Speaker 1: From the Daily Os. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Lucy Tassel.
Speaker 1: It's Monday, the twenty eighth of April. Here's what's making
Speaker 1: headlines this evening.
Speaker 2: An inquest into the Bondai Junction Westfield stabbing attack has
Speaker 2: begun in the New South Wales Coroner's Court. Five weeks
Speaker 2: of hearings will explore the circumstances surrounding the April twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four incident. Six people were killed by forty year
Speaker 2: old Joel Couci, who was fatally shot by police at
Speaker 2: the scene. Today, the court heard Cauci, who was diagnosed
Speaker 2: with schizophrenia as a teenager, was quote effectively unmedicated for
Speaker 2: nearly five years. Council assisting the coroner, Peggy Dwyer SC
Speaker 2: said quote no health practitioner held responsibility for his ongoing care.
Speaker 2: Dwyer also said searches of Cauchi's phone indicate he was
Speaker 2: quote preoccupied with weapons, with violence, and with mass killing.
Speaker 2: New South Wales Coroner Teresa O'Sullivan told the victims families
Speaker 2: there were simply no words to properly convey the magnitude
Speaker 2: of their loss. The inquest is expected to continue until
Speaker 2: the end of next month.
Speaker 1: Australian officials have worked with police in the Philippines to
Speaker 1: rescue two children linked to a Queensland child exploitation investigation.
Speaker 1: A thirty one year old man is accused of twenty
Speaker 1: eight offenses, including drug and child abuse charges. He was
Speaker 1: arrested in December when police seized his devices on suspicion
Speaker 1: of child exploitation material. Investigators said further searches revealed material
Speaker 1: featuring quote a number of unidentified child victims. Police have
Speaker 1: since located two child victims in southeast Queensland, while local
Speaker 1: and federal police worked with the Philippine National Police to
Speaker 1: rescue an additional two child victims from quote abusive environments overseas.
Speaker 1: The accused is facing multiple charges, including grooming and indecent
Speaker 1: treatment offenses, drug supply, using the Internet to procure children
Speaker 1: under sixteen, and distributing child exploitation material. He's due in
Speaker 1: court on Thursday.
Speaker 2: US President Donald Trump has publicly urged Russian President Vladimir
Speaker 2: Putin to sign a peace deal with Ukraine. A day
Speaker 2: after he met with Vladimir Zelenski. The Ukrainian president attended
Speaker 2: a private conversation with the US leader inside Saint Peter's
Speaker 2: Basilica ahead of Pope Francis's funeral over the weekend. White
Speaker 2: House officials called it a quote very productive discussion. Trump
Speaker 2: has since told reporters the US and Ukraine have worked
Speaker 2: out the confines of a deal and want Putin to
Speaker 2: sign it. He called on Putin to quote stop shooting,
Speaker 2: sit down, and sign the proposed peace steal if allows
Speaker 2: months of tense negotiations between the three nations after Trump
Speaker 2: promised to end to the conflict as part of his
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four election campaign.
Speaker 1: And today's good news, thousands of flowers will be planted
Speaker 1: at a US landfill site to create a pollinator haven
Speaker 1: for bees, butterflies, and insects. New York's Staten Island was
Speaker 1: home to one of the world's largest landfill sites before
Speaker 1: it was shut down and converted to parkland in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. At its peak in the nineteen eighties, Freshkills
Speaker 1: Park received millions of kilos of waste every day. Now,
Speaker 1: a community organization is leading an initiative to plant fifty
Speaker 1: thousand native violets at the site. President of the Freshkills
Speaker 1: Park Alliance, Mark Murphy said planting these violets is incredibly
Speaker 1: important to the ecosystem within Freshkills and also the region,
Speaker 1: he said. He hopes the mission will turn what was
Speaker 1: once a terrible thing for Staten Island into an incredible
Speaker 1: place of beauty, acceptance and reclamation.
Speaker 2: That's the latest from the dally Oos newsroom. If you're
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Speaker 1: We will be back tomorrow morning with another a Lie
Speaker 1: election deep dive as we count down to polling day
Speaker 1: on Saturday. But until then, have a great evening.
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