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- Police confirm the deaths of a father and son in Lismore;
- Taiwan's new president calls for peace with China after his official swearing in;
- Australian golf star Hannah Green edged out in the Americas Open by Nelly Korda.
New details have emerged about the discovery of two bodies in northern New South Wales - one of them a two year old child.
Police say the toddler is the son of the 38 year old man who was also found dead in a unit in Lismore.
Deputy Commissioner Peter Thurtell says officers had gone to the address to conduct a welfare check after the mother of the child raised the alarm.
"My understanding is that the male had an access visit on the day... The mother raised concerns with the fact that they were due to hand over the child at 4.30, and by 5.30 she had contacted police and we ran to the residence... He ((the father)) was known to the police for previous DV matters but not significant issues."
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Authorities have found the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed in poor weather with the Iranian president and his foreign minister on board.
But search and rescue teams say there is no sign of life at the crash site in a province of East Azerbaijan.
And a senior Iranian official has confirmed to news agencies that President Ebrahim Raisi, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirab-dollahian, and the seven other people on the chopper, are dead.
Iranian political analyst Arash Azizi says the news will be met with various reactions in the country.
“I mean, I think a lot of people might celebrate or might be happy, but also a lot of people, I think naturally would be very worried as to, you know, the potential political instability and what it could have. Of course, it could also lead to protests or street protests or, you know. Such moments of political crisis often lead to such things. But I don't see that as particularly likely right now.”
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Taiwan's new president Lai Ching-te has been officially sworn into office in Taipei.
The former vice president has taken over from the country's first female president, Tsai Ing-wen, and is the latest leader from the Taiwan's Democratic People's Party.
The new president has used his inauguration speech to say that peace is the only option and Taiwan will make no concessions on democracy and freedom.
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Pro-Palestine students occupying several universities across Australia have been told to move on.
At the University of Melbourne, Vice-chancellor Duncan Maskell has issued a notice to protesters saying the six day long demonstration had become "increasingly disruptive and unsafe", after a safety inspection found the building they were occupying had been damaged, with obstructions to emergency exits, fire panel access and firefighting equipment.
At La Trobe University, student demonstrators are defying orders to dismantle their encampment, while at the Australian National University in Canberra protesters have been told to leave or the university could consider disciplinary action.
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ASIC says it will be contacting lenders in the wake of its report that says banks have made it difficult for customers to access hardship assistance, as rates of mortgage stress rise.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission report found more than one-in-three struggling home owners are giving up applying for financial help because lenders make the process too hard.
ASIC commissioner Alan Kirkland says the regulator remains concerned over a lack of adequate arrangements for vulnerable Australians, including those facing domestic or family violence.
"ASIC will be following up with the lenders that we've looked at in this review, asking them to tell us how they're responding to our findings. And we'll be monitoring how they respond, because it's clear that the community expects banks and lenders to do better."
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Australia's top election official says he'd likely support the watermarking of artificially generated content, as the country looks to battle the spread of misinformation.
Watermarking allows computers to detect that the text comes from an AI system, and has become a popular way of fighting plagiarism and misinformation online.
Australian Electoral Commission boss Tom Rogers has told a senate select committee that the agency currently doesn't have the legislative power or the technical ability to detect and deal with false AI-generated election-related content.
He says A-I is becoming increasingly common in overseas elections and could become influential here.
"I can't give you a prediction about whether it'll be used. But let me make a different statement, which is we're seeing increased use of those sorts of tactics in elections around the world. I don't think we're going to be immune to that. And so we could expect things like that to occur at the next election."
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Australian golf star Hannah Green has fallen agonisingly short of an LPGA championship win at the Americas Open in New Jersey.
She has come in second place in a compelling final-round duel with world No.1 Nelly Korda.
Fellow Australian Gabriela Ruffels also continued her hot run with a final-round 72 to share third place at 10 under.
