February 3, 2025 • 11 mins
Family and friends have gathered on Bribie Island to pay tribute to 17-year-old shark attack victim Charlize Zmuda.
A UK court has heard soccer superstar Sam Kerr feared she was being abducted, on the night of her arrest for allegedly racially harassing a police officer.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Use this Tuesday. A beautiful, sweet young lady, friends and
family remember a seventeen year old girl fatally attacked by
a shark. Those new tributes also developing. Now a bus
smashes into a home with passengers on board. We're live
to the scene. Sam Kur on trial, body cab, vision
of her arrest and a tense exchange with a police
(00:24):
officer played in court. See that new footage. And Donald
Trump holds fire on his tariff threat the reason behind
his eleventh hour back down, But the trade war is
far from over.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
This is settings National News at Land with Natasha Belling.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Good afternoon. We begin this afternoon with family tributes for
the beautiful special teenager who died in a summer surf
tragedy north of Brisbane. Chalisa Zamuda died after being attacked
by a shark off Bribey Island. The seventeen year old
was a member of the local life saving club who
swam in the area on a regular basis, and she
(01:07):
just attended her school formal days before the fatal attack.
Like Jordan Quinn who joins us now, Jordan, understandably this
has devastated her loved ones and family.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, there is a deep sense of shock within the
community here on Bribe Island, which is tragically mourning the
loss of Charlie's Zumuda, her friend's family and even strangers
gathered this morning paying tribute at Wooham Beach, which is
where the seventeen year old was fatally attacked by a shark.
Yesterday afternoon around four forty Charlie's had gone out for
(01:42):
a swim. She was around one hundred meters from shore
when she was mauled by a shark, suffering severe injuries.
I'm told emergency services actually pulled her from the water,
but her injuries were catastrophic.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
A young girl that had everything to live for, doing
what she loved and look She was an age manager,
so she had a group of young kids that she
looked after every weekend. She was a highly skilled life
saver and she spent her time looking after Queenslanders. So
this has been a huge impact for us.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Still pretty raw, Charlie's had only just begun year twelve.
Her school formal was actually on Friday. As you can imagine,
this has absolutely devastated the tight knit community here on
Bribe Island. Charlie's was a club captain at the local
Surf Life Saving Club and had a deep love for
the ocean. She spent every moment she could at this
(02:38):
very beach where sadly her life was shut caught at
just seventeen.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Awful news Jordan joining us there with the letters details
from Bribey Island. Thank you. The flood threat is far
from over this afternoon. In far North Queensland. The massive
del huge has cut off access to towns including Ingham today.
Locals have queued for critical supplies at grocery stores petrol stations.
The community remains without power and there's no way to
(03:04):
ensure water is safe to drink. Residents are waiting on
supplies to be air dropped as the torrential rain continues.
In Townsville. It is a very different situation and of
Goore is on the ground in the flood zone and
joins us this afternoon. And some good news though for locals.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Yeah, good afternoon, tar, It is great to be able
to bring you good news this afternoon. The flood threat
that was initially forecast for the city of Townsville has subsided,
so some residents in some of the black zone suburbs.
Half of the black zone suburbs they can now return
to their homes. There's still three suburbs where council has
asked residents to wait and see what the rest of
(03:44):
today brings, with high tides expected this afternoon. But the
Ross River has dropped significantly overnight and we've had a
break in the rainfall which has been much welcomed reprieved
not only by locals but by emergency services. Now we
are at the ses deph here in Townsville's city. We've
just heard from the Premier as well as the federal
(04:05):
disaster Minister and Queensland's Police Commissioner as well about this
unfolding situation. The focus is now shifted onto those communities
of Ingham and card Well and making sure that aerial
support can be provided to drop in essential services and
infrastructure to those cutoff communities. They will be cut off
(04:25):
by road for days, if not weeks, and there is
a lot of damage to the Bruce Highway as we've
seen part of it has been washed away by floodwaters
in the past a few days. The Premier, David Chris
A fully he will be on a helicopter within the
next hour or so and he will be flying into
Ingham where he grew up and he will then be
traveling onto Cardwell as well to get on the ground,
(04:47):
chat to as many locals as possible and assess the
damage to see exactly what support will be needed in
the coming days and weeks. He spoke a short time ago.
Take a listen to what he had to say.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
And I can assure you we will use every focus
that comes from a disaster to ensure that we don't
rebuild the same bit of infrastructure to the same standard,
the same location and expect a different result.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
And it's good news though in those communities of Ingham
and card Well. The water has very very slowly started
to drop overnight and it's forecast to continue to recede,
but it will take a matter of days. And then
obviously once that water does reced the cleanup effort will
be massive and they will need a lot of support
on the ground. So four choppers from the ADF they
(05:36):
are ready to go today. They will be dropping in
supplies as well as that vital infrastructure including generators to
get supermarkets, fuel stations and hospitals and vital services back online.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Tash and are our thoughts with all those affected residents.
Thank you very much for the first time we can
show you body cam of Sam Kerr's arrest. The Matilda's
captain is on trial for the alleged racial harassment of
an officer in London. On the night she was taken
into custody, the soccer superstar said she feared she was
(06:08):
being abducted by a taxi driver before a tense interaction
with a constable. Europe correspondent Ben Dalny is in London
for the start of the hearings.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
An extraordinary kidnapping twist from the trial today, Tash, And importantly,
this is actually the first time we've heard Sam Kerr's
version of events, at least via a police interview that
was played before the jury of her and her partner
and fellow footballer Christy Muse. Now, in this interview, they
tell police they feared that Cabby was kidnapping them and
he was driving around erradically and that they're actually begging
(06:41):
for him to set them free. Now began when Kerr
was actually sick in the back of the taxi after
a night out. That's when the Cabby began driving to
the police station because he was no longer driving them home.
That's when the couple tell police in this recording they
held serious fears for their own safety, so much so
they actually kicked the plastic guard around the cabby's driver's
(07:01):
seat and they also kicked out the rear window later
on in this interview throughout many explete years that Coda lives,
she said she was being driven around radically for upwards
of fifty minutes, saying she held serious concerns for her safety,
and also that she tried to call police during this ordeal,
that when the officers interviewing her had found no record
of that phone call or that prompted this from the
Matilda's captain.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Did you stay on the phone long enough to even
speak someone? That's the thing, okay, but they wouldn't do that.
Though they wouldn't do that, you should have spoken to them.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Honestly, we have stupid and white okay, so stupid.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Now that, according to the Crown Prosecution Service, is the
racially aggravated harassment of a police officer what Sam Kerr
has pleaded not guilty to and has indicated she'll take
the stand on in the remaining days of this trial.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Tash ben Downey in London, thank you back home now
in Parliament He's back for the first time this year,
and it could be the last sitting before the federal election.
Live to our reporter Josh Martin, who joins us this
afternoon from Parliament House, Josh. Politicians attended auditional church service
this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yes a rare partisan Yes, a rare bipartisan moment, tash,
but that civility will soon be shattered when question time
begins this afternoon. For once, the leaders were singing from
the same hymn book at Saint Christopher's Cathedral in Canberra
this morning. Anthony Albanezi and Peter Dutton even exchanged a
handshake and both read passages from the Bible during the
(08:37):
multi denominational service, the Prime Minister reading from one Peter,
do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. Ironically,
plenty of insults will be flying around Parliament this week.
The Opposition expected to grill the PM over his handling
of the anti Semitism crisis and whether or not he
was told about the terror plot to blow up a
(08:57):
synagogue with a caravan full of explosive at the same
time as the public.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
If you don't provide leadership to the country, then things
can go wrong very quickly.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
We need to engage with our security agencies in a
way that takes national security seriously, not in a way
that seeks to play politics with it.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Labor will use Parliament to sharpen its attack on the economy,
releasing Treasury modeling on the coalition's plan to allow small
businesses to claim tax deductions for lunches and golf days.
It shows the policy will cost an estimated one point
six billion dollars a year. The Coalition says the Parliamentary
Budget Office has done modeling showing it will cost one
(09:42):
hundred and twenty five million, Claiming the new report is nonsense.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Peter Dutton wants Australian workers and taxpayers to foot the
bill for their bosses long lunch.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
The public service is not there to make political attacks
on the opposition.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
The Shadow Treasurer Attash has complained to the Head of Treasury,
claiming his department has been weaponized and politicized.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
A big few weeks ahead, Josh, thank you to News
just in this afternoon. On a shocking crash, a bus
carrying passengers has slammed into a home in Sydney, Southwest.
Life to our reporter Annie Puller at Bonnie Wick heights
and a good afternoon. A terrifying ordeal for those passengers
on board this bus yea tash.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
Residents here have described the sound of this crash like
a bomb going off, and looking at the damage here
it is easy to see why. I've just spoken to
the owner of this home who tells me, thankfully no
one was inside when this horrific collision occurred, but she
did break down in tears talking about her four children,
all under the age of seventeen years old, who all
(10:48):
returned to school for the first day of the year today,
just yesterday. They were inside the living room and bedrooms
where this bus plowed through. At this stage it's still
unclear what caused the collision, but residents here have told
me they spotted the bus traveling at dangerously high speeds
before it did plow into this home. This obviously triggered
(11:09):
a very large emergency response police, paramedic, spire and rescue here.
We're told seven people were on board that bus, including
a mail driver in his fifties who was taken to
Liverpool Hospitals suffering just minor injuries. As for the six
passengers on board, well, remarkably, they all walked off the
bus with no injuries and hopped onto another bus. Residents
(11:31):
say they appeared to be in a bit of shock, understandably,
but all in fairly good spirits. As for what may
have caused the bus will officers here on the scene
tell me they're looking at two possible theories. That that
mail driver in his fifties may have suffered a medical episode,
or that there may have been a mechanical malfunction on
board the bus.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Tush a lucky escape for many, Annie, thanks very much
for joining us with that developing story this afternoon.
Use this Tuesday. A beautiful, sweet young lady, friends and
family remember a seventeen year old girl fatally attacked by
a shark. Those new tributes also developing. Now a bus
smashes into a home with passengers on board. We're live
to the scene. Sam Kur on trial, body cab, vision
of her arrest and a tense exchange with a police
(00:24):
officer played in court. See that new footage. And Donald
Trump holds fire on his tariff threat the reason behind
his eleventh hour back down, But the trade war is
far from over.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
This is settings National News at Land with Natasha Belling.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Good afternoon. We begin this afternoon with family tributes for
the beautiful special teenager who died in a summer surf
tragedy north of Brisbane. Chalisa Zamuda died after being attacked
by a shark off Bribey Island. The seventeen year old
was a member of the local life saving club who
swam in the area on a regular basis, and she
(01:07):
just attended her school formal days before the fatal attack.
Like Jordan Quinn who joins us now, Jordan, understandably this
has devastated her loved ones and family.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, there is a deep sense of shock within the
community here on Bribe Island, which is tragically mourning the
loss of Charlie's Zumuda, her friend's family and even strangers
gathered this morning paying tribute at Wooham Beach, which is
where the seventeen year old was fatally attacked by a shark.
Yesterday afternoon around four forty Charlie's had gone out for
(01:42):
a swim. She was around one hundred meters from shore
when she was mauled by a shark, suffering severe injuries.
I'm told emergency services actually pulled her from the water,
but her injuries were catastrophic.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
A young girl that had everything to live for, doing
what she loved and look She was an age manager,
so she had a group of young kids that she
looked after every weekend. She was a highly skilled life
saver and she spent her time looking after Queenslanders. So
this has been a huge impact for us.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Still pretty raw, Charlie's had only just begun year twelve.
Her school formal was actually on Friday. As you can imagine,
this has absolutely devastated the tight knit community here on
Bribe Island. Charlie's was a club captain at the local
Surf Life Saving Club and had a deep love for
the ocean. She spent every moment she could at this
(02:38):
very beach where sadly her life was shut caught at
just seventeen.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Awful news Jordan joining us there with the letters details
from Bribey Island. Thank you. The flood threat is far
from over this afternoon. In far North Queensland. The massive
del huge has cut off access to towns including Ingham today.
Locals have queued for critical supplies at grocery stores petrol stations.
The community remains without power and there's no way to
(03:04):
ensure water is safe to drink. Residents are waiting on
supplies to be air dropped as the torrential rain continues.
In Townsville. It is a very different situation and of
Goore is on the ground in the flood zone and
joins us this afternoon. And some good news though for locals.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Yeah, good afternoon, tar, It is great to be able
to bring you good news this afternoon. The flood threat
that was initially forecast for the city of Townsville has subsided,
so some residents in some of the black zone suburbs.
Half of the black zone suburbs they can now return
to their homes. There's still three suburbs where council has
asked residents to wait and see what the rest of
(03:44):
today brings, with high tides expected this afternoon. But the
Ross River has dropped significantly overnight and we've had a
break in the rainfall which has been much welcomed reprieved
not only by locals but by emergency services. Now we
are at the ses deph here in Townsville's city. We've
just heard from the Premier as well as the federal
(04:05):
disaster Minister and Queensland's Police Commissioner as well about this
unfolding situation. The focus is now shifted onto those communities
of Ingham and card Well and making sure that aerial
support can be provided to drop in essential services and
infrastructure to those cutoff communities. They will be cut off
(04:25):
by road for days, if not weeks, and there is
a lot of damage to the Bruce Highway as we've
seen part of it has been washed away by floodwaters
in the past a few days. The Premier, David Chris
A fully he will be on a helicopter within the
next hour or so and he will be flying into
Ingham where he grew up and he will then be
traveling onto Cardwell as well to get on the ground,
(04:47):
chat to as many locals as possible and assess the
damage to see exactly what support will be needed in
the coming days and weeks. He spoke a short time ago.
Take a listen to what he had to say.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
And I can assure you we will use every focus
that comes from a disaster to ensure that we don't
rebuild the same bit of infrastructure to the same standard,
the same location and expect a different result.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
And it's good news though in those communities of Ingham
and card Well. The water has very very slowly started
to drop overnight and it's forecast to continue to recede,
but it will take a matter of days. And then
obviously once that water does reced the cleanup effort will
be massive and they will need a lot of support
on the ground. So four choppers from the ADF they
(05:36):
are ready to go today. They will be dropping in
supplies as well as that vital infrastructure including generators to
get supermarkets, fuel stations and hospitals and vital services back online.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Tash and are our thoughts with all those affected residents.
Thank you very much for the first time we can
show you body cam of Sam Kerr's arrest. The Matilda's
captain is on trial for the alleged racial harassment of
an officer in London. On the night she was taken
into custody, the soccer superstar said she feared she was
(06:08):
being abducted by a taxi driver before a tense interaction
with a constable. Europe correspondent Ben Dalny is in London
for the start of the hearings.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
An extraordinary kidnapping twist from the trial today, Tash, And importantly,
this is actually the first time we've heard Sam Kerr's
version of events, at least via a police interview that
was played before the jury of her and her partner
and fellow footballer Christy Muse. Now, in this interview, they
tell police they feared that Cabby was kidnapping them and
he was driving around erradically and that they're actually begging
(06:41):
for him to set them free. Now began when Kerr
was actually sick in the back of the taxi after
a night out. That's when the Cabby began driving to
the police station because he was no longer driving them home.
That's when the couple tell police in this recording they
held serious fears for their own safety, so much so
they actually kicked the plastic guard around the cabby's driver's
(07:01):
seat and they also kicked out the rear window later
on in this interview throughout many explete years that Coda lives,
she said she was being driven around radically for upwards
of fifty minutes, saying she held serious concerns for her safety,
and also that she tried to call police during this ordeal,
that when the officers interviewing her had found no record
of that phone call or that prompted this from the
Matilda's captain.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Did you stay on the phone long enough to even
speak someone? That's the thing, okay, but they wouldn't do that.
Though they wouldn't do that, you should have spoken to them.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Honestly, we have stupid and white okay, so stupid.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Now that, according to the Crown Prosecution Service, is the
racially aggravated harassment of a police officer what Sam Kerr
has pleaded not guilty to and has indicated she'll take
the stand on in the remaining days of this trial.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Tash ben Downey in London, thank you back home now
in Parliament He's back for the first time this year,
and it could be the last sitting before the federal election.
Live to our reporter Josh Martin, who joins us this
afternoon from Parliament House, Josh. Politicians attended auditional church service
this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yes a rare partisan Yes, a rare bipartisan moment, tash,
but that civility will soon be shattered when question time
begins this afternoon. For once, the leaders were singing from
the same hymn book at Saint Christopher's Cathedral in Canberra
this morning. Anthony Albanezi and Peter Dutton even exchanged a
handshake and both read passages from the Bible during the
(08:37):
multi denominational service, the Prime Minister reading from one Peter,
do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. Ironically,
plenty of insults will be flying around Parliament this week.
The Opposition expected to grill the PM over his handling
of the anti Semitism crisis and whether or not he
was told about the terror plot to blow up a
(08:57):
synagogue with a caravan full of explosive at the same
time as the public.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
If you don't provide leadership to the country, then things
can go wrong very quickly.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
We need to engage with our security agencies in a
way that takes national security seriously, not in a way
that seeks to play politics with it.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Labor will use Parliament to sharpen its attack on the economy,
releasing Treasury modeling on the coalition's plan to allow small
businesses to claim tax deductions for lunches and golf days.
It shows the policy will cost an estimated one point
six billion dollars a year. The Coalition says the Parliamentary
Budget Office has done modeling showing it will cost one
(09:42):
hundred and twenty five million, Claiming the new report is nonsense.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Peter Dutton wants Australian workers and taxpayers to foot the
bill for their bosses long lunch.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
The public service is not there to make political attacks
on the opposition.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
The Shadow Treasurer Attash has complained to the Head of Treasury,
claiming his department has been weaponized and politicized.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
A big few weeks ahead, Josh, thank you to News
just in this afternoon. On a shocking crash, a bus
carrying passengers has slammed into a home in Sydney, Southwest.
Life to our reporter Annie Puller at Bonnie Wick heights
and a good afternoon. A terrifying ordeal for those passengers
on board this bus yea tash.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
Residents here have described the sound of this crash like
a bomb going off, and looking at the damage here
it is easy to see why. I've just spoken to
the owner of this home who tells me, thankfully no
one was inside when this horrific collision occurred, but she
did break down in tears talking about her four children,
all under the age of seventeen years old, who all
(10:48):
returned to school for the first day of the year today,
just yesterday. They were inside the living room and bedrooms
where this bus plowed through. At this stage it's still
unclear what caused the collision, but residents here have told
me they spotted the bus traveling at dangerously high speeds
before it did plow into this home. This obviously triggered
(11:09):
a very large emergency response police, paramedic, spire and rescue here.
We're told seven people were on board that bus, including
a mail driver in his fifties who was taken to
Liverpool Hospitals suffering just minor injuries. As for the six
passengers on board, well, remarkably, they all walked off the
bus with no injuries and hopped onto another bus. Residents
(11:31):
say they appeared to be in a bit of shock, understandably,
but all in fairly good spirits. As for what may
have caused the bus will officers here on the scene
tell me they're looking at two possible theories. That that
mail driver in his fifties may have suffered a medical episode,
or that there may have been a mechanical malfunction on
board the bus.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Tush a lucky escape for many, Annie, thanks very much
for joining us with that developing story this afternoon.
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