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Dural crime scene a ‘stronghold’ linked to kidnapping of Chris Baghsarian, police say
NSW police said in a statement early this morning that robbery and serious crime squad detectives had “located a crime scene in Dural believed to be linked to the kidnapping of Chris Baghsarian”.
The 85-year-old wast aken from his North Ryde home last Friday morning in what police said was a case of mistaken identity. Det Acting Supt Andrew Marks said on Monday that police believed Baghsarian was still alive.
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In their Friday morning statement, police said a Dural property was “believed to have been used as a makeshift stronghold by the kidnappers”, and a search warrant was carried out there at 7pm on Thursday.
The investigation continues, they said, appealing again for public assistance and telling anyone who “may have seen or heard anything relating to the kidnapping or witnessed any sort of suspicious activity in the Dural area since last Friday” to contact police.
Key events
Krishani Dhanji
In Angus Taylor’s lengthy interview, Peta Credlin took the new opposition leader to a couple of other culture war issues including school curriculums, where he suggested children shouldn’t be “indoctrinated” in the classroom, and that “Australians are deeply concerned about it”.
I think our our education system, our school system and our tertiary system, has been drifting on this over a long period of time … we do need to give Australians the assurance that their kids are going to be educated, they’re going to be taught about our wonderful nation, warts and all, but they should be celebrating our country as part of their education, and they shouldn’t be receiving indoctrination.
We’ve heard the word indoctrination before – former Liberal leader Peter Dutton also said kids were being indoctrinated, but claimed he had “no proposals” to change it.
Get net zero ‘out of our system’ says Taylor
Krishani Dhanji
Net zero is still dead, if not more dead under Angus Taylor’s Liberal party.
When Sussan Ley announced the party’s commitment to drop net zero in November, she kept the caveat that net zero would still be a welcome outcome if “we can get there with technology, with choice and with voluntary markets”.
Taylor now wants to abandon net zero terminology as a whole, telling Sky News’ Peta Credlin on Thursday night:
I think the starting point is to get that net zero ideology out of our system … We have uranium, we have coal, we have gas, we do have renewables, of course, in people putting solar cells on their roofs at a rapid pace, it’s the mix that’s going to get us the solution.
The government – and experts – have argued that renewables are the cheapest form of electricity.
Welcome
Martin Farrer
Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the best breaking news stories before Nick Visser takes over.
The biggest story overnight was the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor at Sandringham estate, on suspicion of misconduct in public office – you can find our live coverage here and we’ll bring you more developments and reactions throughout the day.
Elsewhere, a group of Australian men suspected of being former IS State fighters are among more than 5,000 detainees transferred from Syria to Iraq, where they potentially face charges that could carry the death penalty.
And in New South Wales, police said early this morning that they have located a crime scene in Dural as investigations continue into the kidnapping of Chris Baghsarian. They will speak to media later this morning – and we’ll bring you more details soon.
