Well over 100mm of rain is ahead for much of the NSW coast during the next 72 hours. Photo: ABC News
Australia correspondent Karen Middleton has the latest on the storm rocking the country's south-east coast, an horrific and widespread child abuse case has been uncovered in Melbourne with nearly 1200 young children advised to get tests for sexually transmitted diseases and the jury retires to consider its verdict in the mushroom poisoning trial of Erin Patterson.
Karen Middleton is a political journalist based in Canberra
