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- Indonesian authorities intercept 100kg meth shipment bound for Australia
- Fortescue cuts 700 jobs amid green tech and diversity push
- New South Wales wins State of Origin decider 14-4 over Queensland
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Authorities in Indonesia say they've intercepted a shipment of more than 100 kilograms of methamphetamines on the way to Australia.
The country's anti-narcotic agency says the boat had been travelling from Singapore to Brisbane when customs stopped it while in Indonesian waters.
Police say the smugglers will be dealt with under the 2009 Anti-Narcotic Law, which carries a maximum penalty of death.
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Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Group has announced it will axe 700 jobs from its global operations, as it merges its metals and energy divisions.
The major restructure comes as the mining giant promises to deliver on green technology - despite making only three final investment decisions on green hydrogen projects so far.
Fortescue also announced that its streamlined team would be almost 50 per cent women.
The redundancies, which include the departure of more of the company’s senior management, are expected to be finalised by the end of the month.
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As part of a joint investigation, SBS The Feed with The Guardian Australia have obtained footage that shows children in Queensland being put into isolation cells in police facilities called watch houses.
Of the children who end up in watch houses, some are held for weeks at a time - a situation advocates argue is against their human rights.
Children in the Queensland youth justice system are disproportionately Indigenous.
Tim Spall is a Gija man and a psychologist who has worked with First Nations young people in Brisbane for over 20 years.
He says the whole system needs to change, to address the underlying issues the children face.
"My argument is, is that consequence should lead to better outcomes for both. If we don’t do that, we’re feeding these kids back into the same system… where they come back out and commit the same offence or similar offences again."
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The Australian Council of Trade Unions has suspended the construction and general divisions of the CFMEU until it can demonstrate it's well-functioning and free from criminal elements.
Hours after the federal government expressed support the Fair Work Commission's move to appoint an independent administrator to the union, the peak union group revealed it's decision.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton says the government has given the weakest possible response and is urging it to de-register the union and revive the construction industry group.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus says the group has a zero-tolerance policy for corruption, criminal activities and violence.
"We will continue to do what is necessary to read our movement of any elements like that. This union movement is resolute in our determination to do so, and also saying, they do not represent us, that behaviour that, behaviour does not represent us, does not represent the trade union movement. It represents a very small section of people within one small section of our union."
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Police investigating the deaths of six people found in the room of a luxury hotel in Bangkok say a member of the group poisoned themselves and others using cyanide.
The bodies were discovered in a suite at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel in the city's tourist centre.
Photos released by police show a bloodless crime scene with bodies scattered around the room among plates of untouched Thai food, flasks and cups.
Bangkok deputy police chief, Noppasin Punsawat, says the motive for the crime is related to a business dispute worth millions of baht.
"Therefore, this case is a personal matter among these six individuals. It is not anything to do with a gang or organised crime that was behind or committing this in Thailand."
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French authorities have detained a far-right individual suspected of wanting to target the Olympic torch relay.
The Paris prosecutor's office says the man was detained at his home in the Alsace region of eastern France for questioning about death threats, hate speech and other online posts.
He's also being investigated on suspicion of having shared personal information that put people at risk and of sharing bomb-making instructions.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says the alleged comments didn't specifically target the Paris Olympics.
"We don't have any particular threat on the opening ceremony or the Olympic Games identified, but we are vigilant. As you have seen this morning, in the Alsace region we have arrested a far-right individual who was 'fomenting' - and I say it with quotation marks - a violent attack against the Olympic Games. But I repeat, we don't have a particular threat on the opening ceremony or any other Olympic event."
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New South Wales has won its first State of Origin series in three years, defeating Queensland 14-4 in a tense decider at Suncorp Stadium.
The Maroons led 4-2 in a game dominated by defence, before Jarome Luai set up Bradman Best for a 65th minute try which put the Blue's in the lead.
Both sides lost players to a double sin binning after an all-in brawl spilled over the sideline, which also saw Blues 19th man Haumole Olakau’atu evicted from the bench.
The victory looked to have come at a cost for the Parramatta Eels, with Mitchell Moses leaving the field with an arm injury.
