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Welcome to SBS News in Easy English. I'm Catriona Stirrat.
Labor's new cabinet has been sworn in following several changes to the frontbench as Anthony Albanese prepares for the next federal election.
Malarndirri McCarthy has taken on the Indigenous Australians portfolio, taking over from Linda Burney who will retire at the next election.
Tony Burke is now Immigration and Home Affairs minister, with Andrew Giles moving to Skills and Training, and Clare O'Neil moving to the housing portfolio.
Governor General Sam Mostyn oversaw proceedings for the first time since taking up the role.
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The Prime Minister is calling on Nationals frontbencher Barnaby Joyce to be sacked over comments he made comparing voting to using a bullet.
Barnaby Joyce has since apologised for the comments he made during anti-wind farm rally in Lake Illawarra over the weekend.
Mr Joyce told the audience that the "bullet [they] have is that little piece of paper", urging voters to "turn up in numbers" in Sydney and Canberra.
Anthony Albanese says the comments made were unacceptable.
Federal Health Minister Mark Butler says given recent security threats facing politicians, the comments were disappointing.
"At a time where as I said, the head of the Federal Police has testified to this parliament that there's a sharp, worrying rise in threat levels against members of parliament. We've seen only in the last fortnight, in the United States a failed assassination attempt against former President Trump the idea that a former deputy prime minister would use explicit language at a public rally about bullets, and magazines being loaded to say goodbye to the Prime Minister and other senior political leaders is simply extraordinary and utterly unacceptable."
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New South Wales Premier Chris Minns says he supports a motion for the federal Labor Party to recognise Palestinian statehood.
The motion was moved and accepted at the New South Wales Labor conference over the weekend, with calls for the government to recognise Palestine as a sovereign state "as a priority".
Mr Minns says it is a “balanced motion”, but says he will leave the foreign policy up to the foreign minister and the Albanese government.
"That motion via the New South Wales conference was also the Motion moved in the national platform, which says recognition of the Palestinian state is a priority. But it's not immediate and immediately recognising it is up to the Commonwealth Government, probably through the processes of the United Nations and I just make this point, ultimately, the goal here is a two state solution to secure Israel alongside Palestinians living side by side and the hope for everybody is in peace."
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And to the Olympics,
French-born Australian Jessica Fox has become the only Australian ever to win four consecutive medals in the same event.
Clinching gold in the women's canoe race, Fox now has five individual medals and joins Ian Thorpe, Leisel Jones, Shirley Strickland and Anna Meares as the only Australians to have achieved this.
The 30-year-old - one of the flag-bearers at the opening ceremony - is the only Australian ever to win four consecutive medals in the same event.
Speaking to reporters after the win, Fox says the post-win feeling was amazing.
"I think hugging mum, hugging my sister and dad and and then also, you know the podium was extremely special. Seeing so many Aussies in the crowd was unbelievable. I had some family and friends there but then you know there were so many others that there was such a big Aussie contingent and they were so loud and it was amazing. They were singing the anthem. They did some Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi and it was just the most special day."
That was SBS News In Easy English. I'm Catriona Stirrat.
