August 4, 2025 • 8 mins
A weekly Sydney event honouring Israeli hostages captured by Hamas in the October 7 attacks was cancelled on Sunday amid safety fears and a lack of police protection due to the pro-Palestine bridge protest.
Federal Police have charged an accused Chinese spy with reckless foreign interference in Canberra.
Alarming new research has revealed 2 in 5 Australian parents say their kids are using AI for companionship.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
There are fears of traffic chaos and delays at the
airport in Sydney with a thick layer of fog descending
on the city in the past few hours. These are
pictures from the harbour where visibility is extremely poor.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
That's the bridge in there somewhere.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
The fog isn't expected to clear for a number of
hours yet Sydney Airport says it's still too early to
know exactly how many flights.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Will be impacted.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It will bring you all the latest details and all
the pictures as they come into the newsroom.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
This morning.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We can now show you crucial evidence that helped convict
mushroom murderer Aaron Patterson. Never before have we heard police
questioning the killer cook as she tried to deceive sceenior detectives.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Three twenty one August.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Twenty twenty three, sitting at the scene of the crime,
triple murderer Aaron Patterson face to face with police. Today
com new vision of the mother of two at the
dining table where she did ushed up deathcat mushrooms to
her relatives six days earlier. This conversation was the end
(01:05):
of an hour's long rate of Hurdley and Gatha Holme.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So I from you, Yeah, do you know what it is?
It's either one, three, one five or one thing.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I can't remember what's but what she knew and police
didn't this was a dummy phone.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Provision in the world that accuse you.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Ultimately we were lated to find out that the police
believed there was a second mobile phone. So perhaps that
helps to explain why she is so calm okay well,
but the job for police was far from easy. The
mushroom chef had already tried to cover her tracks. This
(02:00):
CCTV shown to the jury now released by the Supreme
Court for the world to see. It's the local tip
two days after the deadly meal, where Patterson is seen
dumping the dehydrator she used to dry out the poisonous mushrooms.
Police found it then found samples of the deadly fungui
she foraged in a calculated and callous murder plot that
(02:24):
was certainly very compelling evidence against Aaron Patterson. Tonight, one
of Australia's most famous mass murderers is awaiting sentencing, facing
the likely prospect of a life behind bars. Hope Wilson
Seven News.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
A weakly Sydney event honoring is Raleigh hostages captured by
Hermas in the October seven attacks, as counseled on Sunday
amid safety fear is in a lack of police protection
due to the pro Palestine bridge protest. The Men's government
is now looking at legal challenges to stop similar protests
from other groups, with larger rallies planned by organizers. It
(02:58):
comes as taxpayer fund that are its organization. The BNALI
is facing criticism after anti Semitic posts, including death to
the IDF, were posted on social media.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
By an ambassador.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Queensland's DNA lab scandal is deepening, with crime victims waiting
over a year for DNA results.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It comes as victims in other.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
States receive their results in five to ten days. A
second review led by doctor Christy Wright, who helped expose
the lab's failures, revealing DNA threshold levels have again been
incorrectly set by the new lab two and a half
years after two inquiries.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
There's a lot of victims out there who have been
let down and also a lot of violent criminals out now.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Community lub shortcuts and contaminations persist, with major crime DNA
results taking four hundred and twenty days to process and
rape tests over a year. A backlog of testing will
take at least six years to clear, and who were
shot by police at a Townsville shopping center last month.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Will face caught today.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Officers opened fire on the twenty nine year old in
a loading dock after he confronted them. He was wanted
for serious crimes and he's been charged with assault, making
threats an unlawful possession of weapons. Federal police have charged
and accused Chinese spy with reckless foreign interference in Canberra.
Lived Isabel Mullen, who's at Parliament House for us this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Is he morning.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It's the first time federal police have laid charges like this.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
It is Eddie, good morning. This is the first time
police have charged to person with foreign interference that allegedly
involves targeting members of the Australian community. The Australian Federal
Police say this woman was tasked by China's Public Security
Bureau to spy on members of Canberra's Buddhist association. There
she allegedly collected information for about three years. She was
(04:53):
paid by China via an encryptied phone service. This comes
after azy oboss my burgess. He warned that nation states
like Iran, China and Russia. They're spying on Australians at
quote unprecedented levels. Now we can't identify who this woman is.
She is also a permanent Australian resident and she now
(05:14):
faces the prospect of fifteen years in jail.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Eddie thank him as here there's been a surprising twist
in the case of disgrace Western Sydney councilor Slim Mahaja's
domestic violence appeal. The former Auburn Deputy mayor, who was
paroled last month, is now using this same lawyer to
appeal his DV conviction, whose signature he had previously forged.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Lawyer Zali Burrows will.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Again represent him at the appealed hearing in November. WA
Premier Roger Cook is under mounting pressure to resolve the
state's major hospital crisis, emergency department gridlocks, record ambulance ramping
and a lack of hospital beds of surgeed despite an
annual health budget of fourteen billion dollars. Premier Cook ridiculed
(05:58):
oppositionally the Basil's eemplate to putting his concerns about the
health system.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
In a letter to the Premiere last week.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I haven't read the letter from the leader of their opposition,
and I won't.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It's essentially a media stunt.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Mister Cook called on the federal government to contribute more
funds for age care beds. Alarming your research has revealed
two in five Australian parents so their kids are using
AI for companionship. The Norton Cyber Safety Insights report found
forty percent of parents suspect their child as having the
technology for emotional support. Examples include chatbots on gaming platforms
(06:36):
and on social media. Also on the list Chat GPT, Google,
Gemini and snapchats my Ai. The UK is being hit
by one of the strongest summer storms in decades, packing
wind gusted up to one hundred and forty five kilometers
an hour. Storm Floris has caused travel chaos and left
tens of thousands without power. I'veter Europe corosspondent Ben Downey,
(06:57):
Ben which areas are copying the brunt.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Of the storm.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Eddie, good morning.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Well, it's really really widespread, effectively all of northern England
from about Manchester up Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland, which
is the most hard hit. You're seeing some of the
choppy waters there as this storm florests barrels in off
of the British Isles and Irish Isles western coast towards
northern Europe and Scotland, though, is where Storm Florists is
(07:22):
most severe, with the dangers of life warning an effect
for the majority of the country. In the Scottish Highlands,
wind gusts even reach one hundred and seventy two kilometers
an hour, but south in the capital, the Royal Edinburgh
Military Tattoo had to be canceled, as well as hundreds
of performances at the city's famous Fringe festival.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's on right now as well.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Across Scotland more than twenty two thousand homes of lost power,
a further ten thousand in Ireland, with one hundred and
forty flights canceled in total, and effectively all of the
rail transport north of about Newcastle in northern England as well. Thankfully,
though at this stage there are no reports of serious
injury or death, but Storm Florists is hanging around in
the UK and Ireland for at least another day.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Beddie. That's a very hairy landing we're looking at right now,
thank you, Ben. We're checking Tuesday's.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Weather now back home, sunny and Brisbane in twenty five
sunny in city and twenty one twenty five in Brisbane. Wow,
that's a possible shower in camber in sixteen showers easing
in Melbourne and seventeen a shower too in Hobart and
fifteen showers in Adelaide. Also fifteen degrees eighteen in Perths
and showers easing there and sunny in Darwin and thirty
two degrees
There are fears of traffic chaos and delays at the
airport in Sydney with a thick layer of fog descending
on the city in the past few hours. These are
pictures from the harbour where visibility is extremely poor.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
That's the bridge in there somewhere.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
The fog isn't expected to clear for a number of
hours yet Sydney Airport says it's still too early to
know exactly how many flights.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Will be impacted.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It will bring you all the latest details and all
the pictures as they come into the newsroom.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
This morning.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We can now show you crucial evidence that helped convict
mushroom murderer Aaron Patterson. Never before have we heard police
questioning the killer cook as she tried to deceive sceenior detectives.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Three twenty one August.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Twenty twenty three, sitting at the scene of the crime,
triple murderer Aaron Patterson face to face with police. Today
com new vision of the mother of two at the
dining table where she did ushed up deathcat mushrooms to
her relatives six days earlier. This conversation was the end
(01:05):
of an hour's long rate of Hurdley and Gatha Holme.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So I from you, Yeah, do you know what it is?
It's either one, three, one five or one thing.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I can't remember what's but what she knew and police
didn't this was a dummy phone.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Provision in the world that accuse you.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Ultimately we were lated to find out that the police
believed there was a second mobile phone. So perhaps that
helps to explain why she is so calm okay well,
but the job for police was far from easy. The
mushroom chef had already tried to cover her tracks. This
(02:00):
CCTV shown to the jury now released by the Supreme
Court for the world to see. It's the local tip
two days after the deadly meal, where Patterson is seen
dumping the dehydrator she used to dry out the poisonous mushrooms.
Police found it then found samples of the deadly fungui
she foraged in a calculated and callous murder plot that
(02:24):
was certainly very compelling evidence against Aaron Patterson. Tonight, one
of Australia's most famous mass murderers is awaiting sentencing, facing
the likely prospect of a life behind bars. Hope Wilson
Seven News.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
A weakly Sydney event honoring is Raleigh hostages captured by
Hermas in the October seven attacks, as counseled on Sunday
amid safety fear is in a lack of police protection
due to the pro Palestine bridge protest. The Men's government
is now looking at legal challenges to stop similar protests
from other groups, with larger rallies planned by organizers. It
(02:58):
comes as taxpayer fund that are its organization. The BNALI
is facing criticism after anti Semitic posts, including death to
the IDF, were posted on social media.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
By an ambassador.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Queensland's DNA lab scandal is deepening, with crime victims waiting
over a year for DNA results.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It comes as victims in other.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
States receive their results in five to ten days. A
second review led by doctor Christy Wright, who helped expose
the lab's failures, revealing DNA threshold levels have again been
incorrectly set by the new lab two and a half
years after two inquiries.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
There's a lot of victims out there who have been
let down and also a lot of violent criminals out now.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Community lub shortcuts and contaminations persist, with major crime DNA
results taking four hundred and twenty days to process and
rape tests over a year. A backlog of testing will
take at least six years to clear, and who were
shot by police at a Townsville shopping center last month.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Will face caught today.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Officers opened fire on the twenty nine year old in
a loading dock after he confronted them. He was wanted
for serious crimes and he's been charged with assault, making
threats an unlawful possession of weapons. Federal police have charged
and accused Chinese spy with reckless foreign interference in Canberra.
Lived Isabel Mullen, who's at Parliament House for us this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Is he morning.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It's the first time federal police have laid charges like this.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
It is Eddie, good morning. This is the first time
police have charged to person with foreign interference that allegedly
involves targeting members of the Australian community. The Australian Federal
Police say this woman was tasked by China's Public Security
Bureau to spy on members of Canberra's Buddhist association. There
she allegedly collected information for about three years. She was
(04:53):
paid by China via an encryptied phone service. This comes
after azy oboss my burgess. He warned that nation states
like Iran, China and Russia. They're spying on Australians at
quote unprecedented levels. Now we can't identify who this woman is.
She is also a permanent Australian resident and she now
(05:14):
faces the prospect of fifteen years in jail.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Eddie thank him as here there's been a surprising twist
in the case of disgrace Western Sydney councilor Slim Mahaja's
domestic violence appeal. The former Auburn Deputy mayor, who was
paroled last month, is now using this same lawyer to
appeal his DV conviction, whose signature he had previously forged.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Lawyer Zali Burrows will.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Again represent him at the appealed hearing in November. WA
Premier Roger Cook is under mounting pressure to resolve the
state's major hospital crisis, emergency department gridlocks, record ambulance ramping
and a lack of hospital beds of surgeed despite an
annual health budget of fourteen billion dollars. Premier Cook ridiculed
(05:58):
oppositionally the Basil's eemplate to putting his concerns about the
health system.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
In a letter to the Premiere last week.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I haven't read the letter from the leader of their opposition,
and I won't.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It's essentially a media stunt.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Mister Cook called on the federal government to contribute more
funds for age care beds. Alarming your research has revealed
two in five Australian parents so their kids are using
AI for companionship. The Norton Cyber Safety Insights report found
forty percent of parents suspect their child as having the
technology for emotional support. Examples include chatbots on gaming platforms
(06:36):
and on social media. Also on the list Chat GPT, Google,
Gemini and snapchats my Ai. The UK is being hit
by one of the strongest summer storms in decades, packing
wind gusted up to one hundred and forty five kilometers
an hour. Storm Floris has caused travel chaos and left
tens of thousands without power. I'veter Europe corosspondent Ben Downey,
(06:57):
Ben which areas are copying the brunt.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Of the storm.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Eddie, good morning.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Well, it's really really widespread, effectively all of northern England
from about Manchester up Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland, which
is the most hard hit. You're seeing some of the
choppy waters there as this storm florests barrels in off
of the British Isles and Irish Isles western coast towards
northern Europe and Scotland, though, is where Storm Florists is
(07:22):
most severe, with the dangers of life warning an effect
for the majority of the country. In the Scottish Highlands,
wind gusts even reach one hundred and seventy two kilometers
an hour, but south in the capital, the Royal Edinburgh
Military Tattoo had to be canceled, as well as hundreds
of performances at the city's famous Fringe festival.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's on right now as well.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Across Scotland more than twenty two thousand homes of lost power,
a further ten thousand in Ireland, with one hundred and
forty flights canceled in total, and effectively all of the
rail transport north of about Newcastle in northern England as well. Thankfully,
though at this stage there are no reports of serious
injury or death, but Storm Florists is hanging around in
the UK and Ireland for at least another day.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Beddie. That's a very hairy landing we're looking at right now,
thank you, Ben. We're checking Tuesday's.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Weather now back home, sunny and Brisbane in twenty five
sunny in city and twenty one twenty five in Brisbane. Wow,
that's a possible shower in camber in sixteen showers easing
in Melbourne and seventeen a shower too in Hobart and
fifteen showers in Adelaide. Also fifteen degrees eighteen in Perths
and showers easing there and sunny in Darwin and thirty
two degrees
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