Australians continue to return home from the Middle East; Victoria will become the second state to ban the Nazi salute; Collingwood premiership player Jack Ginnivan has asked to leave the club as the A-F-L trade period closes.
More Australians are expected to return home soon from Israel after emotional reunions at Sydney airport while the government tries to secure the safe return of others unable to leave the Gaza Strip.Some of them were collected from Israel on government flights on Monday while others departed Tel Aviv on the weekend.Doug Stevens and his wife who arrived on the Qatar Airways flight said being in the country during the conflict was a surreal experience.
Legislation making it illegal to intentionally display or perform a Nazi gesture or symbol in public passed Victorian parliament on Tuesday night ]. He hit back at claims from Opposition leader Peter Dutton that the referendum was a vanity project for the Prime Minister, saying it disregarded the decades of work of Indigenous Australian advocates.
Mr Albanese says his government remains committed to reconciliation efforts but it is too soon to detail these plans. He says the Egyptian government had used national security legislation to come after journalists it didn't like. He says his organisation is proposing a media freedom act that work in a similar way to human rights legislation in Queensland, the A-C-T, and Victoria.
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