Speaker 1: This is Gabrielle Power with Your News. Twenty four update.
Speaker 1: A woman in Darwin has been charged over alleged abuse
Speaker 1: of public office relating to a multimillion dollar NDAs plot.
Speaker 1: Police arrested the thirty nine year old in Lee Point yesterday.
Speaker 1: She was charged with five offenses and has been bailed
Speaker 1: to appear in court later today. It's after a man
Speaker 1: was charged in February with corruption and abuse of public
Speaker 1: office offenses. Victoria Labour MPs have described the drama Field
Speaker 1: caucus meeting which resulted in the appointment of Ben Carroll
Speaker 1: as the state's new party leader and Premier. Ben Carroll
Speaker 1: was widely expected to run unopposed after Jacinta Allen's resignation,
Speaker 1: but Attorney General Sonya Kilkenny launched a surprise eleventh hour challenge.
Speaker 1: Some sources reported to The Herald's Sun the challenge was
Speaker 1: straight out of Dan Andrew's playbook. The new premier is
Speaker 1: pledging a sweeping review of the suburban rail loop, reopening
Speaker 1: closed police stations and looking into fast tracking Melbourne Airport.
Speaker 1: Rail authorities in South Australia have called off the search
Speaker 1: for a missing three month old boy on the state's
Speaker 1: South Coast. It's after the bodies of the thirty six
Speaker 1: year old woman and a toddler were recovered near Port
Speaker 1: MacDonald on Monday. It's believed the pair fell from a
Speaker 1: cliff into the ocean. Police say they're not giving up
Speaker 1: on the search for the missing baby, but do not
Speaker 1: hold much hope. We will continue to search until the
Speaker 1: expert advice tells us that there is no prospect of
Speaker 1: finding the child alive. The information we have from survivability
Speaker 1: experts is that it is very, very unlikely that the
Speaker 1: missing baby has survived at this point. A casha of
Speaker 1: military style weapons has been uncovered in a Sydney home.
Speaker 1: Live hand grenades, three automatic rifles for shotguns, as well
Speaker 1: as six kilograms of cocaine are among the stashed discovered
Speaker 1: in the house. Task Force Falcon made the find while
Speaker 1: carrying out a routine firearm prohibition check. New South Wales
Speaker 1: Police Assistant Commissioner Scott Cook believes the discovery is a
Speaker 1: concerning insight into how far criminal gangs are willing to go.
Speaker 1: It's been revealed mortgage borrowers are missing out on millions
Speaker 1: in offset savings. A review by ASSEK has found Australian
Speaker 1: banks paid more than fifty five million dollars in compensation
Speaker 1: in just two years. It's after failures with offset accounts
Speaker 1: left customers paying more interest than they should have. The
Speaker 1: regulator claims several banks have begun amendments and will monitor
Speaker 1: the fixers overseas. The US President has praised a sixteen
Speaker 1: year old lifeguard who saved a young boy from massive
Speaker 1: waves in California. Donald Trump has invited the teenager to
Speaker 1: the White House, claiming he deserved a high civilian honor.
Speaker 1: The video of writer Williams went viral on social media,
Speaker 1: showing him him continuously being knocked down by the waves
Speaker 1: while keeping hold of the child. Bystanders attempted to help
Speaker 1: by forming a human chain, but it was broken by
Speaker 1: the force of the surf. After several minutes, a crowd
Speaker 1: was able to help bring the boy to share. In
Speaker 1: a post to ex Donald Trump wrote, We're going to
Speaker 1: bring this heroic young man and his family into the
Speaker 1: White House with perhaps the boy he's saved, to give
Speaker 1: him a high civilian honor. Very brave, he deserves it.
Speaker 1: You can now take News twenty four with you for
Speaker 1: breaking news on the go. Stream four news channels, Live
Speaker 1: and watch News twenty four shows on demand. Visit News
Speaker 1: twenty four, dot com, dot Au, forward slash watch