Vic parade remembers 'Princess Marci'

FRIENDS of murdered Melbourne schoolgirl Masa Vukotic have celebrated her life in a celebration fit for a princess.

THE dress code was pink, Lolita Japanese fashion and anything rabbit related, and the masses complied.

As many as 300 people, mostly woman, and many from the cosplay - costumed role play - community walked around the Queen Victoria Gardens in a memorial titled "Princess Marci's Royal Parade".White doves and pink balloons were released and a memorial book was signed to be presented to Masa's parents, brother and sister who also attended.Masa, 17, was fatally stabbed at a Doncaster park on March 17.Her funeral was held on Thursday.

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Man charged with intimidating girl on bus

A 65-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly intimidated a schoolgirl on a Sydney bus. Source: AAP

A MAN will face court after allegedly making sexual comments to a 12-year-old girl on a bus to her Sydney school.

POLICE say the 65-year-old boarded a bus at Darlinghurst about 8am on Thursday and sat next to the girl.

He allegedly asked her personal questions, made sexually suggestive comments and grabbed her arm.When the bus reached Bronte Road at Waverley, the girl got off the bus and ran straight to her school.The man alighted at the same stop, police say.He was arrested on Friday morning and charged with inciting a person under 16 to commit an act of indecency, intimidation and common assault.He is due to face Waverley Local Court on April 8.

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Bishop announces $30m to fight disease

THE federal government has pledged $30 million over three years to help fight tuberculosis and malaria in the Indo-Pacific region.

FOREIGN Minister Julie Bishop made the announcement in Canberra at the launch of the Australasian Tuberculosis Forum, describing the disease as a "scourge".

The TB Alliance will receive a third of the money to support late stage clinical trials of new treatments.Another $10 million will go towards The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, with the remaining $10 million given to Medicines for Malaria Venture to develop antimalarial drugs.Earlier on Monday, the government was urged to "wade in" and boost funding to help develop a new tuberculosis treatment for the Asia Pacific.The head of Policy Cures said Australia's current contribution to the fight was "a toe in the water", with Southeast Asia and the western Pacific accounting for 56 per cent of all new TB cases."What I would like to see is for Australia to take that toe in the water and wade in," Dr Mary Moran told reporters on the eve of World TB Day.Current TB treatments were decades-old and ineffective, she said.New drugs in development were faster and much cheaper, and just $22 million in funding globally would ensure they were readily available, she said.

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WA rally against Abbott government

Adversaries of the Abbott government have rallied in Perth to protest on a day of nationwide action. Source: AAP

ADVERSARIES of the Abbott government have rallied in Perth to protest on a day of nationwide action.

SEVERAL hundred people attended the March In March event on Sunday to voice concerns on a range of issues including indigenous rights, climate change, homelessness, live animal exports and metadata.

Federal Labor MP Melissa Parke told the crowd she thought Prime Minister Tony Abbott was a cross between Russia's Vladimir Putin and former US President George W Bush and that he was leading "the worst government ever".

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