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1. Dingo tried to snatch toddler from beach in WA.

A dingo has grabbed a baby biting her on the nappy at a remote beach in the Kimberly region.

The family were staying at the Kooljaman resort at Cape Leveque when, on Friday evening they were having a picnic at a nearby beach. The two-year-old girl, Stella was grabbed by the dingo as they ate.

“[Stella] tried to crawl away and was crying and it just ran back in and grabbed her on the lower back and buttock,” her mother Christine Dwyer said.

A spokesman for the wilderness camp told the ABC the bite broke the toddler’s skin but it did not draw blood. It is understood the dingo first attacked the child’s teddy bear before biting her.

Her mother told ABC radio the dingo tried to drag her daughter backwards during the frightening attack.

“It tried to drag her backwards but it only got maybe six inches” Ms Dwyer said.

Resort staff ran to help get rid of the wild dog.

“They were very helpful, they continued to shoo it away and took us up to the nurses to make sure she didn’t need any tetanus injections or anything like that, and just clean up the little scratches and puncture wounds that she received through the nappy,” she said.

“They (the staff) actually informed us that this one dingo has been a nuisance since January and that they’ve requested on numerous occasions to have it dealt with but it hasn’t happened,” Ms Dwyer told the ABC. “Talking to people here there are numerous stories of it starting to be a pest and annoy people on the beach and be just a bit too brazen.

“We were a little bit disappointed in the sense that if they’ve known that it’s been a nuisance for three months, why does it take for it to actually bite or attack before somebody acts?”

It is reported the dingo has now been destroyed.

2. 60 Minutes hearing delayed.

Tara Brown and her crew remain behind bars in Beirut as a hearing is delayed.

Brown and her producer, sound operator and camera man, along with Sally Faulkner were expected to face a judge in Lebanon on Monday over their involvement in the alleged abduction and recovery of Ms Faulkner’s two children, however is has been reportedly postponed, and they still remain in custody.

Last night a spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has spoken with her Lebanese counterpart about the case.

“The 60 Minutes crew and Ms Faulkner are being held as part of an ongoing investigation. We understand they will be able to apply for bail as part of Lebanese legal procedures should charges be laid as part of the investigative process,” the spokesman said.

“The Foreign Minister has spoken to Lebanese Foreign Minister Bassil concerning the detained Australians. The Government is not able to intervene in another country’s court proceedings, just as we would not accept intervention in our own court proceedings. No charges have been announced at this point.”

News Limited reports that the three male members of the crew, David “Tangles” Ballment, Stephen Rice and Ben Williamson have been moved to a male detention centre in Beirut, while Brown along with Sally Faulkner were sent to a women’s facility.

Nine reporter Tom Steinfort said that the crew are in “relatively good spirits given the situation the find themselves in”, and “want to express thanks to Lebanese authorities for treatment in custody”.

3. Bill proposed for late abortions would jail doctors.

Victorian doctors would face up to five years in jail for performing abortions on women who are more than 24 weeks pregnant under proposed law changes. The bill this week to be brought before Victoria’s upper house that would ban late-term abortions.

In Victoria doctors can perform abortions after 24 weeks if they consider it appropriate and have consulted with another professional.

Democratic Labour Party MP Rachel Carling-Jenkins’s bill would also force hospitals to provide a range of support services for women more than 24 weeks pregnant offering counselling or housing support services.

The Herald Sun reports that bill would though prohibit prosecutions of women who have terminations and a conscientious objector doctor would still have to refer women to other health professionals up to the 24-week cut-off.

Ms Carling-Jenkins said the bill was “person centered”.

“This Bill takes a person-centred approach to mothers and their babies. It recognises that they deserve the best care, and seeks to address the current gaps in pregnancy healthcare,” she said.

Under the proposals neonatal services would have to “take reasonable steps” to protect the lives of babies born in an emergency after 24 weeks.

4. Whyalla man found guilty of murdering two friends in deliberate head-on collision.

Michael Frank Knowles, 38 has been found guilty of murder after a court found he deliberately drove his vehicle into an oncoming car and killed two of its passengers.

Natasha Turnbull and James Stephen Moore, both aged 24, were killed in the head-on collision on the Lincoln Highway, near Whyalla, in December 2014.

Knowles’ former partner had told the court Knowles was suicidal and had often spoke of killing himself by crashing into an oncoming vehicle.

He admitted causing the crash and being intoxicated, but said it was an accident.

He will be sentenced at a later date.

5. Man stabbed to death at former partner’s home after breaching family violence order.

A man has been stabbed to death after breaching a family violence order and going to the home of his ex-girlfriend in Hobart.

It is believed that children may have witnessed the man’s death.

The 39-year-old from Goodwood died yesterday and a 46-year-old Moonah man is expected to face court today.

Detective Inspector Craig Joel told reporters the victim went to a house at Lutana where he was confronted and a fight broke out.

“There were children at the house and they will certainly be the focal point of our attention, they will be provided with support, but we will also look to them as possible witnesses of what occurred in that fight outside,” he said.

“They are quite young, but they are of such an age that they are able to assist police.”

Neighbours said they saw two men wrestling on the ground in the yard of the home.

The witnesses said when police arrived they could hear one man, who was on the ground, screaming out for officers to help him.

 For domestic violence support 24/7, call 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732). 

6. Re-arrest of Qld ‘Postcard Bandit’ likely after release today.

Queensland’s notorious postcard bandit, Brenden Abbott, will be released early this morning after serving more than half his 25-year jail sentence but will be then immediately re-arrested by WA police.

The Australian reports that Abbott, 53, was last month granted parole and was transferred yesterday from the Woodford Correctional Centre to the Brisbane Correctional Centre at Wacol in preparation for his release this morning.

His lawyer Brendan Nyst anticipates Abbott will be immediately rearrested and taken to the Brisbane watch house for an extradition hearing.

West Australian Police have confirmed they will seek his extradition so that he can face the remainder of his sentence there for various crimes, including breaking out of jail.

“The decision to seek his extradition to Western Australia is somewhat perplexing and we would say unfair, given the history of the matter,” lawyer Brendan Nyst said.

“At this stage all we can say is he intends to oppose that application,” Mr Nyst told AAP.

7. First coral bleaching found WA coast.

Marine scientists have revealed that reef systems on Western Australia’s pristine Kimberley coast are bleaching for the first time.

Kimberley Marine Research Station scientists say three specific biospheres on the Dampier Peninsula have been affected.

“This is part of a global event that has devastated the Great Barrier Reef and now it is our turn,” the research station said in a statement with photographs on Facebook on Sunday.

Coral bleaching occurs when unusual conditions, such as warm temperatures, stress the coral, and kill off the tiny marine algae which give the coral its colour.

Reefs can recover over several years, but the increasing frequency of bleaching events mean some sections of reef have died.

8. If you are sick GO HOME study says.

Go home! Image via IStock.

A study to be released today will show that people at work while sick are costing the Australian economy more than $34 billion a year in lost productivity.

The Age reports that so called "presenteeism" - turning up at work while sick -  is equivalent to a productivity loss of 2.6 per cent, and a 2.7 per cent loss to gross domestic product.

A separate report last month of 2000 workers found most confessed to taking four days off annually without being sick and admitted to being unproductive on 57 days a year.

The workplace health and engagement program Global Corporate Challenge estimated the cost of “presenteeism” to be 10 times that of sick leave.

Insight data scientist Olivia Sackett said businesses wanting to improve productivity should focus on reducing presenteeism.

“But this study, and a growing body of independent research, indicates that businesses are focused on the wrong measure of productivity; absenteeism is not the major culprit.”

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