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1. Private school girls were planning on spiking other student’s drinks with drugs at after-formal.

Students at the elite girls school Melbourne Girls Grammar had planned to spike the drinks of fellow students with drugs at an after formal party last weekend it has been reported.

The Herald Sun reports that police have been told of the rumoured drink spiking.

One Melbourne Girls Grammar pupil was expelled and two were suspended after they were found with drugs, including cannabis and ecstasy, at Friday’s formal.

Security manning the event heard rumours of the drugs and the principal searched the girls’ handbags.

Victoria Police confirmed it was investigating.

A director of  the security company said she’d reported the drink-spiking fears to police reports The Herald Sun.

It is rumoured that pupils’ parents had told her the school had received an anonymous tip-off that some girls were going to spike the drinks at an after party.

Naomi Oakley, a former police officer, told Elissa Doherty from The Herald Sun “Parents said to me they were phoned by the school on Friday morning after information came to light about multiple students planning to spike drinks with drugs. That’s the rumour.”

“This is very worrying from a criminal point of view.

The elite girl’s school is one of the most expensive in the state, with fees of almost $33,000 per year.

2. 60 Mins crew walks free but lawyers slam network for leaving child abduction team behind.

After two weeks inside a Beirut jail Tara Brown,  Stephen Rice, David Ballment, Ben Williamson and Sally Faulkner are free.

The saga that began with a payment by the Nine Network ended the same way.  A last minute multi-million dollar deal secured by the network saw the five walk free after 9pm (AEST) last night.But left behind and out of the deal was the child abduction team employed by Nine to snatch the children of Sally Faulkner.

Mr Elamine continued his charges against the planner of the operation, Adam Whittington, and his crew: Craig Michael, ­Mohammed Hamza and Khaled Barbour.

They must remain in the country.

Joe Karam, the lawyer for Mr Whittington and Mr Michael slammed the deal with Nine saying said it was not appropriate for Nine to exclude others involved in the operation from its deal-making.

It has been reported that Nine paid over $100,000 for the team to attempt to snatch the children.

“I am confused they didn’t include the people they asked to do the operation,” Mr Karam said

“They were all a team: they came all together, they should leave all together.’’

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3. Young children sexually assaulted after being taken from Perth day care.

Two young children at a Perth holiday care were lured outside by a man and sexually assaulted police have said.

The four-year-old girl and five-year-old boy walked off yesterday morning with an unknown man from the care program in North Perth, which is held in a community hall.

CCTV shows the two children following the man along the street.

Police believe the man sexually assaulted the children at “a nearby unknown location” before leaving them in Hyde Park.

Police commander Kylie Whitely said it was “every parent’s worst nightmare”.

The man is described as aged in his late 40s to late 50s, with pale skin, medium build and short, dark greying hair and was wearing glasses at the time.

He was wearing a black jacket said to have been too big for him, black trousers and a black business shirt.

Police have released an identikit image of the man and have urged anyone who was near View Street and Fitzgerald Street near the North Perth shopping precinct and Hyde Park between 11am and 1pm who saw a man with a young boy and girl to make contact with Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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4. Northern Territory’s chief minister says tourists should be able to climb Uluru.

Northern Territory’s Chief Minister Adam Giles has said that tourists should be allowed to climb Uluru and with proper safety regulations climbing Uluru could become a major tourism experience such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge climb.

He has said that it would be “damaging” if the federal government banned the activity, which it has said it will consider doing if climber numbers dropped below 20 per cent of total visitors to Uluru.

Local Anangu people say they do not like tourists climbing the rock but have not banned it.

Mr Giles said any decision on a ban should be made by the NT and not by bureaucrats in Canberra, reports Sky News. 

‘The Anangu, of course, feel a great spiritual connection to Uluru. They are also concerned, quite rightly, about safety because they feel a sense of responsibility for the safety of visitors to their land and to that cultural site,’ Mr Giles said.

He said compared the site to Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the Taj Mahal in India and Macchu Picchu in Peru where successful tourism has been combined with culturally sensitive sites.

“There would be significant economic benefits for the local Indigenous population and there would be economic benefits for the Northern Territory as a whole.”

5. Monkey bike accused back behind bars.

The 19-year-old man accused of killing a Melbourne mother of two in a monkey bike crash has breached his bail conditions and landed back behind bars.

Caleb Jakobsson, 19, is charged with culpable driving causing the death of 34-year-old Andrea Lehane, who was struck on a zebra crossing at a Melbourne shopping centre car park. The mother-of-two died on September 25 last year when her family turned off her life support after being told she would not survive her brain injuries.

It is alleged that Jakobsson struck her then sped away.

The Herald Sun reports that Jakobsson was granted bail last year with conditions that included a curfew between the hours of 10pm and 9am.

Prosecutors will apply to revoke Jakobsson’s bail today alleging he had failed to follow his curfew on eight separate occasions.

6. Government to unveil $240m cyber attack defence strategy.

Today the PM will unveil Australia’s $240 million cyber security strategy aimed at defending Australia from foreign cyber attacks.

The government will reveal it employs offensive cyber capabilities to deter possible attacks even potentially employing hackers to disrupt activities overseas.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will also announce a new minister assisting the prime minister on cyber security.

The strategy comes in the wake of a reported attack on the Bureau of Meteorology last year.

The strategy aims to defend the nation’s cyber networks from organised criminals and state-sponsored attackers and sits alongside $400 million in the Defence White Paper for cyber activities.

“Australians are targets for malicious actors, including serious and organised criminal syndicates and foreign adversaries, who are all using cyberspace to further their aims and attack our interest,” Mr Turnbull said.

“We must safeguard against criminality, espionage, sabotage and unfair competition online.”

7. Mass killer wins case over ‘inhuman’ prison treatment.

Mass murderer Anders Breivik has partly won a court case in which he said he was the victim of human rights abuses in prison.

The 37-year-old killer argued his treatment in a Norwegian prison was “inhuman” and “degrading”.

Breivik, who is serving 21 years in jail for the 2011 killing of 77 people, sued the Norwegian state over his treatment.

The judge found that Norway violated his human rights by keeping him in a “completely locked world” after being sentenced for the killing of 77 people in 2011.

The ruling found that the killer had been subjected to strip searches, had been woken up hourly by guards for long periods and that the authorities had done little to alleviate the impact of his isolation.

Judge Helen Andenaes Sekulic said in her ruling:””The prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment represents a fundamental value in a democratic society. This applies no matter what – also in the treatment of terrorists and killers,”

The ruling however said the Norwegian state had not violated Breivik’s right to a private life and a family life, and ordered them to pay his legal fees of 331,000 Norwegian kroner (£28,200).

Commenting on the case after the verdict was delivered, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said: “[It’s] a case that the Court and judicial authorities have the responsibility to treat.”

“It’s not a political issue at all. I believe that you should enjoy legal protection,” she added.

8. Parents aren’t feeding their kids the right amount of veggies.

We don't give our kids enough veggies. Via IStock.

A study has found that despite our best efforts parents are letting our kids down when it comes to serving them the right amounts of fruit and veggies.

The Courier Mail reports that less than 5 per cent of our kids eat enough fruit and vegetables.

The latest results from the Australian Bureau of Statistic’s National Health Survey showed that 98 per cent of children aged four-eight do not meet their daily intake requirements and all 12 and 13-year-olds fail to hit the target, only 4.3 per cent of children aged 2-18 eat the right amount of fruit and vegetables every day.

Dietitians Association of Australia spokeswoman Julie Gilbert told The Courier Mail parents were “pandering to the easy option” and “letting their children out of eating vegetables because they wanted to avoid the fight at the dinner table.”

“The figures are shocking. Parents have to understand that it’s like homework. No child actually wants to do it but we have to continue to force it, like we have to continue to force bedtime.”

Children should eat between 2½ and 5½ serves of vegetables every day and 1-2 pieces of fruit – dependent on age and gender.

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