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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, 7:18 pm AEDT A line of severe thunderstorms brought damaging winds to western New South Wales on Sunday, 25 October, as a broad storm system moved across eastern Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology’s noon AEDT briefing confirmed that storms had already produced damaging winds that morning and extended into north-east Victoria. The Guardian reported on Sunday afternoon that gusts of up to 100km/h had been recorded in the NSW central west around midday. It also reported a severe thunderstorm warning covering Sydney, greater Wollongong and parts of the Blue Mountains and surrounding districts that afternoon. The bureau said a cold front and trough were driving the outbreak. Its Sunday briefing identified damaging winds, large hail and heavy rain as risks across affected parts of NSW, the ACT, eastern Victoria and southern Queensland. Those hazards were forecasts, rather than confirmation that every area would experience them. Rain had already caused flash floo...

Updated: 25 October 2026 at 9:18 am AEDT The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast a widespread severe thunderstorm outbreak across eastern Australia for Sunday, 25 October, as a cold front draws in tropical moisture while crossing New South Wales. In its official Sunday national forecast , released on Saturday, the bureau said severe storms were likely from eastern Victoria through Canberra and western NSW, extending north into western Queensland. Storms may reach coastal areas, including Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, during Sunday afternoon and evening. That coastal progression remains a forecast, rather than confirmation that every location will experience a severe storm. Much of South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania was also expected to receive rain before conditions cleared later. The bureau said a colder air mass would follow the front, with below-average temperatures already affecting southern Western Australia. The Guardian’s Saturday report , citing bureau meteorologist D...