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May 6, 2024 - World

Follow today’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast‘Lower the temperature’ on protests at university campuses, education minister saysThe education minister was also asked about the pro-Palestine encampments taking place across Australian universities, and whether they should be allowed to continue for as long as students are willing to man them.There’s always going to be protests in a democracy, that’s part of being a democracy. What there’s no place for is hate or violence or prejudice or discrimination and certainly no place [for] antisemitism or Islamophobia – whether it’s on our university campuses or anywhere else in the country.What I’d say is that we’ve just got to lower the temperature. You know, what’s happening on the other side of the world is trying to pull our country apart. We’ve got to work together – whether it’s politicians or religious leaders or community leaders, whether it’s the media, or student representatives – to work to keep our country together, not let it get pulled apart.There’ll be a lot of people who will still be able to work at the same time as they’re doing [placements]. But there are people who can’t [and] this will provide that bit of extra help to pay the bills, put food on the table, pay for transport, sometimes the relocation costs that come with prac.The commonwealth government hasn’t done this before. This is the first time that this has happened. It’s happened in the in response to calls from students – both teaching students and nursing students and social work students – across the country, and it’s come out of the work for the universities accord team that heard loud and clear that there is placement poverty in this country. Continue reading...

May 6, 2024 - World

Immediately before stabbing attack police received triple-zero call from person believed to be the 16-year-oldFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Perth teenager shot dead by police in a suburban car park after he stabbed a man rang police before the assault, warning he was going to “commit acts of violence” and told friends he was going “in the path of jihad”.The 16-year-old teenager, who cannot be named, was shot dead in the car park of Bunnings Warehouse in Willetton, in Perth’s south, on Saturday night, after he stabbed a man in the back and then refused police orders to put down his knife.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

May 6, 2024 - World

Home affairs minister clarifies that panel created to manage release of people from indefinite immigration detention is ‘not a separate structure from government’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastClare O’Neil has contradicted the prime minister’s claim that an “independent” board recommended the ankle bracelet be removed from a person who allegedly robbed and assaulted a 73-year-old Perth woman with two other men.On Monday the home affairs minister clarified that the community protection board is “not independent in the sense that it’s not a separate structure from government”.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

May 6, 2024 - World

Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station's local operations on Sunday, an Israeli official and an Al Jazeera source told Reuters.

May 6, 2024 - World

Three bodies believed to be those of two Australian brothers and an American who disappeared on a surfing trip in Mexico have bullet wounds to the head, authorities said Sunday.