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Authorities say they are working around the clock to investigate a video that appears to show two New South Wales nurses allegedly bragging about killing Israeli patients.
Detectives have examined CCTV footage, interviewed staff and pinpointed areas within Bankstown Hospital where they believe the video was filmed.
An initial investigation by New South Wales Health has determined there is no indication claims Israeli patients had been denied treatment or killed are true.
But the footage has been widely condemned by politicians, health officials, and community leaders, including Alex Ryvchin from the Council for Australian Jewry.
"This is a warning sign once again to all Australians about the evil that exists in our midst, the need to understand this ideology and confront it - and the harm that it does to all Australians."
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Australia's largest iron ore port has closed in Western Australia as the state braces for a cyclone.
The Bureau of Meteorology says Tropical Cyclone Zelia is approaching W-A's coast and is expected to make landfall on Friday and intensify into a powerful category three system.
Port Hedland local Chris Ward says cyclone preparations are well under way in the iron ore town of about 16,000.
He says the rain has "well and truly" started, while people are stocking up at the supermarket on food and water and fly in fly out workers have left town.
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A senior minister says Australia will not retaliate if the United States imposes its planned tariffs for steel and aluminium imports.
The 25 per cent tariffs come into effect on March the 12th, leaving Australia one month to convince U-S counterparts to grant Australian exporters an exemption.
China and Canada have responded to similar U-S trade moves with their own counter-tariffs.
But Minister Ed Husic has told the National Press Club in Canberra that is not Australia’s style.
"Just asking the question itself and with the possible consequence shows how challenging the environment is before us. I appreciate that's a massive understatement. But if we start down this path it would take years if not decades to unpick. So we have an opportunity I think to sidestep all the work that'd be required."
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Federal Parliament is to commemorate the anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations today.
It has been 17 years since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an historic apology for racial discrimination against First Nations people.
"We apologise, especially, for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. For the pain, suffering and hurt of these stolen generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry."
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected to remember Mr Rudd's speech as a moment of fundamental decency that united the country and offered the promise of a fresh beginning.
Many Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their parents in the period between 1910 and 1970.
The annual Closing the Gap reports, which measure the differences in economic and wellbeing outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, also began in 2008.
The latest report was released this week and shows that of the 19 indicators included, only five are on track.
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Elon Musk has denied leading a hostile takeover of the U-S government, amid claims his cost-cutting work for the Trump administration is lacking transparency.
The world's richest man has been given sweeping powers by President Trump, causing chaos in several government agencies, and prompting a slew of legal challenges.
But Mr Musk has dismissed the growing concerns about the advisory agency.
He says the Department of Government Efficiency - or DOGE - is simply delivering what Americans voted for.
"We post our actions to the DOGE handle on X, and to the DOGE website. So, all of our actions are maximally transparent. In fact, I don't think there's been, I don't know of a case that we're an organisation has been more transparent than the DOGE organisation."
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To sport,
Teen sprint sensation Gout Gout is set to contest the nation's oldest footrace, the Stawell Gift.
The 17-year-old's manager has confirmed that Gout had agreed to run in the 120-metre event in April, although the contract is yet to be finalised.
Given his recent record-breaking performances, Gout Gout is unlikely to get an easy start in the handicapped race.
But if he takes out the title, he'll leave with $40,000.
