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- Around fifteen seats still too close to call as counting continues after this year's election;
- Donald Trump casts doubt on due process rights for immigrants in a new US interview;
- Australia's Oscar Piastri wins the Miami Grand Prix.
Fifteen seats remain in doubt after Saturday's federal election, with around 75 percent of the vote counted.
In the New South Wales seat of Bradfield, just 905 votes separate independent challenger Nicolette Boele and the Liberals Gisele Kapterian in the former safe seat for the Coalition, while only 85 votes between Labor and the Liberals in the newest West Australian seat of Bullwinkel.
Meanwhile Greens leader Adam Bandt is in danger of losing his seat of Melbourne to Labor challenger Sarah Witty, who is leading by almost 3000 votes with a high number of postal votes flowing to Labor over the Greens.
But despite the prospect of a lower house wipeout for the Greens, Mr Bandt says there are positive takeaways.
"People won't necessarily always be focusing their attention on the Senate vote, but it is worth a look. The Greens have achieved a record Senate vote. We're nudging 14 percent somewhere where the count is at the moment and we'll see where it gets to at the end. And I think that's a reflection now of the true Greens level of support."
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Federal Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce has revealed he will undergo surgery for prostate cancer.
The one-time deputy prime minister, who comfortably won his regional New South Wales seat of New England in Saturday's election, revealed his diagnosis on Sunday.
Mr Joyce has told Channel Seven the surgery is scheduled for today.
He's also had a health message for men.
"The big thing is - look, you have got to take something positive out of it. If you're a guy - or you know a guy... once you're in your 40s, 50s - get a PSA test. Just clear your own mind that everything is fine. If you get stuff early. Like all - like melanoma everything else. If you get it early, you're going to overwhelmingly going to be okay. But if you're too busy to get checked then you're putting your family in real strife."
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Donald Trump has declared he doesn't know if he supports the due process rights under the Constitution.
The US President had been asked about due process in an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker at his Florida Mar-a-Lago property.
The question was a follow up to remarks by secretary of state Marco Rubio last month that everyone in the US was entitled to protections under the Constitution, amid rising concern that the administration was defying court orders to repatriate wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador.
But Mr Trump says he does not know if both US citizens and non-citizens are entitled to due process procedures under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
"I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. It might say that but - if you're talking about that, then we'd have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials. We have thousands of people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on Earth. Some of the worst, most dangerous people on Earth. And I was elected to get them the hell out of here and the courts are holding me from doing it."
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One of Pope Francis's popemobiles is being transformed into a mobile health clinic for children in the Gaza Strip.
The United Nations children's agency UNICEF says the mobile clinic is desperately needed, with more than 9,000 children admitted for treatment of acute malnutrition since the beginning of the year.
The Vatican says the move fulfils one of the final wishes of Pope Francis, who died last month.
The pontiff entrusted the mobile clinic venture to the Catholic aid organisation Caritas Jerusalem.
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A class action over the lawfulness of strip-searches carried out by New South Wales Police at music festivals has begun today.
The civil trial in the New South Wales Supreme Court is expected to run for four weeks.
Lawyers allege the searches between 2016 and 2022 became routine practice and were regularly unlawful.
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A man has been accused of murder and fraud more than four years after a woman died while kayaking in Queensland.
The 54 year old woman drowned while kayaking with the man at Lake Samsonvale north of Brisbane in November 2020.
Queensland Police say her death initially appeared to be non-suspicious.
But they say a coronial inquiry led to detectives changing their position and launching a new investigation.
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Australia's F1 world championship leader Oscar Piastri has won the Miami Grand Prix, besting pole-sitter Max Verstappen to lead a McLaren one-two finish.
The Miami victory is his third consecutive trophy.
Melbourne-born Piastri now boasts a career-best four wins this season with a 16-point lead in the standings over Norris, after previously going back-to-back in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
