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Welcome to SBS News In Easy English. I'm Catriona Stirrat.
A judge has found Pauline Hanson made a racist comment when she told a Muslim senator to pack her bags and go back to Pakistan.
Hanson had told Mehreen Faruqui to "piss off back to Pakistan" after the Senator wrote she could not mourn the passing of a leader of a racist empire built on lives, land and wealth stolen from colonised peoples.
Senator Hanson has maintained she was engaging in political discourse by pointing out hypocrisy by the Greens deputy in criticising the monarchy while benefiting from immigrating to and living in Australia.
But Justice Angus Stewart has found the tweet by Pauline Hanson was unlawful, requiring Hanson to delete the post and pay Faruqi costs for the proceedings.
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At least six Rohingya asylum seekers have died off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province.
East Aceh police chief Nova Suryandaru says preliminary information suggests they drowned trying to reach land, with their bodies discovered on a beach close to dozens of Rohingya refugees, including children, thought to have been abandoned on the shoreline by human traffickers.
The group are part of a growing number of Rohingya fleeing the harsh conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, after they escaped violence in their home country of Myanmar.
The UN's Nicholas Koumjian says the violence in Myanmar appears to be worsening.
“They've been caught between this fighting between the Arakan army and the Tatmadaw and suffering because of that. They've been both victims of collateral damage and directly targeted in attacks. Frequently they've been told to leave their homes, but there really is nowhere for them to go.”
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Lawyers have sent a letter of claim to Harrods on behalf of a group of women who have accused its late owner of abusing them.
While the late billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed always denied the allegations, Harrods has already apologised and launched a process for any current or former employees who wish to claim compensation.
The Justice for Harrods Survivors group says the letter signifies the beginning of a separate legal process to address the claims, amid concern the Harrods scheme is inadequate.
Lawyer Bruce Drummond says the sheer number of women coming forward - including an unknown number from Australia - suggests the scale of alleged abuse is more widespread than they first thought.
"That in our opinion is an industrial scale abuse, abuse that could have only been perpetrated with a system that enabled the abuse to happen and that is what is so key to this case and why this case, as I've said before in many ways, is the worst case of corporate sexual abuse of women that the world has ever known."
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Presidential candidate Donald Trump is suing broadcaster CBS over an interview of rival Kamala Harris, which aired on its 60 Minutes news program.
The complaint, filed in federal court, alleges the network aired two different responses from Harris on a question about the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Trump has repeatedly assailed the network on the campaign trail over the episode and has threatened to revoke CBS's broadcasting licence if elected.
CBS has said Trump backed out of his own planned interview with 60 Minutes.
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New workplace laws have come into effect today, giving thousands of labour-hire employees a pay rise.
The new laws mean that labour hire workers will be required to be paid the same as employees hired directly by the same company.
The first pay agreements to be approved by the Fair Work Commission under the changes will include wage rises for about 200 meat workers, around 350 miners, and more than 2000 cabin crew on airlines.
Federal secretary of the Flight Attendants' Association of Australia Teri O'Toole says some cabin crew have been earning significantly less than others doing the same job.
"Qantas has not employed a long haul flight attendant since before 2007. So it's incredible that we've been able to sit down and negotiate a fair outcome where the use of labour hire is going to be a thing of the past. For our domestic cabin crew, we've made applications through the Fair Work Commission for same job same pay applications, and we're hoping to see a really good outcome for those cabin crew."
That was SBS News In Easy English. I'm Catriona Stirrat.
