Good afternoon. An additional 800 Victorian children are being recommended for testing for sexually transmitted infections after four more childcare centres were added to the list of known workplaces of alleged paedophile Joshua Dale Brown.
More dates have also been added for 10 other childcare centres, with police now saying they believe Brown worked at 23 childcare centres between January 2017 and May 2025.
In their statement, police said establishing Brown’s complete work history had been “extremely complex” as childcare providers do not have centralised records. It meant detectives had to “execute search warrants to obtain handwritten records, shift rosters and other critical information”.
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In pictures
Antisemitism happens – it’s bad! But there are already a gazillion anti-protest laws. Do we need more?
It’s not unreasonable or racist to protest against genocide, says First Dog on the Moon.
What they said …
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“This is an attempt by the eSafety commission to turn this hearing into a royal commission into certain aspects of X.”
Lawyers acting for social media giant X fired back at the eSafety commissioner in a case over how the platform handles terror content. The administrative review tribunal is considering whether Julie Inman Grant was correct to issue a notice to X in March last year to report on how it deals with terror content on its platform. When eSafety lawyers asked an X employee during cross-examination whether she was aware that X’s owner, Elon Musk, had referred to Grant as the “commissar”, X argued Musk’s view was irrelevant.
In numbers
Mitchell Starc has produced one of the all-time great bowling spells as Australia kept the West Indies to the second-lowest Test innings score in history. The match in Jamaica was full of notable numbers: Starc notched his 400th wicket in his 100th Test with a whopping 6 wickets for just 9 runs, Scott Boland claimed a hat-trick, while the West Indies’ second innings lasted just 14.3 overs, the third-shortest innings on record.
Before bed read
David Hourigan’s intricate miniature models of beloved music venues around Melbourne are so realistic that it can be hard to tell whether you are looking at a photo of the Espy or the Tote – until Hourigan’s big hands loom into view. The artist likes to recreate venues that have closed or are in danger of closing: “I want to preserve these before they disappear.”
Daily word game
Today’s starter word is: UNCI. You have five goes to get the longest word including the starter word. Play Wordiply.
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