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Liz is news.com.au’s deputy editor. She began her career in magazines at The Australian Women’s Weekly, going on to work in newspapers before joining news.com.au. She started as a senior reporter in 2014 before becoming news editor and then deputy. Liz has appeared on national TV and radio as a commentator discussing news stories, politics and social issues.

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National

Urgent appeal for child and family – Mirabooka. The NSW Police Force is seeking urgent public assistance to help locate a three-month old boy and his parents who were last seen near Lake Macquarie yesterday morning. About 8am, (Monday 13 October 2014), Blake Holman, a three-month-old boy, and his parents, Ashley Groizard, 20, and Michael Holman, 32, left a home on Maipoona Avenue, Mirabooka. The family left the home in a silver coloured VY Commodore sedan with registration plates YNY-266 and have not been seen or heard from since. Police were alerted to the missing family shortly after midnight (Tuesday 14 October 2014) after members of the family raised their concerns. Police hold serious concerns for the welfare of the child, due to reports of erratic behaviour displayed by the child’s parents. Police are asking members of the public to be on alert and report any sightings of the vehicle or the family. It is believed that the vehicle may be travelling towards Sydney. Police are urging members of the public to contact Triple Zero (000) immediately with any sightings.

Missing family found after crash

THE search for a NSW family with a three-month-old boy has ended with the family discovered in rural Queensland after allegedly being involved in a car crash.

Middle East

In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, a 15-year-old Yazidi girl captured by the Islamic State group and forcibly married to a militant in Syria sits on the floor of a one-room house she now shares with her family after escaping in early August, while speaking in an interview with The Associated Press in Maqluba, a hamlet near the Kurdish city of Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. The girl was among hundreds of women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority captured by Islamic State fighters in early August when the militants overran their hometown of Sinjar in northwestern Iraq. Hundreds were killed in the attack, and tens of thousands fled for their lives, most to Kurdish-held parts of the north. (AP Photo/Dalton Bennett)

Islamic State ‘bringing slavery back’

NEWLY published propaganda material from Islamic State celebrates “the revival of slavery” and defends capturing women.

National

Aussie IS fighter killed in Syria

A BRISBANE man fighting with Islamic State known as Jihad Joe has reportedly been killed in Syria. Supporters have praised Zia AbdulHaq for becoming a martyr.

Television

ABC stands by offensive Q&A tweets

A DISCUSSION about transgender issues turned awkward when some ill considered and poorly timed tweets were published live on Q&A.

02/03/2009: A white pointer shark being tagged for CSIRO research 13 May 2008. Pic. Supplied Perthnow generic library great white shark

Two escape WA shark attack

TWO men have escaped a suspected shark attack in Western Australia just a over week after a surfer lost parts of his arms in a separate mauling.

National

Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter believes ethanol production could lead to lower fuel prices for taxpayers.

Katter hits out at humanitarians

BOB Katter has taken aim at an unusual new target in the wake of yesterday’s Australian Ebola scare – humanitarians.

National

Facebook pictures of Marcus Peter Volke and Mayang Prasetyo who died during a perceived murder suicide at Teneriffe

Killer’s boss ‘should have seen it coming’

A BROTHEL owner who employed trans woman Mayang Prasetyo and the ‘killer chef’ who took her life in a horrific murder suicide in Brisbane says he “should have seen it coming”.

Travel Updates

Images from a thermal imaging scanner are pictured on a computer screen as airplane passengers are screened for high temperatures upon arrival at Indonesian resort island of Bali's international airport near Denpasar, 27/04/2009 as governments across the region, which has in recent years been at the forefront of the SARS and bird flu epidemics, have stepped up checks at airports and urged the public to be on guard for symptoms of the new multi-strain swine flu strain from pigs that has killed over 100 victims in Mexico and spread to New Zealand.

Airport ‘biosecurity’ ramping up

WITH Ebola spreading, airports are boosting their screening measures to the heights of 2009, when the world was on swine flu alert.

National

A jetstar flight believed to have turned back from a Sydney to Darwin flight due to a sick passenger was initially put on alert as Ambulance and Fire Brigade Hazmat attended as a precaution. The Ambulance took a man aged in his 50's to RPA Hospital and an Ambulance officer was seen to be wearing a pair of white full coverall hazmat. Pics Bill Hearne

Health scare rocks Sydney Airport

A HEALTH scare has thrown Sydney Airport into chaos with a medical scare causing a flight to be grounded and quarantine officials called to the scene.

Television

Affleck takes down ‘racist’ host

HOLLYWOOD stars have to do plenty of interesting things when promoting a movie, but a fired up, 10-minute rant defending Islam usually isn’t one them.

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