A tradie from Warnbro has been ordered to spend more than a decade in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl. Meanwhile, other news includes a Japanese grandmother facing drug smuggling charges, a former WA MP fighting for his life, and government actions on social media regulation and drought relief.
A Warnbro tradie who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl has been ordered to spend more than a decade behind bars.Japanese prosecutors are calling for a Perth grandmother to spend a decade behind bars if she's convicted of drug smuggling next week.A Warnbro tradie who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl has been ordered to spend more than a decade behind bars.
The South Australian government is giving farmers and their communities $18 million in grants and other programs in a bid to guard against the effects of drought.Queensland's new parliament has sat for the first time, with 24 new faces including the youngest ever female MP, and the state's first Muslim MP.Governments around the world have been grappling with the best way to protect young people from the harms of social media, and Australia has clamped down the hardest.
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