Western Australia police have charged a 31-year-old man with terrorism over the alleged attempted bombing of an Invasion Day protest in Perth. The WA premier, Roger Cook, said it was the first time such charges had been laid in the state and declared “we must call this for what it is”.
The independent senator Lidia Thorpe again criticised the lack of public attention given to the 26 January incident – speaking just before Anthony Albanese told First Nations people his government would do “everything required to keep you and your loved ones safe”.
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Suspect identified in disappearance of four-year-old Gus Lamont in outback South Australia
Sydney teen accused of threatening to shoot Israeli president Isaac Herzog faces court
Email appears to confirm photo of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Virginia Giuffre is real
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Melody Wehipeihana was dropping her kids off at school when she pulled over to see what a crowd was looking at outside Humpty Doo hotel bottle shop in the Northern Territory. It was then that she was asked to jump on a crocodile’s back to help capture it so it could be relocated.
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“For the families of those who rest in Gaza, and for all Australians who value our commemorative traditions, news of damage to these graves is distressing.” – Peter Tinley
The national RSL president spoke after the Guardian revealed Israeli forces had bulldozed part of a Gaza cemetery containing the war graves of dozens of Australian and other allied soldiers killed in the first and second world wars. The federal government has vowed to repair the graves.
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A survivor on the Epstein files
As the US deputy attorney general Todd Blanche suggested the legal review into the Jeffrey Epstein files was “over” after the latest release of documents, the survivors of the disgraced financier and sex offender’s abuse made clear it was not the end.
Annie Kelly speaks to Lisa Philips, who suffered years of abuse by Epstein in the 2000s and is now one of the many survivors calling for more transparency from the Trump administration.
Before bed read
New Zealand’s countryside is scattered with huts that offer weary hikers a safe place to rest. But the publicly owned network is too vast for the government to maintain, so ordinary people in New Zealand are filling their backpacks with cleaning supplies and hiking into the hills to clean and maintain the huts.
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