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Brisbane's Courier-Mail, said dozens of photos were taken without knowledge or consent and that other images were stolen from customer phones.

Apple confirmed an inquiry and said "several" jobs had been terminated.

But it said its inquiry had so far not shown that any photos had been stolen.

The starting line-up includes two players making their debuts for New Zealand, Solomone Kata and Jordan Rapana.

Seventeen-test veteran Jared Waerea-Hargreaves makes his return to the international arena, last wearing the black-and-white jersey at the 2013 World Cup.

Re-joining him in the front row is the most-capped player in the side, Issac Luke, playing his 37th test match.

Jesse Bromwich captains the team, supported by two other Melbourne Storm players who featured in the NRL Grand Final, Kevin Proctor and Tohu Harris.

It slammed the Nauru's "limited capacity" to investigate allegations of sexual assault of children and its failure to follow up complaints while also severely criticising the harsh living conditions inside Australian's regional processing centres.

Day, 28, was hampered by the problem late in the PGA Tour season and pulled out of his final two events of the campaign – the BMW Championship and the Tour Championship.

The Australian will miss the two tournaments in his native Australia in November as he continues his recovery, he announced on Friday.

"I regret that I will be unable to come home to Australia this year," Day said in a statement.

Their answer: a festival that showcased two of the key themes of country life. Country music and utes.

The ute, a passenger car with a cargo tray (or pick-up truck), was first manufactured in Australia in 1932 after a farmer wrote a letter to the head of Ford asking him to build a two-in-one vehicle so "I can go in to church on Sunday and carry pigs to market on Monday".

Held over the October Labour Day Long Weekend, the Deni Ute Muster now attracts 20,000 people annually to a paddock outside Deniliquin.

This comes as Australian funding for the existing Climate and Ocean Support Program is scheduled to end in June 2017 and many of its activities are transferring to SPC, (South Pacific Community), and SPREP, (Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme).

Vanuatu Brewing Limited, makers of Tusker Beer were part of a delegation of 11 businesses exhibiting at the Pacific Trade & Invest (PT&I) Pacific Islands stand at Fine Food Australia.

Working holidaymakers will instead be liable for 19% tax on every dollar that they earn.

The compromise deal follows an outcry from farmers and the tourist industry.

Farmers complained the tax rate could affect their labour supply at harvest time, while tourism operators maintained it would put backpackers and tourists off visiting Australia.

About 600,000 backpackers travel to Australia every year and many of them find work picking fruit.

Known as mooning, the cheeky offence was previously punishable under other laws but is now banned under specific legislation.

First-time offenders face up to two months in jail while repeat offenders could spend six months behind bars.

The amendment was one of more than 50 crimes included in an overhaul of sexual offence laws.

The updated legislation has been designed, in part, to separate pranks involving nudity from acts of sexual exposure.

Snake catcher Rolly Burrell caught the eastern brown snake at the woman's home in Adelaide, South Australia.

She had stepped outside her southern suburbs home to collect her shoes and saw a brown tail disappear into a boot.

The species is considered one of the world's most venomous land snakes and is found along the coasts and inland areas of mainland Australia.

"She went outside to get her ugg boots and she saw something shoot in there," Mr Burrell told the BBC.

"She realised it was a snake."