What happened Tuesday 23 April, 2024
With that, we’ll end our live coverage of the day’s news.
Here’s a summary of the main news developments:
Elon Musk’s X is in a fight with the Australian online safety regulator, the courts have got involved and even the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has weighed in, calling Musk an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law” over his platform’s refusal to remove videos of a violent stabbing in a Sydney church.
The lawyer for former police officer and accused double murderer Beau Lamarre has suggested the charges could be defended on mental health grounds.
A man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend in regional New South Wales while on bail for rape and stalking charges against her will remain behind bars.
A proposed safe injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD has been rejected by the Victorian government, with addiction experts warning the decision will “cost lives”.
Queensland police believe a man they shot and killed in a standoff outside Gladstone yesterday had stolen three vehicles before pointing a stolen loaded rifle at officers.
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Spears stolen by Captain Cook from Kamay/Botany Bay returned to traditional owners
The first objects the British took from Australia are finally back with their rightful owners after more than 250 years, according to AAP.
British soldiers took 40 spears from Aboriginal camps at Kamay/Botany Bay when James Cook and his crew first made contact in 1770.
Only four of those spears remain and they have been kept at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the UK since the early 20th century.
The spears were handed back to their owners, the Aboriginal community of La Perouse, during a ceremony at Trinity College at Cambridge on Tuesday.
The people who took the spears back included direct descendants of the Gweagal people who crafted them.
Noeleen Timbery, the chairperson of the local La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council said the Gweagal spears were an important connection to their people’s past, traditions, cultural practices and ancestors.
Our Elders have worked for many years to see their ownership transferred to the traditional owners of Botany Bay.
The spears were ultimately set to be displayed at a visitor centre at Kurnell in Botany Bay, known as Kamay in the local Indigenous language.
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