Former AFL player Brodie Moles has been found guilty of assaulting his ex-partner during a drunken outburst, after he became distressed about missing out on his old club’s Grand Final moment.

The former Western Bulldogs footballer kicked and struck his then-girlfriend, Lilly Munro, on the eve of the Bulldogs’ 2016 AFL Grand Final clash with the Sydney Swans.

Moles, 40, appeared before Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, where he was convicted on two assault charges involving the former model.

The court also found Moles guilty of assaulting Ms Munro’s mother. His AFL career began after he was recruited by Geelong from junior football in Tasmania, though he never played a senior match for the Cats.

He later joined the Western Bulldogs in the 2010 AFL Draft, playing 17 senior games before being delisted at the end of the 2011 season, when he was 25.

However, almost five years after his career ended, a court heard he got upset that he was not part of the Bulldogs’ Grand Final team that included several former teammates.

During a contested hearing in July, the court heard allegations that Moles was ‘very heightened and upset’ on September 30, 2016, and had been ‘drinking heavily’.

He became angry at Ms Munro about a song she had been listening to at about 6pm on September 30.

Moles then threw Ms Munro onto the kitchen floor and began ‘slapping, hitting and kicking her’.

During the attack, the court heard Ms Munro’s mother and stepfather arrived at the rear of the unit in the southern Melbourne suburb of Sandringham, from where they could access the backyard.

Her mother walked to the glass door where she witnessed her daughter ‘cowering and screaming’ while Moles stood over her, kicking her, the court heard.

When Ms Munro’s mother ‘recovered from the shock of what she had seen’, she shouted through the glass door: ‘Open the door. Let me in. Leave her alone. Get off her.’

Moles, ‘in response,’ walked up to the glass door and told the mother to ‘f**k off’.

Moles then punched through a glass panel near where she was standing, causing ‘small shards of glass to strike’ her and become embedded in her chest.

Moles sustained a severe cut to his arm, the court was told.

In another harrowing incident, Moles savagely beat Ms Munro after a christening party at Werribee Hall on April 24, 2016.

The court heard the party was a large event with about ‘200 guests,’ and Moles ‘took advantage of the free alcohol’ and became ‘heavily intoxicated’.

Moles argued with Ms Munro after becoming ‘jealous about other men she had been speaking with,’ the court was told. 

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Moles took Ms Munro away from the hall for ‘privacy’ and led her towards some bushes.

There, Moles ‘continued to voice his jealous accusations,’ then struck Ms Munro in the face, causing her to fall.

He then picked her up and threw her into a metal fence, which collapsed on impact.

The court heard Moles stood over Ms Munro and pushed her head into the gravel, ‘[grinding] her head into the ground’ and causing her pain.

Ms Munro’s sister and her husband were driving away from the hall when the victim called out to them.

They stopped and approached Ms Munro, but Moles ‘ran off a short distance’ before ‘lying down on the ground,’ the court was told.

The sister noticed Ms Munro had ‘a lot of blood on her face’ and ‘one side of her face was swollen.’ She called a taxi and sent Ms Munro to their mother’s home in Melbourne’s inner south.

The court also heard about an incident on November 13, 2017, when Moles attended Ms Munro’s home and told her children they would be removed from her care and ‘put into foster care’.

Moles also said the children would be ‘given to their biological fathers,’ the court heard.

He told Ms Munro that ‘he and the church had a plan to carry it out,’ which caused distress to the mother and her children.

Sources tell the Daily Mail that Moles is part of a secretive church in Melbourne’s southeast.

At one stage during July’s contested hearing, Magistrate Matthew Page ordered Moles: ‘Don’t smile,’ as the assault allegation against Ms Munro’s mother was discussed in court.

‘I just think it’s laughable, Your Honour,’ Moles said, interrupting the court.

‘To be perfectly honest, I don’t care what you think… OK,’ Magistrate Page replied, moving the hearing forward.

Moles, who repeatedly interrupted his defence counsel, had previously pleaded guilty to recklessly causing injury, the court was told.

‘It’s further evidence of the accused using physical violence to control his intimate partner and though it’s a different complainant [to Ms Munro], it still shows a certain pattern of behaviour,’ the police prosecutor told the court in July.

‘And state of mind, and willingness to engage in… violence whenever things don’t go the accused’s way.’

The court heard Moles had smashed a car windscreen, causing a cut to the victim’s head, but Magistrate Page said the summary stated ‘he threw a glass which he had taken from the pub into [the victim], hitting her in the face’.

At this point, Moles interrupted the hearing again.

‘You’ve got a lawyer here, Mr Moles,’ Magistrate Page said in July.

‘I don’t know how many times I have to tell you this, Mr Moles. You have Ms Yan, a very capable lawyer here. If you want to give her instructions about something, just touch her on the back… and you tell her and she tells me.

‘It’s not helpful to have a Greek chorus in the background chirping away. It’s really distracting.’

Moles had his bail extended to front a pre-sentence hearing on November 17.

Blanche d’Alpuget, the widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke, has left a multimillion-dollar estate that may set the stage for a contentious inheritance dispute between her only son and Hawke’s three children.

The acclaimed author, 82, whose death was confirmed on Wednesday after complications from influenza, had received the bulk of Hawke’s estimated $18 million estate following his death in 2019.

Hawke left no money directly to the three children he shared with his first wife, Hazel. Instead, d’Alpuget inherited almost the entire estate, including $9.2 million from the sale of the couple’s waterfront mansion in Northbridge.

Although d’Alpuget later gave Hawke’s children $750,000 each, his estranged daughter Rosslyn Dillon pursued a $4.2 million claim, alleging her father had not made adequate provision for her in his will.

Ms Dillon, a former heroin addict, said she was living in poverty at the time, describing a cockroach-infested flat and claiming she could barely cover the weekly rent of $500.

The matter was settled out of court and the amount was never made public.

It’s unclear how much of the estate was left by the time d’Alpuget died, but it included a $4.5million apartment overlooking Hyde Park and she likely had income from the 11 books she authored between 1984 and 2025.

She had also raised $671,630 from the sale of Hawke’s personal belongings in 2019, including sporting memorabilia and cigar-smoking paraphernalia.

That auction of 266 lots had caused friction between Ms Dillon and her stepmother, with one of Ms Dillon’s sons texting Ms d’Alpuget, ‘Don’t you have a limit?’

Paul Dillon took exception to d’Alpuget selling some of his grandfather’s possessions including a Harry Bilson painting titled Fairground Carousel, which eventually went for $7,800.

‘Blanche, are you kidding with this auction?’ Mr Dillon wrote to d’Alpuget according to court documents.

‘Selling all the Harry Bilsons? No thought to ask the family to take furniture or anything?!! Don’t you have a limit?’

When d’Alpuget replied that she had sent Mr Dillon’s texts to a third party he asked why and she answered, ‘Well I find it threatening’.

Mr Dillon responded, ‘which part?’ and d’Alpuget told him she had the right to sell ‘stuff that is legally mine’.

d’Alpuget was understood to be close with two of Hawke’s children, Sue Pieters-Hawke and Stephen Hawke, but it’s unclear if anything was left to them in her will, or she left it all to her son Mr Pratt, daughter-in-law Brianna and granddaughter Sienna.

In NSW, step-children are not automatically recognised as eligible beneficiaries under the Succession Act.

To make a claim, they must establish they were a part of the deceased step-parent’s household and that they were wholly or partly dependent on the step-parent.

There is no rule about how long step-children and step-parents need to have lived in the same household, or how dependent they were on their step-parent.

Successful claims are based on future need rather than what is deserved.

Hawke and d’Alpuget had a pricey property portfolio over their 43-year relationship, which started as an affair in 1976 when they were both married to other people.

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They used to own a luxury cottage on Scotland Island, near Pittwater in Sydney’s Norther Beaches, which is currently for sale with a price guide of $3.6million.

Two months before Hawke’s death in 2019, they sold their five-storey Northbridge mansion for about $9million in an off-market deal.

Hawke and his then-wife Hazel paid $1.23million for the land in 1991.

The couple bought a $3.6million unit overlooking Hyde Park, which d’Alpuget sold after Hawke died two months later.

She bought a $4.5million apartment in the building next door.  

On Wednesday, d’Alpuget’s family shared her final message to Australia.

‘Our highest calling and greatest achievement is love, the rule of life. Love one another,’ it read.

She is survived by her son Louis Pratt, from her first marriage to diplomat and journalist Tony Pratt, three stepchildren and multiple step-grandchildren. 

d’Alpuget and Hawke, Australia’s longest-serving Labor prime minister, met in Jakarta in 1970.

Their long-running affair began six years later when she interviewed him for a biography she was writing on Sir Richard Kirby.

When Hawke left his first wife Hazel in 1995, D’Alpuget was labelled a ‘home-wrecker’ and the ‘most hated woman in Australia’.

d’Alpuget once said she was not under the illusion that she was his only affair and wrote in one instance that she realised Hawke was ‘having affairs with women all over the country’. 

‘With mutual, wordless consent it was agreed we would become lovers as soon as possible,’ she said. 

‘He was charming, funny and straightforward – he liked me and enjoyed talking to me, what he loved was sex.’ 

Hawke asked d’Alpuget to marry him in 1978, only to withdraw the proposal a few months later as his political ambitions took priority.

Hawke divorced Hazel in 1995 and married d’Alpuget.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was among the first to pay tribute on Wednesday. 

‘As a writer, she was at home in fiction as she was in non-fiction, working in each realm with a keen eye for every telling detail that opened up the humanity of her subject to her readers,’ he said.

‘Blanche’s novels were compelling works of verve and originality, and her biographies comprehensive and definitive – most famously those she wrote of Bob Hawke, who became her great love and ultimately her husband.’

Derek Rielly, who wrote the Hawke biography Wednesdays With Bob, shared a heartfelt tribute with the Daily Mail.

‘Blanche believed that the pain of death is temporary, that it’s a fiery door and it will burn you but it’s a transient pain that will vanish,’ he said.

‘She lived a beautiful, complete and electric life and to her very last breath radiated a love for all humanity.

‘As she told me, “The more humans there are, the more love there is. Love is what distinguishes humans from the rest of creation”.’

The USS Abraham Lincoln is heading home to the United States at last, wrapping up a Middle East deployment that stretched beyond 200 days amid the war in Iran, as defense officials ready another aircraft carrier to take its place.

Before its return journey, the USS Abraham Lincoln made a stop in Thailand last week, giving roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines a chance to unwind, step off the ship and take in the attractions of Pattaya, one of the country’s best-known resort destinations.

‘We would like to thank the people of Thailand for their incredible hospitality,’ US Navy Captain Dan Keeler, the commanding officer of the USS Abraham Lincoln, said in a statement.

‘This port visit to Pattaya was a tremendous opportunity for this crew to recharge and a highlight for the strike group.

‘Thailand has such rich culture and history, coupled with incredible hospitality and that all shone through in this port visit,’ Keeler added.

‘We are grateful to our Thai allies for hosting us and we look forward to continuing our mission here in 7th Fleet, alongside Thailand and our other regional allies and partners.’ 

The trip marked the ship’s first regular port call since it was first deployed on November 21. 

The patrol included 280 days at sea and 200 in combat zones playing a crucial role in Operation Epic Fury and the US blockade of Iranian ports.

Aircraft carriers typically make port calls every 30 to 45 days for maintenance, resupply of goods and crew rest. But the USS Abraham Lincoln previously only stopped at Guam on December 11 through 12 and made an even shorter stop in Oman on July 7. 

As a result, sailors onboard reportedly experienced brutal conditions that family members said led some service members to experience mental health crises. 

The sailors described to the Wall Street Journal how they had to work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week amid cramped conditions.

They had been allocated extra time off after their deployment was extended beyond its original end-date in May, and crew members tried to keep up morale with activities such as spelling bees or lip-syncing competitions.

But at times, their meal portions became smaller to ensure there would be sufficient rations as the fighting made resupplying the vessels more difficult.

Sailors also said that early on in the deployment, the WiFi onboard the ship was turned off for nearly two months for operational security, which made it more difficult to communicate with friends and family back home.

Despite these challenges, the sailors said they were proud of what they accomplished – including shooting down more than 200 Iranian drones and flying more than 10,000 operational missions. 

As the ship now heads home, US Navy officials made a point to thank the crew members for their service.

‘To the sailors of USS Abraham Lincoln, thank you. Your dedication, professionalism and resilience through a long and demanding deployment represented the very best of our Navy,’ Adm. Daryl Caudle said in a video address.

‘You answered the call, you got the job done and just as importantly, the lessons you bring home are helping us better prepare the next team to deploy,’ added Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy John Perryman.

The two officials then went on to announce that when the USS Theodore Roosevelt departs from its home port of San Diego in the coming weeks, it will carry extra supplies so it can remain self-sufficient.

The decision to do so comes as the Defense Secretary extended troop deployments in the Middle East, including for warship crews, air defense units and paratroopers.

‘Roosevelt is maximizing its loadout of food, retail products and hygiene items before getting underway,’ Caudle said.

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Crew members are also ‘converting available spaces into additional storage, building the ability to remain self-sufficient for longer periods, especially when resupply may be difficult,’ Perryman announced.

At the same time, the Navy is ‘focused on quality of life’ issues.

‘That means new entertainment equipment on the mess decks, more durable fitness equipment, spare cardio machines ready for our replacement and even holiday materials purchased ahead of time,’ said Caudle.

Additionally, efforts are underway to provide families with ‘reliable, consistent communication throughout the deployment,’ the admiral said.

‘Small things matter during a long deployment because taking care of our sailors is part of maintaining combat readiness,’ Perryman concluded.

‘As one carrier returns home, we listen to its sailors and families. We capture what worked and what didn’t and we make it better the next time.

‘To the Lincoln team, thank you for what you accomplished and for what you taught us,’ he continued. ‘And to the Roosevelt team, we’re doing everything we can to make sure you are ready for the mission, for you and your families.’

Since the beginning of the war in Iran, reports have surfaced of food shortages and rationing aboard the Lincoln, accompanied by photographs of sailors’ meals. 

Sailors aboard the Lincoln are also said to have endured moldy showers, broken toilets, laundry outages and long stretches without hot water.

The wife of one even described the ship as a ‘floating metal prison’ with appalling conditions, claiming her sailor husband described the experience aboard the aircraft carrier stationed in the Middle East as ‘the worst deployment he’s ever been on.’

‘This is not his first deployment. This is not his first time being out there, and he is saying that it is the worst deployment that he’s ever been on. And he also says that his shipmates say the same,’ she told CNN‘s Jake Tapper.

Remaining anonymous out of fear of retaliation against her husband, the woman added that her spouse, who she said is typically unaffected by work stressors, ‘feels himself being angrier and more frustrated.’

‘You’re stuck in a floating metal prison essentially, in the middle of the water, eating prison-like food with the same people in the same bunk beds in the same small quarters for 200 days, 250 days, you start to go a little insane working 12 hours, getting four or five hours of sleep,’ she continued.

Some even reportedly tried to jump ship amid the extended deployment, with one 19-year-old father-of-two now facing non-judicial punishment from the Trump administration for hurling himself overboard in an apparent attempt to drown.

Navy documents accuse the servicemember of ‘intentionally faking an illness or hurting themselves to avoid work, duty or service,’ while a separate charge claims he failed to report to his required place of duty during the mental-health crisis. 

‘I think they’re insane for doing this to people who need mental help,’ the sailor’s wife told MS NOW. ‘Instead of giving them help, this is just another huge stressor.’

His wife said he repeatedly requested paternity leave to meet his newborn daughter but was denied each time. His fate will be decided at a ‘captain’s mast,’ where his commanding officer could dock as much as half his pay, according to the charging documents.

The sailor was rescued after going overboard on August 3 and medically evacuated before returning to San Diego ten days later, according to his wife.

He then spent five days at Naval Medical Center San Diego, known locally as Balboa, where staff monitored his vital signs but never had him evaluated by a psychiatrist or therapist, she said.

He was ordered back to work immediately after his release and did not receive his first therapy session until this Wednesday, nearly two weeks after arriving home.

The Navy is pursuing the case through non-judicial punishment, an internal disciplinary process generally used for lower-level misconduct that avoids a formal court-martial and criminal conviction.