⚠️ CRICKET AUSTRALIA CLEARS TRANS PLAYER FOR WOMEN’S CRICKET

Former Mumbai Under-19 cricketer Anaya Bangar, who transitioned from male to female, has been cleared to immediately play women’s Premier Cricket in Australia.

Under Cricket Australia’s community rules, clubs must allow players to compete according to their gender identity and cannot require hormone or medical testing. Bangar could also become eligible for the WBBL from March 2027 if Cricket Australia’s testosterone requirements are met.

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⚠️ VICTORIAN LABOR MOVES TO LET POLICE ACCESS BANK RECORDS WITHOUT A WARRANT

Victorian Labor has introduced last-minute amendments that would let police obtain a person’s financial records without first getting a judicial warrant, and without notifying the account holder.

The power would apply to any suspected indictable offence, not just organised crime. Community legal groups say the change removes an important independent safeguard and are calling for the amendments to be withdrawn.

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🚨 AFRICAN IMMIGRANT ATTACKED 10-YEAR-OLD CANCER PATIENT AND STABBED HIS MUM

A 10-year-old boy battling brain cancer was attacked and punched in the face by an African immigrant outside Victoria Police headquarters while in Melbourne for medical treatment.

When his 46-year-old mother tried to protect him, she was put in a headlock and stabbed seven times with scissors, suffering a fractured leg and other injuries.

The accused, Jerry Sowood, 27, has been reported as a Liberian-born African immigrant. In court, he sarcastically remarked: “At least they’re both still breathing.”

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🚨 AFRICAN MEN TURN ON TRUCK DRIVER AFTER HE FILMS MACHETE ROAD RAGE CLASH

Confronting footage from Runcorn, Brisbane shows two men armed with a hammer and machete during a road rage clash with two Afghan men, before turning on a truck driver who began filming them.

The driver was allegedly dragged into a struggle after the men demanded his phone and keys, with one accused of trying to stab him through the truck window. Both men were charged over the incident.

One of them, Echibaketa Byamungu, has since pleaded guilty and will be sentenced next week. Just one day after the road rage attack, he was spared jail for a separate assault on a Brisbane bus driver.

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🚨 ONE NATION WINS HISTORIC WA SEAT FROM LABOR

One Nation has won the Secret Harbour by-election, taking its first-ever lower-house seat in Western Australia.

Labor had held the area for almost two decades and went into the race with an 11.5% margin, but One Nation’s Luke Herdegen pulled off a historic upset.

Herdegen declared there were now “no safe Labor seats” and called the result part of an “orange tsunami.”

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⚠️ HANSON ACCUSES ALBANESE OF FUELLING POLITICAL VIOLENCE

Pauline Hanson has accused Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers of inflaming political tensions after Albanese told Labor supporters: “Across the world hard right populists are on the march. Peddling politics that is dangerous, divisive and downright dishonest.”

He then added: “We simply must defeat them. We owe it to history.”

The comments came just after One Nation flipped a Labor seat held for almost 20 years in WA, with a new poll now putting the party ahead of Labor nationally, 30% to 29%.

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🚨 AFL CLEARS TRANS PLAYER FOR WOMEN’S FOOTY DESPITE SAFETY CONCERNS

The AFL has allowed transgender player Freya Golding to continue competing in Adelaide women’s football despite three clubs formally raising safety and duty-of-care concerns.

Golding previously played senior men’s football and is reported to be around 188cm (6’3”) and 92kg. The AFL ruled his participation did not pose an “unacceptable” safety risk.

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⚠️ MINNS TELLS INDIAN COMMUNITY “WE’VE GOT YOUR BACK”

NSW Premier Chris Minns has told Indians they are “hugely important for our future” and that his government “has got their back” during his first official trip to India.

Minns also said Australia needs to keep international education “open” and “warm” despite the ongoing debate over migration and student visas. The trip included the launch of Western Sydney University’s new campus in Uttar Pradesh.

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🚨 TEEN PLEADS GUILTY TO PREPARING ISIS-INSPIRED SYDNEY TERROR ATTACK

A 16-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to preparing a terrorist attack after being radicalised online from the age of 14.

The court heard he researched the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Marathon as possible targets, searched for pressure-cooker bomb instructions and discussed attacking large crowds.

He was arrested over the plot at his Western Sydney home in August 2024 and has now pleaded guilty, with sentencing set for October 29.

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