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1. Stalker fears in Adelaide as armed man terrorises women.

Police have set up a task force after a number of women including a 16-year-old girl were approached by a man armed with a knife in Adelaide’s inner-south on Sunday and Monday.

The man approached four women in just over an hour at Myrtle Bank, Malvern, Unley and Glandore between 6.20am and 7.30am on Sunday.

The same man approached a fifth victim, a 16-year-old girl, and threatened her with a knife in Melrose Park about 4pm on Monday.

The first person approached was a 61-year-old woman out walking her dog, the second a 33-year-old woman who was also walking when she was approached by a man who was holding what appeared to be a folding knife. The third woman, a 22-year-old woman was walking along Greenhill Road when she was grabbed by a man holding a knife, she broke free and was not injured.

The next woman was injured when the man grabbed her, a 52-year-old woman, she managed to break free but she sustained a hand injury.

Police believe the man did not strike again until yesterday when he tried to grab a 16-year-old girl who broke free but was also uninjured.

The suspect is described as being Caucasian, aged between 25 – 45 years, about 70kg, about 175cm tall, medium – slim build and wearing long trousers and a long sleeve top. On one occasion he was wearing a hi-vis vest. He is believed to be driving a light coloured early model Ford sedan, possibly an XE or XF model.

Anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

2. Mother says she was discriminated against after she and her disabled child were asked to leave show at Lyric Theatre.

The mother of a 15-year-old with cerebral palsy says she is ‘disgusted’ after she was asked to take her daughter out of the theater 10 minutes in to the show.

Fairfax Media reports that Amanda Hirst was at the matinee performance of Matilda at the Sydney Lyric Theatre with her 15-year-old daughter Eliza on Sunday.

Eliza, who has cerebral palsy and is developmentally delayed, was seated in a disability access area with her mother.

Ms Hirst told Fairfax Media that 10 minutes in to the show “Eliza was clapping and cheering with everyone else and rocking back and forwards in her wheelchair.”

She says she was approached by a member of the theatre management who asked her to remove her daughter.

“I was so intimidated by him,” Ms Hirst said.

“He told me he had been watching Eliza for 10 minutes and it looked [like] she was not going to settle. He said he was observing the people around us too,” she said.

“If she was distressed or throwing things or having a seizure, or upsetting other people I would have taken her out myself but she was just happy and enjoying the show,” Ms Hirst said.

“She loves music and loves to dance, and she cried out in excitement once when a big balloon popped as part of the show,” Mr Hirst said.

“I heard a baby crying, other people were clapping and laughing. I just couldn’t understand why Eliza was a problem for him,” she said.

“It’s just so wrong. It’s discrimination. I am just disgusted that my daughter has been put out of a show, she said.

The theatre’s general manager Graeme Kearns told Fairfax Media the floor manager observed Eliza “expressing herself pretty loudly with a lot of movement” and that she was disruptive to other patrons.

Mr Kearns it was a difficult situation.

“If we didn’t do anything [I’d] have other patrons complaining … I’d have a hundred letters on my desk this morning from people wanting their money back,” he said.

Mr Kearns apologized and invited them both to another performance.

“We have hundreds of disabled patrons every week, we welcome them and they have a great time with us,” Mr Kearns said.

3.  PM cries during interview with Stan Grant.

The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has wept while telling interviewer Stan Grant the story of an elderly Indigenous woman who recalls her mother singing to her in the dying Ngunnawal language as a child.

During an interview with Stan Grant for his new show The Point Mr Turnbull wiped away the tears as he told Mr Grant the heart wrenching tale.

“She was a very old lady and she remembers her mother singing this [lullaby] to her. And the thing that’s so sad is to imagine that mother singing that story to her at a time when you were losing culture and the last thing that baby was was safe.”

Mr Turnbull also told Mr Grant reconciliation is the duty of every Australian.

“Reconciling the nation with that history and righting those wrongs and settling that injustice is an objective and obligation of every Australian but especially of every Prime Minister,” he says.

4. Melissa Little, wife of Damien Little, who shot himself and his sons before driving off a Port Lincoln wharf says thanks.

The wife of Damien Little has posted an emotional message to Facebook thanking all those who offered support since her husband took his own life and that of their sons in January.

Damien Little shot himself and his sons, Koda, four, and Hunter, nine months, before driving off a Port Lincoln wharf.

In a message posted on Facebook Melissa Little she was overwhelmed by people’s generosity.

“I have been overwhelmed by people’s generosity. I can’t thank everyone enough for their financial contributions to ‘a little help’. Words cannot express how thankful I am and the feeling of gratitude I hold within.”

She said the money raised helped relieve the pressure of returning to work before she was ready.

Ms Little said the support she had received had been outstanding helped “make each day for me more bearable,” she wrote.”Please know I am extremely grateful from the bottom of my heart.”

“For those who knew Damien, Koda and Hunter personally, continue to cherish the memories of their happy times and happy faces.

“And for those who did not know them personally please understand how I wish my family to be remembered, the happy fun loving times.”

Ms Little said she also had a final message to offer.

“Hug your loved ones tight. Tell them how much you love them and never let them go,” she said.

5. Hundreds of Australians fighting with Islamic State.

A visiting exert has said that there are 200 Australians are fighting in the Iraq-Syria war zone, a figure more than 20 per cent higher than that reported by Australian authorities.

According to a visiting regional expert citing security sources there are an estimated 140 Australians fighting with Islamic State and al-Nusra Front terrorists and another 60 fighting with opposition forces.

Academic Kerim Balci has said that by his estimates over that 200 are fighting there.

The Herald Sun points out that the numbers referred to by Mr Balci —were significantly higher (200 compared to 161 including casualties) than that cited by Australian Security Intelligence Organisation director-general Duncan Lewis early last month.

6. George Pell back in the witness box.

Cardinal George Pell will today be back giving his long-awaited evidence into his knowledge of alleged sexual offences in Ballarat to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse by video link from Rome.

Yesterday he told the commission it was individual failures rather than the Catholic Church system that was to blame for the inaction on the clergy sexual abuse that went on for decades.

“I’m not here to defend the indefensible,” he said.

“The church has made enormous mistakes and is working to remedy those, but the church … has mucked things up, has let people down.”

7. Nursing home flu outbreak leaves four dead.

A nursing home is in lockdown and four residents are dead after a flu outbreak.

More than 60 residents and staff have fallen ill with the flu at Mercy Place in the inner Cairns suburb of Westcourt.

Mercy Health Queensland manager Anita Ghose told The Brisbane Times  the majority of those who have fallen ill since Sunday, February 14 – 36 residents and 24 staff – had tested positive to influenza B.

“During this period, three residents have passed away,” she said.

She said the facility immediately restricted access when the first people fell sick more than two weeks ago.

“Mercy Health immediately activated its management control procedures to ensure the safety and wellbeing of residents, families and staff,” Ms Ghose said.

“This included strict infection control measures, prophylactic medication, the deployment of a specialist response team of senior clinicians to Cairns from Victoria, additional clinical staffing resources in the home, close consultation with local general practitioners and medical services, cessation of all communal activities, additional cleaning of communal areas, and the limiting of all non-essential visits to the home.

8. Nanny decapitates child and carries head through streets.

A woman has been charged with murder after being found with the severed head of a child on a busy street in Moscow, police have said.

The woman was the babysitting the child, who is believed to be three or four years old.

She is undergoing psychiatric testing to see if she is mentally sound and understands the significance of the crime she is charged with.

Online footage shows the woman dressed in a black hijab pacing outside Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in the northwest of the capital, holding up a child’s severed head high in the air.

One reporter, from the RBC daily, said she had heard the woman screaming “Allahu Akbar”.

Investigators said the woman murdered the child in the family’s Moscow flat before setting fire to the premises and fleeing.

9. Facebook supports marriage equality.

Facebook users will be able to show their support for marriage equality by giving its 14 million Australian users the option of adding an Australian Marriage Equality banner to their profile pictures.

The feature follows a popular rainbow filter Facebook users put over their profile pictures last year in the wake of the US Supreme Court decision backing same-sex marriage.

The Australian Marriage Equality group said they had been “working with our mates at Facebook to make sure marriage equality is front and centre this year.”

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