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The three people who died in a boat mishap off the New South Wales north coast have been identified as two marine volunteers and a person they were trying to save.
Marine Rescue NSW says they sent out a six-person volunteer team to respond to a yacht in distress at the Ballina Bar.
The conditions proved difficult to navigate, with 2.5 metres of swell and strong winds causing their rescue vessel to capsize.
Four members of the team made it back to shore.
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NDIS Minister Mark Butler says work is being done to improve cultural safety before Indigenous participants are transitioned off the NDIS.
The First Peoples Disability Network Australia has called for culturally safe and appropriate alternatives to be in place.
Almost 160,000 people are expected to be removed from the program, under changes designed to contain the growing cost of the program.
Mr Butler has told SBS that an advisory group will be set up to ensure a First Nations strategy is implemented.
"With First Nations communities, there is not just the cultural needs that we need to have front of mind. There is also whether or not frankly, there is a market for the some of the remote and very remote communities in Australia to provide a service that a participant is entitled to. So again, we have got a really strong engagement with First Nations communities. We have had hundreds of sessions with them over the last little while to develop a First Nations Strategy, which will feed into this reform process."
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A captain of a ship in the Strait of Hormuz says reports of new attacks on merchant ships in the region are "disturbing".
The US military says it sank six Iranian small boats that tried to interfere with commercial shipping, which Iran denies.
Raman Kapoor has told Sky News that the vessel he is on has been stationary in the strait since the war in Iran began in February.
He says his crew is affected by uncertainty over when a resolution will allow ships to proceed.
"We are a total of 24 crew members on board and we are stuck here ever since the war started on 28th February. And the situation has been, you know, various ups and downs are there ever since the war started. But ever since there was a ceasefire announced, situation was pretty normal. No attacks were there. But past few days, it's been choppy again, you know."
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Four Australians are among 149 people aboard a luxury cruise ship that is dealing with an outbreak of a deadly virus.
Cape Verde's Health Ministry says that for now, it will not allow the ship to dock because of public health concerns.
Seven cases of the deadly hantavirus have now been identified, and three people have died.
Associate Professor Steven Bradfute - from the University of New Mexico's Centre for Global Health - says there are many questions that need to be investigated.
"So what's interesting about this is it's occurring on this cruise ship where there's people that have been isolated together for quite a bit of time. The cruise ship originated in Argentina. So one of the main questions with this case is this, and these are a hantavirus that came from South America that was brought on the cruise ship or it was something on the cruise ship and the rodents, if there were rodents on that ship or did it get picked up along the way at the different stops? So that's where some of the investigations are gonna be looking at now."
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Tennis legend Venus Williams and Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman are among those attending New York's biggest social event of the year, the Met Gala.
The theme this year is "Fashion is Art".
The gala has raised a record $59 million for the Met's Costume Institute.
Plus-size model Paloma Elsesser wore a gown built from 100 vintage dresses sourced from an unlikely place.
"So I am wearing a new work by Francesco Risso. It is a new project. It is called Bureau of Imagination. It is a manufacture of object. It is couture (tailored clothing). This was sourced from eBay. 100 dresses from the 1920s, 30s and 40s that we constructed to make this."
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In football, Arsenal are in the leading position in the English Premier League race - without even playing.
Manchester City have drawn 3-3 with Everton, giving Arsenal a five-point lead at the top of the ladder, with three games to play.
City led Everton one-nil with 25 minutes to play, but gave up three goals in the space of 14 minutes.
That means if Arsenal win their three remaining games, they will be champions of England for the first time in 22 years.
