Concerns about the impact on AUKUS after Britain’s defence minister quits, A state funeral to honour Aboriginal education leader Professor Peter Buckskin, Migrant communities in Australia celebrate the start of the FIFA World Cup.
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- Concerns about the impact on AUKUS after Britain’s defence minister quits...
- A state funeral to honour Aboriginal education leader Professor Peter Buckskin...
- Migrant communities in Australia celebrate the start of the FIFA World Cup.
The federal government says the resignation of Britain’s Defence Minister, John Healey, will have no effect on the AUKUS partnership.
Federal Industry and Innovation Minister Tim Ayres says the arrangement will survive changes in ministers because it is the interests of all three countries - Australia, UK and the US - to have it continue.
The announcement of Mr Healey's departure happened a couple of hours before a joint press conference that was to also include Australia's Defence Minister, Richard Marles.
Coalition leader Angus Taylor says the turn of events is a setback for the federal government - and should prompt a new look at spending on Australia's defence force.
"It is a shocker for Richard Marles. But the real shocker is that this government is not properly funding defence in this country. We are facing the most dangerous circumstances since the Second World War. And this defence minister is underfunding our defence force, underfunding AUKUS for what needs to be done. And we will all play a high price for that. Now Richard Marles should take a look at the UK Defence Secretary's decision. And he should get serious that the funding to defend this great nation."
US stocks have rallied to their best day in two months, while oil prices have fallen - after Donald Trump claimed a deal to end the war against Iran could be signed soon.
He told reporters at the White House that he expected a signing ceremony, attended by Vice President JD Vance, to be held in Europe over the weekend.
Later on in an online political rally for repbulican supporters, Mr Trump expressed optimism about the deal.
"Our country is doing really well. I don't know if you heard, but we ended the war with Iran today. And they have agreed never to have a nuclear weapon - something we insisted on. That was the whole purpose. That was 95 per cent of it. And they have done it in the most powerful way you can do it. So I just want to thank everybody."
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei says reports of a finalised agreement with the US are merely speculation.
A tireless advocate for Indigenous education and leadership, Professor Peter Buckskin, is being honoured with a state funeral.
A proud Narungga man from South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula, he transformed the landscape of First Nations education, advocating for community-led and culturally grounded learning.
Over four decades he worked as a teacher then in senior executive roles in both state and federal government - as well as being the inaugural chair of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Corporation.
Reverend Jack Harradine delivered the eulogy at St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Adelaide.
"One of the most influential people in Peter's life and on his career was his grandfather, Les Buckskin. A very early and strong powerful advocate of Aboriginal rights. Peter's grandfather, our grandfather, instilled in Peter and us respect, dignity and determination to fight for justice, for equality and for education."
The World Bank has downgraded its global growth forecast to its lowest level since the pandemic - due to the ongoing impacts of the war in the Middle East.
It says worldwide growth is now forecast to drop to 2.5 percent in 2026, from 2.9 percent a year earlier, with headline inflation averaging four percent.
The deputy chief economist of the World Bank Group, Ayhan Kose, says the impacts of the slowdown is hitting low-income and developing countries harder than advanced economies.
"Our main concern is that these successive shocks are leaving a very large negative impact on incomes, especially per capita incomes of emerging developing economies. These economies need to basically grow, their income should converge to incomes of advanced economies, and that is not happening at the pace we would like to see."
And to football, in the World Cup,
It has been a jam-packed opening day of the tournament, with South Korea coming back from a goal down to snatch a thrilling 2-1 win over the Czech Republic.
Substitute Oh Hyeon-gyu scored the final goal in the 80th minute.
Earlier, co-host Mexico opened the tournament with a 2-nil win over South Africa.
Fan Relebogile Lairi was among hundreds of fans watching the game in Johannesburg.
She says the team has to do better.
"Very disappointing, very disappointing start to the World Cup, we expected a lot more from the boys. Firstly, I feel like the boys had stage fright, they definitely had stage fright. If you look at how the game started down to the end of the game. When we had the ball, Mexico came at us, they came hard at us. But then when they had the ball, we were chasing them the entire time, which is a problem. The very first problem was what our coach did to us. You cannot walk into an opener defensively."
South Africa will next play the Czech Republic in Atlanta on Thursday
