His viral cowboy-themed campaign ad sparked a wave of horse gifts abroad.

The proposal would have allowed commercial boats to keep and sell marlin bycatch.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has split Labor's proposed package of hate and gun laws after the Greens announced they would join the Coalition in opposing the legislation.

Labor will instead introduce separate bills on gun laws and hate crimes and migration on Tuesday but will not proceed with proposed racial vilification legislation.

Greens leader Larissa Waters confirmed her party would not support the bill, which proposed a range of reforms in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack.

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The original proposal combined a landmark gun buyback scheme, increased penalties for hate crimes, new offence for hate preachers radicalising children and inciting hatred to intimidate and harass.

They also include an expanded ban on prohibited symbols and increased powers for the Home Affairs department to cancel or refuse visas for people who spread hatred.

During a snap press conference this afternoon, the Prime Minister said the government would only proceed with measures that had the support of the parliament.

"The Greens party have engaged in good faith, and I thank them for that, and I had a discussion with Larissa Waters yesterday and she informed me about where they had landed," Albanese said.

"She informed me she would vote for the gun laws but would not vote for other parts of the legislation.

"In order to ensure passage of these gun laws, we will be separating out schedule three and four of the bill.

"That is important to deal with customs updates but also to have the national gun buyback scheme along the model that was implemented after the Port Arthur massacre under John Howard.

"We will separate out the bills, the gun laws will be separate and the laws on hate crimes and migration will proceed, but we will not be proceeding with the racial vilification provisions because it's clear that that will not have support.

"We will only proceed with measures that have the support of the parliament and are likely to receive that."

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Waters said in a statement this morning the party would work with the government to pass gun laws but Greens members believed the rest of the bill needed work.

"With every hour that passes, more concerns are raised by legal experts, faith groups and the community about the omnibus bill," Waters said.

"This is complex legislation, with a lot of massive pitfalls and omissions, and the process to fix it can't be rushed."

Waters argued the federal government should "start fresh with a bill that aims to protect everyone from hatred and discrimination".

"We are willing to sit down with the government to find a way forward, but it's clear that the amount of negotiations and legal analysis required to produce a good outcome can't be done in the extremely tight timeframe the government has created," she said.

"We need to keep all people in the community safe from discrimination and hatred, and good laws don't come from rushed work."

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The Greens have argued the laws should protect everyone from hatred and discrimination, including women, members of the LGBTQ+ community and those living with disabilities.

Members of the party have also said the laws should not be used to shut down legitimate political protests.

The minor party joined the Coalition in expressing opposition towards the reforms after Opposition Leader Sussan Ley described the proposed bill as "unsalvageable" earlier this week.

"The opposition will continue to scrutinise this legislation carefully, but from what we have seen so far, it looks pretty unsalvageable," Ley said.

"As it stands, the government's proposal is half-baked, and Australians deserve far better."

Ley claimed the proposed changes do not address the root issue of the Bondi attack.

"We have got this bundle of measures heading in many different directions, criticised in a very valid way by a whole range of people, but not actually addressing the issue," she said.

"Parliament should have been reconvened before Christmas to actually demonstrate leadership, compassion and the determination that I have spoken of every day since to tackle radical Islamic extremism and eradicate antisemitism."

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A family heading to North Shore said no extra buses were put on from Britomart last night.

More than 20 Auckland beaches remain under ‘do not swim’ black flags.

The Queensland Government has tonight issued a 'please explain' to the Police Commissioner, after officers failed to stop a convicted paedophile from working alongside children at a popular Queensland family attraction.

Steven James Harvey was exposed in a 9News investigation two months ago.

Locals now outraged to find he still has a job, as a fresh police probe gets underway.

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Harvey was sentenced to eight years behind bars in 2017 after pleading guilty to fifteen sex offences, some committed against children.

And just this week he was working within metres of kids, at the City Chicks attraction in Samford, A Current Affair revealed.

Back in November, 9News revealed Harvey – whose record includes indecent treatment of a child and multiple counts of rape – was employed by the business, which has a café and a petting zoo.

He'd been dating its owner, Ingrid Dimock.

When the story broke, Dimock claimed she'd checked with Blue Card Services and was advised her staff didn't require approvals.

"I'm just trying to salvage my business after this and ensure all families that it's a very safe place and Steve Harvey has been removed from the premises and anything to do with the business," Dimock told 9News in November.

The matter was referred to police to investigate back in November, when the investigation came to light.

"A breach has been identified and police are investigating it," Premier David Crisafulli said at the time.

"I think that shows how seriously that's been taken."

But last night, A Current Affair revealed Harvey is back and the matter has now been referred to Queensland Police, for a second time.

"How is a person who's been convicted of these offences now working with children? It's beyond comprehension," Shadow Attorney-General Meaghan Scanlon said.

Police Minister Dan Purdie said he's "been assured" by the commissioner that it's a "top priority".

"The footage I saw last night was shocking and as a parent and as a former child abuse detective it's very concerning, and that's why I've asked the commissioner for a please explain," he said.

Yesterday the cafe's been closed to the public. A sign on the front gate telling visitors it's due to staff unavailability.

A call to the number suggested on the sign indicates the business will remain closed until January 24 "for operational reasons".

It comes as the tight-knit Samford community calls for answers.

"I don't understand why a man with that reputation is allowed to work around children," one local said.

Sex offender registry first

Queensland's sex offenders registry, which went live on New Year's Eve, had one of it's key features activated for the first time.

One of the registry's main features is it lists reportable offenders who've breached their obligations and whose whereabouts are unknown to police, with their name, photograph and birthday made public.

That feature was utilised for the first time yesterday afternoon, when a convicted male offender allegedly breached his reporting conditions.

Police allege in the period the man was missing, he approached a 13-year-old girl at Coolangatta whom he didn't know and assaulted her.

Officers arrested him at Tugun around 5.30pm and he appeared in court today on four charges, including indecent treatment of a child.

Since tougher Blue Card laws came into effect in September, more than 400 people have had their cards suspended, or been prevented from starting child-related work.

Those suspensions have been sparked by allegations of sexual or violent behaviour towards a child, or other criminal or concerning conduct.

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As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave of protests that drew a bloody crackdown, a senior hard-line cleric called on Friday for the death penalty for detained demonstrators and directly threatened US President Donald Trump — evidence of the rage gripping authorities in the Islamic Republic.

Trump, though, struck a conciliatory note, thanking Iran's leaders for not executing hundreds of detained protesters, in a further sign he may be backing away from a military strike.

Executions, as well as the killing of peaceful protesters, are two of the red lines laid down by Trump for possible action against Iran.

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Harsh repression that has left several thousand people dead appears to have succeeded in stifling demonstrations that began on December 28 over Iran’s ailing economy and morphed into protests directly challenging the country’s theocracy.

There have been no signs of protests for days in Tehran, where shopping and street life have returned to outward normality, though a week-old internet blackout continued. Authorities have not reported any unrest elsewhere in the country.

“Iran cancelled the hanging of over 800 people,” Trump told reporters in Washington, adding that "I greatly respect the fact that they cancelled.”

Trump did not clarify who he spoke to in Iran to confirm the state of any planned executions.

The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency on Friday put the death toll at 3,090.

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The number, which exceeds that of any other round of protest or unrest in Iran in decades and recalls the chaos surrounding the 1979 revolution, continues to rise.

The agency has been accurate throughout the years of demonstrations, relying on a network of activists inside Iran that confirms all reported fatalities.

The AP has been unable to independently confirm the toll. Iran’s government has not provided casualty figures.

Hard-line cleric's fiery sermon

In contrast, the sermon by Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami carried by Iranian state radio sparked chants from those gathered for prayers, including: “Armed hypocrites should be put to death!”

Khatami, a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts and Guardian Council long known for his hard-line views, described the protesters as the “butlers” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “Trump’s soldiers.”

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He said Netanyahu and Trump should await "hard revenge from the system.”

“Americans and Zionists should not expect peace," the cleric said.

His fiery speech came as allies of Iran and the United States alike sought to defuse tensions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on Friday to both Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Israel's Netanyahu, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Russia had previously kept largely quiet about the protests.

Moscow has watched several key allies suffer blows as its resources and focus are consumed by its four-year-old war against Ukraine, including the downfall of Syria’s former President Bashar Assad in 2024, last year’s US and Israeli attacks on Iran and the US seizure of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro this month.

Exiled Iranian royal calls for fight to continue

Days after Trump pledged “help is on its way” for the protesters, both the demonstrations and the prospect of imminent US retaliation appeared to have receded.

One diplomat told The Associated Press that top officials from Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar had raised concerns with Trump that a US military intervention would shake the global economy and destabilize an already volatile region.

Iran’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi urged the US to make good on its pledge to intervene.

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Pahlavi, whose father was overthrown by Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, said he still believes the president's promise of assistance.

“I believe the president is a man of his word," Pahlavi told reporters in Washington. He added that "regardless of whether action is taken or not, we as Iranians have no choice to carry on the fight.“

“I will return to Iran,” he vowed. Hours later, he urged protesters to take to the streets again from Saturday to Monday.

Despite support by diehard monarchists in the diaspora, Pahlavi has struggled to gain wider appeal within Iran. But that has not stopped him from presenting himself as the transitional leader of Iran if the government were to fall.

Iran authorities list protest damage

Khatami, the hard-line cleric, also provided the first overall statistics on damage from the protests, claiming 350 mosques, 126 prayer halls and 20 other holy places had sustained damage.

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Another 80 homes of Friday prayer leaders — an important position within Iran's theocracy — were also damaged, likely underlining the anger demonstrators felt toward symbols of the government.

He said 400 hospitals, 106 ambulances, 71 fire department vehicles, and another 50 emergency vehicles also sustained damage.

Even as protests appeared to have been smothered inside Iran, thousands of exiled Iranians and their supporters have taken to the streets in cities across Europe to shout out their rage at the government of the Islamic Republic.

Amid the continuing internet shutdown, some Iranians crossed borders to communicate with the outside world.

At a border crossing in Turkey’s eastern province of Van, a trickle of Iranians crossing on Friday said they were travelling to get around the communications blackout.

“I will go back to Iran after they open the internet,” said a traveler who gave only his first name, Mehdi, out of security concerns.

Also crossing the border were some Turkish citizens escaping the unrest in Iran.

Mehmet Önder, 47, was in Tehran for his textiles business when the protests erupted. He said he laid low in his hotel until it was shut for security reasons, then stayed with one of his customers until he was able to return to Turkey.

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Although he did not venture into the streets, Önder said he heard heavy gunfire.

“I understand guns, because I served in the military in the southeast of Turkey,” he said. “The guns they were firing were not simple weapons. They were machine guns.”

In a sign of the conflict’s potential to spill over borders, a Kurdish separatist group in Iraq said it has launched attacks on Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in recent days in retaliation for Tehran’s crackdown on protests.

A representative of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, or PAK, said its members have “played a role in the protests through both financial support and armed operations to defend protesters when needed.”

The group said the attacks were launched by members of its military wing based inside Iran.

A "gold-standard" study has rejected the Trump administration's advice for pregnant mothers to not take paracetamol.

In September last year, Donald Trump and his Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr urged expecting mothers to avoid the common painkiller.

They claimed paracetamol, known in the US by the brand name Tylenol, had been linked to autism in children.

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But an evidence review published in The Lancet found there was no evidence taking the drug while pregnant increased the risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability among children.

The systematic review looked at 43 studies to draw its conclusion.

Gynaecologist and senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne Joseph Sgroi said paracetamol is safe to use as directed.

"Simply put, when rigorous methods are applied, and accounting for all bias, the previously suggested harms do not hold up," he said.

"What is well established, however, is that untreated pain and especially high maternal temperatures can be harmful in pregnancy. 

"Fever has been associated with miscarriage, preterm birth, and congenital anomalies. 

"For this reason, avoiding paracetamol out of fear is not evidence-based and may place both mother and baby at risk."

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In September, Trump and Kennedy, neither of whom have any medical training, instead urged mothers to tough it out.

"Taking Tylenol is not good," the president said.

"For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically necessary."

Trump also said, without any medical evidence, that Tylenol should not be given to children.

The president's remarks were immediately decried by doctors and scientists around the world.

The Lancet's review published today found the links between paracetamol and autism were "often based on studies prone to biases".

The current TGA guidelines for paracetamol use recommend adults and children 12 years or older take 500 to 1000mg every four to six hours as necessary.

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The maximum adult dose is 4000mg in any 24-hour period.

The optimal dose for younger children is 15mg per kg, which can be given every four to six hours as required.

Children should have no more than four doses in 24 hours.

Paracetamol should always be used in accordance with the directions on the label and individuals should not take more than one medication containing paracetamol at the same time.

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A South Australian mother has made an emotional plea for tougher penalties for those who fail to seek help in an emergency, two years after her daughter's overdose death.

Amy Bowden's boyfriend Ethan Ross was there in her final moments but he failed to get help as the 26-year-old lay unconscious inside her Redwood Park home in Adelaide's north-east.

He has since admitted he injected Amy with meth to try to reverse a heroin overdose in February 2024. 

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The next day she was found dead, which was a fate her family said could have been avoided. 

"Amy was a stunningly beautiful person inside and out," her mum Michelle Sposito said.

"Her death could most likely have been preventable if Ethan Ross had called Triple Zero and got real help for her."

Ross previously pleaded guilty to administering a drug, a charge Amy's family says is inadequate. 

They want new laws targeting those who fail to get help during an emergency. 

"In other states and territories we have specific laws to make sure perpetrators are held to greater account," Sposito said.

Facing a maximum 10 years behind bars, Ross sat silently inside the courtroom today as Bowden's family refused his apology letter. 

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"We don't believe it's an apology, it's just another way to get out of where he is," step-father Bryan Bowden said.

Ross, who is in custody, will be sentenced in a fortnight.

But Sposito said that won't be the end of her fight as she plans to continue to work in her daughter's name and rally the government for tougher laws.

The government said it was monitoring the case closely. 

"We will never stop fighting for justice for our beautiful Amy," Sposito said.

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Satellite images of bushfire-ravaged towns have captured the devastating extent of the damage caused by last week's Victorian bushfire emergency.

More than 410,000 hectares of Victorian bushland has burned since last Wednesday, when catastrophic fire conditions sparked dozens of blazes across the state.

Several fires continue to burn, including two major blazes at Longwood and Walwa.

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More than 1000 structures across Victoria have been damaged or destroyed by the fires, including 290 homes which have been reduced to ash and rubble.

The devastating fires turned deadly over the weekend, after authorities discovered the body of cattle farmer Max Hobson in the Longwood fire ground at Gobur.

Aerial pictures taken by Nearmap show properties in Natimuk and Harcourt before and after the fierce infernos raged through the towns.

At least 30 homes were destroyed in Natimuk during the fires, while the blaze in Harcourt and surrounds claimed 54 homes.

Victoria Police are investigating the causes of major fires, including the Ravenswood South and Walwa blazes, while arson and explosives detectives probe the Longwood fire.

Almost $200 million in federal and government support has been announced in recent days to support fire-affected communities.

Images captured by Nearmap as part of property intelligence show the impact of the fires.