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8.35am BST

A Black Lives Matter protester who threw a chocolate bar and plastic water bottle at police officers following a Sydney rally has been spared a conviction.

AAP reports that Geleto Kabeta Daledu Eggu pleaded guilty to two charges of assaulting a police officer without occasioning actual bodily harm on Tuesday in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court.

8.32am BST

Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a boy and a girl missing from the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales.

Reginald Ayling and Laura Stephens, both aged 13, were last seen about 12pm on Monday, outside a school on Cawley Close in Alstonville.