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Bec Symons

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Sep 28, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Bec Symons

    Paedophile sentenced after trading vapes for child abuse material (opens the original)

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    Dean Jason Milley has been jailed after he was caught messaging teenage boys online to procure child sex abuse material. Milley bought vapes online for a 12-year-old boy in exchange for nude images. He will be eligible for parole in three years. A paedophile with a criminal history dating back to 1994, has been jailed again after he was caught messaging teenage boys online, offering money and vapes in exchange for child sex abuse material. Dean Jason Milley was 53 when he was most recently caugh

  2. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Bec Symons

    Marchers condemn violence, remember lost community members (opens the original)

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    About 300 people have walked Morwell's main street in solidarity, to condemn violence. The walk marked a year since the alleged murder of Kaiden Morgan-Johnston by two boys and a man, 500 metres from his Morwell home. Mr Morgan-Johnston's mother says she will keep advocating to stamp out violence in the community. Twelve months ago Sascha Johnston watched the AFL grand final with her 18-year-old son Kaiden. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this story include

  3. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Bec Symons

    Man accused of attacking family with axe recently released from jail (opens the original)

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    A man who allegedly attacked his family with an axe in eastern Victoria on Saturday had been released from prison in July. Police say Peter O'Ryan fought with his brother before allegedly attacking him and his parents with an axe. Police continue their search for Mr O'Ryan in the Latrobe Valley. A man on the run in Victoria's east had only been released from prison months before allegedly attacking his brother and parents with an axe on Saturday. Police allege Peter O'Ryan assaulted his brother

  4. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Bec Symons

    Americans urge caution as Australia braces for data centre boom (opens the original)

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    As a dominatrix drag queen struts through a crowd with her eyes set on tackling corporate greed, she uses brute force to throw aside actors portraying the tech giants locals blame for rising power prices. It's an unusual display of theatrics, aimed at firing up fed-up residents of North Carolina, on the east coast of the United States, who say data centres are driving up their power bills, before they are even built. On the front steps of a Durham courthouse in June, hundreds of community member

  5. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Bec Symons

    Victorian man defrauds women of more than $45,000 after meeting them online (opens the original)

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    Stephen James Cross, 43, has pleaded guilty to charges relating to the deception of four women in Gippsland in Victoria's east. Cross called himself "Jimmy Smith", even living with one of the women under the alias. Cross entered pre-sentence detention today and will be sentenced in October. An unemployed Gippsland man who pretended to have been injured at a job he did not have will be sentenced next month after defrauding four women and taking money from three of them. Stephen James Cross met th

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