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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the update. I'm Sissy Thompson. Gigantic hailstones

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Speaker 1: have devastated the community of Carsterton near the Victoria, South

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Speaker 1: Australia border. The local SEES unit responded to the first

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Speaker 1: of about seventy calls for help just before six. The

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Speaker 1: hail has smashed into homes caravans, caused the collapse of

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Speaker 1: roofs and lead to flush flooding. Barry from Herbert's Bakery

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Speaker 1: says his car will need a new bonnet, boot and windows.

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Speaker 2: I've never seen it before. More of that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: Had fires starting, houses, roofs cave in, so yeah, it

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Speaker 2: was pretty hectic though. It was just a radiold ailstorm

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Speaker 2: until our golf balls started for our side, Scott, and

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Speaker 2: then some cricket balls start joining the party as well.

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Speaker 1: A w A man has pleaded guilty to setting fire

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Speaker 1: to a home in the State South with his partner

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Speaker 1: and children inside. Verdon Garlic has admitted to starting the

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Speaker 1: blaze in Albany in April. WA police had to rush

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Speaker 1: the occupants, including three children under eleven, from the burning house.

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Speaker 1: Garlett was initially charged with attempted murder, but that has

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Speaker 1: been downgraded by prosecutors. A convicted child killer has been

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Speaker 1: found guilty of breaching his supervision order by approaching a

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Speaker 1: woman and child at a New South Wales beach. The

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Speaker 1: thirty six year old man served twenty two years in

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Speaker 1: jail for the murder of a Central Coast teenager. He's

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Speaker 1: been back on the streets ince April of last year

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Speaker 1: and will find out on the twelfth of December his

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Speaker 1: punishment for breaching the order. He argued in court his

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Speaker 1: intention was never to engage with the child, but to

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Speaker 1: try to secure a date with the woman. Police are

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Speaker 1: investigating an incident at a school north of Brisbane where

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Speaker 1: a student allegedly posted online a list of students he

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Speaker 1: wanted to rape. The post included explicit details about individuals.

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Speaker 1: Muller College in Rothwall says the post has been taken down.

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Speaker 1: The school's been accused of asking students to sign a

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Speaker 1: non disclosure agreement, but it says students can't talk about

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Speaker 1: the issue in public because it's in the hands of police.

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Speaker 1: Experts warn Australia's fertility rate maybe at the point of

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Speaker 1: no return. Two hundred and eighty seven thousand berths were

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Speaker 1: registered in Australia resulting in a total fertility rate of

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Speaker 1: one point five that's a four point six percent drop

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Speaker 1: on previous year's figures. A and New demographer Liz Allen

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Speaker 1: says that level is difficult to turn around.

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Speaker 2: We're at these crossroads. If action isn't taken now, that

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Speaker 2: figure will fall further.

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Speaker 1: And an NRL star who went to a friend's wedding

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Speaker 1: in Bali is asking the federal government for help to

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Speaker 1: get his newborn son home. Sharks player Jesse Ramian and

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Speaker 1: his fiancee had baby t arrived unexpectedly while they were

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Speaker 1: in Indonesia for the wedding. Born six weeks early, it

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Speaker 1: could cost the couple one hundred and thirty thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: for a medical flight to bring their boy home. Sport

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Speaker 1: and Entertainment a next in sport. AFL midfielder Bailey Smith

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Speaker 1: has avoided going through the draft to get to Geelong

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Speaker 1: after the Western Bulldogs agreed to a late deal just

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Speaker 1: before the trade deadline. And in the T twenty Women's

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Speaker 1: cricket Spring Challenge, Sydney Thunder has beaten the Perth Scorches

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Speaker 1: by sixty one runs, while Brisbane Heats had a six.

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Speaker 1: We could win over the Adelaide Strikers with seven balls remaining.

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Speaker 1: In entertainment news hot on the heels of Oasis announcing

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Speaker 1: their reunion to it. Some of the brit band's memorabilia

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Speaker 1: is up for auction. Nol Gallagher's silver Sparkle guitar is

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Speaker 1: the feature item and could fetch as much as seven

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars for Liam. The auction includes a tambourine.

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Speaker 1: Other items include original handwritten lyrics and rare photos. And

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Speaker 1: we've been given a glimpse of Prince William's new documentary.

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Speaker 1: It follows him in the first year of the Homewoods Program,

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Speaker 1: which aims to end homelessness. And that is the latest

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Speaker 1: from the Nova Podcast team. We'll see you later on

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Speaker 1: for another update. I'm Susie Thompson.