Europe bakes as temperatures push to record highs theguardian.com/environment/20…

Trial date set for NSW MP accused of sexual offences smh.com.au/national/austr…

Man arrested after police find woman dead in Forbes, NSW abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2… via ABC Australia

Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins. 

The following is an account of the people impacted by Lehrmann’s actions that night in March 2019, by Rick Morton: satpa.pe/eSVo0hb

Anna Coutts-Trotter found herself in an abusive teenage relationship. Now she's helping survivors with mum Tanya Plibersek behind her abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2… via ABC Australia

Palestinian civil defence crews say they have found another mass grave in the courtyard of a hospital previously occupied by the IDF. They report 180 bodies including 'elderly women, children and young men.'

aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/21…

Why does this not surprise me. Linda Reynolds goes to dinner with Janet Albrechtsen.

A father’s grief, an army’s silence: New chopper crash theory emerges smh.com.au/politics/feder…

One of at least two Israeli air strikes overnight on southern Rafah killed 13 children and two women – all from the same family, according to Gaza hospital records.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/sotfjj

Bodies of 50 found in mass grave aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/…

high ground ..Financial Review

BREAKING | Director General of the Government Media in Gaza:

- We have discovered two mass graves in the Nasser Medical Complex and we expect there will be more

- We found in Nasser Complex corpses without heads, bodies without skins, and some of them had their organs stolen

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Surely there’s got to be a better way than more legal action #Lehrmann smh.com.au/politics/feder…

#Gaza death toll passes 34,000
77,000 wounded
2 million starving and at risk of disease
500 killed in the #WestBank , with many more brutally driven out by 'settlers' and IDF.

But forget #IsraeliWarCrimes - look over there at the threat of Iran!
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

The weapon everyone has access to: Sydney’s horror week of stabbings puts spotlight on knife crime abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2… via ABC Australia

Linda refuses to give up. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Denise Shrivell I managed to get the NSW Police to reopen the 💧The Armidale Club🔥 arson investigation and get the issue into Senate Estimates for nearly a year. Matt Canavan had to admit his father had a criminal record during his dual citizenship saga after I broke the story on Twitter. And more

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If there were more women MPs in Dutton's team, they'd be telling him what 'actually' causes violence against women. Willing ignorance of the root causes is probably number one on the list. #liberalmenproblem

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