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- A major cabinet reshuffle sees Clare O'Neil and Andrew Giles lose their portfolios
- Rallies against gendered violence have swept the country
- Michael Jennings faces a ban of at least two matches for a high shot on Manly winger Jason Saab.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Clare O'Neil and Andrew Giles will lose their current ministerial portfolios amid a major cabinet reshuffle.
He says Ms O'Neil will be vacating her position as Home Affairs Minister to become the Housing Minister and Mr Giles will be moving from his immigration portfolio to become the minister for Skills and Training.
Mr Albanese also announced Malarndirri McCarthy will replace Linda Burney as the Minister for Indigenous Australians.
In other changes, Senator Jenny McAllister will become Minister for Cities and Emergency Management, Julie Collins will become Minister for Agriculture and Small Business, Murray Watt will become Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations.
And Tony Burke will become Minister for Home Affairs as well as Minister for Immigration, while also serving as Minister for Cyber Security, Minister for the Arts and Leader of the House.
When asked whether Mr Burke would be capable of the hefty role, Mr Albanese says he's confident in his choice.
"He's certainly up for it. I gave a lot of thought to the appropriate structure and that's one of the reasons for the structure which is there. One minister and two junior assistants to them is, I think, the right structure."
Rallies have been held across Australia today to call for more political action over a spike in the number of women and children killed by domestic violence perpetrators.
Protest organisers say sexual, domestic and family violence disproportionately impacts women and the LGBTIQ+ community as well as disabled and Indigenous people.
They are calling for more funding for grassroots organisations, and for trauma training for first responders.
Our Watch, a leading organisation in the prevention of violence against women in Australia, says at least 42 women have allegedly been killed by men this year.
This is a significant spike in violence despite long-term data from Our Watch showing a downward trend in domestic violence incidents.
A knife-wielding man has been shot dead in Sydney's southwest after he allegedly attempted to stab a police officer.
Emergency services were called to Bird Walton Avenue in Middleton Grange, about 40km from the CBD, about 11pm on Saturday following reports a man was armed with a knife.
Police said the 34-year-old allegedly confronted and threatened officers on arrival, with 33-year-old male officer struck with the knife but protected by his operational vest.
New South Wales Police Assistant Commissioner Brett McFadden says two officers then confronted the man, first attempting to use non-lethal force.
"They confronted the 34-year-old male who was still armed with the knife. A taser was deployed without success. The male then rushed toward the officer who had discharged the taser and at this time was in close proximity to the police officer. Another officer has then fired two shots into the torso of the 34-year-old male. Police commenced C-P-R and tried to maintain the life of the male for an extended period, assisted by ambulance. However, about 11:41 last night he was declared dead at the scene."
Former United States president Donald Trump is claiming his political opponent Kamala Harris will destroy the country as the likely Democratic party nominee surges in the polls.
Trump's speech made clear that his short-lived call for unity following the attempt on his life two weeks ago has now disappeared.
Kamala Harris' takeover after Joe Biden announced he was leaving the presidential race has re-energised a campaign that many Democrats thought would not have a chance of defeating Trump.
Ms Harris raised more than $120 million in the first 24 hours after Mr Biden dropped out of the race and various polls have her on par with Donald Trump.
Trump claims that a rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights region which killed 12 people including children was somehow linked to Ms Harris' campaign.
"A Harris presidency means four more years of extremism, weakness, failure, chaos and probably World War three. I really believe it. They have no that's why this happened today and is, you know, shocking that it happened out of nowhere. A Trump victory will bring back leadership, competence, common sense and strength to the Oval Office. "
In rugby league,
Michael Jennings is facing a ban of at least two matches for the high shot that took out Manly winger Jason Saab.
The Sydney Roosters veteran was handed a grade-two careless high-tackle charge today for his shot on Saab in the Sydney Roosters' 34-30 win yesterday.
Jennings can take an early guilty plea and miss two weeks or risk a third match on the sideline if he fights the charge and loses.
The charge comes after Sea Eagles coach Anthony Seibold made his frustrations clear after Jennings had not been sin-binned, given Saab was ruled out of the match.
