1.A DANCE teacher who preyed upon his young students while telling parents he could make their kids famous has pleaded guilty to 28 child sex and pornography offences.
Grant Davies, 41, who ran a studio in Sydney’s inner west, was charged with offences against children aged from nine to 15, including sexual intercourse with a child.
He had reportedly trained dancers for popular productions, including Billy Elliot.
A mother of two of his pupils has already been jailed for sending sexually explicit photographs and videos of her daughters to Davies. She claimed she had fallen under his spell after the girls were accepted into his school and feared if she didn’t comply with his requests, they would lose starring roles in his productions.
At Sydney’s District Court on Monday, Davies pleaded guilty to offences that spanned a decade. He is due to be sentenced in February 2016.
Malcolm Turnbull with wife Lucy.
2.Malcom Turnbull reveals childhood heartbreaks and his love story with wife Lucy.
He’s enjoyed a successful career, enormous wealth, a happy marriage and is now the most powerful person in the country.
But life hasn’t always been easy for new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who opened up about his early life on ABC’s Australian Story last night.
Mr Turnbull spoke of his confusion as a child when his mother walked out on the family, being raised by his dad and his sadness at experiencing miscarriage with wife Lucy.
“I don’t know that I ever really understood my mother,” he said. “I got to know her fairly well [later in life], but I don’t know that anyone really ever understood her.”
Of his father, who died in a freak airplane accident when he was young, he said, “He did everything he could to ensure that I never thought ill of my mother, and he absolutely succeeded.”
“My father and I lived together like father and son, but more like a big brother/little brother… he taught me to iron, he taught me to cook. I was very, you know, independent and so I learnt a lot of domestic skills that I think a lot of young Australian men probably should learn but don’t learn because we were two guys living together.”
He also talked about his happiness at becoming a father, his love story with Lucy and his career ambitions.
3.A Sydney father has come home to his worst possible nightmare: his wife and baby daughter found dead in a suspected murder-suicide.
The grief-stricken man had to be held back from entering his home on Sydney’s south-west yesterday afternoon following the grim discovery of the bodies of his 29-year-old wife and vision-impaired 17-month-old baby daughter.
Other relatives were pictured weeping on the footpath outside.
Police reported the mother and baby had died of asphyxiation. Their deaths were being investigated as a probable murder-suicide and post-natal depression may have been a factor.
4.A Group of swimmers got more than they bargained for when they uploaded a photograph of themselves underwater at Bondi – and realised they had unknowingly been within metres of a huge shark.
Personal trainer Spot Anderson, who took the shocking photograph, told the Daily Mail he had been leading a training session when his squad swam down 10m to pose next to shark nets.
“’The recent shark scare has seen more people worried,” Mr Anderson, who has changed his squad’s route following a rise in shark attacks, told the website. “Our faster swimmers seemed unmoved but our rookie swimmers seem more concerned..”
In the photo, the distinctive outline of a large shark can be apparently seen on the beach side of the nets.
The have been 29 shark attacks reported in Australia this year.
