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Welcome to SBS News in Easy English. I'm Greg Dyett.
At least four pro-Palestinian protesters have climbed on the roof of Parliament House in Canberra.
The group has unfurled large banners, one reading "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free", with the others alleging the Australian government is complicit in genocide.
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A New Zealand woman has been struck and killed by a car during a botched robbery at a beach resort while on holiday in the United States.
Police in Newport Beach California say a scuffle broke out at a shopping mall when two men tried to rob a woman and her husband at a bookstore.
The victim has been identified as 68-year-old Patricia McKay.
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Former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann has been committed to stand trial on two rape charges in Queensland following two days of hearings into the reliability of the alleged victim's evidence.
His defence barrister had argued Lehrmann should not face trial because the alleged victim was too intoxicated to remember giving consent.
But the prosecutor said there was a prima facie case to answer and any questions over the reliability of the alleged victim's evidence should be considered by a jury.
Lehrmann is accused of raping a woman twice in the early hours of October 10, 2021 at Toowoomba, west of Brisbane.
The trial will now be heard at the Toowoomba District Court at a date to be fixed.
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Independent MPs Andrew Wilkie and Rebekha Sharkie have introduced a bill to ban advertising for online gambling.
The legislation would prohibit advertising for interactive gambling services, like online and telephone gambling, across all forms of media.
A government committee last year recommended phasing out gambling advertising.
Mr Wilkie says it's time for the government to act on the recommendation.
"Hardly a day goes by in my work as a parliamentarian, that someone doesn't approach me and tell me how they are sick and tired of the incessant gambling advertising, on the TV, on their tablet, wherever."
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Court officials have walked off the job claiming their calls for improved working conditions have been ignored for two years.
Sheriffs, whose duties include security and enforcing court orders, stopped working as they called for better pay and more staff.
They say their duties have increased significantly in the past decade but their pay has not reflected that.
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The chief of Paralympics Australia has quit for undisclosed reasons just eight weeks ahead of the Paris Olympic Games.
The resignation of Catherine Clark comes one day after the official launching of Australia's Paralympic team in Canberra.
Ms Clark says she is confident to hand over to the team who she says are poised to create magic.
Paralympic Australia's head of commercial, communications and brand Cameron Murray will step in as the interim chief.
I'm Greg Dyett and that's SBS News in Easy English.
