Police investigating alleged on-line threats to 3rd Sydney mosque
NSW police say investigations are below approach after on-line threats had been allegedly made to a 3rd Sydney mosque.
Police mentioned on Thursday they had been investigating an alleged Islamophobic social media remark focusing on Lakemba mosque in Sydney’s west.
The mosque in Sydney’s west was allegedly focused by a remark invoking an Australian man’s terrorist assault in New Zealand through which 51 worshippers had been murdered throughout prayers.
The reference to the 2019 assault in Christchurch was allegedly posted on a video Lakemba mosque shared on TikTok displaying worshippers leaving throughout Ramadan.
On Friday police mentioned they had been additionally investigating a web-based menace allegedly made the day earlier than towards Padstow mosque.
Police imagine the 2 alleged incidents could also be linked and urged anybody with data to name Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Following the report of the alleged threats, the NSW premier, Chris Minns, mentioned:
The NSW police pressure have launched an pressing investigation … Each single particular person in our state deserves to have the ability to practise their religion free from threats … racism and Islamophobia has completely no place in NSW.
Earlier this month the Australian Islamic Home – Masjid Al-Bayt Al-Islami in Edmondson Park reported an alleged on-line menace made towards it on Instagram.
A 16-year-old boy has been charged in Western Australia over the alleged menace.
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The Bureau of Meteorology is warning of extreme thunderstorms for components of the mid north coast and northern tablelands of NSW.
Andrew Leigh says he hopes US tech firms don’t intrude in Australia’s election
The assistant minister for competitors, Andrew Leigh, tells ABC’s Afternoon Briefing he hopes the tech firms, together with Elon Musk’s X, don’t intervene within the federal election, following US tech firms lobbying the Trump administration on Australian media regulation.
We must be operating an election which is freed from overseas interference and one which is a contest of concepts. I hope that in each single election.
You don’t at all times see it however we have to keep in mind that objective and that the Australian democracy actually is a rare creation. We’re an ideal democratic innovator and a part of that innovation is making certain we are able to have a contest of true concepts and powerful insurance policies and I actually hope the Liberal and Nationals really begin arising with a few of these insurance policies as a result of I feel it’s good for the nation when we’ve got competing coverage portfolios, not only a authorities with an enormous agenda and powerful concepts towards an opposition with sizzling air and a bunch of slogans.
He mentioned the federal government was ready to tackle the tech firms.
The social media minimal age legal guidelines that had been handed by way of final 12 months had been a marker of that and the information media bargaining code ensures that these platforms which profit financially from nice journalism make a monetary contribution in direction of it. These are smart measures which don’t search to curtail the platforms that many people use and profit from however which recognise that in a contemporary financial system, we want the outcomes to advance to maintain tempo.
Mild airplane reported to have crashed in Western Australia
WA police say a lightweight airplane has crashed in Ogilvie, round 47km north of Northampton.
The incident was reported to police at 11.15am native time after a member of the general public noticed a airplane wreckage close to Ogilvie Street west.
The pilot is believed to be the one particular person onboard, and the extent of accidents is at present unknown. Emergency companies are on the scene, and there’s a 70m exclusion zone across the wreckage.
Teenager charged with allegedly trying to hijack airplane at Victoria’s Avalon airport
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A young person who allegedly tried to pressure his approach on to a Jetstar flight at a Victorian airport with a shotgun earlier than being dramatically overpowered by passengers has been charged with trying to hijack the airplane.
On Friday, Victoria police introduced that its illicit firearms squad had final week served a further 4 commonwealth expenses on the 17-year-old over the 6 March incident, when officers from the native police station had been known as to Avalon airport – which doesn’t have a everlasting onsite regulation enforcement presence.
The newest expenses embrace tried hijack, assault member of airline crew, prejudice the secure operation of an plane with intent to kill.
Police had beforehand charged the youth with multiple offences including unlawfully taking control of an aircraft, orchestrating a bomb hoax and possessing a firearm.
The matter stays earlier than the courtroom.
{The teenager} allegedly tried to climb the entrance stairs into the airplane cabin however was seen, by passengers, carrying the shotgun and subsequently overpowered by three civilians, police mentioned earlier this month.
Passenger Barry Clark mentioned he tackled the male who was allegedly dressed as a upkeep employee when he turned agitated whereas talking to the flight attendant.
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State minister says salmon issues are ‘unverified claims’
We reported earlier on calls from the unbiased MP Andrew Wilkie and the unbiased candidate for the seat of Franklin, Peter George, for an inquiry into allegations Tasmanian salmon firms could possibly be promoting diseased fish to the general public.
The state enterprise, business and assets minister, Eric Abetz, has now responded:
We deal in information, and these unverified claims are coming from anti-salmon teams which can be actively making an attempt to close down the business.
Salmon harvested for human consumption should meet all the same old meals security necessities.
I perceive that the Federal Division of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry have deployed workers to undertake audits of every firm’s processing services and can undoubtedly verify or reject these allegations made by Mr Wilkie in the end.
[Health authorities have] been clear that there is no such thing as a danger to public well being, and I encourage folks to get out and assist our world-class salmon business and proceed having fun with sustainable salmon.
Australian media regulation plans unchanged regardless of lobbying by US tech
The federal authorities has responded to the sooner information that US tech giants are lobbying the Trump administration to take motion towards Australian media legal guidelines, together with the information media bargaining incentive, AAP studies.
A federal authorities spokesman mentioned the media legal guidelines could be unchanged.
The Albanese authorities will at all times get up for Australian media and Australian journalism. It issues. We respect it. We’ll struggle to guard it.
It’s designed to encourage massive digital platforms to proceed to enter into industrial offers with information media organisations.
The whole lot we’ve proposed within the digital area applies equally to international locations who function in Australia, no matter the place they’re primarily based.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers mentioned the response from the US firms was predictable.
“It’s not stunning that the tech giants would have that view,” he advised Sky Information on Friday.
Our job is to make choices in Australia’s nationwide curiosity, to guard children on-line, for instance, or to ensure that there’s a degree taking part in area in our media with our media organisations.
It’s self evident that [tech billionaires] are very shut with the US administration. Our focus and our job is to make our case within the US, as we’ve got been doing.
Lots of people across the nation, not simply dad and mom however together with dad and mom, they need to ensure that they’re applicable protections for folks on-line. The tech giants received’t at all times like that.
Many thanks for becoming a member of me on the weblog as we speak, I’ll hand over to Josh Taylor for the remainder of the afternoon. Take care, and revel in your weekend.
Queensland criticised for scrapping pill-testing as lethal opioid emerges
The Queensland authorities has been slammed for abandoning everlasting pill-testing clinics after extraordinarily potent artificial opioids had been present in Australian wastewater for the primary time.
As AAP studies, Queensland has determined to not renew contracts for fastened tablet testing websites at Brisbane’s Bowen Hills and Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast, with doorways set to shut on 4 April.
Australian Medical Affiliation Queensland president, Dr Nick Yim, mentioned he was disillusioned the state authorities had discontinued the service, and feared it will result in increased charges of hurt.
It’s disappointing the Crisafulli authorities, who was elected on a promise that they’d take heed to the specialists, has as soon as once more dismissed the proof supported by docs.
Dr Yim was involved the websites had been closing after a lethal artificial opioid 40 occasions extra highly effective than fentanyl was detected for the primary time in wastewater testing throughout Australia over the New Yr interval.
Two extremely potent and addictive variants of nitazene – a psychoactive artificial substance – had been detected at 5 separate websites in Australia and the US.
The well being minister, Tim Nicholls, stood by the choice to tear up the clinic contracts, citing the Liberal Nationwide celebration’s stance towards medication.
Learn this week’s version of the Weekly Beast
It’s Friday afternoon, which implies it’s time for the newest version of the Weekly Beast – you’ll be able to have a learn beneath for the newest from Amanda Meade:
Man arrested after suspicious fires all through Sydney’s east
A person has been arrested following a collection of suspicious fires in Sydney’s jap suburbs.
On Tuesday, police responded to studies of a automotive on fireplace at Edgecliff at 3.20am. Hearth and Rescue NSW extinguished the hearth, but it surely was destroyed. There have been no studies of accidents.
At 3.30am, police positioned a burnt chair on the intersection of Glenmore Street and Cascade Road in Paddington.
Police are additionally persevering with to research a fireplace on Jersey Street at Paddington on 19 September, and imagine the three incidents are linked.
A 20-year-old man has been arrested at Waverley police station, and inquiries are ongoing. No expenses have been laid.
Division pauses jobseeker cancellations and deductions amid authorized evaluate
The division of employment and office relations secretary, Natalie James, has paused extra cancellations and deductions of individuals’s jobseeker funds.
In an announcement, she mentioned an unbiased assurance evaluate was analyzing the IT system working mutual obligations, and a authorized evaluate was “additionally analyzing whether or not choices are being correctly made and whether or not resolution making processes are aligned with the regulation”.
I’ve taken choices to pause some components of the system. The work below approach by my division has recognized examples the place the system is just not working in alignment with the regulation and insurance policies, or is just not working with the rigour that I anticipate.
James mentioned within the assertion that whereas these critiques are below approach, funds “should be suspended when folks fail to adjust to their mutual obligations, nonetheless, these funds shall be reinstated when folks re-engage”.
Acoss is demanding the “pressing removing” of the whole focused compliance framework amid the newest revelations, claiming “a minimum of 10,000 folks might have been subjected to illegal or invalid monetary penalties or cost cancellations”.
The Antipoverty Centre can be demanding the secretary instantly cease all present cost suspensions below the mutual obligations framework, and supply compensation to these impacted by probably illegal cost reductions or cancellations.
For extra on this ongoing difficulty, you’ll be able to learn Cait Kelly‘s story from earlier this month:
Showers and thunderstorms forecast for north and central Australia this weekend
The Bureau of Meteorology says widespread showers and thunderstorm are forecast for a lot of northern and central components of the nation this weekend:
Youngsters’s commissioner says Victoria newest jurisdiction to reply to youth crime in ‘reactive approach’
The nationwide kids’s commissioner, Anne Hollonds, says Victoria’s new bail legal guidelines are prone to result in a “important enhance within the incarceration of youngsters” – notably as a result of detention will now not be a “final resort” for kids.
In an announcement, she mentioned new information reveals the variety of kids concerned in crime has decreased within the state by 3%, with “a lot of the crime at present involving repeat little one offenders who sometimes turn into concerned with the legal justice system very younger”.
Hollonds mentioned that many of those kids have “unmet wants corresponding to disabilities, well being and studying issues, and trauma”.
Locking up these kids doesn’t rehabilitate them. It prices $1.3m every year to lock up a toddler, and this isn’t making our neighborhood safer.
Hollonds mentioned Victoria, after Queensland and the Northern Territory, was the “newest jurisdiction to reply to youth crime in a reactive approach”.
The NSW and South Australian governments are additionally within the technique of implementing discredited punitive measures, shifting in the other way to that of different developed international locations.
Governments throughout the nation are on the lookout for a fast political repair relatively than performing on proof from specialists … displaying that we have to enhance therapeutic therapy and assist for kids and their households, and take a preventative relatively than punitive strategy.
Victorian premier backs bail legal guidelines dubbed ‘harmful’ by advocates
More durable bail legal guidelines received’t lure younger folks in a cycle of reoffending, the Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, says, as retailers in her state grapple with the nation’s highest variety of violent assaults.
AAP studies that Allan as we speak defended the legal guidelines towards claims by advocates who say the reforms aren’t evidence-based and danger entrenching legal behaviour. She advised reporters:
After listening to Victorians, to victims of crime, to the recommendation of Victoria police, and to different representatives throughout the justice system, we would have liked to convey a few jolt to the system. We’re seeing an excessive amount of of a sample of behaviour.
Allan conceded extra folks shall be remanded however mentioned there may be capability within the system to deal with the inflow.
You possibly can read more from advocates earlier in the blog, here.
