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1. Man accused of murdering Australian Chris Lane faces trial.

The man accused of pulling the trigger on the gun that shot and killed Australian baseball player Chris Lane faces trial this week in the US.

Yesterday the murder trial began in the US state of Oklahoma with jury selection.

Chancey Luna is charged with shooting Lane in the back as he was jogging in the town of Duncan in 2013.   22-year old Chris Lane had a baseball scholarship at Oklahoma’s East Central University and was visiting his girlfriend Sarah Harper at her home.

Over 400 potential jurors have been summoned for jury duty, with selection for Luna’s trial possibly taking four days.

For more read this post here.

 2. Vincent Stanford’s online life.

An interest in violent online gaming and neo-Nazi propaganda has been uncovered as clues to the secret life of accused murderer Vincent Stanford.

Fairfax Media reports that Stanford, who is accused of killing teacher Stephanie Scott, was a participant in military-themed computer games and also developed his own programs.

It has also been reported that he “liked” clips on YouTube that were pro-Nazi including ones supporting Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

There are reports that a company associated with Vincent Stanford’s brother was developing a game centred around a character, Nigel, who spends his time “torturing innocent victims” including “three young, ripe subjects” walking down a “desolate alleyway unprotected and completely unaware that they are being watched, hunted.”

Fairfax Media reports that the company who was developing the, now cancelled game say Stanford himself, who once worked with his brother, was not involved in the development of this game.

3. Woman feared dead after house fire in QLD.

A woman in her 30’s is missing after a house fire at Brymaroo, west of Toowommba around 9pm last night.

Nine News reports that the woman made a desperate call to emergency services saying she was trapped inside the home. after fire crews extinguished the blaze they could not locate the woman. It was also feared a six-year old boy was inside but police have now located him with his grandparents.

4. Kenyan rapists given jail sentences.

Reuters reports that three Kenyan men have been sentenced to 15 years in jail for the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in 2013.

The men were initially made to cut the grass at their compound as punishment.

The girl was raped and dumped in an open sewer.

The case came to international attention with an online petition that got more than 1.7 million signatures.

Overnight the three men were sentenced to 15 years for gang rape and seven years for causing grievous harm.

“Liz has finally gotten justice and her case will hopefully continue to be a wake-up call for all,” Equality Now said.

“We must continue to push for safe environments for girls, where sexual violence is not tolerated and is punished to the fullest extent of the law.”

5. Mother loses case against computer giant over working hours.

A woman who took IBM to court alleging discrimination on the basis of reasons – including her gender and being a young mother – after she returned to work has lost her case and been ordered to pay costs of $150,000.

Software engineer Kelly Yeoh alleged that after returning to working at IBM following maternity leave she negotiated her hours to be reduced to 20 per week.

She claimed that after being told “skill up” because of changes in the project she was working on she ended up suffering discrimination by being required to work for more than 20 hours per week.

She alleged that she worked for 40 to 60 hours each week for nearly 14 months. She said that she had been given a workload that couldn’t actually be completed in 20 hours.

In ruling against her Judge Street said Mrs Yeoh was not directed to work the longer hours.

“While it is true that the applicant did make complaints about her workload, I do not accept that she was working more than 20 hours a week on any regular basis,”

“I accept that she was working odd hours, due to the flexibility that she had as a result of her own request for that part-time employment.

“I do not accept that the applicant was given a workload that required her to work the excess of 20 hours per week.”

Fairfax Media reports that the judge favoured evidence from IBM managers who said Mrs Yeoh was told she should not work more than 20 hours.

 6. Three-year old boy shoots and kills one-year old boy.

A three-year-old boy in Cleveland, Ohio has shot and killed his one-year-old brother after picking up a handgun that had been left unattended inside a home.

“A three-year-old cannot be held accountable for a tragedy like this,” Cleveland police chief Calvin Williams said.

He said that the owner of the gun  “knew the weapons were there and didn’t do anything to safeguard them, so people will be held accountable for this tragedy”.

Police said the older boy picked up the unattended gun and shot the younger boy in the head.

7. High Court to decide whether Izzy the Staffordshire terrier should be destroyed.

By Elizabeth Byrne

The fate of a Staffordshire terrier named Izzy will be put into the hands of the High Court of Australia in Canberra today, when the dog’s owner challenges a council order for its destruction.

The dog was one of three owned by a woman who pleaded guilty to 20 charges under the Victorian Domestic Animals Act.

She was charged after a series of attacks by her animals on other dogs and people in 2012 and 2013.

One of the dogs, named Jock, was destroyed.

After the woman was convicted, Victoria’s Knox City Council convened a special panel to decide Izzy’s fate.

The dog had injured a woman who was trying to rescue her daughter’s dog, leaving a 1.5-centimetre-long laceration on her finger.

The panel ordered Izzy should also be destroyed.

But the dog’s owner took legal action, fighting the decision all the way to the High Court.

Today her lawyers will tell the High Court the dog and she were denied procedural fairness, as a member of the panel was a council investigator, who gave evidence in the case when it was before the courts.

They will argue that was a conflict of interest.

The High Court will be asked to set aside the council panel ruling and prohibit the order to destroy the dog.

A version of this story was originally published on ABC.

8. Facebook bans video promoting ABC TV show that shows “nudity”.

Facebook have censored a video promoting an ABC TV show because images of Aboriginal women painted in ochre breached community guidelines.

The clip for new ABC comedy show 8MMM includes two scenes of older bare-breasted Aboriginal women taking part in a traditional ceremony.

Fairfax Media reports that the video “potentially contained offensive nudity”, according to an automatic notification sent to the show’s Facebook group administrators.

Producer Rachel Clements said she was bewildered.

“I’ve moved from anger to disappointment to just bewilderment, really,” Clements said.

“I just think it’s silly and disrespectful to the women who were dancing for us.

“Out of all the reasons we could have been pulled, nudity is not high on the list. It’s ridiculous.”

The show, 8MMM is said to be an attempt to confront the “controversial issues of race, Aboriginality and discrimination with irreverence and humour.”

 9. Steiner schools allowing anti-vaccination movement to flourish.

News Limited reports that three major north coast Steiner schools in NSW are “ promoting the choice of parents to reject immunization” as they tell parents it is their “right and responsibility to choose to vaccinate or not.”

The three schools, one in Mullumbimby which has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country received funding from the commonwealth and state governments. The Mullumbimby school in fact receiving $3.4 million from the commonwealth and $1.2 million from the state government in 2013.

News Limited was told by the Steiner schools that “Steiner Education Australia does not have a policy on vaccination, as each parent will decide for themselves what they believe is in the best interests of their child according to their own convictions or beliefs.”

 10. Sydney private school abuse allegations.

Another Sydney boys school has been rocked by sexual abuse with Newington College in Stanmore informing parents and former students of an upcoming court case involved allegations of abuse at the school.

“I regret to inform you that a matter is to come before the courts involving alleged offences at Newington from more than 35 years ago,” Dr Mulford wrote.

“The sad cases about child sexual abuse and the poor institutional responses at the time have received considerable press coverage.”

 11. Father launches online petition for right to name baby his choice.

A father-to-be has launched an online petition to convince his wife to name their unborn son his choice of baby name.

Kseniya prefers Michael, while Nicholas wants a more traditional Greek choice, Spyridon.

After they couldn’t agree he decided to launch an online petition to see if he could persuade his wife to sway to his way of thinking.

In his petition he writes “The petitioner’s wife is a native of the Republic of Belarus and has been exposed to such barbaric names as Arman, Osip, Igor, Rurik, Ruslan, Artem, Vadim and Zoran (to name a few) throughout her Soviet childhood,”

“As the Russian ear is not trained for the sweet, musical sounds of our Greek nomenclature… Mrs. Soukeras has not been afforded the time nor opportunity to accept the quite common and well-received name “Spyridon” in not only Greek communities, but in the United States as well.”

She countered the argument telling ABC America News:

“I don’t want to name my baby Spyridon because the name is too ethnic and not sounding pleasant for a non-Greek ear,”

“Most of our friends like Michael but there is no petition for the name Michael as it doesn’t need a defense.”

Making things even trickier it seems that the names are also the names of the two grandfathers-to-be.

Nicholas has said that if they go with Spyridon as a first name his wife can have naming rights for all future children.

“I’m cool with all future children being named whatever she likes,” he said. “She could pick Rumpelstiltskin if she wants to. It’s just the first-born child that matters to me.”

12. Hobart City Council support gay marriage.

Hobart City Council has voted in support of gay marriage.

“The council decided that it was core business because it’s about social inclusion,” Hobart Lord Mayor Sue Hickey said.

“I think the view of the council was that society is changing and, at some level of government, a little bit of courage has got to be taken to stand up and reflect the changing social norms.”

The council plans to lobby the government for a conscience vote.

Mayor Hickey wants the government to prioritise debate surrounding changes to the Marriage Act, ABC News reports.

“We can’t change the law, it has to go to the Federal Parliament but what we are saying is that, as representatives of the community, the Hobart City Council decided to support this motion.

“We’ve got to show a bit of leadership and say, ‘well any loving God would not discriminate on this basis. You certainly can’t discriminate by any other level by law’.”

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