In this bulletin;
- An Australian journalist speaks after being shot with a rubber bullet during immigration protests in LA
- An early election is expected to be called in Tasmania today
- Socceroos captain Mat Ryan set to reach 100 caps for Australia
Consular officials have made contact with an Australian journalist shot with a rubber bullet as she covered immigration raid protests in the United States city of Los Angeles.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has released a statement saying the Australian Consulate-General in LA is ready to provide consular assistance if it's needed.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has yet to speak publicly on the shooting of the Channel 9 reporter Lauren Tomasi, after Senator Sarah Hanson-Young demanded he seek an urgent explanation from the U-S administration.
Ms Tomasi herself has told Channel 9 she and her camera-man - identified as Jimmy - are both safe and well.
"This is just one of the unfortunate realities of reporting on these kinds of incidents. It has been a really volatile day on the streets of Los Angeles."
An Aboriginal man who died after police prevented him from boarding a flight has been identified as a senior Wadeye elder who lobbied for bilingual schooling and better education funding for his community.
Thamarrurr Development Corporation, representing Wangga, Lirrga, Wulthirri and Tharnpa, peoples have confirmed in a statement the 68-year-old was a much loved and respected senior man, who was a mentor and had produced children's books in local tribal language.
He took part in a racial discrimination action in 2007 in the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
The lawsuit had argued Wadeye children received less than half the school funding received by other Territory children.
An early election is expected to be called in Tasmania today, after last week's successful no-confidence motion against Liberal Premier Jeremy Rockliff.
Mr Rockliff retains the support of his party and says unless Labor can govern with the Greens a new election is needed.
Opposition leader Dean Winter he has ruled out the coalition suggested by the Premier.
He says the Labor party is ready for the snap poll - and so are the voters.
"If Jeremy Rockliff calls an early election, just 16 months after it did last time, this will be an election about three things. It will be about the broken budget, it will be about Jeremy Rockliff’s plan to privatise assets to pay down the debt, it will be about his component of the debacle with the Spirit of Tasmania fiasco. Tasmanians have a choice between someone they can trust to bring our Spirit home, and Jeremy Rockliff who's been trying to keep our Spirit on the wrong side of the world now for more than six months."
Hundreds of people have demonstrated outside the Sydney office of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to call for a stronger response against Israel after another high-profile incident.
One of the groups that called for the snap protest - Students for Palestine – says Australia should react by expelling the Israeli ambassador.
Michael Coleman is a member of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which organised the aid ship to Gaza.
He says Israel has illegally kidnapped the activists and Australia should demand their release.
"I'd like to see Albo break ties with the apartheid, genocidal state of Israel. I'd like to see him in the two-way arms trade, end diplomatic relationships, yeah, and like, follow international law. You know, it's pretty simple. He needs to be more like Francesca Albanese and less like Anthony Albanese."
Socceroos captain Mat Ryan is set to become the third player to reach 100 caps for the national team when he lines up against Saudi Arabia in Jeddah on Wednesday.
But ahead of the World Cup qualifier, the veteran goalkeeper has revealed there were moments when he believed his time playing for the Socceroos may have come to an end.
After Tony Popovic took over as coach in September last year, Ryan was left on the bench for three games in a row.
He says he had to fight his way back.
"I do everything I can to influence the manager, to convince him that I'm the best man for the job, but sometimes that's not always good enough, and I've experienced that in my career as well. Like I said, there was a thought here and there that, you know, it could well have been my last game. So I'm pretty proud of the fact that you know I've managed to fight my way back in, and at the same time I believe as a footballer, no one is ever entitled to playing for a team."
