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Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has made an extraordinary speech calling for an apology from the prime minister for wearing a popular rock band's T-shirt when he touched down in Australia after last week's visit to the United States.

Albanese was snapped disembarking from his Air Force charter jet on Thursday wearing a tee of Unknown Pleasures, the 1979 debut album of British post-punk band Joy Division.

In parliament today, Ley – who has previously spoken about her own "punk phase" she went through – gave a speech calling for Albanese to apologise for his choice of shirt, saying it was a "profound failure of judgment".

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"The prime minister stepped off the plane proudly wearing a T-shirt with the name of a band, Joy Division, whose origins are steeped in antisemitism," the opposition leader said.

"The name was taken from a wing of a Nazi concentration camp where Jewish women were forced into sexual slavery.

"At a time when Jewish Australians are facing a rise in antisemitism, when families are asking for reassurance and unity, the prime minister chose to parade an image derived from hatred and suffering."

The origins of Joy Division's name have been well-known for some time now. 

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Originally called Warsaw, the band changed its name, with its new moniker taken from the name given to the wings of Nazi concentration camps where women were forced into prostitution.

The band discovered the name from House of Dolls, a novella written by Holocaust survivor Yehiel De-Nur.

Some of Australia's biggest retailers, including Knart and JB-HiFi, have sold, or continue to sell, Joy Division T-shirts.

However, Ley said Albanese should apologise for and explain why he wore the shirt.

"He cannot claim ignorance, he was told about the dark origins of this band on a podcast in 2022," she said.

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"He even admitted, 'that is very dark'… so to wear that name across your chest is not just a statement of musical taste, and it is more than bad taste, it raises questions about values."

Albanese is currently on another diplomatic trip outside of Australia, visiting Malaysia during the ASEAN Summit.

9news.com.au has contacted his office for comment.

Formed in 1976, Joy Division split in 1980 following the death of vocalist Ian Curtis, but still influenced a raft of other bands, including U2, the Cure and Soundgarden. The remaining band members reformed as New Order.

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Hurricane Melissa to batter Jamaica as the island's strongest storm on record in almost two centuries.

Melissa was set to pummel Jamaica on Tuesday (local time) as a catastrophic Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds of 280km/h and stronger gusts, making it the strongest storm on the planet this year.

The storm was expected to make landfall early on Tuesday and slice diagonally across the island, entering near St Elizabeth parish in the south and exiting around St Ann parish in the north, forecasters said.

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Hours before the storm, the government said it had done all it could to prepare as it warned of catastrophic damage.

"There is no infrastructure in the region that can withstand a Category 5," Prime Minister Andrew Holness said.

"The question now is the speed of recovery. That's the challenge."

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Landslides, fallen trees and numerous power outages were reported ahead of the storm, with officials in Jamaica cautioning that the cleanup and damage assessment would be slow.

A life-threatening storm surge of up to four metres is expected across southern Jamaica, with officials concerned about the impact on some hospitals along the coastline.

Health Minister Christopher Tufton said some patients were relocated from the ground floor to the second floor, "and (we) hope that will suffice for any surge that will take place."

The storm already was blamed for seven deaths in the Caribbean, including three in Jamaica, three in Haiti and one in the Dominican Republic, where another person remains missing.

Jamaica braces for catastrophic damage

Melissa was centered about 240 kilometres southwest of Kingston and about 530 kilometres southwest of Guantánamo, Cuba.

The system had maximum sustained winds of 280km/h and was moving north-northeast at 4km/h, according to the US National Hurricane Center in Miami.

"We will get through it together," said Evan Thompson, principal director at Jamaica's meteorological service.

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Colin Bogle, a Mercy Corps advisor based near Kingston, said most families are sheltering in place despite the government ordering evacuations in flood-prone communities.

"Many have never experienced anything like this before, and the uncertainty is frightening," he said.

"There is profound fear of losing homes and livelihoods, of injury, and of displacement."

Matthew Samuda, Jamaica's water and environment minister, said he had more than 50 generators available to deploy after the storm, but warned people to set aside clean water and use it sparingly.

"Every drop will count," he said.

Melissa takes aim at Cuba

Melissa also was expected to make landfall in eastern Cuba late on Tuesday as a powerful hurricane.

A hurricane warning was in effect for Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo and Holguin provinces, while a tropical storm warning was in effect for Las Tunas.

Up to 51 centimetres of rain were forecast for parts of Cuba, along with a significant storm surge along the coast.

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Cuban officials said Monday that they were evacuating more than 600,000 people from the region, including Santiago, the island's second-largest city.

Melissa also has drenched the southern regions of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with a tropical storm warning still in effect for Haiti.

The hurricane was forecast to turn northeast after Cuba and strike the southeast Bahamas by Wednesday evening.

A hurricane warning was in effect for the southeastern and central Bahamas, and a tropical storm warning was issued for the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Lifeline's national crisis support hotline for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has recorded a surge in calls following the March for Australia protests.

13YARN, the 24/7 number run by Indigenous crisis supporters, receives an average of 91 calls each day, or 33,215 calls a year, according to new data from Lifeline today.

The figure is up from last year's average of 65 calls each day, or 23,725 calls a year. 

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The crisis line recorded its busiest year since launching in March 2022 in October, off the back of the March for Australia protests and the alleged attack on Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne on August 30.

Thousands of people protested against immigration nationwide on the same day that a group of neo-Nazis, including prominent white nationalist Thomas Sewell, stormed the sacred Indigenous, allegedly assaulting women and hurling racist abuse.

March for Australia protests have been held several times since then. 

"It had a big impact on the Aboriginal community Australia-wide, because we're not seeing the same outrage with racism against Aboriginal people," Lifeline's head of Indigenous affairs, Marjorie Anderson, said.

Anderson said the protests and alleged attack on Camp Sovereignty stoked a fear of personal safety within Indigenous Australians, who feel that they will not be protected in the event of an incident.

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13YARN has recorded increased demand year-on-year – a trend that is only expected to continue.

The Productivity Commission's Closing the Gap report in July found that the rates of suicide among Indigenous Australians had worsened, with 30.8 people per 100,000 taking their own lives in 2023.

Suicide accounted for about 20 per cent of deaths among Indigenous Australians under 24 between 2019 and 2023, and the leading cause of death for Indigenous children, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. 

Anderson said the crisis support hotline is "really critical" for the community. 

"It's often the last point of call for people. We have people out in the community coming up and saying we saved their lives," she said.

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13YARN is working to get federal government support to create a text and webchat service, particularly for young people and those in domestic violence situations to access help.

"Our youth won't ring a line, but they'll text for help," Anderson said.

"Let's face it, you could be sitting on the other end of the lounge from a young person, and they'll text you rather than talk to you."

The service is also trying to secure more funding to hire more staff to keep up with the increasing demand.

"We are victims of our own success, but we will always make sure that those lines get answered," Anderson said.

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

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