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Sydney Morning Herald
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- Sydney Morning Herald
WA News LIVE: Protesters disrupt Woodside open day; E-bike battery fire destroys century-old home
Good morning readers, and thanks for joining us for another week! Hope you enjoyed the weekend's beautiful weather. Rounding up the news as it stands, this morning Emma Young is reporting further into the problems at South Perth council and investigating why the state's Liberal Party seems so concerned about those tiny foreshore trees. Whether the party has its eye on the South Perth mayoral election as well as the next state election is not yet known, but the council's ructions are deepening. On Sunday, Hannah Barry reported Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's comments from a Perth event ahead of next week's planned economic roundtable, as US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin walked away from a critical summit without a Ukraine ceasefire deal. Albanese also said WA was at the centre of government renewable energy plans. Read more here. Also on Sunday, Disrupt Burrup Hub campaigners made things awkward for Woodside with a high-vis protest at the Woodside Open Day for Science Week at WA's Maritime Museum. To celebrate the announcement of a five-year extension to Woodside's decades-long sponsorship of WA Museum research into WA ocean life, Woodside was supporting free entry to the WA Maritime Museum with family activities focused on marine life. The protesters were intending to call attention to an Australian Institute of Marine Science report last week that found WA's reefs including Ningaloo have suffered their worst ever bleaching on record as Woodside progresses plans for its Burrup Hub mega-project in the region. 'Today's children may never see unbleached coral in the natural world,' said Janna, 24, a pediatric nurse who joined the protest. After holding the banner for a minute or so inside the building, the protesters held the banner outside the entrance in front of a crowd of supporters.
The Age
16 minutes ago
- The Age
Anti-war protests erupt across Israel against Netanyahu's Gaza assault plan
'Those who today call for an end to the war without defeating Hamas are not only hardening Hamas' position and delaying the release of our hostages, they are also ensuring that the horrors of October 7 will be repeated,' Netanyahu said, referencing the Hamas-led attack in 2023 that killed some 1200 people and sparked the war. The last time Israel agreed to a ceasefire that released some hostages earlier this year, far-right members of his cabinet threatened to topple Netanyahu's government. Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called Sunday's demonstrations 'a bad and harmful campaign that plays into Hamas' hands, buries the hostages in the tunnels and attempts to get Israel to surrender to its enemies and jeopardise its security and future'. The new offensive would require the call-up of thousands of reservists, another concern for many Israelis. Hospitals and witnesses in Gaza said Israeli forces killed at least 17 aid-seekers on Sunday, including nine awaiting UN aid trucks close to the Morag corridor. Hamza Asfour said he was just north of the corridor awaiting a convoy when Israeli snipers fired, first to disperse the crowds. He saw two people with gunshot wounds. 'It's either to take this risk or wait and see my family die of starvation,' he said. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which runs the Israeli-backed and US-supported distribution points that have become the main source of aid since they opened in May, said there was no gunfire 'at or near' its sites, which are located in military-controlled areas. An Israeli strike targeting a group of people in the Bureij camp in central Gaza killed three, according to Al-Awda hospital, which received the casualties. Loading Israel's military did not immediately respond to questions. Israel's air and ground war has killed more than 61,900 people, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not specify how many were fighters or civilians but says around half were women and children. Two children and five adults died of malnutrition-related causes on Sunday, according to the ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals. The UN and independent experts consider it the most reliable source on casualties. Israel disputes its figures but has not provided its own. The United Nations has warned that levels of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza are at their highest since the war began. Most aid has been blocked from entering Gaza since Israel imposed a total blockade in March after ending a ceasefire. Deliveries have since partially resumed, though aid organisations say the flow is far below what is needed. It is not clear when Israel's military will begin the new offensive in crowded Gaza City, Muwasi and what Netanyahu has called the 'central camps' of Gaza. The military body that co-ordinates its humanitarian aid to Gaza, COGAT, this weekend noted plans to forcibly evacuate people from combat zones to southern Gaza 'for their protection.' Designated 'safe zones,' however, also have been bombed during the war. War-weary Palestinians insisted they won't leave, arguing that there is no safe place in Gaza.
Canberra Times
16 minutes ago
- Canberra Times
Europeans to back Zelenskiy in Washington meeting
"If peace is not going to be possible here and this is just going to continue on as a war, people will continue to die by the thousands ... we may unfortunately wind up there, but we don't want to wind up there," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview with CBS' Face the Nation.
