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Cameron Munster has been unveiled as the new captain of the Queensland Maroons, replacing the axed Daly Cherry-Evans in a bid to inspire a State of Origin series comeback.
The Maroons must win in Perth next Wednesday to remain in the series, and Munster’s captaincy call will mark the culmination of his evolution from wayward larrikin to leader.
Kurt Mann has also been confirmed for his Maroons debut, replacing Tom Dearden as the bench utility who will take over from Cherry-Evans at halfback.
A thief who threatened an employee with a meat cleaver at a Murrumba Downs store on the weekend remains on the run, as police call for public assistance tracking him down.
Police said a man entered a Dohles Rocks Road business about 7.30pm on Saturday, and used the weapon to threaten the male staff member and demand money from the register.
The employee was not physically harmed and handed over the cash, which the thief took before leaving on foot, heading north towards Kallangur.
Police have yet to find the suspect, and called on anyone with footage of the incident, or who might have seen it, to come forward.
The robbery happened just days before the state bolstered anti-knife crime laws, today expanding police search powers to enable officers to conduct metal-wand searches of people in most public spaces without a warrant.
The Brisbane Broncos appear set to adopt a new look, with an administrative move hinting at its first major rebranding in a quarter-century.
The club has designed what appears to be a new club logo, in the shape of a shield, featuring the familiar Broncos horse motif.
Records show Brisbane Broncos Corporation Pty Ltd submitted the design to IP Australia for trademark protection last Wednesday.
The Brisbane Broncos’ logo submitted for trademark protection, alongside the current (left) and original (right) logos.Credit: Composite by Matt Absalom-Wong
While the image was in black-and-white, a fully realised logo would probably incorporate the Broncos’ club colours of maroon, white and yellow.
The murder trial of accused mushroom killer Erin Patterson in Victoria will continue today – it’s the seventh week of the trial that was initially slated to run for up to six weeks.
Patterson is accused of murdering her parents-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson, as well as Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, by serving them a lunch of beef Wellington that contained death cap mushrooms at her home in Leongatha on July 29, 2023.
Her evidence will resume today at the Latrobe Valley law courts in Morwell.
Reporters Marta Pascual Juanola and Erin Pearson will bring you the latest information from the ground as it comes to hand throughout the day.
You can stay up to date via the live blog here.
After the recent closure of West End’s beloved The Bearded Lady, another popular Brisbane outlet has stepped in to help fill the void left in the live music scene.
Blute’s Bar in Brunswick Street Mall, well-known for its karaoke nights, is ramping up its commitment to local original music and will host live acts five nights a week.
Ball Point Press, who were behind The Bearded Lady’s artist bookings – and also run the music acts at Valley venues Black Bear Lodge and The Brightside – have joined Blute’s to head up the new program.
Along with the Beardo, Brisbane has also seen the recent losses of Season Three, King Lear’s Throne and The Zoo – although the space later became a revamped Crowbar.
An IVF clinic in Melbourne has transferred the wrong embryo into a Melbourne woman, the second incident admitted by the fertility giant in as many months.
Monash IVF revealed via an ASX statement that it had mistakenly transferred a patient’s own embryo to her during a process in which she was supposed to receive an embryo from her partner.
In April, the fertility giant revealed an embryo mix-up at Monash IVF’s Brisbane clinic resulted in a Queensland woman giving birth to a stranger’s baby.
The mistake was only discovered when the woman moved her embryos to another clinic, more than a year after the transfer.
Cameron Munster has been unveiled as the new captain of the Queensland Maroons, replacing the axed Daly Cherry-Evans in a bid to inspire a State of Origin series comeback.
The Maroons must win in Perth next Wednesday to remain in the series, and Munster’s captaincy call will mark the culmination of his evolution from wayward larrikin to leader.
Kurt Mann has also been confirmed for his Maroons debut, replacing Tom Dearden as the bench utility who will take over from Cherry-Evans at halfback.
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Amanda Rishworth and Tasmania Greens senator Nick McKim have expressed support for Nine News journalist Lauren Tomasi, who was shot with a rubber bullet while covering the unrest in Los Angeles.
Speaking on Nine’s Today, Rishworth said she wasn’t sure whether Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would raise the incident with US President Donald Trump.
“I’m not aware of what will and will not be in conversations,” she said.
“I understand [Tomasi] is OK and she wasn’t seriously injured, but Australia absolutely believes in the freedom of journalists to do their job and to do their job safely, and that journalists should be protected. And so this is obviously a very difficult circumstance.”
McKim called the incident shocking: “It certainly looked deliberately, deliberately done. And if it was, that’s absolutely … a cowardly act,” he said.
“The fact that you’ve got someone in uniform who appears to take a deliberate potshot at an Australian journalist, that is completely unacceptable. And it needs to be raised at the highest levels.”
An aid boat carrying activists including Swedish Greta Thunberg, 22, has arrived in Israel after being boarded by the military and diverted from Gaza, and 12 activists have been detained.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which organised the voyage, had set out to protest Israel’s ongoing military campaign in the Gaza Strip and its restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid. The group sought to break through Israel’s blockade and deliver aid.
An image released by Israel’s Foreign Ministry shows Greta Thunberg being given a sandwich after her boat was intercepted off Gaza.Credit: X
Israel’s Foreign Ministry labelled the vessel a “selfie ship” in a post on X and said the group had only brought a “tiny amount” of aid, which would be distributed.
It said the activists were undergoing medical checks and were expected to be held at a detention facility in the city of Ramle before being deported, according to Adalah, a legal rights group representing them.
Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek has asked whether the government should have greater control of private schools, after reports of shocking social media use by students.
The Courier-Mail has this week reported on private school students circulating sexualised content on social media, resulting in expulsions.
Langbroek said the state government had “very little control or oversight” of private schools, and the schools were responsible for managing student safety and conduct for most issues.
“My main responsibility is state schools, of which we’ve got 1266,” he said.
“(Private schools) are registered with the Non-State School Accreditation Board.
“These types of incidents do make me question whether we need to look at some other sort of oversight of these non-state schools.”
The state government banned the use of mobile phones in state schools in January last year, meaning students would need to have their phones switched off and notifications silenced on smartwatches.
Nine News US Correspondent Lauren Tomasi has opened up about being shot by a rubber bullet by while covering the protests in Los Angeles on Monday AEST.
While reporting live outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service in front of a line of police, an officer appeared to turn and fire a bullet at her leg, causing her to yelp in pain.
“I have a bit of a bloody big old bruise, and it’s a little bit sore, but I am all okay,” she said on Nine’s Today Show on Tuesday morning.
“It’s a really crappy thing that’s happened. But I really don’t want to be the story … it’s a really chaotic situation that’s unfolding in Los Angeles.”
Nine News U.S. Correspondent Lauren Tomasi was hit by a rubber bullet while reporting on protests and riots in Los Angeles.Credit: Nine News
Tomasi said she and the cameraman went live about 5am local time after “thousands of protesters” appeared on the street.
“We felt that presence of the LAPD and law enforcement really ramp up and [we] went live … police started pushing their way up the street. They’d begun firing tear gas canisters and those rubber bullets, and we moved on to the sidewalk really tried to stay out of the way,” she said.
“I was really focused on the camera and was finishing that report … and I got hit. [Cameraman] Jimmy scooped me up, and we made our way out of there as quickly as possible. It was a bit of a shock.”
US President Donald Trump didn’t respond to The Herald’s questions about the incident. The LA Police Department is expected to issue a statement later today.
