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Sydney has been rocked by two suspicious car fires overnight with one being completely destroyed in the Inner West.

For more, Liam Tapper reports. 

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Police have stepped up the search for the missing Ballarat mother Samantha Murphy calling in specially trained sniffer dogs from New South Wales for the first time. They won't reveal what it is but fresh information has steered the hunt to a new area of bushland 25 kilometres south of Ballarat.

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A Subway store has been left badly damaged in a break-in on the Gold Coast.

For more, Liam Bland reports. 

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Former NFL star OJ Simpson has died of cancer aged 76. From careers in football to acting, he is most known for the controversial verdict being acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend in a highly publicised televised trial.

For more, we're joined by Jim Moret, Chief Correspondent at Inside Edition in the U.S. who anchored CNN's coverage of the OJ Simpson criminal trial in 1995.

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The Victorian Government is set to offer the state's public servants a one-off $5600 payment all to combat the rising cost of living. Under a new deal supported by Premier Jacinta Allan superannuation payments for parental leave will double to 104 weeks there will be more working-from-home rights and staff will also be entitled to extra leave.

For more, Broadcaster Neil Mitchell and Perth's Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas join. 

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A car has erupted in flames overnight on the Gold Coast with the owner discovering the inferno in a Coomera car park when returning from shopping. It took around 10 minutes to extinguish the blaze and the fire has not been treated as suspicious.

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Western Sydney's Parramatta light rail is set to be in full action later this year with services starting as early as July. Testing on the project which began in January is now almost a fifth of the way through. Once services begin they will run from 5 am to 1 am every day carrying around 28-thousand commuters between the Parramatta CBD all the way to Olympic Park.

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The AFL is being accused of having double standards after it slapped Port Adelaide star Jeremy Finlayson with a three-match ban for a homophobic slur.

For more, Hayden Nelson reports.

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Peter Dutton has taken aim at Foreign Minister Penny Wong who recently said Australia would consider the recognition of a Palestinian state. Minister Wong reaffirmed that support for a Palestinian nation could only be considered following the release of Hamas-held hostages in Gaza.

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The United States, Australia and Japan have agreed to establish a new joint air defence strategy to counter Chinese military threats in the Pacific. The United States President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced the new strategy at a joint press conference in Washington.

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