Samantha Mostyn AO announced as the next Governor-General of Australia; Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calls for accountability from Israel following the death of Australian aid worker; And in football, Ange Postecoglou's Tottenham held to a 1-1 draw by West Ham.
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In this bulletin,
- Samantha Mostyn AO announced as the next Governor-General of Australia;
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calls for accountability from Israel following the death of Australian aid worker;
- And in football, Ange Postecoglou's Tottenham held to a 1-1 draw by West Ham.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced Samantha Mostyn AO will be the 28th Governor-General of Australia.
Ms Mostyn is the current chair of the government's Women's Economic Equality Taskforce, and was an advisor to former Prime Minister Paul Keating.
She also holds a board member position at several companies, such as the Climate Council, the GO Foundation and the Sydney Swans.
Ms Mostyn says she is committed to serving Australia in the role.
"I'm deeply honoured by this great privilege and look forward to representing the values, hopes and aspirations of all Australians. I will never underestimate or take for granted the expectations that come with high office and I am ready to serve with integrity, compassion and respect."
Ms Mostyn is set to take on her new role from July 1, taking over from current Governor-General David Hurley.
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The Prime Minister has called for full accountability from the Israeli Government, following the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in Gaza.
In a call with Benjamin Netanyahu, Anthony Albanese expressed that Australians were outraged by the incident in which Ms Frankcom and six other aid workers were killed.
The Israeli military says the incident will be investigated by an independent, professional, expert body.
Mr Albanese says it must be a transparent investigation.
"I emphasised the importance of full accountability and transparency, and Prime Minister Netanyahu has committed to full transparency about how this tragedy could possibly have occurred. There is a need for a thorough investigation into what happened here and Prime Minister Netanyahu committed to that. I made clear, again, that it is Australia's view that humanitarian assistance must reach people in Gaza unimpeded and in large quantities. The Foreign Minister has also spoken to her Israeli counterpart."
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The Islamic Aid Relief organization in Australia says it will continue providing humanitarian assistance to Gaza despite the killing of seven relief workers on Tuesday by Israeli air strikes.
Sameer Ben Gadi, CEO of Islamic Aid Relief Australia, has told SBS Arabic24 that 40 organization branches all around the world met urgently to take the decision.
"Earlier today, Australian time, there was an emergency meeting of all the executive directors of International Islamic Relief. We discussed the issue and the decision was to continue providing these services and aid, while sending strict instructions to our crews working in Gaza to be as careful and prudent as possible."
It comes as the Israeli Defence Forces have launched an investigation into the incident to ensure it does not repeat in the future.
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Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser.
The move comes as part of a settlement in a lawsuit accusing the search giant of illegal surveillance.
Although Google isn't paying consumers any money in the case, estimates made in court records pegged the value of the privacy controls at $4.75 billion to $7.8 billion.
The details of the settlement emerged in a court filing, more than three months after Google and the attorneys handling the class-action case disclosed they had resolved June 2020 lawsuit targeting Chrome’s privacy controls.
Albert Fox Cahn, Executive Director of Surveillance technology Project Oversight, has described this issue as a self-inflicted wound by the company.
"I think, you know, this is entirely a problem of Google's own creation. They never had to have a private browsing mode, they never had to promise anyone they were going to keep their data safe, but they did it anyway. They wanted people to have that sense of security and so when they didn't deliver, they were on the hook to make that right and now because of this lawsuit they're going to have to."
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In football,
Ange Postecoglou's Tottenham Hotspur have been held to a 1-1 draw by West Ham at London Stadium.
The former Socceroos coach was happy to see his team take the lead just after five minutes thanks to a Brennan Johnson strike from close range.
But their advantage was cancelled out on the 19th minute when Kurt Zouma headed the ball into the Spurs' net.
Postecoglou says he's disappointed with the result but pleased with the overall performance of his team.
"Tough, as expected. They're a big, strong team and they sit pretty deep and compact and you have to be really patient in your football. Although for the most part we controlled the game pretty well. We obviously got a great start with a great goal. They were always going to be a threat from set pieces."
The result will see Tottenham lose a good opportunity to grab fourth place from Aston Villa, who face the difficult away challenge of Manchester City on Thursday morning.
