A local councillor in Tasmania erupted at a regular meeting last night, telling the deputy mayor, "eject me from this meeting, girl" after she told him to stop interjecting.

Councillor David Grace, of Kingborough Council, had announced he was changing his vote on an issue, which prompted an admonition from Deputy Mayor Jo Westwood, as seen on the council's stream of the meeting online.

"I don't want you interjecting anymore," she said.

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"If you keep interjecting, I will eject you from this part of the meeting."

Grace snapped back, telling her, "come and take me out".

"You come across and eject me from the meeting, girl," he said.

"Don't be silly, I'm entitled to debate things on behalf of the council."

Westwood said he was entitled to the same privileges of debate as every other councillor, but that Grace was "pushing" things, before he cut her off.

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"Don't you threaten me," he said.

"I've had enough of you lot threatening me. I'll be going off my head here one night, and I will tear this place apart."

He said his nerves were "shattered".

Westwood then directed Grace to leave, whereon he suggested she call the police.

The deputy mayor was seen picking up her phone, when another councillor suggested a quick recess.

On their return, both Westwood and Grace apologised for their behaviour.

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Mayor Paula Wriedt told nine.com.au in a statement that some "unwelcome comments" were made in the meeting.

"There are set rules that councillors must follow and allocated time for comments allowed from everyone," she said.

"The Deputy Mayor, Jo Westwood who was chairing the meeting at the time, was following these procedures so that each member of the Council had an appropriate amount of time on each agenda item.

"Cr Grace challenged her ruling and things got heated.

"When these rules are followed the meetings proceed well.

"The meeting was briefly adjourned and upon returning, I am glad say both Councillors apologised for their heated exchanges. The Council was then able to continue to work professionally through the remaining agenda items."

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China has urged Australia to respect its national security concerns and avoid "serious consequences" after a Chinese military jet carried out a "dangerous" interception of a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) surveillance plane.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman overnight refused to comment on the incident involving an RAAF P-8A Poseidon.

It was conducting routine surveillance in international airspace above the South China Sea on May 26 when a Chinese PLA Air Force J-16 jet flew "very close", set off flares and dropped chaff in its path, the Australian Defence Department said.

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But the spokesman insisted China's military conducted operations in line with international law.

"China will never allow any country to violate China's sovereignty and security in the name of freedom of navigation, and endanger peace and stability in the South China Sea," the spokesman said.

"China once again urges the Australian side to earnestly respect China's national security interests and major concerns, and to be cautious in words and deeds, so as to avoid misjudgement and serious consequences."

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said during his visit to Jakarta yesterday the interception was dangerous and threatened the safety of the RAAF plane and its crew.

"We regard the actions of China in this area as being an act of aggression," Albanese said.

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Earlier, Defence Minister Richard Marles said the federal government had raised its concerns over the "very dangerous" intercept with the Chinese government.

The crew of the RAAF plane were unharmed and returned to base after the incident.

The Canadian government has also complained that China has been harassing its military surveillance aircraft monitoring North Korea as part of a UN mission.

But China's defence ministry said Canada should halt "any risky and provocative behaviour" or face "serious consequences".

The vast South China Sea has become hotly disputed between China and other countries, including Australia.

Tensions in the contested waters have ratcheted up since 2014 as China has turned sandbars into islands, equipping them with airfields, ports and weapons systems and warned Western warships and aircraft to stay away from them.

There have been other close encounters between Chinese and foreign warplanes over the years.

The worst of these occurred in 2001, when a Chinese fighter jet collided with a US Navy reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea.

In that case, the pilot of the Chinese F-8 fighter was killed and the US plane had to make an emergency landing on China's Hainan Island.

The 24 US crew members were held on the Chinese island for 11 days before their release.

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Forget everything you know about the history of chickens.

A breakthrough from English researchers has turned the long-believed history between chickens and humans on its head.

Previously anthropologists believed that chickens were domesticated 10,000 years ago in China, southeast Asia or India, and from there spread into Europe 7000 years ago.

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But a study published this week in Antiquity and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA has shown humans only started domesticating chickens much more recently.

Until 1500 BC, the wild jungle fowl lived in the treetops of southeast Asia, too high up to be a regular source of food for humans.

But the development of dry rice farming drew the jungle fowl – the precursor to the modern chicken – down to ground level.

As the wild jungle fowl saw the rice as a source of food, farmers thought the same about the fowl.

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"This comprehensive re-evaluation of chickens firstly demonstrates how wrong our understanding of the time and place of chicken domestication was," Oxford University's Professor Greger Larson said.

"And even more excitingly, we show how the arrival of dry rice agriculture acted as a catalyst for both the chicken domestication process and its global dispersal."

An international team of scientists analysed chicken bones found in 89 countries.

Radiocarbon dating found the oldest evidence of the domesticated chicken in Ban Non Wat in central Thailand, dated between 1650 and 1250 BC.

From there domesticated chickens headed west, being taken across Asia into the Mediterranean.

It was not until about 300AD before chickens were regularly eaten in Britain.

Before then, Iron Age Europeans would not eat chickens, but would venerate them instead.

"Eating chickens is so common that people think we have never not eaten them," University of Exeter professor Naomi Sykes said. 

"Our evidence shows that our past relationship with chickens was far more complex, and that for centuries chickens were celebrated and venerated."

It was not until the 1960s that the chicken nugget was invented.

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After covertly taking control of an underworld encrypted messaging system, the Australian Federal Police have exposed just how deeply Italy's notoriously secretive and ruthlessly violent 'Ndrangheta mafia has infiltrated Australia.

The tentacles of the 'Ndrangheta reach into towns and cities across the country, the AFP revealed today, explaining how thousands of members will be presenting a modest front of regular family life while laundering billions in dirty cash in construction, agricultural and catering businesses.

"It's entirely possible that people would be living next door to members of the 'Ndrangheta without knowing," AFP Assistant Commissioner Nigel Ryan said today, describing the mafia as quiet puppet masters who control killer bikie gangs and hardened criminals on the frontlines of Australia's drug, illegal gambling and gun trade.

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"The 'Ndrangheta pride themselves on the fact that they have this omertà, which means they work in secrecy and silence," Ryan said.

"They've been able to operate in the darkness for so long."

But the AFP and FBI's audacious masterstroke to penetrate and quietly seize control of AN0M, a secure and encrypted messaging system favoured by criminals around the world, had changed everything, he said.

Since establishing themselves in Australia in the early 1920s, in towns like Griffith in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Ryan said the Italian mafia-linked families had legitimised their businesses to "wash billions" of ill-gotten gains.

Around 70 per cent of the world's cocaine is trafficked by 'Ndrangheta, and the AFP believes that same monopolising control of the illicit white powder exists in Australia.

"The 'Ndrangheta are actually the ones pulling the strings of different, other organised crime groups, particularly the more violent groups such as motorcycle gangs."

Assisted by the FBI, Italian police and other law enforcement agencies in Europe, the AFP has built out extensive familial mapping which revealed 51 Italian organised crime clans operating in Australia, of which 14 were "confirmed" as 'Ndrangheta.

"We've seen the familial blood lines, and marriage into blood lines," Ryan said.

"We see the same names coming up all the time in relation to organised crime in this country."

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Today's revelation comes one year after the AFP made public Operation Ironside, the biggest and most significant organised crime operation in its history.

That operation saw the AFP penetrate major crime groups by breaking into and assuming total control of AN0M.

AN0M allowed the AFP to build an extensive picture of the 'Ndrangheta in Australia, with agents methodically analysing an ocean of 28 million messages sent over the platform.

Users had no idea the AFP and FBI was watching.

Ryan said a "good majority" of those messages were between Italian mafia members and outlaw motorcycle gangs, particularly the Comancheros.

"Unfortunately for them, they invested in the wrong technology when they invested in AN0M."

However, Ryan said AN0M was not used by Asian or Middle Eastern crime syndicates.

"This is really a warning to Italian organised crime that they're on our radar," he said.

Ryan declared the AFP must "cut off the head and tail" of 'Ndrangheta in Australia, while promising more crime-busting headlines will follow today's revelations.

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Operation Ironside has already dealt a heavy blow to organised crime in Australia and around the the globe.

In Australia, 383 alleged offenders have been charged with 2340 offences.

More than 6.3 tonnes of illicit drugs and $55 million has been seized.

So far, 42 offenders charged under the operation have pleaded guilty or been sentenced.

Globally, more than 700 alleged offenders have been charged and 65 tonnes of illicit drugs seized.

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Who are the 'Ndrangheta in Australia?

The 'Ndrangheta, also known as the Calabrian mafia, typically try to maintain a low profile and not display overt wealth.

'Ndrangheta clans are headed by senior figures that have authority over the other members.

Australian-based 'Ndrangheta are believed to be assisted and directed by 'Ndrangheta in Italy.

The families are typically involved in drug importations, money laundering, tobacco distribution and acts of violence.

Since the 1970s, the Australian 'Ndrangheta are believed to have been involved in money laundering through legitimate business, making it difficult for law enforcement agencies to track the original source of money.

'Ndrangheta launder proceeds of crime through bitcoin, corrupt lawyers and accountants.

Australian 'Ndrangheta members are difficult to combat, infiltrate and disrupt due to the code of silence, known as omertà.

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A television commercial for a male body spray has been taken off the air in India, after critics said it made light of gang rape.

Bollywood celebrities including Priyanka Chopra, Richa Chadha and Farhan Khan are among those to have lambasted the commercial for Layer'r Shot, a brand of male fragrance, calling it "shameful," "disgusting" and "incredibly tasteless".

Its controversial advert shows four men appearing to stalk a frightened-looking woman in a store before cutting to one of the men saying, "We're four, there's one, who takes the shot?"

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Only when the woman turns round does it become clear they are talking about the body spray – which one of the men then takes from a store shelf and uses.

The commercial caused a storm on social media, where critics including various celebrities blasted its innuendo as making light of rape.

Many said the timing of the advert made it particularly insensitive, as it was broadcast just a week after a case in which a 17-year-old was allegedly raped by five men in the southern city of Hyderabad – the latest in a series of high-profile crimes against women and minority groups across the country.

"This advertisement is clearly promoting sexual violence against women and girls and promoting a rapist mentality among men. The advertisement is cringeworthy and should not be allowed to be played on mass media," Swati Maliwal, chairwoman of the Delhi Commission for Women, wrote to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Saturday.

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Within 24 hours, the ministry had taken the commercial off the air and asked Twitter and YouTube to remove it from their platforms.

In an email to Twitter, the ministry said the videos were "detrimental to the portrayal of women in the interest of decency and morality" and violated the digital media ethics code.

In a statement Monday, Layer'r Shot apologised for the television advertisements, saying that they "never intended to hurt anyone's sentiments or feelings or outrage any woman's modesty or promote any sort of culture, as wrongly perceived by some".

The brand said it had voluntarily asked all its media partners to stop broadcasting the advertisements from Saturday with immediate effect.

Even after the commercial was taken down, it continued to cause a controversy.

Actress Richa Chadha was among those registering her disgust, calling the makers of the commercial "filth".

"Creatives, script, agency, client, casting… does everyone think rape is a joke?" Chadha tweeted.

Responding to Chadha's Tweet, Quantico star Priyanka Chopra called the ad "shameful and disgusting" and said she was glad that the ministry has taken it down.

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Film writer and director Farhan Khan also slammed the advertisement.

"What incredibly tasteless and twisted minds it must take to think up, approve and create these stinking body spray 'gang rape' innuendo ads. Shameful," Khan, who is also a United Nations Women's Goodwill Ambassador, tweeted.

Actress Swara Bhasker said both the perfume brand and its marketing agency had been "tone deaf" given the alleged gang rape of the teenager in an upscale part of Hyderabad last Saturday.

The case has shocked the state of Telangana, of which Hyderabad is the capital.

Telangana's home minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali said on Saturday that "strong action will be taken against all the offenders, irrespective of their background."

It was "a ghastly incident," the minister tweeted on Saturday.

Cupertino: The next Apple iPhone won't be announced until September, but at this time every year we get a glimpse at how Apple plans to change every iPhone through it's iOS software updates.

iOS 16 has been unveiled at Apple's Worldwide Developers conference this morning, streamed live to tens of thousands around the world, as well as in front of a small and exclusive group of developers at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino just north of San Jose.

At the event, Apple outlines all the changes they plan to introduce to Macs, iPads, Apple Watch and iPhones over the year ahead.

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For iPhone users, iOS 16 will be available later in the year, around the same time as the next new iPhone, but it will be compatible back to devices like the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8.

Some of the ways your iPhone will change include the ability to edit messages you send – after they've sent.

So when you see a typo, tap the message and choose edit. The message will change on your phone, and on the recipients.

Regret sending that message? No worries, if it's a recent send, you can choose "Undo Send" and the message disappears.

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We don't know yet how new a message needs to be, but we're pretty sure the recipients will also need to have the latest Apple iOS version, and it won't work with text messages (Green bubbles) sent to other brand devices.

As we continue to use video conferencing and video calling, Apple is looking to give every Mac computer owner a whole new way to improve their webcam quality, by pairing your iPhone as the camera for your Mac computer.

This increased the quality, but also allows for enhanced new features such as a top down camera view not possible without the ultra-wide lens of an iPhone and the processing power of both the iPhone and the Mac.

Apple is also dramatically updating the Lock Screen on iPhones, from the plain image with the time on it, to a customisable view including advanced photos, choices of fonts for the time and the addition of widgets showing more information all the time on your lock screen.

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For families, Family Sharing is enhanced with new permission controls, allowing you to easily manage your kids access, and also putting requests from kids into messages instead of buried deep in the settings.

Families can also share their photo libraries across family members using iCloud Photo sharing.

It's a glimpse into how Apple devices will change – even if you aren't buying a new one any time soon.

We'll have more news from Apple's WWDC during the day.

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Russia has begun turning over the bodies of Ukrainian fighters killed at the Azovstal steelworks, the fortress-like plant in the destroyed city of Mariupol where their last-ditch stand became a symbol of resistance against Moscow’s invasion.

Dozens of the dead taken from the bombed-out mill’s now Russian-occupied ruins have been transferred to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, where DNA testing is underway to identify the remains, according to both a military leader and a spokeswoman for the Azov Regiment.

The Azov Regiment was among the Ukrainian units that defended the steelworks for nearly three months before surrendering in May under relentless Russian attacks from the ground, sea and air.

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It was unclear how many bodies might remain at the plant.

Meanwhile, Russian forces continued to fight for control of Sievierodonetsk, an eastern Ukrainian city that is key to Moscow’s goal of completing the capture of the industrial Donbas region.

And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow's forces also intend to take the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, home to more than 700,000 people, a move that could severely weaken Ukraine’s standing and allow the Russian military to advance closer to the center of the country.

“In the Zaporizhzhia region … there is the most threatening situation there,” Zelenskyy said.

The Ukrainian fighters' dogged defense of the steel mill frustrated the Kremlin's objective of quickly capturing Mariupol and tied down Russian forces in the strategic port city.

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The defenders' fate in Russian hands is shrouded in uncertainty. Zelenskyy said more than 2500 fighters from the plant are being held prisoner, and Ukraine is working to win their release.

The recovery of their remains from the Azovstal ruins has not been announced by the Ukrainian government, and Russian officials have not commented. But relatives of soldiers killed at the plant discussed the process with The Associated Press.

Ukraine on Saturday announced the first officially confirmed swap of its military dead since the war began. It said the two sides exchanged 320 bodies in all, each getting back 160 sets of remains. The swap took place Thursday on the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region.

Anna Holovko, a spokeswoman for the Azov Regiment, said all 160 of the Ukrainian bodies turned over by the Russians were from the Azovstal ruins. She said that at least 52 of those bodies are thought to be the remains of Azov Regiment soldiers.

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Maksym Zhorin, a former Azov Regiment leader now co-commanding a Kyiv-based military unit, confirmed that bodies from the steel plant were among those exchanged.

The brother of an Azov fighter missing and feared dead in the steelworks told the AP that at least two trucks of bodies from Azovstal were transferred to a military hospital in Kyiv for identification.

Viacheslav Drofa said the remains of his elder brother, Dmitry Lisen, did not appear to be among those recovered so far. He added that some of the dead were severely burned.

The mother of a soldier killed in an airstrike on the plant said the Azov Regiment telephoned her and said her son’s body might be among those transferred to Kyiv. The mother did not want her or her son to be identified by name, saying she feared that discussing the recovery process might disrupt it.

She tearfully referred to her son as a hero. “It’s important for me to bury him in our Ukrainian land," she said.

In other developments Monday, Ukraine's efforts to fight off Russia's invasion loomed large over D-Day commemorations in France, where the 78th anniversary of the Normandy invasion was marked.

"The fight in Ukraine is about honouring these veterans of World War II,” Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the American Cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking Omaha Beach in Normandy.

“It’s about maintaining the so-called global rules-based international order that was established by the dead who are buried here at this cemetery."

American D-Day veteran Charles Shay, 97, was at Omaha Beach to mark the the anniversary of the June 6, 1944, landings and pay tribute to those who fell that day. Asked about the war raging on the European continent, Shay said, "It is a very sad situation.”

“In 1944 I landed on these beaches, and we thought we’d bring peace to the world. But it’s not possible,” he added.

Meanwhile, the president of Ukraine’s separatist Donetsk People’s Republic said that the pro-Moscow region is putting on trial three British men alleged to have been mercenaries for Ukraine. If convicted on the charges, including of trying to seize power, the men could get the death penalty.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree granting lump-sum payments of 5 million rubles ($81,000) to families of Russian National Guard members who die in Ukraine. Guard members have taken part in such operations as the seizure of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The lump sum is roughly six times the average annual Russian salary.

On the battlefield, Russian warplanes fired long-range missiles to destroy a plant on the edge of the town of Lozova in the northeastern Kharkiv region that was repairing armored vehicles, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.

Russian aircraft hit 73 areas of concentration of Ukrainian troops and equipment, while Russian artillery struck 431 military targets, Konashenkov said. His claims could not be independently verified.

Ukrainian forces put up resistance in Sievierodonetsk and other areas.

"There are more of them, they are more powerful, but we have every chance to fight on this direction,” Zelenskyy said.

Ukrainian artillery fire could be heard outside the city of Bakhmut, southwest of Sievierodonetsk.

Ukrainian tanks moved back and forth from the front line, carefully hiding under trees after firing at Russian positions. One of the tanks was a T-80 captured from Russian forces. Its crew hacked bushes with hatchets and covered the vehicle and its main gun with branches.

A woman is being treated in hospital for burns following a house fire in Melbourne this afternoon.

Fire Rescue Victoria says firefighters were first called to the Balmoral Place address in Melton West at 3pm after a resident called triple zero to report their house was on fire.

Firefighters said they could see a column of smoke in the vicinity of the address while en route.

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When emergency services arrived, they found the single story brick home "fully involved" in fire.

"Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus quickly surrounded the home with an extra line protecting the threatened home next door," a FRV spokesperson said.

Around 30 firefighters battled to bring the blaze under control in under an hour.

One neighbour said the fire was eye-opening.

"I jumped out of bed and I ran outside and then all I seen is this big black smoke behind me," the neighbour said.

"It was the scariest thing I've ever seen."

The woman inside the house was transported to the Alfred hospital and treated for burns to her hands and possible smoke inhalation.

A Queensland woman has been fined for drink driving after blowing seven times the legal alcohol limit.

A court heard Gold Coast chef Erin Smitherman had been at a party before she was stopped by police officers.

Smitherman told officers she had drank two beers before blowing 0.379, one of the highest alcohol readings ever recorded in Queensland.

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The 36-year-old was detained and subjected to further testing by police.

The court heard the woman was seen swerving and hitting other vehicles, before parking at the Hope Island shopping centre.

Security guards who had seen the woman's driving blocked her car before police arrived on scene.

Smitherman plead guilty to high range drink driving.

The magistrate told Smitherman "I don't even know how you drove".

She was fined $2000 and banned from driving for almost two years.

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