The driver said he and his colleagues are told to ‘just let’ non-paying passengers board.

The union says Rio Tinto is blocking a collective deal and stifling workers’ voice.

A woman has been charged with attempted arson after she allegedly set a police car on fire during a riot outside the Alice Springs Hospital on Thursday night.

A large crowd assembled outside where a man suspected of murdering a five-year-old girl was being treated.

The 47-year-old man, identified by police as Jefferson Lewis, was arrested after the body of a child believed to be Kumanjayi Little Baby was discovered following a five-day search.

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The violence started late in the evening as the grieving crowd demanded the man be handed over to be dealt with by cultural traditions.

Tear gas was used by police in an effort to disperse protesters.

Lewis has been moved to Darwin in a bid to ease tensions in Alice Springs.

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During the unrest, police allege a woman used a lighter and dried grass to start a fire beneath a Southern Traffic Operations vehicle.

Officers said a woman was arrested at the scene and the fire was extinguished before it could spread further.

Police allege the vehicle suffered about $20,000 damage.

The woman has been charged with one count of attempt arson and one count of taking part in a riot.

She remains in custody and is expected to face court next week.

For 24/7 crisis support run by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, contact 13YARN (13 92 76).

Three Australian states have broken May heat records, with one capital city smashing a 144-year-old record.

The Tasmanian capital of Hobart recorded its hottest ever May day yesterday, exceeding the previous record of 25.7 degrees, Weatherzone reports.

The city hit 26.9 degrees just after 3pm, more than 12 degrees above its average May maximum of 14.6 degrees.

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Warm north-westerly winds contributed to other May records.

At least 20 weather stations in Victoria registered heat records on the same day.

This includes Avalon in Melbourne's western outskirts, which recorded 29.3 degrees at 1.02pm, exceeding the old record of 28 degrees.

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The city of Warrnambool in the state's south-west reached 28.3 degrees at 1.23pm.

May heat records were also broken in NSW.

Deniliquin in the western Riverina region hit 28.5 degrees yesterday, nudging just above the old record of 28.0 degrees.

Hay also exceeded its May record, hitting 29.2 degrees, beating the old record of 29.1 by a whisker.

Ivanhoe hit 29.5 degrees, beating the old record of 29.1 degrees.

Temperatures set to dip

A low pressure system is set to bring rain, gusty winds and thunderstorms to parts of Australia until at least the middle of next week.

A cold front is set to slowly cross into Victoria late today and into tomorrow.

The low pressure system is then expected to move over Bass Strait or southern Victoria on Monday, with a cool south-westerly airstream in its wake, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

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A cold front and associated trough will also move into NSW.

The system is set to cross the state between tomorrow and early next week, bringing unsettled weather to southern inland parts of the state.

Residents in the ACT can expect mostly cloudy days with the chance of a shower next week.

Isolated coastal showers will continue in Queensland at least Tuesday as a high pressure system extends over the state from a slow moving high near New Zealand.

South Australian residents can expect a cold front in multiple parts of the state, with isolated showers expected for the west coast district and southern agricultural area.

There will be showers over southern parts of Western Australia until at least Tuesday, along with the chance of a thunderstorm over the western Pilbara tomorrow.

A trough which has moved into the Northern Territory's south-west is expected to reach the Simpson District by this evening.

Off the back of warmer temperatures, showers are expected to fall in many parts of Tasmania until at least Tuesday.

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Patrick Dixon continued the attack while the victim was unconscious and having a seizure.

Emergency services were notified of the emergency at 12:40 today

About 176 people from the flotilla disembarked at a port on Crete.

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A US court has prohibited sending a common drug through the mail, in a move that will dramatically reduce access to abortion across the country.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans issued a sweeping national ban on mailing prescriptions of mifepristone.

The drug, formerly known as RU486, is the most common method of terminating a pregnancy in the USA, as well as in Australia.

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It is taken along with misoprostol as part of a medical termination of a pregnancy.

After the US Supreme Court struck down a constitutional right to an abortion in 2022, seeking a mifepristone prescription across state lines has become common.

Women in states where abortion is illegal would access the pills via a telehealth appointment across state lines.

About a quarter of abortions in the US are made after such a telehealth appointment.

But the ruling by the appeals court would mean pregnant women would need to receive the pills in person.

Abortion is illegal with limited exceptions in much of the US, especially in the southeast of the country.

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Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren described the ruling as being done by "a conservative court packed with Trump-appointed judges".

"This is a page straight out of extremist Republicans' anti-abortion playbook," she said.

"Let me be clear: the abortion pill is safe and effective."

The ruling was made by a three-judge panel, all appointed to the court by Republicans.

Democratic Senator Patty Murray said the judges' decision was "infuriating and infantilising".

"A patient in rural Washington who was going to receive her medication by mail, now has to find a clinic, take time off work, arrange childcare, and travel – sometimes hours – for a pill she could have safely taken at home," Murray said.

"A woman managing a miscarriage will be forced to make that same trip in the middle of one of the worst weeks of her life."

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Meanwhile, Republican Senator James Lankford celebrated the decision.

"The Biden administration endangered the lives of women and girls by removing safeguards for mifepristone," he said.

"Today's Fifth Circuit decision takes a big step to right this wrong. Let's make sure women and girls are protected from this dangerous drug."

Louisiana Attorney-General Liz Murrill described the ruling as a "victory for life".

"The Biden abortion cartel facilitated the deaths of thousands of Louisiana babies (and millions in other states) through illegal mail-order abortion pills," she said. 

"Today, that nightmare is over."

While the ruling was made in Louisiana, it applies nationwide.

It is likely to be appealed to the US Supreme Court.

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