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Updated: 29 October 2026, 9:24 am AEDT (Sydney) Ashley Paul Griffith was extradited from Queensland to New South Wales on Wednesday, 28 October, to face 202 further charges relating to alleged offences against children, Queensland Corrective Services said. The agency’s statement said custody was transferred from its Escort and Security Branch to Corrective Services NSW at Tweed Heads that morning. Extradition had been approved earlier in October. Griffith was already serving a life sentence in Queensland, with a 27-year non-parole period, following his 2024 conviction for offences against 69 girls at early learning centres in Brisbane and Italy. The NSW proceedings concern additional charges and are separate from those convictions. ABC News independently reported the transfer , citing Queensland Corrective Services Minister Laura Gerber. She said he had left Queensland custody just after 6:30 am and crossed the border shortly after 8 am on Wednesday. Corrective Services said Griffith ...

Updated: 25 October 2026, 3:44 a.m. AEDT (Sydney) Four people were taken to hospital after shots were fired from a vehicle outside a licensed premises in Loganholme, south-east Queensland, on Saturday evening, 24 October, police said. Reports of the shooting on Bryants Road were received at 8.15 p.m. AEST. Queensland Police’s statement , issued at 10.30 p.m. AEST on Saturday, said the four injured people’s conditions were being assessed. The vehicle involved was seen leaving the scene. Police said they did not believe there was an ongoing threat to the public. They had not released further information about the injured people or the circumstances surrounding the incident in that statement. Nine’s reporting independently confirmed that four people had been hospitalised and that police were called to Bryants Road following reports of gunfire from a vehicle. The victims’ medical conditions remained unconfirmed in that report. Police are asking anyone with information about the incident t...

Updated: 21 October 2026, 11:22 am AEDT Brendan Nugent was remanded in custody after his first appearance at Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 21 October, over the alleged car attack on independent federal MP Helen Haines. He did not apply for bail and is due back in court on 4 February for a committal mention, ABC court reporters said . The 43-year-old Tarrawingee man faces charges of dangerous driving causing serious injury, intentionally causing serious injury and causing harm to a Commonwealth public official. He was not required to enter a plea at the brief hearing. The charges remain allegations and have not been proven. ABC reported that Magistrate Allison Vaughan set 24 December as the deadline for police to provide their brief of evidence to the defence. The magistrate also requested an immediate medical assessment for Nugent. Further details of the alleged offending were not aired in court. BBC journalists attending the hearing independently confirmed that no bail ...

Updated: 20 October 2026, 23:27 AEDT (Sydney) Victoria Police charged a 43-year-old Tarrawingee man on Tuesday evening over the alleged vehicle attack that critically injured independent MP Helen Haines outside her Wangaratta office on Monday. The man, identified by ABC News as Brendan Nugent , faces dangerous driving causing serious injury, intentionally causing serious injury and the Commonwealth offence of causing harm to a Commonwealth public official. In a statement published at 7:39pm on Tuesday , police said he would be held overnight to appear at Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 21 October. The charges are allegations and have not been determined by a court. Police allege a white Toyota LandCruiser struck Haines, 65, outside an office on Murphy Street at about 3:35pm on Monday, 19 October. They said the incident was targeted. A member of the public initially restrained the man before he was taken into custody at about 3:40pm. Detectives searched a property on Great A...