Trump says negotiations with Iran to begin in the coming hours; An emotional plea for help during missing persons week; and in sport, Repair work needed after controversial plan to sell stakes in Football World Cup scrapped
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- Trump says negotiations with Iran to begin in the coming hours
- An emotional plea for help during missing persons week
- Repair work needed after controversial plan to sell stakes in Football World Cup scrapped
US President Donald Trump says negotiations with Iran will begin in the coming hours (Monday afternoon US time) saying there will be a deal on the "denuclearisation of Iran."
He says Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar asked the United States to call off planned strikes on the country.
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi says separate negotiations between Iran and Oman on the Strait of Hormuz are in their final stages.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says reaching an agreement between the two countries is not related to the waterway's reopening or continued closure.
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National Party leader, Matt Canavan, says people's frustration with issues including cost of living is being reflected in polling.
He says people are frustrated with a decline in living standards, which he says have seen the biggest decline of the developing world in recent years.
A fresh opinion poll out today shows the Coalition ahead of Labor 52 to 48 per cent on a two party-preferred basis.
On first preferences One Nation is on top with 31 per cent compared to Labor on 29 per cent.
Speaking on Channel 7's Sunrise, Mr Canavan says he spent last week travelling with Liberal leader, Angus Taylor, listening to the people's frustrations with the Labor Government.
"We traveled from Rockhampton to Logan, selling our plan for lower taxes, lower energy prices and lower migration, all things the Australian people want and if we do all those things we'll have and restore those higher living standards, in terms of One Nation I'm willing to cooperate with anyone to get rid of this terrible government cause I believe the Australian people want change, I want change but there's no prospect of us having a coalition because One Nation will be competing with us, they're going to run against us."
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Labor MP Tanya Plibersek tells Channel 7's Sunrise the party is delivering cost of living relief in many forms.
"Our plan is to keep focusing on what makes the biggest difference to Australians lives, we've got one tax cut this year, we've got another one coming next year, we back higher wages, we're investing in our health system, in hospitals, making it easier to see a GP bulk-billed, cheaper medicines, we're making sure people can afford a home of their own, helping first home buyers into the housing market, we're 100% focused on what makes a difference to people's lives."
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Hospitals in Gaza say 17 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Shifa Hospital says one strike hit a car in Gaza city, killing four people.
The Israeli military says the strikes targeted Hamas military operatives.
Palestinians are reporting an increase in the number of evacuation warnings and the scale of Israeli strikes.
It comes as US President Donald Trump announced Hamas has agreed to disarm, and Israel would halt its attacks on Gaza and withdraw from the territory.
Israel has shared “serious security concerns” with the White House regarding the proposed disarmament deal with Hamas.
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The daughter of missing woman Yvonne Whear has made an emotional plea for help to find her.
Yvonne Whear was last seen in February 2026, heading north on Queensland Road at Murwillumbah in the state's north.
Her vehicle has also not been spotted since - a gold-coloured Ford Escape wagon with NSW registration EWS28P.
Yvonne is described as being of Mediterranean/Middle Eastern appearance, around 154cm tall, of a medium to solid build and with long grey/brown hair.
This week is National Missing Persons Week.
Her daughter, Gillian Hallac says it's difficult not knowing what's happened.
"Today we are thinking not only of my mother but of every missing person and every family living with unanswered questions. It has been almost six months now since we knew mum was alive and well doing the things she loved, she had just started a new art class, she was working part time as an NDIS carer, she was maintaining a little hobby farm where she had lived for more than 23 years."
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And in sport,
A former FIFA vice president has described current President Gianni Infantino's controversial plans to sell World Cup stakes to private investors as ludicrous.
The plan has since been scrapped.
Infantino's predecessor, Sepp Blatter - who himself faced sweeping allegations of corruption within FIFA - says the close relationship between Infantino and US President Donald Trump reached "a financial dimension that is deeply damaging football."
Former president Jim Boyce says there's undoubtedly a lot of repair work to be done, and the ordinary football fan would have been sickened by the proposal.
"Gianni Infantino, when I knew him at UEFA and when he attended those meetings with me, was a very decent, sensible sort of person. I personally think that since the Qatar World Cup, and especially now with Donald Trump, sadly to say, I think power has gone to his head. And I honestly do believe there was collaboration between Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino (over the investment plan).
*The proposal - that would have raised close to AUD $6 billion dollars (USD $4.2 billion) to sell stakes in the World Cup and other FIFA competitions to private investors - was to create a commercial subsidiary of close to AUD $28-billion dollar (USD $20-billion).
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