David William Wonnocott, 49, appeared in a Tweed Heads court today for the first time since his April arrest over social media threats of violence against Brittany Higgins and her fiance. He was released on conditional bail.
Wonnocott has
a criminal history relating mainly to intimidation and threats towards members
of minority groups and members of the public.
Adam Brown, 41, a former Deakin University
digital media lecturer who also taught gender studies, will spend up
to 24 years behind bars for stabbing his wife Chen Cheng to death after a
heated argument about their son’s kindergarten arrangements.
Tuesday
30 May 2023
People
on Portobello Beach in Edinburgh, Scotland, enjoying the warm weather on what
is believed to be the hottest day so far this year in the UK. Photograph: Jane
Barlow/PA
Bujumbura, Africa
Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov and Burundi Foreign Minister and Albert Nshingiro look
on as Lavrov is welcomed by Burundian traditional drummers upon his arrival at
the Melchior Ndadaye International Airport in Bujumbura.
John Turner, the ‘king’
of Castleton Garland Day, covered to the waist in a heavy, bell-shaped floral
garland, parades through the village.
The date of the custom coincides with Oak Apple Day which is believed to
commemorate the restoration of King Charles II in 1660. Photograph:
Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images
Jiuquan, China
The Shenzhou-16
spacecraft, onboard the Long March-2F rocket, lifts off carrying three
astronauts to China’s new Tiangong Space Station. Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine
An injured man
stands next to an apartment building that was damaged in a Russian drone
strike. AFP
Monash University examined 151 coronial court investigations and inquests of First Nations women and girls who were killed by intimate partner violence over a 20-year period. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP.
The Guardian
https://tinyurl.com/mu5azury
Adam Brown, 41, a former Deakin University
digital media lecturer who also taught gender studies, will spend up to 24 years behind bars for stabbing his wife Chen Cheng to death after a
heated argument about their son’s kindergarten arrangements. The Guardian
Denmark’s Crown Princess
Mary participates in a Royal Run event in Nykoebing on the island of
Falster. Reuters
Princess Charlene of Monaco was elegant in a black and white gown as she attended the Gala Dinner for the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Monte Carlo.
Angus Campbell confirmed he had recently sent
letters to current and former defence force personnel to inform them their
honours for distinguished and conspicuous service may be cancelled but he
refused to provide the exact number. The Age
Bruce
Lehrmann has dropped his defamation lawsuit against News Corp, opting instead
to settle with the media company. However, News Corp said it had not paid any
damages and did not apologise for its coverage of Brittany
Higgins’s rape allegations. The Guardian
The Battle of Newtownmountkennedy was fought on 30 May 1798, between Britain and native Irish rebels during the Irish Rebellion.
Re-enactment of the battle of Newtownmountkennedy, Photograph:
Nick Bradshaw
A Ukrainian officer prepares to fire in a German
self-propelled Panzerhaubitze 2000 artillery at his position on the frontline
in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, May 27, 2023. Efrem
Lukatsky. AP
May 28, 2023: Gondolas navigate by the Rialto
Bridge on Venice's historical Grand Canal as a patch of phosphorescent green
liquid spreads. The governor of the Veneto region, Luca Zaia, said that
officials had requested the police to investigate to determine who was
responsible, as environmental authorities were testing the water. Luigi Costantini. AP
People wait at a bus stop
in front of a destroyed building during the presidential runoff vote in the
quake-hit city of Kahramanmaras, Turkey.
AFP
New York
Cadets toss their hats
into the air after their graduation ceremony at Michie Stadium, West
Point. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
A potholer is winched into
Gaping Gill, the largest cavern in Britain.
Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA
Tatiana 'Tania' Dokhotaru 34,
was found dead by police in the unit of an apartment block in Liverpool around
8pm on Saturday. Her partner, 28 year old Danny Zayat was arrested at the
scene.
Mark Tedeschi, KC, said he and ACT Director of Public
Prosecutions Shane Drumgold, SC, aimed to prove investigators’ reluctance to
pursue the allegation was a “classic example” of their attitudes towards sexual
assault claims. https://tinyurl.com/2p8vu3e2
Australia
is founded on land that was stolen from Indigenous people. The wealth that has
been generated by that theft is disproportionately distributed. https://tinyurl.com/4wxtk6mc
Expert morticians are scratching
their heads at the recently exhumed body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, a
Benedictine nun who died in 2019 and now appears to be in an unexpected state of preservation.
A smiling Prince Andrew spotted riding in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
King Charles has requested he swaps the 30-room Royal Lodge in Windsor for the smaller Frogmore Cottage.
Sources say the Duke has no plans to vacate.
Australian doctor Peter Alexakis will
inherit $24 million left to him by a patient after winning a long-running court battle against The
Salvation Army and the deceased man’s ex-business partner and friends.
Sumy, Ukraine
Fighters from the Russian
Volunteer Corps prepare for a press conference near the border with
Russia. Photograph: Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters
Ukraine's defence ministry on Friday said Russia was planning to
simulate a major accident at a nuclear power station controlled by pro-Moscow
forces to try to thwart a long-planned Ukrainian counteroffensive to retake
territory occupied by Russia.
Ukrainian prisoners of war are seen after a swap in Donetsk region, 25 May 2023. Reuters/Yevhenii Zavhorodnii
Ukrainian soldiers seen with captured Russian army serviceman at positions recently gained in an offensive near the front line city of Bakhmut, 11 May. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/Serhii Nuzhnenko
Fulgence Kayishema, one of the last fugitives sought for their role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, holds up a Christian book as he sits in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town, two days after being arrested following 22 years on the run. AFP.
He will be held at Cape Town's Pollsmoor Prison ahead of extradition to Rwanda.
.
Ukrainian refugees Veronica Morenets and
Yarioslava Hubarieva pictured with their classmates during a Ukrainian cultural
exchange concert at St Vincent's Convent Primary School, Blackpool, Cork.
Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision
Jacinta Price says her mother Bess has been considering whether to throw her hat in the ring for a vacant Senate spot.
Yes please!
Friday marks the anniversary of the Uluru statement, a “gift” which Pat Anderson and Megan Davis say was given to the Australian people in 2017, which underpins the voice to parliament, and which is about to enter its final phase: a referendum by the end of the year.
Source: The Guardian https://tinyurl.com/bd3wyeme
A municipal
worker hangs a prohibition sign in the Nieuwmarkt publicising the new
legislation forbidding the smoking of cannabis in public in the old city centre
of Amsterdam. Photograph: Ramon van Flymen/ANP/AFP/Getty
Sheep are
mustered on Withers Farm in Kaipara Flats in Auckland, New Zealand. Statistics
NZ reported the ratio of sheep to people had fallen below five to one for the
first time in 170 years, local media said. The Agricultural Production Census
found the national flock fell by 2% to 25.3 million sheep in June 2022.
Photograph: Fiona Goodall/Getty
South Korea’s military
drones fly in formation during a South Korea-US joint military drill at
Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon.
AFP
Kusnacht, Switzerland
A fan outside the gates of
a villa belonging to the singer Tina Turner who died on Wednesday. Photograph:
Michael Buholzer/AP
Liberal MP Julian Leeser urged his coalition colleagues to back The Voice proposal and called for a respectful debate.
He
stepped down from his position as the Coalition’s Indigenous Australians
spokesman earlier this year after the Liberals decided not to back the
voice. Source: New Daily
A
Russian conscript kisses his partner during a send-off event before they head
to assigned military units for mandatory one-year military service in St
Petersburg, Russia.
A
Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed
by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan
President
Zelenskiy awards a Ukrainian Marine during a celebration of the Ukrainian
Marines Day at the frontline in an unknown location. Reuters
A
guest wearing a baroque-style costume walks through the Hall of Mirrors during
the fete galante at the Palace of Versailles.
The annual fancy dress ball recreates the splendour of Louis XIV’s
dazzling court feasts which were held to show off the wealth and power of
France’s longest-reigning monarch.
Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty
Images
A climate
activist shows his hand, covered with asphalt, after police removed it with
hammer and chisel in Berlin, Germany. AP
Participants dance during a ceremony to accept new members into the Young Pioneer
Organization in Red Square in central Moscow.
Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina
Ukraine's President Zelensky greeting Saudi
officials next to the Deputy Emir of Mecca, Prince Badr bin Sultan bin
Abdulaziz (R), in Jeddah when he arrived on 19 May 2023 to participate in the
Arab League Summit. AFP
Some 1200
windsurfers take the start of the 21th edition of the Defi Wind in the
Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Gruissan in southern France. AFP
A child
looks on as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group holds a rally in Gaza to
commemorate armed commanders and operatives killed by Israel in the past
five-day fighting in Gaza City. Reuters.
New York
Salman
Rushdie and his wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, arrive for the PEN America
literary gala at the American Museum of Natural History. Photograph:
Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images
Helm
Corner, US
Water
engulfs a road in California. The
long-dry Tulare Lake, once the largest lake west of the Mississippi before the
1920, is filling up after a winter of heavy rain and flooding. Flooding in the region is expected to worsen
after record-deep snowpack in the Sierra Nevada starts to melt. Photograph:
Caroline Brehman/EPA
