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- Defence Minister Richard Marles raises naval incidents with his Chinese counterpart
- The Home Affairs Department refuses to reveal which agency conducted drone surveillance
- Real Madrid's Carlo Ancelotti celebrates a record fifth Champions League title as coach
Defence Minister Richard Marles says he has had "frank" but positive conversations with his Chinese counterpart over actions by China's military against Australian naval forces.
Mr Marles met with China's Defence Minister, Dong Jun, on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue defence summit in Singapore.
This comes after Mr Marles delivered a speech at the summit, criticising recent incidents, including last month in the Yellow Sea, when a Chinese jet forced an Australian navy helicopter to take evasive action after dropping flares directly in front of it.
Mr Marles told Sky News, says being able to raise the issue face-to-face is important.
"That's just so that we can have the deepest understanding of each other's behaviours, when we're engaging in operations so that those exercises and those operations can be safe. Obviously we have seen some unsafe incidents, incidents which were both unsafe and professional, we've spoken about them, and I obviously raised them with Minister Dong."
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The Department of Home Affairs has refused to reveal which agency is responsible for drone surveillance of immigration detainees released after a High Court decision.
Under pressure to explain a decision to exempt convicted criminals released from ankle bracelet monitoring, after the NZYQ High Court decision, Immigration Minister Andrew Giles told Sky News drones were being used in some cases.
SBS News has been told by a federal source, not authorised to comment publicly, that Border Force is not using drones for their surveillance of the group, while state and territory police forces directed back to the Australian Federal police, or said drones were not being used.
The Federal Police told a Senate committee on Friday it was not operating drones and were not present for discussion about their use.
Former AFP officer Dr John Coyne, an intelligence expert at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, told SBS the use of drones would be "impractical and resource intensive", and raised privacy concerns for Australian communities.
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New South Wales authorities remain hopeful a person feared trapped in the ruins of a collapsed townhouse is still alive.
A massive explosion on Waikanda Crescent at Whalan in Sydney's west levelled most of the two-storey home just before 1pm on Saturday, damaging a neighbouring house.
Five people, including a woman in her sixites and a wheelchair-bound woman in her seventies rescued from the ruins o have been released after being taken to hospital with minor injuries.
New South Wales Fire and Rescue Commissioner Jeremy Fewtrell said the rescue teams were hampered by a series of setbacks as their search continued through the night.
"The job of rescue (teams) is to work their way through and try and find spaces in that collapse area where someone might have been caught. And so part of that work involves this sort of very manual labour of piece by piece, picking up the debris and moving that away."
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LGBTQ Pride Month has kicked off around the world with parades and festivals in cities large and small.
Organisers of a drag storytime reading at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia say several hundred people helped establish a world record for attendance at similar events.
In the Miccosukee Village in the Florida Everglades, an annual pride event brought together members of the "two-spirit" community.
This performer says the "two-spirit" community honours the belief that Indigenous peoples traditionally held a third-gender social role within their communities.
"It's always been a part of our tradition of ways to honor, the two-spirit relatives. Wherever we go is not the only place where they honor this or they do this celebration. So that's the intention of today to honor those two spirits."
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In football,Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti says his record-breaking fifth Champions League win as a coach is a "dream".
The Spanish league winners have added a record 15th European cup title to their trophy cabinet, as they scored two late goals against Borussia Dortmund in London.
Speaking after the match, Ancelotti says his aim had always been to "try his best" in the competition.
"I think this competition gave to me fantastic happiness as a player, as a manager, and my target is to try to repeat the same emotion."
