The search for the body of William Tyrrell continues.
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This morning Police officers revealed detectives had seized a Mazda car from a southern Sydney home.
They said the car was taken to a secure facility for forensic examination which was expected to take several weeks.
Yesterday, the search returned to William's foster grandmother's yard on the NSW Mid North Coast, with rumours police were investigating whether William died after falling from a balcony at the house.
Long night as floodwaters hit Forbes
Hundreds of people in Forbes have spent an anxious night evacuated from their homes, after the Lachlan River surged into the NSW Central West township.
The river hit major flood levels overnight, inundating low-lying areas of Forbes.
Farmers also have a nervous wait, with the damage bill expected to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars with crops lost.
NT prepares for the worst
Nine new cases of COVID-19 linked to a cluster in Katherine were announced yesterday and the town's lockdown was extended until 6pm on Monday while a territory-wide mask mandate took effect.
"This is a lot of cases. These are all Aboriginal Territorians. This makes real every fear that we've had," Chief Minister Michael Gunner told reporters on Tuesday.
Protests go on against Vic pandemic laws
Protesters have awoken after spending another night occupying the steps of the Victorian parliament in anger at the state government's proposed pandemic laws.
Debate on the Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management) Bill began in the upper house on Tuesday afternoon and went well into the night.
It is on hold until Wednesday as the chamber deals with non-government business but it is expected to resume on Thursday.
Labor promises faster NBN for more homes
One-and-a-half million homes and businesses are set to have higher quality internet under a broader $2.4 billion NBN plan if Labor wins power.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has promised more than 10 million premises will have "world-class" internet speeds by 2025 under a Labor government.
Wages need to be growing
Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe believes wages will need to be growing at more than three per cent annually to sustain inflation around the middle of the central bank's target band, a key to lifting interest rates.
However, he told an economists' lunch on Tuesday that this doesn't mean the RBA is targeting wages growth or that wages growth is the only determinant of inflation.
Employees spending longer working unpaid
A new report by the Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work found the average employee worked 6.13 unpaid hours each week in 2021, or eight standard working weeks per year.
That's compared to 5.25 hours per week in 2020 and 4.62 hours during 2019.
Australia's word of the year has been named
"Strollout" has been named Australia's word of the year, drawing inspiration from the country's troubled COVID-19 vaccination rollout.
It topped contenders including "double-vaxxed", "AUKUS" and "net zero" to become the Australian National Dictionary Centre's 2021 word of the year.
- with Australian Associated Press