Key Points
- Trade Minister Don Farrell "optimistic" in US trade negotiations
- Pride Month protests held around the world
- Coco Gauff wins the French Open
TRANSCRIPT
Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell says he is confident the United States will remove tariffs on Australian imports.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected to meet with American President Donald Trump in Canada next week, on the sidelines of the G-7 summit.
Mr Farrell told Sky News he is pursuing every opportunity to argue for Australia's exclusion from the tariffs the U-S has imposed on most countries.
He says he has told his American counterpart Jamieson Greer that tariffs on Australia are unjustified, due to a trade surplus with the United States.
"We want all of the tariffs removed, not just some of them. We want all of them removed. And I made it clear to USTR Greer that we will continue to press for the removal of all of those tariffs."
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Protests are set to continue around Australia this afternoon, over the death in custody of Kumanjayi White.
They've embarked on a National Week of Action, demanding justice for the 24-year-old Yuendumu man, who had an intellectual disability.
Police allege he was shoplifting from an Alice Springs supermarket on May 27 and had assaulted a security guard, when plain clothes detectives forcibly restrained him, and he died.
Mr White's family are calling for the two police officers involved, to be stood down during the criminal investigation of the matter.
Northern Territory police have confirmed the detectives have not been stood down.
Rallies have been held in recent days across capital cities, with more scheduled today.
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A candlelight vigil in memory of slain teenager Phoebe Bishop will go ahead after police discovered human remains in "unforgiving" bushland southwest of Bundaberg.
Forensic testing is being undertaken to formally identify the remains, which Detective Inspector Craig Mansfield says were not buried but declined to offer specifics.
"I don't want to go into the specifics of what we've seen there at the scene just out of respect for Phoebe’s family we will conduct our examinations of course with a view of trying to determine a cause of death."
The discovery came just hours after Phoebe's accused housemates, 34-year-old James Wood and 33-year-old Tanika Bromley, were arrested and remanded in custody.
Both have been charged with murder and interfering with a corpse.
The community will hold a candlelight vigil early evening on Sunday, with locals asked to wear bright colours and butterflies.
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LGBTIQ+ people from around the world have marched through the streets of Washington DC, in a show of defiance to President Donald Trump for rolling back the community's rights.
The Republican president has issued executive orders limiting transgender rights, banning transgender people from serving in the armed forces, and rescinding anti-discrimination policies for LGBTIQ+ people.
Rallies have also taken place in other countries around the world to mark Pride Month.
Thousands marched in Romania and Poland, where far right parties have recently gained ground.
In Gdansk, Witold was with his long-term partner Piotr, protesting his country's conservative laws.
"We have been together for 12 years right now, or even more because it's a full 12 years so we are in the middle of the 13th. We just have a flat, we have a mortgage that we pay 50/50. But even if, for example, if I died, for example, my partner would have to fight for the flat together with my family."
Meanwhile, in neighbouring Hungary, Pride marches are prohibited.
Displays of symbols "referring to or promoting" sexual minorities are banned from government buildings.
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The White House has condemned protests in downtown Los Angeles against federal immigration raids as an "insurrection" against the United States.
Helmeted police in riot gear engaged in a tense confrontation with protesters, after immigration officers made multiple raids and arrested at least 40 people.
Protesters later gathered outside a federal detention centre calling for their release, as officers reportedly fired bean bag rounds to disperse the crowd.
Patty Rivas, whose aunt, Maria Perez was deported after 30 years in the US, voiced her anger to the crowd.
“My aunt was recently deported. She was detained by ICE. Part of this rally is for her. She went to her routine immigration visit. And it was at that visit that they detained her and they told her that she had to go back to Mexico. She is not a criminal. She has three kids, one who's a firefighter from Intercounty, and she literally risked her life to protect us and so it's heartbreaking that they would take her mother away just because they can.”
The Los Angeles Police Department says it has not made any arrests related to the demonstration.
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American tennis star Coco Gauff says her maiden French Open trophy was "one I really wanted," after she beat top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka to secure the singles' title in Paris.
The 21-year-old beat the Belarussian 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 win in difficult, windy conditions - but says it was a heartfelt victory.
"I felt like this is one I really wanted, because I do think this was one of the tournaments that when I was younger that I felt I had the best shot of winning. So I just felt like if I went through my career and didn't get at least one of these, I would feel regrets and stuff. Today, playing Aryna, I was just, 'I just gotta go for it and try my best to get through the match'."
It was a long-awaited success for Gauff, who lost the 2022 French Open final and has reached at least the quarter-finals in Paris in each of the previous four years.
Gauff is the first woman to beat a world number one in a Grand Slam final from a set down, since Venus Williams against Lindsay Davenport at Wimbledon in 2005.
