Australia news live: Minns government makes fresh push to limit protests outside places of worship after supreme court ruling
Supreme court had ruled expanded police powers to move on protesters was unconstitutional. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJohn Howard says the Whitlam episode empowered Australians to better decide the country’s futureRN’s Sally Sara spoke to former prime minister John Howard this morning about his own reflection on Gough Whitlam’s removal. Howard called Whitlam an “outstanding parliamentarian”, and one of the best he ever saw.I think the greatest lesson is that we have a very durable and workable constitution, which ultimately allowed the people of Australia to decide the country’s future.And there wasn’t any doubt that once the Australian people had a clear run at deciding who was going to govern their affairs, what their answer was.For someone like my mum, who’d waited a long, long time, 23 years to see the election of a Labor government, it was seen to be this intervention that was very unfair, that was something that they didn’t expect could ever happen in Australia. Continue reading...
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Planes came within metres of hitting Melbourne airport workers in ‘terrifying’ incidents after runway shortened
Australian safety investigation finds serious accidents involving two planes in September 2023 were only avoided ‘by luck’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo passenger planes only narrowly avoided colliding with construction vehicles and workers during takeoff at Melbourne airport in 2023, in one case by less than five metres, because the flight crews were unaware the runway was nearly 1,600m shorter than usual, an Australian safety investigation has found.The incidents, described as “terrifying” for workers on the ground, have prompted changes to domestic and international practices on notifying flight crews about critical safety information to reduce the potential for human error in takeoff. Continue reading...
‘I can’t breathe in this city’: inaction over Delhi’s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest
The failure by state governments to do anything about pollution means it has often been met with apathy. But at a rare protest anger and frustration were rifeAs a familiar smoky evening haze gathered over Delhi, the crowd began to assemble in their hundreds. Mothers and children, students, retirees and environmentalists were all united by a basic but desperate demand: the right to breathe safely in India’s capital.“Delhi is not a livable city any more, it’s a death trap,” said Radhika Aggarwal, 33, an engineer who joined the protest on Sunday. Continue reading...
US Senate passes bill to end longest ever government shutdown
The measure still needs to be approved by the House and signed by US President Donald Trump.
Alan Jones sexual abuse case to hear from 139 witnesses over up to four months
Radio host denies 25 charges of indecent assault and two of sexual touching against nine alleged victimsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA massive sexual abuse hearing against Alan Jones has been locked in despite claims the radio host was kept in the dark about the police investigation against him.The 84-year-old faces 25 charges of indecent assault and two of sexual touching against nine alleged victims. Continue reading...
British journalist Sami Hamdi to be freed from ICE detention, lawyers say
Hamdi's lawyers say he was detained for his pro-Palestinian views, and no reason was given for his visa being revoked.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,356
Here are the key events from day 1,356 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Protests as rightwing Charlie Kirk activist group makes final campus tour stop
People shout ‘Fascists out of Berkeley’ as Turning Point USA brings message to college with history of leftwing activismTurning Point USA, the influential rightwing college group founded by Charlie Kirk, has brought Kirk’s message to a campus with a long history of leftwing activism two months after his death.An event at the University of California, Berkeley, on Monday evening marked the chaotic last stop of the American Comeback tour, which Kirk had just begun at the time of his death at Utah Valley University. In the aftermath of Kirk’s fatal shooting, the events have come to serve as memorials, with prominent conservative speakers, including JD Vance, highlighting the staggering impact the controversial rightwing influencer’s death has had on American politics. Continue reading...
Trump asks supreme court to throw out jury’s finding in E Jean Carroll lawsuit
Writer and author had testified, and won, at trial that the president had sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990sDonald Trump asked the US supreme court on Monday to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.Trump’s lawyers argued in a lengthy filing with the high court that allegations leading to the $5m verdict were “propped up” by a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings” that allowed Carroll’s lawyers to present “highly inflammatory propensity evidence” against him. Continue reading...
Senate approves package that would end the longest government shutdown in US history – as it happened
This live blog is now closed.Trump news at a glance: Senate passes funding package to end shutdown after Democrats break ranksThe eight Democratic and Independent senators who broke ranks with the party to advance a bill that would end the government shutdown – the longest in US history – have defended their decisions amid furor from their party and base.“What happened tonight is not the closing of a chapter. It’s the opening of an opportunity. What the chapter does close is the damaging shutdown that is only getting worse, that is only going to impact more and more people,” said Angus King, the Independent lawmaker from Maine who caucuses with Democrats. Continue reading...