Crowd gathers at Sydney city corridor for Palestinian neighborhood vigil
Ariel Bogle
There’s a heavy police presence at Sydney city corridor forward of tonight’s interfaith vigil.
A sombre crowd has gathered close to the constructing’s steps, dealing with a row of Palestinian and Lebanese flags.
Ready with a Palestinian flag round his neck, Joseph, a Palestinian-Australian, mentioned there “was an excessive amount of struggling occurring”.
“We’ve had a variety of relations who’ve been displaced in Gaza, the West Financial institution,” he mentioned. “It’s been one yr. Too many useless. We don’t need this to unfold even additional.”
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Girl charged over alleged threats to Sydney mosque
Caitlin Cassidy
An 82-year-old lady has been charged with allegedly making harassing telephone calls to a mosque in south Sydney.
About 6.30pm on Friday, police attended the Masjid Arrahman mosque in Kingsgrove, Sydney after receiving studies of two allegedly offensive calls made on Tuesday, 1 October and Friday, 4 October.
Following investigations, police visited a house in 5 Dock and spoke with the girl, who was issued a courtroom discover for the alleged offence of utilizing carriage service to menace, harass and/or offend.
She’s going to seem earlier than Bankstown native courtroom on Wednesday, 27 November.
The mosque has obtained media consideration for holding a commemoration ceremony for the Hezbollah chief, Hassan Nasrallah and labelling fighters of the group, listed as a terrorist organisation in Australia since 2021, as “martyrs”.
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Crowd gathers at Sydney city corridor for Palestinian neighborhood vigil
Ariel Bogle
There’s a heavy police presence at Sydney city corridor forward of tonight’s interfaith vigil.
A sombre crowd has gathered close to the constructing’s steps, dealing with a row of Palestinian and Lebanese flags.
Ready with a Palestinian flag round his neck, Joseph, a Palestinian-Australian, mentioned there “was an excessive amount of struggling occurring”.
“We’ve had a variety of relations who’ve been displaced in Gaza, the West Financial institution,” he mentioned. “It’s been one yr. Too many useless. We don’t need this to unfold even additional.”
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And we’ve some pictures of individuals beginning to arrive for the Palestinian vigil in Sydney this night:
There’s a sturdy police presence on the bottom:
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And our reporter Ariel Bogle is on the bottom at Sydney City Corridor, the place there’s a lot of police:
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Somebody within the crowd at Lakemba mosque has snapped this photograph of the vigil tonight. We can have extra quickly:
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Australian markets buoyed up by sturdy US jobs report
The native share market has had a constructive begin to the week after a powerful US jobs report over the weekend allayed fears the world’s greatest financial system was headed into recession, AAP studies.
The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index on Monday completed up 55.4 factors, or 0.68%, to eight,205.4, whereas the broader All Ordinaries climbed 62.4 factors, or 0.74%, to eight,479.0.
The Australian greenback had dropped to an almost three-week low of 68.04 US cents, from 68.42 US cents at Friday’s ASX shut.
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A person has died after a unit fireplace within the Lismore space yesterday.
NSW police have launched an announcement:
About 1am yesterday (Sunday 6 October 2024), emergency providers had been referred to as to a unit on Anstey Road, Girards Hill, following studies of a home fireplace.
Officers connected to Richmond police district arrived and located a unit nicely alight.
Hearth and Rescue NSW attended and extinguished the blaze earlier than recovering the physique of a person and a canine from inside the house.
The person is but to be formally recognized.
There have been no different studies of accidents.
Police have established against the law scene and have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.
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There are thunderstorm warnings for elements of QLD and NSW:
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Some massive data for photo voltaic throughout NSW and QLD over the weekend:
The solar shining on household rooftop photo voltaic programs was powering greater than half of whole power demand in QLD & NSW this weekend. QLD set a brand new document of three,091MW at 10:30am (AEST) on Saturday, with NSW setting a brand new document of three,479MW at 1pm (AEST) on Sunday. pic.twitter.com/6o5H3dqgQq
— AEMO (@AEMO_Energy) October 7, 2024
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Sarah Basford Canales
Bridget McKenzie addresses rally
Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie is talking in lieu of Peter Dutton on the 7 October rally at Parliament Home right this moment.
McKenzie mentioned “Israel has a proper to exist. Israel has a proper to self-defence, and we shouldn’t be calling for ceasefire each time she seeks to do this”.
She mentioned it was time for Jewish Australians to hit the streets and communicate out.
We’ve heard loads concerning the silent Australians. The time for silence is over. It’s time to rise up, to talk out, to take motion on our streets, to assemble in suburbs, in communities proper throughout the nation, as so a lot of our Jewish Australian neighborhood is right this moment.
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Sarah Basford Canales
Rally at Parliament Home marks anniversary of terrorist assaults on Israel
On the windy lawns exterior Parliament Home, a rally of a whole lot has gathered on the anniversary of the 7 October assaults by Palestinian militant group, Hamas, in opposition to southern Israel.
The rally has been organised by Christian organisation, By no means Once more Is Now, however the crowd right here on a public vacation in Canberra is a broad church.
A lot of federal politicians had been noticed within the crowd, together with Coalition members, Jane Hume, Michaelia Money, Simon Birmingham and Bridget McKenzie, in addition to former Labor MP Mike Kelly.
Others included cross-benchers Bob Katter and Russell Broadbent.
The Israeli ambassador Amir Maimon joined former prime minister, Tony Abbott, on a row of seats in entrance of the stage.
Israeli and Australian flags had been carried by many within the crowd however dispersed between them had been some Pahlavi Iranian flags – the ruling authorities in Iran previous to the Islamic Revolution – in addition to the Eureka flag.
Speeches, which included some from the Australian Christian Foyer’s chief government and members of different right-wing and fringe non secular teams, had been damaged up by non secular musical performances.
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