An urgent warning has been issued for people who had a particular kind of blind installed by a Victorian company this year following child safety fears.
Customers who purchased roller blinds with cords or bead chains installed by Visionary Blinds are being asked to contact the manufacturer immediately.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued the warning after finding that the blinds do not comply with the mandatory safety standard for the installation of corded internal window coverings.
If the blinds are installed incorrectly, the cord or bead chains can create a strangulation hazard for young children whose heads may get caught in the material.
The warning only relates to binds installed between January 1 and June 30 this year.
Affected consumers are advised to contact Visionary Blinds to make arrangements to have the safety concern remedied.
This will require copies of the correct warning and installation labels to be sent to them for attachment to the blinds or in some cases will require a technician to reaffix the labels.
For further information, Visionary Blinds can be contacted via [email protected] or by phone on 0435 947 106.
A Supreme Court judge has acquitted two men of murdering Oliver Todd at Murray Bridge in 2019.
Key points:
Oliver Todd’s body was found in Jervois in 2019
Three men were charged over his murder
One pleaded guilty and two have been acquitted
WARNING: This story contains content that some readers may find upsetting.
Ned Timothy Hutchinson, 33, and Terrence Bradley Wilson, 34, faced a 16-day trial for the murder of Mr Todd inside his Murray Bridge home.
Justice Kevin Nicholson acquitted both men of murder and manslaughter, but convicted Hutchinson of assisting an offender.
Oliver Todd’s body was found near Jervois.(Supplied)
David James Russell has already pleaded guilty to the murder.
The court had previously heard Mr Todd died after being hit on the head 11 times with a blunt object before being covered in a Hessian sack secured with ratchet straps and a belt around his head.
During the trial, Hutchinson told the Supreme Court he helped in the aftermath of the murder because he was “in shock.”
The trial heard Mr Todd was taking drugs with his housemate at their Murray Bridge address on the night of the murder, before Mr Wilson came over to accuse Mr Todd of wanting his girlfriend.
Mr Todd’s body was found in an open area of land near Jervois, about 24 kilometers from Murray Bridge.
The Pentagon erased a potential trove of material related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol from the phones of senior defense officials in the Trump administration, according to legal filings.
Court records published on the website of the watchdog group American Oversight indicate that the Pentagon “wiped” the government-issued phones of senior Defense Department and Army officials who were in charge of mobilizing the National Guard to respond to the Capitol attack, including then- acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller and then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy. The erasing apparently was done in keeping with Defense Department and Army policy for departing employees, according to filings that state: “the text messages were not preserved.”
The admission comes as a blow not just to American Oversight’s efforts to unearth critical communications regarding the attack, but also to the House’s Jan. 6 special committee, which had asked Pentagon leaders to preserve and share all documents related to the riot. It also makes the Defense Department the latest known part of the federal government, including the Secret Service and other parts of the Department of Homeland Security, to have deleted records that could have helped investigators piece together what happened on Jan. 6 — and the degree to which President Donald Trump was responsible for delays in responding.
“From the reporting about the Secret Service and the senior DHS officials, it becomes pretty clear that this is not just a DOD problem, not just an Army problem, but multiagency,” said Dara Silvestre, a spokeswoman for American Oversight.
Secret Service cannot recover texts; no new details for Jan. 6 committee
On Tuesday, the group’s executive director, Heather Sawyer, appealed in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland to open an investigation into “DOD’s failure to preserve the text messages of several high-ranking officials on or surrounding the day of the Jan. 6 attack .”
“The apparent deletion of records from Jan. 6 by multiple agencies bolsters the need for a cross-agency investigation into the possible destruction of federal records,” the letter continued.
Last week, Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) sent a similar request to Garland, asking him to investigate the missing text messages from the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security.
A spokeswoman for the Justice Department declined to comment. A spokeswoman for the Army said: “It is our policy not to comment on ongoing litigation.”
A defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the deletions were just standard “process.”
“Nobody was trying to hide or conceal anything,” the official said. “That would be a false narrative.”
American Oversight’s case began as a series of Freedom of Information Act requests, filed with various government agencies less than a week after rioters inspired by Trump attacked the Capitol to try to prevent President Biden from being declared the winner of the 2020 election. Among the documents that were sought were text and Signal messages, Silvestre said. The deletions appear to have been conducted after the FOIA requests were filed.
Jan. 6 texts missing for Trump Homeland Security’s Wolf and Cuccinelli
The Defense Department has produced a handful of heavily redacted emails, but no phone communications, according to the group.
The Pentagon’s admission that it had wiped the phones was included as part of a joint status report filed in March, but only published by American Oversight on Tuesday. Silvestre said that in the intervening months, the group has been trying to work with the agencies “to try to get them to release as much as possible,” as there are some phone records that are believed to have been preserved.
The suit is not only seeking records from former senior figures such as Miller and McCarthy. It also has asked for the phone communications of Gen. James McConville, the Army chief of staff, and Lt. Gen. Walter E. Piatt, director of the Army staff, who still work at the Pentagon and whose texts and secure messages should not have been deleted. According to court records, the Army began a search for those records last September, and another court filing updating the status of that search is expected next month.
One staff member claimed employees had not been paid for the past month, including super, and were directed to the government’s Fair Entitlement Guarantee scheme to make a claim for funds.
Simon Cathro and Andrew Blundell of Sydney boutique Cathro Partners were appointed administrators and were working with some of Metigy’s management to put together the pieces.
In a statement on Tuesday, Cathro’s partners said they were investigating a sale of the company’s assets and intellectual property and seeking a “quick resolution”.
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“We are exploring the urgent sale of Metigy’s assets and intellectual property as part of the voluntary administration process and consider a sale could be an outcome in this process,” the statement said.
They gave no reason why Metigy went into administration. Cathro was not answering calls on Tuesday.
David Fairfull, a serial entrepreneur who was Metigy’s co-founder/CEO and a substantial shareholder, was listed as the company’s sole director and secretary in ASIC filings. He could not be reached on Tuesday.
Fairfull and Johnson Lin founded the company in 2015, and raised more than $25 million from external investors including Five V Capital and Thorney Investment Group. Melbourne firm Cygnet Capital oversaw a funding round in 2020, introducing a handful of institutions to the company/
A recent presentation from one of its investors said Metigy had grown revenue at more than 300 per cent in both the 2020 and 2021 financial years, and had more than 25,000 clients across 92 countries.
The company provides small businesses with a platform that can give them insights on potential customers for marketing purposes. It had about 30 investors, according to documents filed with ASIC.
ASIC bonds
Australia’s corporate regulator, ASIC, declined to comment when asked if it was involved in the administration. Australia’s insolvency laws give administrator Cathro Partners full access to Metigy’s records and staff, and will oblige it to report anything suspicious to ASIC.
The situation comes amid a stark change in fundraising conditions for private and public technology companies, both in Australia and offshore, causing tech companies to rein in spending and cut jobs.
Broncos forward Patrick Carrigan has been suspended for four matches after he was found guilty of making dangerous contact in an ugly hip-drop tackle that fractured Jackson Hastings’ right fibula and damaged his syndesmosis during Saturday evening’s game at Suncorp Stadium.
Carrigan was referred straight to the judiciary for the tackle that Hastings has seen wiped out for the rest of the season.
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Hastings writhed in agony after he was held up by Broncos pair Cory Paix and Keenan Palasia, before Carrigan leant his weight to the tackle around the hips and landed on his opponent’s right foot.
Post-match, Tigers interim coach Brett Kimmorley called the tackle “horrendous.”
On a dramatic night at the judiciary, the NRL’s lawyer had asked for a ban of five to six matches to make an example of Carrigan while defense counsel Nick Ghabar had pushed for two weeks.
The panel of Dallas Johnson and Henry Perenara reached a unanimous decision that Carrigan’s actions had put Hastings in a vulnerable decision and that the penalty would act as a deterrent to other players.
“I’m very grateful to Nick and the NRL for a fair hearing,” Carrigan said.
“I’m a little bit disappointed with the result.
“I certainly didn’t have any attempt or malice in what happened, but I’m also aware that Jackson is going to miss a bit of footy. I wish him all the best with his recovery from him.
“My focus is to be as supportive as I can for the Broncos for the next four weeks.”
The Wally Lewis Medal winner from State of Origin made the trip to Sydney but didn’t give evidence at the hearing.
Instead, five angles of Carrigan’s tackle and a similar tackle by Dragons forward Josh McGuire against the Storm in Round 10 last year were used primarily during the case.
McGuire was hit with a grade three charge under the game’s old judicial code and was banned for five matches, although he did have carry-over points which added to his penalty.
The tackle on Melbourne’s Josh Addo-Carr did not result in serious injury, although the winger was forced from the field for seven minutes.
NRL judicial counsel Patrick Knowles referred to a memo sent by NRL head of football Graham Annesley to all 16 clubs on July 21, 2020 where he warned players about the hip-drop tackle that had started to creep into the game.
Knowles said that Carrigan’s tackle had all the same “hallmarks” and that it involved the dropping of weight from the hips and the trapping and twisting Hastings’ legs which created an obvious risk of injury.
Knowles asked the judiciary panel to suspend Carrigan for five to six games, pointing to the fact that Hastings required surgery to insert a plate and screws and that he would miss three to five months of footy as a result.
While he didn’t want “eye for an eye” retribution, he argued that Carrigan’s high level of force and carelessness should be punished severely.
Ghabar said his client only served a two-week ban given he showed contrition, had done everything in his power to actually limit the risk of injury on Saturday night and had only been charged twice during his 62-game career.
He pointed to a medical report from a third-party doctor that said the injury was exacerbated by the other tacklers pushing from the top, which twisted Hastings into a dangerous position and added weight to the tackle.
Ghabar said that it was a lot different to McGuire who landed directly on Addo-Carr’s foot and argued that the Dragons forward was reckless and that his actions bordered on intentional.
He went further, saying there were “mitigating factors” from the other two tacklers who twisted Hastings into a dangerous position while Carrigan actually “arched his back” to relive pressure on the foot.
Carrigan will be free to return in Round 25 when the Broncos play the Dragons.
During the peak of the storms at 3am, about 16,000 homes and properties had their electricity knocked out, she said.
Train services have resumed along the Hurstbridge and Belgrave lines after services were suspended on Wednesday morning due to storm damage.
SES workers removed fallen trees on roads in Melbourne on Tuesday night as wild winds lashed the city.Credit:Nine News
The Bureau of Meteorology’s duty forecaster Phoebe de Wilt said there were “strong and gusty winds” across Melbourne overnight but they would be easing today.
“While the winds are easing it’s still going to be a windy day across Victoria,” she said.
“It’s not going to be calm, including in the metro area it’s going to be a relatively breezy day.”
In the metropolitan area, the top likes of 89 km/h were recorded at Essendon Airport, with Moorabbin Airport recording 85 km/h overnight.
“We have seen tastes of over 100 km/h in the alpine peaks and elevated areas,” de Wilt said.
Mt Hotham recorded the fastest winds overnight, with winds reaching up to 128 km/h.
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The forecaster said there was still a severe weather warning for the alpine areas because the cold front is still moving through the region.
“We are expecting more vigorous winds to come into the southwest of the state later this evening,” she said.
These likes are expected to be around 50 to 60 km/h with peak winds hitting up to 90 km/h.
Despite the windy conditions, she said temperatures were going to be relatively mild for the rest of the week.
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Yon the end it was one of the oldest mistakes in the fugitive’s handbook that apparently did for Ayman al-Zawahiri, the top al-Qaida leader killed, according to US intelligence, by a drone strike on Sunday morning: he developed a habit.
The co-planner of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001 had acquired a taste for sitting out on the balcony of his safe house in Sherpur, a well-to-do diplomatic enclave of Kabul. He grew especially fond of stepping out on to the balcony after morning prayers, so that he could watch the sun rise over the Afghan capital.
According to a US official who briefed reporters on Monday, it was such regular behavior that allowed intelligence agents, presumably the CIA, to piece together what they called “a pattern of life” of the target. That in turn allowed them to launch what the White House called a “tailored airstrike” involving two Hellfire missiles fired from a Reaper drone that are claimed to have struck the balcony, with Zawahiri on it, at 6.18am on Sunday.
It was the culmination of a decades-long hunt for the Egyptian surgeon who by the time he was killed had a $25m bounty on his head. Zawahiri, 71, was held accountable not only for his part as Bin Laden’s second in command for 9/11, with its death toll of almost 3,000 people, but also for several other of al-Qaida’s most deadly attacks, including the suicide bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000, which killed 17 US sailors.
The mission to go after the al-Qaida leader was triggered, US officials said, in early April when intelligence sources picked up signals that Zawahiri and his family had moved off their mountainside hideaways and relocated to Kabul. Following the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan last August, and with the support of the Haqqani Taliban network, Zawahiri and his wife de él, together with their daughter and grandchildren, had moved into the Sherpur house.
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In their telling of events, US officials were at pains to stress that under Joe Biden’s instructions the mission was carried out carefully and with precision to avoid civilian casualtiesand US officials said no one else was killed or wounded in the attack.
Social media images of the strike suggested the use of a modified Hellfire called the R9X with six blades to damage targets, sources familiar with the weapon told Reuters. They caused surprisingly little damage beyond the target, suggesting they may be a version of the missile shrouded in secrecy and used by the US to avoid non-combatant casualties.
The US president was first apprised of Zawahiri’s whereabouts in April, and for the next two months a tightly knit group of officials delved into the intelligence and devised a plan. A scale model of the Sherpur house was built, showing the balcony where the al-Qaida leader liked to sit. As discussions about a possible strike grew more intense, the model was brought into the situation room of the White House on 1 July so that Biden could see it for himself.
The president “closely examined the model of al-Zawahiri’s house that the intelligence community had built and brought into the White House situation room for briefings on this issue”, a senior administration official told reporters.
The White House made further claims to bolster its argument that the attack was lawful, flawless and with a loss of life limited to Zawahiri alone. Officials said that engineers were brought in to analyze the safe house and assess what would happen to it structurally in the wake of a drone strike.
Lawyers were similarly consulted on whether the attack was legal. They advised that it was, given the target’s prominent role as leader of a terrorist group.
Biden, by now quarantined with Covid, received a final briefing on July 25 and gave the go-ahead. It was a decision in stark contrast to the advice he gave Barack Obama in May 2011 not to proceed with the special forces mission that killed Bin Laden in a raid on his safe house in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
On Monday evening, Biden stood on his own balcony – this one in the White House with the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial as his backdrop – to address the nation.
“I authorized the precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield once and for all,” Biden said. “This measure was carefully planned, rigorously, to minimize the risk of harm to other civilians.”
Biden’s insistence that no one other than the al-Qaida leader was killed in the attack was amplified repeatedly by US officials. The narrative given by the White House was that Zawahiri was taken out cleanly through the application of modern technological warfare.
Skepticism remains, despite the protests. Over the years drone strikes have frequently proved to be anything but precise.
In August last year one such US drone strike in Kabul was initially hailed by the Pentagon as a successful mission to take out a would-be terrorist bomber planning an attack on the city’s airport. It was only after the New York Times had published an exhaustive investigation showing that the strike had in fact killed 10 civilians, including an aid worker and seven children, that the US military admitted the mission had gone tragically wrong.
Perhaps mindful of the doubts that are certain to swirl around the Zawahiri killing for days to come, the White House said that the Sherpur safe house where the drone strike happened had been kept under observation for 36 hours after the attack and before Biden spoke to the nation. Officials said that Zawahiri’s relatives were seen leaving the house under Haqqani Taliban escort, establishing that they had survived the strike.
Major train disruptions are set to return this month as NSW’s rail union reveals employees will strike every week to the end of August.
It comes after more than a year of negotiations between the state government and the Rail Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) over work conditions have failed to satisfy either party.
The major sticking point is the union’s claim that recently purchased New Intercity Fleet trains do not meet their safety requirements.
“We’ve done everything by the book in order to get these vital safety changes, but the government is refusing to listen,” RTBU NSW secretary Alex Claassens said in a statement on Tuesday.
“This is our only way of making sure that the safety changes that need to be made will actually be made.”
Strike action will begin this Sunday with a small gift to Sydney public transport users in the way of a ban on issuing fines and caution notices.
The real strike action begins next Wednesday as travelers on the T4 Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra line that runs towards Cronulla and Wollongong will have to make alternative travel arrangements for six hours.
Between the hours of 10am and 4pm, trains will not run on this line.
“It is frustrating,” Sydney Trains chief executive Matt Longland told 2GB radio station on Tuesday.
“We’ve been dealing now for more than 12 months working with unions as we navigate our way to a new enterprise agreement.”
Three more six-hour strikes will take place on August 17, 23 and 25 and will pinpoint different regions of the train network.
“We’ll do our best to minimize impacts to customers. There’s a whole lot of action that we’re managing around infrastructure and cleaning and those sort of things,” Mr Longland said.
The Sydney Trains boss is encouraging customers to use existing light rail and bus services while train lines are not running.
However, there are not enough replacement buses to cover such widespread outages.
“We only have a limited number of buses to be able to replace trains and the reality is we can’t provide that many buses,” Mr Longland said.
“I do want to acknowledge the frustration of customers and thank them for their patience.”
He is confident that the union and government are “very close” to finalizing the enterprise agreement.
“We are working really hard to get this resolved and we are certainly hopeful working with Minister Elliot that we can get an outcome,” he said.
Schedule for rail strike action in August:
August 7: Ban on transport officers issuing ends and cautions begins
August 10: Strike on T4 Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra line, including Bondi Junction 10am – 4pm
August 12: Ban on cleaners using vacuum cleaners or scrubbing machines
August 13: Station staff to leave all gates open at all times
August 15: Train crew to only operate trains that meet maintenance center minimum standards
August 17: Strike in T2 Inner West and Leppington line and some regional lines, 10am – 4pm
August 23: Strike on unidentified line, 10am – 4pm
August 25: Strike on unidentified line, 10am – 4pm
Kyle Chalmers said it took all his strength and courage to win his third gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in the men’s 100m freestyle.
It wasn’t his fastest swim, but he said it was “bigger than just me racing”.
“It’s very, very bittersweet. It’s been the most-challenging, probably 48 hours of my swimming career,” Chalmers said.
“And, as much as it’s nice to win, it’s probably just a big sense of relief, rather than the satisfaction that I thought I’d feel and want to feel after a performance like that.”
Chalmers has been the center of intense scrutiny over his personal life, and it came to a head at the Sandwell Aquatics Center a couple of nights ago, where he faced more questioning over unsourced rumors about rifts in the team after winning the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay .
The 24-year-old considered walking away, and admitted he barely slept ahead of the 100m freestyle heats.
But I have pushed on to send a message.
Gold medalist Kyle Chalmers sent a message to the media after weeks of intense scrutiny.(AP: Kirsty Wigglesworth)
“I’ve definitely had big battles with mental health over a long time, and it’s one of the most-challenging things that I’ve had to face and see my teammates face and family face,” he said.
“I think it’s important that people have the courage to stand up and speak about it.
“I’ve been around for a while and I need to create the conversation and try to help people going through similar things and just make it more normal.
“If I can be a positive influence and try to help people in the same struggles, I know that I’m doing my job in the sport and hopefully inspiring people.”
Chalmers was also racing for a special viewer back home.
His brother is in the army and hasn’t had access to his phone, but he was given special permission to watch the race.
“He’s my best mate, someone I haven’t got to speak to a lot over this last little period. And the only reason I was able to have the strength to get back in the pool yesterday for the heat was FaceTiming my brother the night before,” Chalmers said.
“I think, for me, it’s going to be a while to break down what’s just happened,” he added.
“I’m very, very grateful for all the support I’ve had at home, and it’s been very overwhelming how many people have reached out to me and so many high-profile people as well who fight similar battles in their sports or respective fields.”
Kyle’s father, Brett Chalmers, spoke to Mix 102.3 Adelaide after the 100m freestyle medal win, and said Swimming Australia does not do enough to protect athletes from invasive media questioning.
“They failed hugely,” he told the Ali Clarke Breakfast Show.
“To me, it’s the workplace. They’ve got a due diligence to look after their people and their staff and their athletes right from the start.”
The former AFL player became emotional when he was asked about the media furore surrounding his son’s Birmingham campaign.
“If it was in [another] workplace and you kept getting asked the same question over and over and over again, it’s a form of bullying and harassment,” Brett Chalmers said through tears.
“It’s not condoned and it’s not accepted. You’d be pulled into the manager’s office or HR’s office pretty fast and if you didn’t stop you’d probably lose your job.
“These people get away with it. They destroy people’s lives and livelihoods.
The case of the Somerton Man has baffled detectives and amateur sleuths for decades.
Now it’s your chance to ask the experts just how one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries has been solved — and why the story has attracted so much attention.
University of Adelaide professor Derek Abbottwho spent decades researching the case and helped to uncover the man’s identity, will join us from 12pm (AEST) to tackle all your curly questions.
Colleen Fitzpatricka renowned forensic genealogist who lent her expertise to the case, and ABC journalist and host of Radio National podcast The Somerton Man Mystery, Fiona Ellis Joneshave also slow their time to respond to your top questions from our audience call-out.
The live feed will begin at midday but, in the meantime, here’s what you need to know about the case:
A man is found dead on the beach — but no-one knows who he is
Digital illustrator Daniel Voshart created an image of the Somerton Man based on the face mold created after he was found dead.(Supplied: Daniel Voshart)
On December 1, 1948, a man’s body was found slumped against a wall under the esplanade at Somerton Beach in Adelaide. But there were few clues to determine his identity.
He had a half-smoked cigarette on his lapel and a few personal items in his possession: two combs, a box of matches, a used bus ticket to the area, an unused second-class train ticket, a packet of chewing gum and cigarettes .
A post-mortem revealed the man had a “stinkingly” enlarged spleen and internal bleeding in the stomach and liver, and it was concluded the death resulted from poison.
Then the paper was found: ‘Tamam Shud’
In the months following the mystery man’s death, the case took a strange turn.
A suitcase believed to belong to him was found at Adelaide Railway Station. It contained an assortment of his belongings including a shaving brush, a knife in a sheath and boot polish.
The personal items found inside a suitcase believed to belong to the mysterious Somerton Man.(Supplied)
Some of his clothes had the tags removed and others, including his tie, had T Keane printed on them.
Then, a tiny rolled-up piece of paper inscribed with the words “Tamam Shud” was found hidden deep in the fob pocket of the man’s trousers.
The scrap of paper found in the Somerton Man’s fob pocket with the Persian words “Tamam Shud”.(Supplied: Professor Derek Abbott)
The torn paper was later traced back to a book of ancient Persian poetry, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which had been left in the back seat of a car near where the body was found.
The words roughly translate to “the end” or “the finish”, and the poems touch on themes including the need to live life to the fullest and having no regrets when it ends.
Was the Somerton Man a spy?
In July 1949, a copy of The Rubaiyat with the page containing “Tamam Shud” torn out was handed in to police.
The man who contacted the authorities said he found it in the back of his car in November 1948 — a month before the man’s body was discovered.
A scrap of paper which read Tamam Shud was torn from the final page of copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, authored by 12th-century poet, Omar Khayyám.(Supplied: Carolyn Billsborrow )
The book contained a sequence of letters and a couple of telephone numbers, but they didn’t lead investigators any closer to uncovering the Somerton Man’s identity.
The strange sequence and the fact labels had been removed from the man’s clothes fueled speculation he might have been a spy.
Forensic science and excavation crews were onsite to assist with the Somerton Man’s exhumation.(ABC News: Michael Clements)
ABC Radio Adelaide’s Daniel Keane spoke to University of Adelaide professor Derek Abbott last month, prior to the Somerton Man’s identity being uncovered, about the theories.
“I don’t think there’s compelling evidence — just these scattered circumstantial things that can be explained in different ways,” Professor Abbott said.
Last week, after decades of searching for answers, Professor Abbott and forensic genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick made a breakthrough.
The previously unidentified man was named as Melbourne electrical engineer Carl “Charles” Webb — far from the answer some were expecting.
live updates
By Bridget Judd
You’re a little early, but check back at 12:00pm (AEST)
Over the next couple of hours, we’ll put your questions to Derek Abbottwho helped uncover the Somerton Man’s identity.
You can make a submission by clicking the blue ‘leave a comment’ button above.
The live stream will begin at 12:00 p.m. (AEST)so come and join the conversation then!
