantly scaled back next year. Source link

The discovery of a dead whale entangled in a shark net off Coledale Beach ignites fresh debate on New South Wales’s controversial shark net program. Source link

A 43-metre tower approved for Palm Beach has reignited debate over the Gold Coast’s planning rules, with the acting mayor saying height limits have been overlooked “hundreds of times”. Source link

Frustrated community leaders in Kununurra say overcrowded, unsafe housing and short-term staff contracts are contributing to a youth crime problem in the Western Australian town. Source link

A man accused of killing Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe has pleaded guilty, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked the world.    Source link

Charges have been laid against a worker after their colleague was crushed while setting up a ute to tow a B-double truck.  Source link

John Carey has defended a decision to press on with the construction of a new eight-bed hospital in outback WA after costs blew out to $63.6 million.   Source link