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And happy Friday – welcome back to the Australia news live blog, and many thanks to Martin for kicking things off. I’m Emily Wind, and I’ll be taking you through our rolling coverage today.
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A family has reunited in their grief as they prepare to farewell the security guard Faraz Tahir who sacrificed his life in facing a killer, AAP reports.
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Hundreds of mourners are expected to gather today at a Marsden Park mosque in Sydney’s north-west in honour of the man described as a national hero. Tahir was one of the six victims killed at Westfield Bondi Junction on 13 April in a mass stabbing rampage.
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A prayer service organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will be open to the public to pay their respects at the Masjid Baitul Huda.
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Three of Tahir’s brothers, an uncle and a nephew visited the mosque yesterday in preparation for his funeral. The eldest, Muzafar Ahmad Tahir, said his brother was a brave man who showed strength from a very young age.
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The head of the family said he believed Tahir would be safe in his new home in Australia.
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Tahir had fled persecution in Pakistan before arriving in Australia in 2022, intending the country to be his final home.
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A man and a baby are missing in a national park in Sydney’s south, NSW police say.
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Ben Cullen, aged 39, and Roam Cullen, aged 3 months, were last seen on Sir Bertram Stevens Drive, Royal National Park, about 8.15pm yesterday.
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When they failed to return home and could not be located or contacted, Sutherland shire police area command began inquiries.
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Police and family hold serious concerns for both Ben and Roam’s welfare as this is out of character, police said in a statement, urging the public to contact police or Crime Stoppers with any information.
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Ben is described as being of Caucasian appearance, 177cm tall, medium build, with short brown hair and blue eyes.
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Emily Wind
And happy Friday – welcome back to the Australia news live blog, and many thanks to Martin for kicking things off. I’m Emily Wind, and I’ll be taking you through our rolling coverage today.
See something that needs attention? You can get in touch via X, @emilywindwrites, or send me an email: emily.wind@theguardian.com.
Let’s get into it.
Benita Kolovos
Crown Melbourne undertaken ‘significant work to transform itself’: state gaming minister
Continuing from our last post: A Victorian royal commission in 2021 found Crown Resorts unfit to run its Southbank premises after concluding its conduct was “illegal, dishonest, unethical and exploitative”.
But it did not lose its licence to operate. Instead, commissioner Ray Finkelstein recommended Crown be given two years to reform itself under a government-appointed special manager.
Private equity giant Blackstone has since bought Crown’s three casinos in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.
The minister for gaming, Melissa Horne, said:
The VGCCC and the Special Manager have noted that Crown Melbourne has undertaken significant work to transform itself – and its transformation efforts must continue.
This isn’t set and forget – we’re further enhancing the VGCCC’s powers to ensure what happened in the past at Crown Melbourne can never happen again.
Benita Kolovos
Victorian government to strengthen powers of state gambling watchdog
The Victorian government is set to introduce new laws to ensure Crown Resorts continues to run Melbourne’s only casino to the highest standards.
The minister for gaming, Melissa Horne, has announced she will be working on legislation to strengthen the powers of the state gambling watchdog, the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC).
It comes after the VGCCC last month ruled Crown could keep its licence to run the Melbourne casino, saying it had made a “significant turnaround” from past illegal behaviour.
As part of the arrangement, Crown will be required to continue implementing its transformation plan under a direction from the watchdog.
Horne says the government’s legislation will include increasing penalties if Crown does not comply with the VGCCC’s statutory direction to implement its plan.
It will also allow the VGCCC to issue penalties to Crown’s “close associates” if they breach the legislation that governs casino operations in Victoria – the Casino Control Act 1991.
Hundreds to gather in Marsden Park to farewell Faraz Tahir
A family has reunited in their grief as they prepare to farewell the security guard Faraz Tahir who sacrificed his life in facing a killer, AAP reports.
Hundreds of mourners are expected to gather today at a Marsden Park mosque in Sydney’s north-west in honour of the man described as a national hero. Tahir was one of the six victims killed at Westfield Bondi Junction on 13 April in a mass stabbing rampage.
A prayer service organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will be open to the public to pay their respects at the Masjid Baitul Huda.
Three of Tahir’s brothers, an uncle and a nephew visited the mosque yesterday in preparation for his funeral. The eldest, Muzafar Ahmad Tahir, said his brother was a brave man who showed strength from a very young age.
The head of the family said he believed Tahir would be safe in his new home in Australia.
Tahir had fled persecution in Pakistan before arriving in Australia in 2022, intending the country to be his final home.
Man and baby missing in Sydney national park
A man and a baby are missing in a national park in Sydney’s south, NSW police say.
Ben Cullen, aged 39, and Roam Cullen, aged 3 months, were last seen on Sir Bertram Stevens Drive, Royal National Park, about 8.15pm yesterday.
When they failed to return home and could not be located or contacted, Sutherland shire police area command began inquiries.
Police and family hold serious concerns for both Ben and Roam’s welfare as this is out of character, police said in a statement, urging the public to contact police or Crime Stoppers with any information.
Ben is described as being of Caucasian appearance, 177cm tall, medium build, with short brown hair and blue eyes.
He was last seen wearing a navy-blue shirt and black pants.
Welcome
Good morning and welcome to our rolling news blog. I’m Martin Farrer bringing you the best overnight stories before my colleague Emily Wind takes over.
Our top Australian story today is that Westfield security guards in Victoria have claimed that their requests for more protection were not acted on in the months before the mass stabbing at Bondi Junction.
Sydney’s Imams Council is expected to hold a press conference in Lakemba this morning to discuss the Wakeley terror incident. Seven teenagers were arrested on Wednesday in counter-terrorism raids after they were linked to the teenager accused of the alleged attack on an Assyrian bishop in his church in Wakeley 11 days ago. A 14-year-old boy was among five teenagers charged with a range of terrorism offences after the police raids.
Meanwhile, hundreds of mourners are expected to gather today at a Marsden Park mosque in Sydney’s north-west to farewell security guard Faraz Tahir, who died in the mass stabbing at Westfield Bondi Junction on 13 April. More on that soon.
The Australian son of a 68-year-old Palestinian woman with ill health has expressed his “shock and surprise” after her temporary visa was cancelled on the grounds that she poses a risk to Australia’s national security. Fatma Almassri, whose 27 children and grandchildren live in Australia, was given a visitor visa in November but it was cancelled last week.
And police are searching for a man and a baby who have gone missing in Sydney’s south – more on that soon.
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