Welcome to the 9News.com.au live blog for Tuesday, August 9, 2022. Australian musical and entertainment icon Olivia Newton-John has died aged 73 at her California home surrounded by family. Tributes have poured in for the star including from John Travolta, her co-star in the hit film Grease. Treasurer Matt Kean has been elected as the New South Wales Liberal Party's new deputy leader.
– Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73
– Treasurer Matt Kean elected as new deputy leader of NSW Liberal party
– 'I just felt numb': Longtime friend Richard Wilkins reacts to news of Olivia Newton-John's death
– Celebrities pay tribute to Olivia Newton-John following her death
– Olivia Newton-John Centre team mourns her death as cancer centre marks 10 years
– Olivia Newton-John: A life in pictures
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Australian musical and entertainment icon Olivia Newton-John died aged 73 at her California home surrounded by family. Tributes poured in for the star including from John Travolta, her co-star in the hit film Grease.
Treasurer Matt Kean has been 'unanimously' elected as the New South Wales Liberal Party's new deputy leader.
A Queensland family has been found alive after disappearing deep in the NSW outback on a long-distance trip across three states.
Former NSW Liberal minister John Sidoti has been suspended from parliament after being found to have engaged in serious corrupt conduct by the independent corruption watchdog.
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A Queensland family has been found alive after disappearing deep in the NSW outback on a long-distance trip across three states.
Darian Aspinall, 27, was travelling with her children Winter Bellamy, two, and Koda Bellamy, four, and the girls' grandmother, 50-year-old Leah Gooding from Queensland to Adelaide.
The family was found 50 kilometres south of Tibooburra, in the far north-west of NSW.
Police confirmed the family was sighted by a helicopter in the remote area.
They are currently being checked over by emergency services before being taken to hospital
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Transport for New South Wales (TFNSW) said in a statement there would be "major disruptions" across the network on Wednesday, particularly to the T4 Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra and South Coast services, due to industrial action by workers.
Sydney Trains chief executive Matt Longland said the strike would affect all rail customers, including morning and evening peak hour, due to there being fewer services.
"While the union action officially starts at 10am, our customers will start to feel the effects from around 6am," Longland said.
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A Qantas flight travelling from from Perth to Port Hedland had to be diverted amid reports of a lightning strike earlier today.
A Qantas spokesperson confirmed plane QF1206 is undergoing engineering checks at Karratha Airport in the state's Pilbara region.
It landed 9:16am AWST, about an hour-and-a-half after departing Perth.
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At least eight people were killed in Seoul on Monday after record downpours flooded homes, roads and subway stations in the South Korean capital, cutting power and forcing hundreds to evacuate, according to authorities.
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