Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pays tribute to Linda Burney, who has announced she is retiring; Three people are dead and hundreds injured in Taiwan, after the strongest typhoon in eight years hits the island; And in sport, an Olympics soccer match between Argentina and Morocco paused for several hours after angry fans storm the pitch.
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In this bulletin;
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pays tribute to Linda Burney, who has announced she is retiring;
- Three people are dead and hundreds injured in Taiwan, after the strongest typhoon in eight years hits the island;
- And in sport, an Olympics soccer match between Argentina and Morocco paused for several hours after angry fans storm the pitch.
A new cabinet will be announced on Sunday following the resignation of two senior ministers.
Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney and Skills and Training Minister Brendan O’Connor will step down from their ministerial responsibilities, before retiring at the next federal election.
Ms Burney was the first Indigenous woman elected to the Lower House of both the New South Wales and Federal parliaments.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has paid tribute to her strength and her service.
"Linda has known great sorrow and events in her life which would have been too much for some to bear. Throughout it all she has brightened every room that she has walked into. And has never asked for anything, just asked for one thing above all, not just for her, but for First Nations people everywhere which is respect."
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Three people are dead and over 260 injured in Taiwan, after the strongest typhoon in eight years hit the island.
Typhoon Gaemi made landfall on Thursday, bringing wind gusts of up to around 230 kilometres an hour.
Schools and offices, as well as financial markets, will be closed for a second day today.
The typhoon also impacted the Philippines, where it intensified monsoon rains and triggered floods and landslides.
It displaced over 600,000 people.
Elisa Egwarat is one of many beginning to return to their mud-caked homes.
"I was scared yesterday because the water kept rising and a lot of people decided to evacuate to the school because most people have low-lying houses."
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The wreck of a ship that sank in one of Australia's worst peacetime maritime disasters has been discovered more than five decades after the vessel went down.
National science agency CSIRO's research vessel Investigator has confirmed Noongar was located about 170m underwater off the NSW coast between Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour.
Noongah went under in heavy seas while carrying steel from Newcastle to Townsville in August 1969 - with only five members of the 26 crew surviving.
Matt Kimber from the CSIRO says everyone is happy they've finally been able to deliver some answers to the families of those on board.
"It's been a really humbling opportunity to speak to the surviving crew members and the family. As you can imagine this is an event that occurred 55 years ago but has had a really significant impact on their lives."
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And in soccer,
Fan protests have marred the game between Argentina and Morocco at Saint-Etienne for the Olympics.
The South American side found themselves losing 1-2 but they found an equaliser late in injury time with a close effort by Facundo Medina.
The goal was scored in the 15th minute of injury time and was eventually ruled out as offside, causing chaos to erupt among fans.
A small number of them invaded the pitch, throwing objects at the Argentina players.
The game was temporarily called off until all spectators could be removed from the stadium. It resumed over two hours later, with the Moroccans walking away with the win.
