From the Daily Os. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Lucy Tassel. It's Monday, the twenty eighth of April. Here's what's making headlines this evening.
An inquest into the Bondai Junction Westfield stabbing attack has begun in the New South Wales Coroner's Court. Five weeks of hearings will explore the circumstances surrounding the April twenty twenty four incident. Six people were killed by forty year old Joel Couci, who was fatally shot by police at the scene. Today, the court heard Cauci, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager, was quote effectively unmedicated for
nearly five years. Council assisting the coroner, Peggy Dwyer SC said quote no health practitioner held responsibility for his ongoing care. Dwyer also said searches of Cauchi's phone indicate he was quote preoccupied with weapons, with violence, and with mass killing. New South Wales Coroner Teresa O'Sullivan told the victims families there were simply no words to properly convey the magnitude of their loss. The inquest is expected to continue until the end of next month.
Australian officials have worked with police in the Philippines to rescue two children linked to a Queensland child exploitation investigation. A thirty one year old man is accused of twenty eight offenses, including drug and child abuse charges. He was arrested in December when police seized his devices on suspicion of child exploitation material. Investigators said further searches revealed material
featuring quote a number of unidentified child victims. Police have since located two child victims in southeast Queensland, while local and federal police worked with the Philippine National Police to rescue an additional two child victims from quote abusive environments overseas. The accused is facing multiple charges, including grooming and indecent treatment offenses, drug supply, using the Internet to procure children
under sixteen, and distributing child exploitation material. He's due in court on Thursday.
US President Donald Trump has publicly urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to sign a peace deal with Ukraine. A day after he met with Vladimir Zelenski. The Ukrainian president attended a private conversation with the US leader inside Saint Peter's Basilica ahead of Pope Francis's funeral over the weekend. White House officials called it a quote very productive discussion. Trump has since told reporters the US and Ukraine have worked out the confines of a deal and want Putin to
sign it. He called on Putin to quote stop shooting, sit down, and sign the proposed peace steal if allows months of tense negotiations between the three nations after Trump promised to end to the conflict as part of his twenty twenty four election campaign.
And today's good news, thousands of flowers will be planted at a US landfill site to create a pollinator haven for bees, butterflies, and insects. New York's Staten Island was home to one of the world's largest landfill sites before it was shut down and converted to parkland in twenty twenty one. At its peak in the nineteen eighties, Freshkills Park received millions of kilos of waste every day. Now, a community organization is leading an initiative to plant fifty
thousand native violets at the site. President of the Freshkills Park Alliance, Mark Murphy said planting these violets is incredibly important to the ecosystem within Freshkills and also the region, he said. He hopes the mission will turn what was once a terrible thing for Staten Island into an incredible place of beauty, acceptance and reclamation.
That's the latest from the dally Oos newsroom. If you're looking for something else, you can listen to today's deep dive on Australia's major parties. Will we break down everything you need to know about labor and the Coalition.
We will be back tomorrow morning with another a Lie election deep dive as we count down to polling day on Saturday. But until then, have a great evening.
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