Peter Dutton compares ‘river to the sea’ chants at pro-Palestinian protests to Hitler

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Opposition leader’s comments ‘a very bad faith’ reading of protestors’ chant, Jewish Council of Australia says

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has compared chants at pro-Palestine university protests to the ideology of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in comments labelled “deeply offensive” by a prominent Jewish group.

Tensions are brewing over pro-Palestine encampments at universities across Australia, with leading universities writing to the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, for legal advice on whether protesters’ chants were in breach of federal law.

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Israel demolishes nearly 50 Bedouin homes in Negev region – Al Jazeera English

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  1. Israel demolishes nearly 50 Bedouin homes in Negev region  Al Jazeera English
  2. Authorities level 47 illegal homes in Bedouin village, leaving hundreds homeless  The Times of Israel
  3. Israel Starts Demolishing 47 Bedouin Homes Without Offering Promised Alternative Housing - Israel News  Haaretz
  4. Israel Demolishes 47 Bedouin Homes in Negev Desert  Democracy Now!
  5. Israel carries out largest demolition of Palestinian homes in years  Middle East Eye
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim 2 attacks in Gulf of Aden as Iran official renews nuclear bomb threats – The Associated Press

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  1. Yemen's Houthi rebels claim 2 attacks in Gulf of Aden as Iran official renews nuclear bomb threats  The Associated Press
  2. Yemen’s Houthis say they attacked ships in Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean  Al Jazeera English
  3. Yemen's strategic escalation into the Mediterranean  The Cradle
  4. Houthis Threaten to Expand Range of Targets in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden - USNI News  USNI News
  5. Yemen's Houthis say they targeted ships in Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean  Reuters
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Man arrested for attempted break-in at Drake’s Toronto mansion

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Incident comes the day after a shooting outside the rapper’s home in which a security guard was seriously injured

A man has been arrested after trying to gain access to Drake’s Toronto mansion, the day after a security guard at the property was seriously injured in a shooting.

“Officers were called after a person attempted to gain access to the property,” Toronto police said in a statement. “The person was apprehended under the Mental Health Act, and they were taken to receive medical attention.”

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Sydney council’s ‘ridiculous’ same-sex parents book ban could be overturned as backlash grows

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NSW premier condemns western Sydney council’s ban on Holly Duhig’s children’s book as motion to rescind it lodged

The ban on same-sex parenting books at libraries in a western Sydney council area could be rescinded after widespread backlash and a warning from the premier, Chris Minns, that LGBTQ+ people were being used as a “political football”.

Four Labor councillors on Cumberland city council have lodged a rescission motion to overturn the ban, which they expect will be debated at the next council meeting on 15 May. The vote is expected to be tight.

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Drukkje min broderѕ blod! Why the best Eurovision songs are no longer in English

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While Europe’s lingua franca remains dominant, there has been a definite shift since a Portuguese song triumphed in 2017

There was a time when in order to win Eurovision you had to “fly on the wings of love”, “take me to your heaven” or “sail into infinity while reaching for divinity”. This year, however, there’s a fair chance the winner will estar comiendo el mundo (be eating the world), ridere in queste notti bruciate (laugh in these burnt nights), or even drukkje min broderѕ blod (drink my brother’s blood).

The metaphors may have been mixed, but for the first two decades of the 21st century, the English language reigned supreme at the Eurovision song contest. In the run-up to the millennium, the so-called language rule restricted English songs to countries that counted it among their official languages, such as Britain, Ireland and Malta. But when the rule was scrapped in 1999, the floodgates opened.

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Civilian casualties rise in Myanmar’s civil war as resistance forces tighten noose around military – The Associated Press

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  1. Civilian casualties rise in Myanmar's civil war as resistance forces tighten noose around military  The Associated Press
  2. An Overlooked War  The New York Times
  3. Mapping Territorial Control in Post-Coup Myanmar: Flawed by Design?  The Diplomat
  4. In Myanmar war, crucial window looms for junta and rebels  Reuters
  5. What a rapidly changing civil war means for the future of Myanmar  PBS NewsHour
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Faruqi v Hanson: Greens senator seeks to reopen racial discrimination case citing new evidence

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Sky News podcast casts doubt on One Nation leader’s claim she did not know Faruqi was a Muslim when she sent ‘piss off back to Pakistan’ tweet, court told

The Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has applied to the federal court to reopen her racial discrimination case against Pauline Hanson, in a bid to air new evidence alleging that the One Nation leader knew Faruqi was a Muslim when she tweeted for her to “piss off back to Pakistan”.

Faruqi has alleged she had been racially discriminated against and vilified by Hanson under section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act and last week the federal court spent four days hearing evidence from both senators.

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Nine’s AFR print edition to cease in WA after Seven’s press doubles production price

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Seven says decision purely commercial but Financial Review editor accuses rival company of ‘abuse of market power’

The print edition of Nine’s Australian Financial Review will no longer be available in Western Australia after the Seven-owned printing facility doubled the price of producing the newspaper.

Billionaire media mogul Kerry Stokes owns the only major newspaper printing press in the state and has contracts to print competitors’ products, including the financial daily for Nine as well as The Australian for News Corp.

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Greens senator applies for court case against One Nation leader to be re-opened – As it happened

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Government’s promised ‘future gas strategy’ will argue the fossil fuel is important part of transition to net zero emissions. This blog is now closed

NSW’s arts minister, John Graham, says a Sydney council has sent a “terrible message” by voting to ban same-sex parenting books, importing a “US culture war into our country”.

In case you missed it: Cumberland city council voted to place a blanket ban on same-sex parenting books from local libraries. Labor councillor Mohamad Hussein voted in favour of the motion, which passed six to five.

That’s a good thing. I think it’s a chance for the council to reconsider.

It’s a terrible message to send, to have this councillor importing this US culture war into our country and playing it out on the shelves of the local library. I think the community expectations are clear – the local councillors should be coming around to pick up their bin, not telling them what to read.

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Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil

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‘Orangutan diplomacy’ strategy aims to ease concern over environmental impact of palm oil production, says minister

Malaysia plans to give orangutans as gifts to countries that buy its palm oil as part of an “orangutan diplomacy” strategy to ease concerns over the environmental impact of the commodity.

The south-east Asian country is the world’s second biggest producer of palm oil, which is found in more than half of supermarket packaged goods – from pizza and biscuits, to lipstick and shampoos. Global demand for palm oil has been blamed for driving deforestation in Malaysia and neighbouring Indonesia.

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