Ms Parkinson is the only confirmed Australian casualty of the Paris attacks.

She was taken to hospital for treatment, and Fairfax Media understands her injuries are not critical. Read more

Newcastle musician Ben Gumbleton has spent the night locked in a Paris concert building following the terrorist attacks which rocked the city.

Amid the chaos, Gumbelton was able to make a frantic call to friend and Benjalu band mate Anthony Morris to let him know he was okay.

Morris said he awoke to the dramatic news of the coordinated attacks and took to social media to check on the safety of his friend.

“He started to panic a bit, but he said he is OK, but it was only a few hundred metres from where one of the attacks happened.  They could hear bombs, gun fire and stuff like that. There was just police everywhere." Read more

Three junior footballers from Wagga currently on a European tour with an under 17s indigenous side managed to escape Paris the day before co-ordinated terror attacks rocked the French capital

Geoff Simpson, the father of two of the Southcity boys, Cody and Tyson Hodge, and uncle of the other, Josh Siegwalt, told the Daily Advertiser on Saturday afternoon he was relieved to know they had left Paris before the attacks. Read more

Bowral resident Rebecca Cribbin and her children were in the attack zone just hours earlier.

She is holidaying in France with her children. They had returned to their hotel after touring the city on bicycles, when they learned of the attacks.

“The children and I are in Paris. We are OK. We are in our hotel safe,” she said. Read more