When I sat down to interview the Prime Minister this morning, I jokingly asked if he’d bought real estate in Queensland, given he’d have to spend so much time here in the days and weeks before the election.

But he might need to.

Queensland is that crucial to Scott Morrison clinging to the keys to The Lodge.

Watch Lane Calcutt's exclusive interview with Scott Morrison tonight on 9News Brisbane at 6pm.

Bill Shorten knows it too. The Opposition Leader has already trod a well-worn track to the Sunshine State.

And there’ll be many, many more.

The Morrison Government actually has to win at least one seat in Queensland, without losing any, to have any chance of being re-elected.

Consider the state-of-play, and it becomes clear what a task he faces.

Of the 30 Maroon seats, the Coalition has 21. Labor only needs to win four nationally for Bill Shorten to become PM.

This is where it gets really difficult.

The LNP has five seats, including Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton’s, that it holds by less than two per cent. Another five are held by four per cent or less.

Given the latest published polls, the job looks impossible.

The Ipsos poll has Labor ahead 53 to 47, while Newspoll has the Coalition trailing 52 to 48.

That’s a slight Budget bounce for the Government. But not enough.

Maybe Scott Morrison should buy some of that Queensland real estate for life after politics.

Brazil’s agency for indigenous peoples said that a high-risk expedition in the Amazon has reunited an isolated group with relatives and eased tensions with a rival tribe near the border with Peru.

The FUNAI agency said a team of nearly two dozen reached 34 members of the Korubo tribe in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. The expedition included relatives of the Korubos and also aimed to avoid a possible conflict with the Matis tribe living about 20 kilometres away.

The Matis tribe repeatedly requested FUNAI’s intervention in the case because they believed the isolated Korubos wanted revenge, mistakenly believing their relatives had been killed by the Matis.

The main concern of FUNAI analysts was that the isolated group would not believe that the Korubos in the expedition were in fact their relatives, which made them label the mission as “high risk.”

“It was actually quite moving. We soon found one of the two Korubos we saw first was a brother of one of the members of the expedition,” said FUNAI co-ordinator Bruno Pereira. “There was a lot of emotion and tears.”

The trip lasted 32 days in the Javari Valley, an area of more than 80,000 kilometres.

Brazilian law states that contact with isolated tribes can be used only as a last resort to preserve the lives of indigenous peoples and the expedition was FUNAI’s biggest since 1996.

It is also the agency’s first major operation during the administration of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazil’s new leader has often criticized bodies that handle indigenous issues. He has also promised to stop demarcation of indigenous lands and allow miners and farmers to operate in their lands.

FUNAI’s chairman Franklinberg de Freitas, appointed by Bolsonaro, called the expedition “a landmark.”

A warplane has attacked Tripoli's only functioning airport as eastern forces advancing on Libya's capital disregarded global appeals for a truce in the latest outbreak of warfare.

The fighting threatens to disrupt oil supplies, fuel migration to Europe and wreck UN plans for an election to end rivalries between parallel administrations in east and west.

Casualties are mounting.

The eastern Libyan National Army (LNA) forces of Khalifa Haftar - a former general in Muammar Gaddafi's army - said 19 of its soldiers had died in recent days as they closed in on the internationally recognised government in Tripoli.

A spokesman for the Tripoli-based Health Ministry said fighting in the south of the capital had killed at least 25 people, including fighters and civilians, and wounded 80.

The UN said 2800 people had been displaced by clashes and many more could flee, though some were trapped.

"The United Nations continues to call for a temporary humanitarian truce to allow for the provision of emergency services and the voluntary passage of civilians, including those wounded, from areas of conflict," it said in a statement.

But that seemed to fall on deaf ears. Matiga airport, in an eastern suburb, said it was bombed and a resident confirmed the attack. No more details were immediately available.

Haftar's LNA, which backs the eastern administration in Benghazi, took the oil-rich south of Libya earlier this year before advancing fast through largely unpopulated desert regions towards the coastal capital.

Seizing Tripoli, however, is a much bigger challenge for the LNA. It has conducted air strikes on the south of the city as it seeks to advance along a road towards the centre from a disused former international airport.

However, the government of Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj, 59, is seeking to block the LNA with the help of allied armed groups who have rushed to Tripoli from nearby Misrata port in utes fitted with machine guns.

UN envoy Ghassan Salame met Serraj in his office in Tripoli on Monday to discuss "this critical and difficult juncture", the world body's Libya mission said.

The violence has jeopardised a UN plan for an April 14-16 conference to plan elections and end anarchy that has prevailed since the Western-backed toppling of Gaddafi eight years ago.

The UN refugee agency expressed anxiety about thousands caught in crossfire and detention centres in conflict zones in a "rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation".

As well as the UN, the EU, US and G7 bloc have all urged a ceasefire, a halt to Haftar's advance and return to negotiations.

Haftar casts himself as a foe of extremism but is viewed by opponents as a new dictator in the mould of Gaddafi, whose four-decade rule saw torture, disappearances and assassinations.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg had his first Budget scrutinised for an hour by voters on Q&A, just weeks out from the Federal Election.

He remained relatively calm as he was accused of lying about the surplus, and faced tough questions on climate change, the looming but unconfirmed election date, and the increasing cost of living.

Teenager Eloisa Moses-McMahon told the Treasurer she was “fed up” with the Morrison Government’s inaction on climate change, and while drought relief for farmers was beneficial, it did not address the root of the problem.

“Why do you and your government keep turning a blind eye to the issue of climate change, imposing short-term, Band-Aid solutions that will not secure myself and future generations a safe and prosperous world to live?” the 16-year-old asked.

Mr Frydenberg responded by saying the Coalition had signed onto the Paris agreement, and Australia was on track to meet their Kyoto target of reducing emissions by 26 to 28 percent of 2005 levels.

“So we take our environmental commitments seriously. We have implemented significant reforms that has allowed a record amount of renewables to come into the grid,” Mr Frydenberg said.

“How can you say that you're taking the issue seriously if you no plan to phase out coal, which is a key contributor to climate change?” Ms Moses-McMahon responded.

The Treasurer said 10 coal-fired power stations had closed in the last five to eight years, and the issue with transitioning was having sufficient back-up and storage, which was why the government had invested in hydroelectric Snowy 2.0.

Robyn Munday, a 56-year-old single mother, scrutinised Mr Frydenberg on soaring rent prices and how the government was planning is help women over 55 who are the demographic with the highest increase in rates of homelessness.

Not satisfied with the Treasurer’s answer about trying to control prices in the rental market, Ms Munday shot back: “I'm curious whether you've had any contact with the rental market because I've watched the rents in my area in regional Victoria double in the last five years.”

“I, myself, as a single woman, if I was looking to rent, could not afford to rent in my town without sharing with someone else. So what I'm asking is, what are you planning to do for anyone over the age of 55 who finds themselves in this situation?

“Community housing is not something that I ever thought I would need.”

“Well, there's a combination of responses, both with affordable housing for first home buyers, and community housing,” Mr Frydenberg said.

“There is a number of programs that we're using that we're enabling people to either use their super or...” he added, before host Tony Jones pointed out that Ms Munday already said she did not have much superannuation.

Elsewhere Mr Frydenberg was accused of lying with his statement the government was “back in the black” because the surplus he spruiked was only a forecast for the future compared to the current deficit that remains.

The last question came from Sophie Bazzano, who accused the Treasurer of failing to address issues important to young people – such as rent prices, wage stagnation and renewable energy.

Mr Frydenberg denied the suggestion younger voters would abandon the Coalition in support of Labor, and again pointed to Snowy 2.0, the skills packages announced in the Budget, and income tax cuts that benefit all Australians.

A paroled Sydney man convicted of the grisly murder and dismemberment of two lovers has been recaptured after 24 hours on the loose.

Damien Peters, 50, is back into corrective services tonight after disappearing for 24 hours.

He was last seen at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick about 4.15pm yesterday.

Peters managed to elude police after allegedly forcibly removing an electronic tracking device, which was later located in Kensington.

But just before 5pm today plain-clothes police spotted the fugitive walking on King Street, Enmore, in Sydney's inner west.

He was arrested without incident and taken to Newtown police station. He has not been charged.

The Surry Hills man was jailed in 2002 over the killing of Tereaupii “Andre” Akai, 50, and Bevan James Frost, 57. Both men were dismembered in Peters’ bath.

He killed them after contracting HIV and suffering years of mental and physical torture.

Peters was jailed for 21 years in 2002 and released on parole in November 2016.

Detective Superintendent Rohan Cramsie said police did not know what prompted Peters to remove his bracelet.

"We still don't know at this stage what has been the catalyst for him to remove the bracelet," he told 9News.

A young family is suing Queensland Health after their daughter suffered a stroke after being stabbed in the throat with a javelin.

Emily Walker, 12, fell onto the javelin at Little Athletics in February last year and was taken to the then Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital for treatment.

She was discharged without a scan on her neck, but unbeknown to Emily or her family, the javelin had damaged an artery.

The next day she suffered a stroke.

“Her whole left side had just stopped working,” her father Steve Walker said.

“I told her to stand up, and I lifted her up and she went to put pressure on her left side and just collapsed again.”

Emily now suffers a loss of function in her left arm. She’s stopped playing sports and struggles to do her hair or put on her shoes.

“My arm will move, it just doesn’t do it properly,” Emily said.

Her mother, Vicki Walker, believes they’ve been let down.

“She’s going to be affected for the rest of her life,” she said.

“They didn’t do anything, they just stitched a cut and sent us home.

“I wish I had spoken up because you're sort of going ‘err is this right?’ but you have to trust them, because this is the hospital we've got in Brisbane for kids.”

Emily’s parents say after some initial improvement, her disability is getting worse and she requires physiotherapy and rehabilitation to improve her strength and movement.

The family has engaged Shine Lawyers, whose experts believe a scan would have revealed the damage to Emily’s throat and say the stroke she suffered was avoidable.

Queensland Health declined to comment while legal proceedings are underway.

The estranged wife of former NRL player Brett Seymour has claimed he was abusive, violent and battled gambling and drinking problems during their relationship.

Seymour was once touted as a rising star, and played for the Brisbane Broncos, Cronulla Sharks, and New Zealand Warriors.

His former wife, Roseanne Seymour, has claimed to 9News that there was a gambling culture at the Broncos and said her husband lost “everything” during their marriage.

She also told Nine’s Danny Weidler she would hide from Seymour when she knew he had been drinking, and that she was hospitalised a number of times.

Five months ago, Mrs Seymour ended up in a coma in hospital, covered in bruises but not knowing what had happened.

“I ended up on life support, I did die, and was resuscitated in my own home," she said.

She said she was too frightened to go to police and claimed her husband did not even visit her in the hospital.

"I mean I can't believe he wasn't by my bedside when I woke up from this complete and utter nightmare."

In 2009, after being sacked by the Broncos and moving to Cronulla, a drunken episode cost Seymour his contract with the Sharks.

He ended up at the Warriors and then moved to England, where his ex-wife says his alleged drinking and gambling transferred to violence.

"He was extremely blind drunk and come into the house and just punched me straight to the ground, a big punch straight to the ground and I just fell to the ground, and the attack didn't stop there it was just bang bang bang,” Mrs Seymour said.

“He was ripping chunks of my hair out of my head, I can still recall the carpet, he was rubbing my head into the carpet and my scalp had carpet burn."

Another alleged attack resulted in two fractured ribs and Mrs Seymour said she sent an email to his family begging for help.

"Brett punched into me and pushed my face into the ground … I'm very sore and I'm hurt that he had abused me in this way," she wrote.

Mrs Seymour stayed with her husband but she says she lived in fear.

"It got to the point of me hiding when I knew he was out drinking, I would go upstairs and put the bed against the wall and hide,” she said.

Their last night as a couple was December 30 last year and police became involved when an alleged incident was witnessed by neighbours.

Mrs Seymour said he was smashing her head and strangling her as she begged him to stop.

9News requested an interview with Brett Seymour on a number of occasions, and today he provided a statement on the allegations.

"The allegations made by my partner are denied. I don't intend to participate in a trial orchestrated by the media,” the statement said.

“If those allegations need to be determined, they should be determined at the appropriate time and in the appropriate forum.”

The companies that sold and delivered carbon monoxide to a Sydney father who used it to kill his family made changes following the tragedy but also concede more can be done.

Fernando Manrique, 44 and his wife Maria Lutz, 43, were about to divorce when they were found dead along with their children Elisa, 11, and Martin, 10, and the family dog Tequila, in their northern Sydney home in October 2016.

They all died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

At the opening of an inquest into their deaths at Lidcombe Coroners Court, counsel assisting Adam Casselden said there was "little cause for doubt" that Mr Manrique was responsible.

YESTERDAY: Murder-suicide dad was having an affair with teenager Filipina 

He paid a friend $400 to receive a delivery of the deadly gas which, the inquest heard today, has only a few specific industrial uses.

The gas was sourced from industrial supplier BOC.

Following the 2016 deaths, the company removed carbon monoxide from its public website so only approved customers could order it, production manager Robert Brittliff told the inquest on Tuesday.

An "end-user declaration" form also became mandatory for people wishing to purchase the gas from BOC.

But once a customer follows that process the only additional check likely to stop them receiving the gas is if the delivery driver becomes suspicious it wasn't going to be used properly.

Delivery to a house may be a red flag, the inquest heard today.

However, a customer determined to "bluff" their way through the initial declaration form would likely be able to get their hands on the gas even if they faced further questions, Mr Brittliff said.

"I'm concerned if they've already bluffed through that process once, there's not much to stop them bluffing through it again."

Trucking company Linfox says drivers are "empowered" to make decisions when they deliver products to customers.

"Linfox empower drivers to ask questions if they think something does not feel right," executive Simon Livingstone told the inquest.

"To my knowledge, drivers did ask questions in relation to this delivery, which I think is a credit to that process."

Mr Livingstone agreed it would be "helpful" for drivers to carry copies of the BOC document to query the customer about their intended use for carbon monoxide.

But he admitted highly technical scientific uses could be confusing or challenging.

Mr Brittliff said delivery drivers' judgement was an important "line of defence" and making customers' licence and declaration form available to them could be helpful.

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Two pilots killed in a plane crash near Darwin had no experience flying in wet season conditions, an investigation by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has found.

Darcy McCarter, 23, and Daniel Burrill, 33, were transporting the body of a man back to Elcho Island for a funeral when the tragedy occurred on 23 October 2017.

Shortly after taking off from Darwin Airport, the Air Frontier Cessna 210 light plane got caught in a storm cell, despite attempting to fly around it.

Witnesses saw the plane descending rapidly into bushland near Howard Springs, with a section of each wing missing .

Both men were killed in the crash.

Investigators found "a combination of airspeed, turbulence and control inputs probably led to excessive loading on the aircraft's wings, which separated from the fuselage in-flight."

The ATSB said identifying an appropriate distance to keep from thunderstorms was "particularly challenging" and came through experience flying in the tropics.

"In many cases, deviations of 10 nautical miles may not be enough for an aircraft to remain safely clear of the turbulent and powerful forces associated with storms," Transport Safety Executive Director Nat Nagy said.

The Top End is known for its thunderstorms and severe weather in the months before the wet season, known as the 'build-up'.

While one of the men was an experienced pilot and supervising the other, neither had experience flying in build-up conditions.

The ATSB founds steps should be taken to reduce the risk of flying during the build-up to wet season.

"Smaller operators employing pilots with limited exposure to local conditions can better manage related risks by pairing new pilots with ones who are experienced in flying in the Top End," Mr Nagy said.

Daniel Burrill's father John told 9News he was glad the investigation had concluded and hoped the findings would keep other pilots safe.

He agreed that local airlines must be more diligent flying during the build-up and ensure pilots had experience in local conditions.

He agreed that local airlines must be more diligent flying during the build-up and ensure pilots had experience in local conditions.

In a statement, Air Frontier General Manager Kylie Hunt said the company's pilot training had always exceeded CASA's requirements.

"Prior to Darcy joining the company, he did specific training on the type of aircraft he would be operating, this training was done through an external training organisation during the wet season in Darwin," she said.

"Prior to Dan coming to Darwin, he completed training with an external training organisation for the purpose of flying in Darwin."

Ms Hunt said a week before the crash, Air Frontier had also sent out its annual wet season advisory circular to remind pilots about weather avoidance.

A former Melbourne memorabilia dealer has admitted killing an "irrational and violent" graphic artist in 2001 before stashing the body in a wheelie bin.

John Spencer White pleaded guilty to manslaughter today in the Melbourne Magistrates Court after prosecutors downgraded the charge from murder.

The body of John Christianos, 40, was found in 2018 at an Oakleigh South storage facility as the business was being shut down and the owner was cleaning out the premises, the court was told.

Mr Christianos, a Melbourne-based graphic artist, went missing in Oakleigh South in 2001.

White was extradited from Noosa on the Sunshine Coast following the discovery.

An investigation into the suspected murder of a 19-year-old woman in Perth 20 years ago has led police to a house they had previously searched.

Forensics officers are now excavating the backyard of a property on Carr Street in West Perth, where they originally searched for Lisa Jane Brown in 1999.

The mother-of-two, who was a sex worker, was last seen in Highgate in the early hours of November 10, 1998.

Her boyfriend told police that she walked down Brisbane Street and turned into Palmerston Street when she parted company with him.

Lesa Brittain of the Cold Case Serious Crime Squad said Ms Brown was last seen in Lake Street, Northbridge.

Detective Inspector Brittain said they were looking for any items of interest, but did not reveal if they believed her remains were there.

"I can't elaborate any further on that at this stage," she told reporters.

Det. Insp. Brittain stressed the current occupants of the property, where children's play equipment sits in the front yard behind a picket fence, did not know the missing woman and are not connected to the investigation.

The occupants of the house at the time of Ms Brown's disappearance had "an association" with her, Det. Insp. Brittain said.

A reward of up to $250,000 that was offered for information about the case in 2017 remains in place.

"We don't give up - we will continue to search for answers for Lisa Brown's family and friends," Det Insp Brittain said.

"If we continue to receive information, we will act."

A US private investigator who worked undercover at the holiday resort where Madeleine McCann vanished has made claims that appear to cast doubt on the controversial parental checking system Kate, Gerry and the Tapas 7 told police they were conducting on the night the three-year-old vanished.

In a remarkable interview on the Maddie podcast, Boston-based investigator Joseph Moura claimed a bartender and waitress who served the McCanns and their friends at the now infamous tapas restaurant on May 3 told him "nobody left the table that evening".

Moura worked one week undercover at the Ocean Club Resort after Maddie vanished, when US broadcaster CBS News hired him to investigate details surrounding Madeleine's disappearance for its flagship show, 48 Hours.

Nobody knew Moura, an American who speaks Portuguese, was a private investigator. In Maddie, Moura explained how he stayed at the Ocean Club resort and spent a lot of time getting to know employees, particularly workers at the tapas restaurant.

"[The employees] had no idea that I was working with 48 Hours and CBS. I was just a tourist who happened to speak their language. So I got to know them pretty well in that period of time, when you're spending a lot of time by the pool and you're spending time at the bar and the restaurant," he said.

"They clearly told me that that particular night that nobody left the table. That goes by the bartender and that goes by the waitresses. Nobody left the table that evening."

It is possible the bartender and restaurant wait staff did not see Mr and Mrs McCann and their friends getting up to leave the table to regularly check on their children.

According to police statements, members of the group departed the tapas table a number of times that evening.

Between 8.55pm and 9:30pm, the group of nine adults said they conducted a total of five checks. At 10pm, Kate McCann said she went to the apartment and discovered Madeleine was gone.

All six tapas restaurant staff who worked that night were interviewed by police on May 4, the day after Maddie vanished.

Three of the four front-of-house employees told police they saw one man leave the table that night. The other waiter said he noticed two men left during dinner at separate times.

One waitress told police workers learned that a girl had gone missing after a woman, probably Kate, left the table and raised the alarm.

In his police statement, a waiter said although he had seen just one man leave the table on May 3 that it was usual for someone in the group to visit the apartments to check the children.

Following his work on the case, Moura concluded Madeleine had been abducted on the night of May 3, 2007.

When asked why the group would have given statements saying they checked on the children regularly if that were not the case, Moura speculated that one possible reason might be the public perception of the McCanns and their friends, many of them doctors, leaving their kids alone at night.

"The family and the friends were really embarrassed," Moura said.

While evidence available to Portuguese police suggested the group did check on the children multiple times, Moura's claims illustrate the difficulty of confirming even the smallest of details from the day of Maddie's disappearance

Mr and Mrs McCann, doctors from Rothley, Leicestershire, have strenuously denied they were involved in the disappearance of their daughter. Nine.com.au does not suggest any involvement on their part. 

The McCanns believed an intruder struck while they were out, snatching Madeleine from a bedroom where she was sleeping alongside her younger brother and sister, Sean and Amelie.

Mr and Mrs McCann said an abductor could have monitored their nightly routine, as they left Madeleine, Sean and Amelie alone each night to eat at the tapas bar.

The Maddie podcast, a multi-episode investigation of Madeleine's disappearance, has clocked over one-million downloads since launching last month. It quickly reached number one in the UK, Australia and New Zealand iTunes charts.

Aged three when she vanished, Madeleine would turn 16 in 2019.

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After six long days of grilling potential jurors in a Minnesota courtroom (it was primarily the defence lawyers doing the grilling), we finally have 16 jurors confirmed to decide the fate of policeman Mohamed Noor who shot dead Sydney bride-to-be Justine Ruszczyk.

Among the 16, there are: 4 x women; 12 x men; 6 x people of colour; 1 x firefighter; 1 x carpenter; 1 x immigration officer; 1 x grocery shop worker.

With the jury sorted, the case can now begin. 

Tomorrow will start with opening arguments from the defence team and the prosecutors. Then, so long as there’s no other surprises, we willl start to hear evidence from both sides. 

However, we’ve already heard some critical hints as to what prosecutors and defence lawyers may have up their sleeve.

Firstly, up until now, it’s been widely suggested that there was a thump, thud or slap on the back of Noor’s police car that night which startled both him and his offsider, prompting Noor to pull the trigger and kill Justine. 

During jury selection, the prosecution has alluded numerous times to the idea that there may not have been any such thump on the police car. One potential juror was asked whether they could erase from their mind the idea that Justine was shot after Noor heard a noise.

If prosecutors do indeed provide evidence suggesting there was no catalyst that startled Noor, that changes the ball game for the jury. 

Why?

Because ultimately this trial is about deadly force and the question of whether Noor was authorised to use it in this case.

The idea that he wasn’t startled by something changes the dynamic of the situation completely. 

We’ve also heard a few more details about the moments after Justine suffered the fatal gunshot wound. 

She was barefoot. Once Justine was hit by the bullet, Officer Harrity - Noor’s offsider -   opened his car door and guided Justine to the ground. 

Arguably the most critical evidence in this case will be the police body cam footage. I say that without having seen it yet myself - and this very subject has been argued at length in court.

That is, whether the body cam footage will be played to the courtroom gallery and released publicly. 

Judge Kathryn Quaintance wants to turn the screens away from the public gallery, so journalists can hear the video but can’t see it. 

We now know what some of this footage shows. There’s “hours” of body cam vision to be tendered as evidence but by the sounds of things, a couple of clips are much more relevant than the rest. Justine is captured dying with part of her clothes torn off due to CPR attempts. 

Judge Quaintance has said the following things in Court about the footage:

“It’s video of him... it’s crucial to the case... it’s highly emotional...probably one of the most dramatic moments in the trial.”

“It’s video of a human being dying.”

“It’s shocking.”

In explaining why she doesn’t want the video released publicly, Judge Quaintance said “It’s not because it’s dramatic... I’m trying to protect pictures of this woman naked and her gasping for breath in the last moments of her life”.

At one point during jury selection, Judge Quaintance actually addressed potential jurors and asked if anyone thought they might not be able to handle video of someone dying.

One, juror #34, started to get emotional. “The weight of it all... it’s very tragic,” she said. 

Confronting as this body cam evidence may be, it sounds like there are very deliberate reasons it will be played to the jury. 

Prosecutor Amy Sweasy told the Court: “The video needs to be shown because it shows what police were doing when Ms Ruszczyk died. While that was happening, Ms Ruszczyk was dying.” 

So, whatever Noor, Harrity and others were doing moments after the shot was fired is crucial. We just don’t know what exactly that is yet.

The Defence team has also revealed who they plan to call to give evidence. While the prosecutors’ list of witnesses runs nine pages long, the defence plans to call a grand total of three witnesses:

1. Emanuel Kapelsohn - use of force expert 

2. Dr Matthew Guller - police psychologist 

3. William O’Keefe - a Private Investigator

What might explain this massive disparity between the number of witnesses from the prosecution and the defence is the framework of criminal trials in this American state.

Under Minnesota law, Mohamed Noor is presumed innocent. In other words, the Prosecution has to prove everything - the Defence doesn’t have to prove a thing. 

The only person possibly missing from the defence witness list is the Defendant. He can testify without being on the list. That’s probably the biggest question about this high-profile trial.

Will Noor tell us why he shot a Sydney woman in her pyjamas after she called for help?

Buckle up. It’s about to begin. Hopefully, as is justice for Justine.

Young women claim they have resorted to hiding in shops and running to safety because of the harassment they face on Sydney streets.

A global survey found catcalling is one of the most common forms of street harassment in places as far afield as Delhi, Lima, Madrid, Kampala and Sydney.

The research by humanitarian group Plan International was undertaken between April and June 2018 and found 34 per cent of Sydney women experienced verbal threats while 32 per cent were exposed to catcalling in public places.

Some 43 per cent of Sydney woman surveyed were aged between 21 and 25, while 26 per cent were between 16 and 20.

“This report in particular is looking at why so much harassment is perpetrated by groups of men and boys,” Advocacy Director of Plan International Australia Hayley Cull told nine.com.au.

The most common harassment in Sydney was from men yelling at women from cars.

“For too long this has been described as harmless fun. You feel really helpless and sometimes you feel humiliated,” Ms Cull said.

“They see this kind of harassment as a form of entertainment and a form of male bonding.

“Really what we have found is in order to do this, these men and boys are having to suppress their own empathy for the girls and women they are harassing.”

One 18-year-old Sydney woman said she was catcalled by construction workers on her way to a job interview.

"(It) threw me off for the rest of the day - being catcalled makes you want to cover yourself in heaps of layers and hide," she said in the report released today.

It suggested 82 per cent of harassment in Sydney happened on the street, 14 per cent on public transport and nine per cent in parks and shops.

Most of the reported harassment happened in the afternoon and evening. The report was based on 750 testimonals from females around the world.

A 23-year-old woman claimed she was followed by two men in a car while she was returning from a party.

"I ran and hid in someone's front yard. Within one minute the car returned, slowly doing laps of the street. They eventually drove off and I ran home terrified," she said in the report.

Another woman, 19, said she ended up hiding in a shop with a friend after men in a van started following them and yelling at them from the car.

Of the women surveyed, five per cent revealed they were physically assaulted.

"I was grabbed under my skirt by one guy whilst walking past a group of males on my way home. His friends defended him when I got in his face," a 23-year-old woman said.

In Delhi, a staggering 37 per cent of young girls reported being harassed while at school, or on their way to or from class.

“We’re horrified by it, we’re possible not shocked because we see this day in and day out,” Ms Cull told nine.com.au.

“We know in placed like Delhi there are shockingly high numbers of girls being pulled out of school because they don’t feel safe or their parents don’t feel they are safe.”

Ms Cull said for too long women had been the ones altering their behaviour, whether it be which way they walk or what they wear, and it was time for men to step up.

“The onus needs to be on men and boys to change behaviours, girls and woman have been changing the way they live their lives for too long.

“If they see it happen, call it out, don’t participate in this.”

- With AAP

“My greatest fear... is my life will end and I will never know what happened to her.”

Pat Lliess has just turned 88 and for the past 35 years, she’s had to live with incredible anguish - not knowing who killed her daughter, Lesley.

“Why? How? How could anyone do that to a defenceless little creature like Lessie was?” she told 9News.

The year was 1984. Thirty-one-year-old Lesley Larkin had recently moved to Noosa, a popular holiday destination on the Sunshine Coast.

She’d only been there for three weeks when she was bludgeoned to death inside her apartment.

“She was beaten to death, there’s no doubt about it,” Ms Lliess said.

But exactly who did the abhorrent crime remains a mystery to this day.

Queensland man Michael John Welsh was the last person to see Lesley alive.

He’s always strongly denied having any involvement in Ms Larkin’s murder but he doesn’t deny turning up at her door, unannounced, on the night she was killed.

Mr Welsh had previously told police he went there to offer Ms Larkin a job at his Hastings Street restaurant.

He claims he left soon after, but around midnight was woken by the sound of Ms Larkin's dog outside his bedroom.

The then 37-year-old lived 100 metres away from the young woman’s unit.

He maintains he went to return the dog and found Ms Larkin's naked body inside her bedroom, bloodied and battered.

“It was a lot of stress in my life. I don’t want to go through it again, thank you,” Mr Welsh said when approached by 9News at a Sunshine Coast shopping centre.

Ms Larkin’s grieving mother simply wants justice, though time is against her.

Police have reopened the cold case and anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Friends and strangers have rallied around an American musician who was stalked and bashed in a Melbourne car park.

Oscar Villagrana. 32, required two surgeries after suffering a broken jaw in a vicious attack last month on Plenty Road in Preston as he disembarked a tram to catch a bus home.

A GoFundMe page has since been set up and raised more than $13,000 for Mr Villagrana.

Fellow musician and friend James Hickey told 9News he was “in disbelief”.

“I mean he's such a peaceful, caring person. He doesn't have a streak of aggression at all, and for something like this to happen to Oscar is unbelievable."

Despite suffering memory loss, the trumpet player has told his friends he is planning to tour with a band in a couple of weeks.

"He'll be back on his feet, back into music and back into life." Mr Hickey said.

A 27-year-old homeless man, Enea Myrteza, has since been charged over the assault.

He was out on bail at the time of the alleged offence.

Oscar spent close to two weeks at the Austin Hospital before being released yesterday. Oscar's father has flown over to be with him.

The father of a little boy, who died on his bedroom floor in Brisbane as paramedics fought in vain to save him, will be tried for his son's murder.

Refugee and former Kenyan presidential candidate Quincy Timberlake, 38, has faced a committal hearing in Brisbane, accused of killing his son, Sinclair, in 2014.

Paramedics found three-year-old Sinclair on the floor when they arrived at the Timberlake family's home in Kallangur early on June 18.

Timberlake was "extremely" composed as he directed the officers into his son's room, paramedic Jennifer Pearce told Brisbane Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

"I was just surprised how calm he was. He didn't speak fast, he wasn't rushed in his thoughts."

As they checked the boy for signs of life, Ms Pearce and her partner David Wherry spotted dry vomit on a pillow and around the boy's mouth.

Timberlake said his son had fallen down the stairs.

The two paramedics performed CPR for about 25 minutes but were unable to revive him.

At the hearing on Monday, a friend of the family, Christina Carroll told the court she had noticed "straight line cuts" on Sinclair's forehead months earlier.

"To me it looked like he'd been cut with a razor or a knife," she said.

"It was discoloured like it'd been healed."

The boy's mother, Esther, told her Sinclair had fallen down the stairs.

But Ms Carroll said her 25 years' experience as a medical secretary led her to believe the wounds had been inflicted.

Gertrude Marutawana told the court on Monday she'd observed "quite a number" of criss-cross scars on Sinclair's back during a visit to the Timberlake home.

Ms Marutawana said Esther told her she had been accused of being a witch in Kenya and as punishment they had beaten her son.

On Tuesday, Timberlake was committed to stand trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court for the boy's murder.

In 2010, Timberlake announced he would run for the Kenyan presidency under a political party called PlaCenta Party (Platinum Centraliser and Unionist Party) of Kenya.

He formed the party with his wife, a former lawyer and TV news anchor in Kenya, and saxophonist Joseph Hellon, according to foreign media sources.

But Timberlake was reportedly arrested in Kenya for allegedly being a member of an illegal sect known as the Finger of God church.

These charges were reportedly dropped after Timberlake fled Kenya for Dubai before claiming asylum in Australia.

More than two months after two metres of rain swamped Townsville in North Queensland, a number of locals and business owners say they are still battling to have their insurance claims accepted.

Claims worth more than $1 billion from about 3300 inundated properties have been lodged, but some say they have been undone from the insurance fine print.

Mike Adlard said because he paid for water damage and not flood damage, his insurance company QBE had told him he was not covered.

"Well over a hundred grand in losses and damages, well over," he told A Current Affair.

Single mum Donna Lloyd lost everything on the ground floor of a townhouse, but because the body corporate did not have flood insurance, she does not know when - if ever - repairs will begin.

"They said 'No, well, you don't have flood insurance', but it still came in, it still flooded," she said.

"Rain comes from the sky so it has to fill up somewhere, and unfortunately it was here."

David Keane, who runs a business called Solve My Claim, which goes into bat for people finding themselves fighting for insurance, said he believed there were small businesses and property owners in Townsville who would never recover.

He said the issue in Townsville was that while most homeowners were covered for flood in their policies, unit owners and small businesses were not.

"People are coming out and saying, 'This whole event is flood', whereas there may be other circumstances where there is also stormwater or sewage overflow before the river flooded, and that's where things are becoming quite complex," he said.

Lee Lane and Joanne Chambers both own units in the same complex and say their insurance company, Vero, has told them what happened to them was caused by a flood and their body corporate doesn't have flood insurance.

"We could end up with nothing," Ms Chambers said.

Hairdresser Kevin Cooper, who also pays Vero for insurance, is trying to keep operating while he battles over his claim.

He estimated that in one street in his area, 60 to 80 businesspeople had found they were without coverage.

After an event like the Townsville rains, insurance companies decide whether or not they are going to pay out based on the advice of experts called hydrologists.

The hydrologist for Mr Cooper's insurer decided that the damage to his property was significantly caused by rainwater - a storm.

But the hydrologist working for the insurer of the entire building decided it was a flood.

There is no doubt Townsville flooded after the dam gates were opened late on February 3, but Mr Cooper, Ms Lloyd, Ms Lane and Ms Chambers all say their properties were flooding on February 2 after days of driving rain.

A number of photos and videos taken before the dam release prove they're right.

Campbell Fuller from the Insurance Council said insurers would try to help even if customers don't have flood cover.

"In many cases damage was incurred by the storm long before the river broke its banks, so the insurers are looking at how they can offer part payments to those customers to help them through this very difficult time," he said.

Mr Keane urged people to submit photos so they could at least prove what storm damage there was before the flood, in the hope of getting some payout.

QBE refused to comment for privacy reasons when approached by A Current Affair, while Vero said in a statement they were approaching commercial and strata insurance claims with fairness and compassion.

Watch the full story on 9now here.

Health authorities have revealed a potentially deadly button battery may be hidden inside a hot cross bun sold at a popular Adelaide supermarket - and have issued a second safety alert in as many days.

It's been revealed a small calculator somehow fell into hot cross bun baking mix, at the Pasadena Foodland.

Pieces have since been found in the baked goods, including one hot cross bun which a customer showed to 9News, which had a large segment of green plastic protruding from it.

SA Health's Acting Chief Public Health Officer, Dr Chris Lease, said the supermarket operator had yesterday initiated a precautionary recall and there had been no reports of harm or injury.

But of most concern was the fact the calculator contained a button battery.

"If swallowed, it can cause serious injury or even death," Dr Lease said.

"The Chapley Group is proactively working with SA Health and Food Standards Australia-New Zealand to notify customers who may have purchased the affected products.

"We urge anyone who may have purchased the affected hot cross buns to check the 'packed on' date, not to consume them, and return them to Pasadena Foodland for a full refund."

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The recall includes the following products that were produced on 7 April, 2019:

-       Choc Chip Hot Cross Buns 6 pack

-       Cranberry and White Choc Hot Cross Buns 6 pack

-       Hot Cross Buns 6 pack

-       Hot Cross Buns Large Loose

-       Hot Cross Buns Fruitless 6 pack

-       Mini Hot Cross Buns 12 pack

-       Mini Choc Chip Hot Cross Buns 12 pack

-       Premium Hot Cross Buns 500g

-       Various weights, 6 or 12 in a pack, packed on 7 April 2019

These products were available at Pasadena Foodland and were produced on 7 April 2019.

No other Pasadena Foodland bakery products are affected by the recall.

It’s a lawyer’s dream - a client who won’t take no for an answer.

For 14 long years an Australian woman went to the ends of the earth to try to prove her husband was hiding assets from her, in our nation's longest-running and most expensive divorce.

Ultimately, the wealthy ex-wife burned through an eyewatering $40 million in legal fees and 16 law firms over a staggering 5000 days for legal wrangling.

"How much of your life do you want to dedicate to fighting, arguing, going to court?" Dr Bella Ellwood-Clayton told A Current Affair as she dissected the failed relationship.

“When someone feels abandoned by their partner they might feel hurt and might want to be vindictive and when it comes to money, things can get very messy.”

For legal reasons, we can’t identify the warring couple but we can reveal the husband is a handy card player who belongs to a mysterious global betting syndicate.

His wife claimed that before their marriage fell apart, he told the court in an affidavit that the couple’s share in the syndicate was worth $150 million.

Her relentless pursuit to prove the money existed only served to line lawyers' back pockets who took on her case.

LJ Subeska from Sydney’s Astoria Law firm did not act for the wife but says she’s astonished her peers did not try advise their client to end the litigation sooner.

"The judge labelled her (the wife) as a vexatious client and at some stage, some lawyer should have said let's pull up here and give some proper advice as to the grounds of success,"  Ms Subeska told A Current Affair.

The wife wanted $278,000 a month in spousal payments.

The court decided $26,000 a month was enough to support her luxurious lifestyle, which included $1560 a week for clothing and shoes, $615 for gifts, hairdressing, toiletries and cosmetics, and another $1573 for other necessary commitments.

She had already received $12 million in partial property settlements over the course of the protracted litigation.

One judge ordered the woman to hand back interests in family companies and trusts, and relinquish caveats held over several properties around the world.

In exchange, she would receive more than $2 million in cash, five properties worth more than $8 million, and another $1 million in company shares.

She appealed that deal three times.

No courts found the husband had hidden any assets.

And when the dust settled, the woman ended up with about $15 million in cash and assets.

Watch the full story on 9now here.