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Long-serving Nationals Senator Ron Boswell has died at the age of 85.

Boswell, who was born in Perth but spent most of his life in Queensland, was a Senator for the National Party for 31 years, and served as the party's leader in the upper house for 17 years.

He was a Parliamentary Secretary under the Howard government, and also held multiple portfolios when in opposition, including the Shadow Minister for Regional Development.

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Boswell was also the Father of the Senate from 2008-2014.

Nationals Leader David Littleproud paid tribute to Boswell, calling him fiercely loyal to the party and to Australia.

"Ron was a Nationals Elder and statesman of the highest order, a giant of our great cause, and a lifelong fighter for families, small business and regional and rural Australia," he said.

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"Ron Boswell was truly a one-of-a-kind politician. His legacy leaves behind a better Australia."

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also paid tribute to Boswell, calling him a "great Queenslander".

"He took principled stances about people who would seek to divide the nation. He was someone who was firmly focused on the national interest."

Boswell began his parliamentary career in 1983 after joining the Nationals nine years before, and won re-election on six further occasions before announcing his retirement from politics at the 2013 election.

He was a critic of same-sex marriage, and supported the creation of the Liberal National Party in Queensland after the 2007 election.

Boswell married Leila Beattie, who encouraged him to enter politics, in 1966. Beattie died in 2021.

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Since the dramatic capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, US President Donald Trump and senior members of his administration have issued warnings to several other governments, including those of Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Iran and Greenland — a self-governing territory of Denmark.

"We are in the business of having countries around us that are viable and successful and where the oil is allowed to freely come out," Trump said.

"American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again."

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Here's what to know about what Trump has said in the past two days, and how some of those governments have responded.

Greenland

Trump repeated on Sunday (Monday AEST) that the US needed the huge North Atlantic island of Greenland "from the standpoint of national security".

"We need Greenland… it's so strategic right now. Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.

"We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it."

Responding to Trump's latest comments, Greenland Prime Minister Jens Frederik Nielsen said in a statement: "The current and repeated rhetoric coming from the United States is entirely unacceptable.

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"When the president of the United States speaks of 'needing Greenland' and links us to Venezuela and military intervention, it is not only wrong. It is disrespectful.

"Our country is not an object in great-power rhetoric. We are a people. A country. A democracy.

He later said in a press conference that Greenland was "not in the situation where we are thinking that a takeover of the country might happen overnight".

"You cannot compare Greenland to Venezuela. We are a democratic country," he said.

Trump has repeatedly stated that he wants to annex Greenland, a huge, resource-rich island of 2.16 million square kilometres, claiming that the autonomous Danish territory is needed for US national security, although he has also cited "economic security".

Both Greenland and Denmark, a NATO ally of the US, are staunchly opposed to the idea.

Colombia

Trump had harsh words for Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday, describing him as "a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States, and he's not going to be doing it very long".

When pressed by a reporter on whether those comments meant there could be an "operation" in Colombia in the future, Trump said it "sounds good to me".

Petro defended his government's track record on combating drug trafficking in a nearly 700-word post on X, touting what he described as "the largest cocaine seizure in the world's history".

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He added: "I am not illegitimate, nor am I a narco. I only have as assets my family home that I still pay for with my salary."

Petro said he had ordered targeted bombings against drug-linked armed groups while adhering to humanitarian law.

However, cocaine production in Colombia has reached record highs, according to the the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Petro, a former member of the M19 guerrilla group, later said he would himself fight to defend Colombia.

"I swore not to touch a weapon again … but for the homeland I will take up arms again."

Petro angered the Trump administration, which cancelled his US visa in September, after he called on US soldiers to disobey orders.

Cuba

Trump on Sunday said military intervention was unnecessary in Cuba, a key ally of Venezuela, because it was "ready to fall".

"I don't think we need any action," Trump said. "It looks like it's going down."

"I don't know if they're going to hold out, but Cuba now has no income.

"They got all their income from Venezuela, from the Venezuelan oil."

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But US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Cuban government "a huge problem".

"I think they're in a lot of trouble, yes," Rubio told NBC's Meet the Press.

"I'm not going to talk to you about what our future steps are going to be and our policies are going to be right now, in this regard, but I don't think it's any mystery that we are not big fans of the Cuban regime."

"If I lived in Havana and I worked in the government, I'd be concerned."

At a rally on Saturday in front of the US Embassy in Havana, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel promised not to let the Cuba-Venezuela alliance go down without a fight.

"For Venezuela, of course for Cuba, we are willing to give even our own life, but at a heavy cost," Díaz-Canel proclaimed.

Mexico

Trump has frequently accused Mexico of not doing enough to clamp down on drug cartels.

On Sunday, he said drugs were "pouring" through Mexico and that "we're going to have to do something".

Trump added that the cartels in Mexico were "very strong" and warned that "Mexico has to get their act together".

In a phone interview with Fox News, Trump said he had asked Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum if she wanted the US military's help in rooting out drug cartels.

Sheinbaum has repeatedly rejected the US intervention in Venezuela and the seizure of Maduro.

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"Mexico reaffirms a principle that is neither new nor open to ambiguity," she said on Monday in a news conference.

"We categorically reject intervention in the internal affairs of other countries."

Responding to Trump's accusations that Mexico had not done enough to combat drug-trafficking cartels, Sheinbaum asserted: "Mexico co-operates with the United States, including for humanitarian reasons, to prevent fentanyl and other drugs from reaching its population, especially young people".

"We do not want fentanyl or any drug to get near any young person — whether in the United States, in Mexico, or anywhere else in the world."

Again rejecting the notion of US military action on Mexican soil, Sheinbaum said she did not think the United States was seriously considering an invasion of Mexico.

Iran

Trump also repeated his warnings to Iran, where anti-government protests have entered their second week.

"If they start killing people like they have in the past, I think they're going to get hit very hard by the United States," Trump told reporters Sunday.

Last week, Trump said that if Iran "kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go."

One Iranian human rights group estimated that 16 people had been killed in the protests so far.

CNN cannot verify that tally.

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At the end of last month, Trump warned Iran against any attempt to rebuild its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said he had heard Iran was "behaving badly. … I hear that Iran is trying to build up again, and if they are, we're going to have to knock them down."

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the ‌Islamic Republic "will not yield to the enemy" and that rioters should be "put in their place".

The US bombed several of Iran's key nuclear facilities in June, amid Israel's 12-day war against the country.

The attack ended what had been a stuttering process of bilateral US-Iranian talks designed to rein in Tehran's nuclear program.

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The Trump administration is doubling down over its claims of hegemony in the "Western Hemisphere", amid ongoing threats to attack or undermine neighbours the US claims to be a threat.

Taking to X earlier this morning, the US State Department posted a black-and-white photo of Donald Trump with the caption: "This is OUR Hemisphere, and President Trump will not allow our security to be threatened".

The assertions come as captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro faces court in the US for the first time following his audacious capture by US forces in Caracas.

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US President Donald Trump has long insisted Maduro's regime is cooperating with "narco-terrorists" to smuggle drugs in the US, and last year built up a mass of US forces in the region.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, meanwhile, has recently claimed that Maduro's removal would prevent foes like Iran and Hezbollah from "operating" in Venezuela.

The incursion that captured Maduro was preceded by months of strikes on what the White House claimed were "drug boats", the legality of which has been questioned in the US.

Trump has, since Maduro's kidnapping, taken the opportunity to threaten other neighbours, whether ostensible friends or foes.

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The bullish foreign policy stance also comes on the back of mounting disapproval domestically, with Trump's ratings plummeting, and the continuing focus on the Jeffrey Epstein documents the administration has been ordered to release.

Cuba – a nation heavily reliant on Venezuelan oil – Colombia, Mexico, and Greenland have all been the subject of recent comments by Trump or Rubio.

Trump warned Colombian President Gustavo Petro to "watch his ass" and called him a "sick man".

He suggested Cuba's government would fall and again suggested the possibility of US military action in Mexico, while once more floating the possibility of unilaterally annexing Greenland.

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Rubio, meanwhile, posted on the White House website a self-compiled list of quotes given in recent interviews that build to suggest the US will continue to exercise its power in the "western hemisphere".

"We've seen how our adversaries all over the world are exploiting and extracting resources from Africa, from every other country. They're not going to do it in the Western Hemisphere," he said.

"That is not going to happen under President Trump. Read our national security strategy. He is serious about it."

It's a posture that harks back to the fifth US President, James Monroe, who established the Monroe Doctrine, which stipulates that the US will guard against foreign influence in its region.

"This is the Western Hemisphere," Rubio said in another interview.

"This is where we live – and we're not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be a base of operation for adversaries, competitors, and rivals of the United States."

Trump had also referenced the 200-year-old policy, claiming that some in his administration were starting to reference the "Don-roe Doctrine".

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The Idaho grandmother, 72, was once a fierce Trump supporter – so loyal was Hemphill to the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement that she refused to accept the president's 2020 election defeat and joined the thousands.

Hemphill pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour count of parading, demonstrating or picketing at the Capitol Building and was sentenced to 60 days in prison.

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Accused Bondi terror attack gunman Naveed Akram has been moved from a Sydney prison hospital to Goulburn Supermax, 9News understands.

The 24-year-old has been charged with 59 offences including 15 counts of murder and committing a terrorist act.

The alleged December 14 attack at at Chanukah by the Sea claimed the lives of 15 people and injured more than 40 others.

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Akram was seriously injured during a shootout with police, while his father Sajid was shot dead.

The 24-year-old spent nine days in hospital before he was transferred to a Sydney jail.

It is understood he spent his time at the jail in isolation in the hospital unit.

A NSW government said community safety remains a "top priority".

"Corrective Services NSW takes its responsibility to appropriately manage serious offenders incredibly seriously," the spokesperson said.

"The High Risk Management Correctional Centre is the most secure prison in the state, and is equipped to accommodate inmates who pose the highest levels of risk.

"We are not able to comment on the specific circumstances of individual inmates."

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Revellers have chanted "liberty" and draped Venezuelan flags over their shoulders in South Florida to celebrate the US military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro and remove him from the country — a stunning outcome they had longed for but left them wondering what comes next in their troubled homeland.

For some Venezuelan natives, the military action — culminating months of stepped-up US pressure — brought their dreams of reuniting with loved ones closer to reality after years of heartbreaking separations.

People gathered for a rally in Doral — the Miami suburb where President Donald Trump has a golf resort and where roughly half the population is of Venezuelan descent — as word spread that Venezuela's now-deposed president had been captured and flown out of the country.

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Outside El Arepazo restaurant, a hub of the Venezuelan culture of Doral, one man held a piece of cardboard with "Libertad" scrawled with a black marker. It was a sentiment expressed by other native Venezuelans hoping for a new beginning for their home country as they chanted "Liberty! Liberty! Liberty!"

"We're like everybody — it's a combination of feelings, of course," said Alejandra Arrieta, who came to the US in 1997.

"There's fears. There's excitement. There's so many years that we've been waiting for this. Something had to happen in Venezuela. We all need the freedom."

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For David Nuñez, the regime change offered hope for a long-awaited reunion with loved ones.

Nuñez said he fled to the United States six years ago after being persecuted in Venezuela for his political activism and has not seen his daughters — ages 8 and 17 — since then.

"The most important thing is that we're going to be able to be with our families soon," Nuñez said.

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"At least for me, I haven't seen my daughters in six years so I have a lot of mixed feelings. I've cried a lot. I'm really happy because I know that I'm going to be able to return to Venezuela very soon."

Trump insisted on Saturday that the US government would run the country at least temporarily and was already doing so. The action marked the culmination of an escalating Trump administration pressure campaign on the oil-rich South American nation as well as weeks of planning that tracked Maduro's behavioural habits.

After Trump's press conference about US actions in Venezuela, people still gathered outside of the Doral restaurant sang, danced and waved flags. A percussionist drummed along with the singing crowd.

People started gathering outside the restaurant once the news broke. Cooks were told to stay and prepare more food for anticipated high demand. Hundreds showed up, and the crowd kept growing as the day went on.

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Some say Maduro's ouster was long awaited

Alexa Perez said she has waited years for this moment.

"Thanks, President Trump. This is our second liberty. This our independence day from today on," Perez said.

She married a week ago and said the news was the "best wedding gift" possible.

Her husband, Aldo Amenta, said they were scared, excited and confused at first and felt better when they learned their family members were safe.

"We're really happy and excited that the doors are open for Venezuela, for all of our people who deserve a chance," Amenta said.

Perez responded positively to apparent US plans to run Venezuela at least temporarily and tap its vast oil reserves to sell to other nations, saying her homeland has not received anything from Russia, Iran and China.

"We are very poor, we have no hospital, we have no rights for our people," Perez said.

"So I think this is going to be a great transition. Because once you know how the US works, you know that everything can work better."

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The Venezuelan diaspora grew over decades

About 8 million people have fled the country since 2014, settling first in neighbouring countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. After the COVID-19 pandemic, they increasingly set their sights on the United States, walking through the jungle in Colombia and Panama or flying to the US on humanitarian parole with a financial sponsor.

In South Florida, deep-seated concerns in the Venezuelan community about Trump's tough immigration policies gave way to celebrations after Maduro was deposed in the American military operation early on Saturday.

In Doral, upper-middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs came to invest in property and businesses when socialist Hugo Chávez won the presidency in the late 1990s. They were followed by political opponents and entrepreneurs who set up small businesses. In recent years, more lower-income Venezuelans have come for work in service industries.

They are doctors, lawyers, beauticians, construction workers and house cleaners. Some are naturalized US citizens or live in the country illegally with US-born children. Others overstay tourist visas, seek asylum or have some form of temporary status.

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'Not a guarantee, but a possibility, for recovery'

Niurka Meléndez, who fled from Venezuela in 2015, said on Saturday she was hopeful that Maduro's ouster will improve life in her homeland. Meléndez immigrated to New York City, where she co-founded the group Venezuelans and Immigrants Aid, which strives to empower the lives of immigrants. She became a steadfast advocate for change in her home country, where she said her countrymen faced a humanitarian crisis.

Now, she hopes those hardships will fade away.

"For us, it's just the start of the justice we need to see," Meléndez said in a phone interview.

Her homeland had reached a "breaking point" due to forced displacements, repression, hunger and fear, she said. Now there's a need for international humanitarian support to help in Venezuela's recovery.

"Removing an authoritarian system responsible for these crimes creates the possibility, not a guarantee, but a possibility, for recovery," she said. "A future without criminal control over institutions is the minimum condition for rebuilding a country based on justice, rule of law, and democratic safeguards."

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has suggested that the United States would not govern Venezuela day-to-day other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine” on the country, a turnaround after President Donald Trump has insisted that the US would be running Venezuela following its ouster of leader Nicolás Maduro.

Rubio’s statements seemed designed to temper concerns that the assertive action to achieve regime change in Venezuela might lead the US into another prolonged foreign intervention or failed attempt at nation-building.

They stood in contrast to Trump’s broad but vague claims that the US would at least temporarily “run” the oil-rich nation, comments that suggested some sort of governing structure under which Caracas would be controlled by Washington.

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Rubio offered a more nuanced take, saying the US would continue to enforce an oil quarantine that was already in place on sanctioned tankers before Maduro was removed from power early on Saturday and use that leverage as a means to press policy changes in Venezuela.

“And so that’s the sort of control the president is pointing to when he says that," Rubio said on CBS’ Face the Nation.

"We continue with that quarantine, and we expect to see that there will be changes, not just in the way the oil industry is run for the benefit of the people, but also so that they stop the drug trafficking.”

The blockade on sanctioned oil tankers — some of which have been seized by the US — “remains in place, and that’s a tremendous amount of leverage that will continue to be in place until we see changes that not just further the national interest of the United States, which is number one, but also that lead to a better future for the people of Venezuela,” he added.

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Hours later, interim Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodríguez invited Trump “to collaborate” and said she seeks “respectful relations,” striking a notably more conciliatory tone than in her previous positions.

“We invite the US government to collaborate with us on an agenda of cooperation oriented towards shared development within the framework of international law to strengthen lasting community coexistence,” Rodriguez wrote in an online post.

She had delivered speeches projecting fierce defiance to the Trump administration earlier in the weekend and called for the US to release Maduro.

But her statement in English on her Instagram account marked a dramatic shift in tone.

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Even before the operation that nabbed Maduro, experts questioned the legality of aspects of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on Maduro, including the deadly bombing of boats accused of trafficking drugs that some scholars said stretched the boundaries of international law.

Cuba on Sunday night announced that 32 Cuban security officers were killed in the US operation in Venezuela, which Trump acknowledged: “You know, a lot of Cubans were killed yesterday.”

“There was a lot of death on the other side," Trump said aboard Air Force One as he flew back to Washington from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. "No death on our side.”

Trump still says US will ‘run’ Venezuela

The president's vow, repeated more than half a dozen times at a Florida news conference on Saturday, sparked concerns among some Democrats.

It also drew unease from parts of his own Republican coalition, including an “America First” base that is opposed to foreign interventions, and from observers who recalled past nation-building efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Rubio dismissed such criticism, saying Trump’s intent had been misunderstood.

“The whole foreign policy apparatus thinks everything is Libya, everything is Iraq, everything is Afghanistan,” Rubio said.

"This is not the Middle East. And our mission here is very different. This is the Western Hemisphere.”

He also suggested the US would give Maduro’s subordinates now in charge time to govern, saying, “We’re going to judge everything by what they do.”

Though he did not rule out boots on the ground in Venezuela, Rubio said the US, which has built up its presence in the region, was already capable of stopping alleged drug boats and sanctioned tankers.

A day earlier, Trump had told reporters, “We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.”

He later pointed to his national security team with him, including Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and said it would be done for a period of time by “the people that are standing right behind me. We’re gonna be running it, we’re gonna be bringing it back."

Despite Rubio's seeking to tamp down that notion, Trump reiterated on Sunday that the US would control Venezuela, saying, “We’re going to run everything."

“We’re going to run it, fix it,” he said on Sunday.

He added, "We’ll have elections at the right time” but didn't say when that might be.

Maduro due in court on Monday

A middle-of-the-night operation extracted Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their home in a military base in the capital city of Caracas — an act Maduro’s government called “imperialist.”

The couple faces US charges of participating in a narco-terrorism conspiracy.

The dramatic seizure capped an intensive Trump administration pressure campaign on Venezuela’s autocratic leader and months of secret planning, resulting in the most assertive American action to achieve regime change since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Legal experts raised questions about the lawfulness of the operation, which was done without congressional approval.

Rodrígue has called Maduro the country’s rightful leader, even as her nation’s high court named her interim president.

So did Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López, who said the country's armed forces “categorically reject the cowardly kidnapping" and will “maintain internal order and peace.”

Asked about Rodríguez comments in which she stands by Maduro, Trump said, “I don’t think it’s pushback" and suggested her calling what occurred a kidnapping of Maduro wasn't "a bad term.”

Maduro is due to make his first appearance on Monday in Manhattan's federal court.

He and other Venezuelan officials were indicted in 2020 on narco-terrorism conspiracy charges, and the Justice Department released a new indictment on Saturday of Maduro and his wife that painted his administration as a “corrupt, illegitimate government” fueled by a drug-trafficking operation that flooded the US with cocaine.

The US government does not recognise Maduro as the country’s leader.

Quiet falls in Venezuela after US operation

Venezuela’s government kept operating as usual over the weekend as ministers remained in their posts.

The capital was unusually quiet Sunday with few vehicles moving around and convenience stores, gas stations and other businesses closed.

Maduro’s son, lawmaker Nicolás Ernesto Guerra, has not appeared in public since the attack. On Saturday, he posted on Instagram a government statement repudiating the capture of his father and stepmother.

The country’s incoming National Assembly is set to be sworn in at the legislative palace in Caracas. The unicameral assembly will remain under control of the ruling party.

Under Venezuelan law, Rodríguez would take over from Maduro. Rodriguez stressed during a Saturday appearance on state television that she did not plan to assume power, before Venezuela’s high court ordered that she assume the interim role.

Trump told The Atlantic in an interview on Sunday that Rodríguez could “pay a very big price” if she doesn’t do what he thinks is right for Venezuela. Speaking to reporters later, Trump said Rodríguez is “cooperating” but reiterated the threat. He said he wanted her to provide “total access,” from major oil operations to basic infrastructure like roads, so all can be rebuilt.

His warning contrasted with his comments about Rodríguez on Saturday when he said Rubio had spoken with her and she was willing to do what the US thinks is needed to improve the standard of living in Venezuela.

Simon Goss broke the record with less than 50 seconds to spare.

“He was expected to return on 30 December, but did not.”