Good afternoon. Anthony Albanese has said his governmentsupports the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilitiesbut would not say whether Australia received advance notice of what he called a “unilateral” attack.
Speaking to reporters in Canberra, the prime minister said the government supported action to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon while underlining the need for a diplomatic endto the Israel-Iran conflict. “We don’t want escalation and a full-scale war,” Albanese said.
The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, refused to say whether the communications facility at Pine Gap in the Northern Territory was used in the bombing, but she did say the US had not requested Australian assistance in future military operations.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has floated the prospect of regime change in Iran, posting“Make Iran Great Again”on social media, even as top members of his administration insisted the US was not seeking to topple the Iranian leadership. The world is now bracing for Iran’s response. Iran’s parliament has already voted toclose the strait of Hormuz, through which more than 20% of the world’s oil supply passes daily. The supreme national security council will need to sign off on the move to make it happen. If it does,petrol prices will spike.
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“I don’t think she’s just a great of golf, I think she’s a great of Australian sport.”
Ritchie Smith, the coach of West Australian golferMinjee Lee, said it can be difficult to comprehend just how much the 29-year-old has achieved in her career. Australia’s highest-paid female athletehas undergone both biomechanical and psychological changeto recover from a 19-month winless run, cementing her greatnesswith a steely victoryat the big-money Women’s PGA Championship in Texas to become just the third Australian to win three different majors.
A new poll of Tasmanian voters reveals more than two-thirds of respondents believe the state’s stadium deal with the AFLis unfair and should be renegotiated. The poll found 69% of those questioned agreed that the AFL was “treating Tasmania unfairly” in the deal, and the same percentage found the state’s parliament should “renegotiate with the AFL to avoid building a new stadium”.
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