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- The search continues for a mother and newborn baby around Sydney's Cooks River;
- Parliament votes down a motion to debate statehood for Palestine;
- Alex de Minaur and Thanasi Kokkinakis make their mark at the French Open.
Mystery continues to surround the discovery of a placenta and umbilical cord on the banks of the Cooks River in Sydney.
The mother's identity and whereabouts remain unknown more than 24 hours after the discovery as police concluded a search of the river area.
Authorities have been looking for a woman and newborn baby since a dogwalker found the items on Monday afternoon.
New South Wales Police Superintendent Christine McDonald says investigators just want to make sure they are safe and supported.
"There is no judgement. They need to know that we are concerned for them. That we are wanting to know that they are safe. As we know childbirth present a number of health concerns, hence why we are requesting that the mother goes straight to a hospital and speaks to health professionals."
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An Australian disaster assistance team has landed in Papua New Guinea after a devastating landslide believed to have killed thousands.
It's understood they'll be bringing a range of humanitarian aid with them into Enga province, including 750 large family shelters, along with food, water and sanitation supplies.
The team specialises in incident control and logistics, but Minister for the Pacific Pat Conroy says their mission is likely to focus on the retrieval of bodies rather than finding survivors.
Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt says Australia will help in any way they can.
"We stand ready to assist in any way. This deployment is directly at the request of Papua New Guinea. This is the assistance that they have sought, and that's the assistance that's now being mobilised."
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A Greens motion to recognise Palestinian statehood has been voted down in Parliament.
Neither the government or the opposition supported the move to debate the issue, Liberal MP Julian Leeser describing the motion as the "wrong one" at the wrong time that would do nothing to change the situation in the Middle East, or benefit social cohesion in Australia.
Assistant Foreign Minister Tim Watts has accused the Greens of using the motion as a wedge on the issue.
But Greens leader Adam Bandt, who moved the motion in the House of Representatives, has told Parliament that was far from the case.
"This is not just a symbolic move. It is a critical step towards peace and towards ending the slaughter that we are seeing with the invasion of Gaza right now."
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Pressure is mounting on the government to dump Andrew Giles as Minister for Immigration.
The Minister has come under intense pressure from the opposition, most recently over the case of a New Zealand man, known as CHCY, who was allowed to keep his visa by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal despite being found guilty of raping his stepdaughter.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil has told Channel 7 Mr Giles has her support.
But Liberal Senator Jane Hume says the Minister has to go.
"If you direct the A-A-T to make those considerations when deciding whether to revoke a visa or not revoke a visa, this should come as no surprise because there's been incompetence after incompetence in this portfolio. Quite frankly, Anthony Albanese needs to stop running a protection racket for Minister Giles and start protecting the Australian people."
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Donald Trump says he will give 'very serious consideration' to pardoning Julian Assange if he wins the next US presidential election.
The WikiLeaks founder is fighting extradition to the United States, where he faces charges for obtaining and publishing classified military information.
He was charged in 2019, under the Trump administration.
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A woman has been arrested after a man was fatally stabbed at a suburban Sydney home.
The woman was taken into custody near the property at Matraville, in the city's south.
Investigators say she has since been assisting with their inquiries into the death.
No charges had been laid as of this morning.
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Alex de Minaur and Thanasi Kokkinakis have dispelled the gloom in Australian tennis ranks at the French Open.
De Minaur hung around for five hours waiting to get on court before handing out a lesson on the wet clay to American teen tyro Alex Michelsen.
But that swift demolition job was only the support act before Thanasi Kokkinakis earned a remarkable see-saw five-set triumph over his good friend and stablemate Alexei Popyrin.
The double success has guaranteed two Australians in the second round after two winless days in which the green-and-gold challenge suffered five defeats and an injury withdrawal.
