What we learned today, Friday 13 June
This is where we’ll wrap the blog up for the day. Let’s recap the main events:
Anthony Albanese is in Nadi, Fiji, and has met with his Fijian counterpart, Sitiveni Rabuka.
Albanese told reporters DFAT would soon update its travel advice after Israel targeted Iran’s nuclear sites with airstrikes today.
Foreign minister Penny Wong said Australia is “alarmed by the escalation in tensions between Israel and Iran”.
State health departments will undertake a review into whether more regulation of IVF is needed after a reproductive healthcare company’s second embryo transplant bungle.
The president and all seven commissioners of the Australian Human Rights Commission are demanding immediate reforms to address Aboriginal deaths in custody.
The Australian Education Union has called for education minsters across the country to provide clear and consistent guidance for teachers about how to discuss global conflicts with students, particularly the situation in Gaza.
Former gangland lawyer turned informer Nicola Gobbo has lost her lawsuit against the state of Victoria after claiming police compromised her safety when she was exposed having double-crossed clients.
New data showed a 25% spike in the number of Australians who left for short-term foreign trips in April compared with the same time last year.
Gaurav Kundi has died in an Adelaide hospital two weeks after he was arrested by South Australia police.
One man died after a trench collapsed in Kilmore, 65km north of Melbourne.
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Albanese worried about any escalation of conflict in Middle East
Anthony Albanese is in Nadi this afternoon and has met his Fijian counterpart, Sitiveni Rabuka. Asked about Israel’s bombing of Iran, the prime minister said he was concerned about any escalation in the Middle East.
We are very aware of what has occurred, and it is concerning, any escalation in the region.
My message to Australians is that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, [will be] upgrading very soon, the messages to Australians about a warning about travel to the region.
We want to see a dialogue. We, of course, are very conscious of the threat that Iran becoming a nuclear state would represent to peace and security in the region as well.
We want to see these issues resolved through dialogue, and the United States has been playing an important role there.
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