Headlines: Police seek info on threatening letters
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From The Daily Oz, I'm Lucy Tassel. I'm Zara Seidler. It's Tuesday the 30th of June. Here's what's making headlines this evening.
Police are appealing for information from the public to track down the author of threatening letters sent to high-profile people in the community, including politicians. On Tuesday, Australian Federal Police and New South Wales Police released excerpts of anonymous letters sent by a person going by the aliases Scorpio and Bullet. Some constitute threatening or harassing behaviour, investigators said. The author's identity remains a mystery, but he's believed to be a man of Caucasian appearance aged in his 60s. Police have released excerpts of the letters in the hopes the public can help in identifying the author by their distinctive handwriting style. Among the clippings is a menacing smiley face with what appear to be impressions left by bullet casings for eyes.
Six people have been shot dead at a shelter for mothers and children in northern Germany. Police said three people were detained, including the suspected attacker, a 45-year-old German citizen who was arrested while fleeing on Monday. Police say the man was in a custody dispute over his child and that the child and her mother were not among the victims. The man was known to police for threatening behaviour but was not considered a serious threat as yet. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called the shooting deeply shocking, saying, quote, many people who wanted to help and protect others have lost their lives.
Two men have faced court over allegations they accessed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's personal bank account. One of the men was a graduate employee at EY, one of the big four accounting firms, as first reported by the Australian Financial Review.
What information are police seeking regarding threatening letters?
The two men, both from Sydney and both in their 20s, were charged on the 6th of May and were granted bail to appear before Downing Centre local court on Tuesday, an AFP spokesman said in a statement. According to his publicly accessible Register of Interests, Albanese holds a savings account at CBA as well as a mortgage for a property on the Central Coast he jointly owns with his wife. A spokesperson for EY declined to comment but confirmed the former employee was no longer working at the firm.
And today's good news. A rare southern right whale mother and baby have been spotted in Botany Bay and off Bondi Beach in Sydney. The whales were hunted extensively in the 1800s and the species has been slow to recover, making sightings of a healthy mum and baby especially exciting for scientists and fans of whales. Currently, scientists are monitoring the species as they migrate to the coast to breed and to nurture their newborn calves. In Botany Bay, the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Gamay Rangers, the local Indigenous ranger group, kept a close eye on the mum and baby who swam up to their boat.
That is the latest from the Daily Oz Newsroom. If you're looking for something else, you can catch up on this morning's Deep Dive, where we explain why it's perfectly legal to lie in political ads.
We'll be back tomorrow at the start of a new financial year with a Deep Dive explaining everything that is changing on the 1st of July. Until then, have a good evening.
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