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Pauline Hanson has been censured by the Senate after her burqa stunt on Monday and suspended from the chamber for seven days, and will be barred from representing the parliament in overseas delegations.
The deputy Greens leader, Mehreen Faruqi, said the parliament “drips now in racism” during debate over the censure motion against the One Nation leader. Hanson was suspended after refusing to apologise, instead using a five-minute address to defend her actions.
It is only the fifth time since 1901 that a seven-day suspension has been put in place and the first time since 1979.
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In pictures
The winning and shortlisted photos in this year’s BirdLife Australia photography awards were chosen from thousands of entries across nine categories. Spencer Hitchen, winner of the youth category with the snap above, uses his photographs “to teach others about glossy black-cockatoos and raise awareness of their plight so that we can better protect them”.
What they said …
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“She must have been knocking for quite some time.” – Pairat Soodthoop
A woman in Thailand shocked staff at a Buddhist temple when she started moving in her coffin after being brought in for cremation. Soodthoop, the temple’s general and financial affairs manager, said they heard a faint knock coming from the coffin.
Full Story
Why did the BoM website cost a bomb?
New figures released over the weekend show the cost of the Bureau of Meteorology’s website redesign has ballooned to $96.5m.
Technology reporter Josh Taylor tells Nour Haydar how it happened, how it compares with other website redesigns and why the environment minister wants an explanation.
Before bed read
Skye Gyngell, the Australian chef and slow food pioneer who died yesterday aged 62, stands as “one of the most significant chefs of her generation”, David Prior writes in his tribute.
“Gyngell was singular: she had the palate of a chef and the palette of an artist … We all wanted to sit next to her at dinner, to tap her taste in fashion, literature and art, or simply watch how she saw the world.”
Daily word game
Today’s starter word is: MEND. You have five goes to get the longest word including the starter word. Play Wordiply.
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