RFS volunteers and NSW Fire and Rescue officers fight a bushfire encroaching on properties near Termeil on the Princes Highway between Bateman's Bay and Ulladulla south of Sydney,Tuesday, December, 3, 2019
RFS volunteers and NSW Fire and Rescue officers protect a home on Wheelbarrow Ridge Road being impacted by the Gospers Mountain fire near Colo Heights south west of Sydney, Tuesday, November 19, 2019.
Australian SAS soldiers escort visibly distressed women and children out of suburb of Dili, East Timor, Saturday, May 27, 2006. Fighting broke out between locals, burning down of houses as tensions run high in the capital after weeks of fighting between rebel army and police and and their colleagues who remain supportive of the East Timorese government. Hundreds of soldiers from Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Portugal have arrived to help provide security for the country and end the violence.
Angus Young waits to place a guitar in the hearse as they load the casket of his brother and AC/DC co-founder and guitarist Malcolm Young following his funeral at St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Tuesday, November 28, 2017. Malcolm along with his brother Angus Young founded the iconic rock group AC/DC.
Rural Fire Service (RFS) crews protect a number of homes along the Old Hume Highway near the town of Tahmoor as the Green Wattle Creek Fire threatens a number of communities in the south west of Sydney, Thursday, December 19, 2019. Temperatures in the 40's and high north westerly winds under extreme fire conditions are fanning a number of fires around Sydney
Pope Benedict XVI waves to huge crowds from the Pope Mobile as it passes the Sydney Opera House during World Youth Day as it makes it's way to St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Thursday, July 17, 2008.
Former detective Roger Rogerson is escorted to a prison van at the Supreme Court in Sydney, Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Disgraced NSW Police Detective Rogerson has been found guilty of the murder of Jamie Gao.
The front wall collapses into the street during a building fire in the Central Business District of Sydney, Thursday, May 25, 2023. One hundred and twenty fire fighters and 30 trucks attended the scene taking more than 5 hours to bring the blaze under control.
The front wall collapses into the street during a building fire in the Central Business District of Sydney, Thursday, May 25, 2023. One hundred and twenty fire fighters and 30 trucks attended the scene taking more than 5 hours to bring the blaze under control.
Injured British tourist James Woodley walks amongst the debri in Kuta Beach, Bali, October 14, 2002 after the bombing of 2 popular bars, Paddy's Bar and the Sari Club on Saturday, October 12. A total of 202 people, including 88 Australians, died. A further 240 people were injured.
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty (far left) and Australian Prime Minister John Howard (centre - wearing white shirt) tour the bomb site of 2 popular bars, Paddy's Bar and the Sari Club on Monday, October 14, 2002. A total of 202 people, including 88 Australians, died. A further 240 people were injured in the bombings on Saturday, October 12, 2002.
An Australian soilder with The Australian Defence Force Security Detachment (SECDET) mans the 50 calibre machine gun as they make their way back to their base in the green zone after a live firing exercise at a firing range on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 4, 2007.
Australian soldiers with the (OBG) Overwatch Battle Group, on patrol in Bushmaster vehicles in the Dhi Qar province in southern Iraq, Monday, May 7, 2007. On this patrol the unit headed out to the village of Al Najam to meet with tribal elders where they hope to build a new school building for the children of the village who presently get their schooling in a small tent.
Australian troops go in pursuit of a group of young men after more gang clashes on the river bed in the Comoro district in the East Timor capital Dili, Saturday, June 3, 2006.
The Pasha Bulker sits off Nobby's Beach, Newcastle, Monday, June 11, 2007. The Pasha Bulker ran aground on Friday after a massive storm lashed the coast causing major flooding on the Central Coast, Hunter Valley and Newcastle regions.
Residents and onlookers take to the flood waters, in all manner of water craft, in the inundated suburb of Rosalie in Brisbane, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. Flood waters have slowly started to recede across Brisbane with the clean up effort expected to get underway tomorrow.
Devastated residents of Torwood Street in Milton returned this morning to continue the clean up only to find their houses almost knee deep in water again due to the high tide, Brisbane, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011. The return of the water is hampering their efforts to get on with the clean up, bringing fresh misery for residents recovering from last week's devastating floods.
A Brisbane City Council worker is dwarfed by a mountain of houshold debris dumped next to the sports grounds at the Victoria Park Golf Club following this weeks devastating floods in Brisbane, Monday, Jan. 17, 2011.
Graceville resident Gwen McLachlan stands infront of the pile of debris removed from her home in the suburb of Graceville, Brisbane, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011. More than 15,000 volunteers turned up at registration centres this morning to help with the massive clean up effort currently underway after last weeks devastating floods.
Grieving relatives of eight-month-old Zahra el Ibrahimy from Iraq bang on the bus' window as they are taken away after her funeral at the Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. Zahra was one of as many as 50 people who died when the asylum seeker vessel SIEV 221 crashed on rocks and broke apart off Christmas Island's Rocky Point on December 15.
Britain's Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex looks on as his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex is hugged by student Luke Vincent of Buninyong Public School following their arrival at Dubbo Regional Airport in Dubbo, Australia, Wednesday, October 17, 2018. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are on a 3-week tour of Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, and Fiji.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tours the more than 70 houses and businesses destroyed by a bushfire in the coastal town of Tathra, Monday, March 19, 2018. RFS and NSW Fire and Rescue continue to mop up and douse smouldering homes after a devastating fire ripped through the community yesterday and overnight.
Former Auburn Deputy Mayor Salim Mehajer is pursued down the street by the media as he leaves Burwood Local Court after being granted bail in Sydney, Monday, November 20, 2017. Mehajer was arrested over night after breaching an AVO.
Mounted police move in to break up an M1 protest outside the Australian Correctional Management offices in Sydney, May 1, 2002. Thousands turned out for the annual May Day rally with similar protests were held around the country.
Police move in to break up an M1 protest outside the Australian Correctional Management offices in Sydney, May 1, 2002. Thousands turned out for the annual May Day rally with similar protests were held around the country.
A NSW Rural Fire Service volunteer retreats as a house is impacted by bushfire at Dargan north of Lithgow, Thursday, October 17, 2013.
NSW Rural Fire Service volunteers fight to save a house at Dargan, north of Lithgow, west of Sydney, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013.
Resident Sean Butler who fought the fire with 5 other residents at the historic township Newnes Junction north of Lithgow, Thursday, October 17, 2013. The old Post Office building was lost and a number of cars.
A heli tanker drops retardant as a bushfire threatens homes near Mittagong, Saturday, November 9, 2002 Firestorms engulf the Southern Highlands where up to 10 houses were lost.
Supporters of clergy abuse survivors tie colourful ribbons around the fence of St. Mary’s Cathedral as Cardinal George Pell lies in state at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Wednesday,February 1, 2023. Cardinal George Pell's body will lie in state at Sydney's St Mary's Cathedral before being buried at a private ceremony tomorrow.
The casket of Cardinal George Pell is carried from St. Mary’s Cathedral following a pontifical requiem Mass in Sydney, Thursday, February 2, 2023.
A storm producing heavy rain and hail descends on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Wednesday, August 30, 2023.
Participants of a Free Palestine rally react outside the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Monday, October 9, 2023. Israel has pounded the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, killing hundreds of people in retaliation for one of the bloodiest attacks in its history when Islamist group Hamas killed 700 Israelis and abducted dozens more.
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib arrives at Sydney International airport in Sydney, Friday, January 28, 2005. Habib was held for more than three years by the US at Guantanamo Bay as a terror suspect.