Carlie Sinclair death: Darwin woman buried while son waited in car, trial told and other top stories.

• Carlie Sinclair death: Darwin woman buried while son waited in car, trial told

  

  Carlie Sinclair death: Darwin woman buried while son waited in car, trial told Updated August 10, 2016 21:02:43 The man accused of killing Carlie Sinclair in Darwin in 2013 hit her over the head and strangled her with a rag before burying her body in a pre-dug grave while their young son waited in the car, prosecutors have alleged. Danny Deacon, 45, is on trial in the Northern Territory Supreme Court for the killing of Ms Sinclair, 35, on or about June 18, 2013. Deacon ..

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• Two men shot at home in Attwood, near Broadmeadows

  

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• Ryde fatal stabbing: Man charged with affray after teen dies in hospital

  

  Ryde fatal stabbing: Man charged with affray after teen dies in hospital Posted August 10, 2016 21:16:19 A 20-year-old man has been charged with affray by police investigating the fatal stabbing of a teenager at Ryde in Sydney's north-west.On Sunday, police said a fight involving several young people broke out at the party on Victoria Road in Ryde around midnight.Six males and one woman were stabbed.Paramedics said a boy, understood by the ABC to be 16-year-old Aidan ..

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• Battle of Long Tan honours testament to commanding officer, WA veteran says

  

  Battle of Long Tan honours testament to commanding officer, WA veteran says Posted August 10, 2016 22:01:50 A WA veteran of the Battle of Long Tan says a decision to recommend military honours for 10 of the battle's participants is testament to the dedication of his commanding officer.Neil Bextrum was a private in D Company 6th Battalion when it engaged a vastly superior force of Vietnamese soldiers in a rubber plantation near the village of Long Tan on August 18, 196..

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• Man charged with murder over Melbourne bashing death

  

  Man charged with murder over Melbourne bashing death Updated August 10, 2016 21:48:23 Victorian police have charged a man over a bashing death in Melbourne's west last month.Homicide Squad detectives charged 30-year-old Brooklyn man Nuri Balla with the murder of 28-year-old Aaron Burnett.Balla appeared at an out-of-sessions hearing in Melbourne on Wednesday night.The court heard Mr Burnett was assaulted behind a petrol station at Kealba, in Melbourne's north-west, in th..

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• Malcolm Turnbull defends handling of census as Privacy Commissioner investigates

  

  The Australian census has not been compromised and will not need to be re-run, the Turnbull government says, despite a crippling series of cyber attacks leading the country's chief statistician to shut down the census website on Tuesday night.As a partisan wrangle erupted over the fiasco, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull promised a "thorough" post-census review would uncover what went wrong. But he defended the Australian Bureau of Statistics' decision to err on the side of caution in order to p..

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