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Israel has confirmed it does not intend to allow the audio of the drone strike that killed Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom to be released.
The release of the audio has been a key demand of the family in their campaign for accountability over her death.
Israeli ambassador Hillel Newman has urged Australians to accept Israel's findings after an investigation into the 2024 incident.
"I never heard the audio, I don't know what is on the audio, all I know is it is of low quality and that they discussed for two years criminal liability and it doesn't change the liability and we must move on."
An Australian Defence Force member has been identified as a person of interest after the discovery of a recording device in the women's bathroom of a navy ship.
The ADF says the person is assisting the Joint Military Police Unit with enquiries.
The recording device was found on the HMAS Leeuwin while it was docked in Cairns on Sunday [[11 October]].
A crew member has reportedly died in the sinking of two separate ships near the Strait of Hormuz.
The International Maritime Organisation says the ship mate was on board the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged container ship, Cape Dao.
The second ship sunk has been named by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore as one of its flagged small container vessels known as GFS Pride.
Attacks around the waterway have surged over the past 10 days, and World Trade Organisation director, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, says nations and businesses will have to starting making other plans.
"We are finding that choke points and choke assets are things we have to think about for the world. If we don't plan ahead of time now for potential of what should happen if we meet these choke points, then we'll continue to have a situation where when something happens, we are reacting."
Former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife have pleaded not guilty to new torture-related charges in a New York court.
US prosecutors accuse the couple of running a violent campaign of repression, involving the torture and killing of political opponents.
But Maduro rejects allegations as false, while his wife Cilia Flores has told the court she is completely innocent.
Their trial is scheduled for June next year.
The Coalition is calling for the government to scrap its digital duty of care laws entirely.
The proposed laws would restrict content for underage users, and give people the option to opt out of algorithms in their social media feeds.
The government has agreed to some changes, including a proposal for ministerial powers to determine what is harmful content.
But Opposition Leader Angus Taylor says the changes don't go far enough to protect free speech.
"This legislation is a blank chequefor political censorship by the minister and/or the eSafety Commissioner, and that's completely and utterly unacceptable. There's a lot of other things wrong with the bill as well, but that is the most egregious part of it. We can't support a blank cheque for political censorship."
Bird flu has been officially detected on Tasmania's Macquarie Island.
The Tasmanian government has confirmed that samples from a southern elephant seal and a kelp gull on the remote World Heritage listed island have returned positive results.
The island around 1,500 kilometres southeast of Tasmania is home to large elephant seal populations, which experts say are particularly susceptible to the H5 strain of bird flu.
Roughly 13,000 elephant seal pups died on nearby sub-Antarctic outpost Heard Island after the strain was first detected there in late 2025.
First Nations students have asked the New South Wales education department for more Aboriginal content in the curriculum.
They have told a symposium that there should be more material from primary school to the HSC.
One of the students participating in the symposium, Khloe Vale, also says there is another key issue that most students experienced in common.
"One that tied in to all of students was the racism that affects us. It covers a variety of racism - internal, the teachers... and everything. It still affects us. I think addressing it and putting it into policy and practice."
