Australia

Which countries have banned TikTok and why?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The law will come into force by the end of next year, meaning that underage access to platforms such as X, Instagram, and TikTok, will be blocked for children aged 16 or under.<\/p>\n<p>Platforms face stiff penalities of 50 million Australian dollars (\u20ac30.8 million) if found to have failed in preventing youngsters from holding accounts.<\/p>\n<p>They will be given a year to work out how they will implement the ban.<\/p>\n<h2>Highest age limit in the world<\/h2><p>Attempts have been made in other countries to restrict social media usage for children, with a law passed in the US state of Utah found to be unconstitutional by a federal judge.<\/p>\n<p>France also passed in July last year a law that prevents <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//04//27//macron-in-favour-of-europe-wide-social-media-age-restriction-for-teens-under-15/">children under 15<\/strong><\/a> from accessing social media without parental consent.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian proposal, which will impose the highest age limit in the world, was backed with bipartisan support in a vote by the Senate on Thursday which saw the legislation pass comfortably by 34 votes to 19.<\/p>\n<p>The bill had <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//11//27//australias-social-media-ban-for-children-under-16-moves-closer-to-becoming-law/">already been voted on<\/strong><\/a> by the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the parliament, on Wednesday with 102 MPs voting in favour of the measure against 13 who opposed it.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Senate vote, the bill must return to the House of Representatives to approve any amendments on Friday before it officially becomes statute but this is seen as a formality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8871618\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//11//25//australias-social-media-ban-platforms-call-for-delay-to-age-limits-legislation/">Australia's social media ban: Platforms call for delay to age limits legislation<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Mixed reception<\/h2><p>While supporters - including politicians from both major political parties - believe the ban will protect children, the law is not without its critics.<\/p>\n<p>Many child welfare and mental health advocates have voiced concerns about the law's unintended consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Senator David Shoebridge, from the minority Greens party, said mental health experts agreed that the ban could dangerously isolate many children who used social media to find support.<\/p>\n<p>\"This policy will hurt vulnerable young people the most, especially in regional communities and especially the LGBTQI community, by cutting them off,\" Shoebridge told the Senate before the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Stone, executive director of Suicide Prevention Australia, the governing body for the suicide prevention sector, said the legislation failed to consider positive aspects of social media in supporting young people's mental health and sense of connection.<\/p>\n<p>\"The government is running blindfolded into a brick wall by rushing this legislation. Young Australians deserve evidence-based policies, not decisions made in haste,\" Stone said in a statement.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732796930,"updatedAt":1732871777,"publishedAt":1732797266,"firstPublishedAt":1732797266,"lastPublishedAt":1732871777,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/90\/86\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_3ff7d7c0-23c4-5419-8331-e0138a12477f-8879086.jpg","altText":"The two chambers of the Australian parliament passed a bill to implement the strictest laws on social media access for minors.","caption":"The two chambers of the Australian parliament passed a bill to implement the strictest laws on social media access for minors.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Canva","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":1652,"urlSafeValue":"walsh","title":"David 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SOCIAL MEDIA BILL","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Australia's social media ban for children under 16 moves closer to becoming law","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Australian social media ban for under 16s moves closer to becoming law","titleListing2":"Australia's social media ban for children under 16 moves closer to becoming law","leadin":"Australia's social media ban for children under 16 has come a step closer to becoming law as it passes the House of Representatives.","summary":"Australia's social media ban for children under 16 has come a step closer to becoming law as it passes the House of Representatives.","keySentence":"","url":"australias-social-media-ban-for-children-under-16-moves-closer-to-becoming-law","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/11\/27\/australias-social-media-ban-for-children-under-16-moves-closer-to-becoming-law","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Australia\u2019s House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday that would ban children under 16 from social media.\n\nThe bill passed 102 to 13 and now needs to be finalised by the Senate.\n\nIf passed, social media platforms would have one year to work out how to implement the age restrictions before the penalties are enforced.\n\nIt would make TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X, and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars (\u20ac30.4 million) for systemic failures to prevent young children from holding accounts.\n\nOpposition lawmaker Dan Tehan told Parliament the government had agreed to accept amendments in the Senate that would bolster privacy protections.\n\nPlatforms would not be allowed to compel users to provide government-issued identity documents including passports or driver\u2019s licenses. The platforms also could not demand digital identification through a government system.\n\n\u201cWill it be perfect? No. But is any law perfect? No, it\u2019s not. But if it helps, even if it helps in just the smallest of ways, it will make a huge difference to people\u2019s lives,\u201d Tehan told Parliament.\n\nCritics of social media ban for children say it's rushed\n\nLawmakers who were not aligned with either the government or the opposition were most critical of the legislation during debate on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nCriticisms include that the legislation had been rushed through Parliament without adequate scrutiny, would not work, would create privacy risks for users of all ages and would take away parents\u2019 authority to decide what\u2019s best for their children.\n\nCritics also argue the ban would isolate children, deprive them of positive aspects of social media, drive children to the dark web, make children too young for social media reluctant to report harms, and take away incentives for platforms to make online spaces safer.\n\nIndependent lawmaker Zoe Daniel said the legislation would \u201cmake zero difference to the harms that are inherent to social media\".\n\n\u201cThe true object of this legislation is not to make social media safe by design, but to make parents and voters feel like the government is doing something about it,\u201d Daniel told Parliament.\n\n\u201cThere is a reason why the government parades this legislation as world-leading, that\u2019s because no other country wants to do it,\u201d she added.\n\nThe platforms had asked for the vote on legislation to be delayed until at least June next year when a government-commissioned evaluation of age assurance technologies reports on how the ban could be enforced.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Australia\u2019s House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday that would ban children under 16 from social media.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed 102 to 13 and now needs to be finalised by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, social media platforms would have one year to work out how to implement the age restrictions before the penalties are enforced.<\/p>\n<p>It would make TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X, and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars (\u20ac30.4 million) for systemic failures to prevent young children from holding accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition lawmaker Dan Tehan told Parliament the government had agreed to accept amendments in the Senate that would bolster privacy protections.<\/p>\n<p>Platforms would not be allowed to compel users to provide government-issued identity documents including passports or driver\u2019s licenses. The platforms also could not demand digital identification through a government system.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8871618\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//11//25//australias-social-media-ban-platforms-call-for-delay-to-age-limits-legislation/">Australia's social media ban: Platforms call for delay to age limits legislation<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWill it be perfect? No. But is any law perfect? No, it\u2019s not. But if it helps, even if it helps in just the smallest of ways, it will make a huge difference to people\u2019s lives,\u201d Tehan told Parliament.<\/p>\n<h2>Critics of social media ban for children say it's rushed<\/h2><p>Lawmakers who were not aligned with either the government or the opposition were most critical of the legislation during debate on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Criticisms include that the legislation had been rushed through Parliament without adequate scrutiny, would not work, would create privacy risks for users of all ages and would take away parents\u2019 authority to decide what\u2019s best for their children.<\/p>\n<p>Critics also argue the ban would isolate children, deprive them of positive aspects of social media, drive children to the dark web, make children too young for social media reluctant to report harms, and take away incentives for platforms to make online spaces safer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8866392\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//11//21//australia-is-proposing-a-social-media-age-limit-which-other-countries-are-considering-rest/">Australia is proposing a social media age limit. Which other countries are considering restrictions?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Independent lawmaker Zoe Daniel said the legislation would \u201cmake zero difference to the harms that are inherent to social media\".<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe true object of this legislation is not to make social media safe by design, but to make parents and voters feel like the government is doing something about it,\u201d Daniel told Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a reason why the government parades this legislation as world-leading, that\u2019s because no other country wants to do it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The platforms had asked for the vote on legislation to be delayed until at least June next year when a government-commissioned evaluation of age assurance technologies reports on how the ban could be enforced.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732694106,"updatedAt":1732718005,"publishedAt":1732697896,"firstPublishedAt":1732697896,"lastPublishedAt":1732716549,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/58\/32\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e7bd4f42-bd95-5b76-800b-3f232665c134-8875832.jpg","altText":"Young people on their phones.","caption":"Young people on their phones.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Canva","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":12052,"slug":"social-media","urlSafeValue":"social-media","title":"Social Media","titleRaw":"Social 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diabetes appear to help patients with a host of other medical conditions \u2013 and now, doctors can add kidney disease to the list.\n\nGLP-1 receptor agonists, which include medicines like Ozempic and Wegovy, work by suppressing people\u2019s appetites and have been approved to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes in the European Union.\u00a0\n\nBut research suggests they may also prove useful for dementia, mental health issues, substance abuse and other problems.\n\nThe new analysis, which included 11 studies spanning more than 85,000 people, shows that\u00a0 GLP-1 agonists reduced kidney failure by 16 per cent compared with patients who took a placebo or dummy treatment, regardless of whether they had diabetes or not.\n\nThe drugs curbed the risk of kidney failure, worsening kidney function, and death from kidney disease by 18 per cent, according to the study, which was published in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal.\n\nIn line with other research, the study also found that GLP-1 agonists helped with heart conditions, reducing the risk of cardiovascular-related deaths, heart attacks, and strokes by 13 per cent compared with a placebo.\n\nThe results indicate GLP-1s have a \u201ckey role\u201d in improving kidney and heart outcomes for patients with common medical conditions, Dr Sunil Badve, the study\u2019s lead author, a nephrologist, and a professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) in Australia, said in a statement.\n\n\u201cThese results are particularly important for patients with chronic kidney disease,\u201d Badve said.\n\nChronic kidney disease, which affects 100 million Europeans, is a progressive condition that causes kidney failure, leading patients to either go on dialysis or seek a transplant.\n\nThese patients are at higher risk of heart attack or stroke, which is why the US-based National Kidney Foundation says GLP-1 drugs may help slow the progression of kidney disease by addressing cardiovascular risk factors.\n\nThe next step for the new research is to make it easier for kidney and cardiovascular disease patients to access GLP-1s, according to Dr Vlado Perkovic, one of the study\u2019s authors and provost at UNSW Sydney.\n\n\u201cMore work is now needed to implement the results of this study into clinical practice and improve access to GLP-1 receptor agonists to people who will benefit from them,\u201d Perkovic said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Blockbuster weight loss drugs created to treat type 2 diabetes appear to help patients with a host of other medical conditions \u2013 and now, doctors can add kidney disease to the list.<\/p>\n<p>GLP-1 receptor agonists, which include medicines like Ozempic and Wegovy, work by suppressing people\u2019s appetites and have been approved to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes in the European Union.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But research suggests they may also prove useful for dementia, <a 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adults, study finds<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Chronic kidney disease, which affects 100 million Europeans, is a progressive condition that causes kidney failure, leading patients to either go on dialysis or seek a transplant.<\/p>\n<p>These patients are at higher risk of heart attack or stroke, which is why the US-based <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.kidney.org//kidney-topics//glp-1-receptor-agonists-glp-1-ras/">National Kidney Foundation<\/strong><\/a> says GLP-1 drugs may help slow the progression of kidney disease by addressing cardiovascular risk factors.<\/p>\n<p>The next step for the new research is to make it easier for kidney and cardiovascular disease patients to access GLP-1s, according to Dr Vlado Perkovic, one of the study\u2019s authors and provost at UNSW Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore work is now needed to implement the results of this study into clinical practice and improve access to GLP-1 receptor agonists to people who will benefit from 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MEDIA AUSTRALIA REAX WIRE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Australia's social media ban: Platforms call for delay to age limits legislation","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Social media sites call for delay to Australia's social media ban","titleListing2":"Social media ban: Platforms' advocate calls for delay on Australian legislation","leadin":"Social media sites are lobbying the Australian government to delay its proposed age limits for children younger than 16.","summary":"Social media sites are lobbying the Australian government to delay its proposed age limits for children younger than 16.","keySentence":"","url":"australias-social-media-ban-platforms-call-for-delay-to-age-limits-legislation","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/11\/25\/australias-social-media-ban-platforms-call-for-delay-to-age-limits-legislation","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"An advocate for the digital industry wants new Australian legislation to ban children under 16 from social media to be delayed.\n\nSunita Bose, managing director of Digital Industry Group Inc, was answering questions at a single-day Senate committee hearing into world-first legislation that was introduced into the Australian parliament last week.\n\nBose said the Parliament should wait until the government-commissioned evaluation of age assurance technologies is completed in June.\n\n\"Parliament is asked to pass a bill this week without knowing how it will work,\" Bose said.\n\nThe legislation would impose fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars (\u20ac30.4 million) on platforms for systemic failures to prevent young children from holding accounts.\n\nIt seems likely to be passed by Parliament by Thursday with the support of the major parties.\n\nThe new rules would take effect a year after the bill becomes law, allowing the platforms time to work out technological solutions that would also protect users\u2019 privacy.\n\nSocial media 'not a safe product' for children\n\nCommunications Minister Michelle Rowland said she looked forward to reading the Senate committee's assessment of the proposed law, which \"supports parents to say 'no'\" to children wanting to use social media.\n\n\"Social media in its current form is not a safe product for them,\" Rowland told Parliament.\n\n\"Access to social media does not have to be the defining feature of growing up.\n\n\"There is more to life than constant notifications, endless scrolling, and pressure to conform to the false and unrealistic perfectionism that can be served up by influencers,\" she added.\n\nBose received heated questions from several senators and challenges to the accuracy of her answers.\n\nOpposition Senator Ross Cadell asked how his 10-year-old stepson was able to hold Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube accounts from the age of 8, despite the platforms setting a nominal age limit of 13.\n\nBose replied that \"this is an area where the industry needs to improve\".\n\nShe said the proposed social media ban risked isolating some children and driving children to \"darker, less safe online spaces\" than mainstream platforms.\n\nBose said her concern with the proposed law was that \"this could compromise the safety of young people,\" prompting a hostile response from opposition Senator Sarah Henderson.\n\n\"That\u2019s an outrageous statement. You\u2019re trying to protect the Big Tech giants,\" Henderson said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>An advocate for the digital industry wants new Australian legislation to ban children under 16 from social media to be delayed.<\/p>\n<p>Sunita Bose, managing director of Digital Industry Group Inc, was answering questions at a single-day Senate committee hearing into world-first legislation that was introduced into the Australian parliament last week.<\/p>\n<p>Bose said the Parliament should wait until the government-commissioned evaluation of age assurance technologies is completed in June.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8866392\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//11//21//australia-is-proposing-a-social-media-age-limit-which-other-countries-are-considering-rest/">Australia is proposing a social media age limit. Which other countries are considering restrictions?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"Parliament is asked to pass a bill this week without knowing how it will work,\" Bose said.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would impose fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars (\u20ac30.4 million) on platforms for systemic failures to prevent young children from holding accounts.<\/p>\n<p>It seems likely to be passed by Parliament by Thursday with the support of the major parties.<\/p>\n<p>The new rules would take effect a year after the bill becomes law, allowing the platforms time to work out technological solutions that would also protect users\u2019 privacy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">There is more to life than constant notifications, endless scrolling, and pressure to conform to the false and unrealistic perfectionism that can be served up by influencers.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Michelle Rowland\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n Australia&#39;s Communications Minister\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Social media 'not a safe product' for children<\/h2><p>Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said she looked forward to reading the Senate committee's assessment of the proposed law, which \"supports parents to say 'no'\" to children wanting to use social media.<\/p>\n<p>\"Social media in its current form is not a safe product for them,\" Rowland told Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\"Access to social media does not have to be the defining feature of growing up.<\/p>\n<p>\"There is more to life than constant notifications, endless scrolling, and pressure to conform to the false and unrealistic perfectionism that can be served up by influencers,\" she added.<\/p>\n<p>Bose received heated questions from several senators and challenges to the accuracy of her answers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8322904\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//03//25//do-smartphones-threaten-our-physical-health-heres-what-we-know-about-their-impact/">Do smartphones threaten our physical health? Here's what we know about their impact<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Opposition Senator Ross Cadell asked how his 10-year-old stepson was able to hold Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube accounts from the age of 8, despite the platforms setting a nominal age limit of 13.<\/p>\n<p>Bose replied that \"this is an area where the industry needs to improve\".<\/p>\n<p>She said the proposed social media ban risked isolating some children and driving children to \"darker, less safe online spaces\" than mainstream platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Bose said her concern with the proposed law was that \"this could compromise the safety of young people,\" prompting a hostile response from opposition Senator Sarah Henderson.<\/p>\n<p>\"That\u2019s an outrageous statement. You\u2019re trying to protect the Big Tech giants,\" Henderson said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732524407,"updatedAt":1732538055,"publishedAt":1732538023,"firstPublishedAt":1732538023,"lastPublishedAt":1732538023,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/16\/18\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_214c3869-7fe8-5c42-9bf8-5eb86003753b-8871618.jpg","altText":"Teens use their phones to view social media in Sydney, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024.","caption":"Teens use their phones to view social media in Sydney, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Rick Rycroft","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":13,"slug":"australia","urlSafeValue":"australia","title":"Australia","titleRaw":"Australia"},{"id":12052,"slug":"social-media","urlSafeValue":"social-media","title":"Social 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AUSTRALIA COMMENTS WIRE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"'Not our job to please Elon Musk': Australia rejects claims it wants to restrict Internet access","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Australia slams Musk's reaction to its social media age limit bill","titleListing2":"Elon Musk's reaction to Australia's social media age limit 'unsurprising,' minister says","leadin":"\"Our job is to put in place the necessary protection for kids online,\" Australia's treasurer said after the billionaire criticised its new social media age limit bill.","summary":"\"Our job is to put in place the necessary protection for kids online,\" Australia's treasurer said after the billionaire criticised its new social media age limit bill.","keySentence":"","url":"not-our-job-to-please-elon-musk-australia-rejects-claims-it-wants-to-restrict-internet-acc","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/11\/22\/not-our-job-to-please-elon-musk-australia-rejects-claims-it-wants-to-restrict-internet-acc","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"An Australian Cabinet minister rejected X Corp owner Elon Musk\u2019s claim that the government intended to control access to the Internet after they introduced legislation to ban young children from social media.\n\nTreasurer Jim Chalmers said Musk\u2019s post was \"unsurprising\".\n\n\"The idea that Elon Musk is not delighted with our steps to try and protect kids online is not an especially big surprise to us, nor does it trouble us greatly,\" Chalmers told reporters.\n\nThe spat continues months of open hostility between the Australian government and the tech billionaire over regulators\u2019 efforts to reduce public harm from social media.\n\nNew legislation discussed by the Australian parliament\n\nIt comes after the Australian government introduced legislation on Thursday that would force X and other social media platforms such as TikTok and Facebook to stop children under 16 from using their platforms.\n\nThe bill will be debated by lawmakers in Parliament on Monday.\n\nMusk responded to the legislation\u2019s introduction by posting on his platform, \"Seems like a backdoor way to control access to the Internet by all Australians\".\n\nAsked if that was the government\u2019s intention, Chalmers replied, \"Of course not\".\n\n\"Elon Musk having that view about protecting kids online is entirely unsurprising to us. He\u2019s expressed similar views before,\" Chalmers said.\n\n\"Our job is not to come up with a social media policy to please Elon Musk. Our job is to put in place the necessary protection for kids online,\" Chalmers added.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>An Australian Cabinet minister rejected X Corp owner Elon Musk\u2019s claim that the government intended to control access to the Internet after they introduced legislation to ban young children from social media.<\/p>\n<p>Treasurer Jim Chalmers said Musk\u2019s post was \"unsurprising\".<\/p>\n<p>\"The idea that Elon Musk is not delighted with our steps to try and protect kids online is not an especially big surprise to us, nor does it trouble us greatly,\" Chalmers told reporters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8866392\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//11//21//australia-is-proposing-a-social-media-age-limit-which-other-countries-are-considering-rest/">Australia is proposing a social media age limit. Which other countries are considering restrictions?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The spat continues months of open hostility between the Australian government and the tech billionaire over regulators\u2019 efforts to reduce public harm from social media.<\/p>\n<h2>New legislation discussed by the Australian parliament<\/h2><p>It comes after the Australian government introduced legislation on Thursday that would force X and other social media platforms such as TikTok and Facebook to stop children under 16 from using their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The bill will be debated by lawmakers in Parliament on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded to the legislation\u2019s introduction by posting on his platform, \"Seems like a backdoor way to control access to the Internet by all Australians\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8863068\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//21//are-users-leaving-elon-musks-x-en-masse-and-where-are-they-heading/">Are users leaving Elon Musk\u2019s X en masse and where are they heading?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Asked if that was the government\u2019s intention, Chalmers replied, \"Of course not\".<\/p>\n<p>\"Elon Musk having that view about protecting kids online is entirely unsurprising to us. He\u2019s expressed similar views before,\" Chalmers said.<\/p>\n<p>\"Our job is not to come up with a social media policy to please Elon Musk. Our job is to put in place the necessary protection for kids online,\" Chalmers added.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732269875,"updatedAt":1732280831,"publishedAt":1732274285,"firstPublishedAt":1732274285,"lastPublishedAt":1732274285,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/31\/49\/92\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_28e233ce-59e1-5f68-9144-8e272e48ab86-8314992.jpg","altText":"App logos for Facebook, left, and X, formerly known as Twitter, are seen on a mobile phone in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 16, 2024","caption":"App logos for Facebook, left, and X, formerly known as Twitter, are seen on a mobile phone in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 16, 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Paula Ulichney","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":4032,"height":2759}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":13,"slug":"australia","urlSafeValue":"australia","title":"Australia","titleRaw":"Australia"},{"id":12052,"slug":"social-media","urlSafeValue":"social-media","title":"Social Media","titleRaw":"Social Media"},{"id":13814,"slug":"elon-musk","urlSafeValue":"elon-musk","title":"Elon Musk","titleRaw":"Elon Musk"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":2}],"related":[{"id":2683904},{"id":2689454}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews and AP","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"tech-news","urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/tech-news\/tech-news"},"vertical":"next","verticals":[{"id":9,"slug":"next","urlSafeValue":"next","title":"Next"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":9,"slug":"next","urlSafeValue":"next","title":"Next"},"themes":[{"id":"tech-news","urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News","url":"\/next\/tech-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":40,"urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":391,"urlSafeValue":"oceania","title":"Oceania"},"country":{"id":4611,"urlSafeValue":"australia","title":"Australia","url":"\/news\/oceania\/australia"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["84031001","84032001","84091001","84092030","84111001","84112004","84211001","84212001"],"slugs":["business","business_general","hobbies_and_interests","hobbies_and_interests_social_networking","law_gov_t_and_politics_legal_issues","law_government_and_politics","society","society_general"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/next\/2024\/11\/22\/not-our-job-to-please-elon-musk-australia-rejects-claims-it-wants-to-restrict-internet-acc","lastModified":1732274285},{"id":2684270,"cid":8866392,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"241121_BZSU_57083728","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"AUSTRALIA SOCIAL MEDIA WIRE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Australia is proposing a social media age limit. Which other countries are considering restrictions?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Australia's social media age limits: Where do other countries stand?","titleListing2":"As Australia proposes a social media age limit, what other countries are considering restrictions?","leadin":"Australia's communications minister has introduced a new bill to ban social media for minors under the age of 16. Will other countries follow suit?","summary":"Australia's communications minister has introduced a new bill to ban social media for minors under the age of 16. Will other countries follow suit?","keySentence":"","url":"australia-is-proposing-a-social-media-age-limit-which-other-countries-are-considering-rest","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/11\/21\/australia-is-proposing-a-social-media-age-limit-which-other-countries-are-considering-rest","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Australia's government has introduced a new bill that would ban children 16 and under from using social media as part of the country's efforts to keep people safe online.\n\n\"For too many young Australians, social media can be harmful,\" communications minister Michelle Rowland, said in a speech to parliament.\n\n\"Almost two-thirds of 14- to 17-year-old Australians have viewed extremely harmful content online, including drug abuse, suicide or self-harm, as well as violent material,\" she said.\n\n\"A quarter have been exposed to content promoting unsafe eating habits\".\n\nThe legislation will apply to \"age-restricted social media platforms\" - a term introduced in the law - with the communications minister saying that at a minimum it would include the likes of TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter).\n\n\"These services will be required to take reasonable steps to prevent persons under 16 years of age from creating or holding an account,\" Rowland added.\n\nResearch from Australia's independent regulator for online safety found nearly half of 8- to 12-year-olds are using short-form video apps like Snapchat and TikTok while more than a third have used messaging apps.\n\nThe regulator also said a large majority of caregivers find online safety to be one of their toughest parenting challenges.\n\n\"This is a landmark reform. We know some kids will find workarounds, but we're sending a message to social media companies to clean up their act,\" Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement.\n\nThe minimum age limit will start at least a year after the legislation is passed, which will allow time for social media platforms to develop the required systems, the Australian government said.\n\nWhat other countries are working on protecting children from social media?\n\nMany countries are also interested in larger protections for minors online.\n\nThe United Kingdom's Online Safety Act, which is in the process of being implemented by the regulator, requires social media companies to enforce age limits.\n\n\"Companies can no longer say their service is for users above a certain age in their terms of service and do nothing to prevent younger children accessing it,\" the UK government said.\n\nA 2023 French law requires social platforms to seek parental consent from minors under the age of 15 before they can create an account but it has not yet been implemented for technical reasons.\n\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron has called for a wider European digital age of majority as well. \n\nNorway's government said last month that it wants minors to be at least age 15 to consent to social media sites processing their data. \n\nThe government aims to have a social media age limit as well and is working out how to implement one.\n\nMany social media platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat, and TikTok already have an age limit of 13 to sign up for the platform.\n\nInstagram also recently announced a series of changes including \"teen accounts\" for users under 18.\n\nIn European Union countries, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires parental consent for the processing of personal data for minors under the age of 16 though states can provide a lower age limit as long as it is at least 13.\n\nThe Digital Services Act (DSA), meanwhile, requires online platforms with more than 45 million monthly users in the EU to identify and assess possible online risks for children and young people using them.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Australia's government has introduced a new bill that would ban children 16 and under from using social media as part of the country's efforts to keep people safe online.<\/p>\n<p>\"For too many young Australians, social media can be harmful,\" communications minister Michelle Rowland, said in a speech to parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\"Almost two-thirds of 14- to 17-year-old Australians have viewed extremely harmful content online, including drug abuse, suicide or self-harm, as well as violent material,\" she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8751980\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//09//24//problematic-social-media-use-on-the-rise-among-european-youth-study-says/">Problematic social media use on the rise among European youth, study says<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"A quarter have been exposed to content promoting unsafe eating habits\".<\/p>\n<p>The legislation will apply to \"age-restricted social media platforms\" - a term introduced in the law - with the communications minister saying that at a minimum it would include the likes of TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>\"These services will be required to take reasonable steps to prevent persons under 16 years of age from creating or holding an account,\" Rowland added.<\/p>\n<p>Research from Australia's independent regulator for online safety found nearly half of 8- to 12-year-olds are using short-form video apps like Snapchat and TikTok while more than a third have used messaging apps.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator also said a large majority of caregivers find online safety to be one of their toughest parenting challenges.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8439852\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//05//16//metas-platforms-hit-with-two-more-dsa-investigations/">Meta/u2019s platforms hit with two more DSA investigations<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"This is a landmark reform. We know some kids will find workarounds, but we're sending a message to social media companies to clean up their act,\" Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The minimum age limit will start at least a year after the legislation is passed, which will allow time for social media platforms to develop the required systems, the Australian government said.<\/p>\n<h2>What other countries are working on protecting children from social media?<\/h2><p>Many countries are also interested in larger protections for minors online.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom's Online Safety Act, which is in the process of being implemented by the regulator, requires social media companies to enforce age limits.<\/p>\n<p>\"Companies can no longer say their service is for users above a certain age in their terms of service and do nothing to prevent younger children accessing it,\" the UK government said.<\/p>\n<p>A 2023 French law requires social platforms to seek parental consent from minors under the age of 15 before they can create an account but it has not yet been implemented for technical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>French president Emmanuel Macron <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//04//27//macron-in-favour-of-europe-wide-social-media-age-restriction-for-teens-under-15/">has called for a wider<\/strong><\/a> European digital age of majority as well. <\/p>\n<p>Norway's government said last month that it wants minors to be at least age 15 to consent to social media sites processing their data. <\/p>\n<p>The government aims to have a social media age limit as well and is working out how to implement one.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8821618\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//10//30//are-you-over-18-the-eus-plans-to-spot-underage-internet-users/">Are you over 18? The EU's plans to spot underage internet users <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Many social media platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat, and TikTok already have an age limit of 13 to sign up for the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram also <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//09//17//instagram-just-got-tougher-for-teenagers-heres-how-the-meta-company-is-changing/">recently announced<\/strong><\/a> a series of changes including \"teen accounts\" for users under 18.<\/p>\n<p>In European Union countries, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires parental consent for the processing of personal data for minors under the age of 16 though states can provide a lower age limit as long as it is at least 13.<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Services Act (DSA), meanwhile, requires online platforms with more than 45 million monthly users in the EU to identify and assess possible online risks for children and young people using them.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732200587,"updatedAt":1732474026,"publishedAt":1732211615,"firstPublishedAt":1732211615,"lastPublishedAt":1732211615,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/63\/92\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_59d9cd76-43b9-5733-8f53-52a330045580-8866392.jpg","altText":"A young girl uses her phone while sitting on a bench in Sydney, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024.","caption":"A young girl uses her phone while sitting on a bench in Sydney, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Rick Rycroft\/AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":1828,"urlSafeValue":"chadwick","title":"Lauren Chadwick","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":12052,"slug":"social-media","urlSafeValue":"social-media","title":"Social Media","titleRaw":"Social 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TRAVELLING PENGUIN","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"\u2018Crazy young penguin\u2019 travels to Australia from Antarctica. Is climate change to blame?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"How did an Antarctic penguin end up in Australia?","titleListing2":"First emperor penguin known to reach Australia found on tourist beach","leadin":"The runaway emperor penguin was seen attempting belly slides on the sands of an Australian beach.","summary":"The runaway emperor penguin was seen attempting belly slides on the sands of an Australian beach.","keySentence":"","url":"crazy-young-penguin-travels-to-australia-from-antarctica-is-climate-change-to-blame","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/11\/12\/crazy-young-penguin-travels-to-australia-from-antarctica-is-climate-change-to-blame","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"An emperor penguin has been discovered waddling on an Australian beach, about 3,500 kilometres from its Antarctic home, according to a statement from the Western Australian state\u2019s government.\n\nThough Australia is known for its exotic array of animals - and there is a colony of 30cm high 'little penguins' in St Kilda, Melbourne - this is the first known sighting of an emperor penguin in the country.\u00a0\n\nEmperor penguins are the tallest and heaviest of all living penguins and are usually found only in the Antarctic.\u00a0\n\nHow did\u00a0an emperor penguin end up in Australia?\n\nThe adult male emperor penguin - affectionately nicknamed Gus - was discovered on 1 November by a surfer at a popular tourist beach in Denmark, southwest Australia.\u00a0\n\nUniversity of Western Australia research fellow Belinda Cannell explains that emperor penguins have previously reached New Zealand, Australia\u2019s neighbour, but that she had \u201cno idea\u201d why Gus travelled to Denmark.\n\nBut Dee Boersma, professor of biology at the University of Washington and author of Penguins: Natural History and Conservation, told the New York Times that penguins move about in search of food, which was likely Gus\u2019s primary motivation. \u201cThat crazy young penguin,\u201d she added to the New York Times.\n\nAnd record-low sea ice levels in the Antarctic may have driven this particular penguin far from home.\n\nHow will the emperor penguin get home to Antarctica?\n\nCannell is advising seabird rehabilitator Carol Biddulph, who is caring for Gus, spraying him with a chilled water mist to help him cope with his alien climate.\u00a0\n\nGus is showing signs of malnourishment: at one metre tall, he weighs in at only 23kg. A healthy male emperor penguin can usually weigh more than 45kg.\n\nThe Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions says its current focus is on rehabilitation, but that options to return Gus to his Antarctic home are \u201cstill being worked through\u201d.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>An emperor penguin has been discovered waddling on an <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//10//25//green-hydrogen-and-offshore-wind-uk-and-australia-to-collaborate-on-climate-and-energy/">Australian beach, about 3,500 kilometres from its Antarctic home, according to a statement from the Western Australian state\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>Though Australia is known for its exotic array of animals - and there is a colony of 30cm high 'little penguins' in St Kilda, Melbourne - this is the first known sighting of an <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//01//22//why-is-this-antarctic-penguin-thriving-in-the-face-of-climate-change/">emperor penguin<\/strong><\/a> in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emperor penguins are the tallest and heaviest of all living penguins and are usually found only in the Antarctic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//84//43//20//808x539_cmsv2_9640a8c0-d407-5239-bfd7-aa1c8064b39e-8844320.jpg/" alt=\"Gus, the emperor penguin discovered on a southern Australian beach\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/384x256_cmsv2_9640a8c0-d407-5239-bfd7-aa1c8064b39e-8844320.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/640x427_cmsv2_9640a8c0-d407-5239-bfd7-aa1c8064b39e-8844320.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/750x500_cmsv2_9640a8c0-d407-5239-bfd7-aa1c8064b39e-8844320.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/828x552_cmsv2_9640a8c0-d407-5239-bfd7-aa1c8064b39e-8844320.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/1080x720_cmsv2_9640a8c0-d407-5239-bfd7-aa1c8064b39e-8844320.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/1200x800_cmsv2_9640a8c0-d407-5239-bfd7-aa1c8064b39e-8844320.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/1920x1280_cmsv2_9640a8c0-d407-5239-bfd7-aa1c8064b39e-8844320.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Gus, the emperor penguin discovered on a southern Australian beach<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Miles Brotherson\/Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>How did\u00a0an emperor penguin end up in Australia?<\/h2><p>The adult male emperor penguin - affectionately nicknamed Gus - was discovered on 1 November by a surfer at a popular tourist beach in Denmark, southwest Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>University of Western Australia research fellow Belinda Cannell explains that emperor penguins have previously reached <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//08//03//new-zealand-reveals-climate-action-plan-and-it-includes-moving-homes-to-higher-ground/">New Zealand<\/strong><\/a>, Australia\u2019s neighbour, but that she had \u201cno idea\u201d why Gus travelled to Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>But Dee Boersma, professor of biology at the University of Washington and author of Penguins: Natural History and Conservation, told the New York Times that penguins move about in search of food, which was likely Gus\u2019s primary motivation. \u201cThat crazy young penguin,\u201d she added to the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//09//24//a-giant-antarctic-glacier-is-melting-but-scientists-have-found-a-way-to-thicken-arctic-sea/">record-low sea ice levels in the Antarctic<\/strong><\/a> may have driven this particular penguin far from home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//84//43//20//808x539_cmsv2_df739536-c18f-5444-99be-cc3834c77ef8-8844320.jpg/" alt=\"Gus has travelled 3,500km from his usual home and shows signs of malnourishment after his adventures\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/384x256_cmsv2_df739536-c18f-5444-99be-cc3834c77ef8-8844320.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/640x427_cmsv2_df739536-c18f-5444-99be-cc3834c77ef8-8844320.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/750x500_cmsv2_df739536-c18f-5444-99be-cc3834c77ef8-8844320.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/828x552_cmsv2_df739536-c18f-5444-99be-cc3834c77ef8-8844320.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/1080x720_cmsv2_df739536-c18f-5444-99be-cc3834c77ef8-8844320.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/1200x800_cmsv2_df739536-c18f-5444-99be-cc3834c77ef8-8844320.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/1920x1280_cmsv2_df739536-c18f-5444-99be-cc3834c77ef8-8844320.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Gus has travelled 3,500km from his usual home and shows signs of malnourishment after his adventures<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Miles Brotherson\/Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>How will the emperor penguin get home to Antarctica?<\/h2><p>Cannell is advising seabird rehabilitator Carol Biddulph, who is caring for Gus, spraying him with a chilled water mist to help him cope with his alien climate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gus is showing signs of malnourishment: at one metre tall, he weighs in at only 23kg. A <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//24//emperor-penguin-colonies-risk-quasi-extinction-from-sea-ice-loss-in-antarctica/">healthy male emperor penguin<\/strong><\/a> can usually weigh more than 45kg.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions says its current focus is on rehabilitation, but that options to return Gus to his Antarctic home are \u201cstill being worked through\u201d.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1731321058,"updatedAt":1731427416,"publishedAt":1731425432,"firstPublishedAt":1731425432,"lastPublishedAt":1731425453,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/43\/20\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_7df1b931-b6e6-57be-85ae-79682baf9b18-8844320.jpg","altText":"A male emperor penguin dubbed Gus stands on a beach near Denmark, Australia, thousands of kilometres from its normal habitat on Antarctica.","caption":"A male emperor penguin dubbed Gus stands on 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\u2013 Jamie Oliver book","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Chef Jamie Oliver's children's book withdrawn following criticism from Indigenous Australians","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Jamie Oliver book withdrawn after criticism by Indigenous Australians","titleListing2":"Chef Jamie Oliver's children's book withdrawn following criticism from Indigenous Australians","leadin":"Critics say the chef\u2019s book \u201cBilly and the Epic Escape\u201d relies on tropes and stereotypes about Indigenous Australians.","summary":"Critics say the chef\u2019s book \u201cBilly and the Epic Escape\u201d relies on tropes and stereotypes about Indigenous Australians.","keySentence":"","url":"chef-jamie-olivers-childrens-book-withdrawn-following-criticism-from-indigenous-australian","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/11\/11\/chef-jamie-olivers-childrens-book-withdrawn-following-criticism-from-indigenous-australian","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Many British millennials are still bitter about Jamie Oliver\u2019s war against junk food in school canteens \u2013 now the celebrity chef is drawing ire for rather different reasons.\n\nA children's book by Oliver has been pulled from sale after facing backlash for its portrayal of Indigenous Australians.\n\nThe Guardian reported on Saturday (9 November) that the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Corporation condemned \u201cBilly and the Epic Escape\u201d, which was released earlier this year, for relying on stereotypes and tropes about Indigenous cultures, particularly regarding their connection to nature and spirituality.\n\nThe organisation specifically criticised a subplot involving an Indigenous girl in foster care, arguing that it perpetuates harmful stereotypes and contributes to the \"erasure, trivialisation, and misrepresentation of First Nations peoples and their experiences.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, Oliver, 49, expressed his deep regret, stating that he was \"devastated\" to have caused offence and offered a \"wholehearted\" apology.\n\n\u201cIt was never my intention to misinterpret this deeply painful issue,\u201d he said. \u201cTogether with my publishers we have decided to withdraw the book from sale.\u201d\n\nIndigenous campaigners were especially outraged that neither Jamie Oliver nor his publisher, Penguin Random House, consulted with them prior to the book's release.\n\n\u201cIt is clear that our publishing standards fell short on this occasion, and we must learn from that and take decisive action,\u201d the publisher said. \u201cWith that in mind, we have agreed with our author, Jamie Oliver, that we will be withdrawing the book from sale.\u201d\n\nOliver, currently in Australia promoting his latest recipe book, is among a growing number of celebrities turning to children's literature \u2013 a trend that has drawn criticism from many established children's authors, who argue that they are being pushed out of the market.\n\nOliver's first children's book, \u201cBilly and the Giant Adventure\u201d, was released last year.\u00a0\n\nRising to fame in 1999 with his cookbook and TV show \u201cThe Naked Chef\u201d, Oliver has long been an advocate for children's nutrition. His outspoken criticism of unhealthy school meals in the UK in 2005 sparked a national debate, with his campaign against Turkey Twizzlers \u2013 pieces of spiralised processed meat that were a canteen staple \u2013 causing particular furor.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Many British millennials are still bitter about <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//02//22//bite-back-youth-campaign-shames-companies-over-junk-food-products/">Jamie Oliver<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s war against junk food in school canteens \u2013 now the celebrity chef is drawing ire for rather different reasons.<\/p>\n<p>A children's book by Oliver has been pulled from sale after facing backlash for its portrayal of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//07//14//heres-how-europes-indigenous-peoples-are-using-food-diplomacy-to-save-the-arctic/">Indigenous Australians.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian reported on Saturday (9 November) that the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Corporation condemned \u201cBilly and the Epic Escape\u201d, which was released earlier this year, for relying on stereotypes and tropes about Indigenous cultures, particularly regarding their connection to nature and spirituality.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation specifically criticised a subplot involving an Indigenous girl in foster care, arguing that it perpetuates harmful stereotypes and contributes to the \"erasure, trivialisation, and misrepresentation of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//10//28//horror-brought-to-the-surface-how-european-countries-are-grappling-with-their-colonial-his/">First Nations<\/strong><\/a> peoples and their experiences.\"<\/p>\n<p>In response to the criticism, Oliver, 49, expressed his deep regret, stating that he was \"devastated\" to have caused offence and offered a \"wholehearted\" apology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was never my intention to misinterpret this deeply painful issue,\u201d he said. \u201cTogether with my publishers we have decided to withdraw the book from sale.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//84//42//36//808x808_cmsv2_e61a607f-f6e3-5f3f-834f-63c3a6b61fd0-8844236.jpg/" alt=\"The book has been withdrawn by publisher Penguin Random House\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/42\/36\/384x384_cmsv2_e61a607f-f6e3-5f3f-834f-63c3a6b61fd0-8844236.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/42\/36\/640x640_cmsv2_e61a607f-f6e3-5f3f-834f-63c3a6b61fd0-8844236.jpg 640w, 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class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Penguin Random House \/ Amazon<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Indigenous campaigners were especially outraged that neither Jamie Oliver nor his publisher, Penguin Random House, consulted with them prior to the book's release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that our publishing standards fell short on this occasion, and we must learn from that and take decisive action,\u201d the publisher said. \u201cWith that in mind, we have agreed with our author, Jamie Oliver, that we will be withdrawing the book from sale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oliver, currently in Australia promoting his latest recipe book, is among a growing number of celebrities turning to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//02//23//french-publishers-wade-in-on-controversial-changes-to-roald-dahls-childrens-novels/">children's literature<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 a trend that has drawn criticism from many 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His outspoken criticism of unhealthy school meals in the UK in 2005 sparked a national debate, with his campaign against Turkey Twizzlers \u2013 pieces of spiralised processed meat that were a canteen staple \u2013 causing particular furor.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1731318989,"updatedAt":1731324742,"publishedAt":1731320224,"firstPublishedAt":1731320224,"lastPublishedAt":1731320224,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/42\/36\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_36098529-028a-5280-a96e-c4463127ffbe-8844236.jpg","altText":"Jamie Oliver at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 2017","caption":"Jamie Oliver at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 2017","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Laurent Gillieron\/ KEYSTONE via 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BREAKDANCER RETIRES","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Australian breaker Raygun retires after Olympics backlash","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Australian breaker Raygun retires after Olympics backlash","titleListing2":"Australian breaker Raygun retires after Olympics backlash","leadin":"Rachael Gunn has quit competitive breakdancing after her unusual routine at the Paris Games went viral and generated criticism and conspiracy theories.","summary":"Rachael Gunn has quit competitive breakdancing after her unusual routine at the Paris Games went viral and generated criticism and conspiracy theories.","keySentence":"","url":"australian-breaker-raygun-retires-after-olympics-backlash","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/2024\/11\/07\/australian-breaker-raygun-retires-after-olympics-backlash","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Australian breaker Rachael Gunn, known as \"Raygun\", has retired from competitive breakdancing due to the scrutiny, criticism and conspiracy theories she faced after her unorthodox routine at the Paris Olympics went viral.\n\nGunn, a 37-year-old university lecturer, failed to get on the scoreboard in all three of her battles when breaking made its Olympic Games debut in the French capital in August. \n\nHer unusual routine \u2014 which included moves such as a kangaroo hop \u2014 quickly made her an internet sensation, generating endless memes and widespread ridicule.\n\nThe performance also spawned conspiracy theories about how Gunn qualified for the Games, and triggered debate about the sport's value and inclusion in the Olympics.\n\nGunn had initially planned to keep competing, but said that the saga had been so \"upsetting\" that she changed her mind.\n\n\"I just didn\u2019t have any control over how people saw me or who I was,\" she told radio station 2DayFM. \n\n\"I was going to keep competing, for sure, but that seems really difficult for me to do now. I think the level of scrutiny that\u2019s going to be there, and people will be filming it, and it will go online.\"\n\nGunn said she received a torrent of abuse and violent messages after the Olympics, and was the subject of an online petition accusing her of manipulating the qualification procedure to earn her place at the Games. The petition attracted 50,000 signatures before it was removed at the request of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC). \n\n\"The conspiracy theories were totally wild,\" Gunn said. \u201cBut I just try and stay on the positives and that\u2019s what gets me through.\"\n\n\"The people that have like [said]: 'You have inspired me to go out there and do something that I\u2019ve been too shy to do. You\u2019ve brought joy, you\u2019ve brought laughter. You know, we\u2019re so proud of you',\" she said in her Sydney radio interview. \n\nAmid the criticism, Gunn's performance was defended by an Olympic breakdancing judge and the AOC. In September, the World DanceSport Federation ranked her the number-one female breakdancer globally.\n\nBreaking was dropped from the Olympic programme for the 2028 Games in Los Angeles, and it is not scheduled for the 2032 Games in Brisbane. Gunn's performance in Paris divided the breaking community, with some of her peers defending her but others saying that she had made a mockery of the sport on the world's biggest stage. \n\nWhile Gunn said she has no plans to return to competitive breakdancing, she won't stop breaking entirely.\n\n\"I still dance and I still break,\" she said. \"But that\u2019s, like, in my living room with my partner.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Australian breaker Rachael Gunn, known as \"Raygun\", has retired from competitive breakdancing due to the scrutiny, criticism and conspiracy theories she faced after her unorthodox routine at the Paris Olympics went viral.<\/p>\n<p>Gunn, a 37-year-old university lecturer, failed to get on the scoreboard in all three of her battles when breaking made its Olympic Games debut in the French capital in August. <\/p>\n<p>Her unusual routine \u2014 which included moves such as a kangaroo hop \u2014 quickly made her an internet sensation, generating endless memes and widespread ridicule.<\/p>\n<p>The performance also spawned conspiracy theories about how Gunn qualified for the Games, and triggered debate about the sport's value and inclusion in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Gunn had initially planned to keep competing, but said that the saga had been so \"upsetting\" that she changed her mind.<\/p>\n<p>\"I just didn\u2019t have any control over how people saw me or who I was,\" she told radio station 2DayFM. <\/p>\n<p>\"I was going to keep competing, for sure, but that seems really difficult for me to do now. I think the level of scrutiny that\u2019s going to be there, and people will be filming it, and it will go online.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//83//74//66//808x539_cmsv2_50c242d3-1057-5c16-8109-ffc99c404705-8837466.jpg/" alt=\"File: Australia&#39;s Rachael Gunn, known as B-Girl Raygun, competes at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Paris, France \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/74\/66\/384x256_cmsv2_50c242d3-1057-5c16-8109-ffc99c404705-8837466.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/74\/66\/640x427_cmsv2_50c242d3-1057-5c16-8109-ffc99c404705-8837466.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/74\/66\/750x500_cmsv2_50c242d3-1057-5c16-8109-ffc99c404705-8837466.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/74\/66\/828x552_cmsv2_50c242d3-1057-5c16-8109-ffc99c404705-8837466.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/74\/66\/1080x720_cmsv2_50c242d3-1057-5c16-8109-ffc99c404705-8837466.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/74\/66\/1200x800_cmsv2_50c242d3-1057-5c16-8109-ffc99c404705-8837466.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/74\/66\/1920x1281_cmsv2_50c242d3-1057-5c16-8109-ffc99c404705-8837466.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">File: Australia&#39;s Rachael Gunn, known as B-Girl Raygun, competes at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Paris, France <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Abbie Parr\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gunn said she received a torrent of abuse and violent messages after the Olympics, and was the subject of an online petition accusing her of manipulating the qualification procedure to earn her place at the Games. The petition attracted 50,000 signatures before it was removed at the request of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC). <\/p>\n<p>\"The conspiracy theories were totally wild,\" Gunn said. \u201cBut I just try and stay on the positives and that\u2019s what gets me through.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"The people that have like [said]: 'You have inspired me to go out there and do something that I\u2019ve been too shy to do. You\u2019ve brought joy, you\u2019ve brought laughter. You know, we\u2019re so proud of you',\" she said in her Sydney radio interview. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"6647450,6258474,5187074\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2021//11//23//from-hip-hop-to-classical-music-meet-the-breakdancing-singer-making-his-met-opera-debut/">From hip-hop to classical music, meet the breakdancing singer making his Met Opera debut<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2020//12//07//breakdancing-gets-olympic-status-to-debut-at-paris-in-2024/">Breakdancing gets Olympic status to debut at Paris in 2024<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2022//05//09//from-the-favelas-to-the-olympics-the-brazilian-breakdancer-determined-to-make-her-country-/">From the favelas to the Olympics: the Brazilian breakdancer determined to make her country proud<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Amid the criticism, Gunn's performance was defended by an Olympic breakdancing judge and the AOC. In September, the World DanceSport Federation ranked her the number-one female breakdancer globally.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking was dropped from the Olympic programme for the 2028 Games in Los Angeles, and it is not scheduled for the 2032 Games in Brisbane. Gunn's performance in Paris divided the breaking community, with some of her peers defending her but others saying that she had made a mockery of the sport on the world's biggest stage. <\/p>\n<p>While Gunn said she has no plans to return to competitive breakdancing, she won't stop breaking entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\"I still dance and I still break,\" she said. \"But that\u2019s, like, in my living room with my partner.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1730969593,"updatedAt":1730974284,"publishedAt":1730973976,"firstPublishedAt":1730973976,"lastPublishedAt":1730973976,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/74\/66\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_44f526cc-40ea-5e1e-909a-0474d9b09fb9-8837466.jpg","altText":"File: Australia's Rachael Gunn, known as B-Girl Raygun, competes at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Aug. 9, 2024, in Paris, France ","caption":"File: Australia's Rachael Gunn, known as B-Girl Raygun, competes at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Aug. 9, 2024, in Paris, France ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Frank Franklin\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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During his second night performing at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on 30 October, the show was temporarily halted after the singer walked off stage due to a heckler. \n\nFan footage from the crowd shows a heckler shouting at Yorke to \u201ccondemn the Israeli genocide of Gaza\u201d, among a longer tirade that can\u2019t be fully made out from the video. \n\nYorke responds through the mic asking the fan to \u201ccome up here and say that\u201d. He then continued to demand the fan follows up the comments: \u201cHop up on the fucking stage and say what you want to say. Don\u2019t stand there like a coward, come here and say it. You want to piss on everybody\u2019s night?\u201d \n\nAs the fan responds asking Yorke about \u201chow many dead children will it take for you to condemn the genocide in Gaza\u201d, the disgruntled singer stormed off the stage, saying \u201cOK, you do it, see you later then.\u201d \n\nAlthough Yorke hasn\u2019t played a consistent set throughout this tour, it seems like the heckler didn\u2019t disrupt the show too much as the singer returned to the stage to perform Radiohead song \u2018Karma Police\u2019 as his final encore and 22nd song of the night \u2013 the same number he\u2019d performed at the same venue the previous evening. \n\nWhile the members of Radiohead haven\u2019t previously shied away from political matters, their general stance on Israel and Palestine has often rubbed some of their fans the wrong way. \n\nEarlier this year, Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood was criticised for going ahead with plans to tour his 2023 album \u2018Jarak Qaribak\u2019, made in collaboration with Israeli musician of Kuwait origin Dudu Tassa. \n\n\u201cI\u2019ve been collaborating with Dudu and releasing music with him since 2008 \u2013 and working privately long before that,\u201d Greenwood explained at the time. \u201cI think an artistic project that combines Arab and Jewish musicians is worthwhile. And one that reminds everyone that the Jewish cultural roots in countries like Iraq and Yemen go back for thousands of years, is also important.\u201d\n\nThe Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has criticised Radiohead for touring in Israel for years before the current iteration of the war in Gaza. The band were criticised in 2017 for performing in Israel by influential artists within the BDS movement including Pink Floyd\u2019s Roger Waters and filmmaker Ken Loach.\n\nYorke then responded that: \u201cPlaying in a country isn\u2019t the same as endorsing its government.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe\u2019ve played in Israel for over 20 years through a succession of governments, some more liberal than others. As we have in America,\u201d Yorke continued. \u201cMusic, art and academia is about crossing borders not building them, about open minds not closed ones, about shared humanity, dialogue and freedom of expression.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Thom Yorke is currently touring a show across Australasia, Singapore and Japan of his music with Radiohead, The Smile, Atoms for Peace and as a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//09//26//thom-yorke-to-rework-radioheads-hail-to-the-thief-for-new-hamlet-production/">solo artist<\/strong><\/a>. During his second night performing at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on 30 October, the show was temporarily halted after the singer walked off stage due to a heckler. <\/p>\n<p>Fan footage from the crowd shows a heckler shouting at Yorke to \u201ccondemn the Israeli genocide of Gaza\u201d, among a longer tirade that can\u2019t be fully made out from the video. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8822704,8822572\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//10//30//adidas-and-kanye-west-reach-amicable-settlement-after-years-of-legal-disputes/">Adidas and Kanye West reach amicable settlement after years of legal disputes<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//10//30//1000-signatories-in-largest-boycott-of-israeli-publishing-industry/">1,000 signatories in largest boycott of Israeli publishing industry<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yorke responds through the mic asking the fan to \u201ccome up here and say that\u201d. He then continued to demand the fan follows up the comments: \u201cHop up on the fucking stage and say what you want to say. Don\u2019t stand there like a coward, come here and say it. You want to piss on everybody\u2019s night?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As the fan responds asking Yorke about \u201chow many dead children will it take for you to condemn the genocide in Gaza\u201d, the disgruntled singer stormed off the stage, saying \u201cOK, you do it, see you later then.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Although Yorke hasn\u2019t played a consistent set throughout this tour, it seems like the heckler didn\u2019t disrupt the show too much as the singer returned to the stage to perform Radiohead song \u2018Karma Police\u2019 as his final encore and 22nd song of the night \u2013 the same number he\u2019d performed at the same venue the previous evening. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@makzym8\/video\/7431555302807457025\" data-video-id=\"7431555302807457025\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\" > <section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@makzym8\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.tiktok.com//@makzym8?refer=embed\%22>@makzym8<\/a> Melbourne night 2. Guy then got got by the Karma Police <a title=\"radiohead\" target=\"_blank\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.tiktok.com//tag//radiohead?refer=embed\%22>#radiohead<\/a> <a title=\"thomyorke\" target=\"_blank\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.tiktok.com//tag//thomyorke?refer=embed\%22>#thomyorke<\/a> <a title=\"melbourne\" target=\"_blank\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.tiktok.com//tag//melbourne?refer=embed\%22>#melbourne<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Maxim\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.tiktok.com//music//original-sound-7431555739028392721?refer=embed\%22>\u266c original sound - Maxim<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote> <script async src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.tiktok.com//embed.js/">/n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>While the members of Radiohead haven\u2019t previously shied away from political matters, their general stance on Israel and Palestine has often rubbed some of their fans the wrong way. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Radiohead's <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//06//05//radioheads-jonny-greenwood-responds-to-criticism-of-his-collaboration-with-israeli-musicia/">Jonny Greenwood<\/strong><\/a> was criticised for going ahead with plans to tour his 2023 album \u2018Jarak Qaribak\u2019, made in collaboration with Israeli musician of Kuwait origin Dudu Tassa. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been collaborating with Dudu and releasing music with him since 2008 \u2013 and working privately long before that,\u201d Greenwood explained at the time. \u201cI think an artistic project that combines Arab and Jewish musicians is worthwhile. And one that reminds everyone that the Jewish cultural roots in countries like Iraq and Yemen go back for thousands of years, is also important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has criticised Radiohead for touring in Israel for years before the current iteration of the war in Gaza. The band were criticised in 2017 for performing in Israel by influential artists within the BDS movement including Pink Floyd\u2019s Roger Waters and filmmaker Ken Loach.<\/p>\n<p>Yorke then responded that: \u201cPlaying in a country isn\u2019t the same as endorsing its government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve played in Israel for over 20 years through a succession of governments, some more liberal than others. As we have in America,\u201d Yorke continued. \u201cMusic, art and academia is about crossing borders not building them, about open minds not closed ones, about shared humanity, dialogue and freedom of expression.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1730367224,"updatedAt":1730372572,"publishedAt":1730371265,"firstPublishedAt":1730371265,"lastPublishedAt":1730371265,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/47\/96\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_90076a43-69d7-59e7-a03e-0017b4ece1fb-8824796.jpg","altText":"Thom Yorke, left, and Jonny Greenwood of The Smile perform during the band's concert at the Shrine Auditorium, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022","caption":"Thom Yorke, left, and Jonny Greenwood of The Smile perform during the band's concert at the Shrine Auditorium, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2272,"urlSafeValue":"walfisz","title":"Jonny Walfisz","twitter":"@JonathanWalfisz"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":11646,"slug":"music","urlSafeValue":"music","title":"Music","titleRaw":"Music"},{"id":29226,"slug":"israel-hamas-war","urlSafeValue":"israel-hamas-war","title":"Israel Hamas war","titleRaw":"Israel Hamas war"},{"id":7800,"slug":"united-kingdom","urlSafeValue":"united-kingdom","title":"United Kingdom","titleRaw":"United Kingdom"},{"id":13,"slug":"australia","urlSafeValue":"australia","title":"Australia","titleRaw":"Australia"},{"id":13122,"slug":"palestine","urlSafeValue":"palestine","title":"Palestine","titleRaw":"Palestine"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"html","count":1},{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2640056},{"id":2557148}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"culture-news","urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture News","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/culture-news\/culture-news"},"vertical":"culture","verticals":[{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"},"themes":[{"id":"culture-news","urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture news","url":"\/culture\/culture-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":53,"urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture news"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":391,"urlSafeValue":"oceania","title":"Oceania"},"country":{"id":4611,"urlSafeValue":"australia","title":"Australia","url":"\/news\/oceania\/australia"},"town":{"id":4226,"urlSafeValue":"melbourne","title":"Melbourne"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["84011001","84012006","84111001","84112001"],"slugs":["a_and_e_music","arts_and_entertainment","law_government_and_politics","law_government_and_politics_general"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/culture\/2024\/10\/31\/radioheads-thom-yorke-walks-off-stage-over-gaza-heckler","lastModified":1730371265},{"id":2654030,"cid":8789410,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":"241014_NCSU_56756007","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"NC4 AUSTRALIA GOLD TOURISM","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Tourists and gold diggers boost central Queensland economy as old mines re-open","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Tourists and gold diggers boost Clermont economy as old mines re-open","titleListing2":"Tourists and gold diggers boost Clermont economy as old mines re-open","leadin":"In Australia, the small town of Clermont, in central Queensland, is enjoying a new lease of life thanks to rising gold prices.","summary":"In Australia, the small town of Clermont, in central Queensland, is enjoying a new lease of life thanks to rising gold prices.","keySentence":"","url":"australias-gold-rush","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/10\/14\/australias-gold-rush","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Tourists and gold diggers flock to the region in search of the precious metal, contributing to the local economy. 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The town of Clermont hopes to attract around 2,500 prospectors a year as the old mines re-open.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1728910905,"updatedAt":1728918005,"publishedAt":1728915184,"firstPublishedAt":1728915184,"lastPublishedAt":1728917670,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/78\/94\/12\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_05029286-cffe-5e4c-8d37-a4a3c4dfe1b9-8789412.jpg","altText":"Gold nuggets in a prospector's hand","caption":"Gold nuggets in a prospector's hand","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Photo tir\u00e9e d'une vid\u00e9o AP","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2134,"urlSafeValue":"mauduit","title":"Frederique Mauduit","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[{"id":2134,"urlSafeValue":"mauduit","title":"Frederique 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And the Australian carrier now is apologising to customers.\n\nThere were technical issues with the in-flight entertainment for a trip from Sydney to Haneda last week, Qantas has confirmed - making individual movie selection unavailable. As a result, the crew chose one movie to play across all screens \u201cbased on the request from a number of passengers\", the company said.\n\nQantas did not identify the movie by name, but several media outlets have reported that it was 'Daddio', an R-rated film - rated 18 in the UK - that hit theatres earlier this year.\n\nWhy did the movie make passengers uncomfortable?\n\n'Daddio' follows a woman (Dakota Johnson) who takes a cab from JFK airport and strikes up an extended conversation with her driver (Sean Penn) on her way back home to Manhattan - as the two discuss anything from what it takes to be a New Yorker to relationships and infidelity, notably her current affair with a married man. The film carries an R rating for \u201clanguage throughout, sexual material and brief graphic nudity\u201d.\n\nSocial media posts from users who claim they were on the Qantas flight said they were uncomfortable by nudity and sexting featured in the film - particularly for families and children who were on board. Two users on Reddit said that it was also impossible for individual passengers to turn off the movie.\n\n'We sincerely apologise to customers for this experience'\n\nAfter determining that the movie was not appropriate for all ages, the Qantas crew attempted to fix screens for travellers who did not want to watch it - but later found that this was not possible and changed course.\n\n\u201cThe movie was clearly not suitable to play for the whole flight and we sincerely apologise to customers for this experience,\" a Qantas spokesperson said in a statement. \u201cAll screens were changed to a family friendly movie for the rest of the flight, which is our standard practice for the rare cases where individual movie selection isn\u2019t possible.\u201d\n\nThe spokesperson added that Qantas is \u201creviewing how the (initial) movie was selected.\u201d\n\nIn the days following the incident, the airline has taken some flak online - including from travel rivals.\n\n\u201cPlot twist: We let you choose your movies,\u201d Air New Zealand wrote in a reply to the news on social media platform X.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Qantas Airways has drawn up a stir after broadcasting a slightly-racy movie across an entire flight. And the Australian carrier now is apologising to customers.<\/p>\n<p>There were technical issues with the in-flight entertainment for a trip from Sydney to Haneda last week, Qantas has confirmed - making individual movie selection unavailable. As a result, the crew chose one movie to play across all screens \u201cbased on the request from a number of passengers\", the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Qantas did not identify the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//04//03//from-white-lotus-to-wednesday-how-set-jetting-is-determining-travel-destinations-for-2023/">movie by name, but several media outlets have reported that it was 'Daddio', an R-rated film - rated 18 in the UK - that hit theatres earlier this year.<\/p>\n<h2>Why did the movie make passengers uncomfortable?<\/h2><p>'Daddio' follows a woman (Dakota Johnson) who takes a cab from JFK airport and strikes up an extended conversation with her driver (Sean Penn) on her way back home to Manhattan - as the two discuss anything from what it takes to be a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//05//14//dublin-and-new-york-are-now-connected-by-a-portal-and-locals-are-using-it-to-flirt-with-st/">New Yorker<\/strong><\/a> to relationships and infidelity, notably her current affair with a married man. The film carries an R rating for \u201clanguage throughout, sexual material and brief graphic nudity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Social media posts from users who claim they were on the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//09//01//false-and-deceptive-why-is-australias-consumer-watchdog-taking-qantas-to-court/">Qantas flight said they were uncomfortable by nudity and sexting featured in the film - particularly for families and children who were on board. Two users on Reddit said that it was also impossible for individual passengers to turn off the movie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8651698,8778592\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//10//08//i-frequently-get-surprise-upgraded-how-to-get-bumped-up-to-business-class-for-free/">How to get a free flight upgrade, according to airlines and frequent travellers<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//08//15//no-phone-no-sleep-no-water-what-does-it-mean-to-raw-dog-a-flight-and-is-it-really-mindful/">/u2018No phone, no sleep, no water\u2019: What does it mean to raw-dog a flight and is it really mindful?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>'We sincerely apologise to customers for this experience'<\/h2><p>After determining that the movie was not appropriate for all ages, the Qantas crew attempted to fix screens for travellers who did not want to watch it - but later found that this was not possible and changed course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe movie was clearly not suitable to play for the whole <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//07//31//cosy-dinners-privacy-screens-and-4k-tvs-inside-qatar-airways-luxe-new-business-class/">flight and we sincerely apologise to customers for this experience,\" a Qantas spokesperson said in a statement. \u201cAll screens were changed to a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//09//22//good-morning-my-friend-my-toddler-was-treated-like-royalty-on-our-family-holiday-to-albani/">family friendly<\/strong><\/a> movie for the rest of the flight, which is our standard practice for the rare cases where individual movie selection isn\u2019t possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson added that Qantas is \u201creviewing how the (initial) movie was selected.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Plot twist: We let you choose your movies. \ud83d\ude05<\/p>&mdash; Air New Zealand (@FlyAirNZ) <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//FlyAirNZ//status//1843571180382642481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\%22>October 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////platform.twitter.com//widgets.js/" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the days following the incident, the airline has taken some flak online - including from travel rivals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlot twist: We let you choose your movies,\u201d <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//08//02//the-industry-cannot-be-trusted-to-reduce-their-own-emissions-airline-drops-2030-climate-ta/">Air New Zealand<\/strong><\/a> wrote in a reply to the news on social media platform X.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1728460290,"updatedAt":1728463416,"publishedAt":1728461510,"firstPublishedAt":1728461510,"lastPublishedAt":1728461510,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/77\/95\/76\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_03b77e3c-8647-5514-8b06-8db33d6c4ece-8779576.jpg","altText":"A Qantas jet arrives at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 12, 2023. 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and \u2018deep torture\u2019: Asylum seekers warn EU against rolling out controversial offshore detention centres","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"\u2018Tragedy\u2019 and \u2018deep torture\u2019: Asylum seekers warn EU against rolling out offshore centres","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Australian asylum seekers warn EU against rolling out offshore centres","titleListing2":"\u2018Tragedy\u2019 and \u2018deep torture\u2019: Asylum seekers warn EU against rolling out offshore detention","leadin":"Two asylum seekers with first-hand experience of Australia\u2019s brutal offshore migrant processing centres told Euronews they have a message for European leaders mulling the prospect of doing the same back home: don\u2019t.","summary":"Two asylum seekers with first-hand experience of Australia\u2019s brutal offshore migrant processing centres told Euronews they have a message for European leaders mulling the prospect of doing the same back home: don\u2019t.","keySentence":"","url":"tragedy-and-deep-torture-asylum-seekers-warn-eu-against-rolling-out-offshore-centres","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/09\/25\/tragedy-and-deep-torture-asylum-seekers-warn-eu-against-rolling-out-offshore-centres","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"When Behrouz Boochani was detained at the Australian-run regional processing centre on Manus Island from 2013 until 2017, writing was a means for him to grapple with the everyday ruthlessness germinating in the humid Papua New Guinea heat around him.\u202f\u00a0\n\nSome of these scenes \u2014 published in poems, articles and award-winning books such as No Friend But the Mountains \u2014 detail the endless carousel of reported riots, murders, suicides, rapes, preventable deaths and other harms that occurred at the offshore detention centre.\u202f\u00a0\n\nOther vignettes pay witness to the rot and desperation facing those who waited, often years, for the Department of Home 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This is a process the International Criminal Court referred to as \u201ccruel, inhuman\u201d and \u201cdegrading\u201d and appeared to violate fundamental rules of international law.\u202f\u00a0\n\nBoochani, a Kurdish-Iranian journalist-turned-human rights advocate, has a message for European countries wanting to copy this Australian-made architecture for extraterritorial processing of asylum claims.\u00a0\u00a0\n\n\u201cHundreds of people have been separated from their families. Thousands of people have been damaged, mentally and physically. Many people have been killed,\u201d Boochani said from his home in New Zealand\u2019s capital, Wellington.\u202f\u00a0\n\n\u201cAustralia has created a tragedy.\u201d\u00a0\n\nAlthough Boochani did not answer Euronews\u2019 question about the personal trauma he continues to live with from his time at the squalid centre \u2014 described by immigration campaigners as resembling fenced military barracks \u2014 his writing describes the island as a \u201cprison camp\u201d and those waiting for their asylum applications to be processed as \u201cforgotten prisoners\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nThis is despite the Australian parliament\u2019s official figures stating that in 2016, over 80% of all asylum seekers on the islands of Manus and Nauru had valid reasons to seek the status of refugees. \n\nBoochani wants his and the stories of thousands of other asylum seekers that were chewed up and spat out through Australia\u2019s regional migrant processing centres to serve as cautionary tales for the rest of the world.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nEurope\u2019s \u2018fantasy options\u2019\u00a0\n\nOver the past decade, migration became a hot-button issue reverberating throughout the continent, with conservative European leaders using the influx of foreigners as a straw man for everything from shrinking housing market to stagnating wages.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nThis culminated when a swag of European member states indicated they wanted to copy Australia\u2019s offshore migrant processing policies by processing new arrivals outside their countries.\n\nAnd although the most recent European Parliamentary Research Service briefing on extraterritorial processing of asylum applications states no claims within the bloc have been processed this way yet \u2013 this could rapidly change.\u202f\u202f\u00a0\n\nIn May, 15 member states penned a controversial letter calling on the EU to develop policies centred on outsourcing migration and asylum claims. The parties wanted to disrupt irregular migration routes and create a level playing field for dealing with new arrivals, they argued in the document uploaded to social media platform X.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nThe letter referenced \u201cbuilding\u201d on models such as the five-year, \u20ac670 million deal struck between Italy and Albania \u2013 an agreement stipulating Rome will outsource the processing of roughly 36,000 asylum applications annually to the Balkan country, with two dedicated facilities constructed to house new arrivals.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has repeatedly defended the controversial plan \u2014 described by Amnesty International as \u201cshameful\u201d \u2014 repeating these centres are necessary to crack down on \u201chuman trafficking\u201d and prevent deaths in the Mediterranean.\u202f\u00a0\n\nCatherine Woollard, the director of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, said these externalisation \u201cfantasy options\u201d rarely work and at best are a distraction.\u00a0\n\n\u201cAt worst, they cause immense stress and suffering as people are left in limbo without access to asylum,\u201d she told Euronews. \u201cGenerally, they founder due to political opposition in the countries targeted and legal obstacles as courts rule out transfer to unsafe places.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\n\nAustria, another signatory to the letter, indicated in November it also wanted to process asylum seekers in a third country by mimicking the controversial UK-Rwanda-style plan, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak\u2019s \u20ac280-million vision to send asylum seekers to the East African country for processing.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nThis deal tanked when the Supreme Court ruled in 2023 the plan was unlawful \u2014 and when newly minted PM Keir Starmer took office and said the arrangement was \u201cdead\u201d.\u202f\u00a0\n\nBut Vienna\u2019s position was firmed up when Austria\u2019s EU Minister Karoline Edtstadler told Euronews in August the central European country needed to get \u201cserious\u201d about migration. \u201cWe need to take further steps to develop third country [non-EU] asylum centres,\u201d she said at the time.\u202f\u00a0\n\nBoochani was recently in Austria \u2014 which happens to be the world leader in anti-immigrant sentiment. According to the most recent Democracy Perception Index (2023), Austrians, more than any other community surveyed, wanted their government to prioritise reducing migration.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\nAsked about whether he felt anti-immigrant sentiment percolating there, the 41-year-old said he noticed xenophobia in the language. But he was quick to point out how it\u2019s not unusual for such words to infiltrate a country well ahead of any actual actions. \u201cAustralia has been active (in trying) to export this system,\u201d he said, \u201cand part of this is exporting language.\u201d\u202f\u00a0\n\nThis lexicon includes \u201cStop the boats,\u201d a highly politicised three-worded slogan that Sunak lifted from ex-Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to prop his Rwanda plan.\u00a0The phrase was repeatedly chanted at the anti-immigrant riots that ripped through Britain in August.\u00a0\u00a0\n\n\u00a0\u201cThis language allows them to criminalise the narrative,\u201d Boochani explained. \u201cSo now we see that they are not only following Australia's offshore detention logistically, but they are also borrowing the language as well. That's why we hear those words in the UK.\u201d\u00a0\n\nThe Australian model\n\nWhen Euronews asked Behrouz how seven years on Manus Island impacted him, he paused for a while before answering. \u201cThe banishment itself is a humiliation,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is torture. It is painful.\u201d\u00a0\n\n\u201cYou lose seven years. That causes damage.\u201d\u00a0\n\nAustralia has operated strict offshore processing centres for two decades. Before almost totally shuttering, these centres were predominantly located at Manus Island and Nauru in Papua New Guinea and ran in tandem with harsh boat turnback policies that were a part of the decade-old Operation Sovereign Borders (OSB).\u00a0\n\nAccording to the Home Affairs website, \u201cThere is only one way to gain entry into Australia \u2014 with a valid Australian visa.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\n\n\u201cYou will never settle in Australia. You have zero chance of success,\u201d Rear Admiral\u202fBrett Sonter, the commander of the joint agency taskforce, says in a video posted online to deter those travelling to Australia by boat. National legislation stipulates any individual unlawfully attempting to reach the Australian continent by boat will be turned back to the point of departure, returned to their home country, or transferred to a third country for processing.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nThis means Australia is the only country in the world to enforce immigration detention for non-lawful arrivals. According to the Australian Refugee Council, 4,292 people \u2014 including children \u2014 were sent to offshore processing facilities after landing in the sunburnt country.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nWhen UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants Fran\u00e7ois Cr\u00e9peau visited Nauru in 2017, before the Australian government imposed a media blackout, he noted families are often separated for several months \u2014 or even years \u2014 and that the average time in detention was 454 days.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThe special rapporteur met people who had been in detention for over seven years,\u201d the report stated, adding it was \u201cnot the right environment for often already traumatised people.\u201d Cr\u00e9peau said many detained children exhibited signs of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression, with feelings of hopelessness and frustration often leading to \u201cacts of violence against themselves or others\u201d..\u00a0\n\n\u201cThe special rapporteur heard of suicide attempts and self-harm, mental disorders and development problems, including severe attachment disorder. Many of the parents despair over the impossibility of offering their children a promising future, and feel guilty.\u201d\u00a0\n\n\u2018You kill them mentally and emotionally\u2019\u00a0\n\nZaiki Haidari is a refugee rights campaigner working at Amnesty International Australia and living in Sydney. The Afghanistan-born Hazara refugee told Euronews that his job within the organisation involves speaking candidly with politicians in Canberra about the reality of the detention systems and what costs these policies can exact on people. This includes immense pain.\u00a0\u00a0\n\n\u201cOne of my friends burned himself alive, saying \u2018Humanity doesn\u2019t exist,\u2019\u201d Haidari said, remembering Khodayar Amini self-immolating in 2015.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWe were fleeing our country, escaping genocide and torture, and when we arrived in Australia, we were treated as animals. The experience of being detained was awful,\u201d he said of his own experience.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nHaidari sought asylum in Australia in 2012 by boat and was detained for a month and a half on Christmas Island \u2013 Australian territory some 1,500 kilometres west off the mainland. He didn\u2019t end up on Nauru or Manus by mere chance.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nBut this doesn\u2019t mean that Christmas Island is a much better destination. \n\nIn 2022, the United Nations Committee Against Torture raised concerns over those detained there, with the Australian Human Rights Commission writing in 2017 the centre is \u201cnot an appropriate facility for immigration detention\u201d particularly those vulnerable or detained for long periods of time.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nHaidari described the centre as a jail, and that he was seen by the Christmas Island security staff and the Australian government writ large as \u201canimals\u201d.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWhy were we in this high-security environment but we hadn\u2019t committed any crime or haven\u2019t been on trial? Why are we being treated like criminals?\u201d he said.\u00a0\n\nIt\u2019s been over a decade since Haidari resettled in Australia. He loves it there, saying it is the first place that has allowed him simply to live. \u201cThere was no physical violence towards me. There was no Taliban and there was no one to run after me,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nAccording to the UN Refugee Agency, the Hazara community \u2013 one of Afghanistan\u2019s largest ethnic groups living mainly in the central region of Hazarajat \u2013 has suffered from targeted discrimination, persecution and massacres, with 60% of the population killed since the 1890s.\u00a0\n\nHaidari knows, however, that others like him are currently languishing in offshore detention in Australia \u2014 50 people in Papua New Guinea and 95 in Nauru, according to his estimates. There are also those that could endure the pain inflicted by these systems in the future.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nThe refugee advocate has a message for those mulling the idea of extraterrestrial asylum processing: \u201cNever do this\u201d.\u00a0\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s awful. It\u2019s inhumane. It\u2019s a tool that will kill many human beings and their families\u2026 You kill them not by a weapon or the way they suffer genocide in their home countries. You kill them mentally and emotionally.\u201d\u00a0\n\n\u201cDo not listen to Australian politics because they don\u2019t tell you the other side of the story.\u201d\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>When Behrouz Boochani was detained at the Australian-run regional processing centre on Manus Island from 2013 until 2017, writing was a means for him to grapple with the everyday ruthlessness germinating in the humid Papua New Guinea heat around him.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of these scenes \u2014 published in poems, articles and award-winning books such as No Friend But the Mountains \u2014 detail the endless carousel of reported<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.abc.net.au//news//2014-02-19//manus-island-riots-two-investigations-underway//5268566/"> <\/a>riots, murders, suicides, rapes, preventable deaths and other harms that occurred at the offshore detention centre.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other vignettes pay witness to the rot and desperation facing those who waited, often years, for the Department of Home Affairs to process the validity of asylum claims for Australia. This is a process the International Criminal Court referred to as \u201ccruel, inhuman\u201d and \u201cdegrading\u201d and appeared to violate fundamental rules of international law.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian journalist-turned-human rights advocate, has a message for European countries wanting to copy this Australian-made architecture for extraterritorial processing of asylum claims.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHundreds of people have been separated from their families. Thousands of people have been damaged, mentally and physically. Many people have been killed,\u201d Boochani said from his home in New Zealand\u2019s capital, Wellington.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralia has created a tragedy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although Boochani did not answer Euronews\u2019 question about the personal trauma he continues to live with from his time at the squalid centre \u2014 described by immigration campaigners as resembling fenced military barracks \u2014 his writing describes the island as a \u201cprison camp\u201d and those waiting for their asylum applications to be processed as \u201cforgotten prisoners\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is despite the Australian parliament\u2019s official figures stating that in 2016, over 80% of all asylum seekers on the islands of Manus and Nauru had valid reasons to seek the status of refugees. <\/p>\n<p>Boochani wants his and the stories of thousands of other asylum seekers that were chewed up and spat out through Australia\u2019s regional migrant processing centres to serve as cautionary tales for the rest of the world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//59//13//64//808x539_cmsv2_4b133dd7-1705-5289-82f9-630cd7b712d7-7591364.jpg/" alt=\"FILE - Migrants wait to board an Italian Coast Guard ship in the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa, Italy, Wednesday, 3 August, 2022. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/13\/64\/384x256_cmsv2_4b133dd7-1705-5289-82f9-630cd7b712d7-7591364.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/13\/64\/640x427_cmsv2_4b133dd7-1705-5289-82f9-630cd7b712d7-7591364.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/13\/64\/750x500_cmsv2_4b133dd7-1705-5289-82f9-630cd7b712d7-7591364.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/13\/64\/828x552_cmsv2_4b133dd7-1705-5289-82f9-630cd7b712d7-7591364.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/13\/64\/1080x720_cmsv2_4b133dd7-1705-5289-82f9-630cd7b712d7-7591364.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/13\/64\/1200x800_cmsv2_4b133dd7-1705-5289-82f9-630cd7b712d7-7591364.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/13\/64\/1920x1281_cmsv2_4b133dd7-1705-5289-82f9-630cd7b712d7-7591364.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE - Migrants wait to board an Italian Coast Guard ship in the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa, Italy, Wednesday, 3 August, 2022. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">David Lohmueller\/David Lohmueller<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Europe\u2019s \u2018fantasy options\u2019<\/h2><p>Over the past decade, migration became a hot-button issue reverberating throughout the continent, with conservative European leaders using the influx of foreigners as<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//09//06//we-never-let-them-in-hungarys-pm-viktor-orban-demands-new-laws-tackling-migration/"> <strong>a straw man<\/strong><\/a> for everything from shrinking housing market to stagnating wages.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This culminated when a swag of European member states indicated they wanted to copy Australia\u2019s offshore migrant processing policies by processing new arrivals outside their countries.<\/p>\n<p>And although the most recent European Parliamentary Research Service<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.europarl.europa.eu//RegData//etudes//BRIE//2024//757609//EPRS_BRI(2024)757609_EN.pdf/"> <strong>briefing<\/strong><\/a> on extraterritorial processing of asylum applications states no claims within the bloc have been processed this way yet \u2013 this could rapidly change.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In May, 15 member states penned a controversial letter calling on the EU to develop<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//05//16//15-eu-countries-call-for-the-outsourcing-of-migration-and-asylum-policy/"> <strong>policies<\/strong><\/a> centred on outsourcing migration and asylum claims. The parties wanted to disrupt irregular migration routes and create a level playing field for dealing with new arrivals, they argued in the document uploaded to social media platform X.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The letter referenced \u201cbuilding\u201d on models such as the five-year, \u20ac670 million deal struck between Italy and Albania \u2013 an agreement stipulating Rome will outsource the processing of roughly 36,000 asylum applications annually to the Balkan country, with two dedicated facilities constructed to house new arrivals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//75//14//90//808x539_cmsv2_37cbb695-8063-5fae-b063-6afaacb72a4f-8751490.jpg/" alt=\"FILE - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen with Italy&#39;s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at an press conference following an EU visit to Italy in 2023.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/384x256_cmsv2_37cbb695-8063-5fae-b063-6afaacb72a4f-8751490.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/640x427_cmsv2_37cbb695-8063-5fae-b063-6afaacb72a4f-8751490.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/750x500_cmsv2_37cbb695-8063-5fae-b063-6afaacb72a4f-8751490.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/828x552_cmsv2_37cbb695-8063-5fae-b063-6afaacb72a4f-8751490.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/1080x720_cmsv2_37cbb695-8063-5fae-b063-6afaacb72a4f-8751490.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/1200x800_cmsv2_37cbb695-8063-5fae-b063-6afaacb72a4f-8751490.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/1920x1281_cmsv2_37cbb695-8063-5fae-b063-6afaacb72a4f-8751490.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen with Italy&#39;s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at an press conference following an EU visit to Italy in 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has repeatedly<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////x.com//GiorgiaMeloni//status//1721613671875465221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1721613671875465221%7Ctwgr%5Ee5cb409cc0f9ff832ccd01daf6eed554242a0d54%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euronews.com%2F2023%2F11%2F07%2Falbania-to-host-migrants-arriving-to-italy-pending-processing-of-asylum-applications\%22> <\/a>defended the controversial plan \u2014 described by<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.amnesty.org//en//latest//news//2024//02//italy-parliaments-ratification-of-dangerous-automatic-detention-deal-with-albania-shameful///"> <\/a>Amnesty International as \u201cshameful\u201d \u2014 repeating these centres are necessary to crack down on \u201chuman trafficking\u201d and prevent deaths in the Mediterranean.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Woollard, the director of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, said these externalisation \u201cfantasy options\u201d rarely work and at best are a distraction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt worst, they cause immense stress and suffering as people are left in limbo without access to asylum,\u201d she told Euronews. \u201cGenerally, they founder due to political opposition in the countries targeted and legal obstacles as courts rule out transfer to unsafe places.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//11//03//austria-looks-to-uk-for-rwanda-style-plan-to-outsource-asylum-applications/">Austria, another signatory to the letter, indicated in November it also wanted to process asylum seekers in a third country by mimicking the controversial UK-Rwanda-style plan, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak\u2019s \u20ac280-million vision to send asylum seekers to the East African country for processing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This deal tanked when the Supreme Court ruled in 2023 the plan was unlawful \u2014 and when newly minted PM Keir Starmer took office and said the arrangement was \u201cdead\u201d.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Vienna\u2019s position was firmed up when Austria\u2019s EU Minister Karoline Edtstadler told Euronews in<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//08//27//eu-needs-to-act-on-migration-to-heed-voter-concerns-austrian-minister/"> <strong>August<\/strong><\/a> the central European country needed to get \u201cserious\u201d about migration. \u201cWe need to take further steps to develop third country [non-EU] asylum centres,\u201d she said at the time.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//75//14//90//808x539_cmsv2_66f99c76-caf6-5674-933c-8683f20143b5-8751490.jpg/" alt=\"FILE - Behrouz Boochani poses for a portrait in Christchurch, New Zealand on 19 November, 2019.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/384x256_cmsv2_66f99c76-caf6-5674-933c-8683f20143b5-8751490.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/640x427_cmsv2_66f99c76-caf6-5674-933c-8683f20143b5-8751490.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/750x500_cmsv2_66f99c76-caf6-5674-933c-8683f20143b5-8751490.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/828x552_cmsv2_66f99c76-caf6-5674-933c-8683f20143b5-8751490.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/1080x720_cmsv2_66f99c76-caf6-5674-933c-8683f20143b5-8751490.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/1200x800_cmsv2_66f99c76-caf6-5674-933c-8683f20143b5-8751490.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/1920x1281_cmsv2_66f99c76-caf6-5674-933c-8683f20143b5-8751490.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE - Behrouz Boochani poses for a portrait in Christchurch, New Zealand on 19 November, 2019.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Boochani was recently in Austria \u2014 which happens to be the world leader in anti-immigrant sentiment. According to the most recent<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////6389062.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net//hubfs//6389062//Canva images//Democracy Perception Index 2023.pdf/"> <strong>Democracy Perception Index<\/strong><\/a> (2023), Austrians, more than any other community surveyed, wanted their government to prioritise reducing migration.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asked about whether he felt anti-immigrant sentiment percolating there, the 41-year-old said he noticed xenophobia in the language. But he was quick to point out how it\u2019s not unusual for such words to infiltrate a country well ahead of any actual actions. \u201cAustralia has been active (in trying) to export this system,\u201d he said, \u201cand part of this is exporting language.\u201d\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This lexicon includes \u201cStop the boats,\u201d a highly politicised three-worded slogan that Sunak lifted from ex-Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to prop his Rwanda plan.\u00a0The phrase was<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////apnews.com//article//uk-protests-far-right-children-stabbed-police-2de808d796f81f719950acb4ea6f0af5/"> <\/a>repeatedly chanted at the anti-immigrant riots that ripped through Britain in August.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1747928466094256471\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThis language allows them to criminalise the narrative,\u201d Boochani explained. \u201cSo now we see that they are not only following Australia's offshore detention logistically, but they are also borrowing the language as well. That's why we hear those words in the UK.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>The Australian model<\/h2><p>When Euronews asked Behrouz how seven years on Manus Island impacted him, he paused for a while before answering. \u201cThe banishment itself is a humiliation,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is torture. It is painful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou lose seven years. That causes damage.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Australia has operated strict offshore processing centres for two decades. Before almost totally shuttering, these centres were predominantly located at Manus Island and Nauru in Papua New Guinea and ran in tandem with harsh boat turnback policies that were a part of the decade-old Operation Sovereign Borders (OSB).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Home Affairs website, \u201cThere is only one way to gain entry into Australia \u2014 with a valid Australian visa.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will never settle in Australia. You have zero chance of success,\u201d Rear Admiral\u202fBrett Sonter, the commander of the joint agency taskforce, says in a video posted online to deter those travelling to Australia by boat. National legislation stipulates any individual unlawfully attempting to reach the Australian continent by boat will be turned back to the point of departure, returned to their home country, or transferred to a third country for processing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This means Australia is the only country in the world to enforce immigration detention for non-lawful arrivals. According to the<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.refugeecouncil.org.au//operation-sovereign-borders-offshore-detention-statistics//2///"> <strong>Australian Refugee Council<\/strong><\/a>, 4,292 people \u2014 including children \u2014 were sent to offshore processing facilities after landing in the sunburnt country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.673828125\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//75//14//90//808x546_cmsv2_98d34e25-7ee3-5696-9f88-83ba3b933bb9-8751490.jpg/" alt=\"FILE - Men shave, brush their teeth and prepare for the day at a refugee camp on the Island of Nauru on 21 September, 2001.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/384x259_cmsv2_98d34e25-7ee3-5696-9f88-83ba3b933bb9-8751490.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/640x431_cmsv2_98d34e25-7ee3-5696-9f88-83ba3b933bb9-8751490.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/750x505_cmsv2_98d34e25-7ee3-5696-9f88-83ba3b933bb9-8751490.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/828x558_cmsv2_98d34e25-7ee3-5696-9f88-83ba3b933bb9-8751490.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/1080x728_cmsv2_98d34e25-7ee3-5696-9f88-83ba3b933bb9-8751490.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/1200x809_cmsv2_98d34e25-7ee3-5696-9f88-83ba3b933bb9-8751490.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/1920x1294_cmsv2_98d34e25-7ee3-5696-9f88-83ba3b933bb9-8751490.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE - Men shave, brush their teeth and prepare for the day at a refugee camp on the Island of Nauru on 21 September, 2001.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>When UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////digitallibrary.un.org//search?f1=author&as=1&sf=title&so=a&rm=&m1=e&p1=Cr%C3%A9peau%2C%20Fran%C3%A7ois&c=Authorities&ln=en\%22> <\/a>Fran\u00e7ois Cr\u00e9peau visited Nauru in 2017, before the Australian government imposed a media blackout, he noted families are often separated for several months \u2014 or even years \u2014 and that the average time in detention was 454 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe special rapporteur met people who had been in detention for over seven years,\u201d <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////digitallibrary.un.org//search?f1=author&as=1&sf=title&so=a&rm=&m1=e&p1=Cr%C3%A9peau%2C%20Fran%C3%A7ois&c=Authorities&ln=en\%22>the report stated<\/strong><\/a>, adding it was \u201cnot the right environment for often already traumatised people.\u201d Cr\u00e9peau said many detained children exhibited signs of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression, with feelings of hopelessness and frustration often leading to \u201cacts of violence against themselves or others\u201d..\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe special rapporteur heard of suicide attempts and self-harm, mental disorders and development problems, including severe attachment disorder. Many of the parents despair over the impossibility of offering their children a promising future, and feel guilty.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018You kill them mentally and emotionally\u2019<\/h2><p>Zaiki Haidari is a refugee rights campaigner working at Amnesty International Australia and living in Sydney. The Afghanistan-born Hazara refugee told Euronews that his job within the organisation involves speaking candidly with politicians in Canberra about the reality of the detention systems and what costs these policies can exact on people. This includes immense pain.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of my friends burned himself alive, saying \u2018Humanity doesn\u2019t exist,\u2019\u201d Haidari said, remembering Khodayar Amini self-immolating in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were fleeing our country, escaping genocide and torture, and when we arrived in Australia, we were treated as animals. The experience of being detained was awful,\u201d he said of his own experience.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.75\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//75//14//90//808x608_cmsv2_b4ced074-aa8d-5b4c-a3b5-741cee937307-8751490.jpg/" alt=\"Former Hazara refugee Zaki Haidari photographed in his homeland of Afghanistan. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/384x288_cmsv2_b4ced074-aa8d-5b4c-a3b5-741cee937307-8751490.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/640x480_cmsv2_b4ced074-aa8d-5b4c-a3b5-741cee937307-8751490.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/750x563_cmsv2_b4ced074-aa8d-5b4c-a3b5-741cee937307-8751490.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/828x621_cmsv2_b4ced074-aa8d-5b4c-a3b5-741cee937307-8751490.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/1080x810_cmsv2_b4ced074-aa8d-5b4c-a3b5-741cee937307-8751490.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/1200x900_cmsv2_b4ced074-aa8d-5b4c-a3b5-741cee937307-8751490.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/14\/90\/1920x1440_cmsv2_b4ced074-aa8d-5b4c-a3b5-741cee937307-8751490.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Former Hazara refugee Zaki Haidari photographed in his homeland of Afghanistan. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Courtesy of Zaki Haidari<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Haidari sought asylum in Australia in 2012 by boat and was detained for a month and a half on Christmas Island \u2013 Australian territory some 1,500 kilometres west off the mainland. He didn\u2019t end up on Nauru or Manus by mere chance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But this doesn\u2019t mean that Christmas Island is a much better destination. <\/p>\n<p>In<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.ohchr.org//en//news//2022//11//experts-committee-against-torture-commend-australias-comprehensive-responses-and/"> <\/a>2022, the United Nations Committee Against Torture raised concerns over those detained there, with the Australian Human Rights Commission writing in 2017 the centre is \u201cnot an appropriate facility for immigration detention\u201d particularly those vulnerable or detained for long periods of time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Haidari described the centre as a jail, and that he was seen by the Christmas Island security staff and the Australian government writ large as \u201canimals\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy were we in this high-security environment but we hadn\u2019t committed any crime or haven\u2019t been on trial? Why are we being treated like criminals?\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been over a decade since Haidari resettled in Australia. He loves it there, saying it is the first place that has allowed him simply to live. \u201cThere was no physical violence towards me. There was no Taliban and there was no one to run after me,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the UN Refugee Agency, the Hazara community \u2013 one of Afghanistan\u2019s largest ethnic groups living mainly in the central region of Hazarajat \u2013 has suffered from targeted discrimination, persecution and massacres, with 60% of the population killed since the 1890s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1834511120486338603\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Haidari knows, however, that others like him are currently languishing in offshore detention in Australia \u2014 50 people in Papua New Guinea and 95 in Nauru, according to his estimates. 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AP WIRE AUSTRALIA SOCIAL MEDIA","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Australia proposes social media age limit but experts warn it would be 'problematic'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Australia plans to introduce social media age limit","titleListing2":"Australia proposes social media age limit but experts warn it would be 'problematic'","leadin":"\"The bullying that can occur online, the access to material which causes social harm, and parents are wanting a response,\u201d the Australian prime minister said.","summary":"\"The bullying that can occur online, the access to material which causes social harm, and parents are wanting a response,\u201d the Australian prime minister said.","keySentence":"","url":"australia-proposes-social-media-age-limit-but-experts-warn-it-would-be-problematic","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/09\/10\/australia-proposes-social-media-age-limit-but-experts-warn-it-would-be-problematic","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Australia plans to introduce a minimum age for children to access social media this year, but it has yet to announce how ages will be verified.\n\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday the government would soon trial age verification technology with a view to banning children from opening social media accounts. The line would be drawn between the ages of 14 and 16.\n\nSeveral countries and US states are attempting to legislate to spare children harm from social media, including bullying.\n\nThe Australian move comes as parents increasingly call for their children to be protected online. The opposition party has promised a social media ban for children under 16 if it wins elections due by May next year.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019ve committed to introducing legislation before the end of this year for age verification to make sure that we get young people away from this social harm,\u201d Albanese told Australian Broadcasting Corp.\n\n\u201cThis is a scourge. We know that there is mental health consequences for what many of the young people have had to deal with. The bullying that can occur online, the access to material which causes social harm, and parents are wanting a response,\u201d Albanese added.\n\nIf passed, the law would make Australia among the first countries in the world to impose a social media age restriction.\n\nAs children and teenagers access technology at a younger age, there have been concerns regarding the websites and platforms they can access. Many social media platforms, such as Meta, require children to be at least 13 to create an account.\n\nIn Europe, data regulations currently require that a teenager must be 16 to have their personal data processed unless their parent or guardian provides their consent but this age can be lowered to 13 by EU states.\n\nLisa Given, an information technology expert at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, said the government\u2019s plan would prevent children from accessing useful content as well.\n\n\u201cThis is actually a very problematic move,\u201d Given said.\n\n\u201cThis is a very blunt instrument that\u2019s going to potentially exclude children from some very, very helpful supports on social media\".\n\nSouth Australia state has recently proposed a law that would fine social media companies that did not exclude children under the age of 14 from their platforms.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Australia plans to introduce a minimum age for children to access social media this year, but it has yet to announce how ages will be verified.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday the government would soon trial age verification technology with a view to banning children from opening social media accounts. The line would be drawn between the ages of 14 and 16.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//05//01//french-experts-recommend-cutting-screen-time-for-children-under-3-and-social-media-for-tee/">Several countries<\/strong><\/a> and US states are attempting to legislate to spare children harm from social media, including bullying.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian move comes as parents increasingly call for their children to be protected online. The opposition party has promised a social media ban for children under 16 if it wins elections due by May next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve committed to introducing legislation before the end of this year for age verification to make sure that we get young people away from this social harm,\u201d Albanese told Australian Broadcasting Corp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a scourge. We know that there is mental health consequences for what many of the young people have had to deal with. The bullying that can occur online, the access to material which causes social harm, and parents are wanting a response,\u201d Albanese added.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, the law would make Australia among the first countries in the world to impose a social media age restriction.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8401504,8653816\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//08//15//ireland-to-clamp-down-on-social-media-companies-refusing-to-remove-hate-speech/">Ireland to clamp down on social media companies refusing to remove hate speech<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//04//27//macron-in-favour-of-europe-wide-social-media-age-restriction-for-teens-under-15/">Macron in favour of Europe-wide social media age restriction for teens under 15<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As children and teenagers access technology at a younger age, there have been concerns regarding the websites and platforms they can access. Many social media platforms, such as Meta, require children to be at least 13 to create an account.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, data regulations currently require that a teenager must be 16 to have their personal data processed unless their parent or guardian provides their consent but this age can be lowered to 13 by EU states.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Given, an information technology expert at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, said the government\u2019s plan would prevent children from accessing useful content as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is actually a very problematic move,\u201d Given said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very blunt instrument that\u2019s going to potentially exclude children from some very, very helpful supports on social media\".<\/p>\n<p>South Australia state has recently proposed a law that would fine social media companies that did not exclude children under the age of 14 from their platforms.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1725975072,"updatedAt":1725979307,"publishedAt":1725979079,"firstPublishedAt":1725979079,"lastPublishedAt":1725979079,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/92\/96\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9dd0b116-c195-5366-a418-89c7e2e0da4a-8719296.jpg","altText":"Countries are looking to set age requirements on social media","caption":"Countries are looking to set age requirements on social media","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Canva","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1280,"height":720}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":12052,"slug":"social-media","urlSafeValue":"social-media","title":"Social Media","titleRaw":"Social Media"},{"id":13,"slug":"australia","urlSafeValue":"australia","title":"Australia","titleRaw":"Australia"},{"id":23064,"slug":"teenager","urlSafeValue":"teenager","title":"teenager","titleRaw":"teenager"},{"id":389,"slug":"technology","urlSafeValue":"technology","title":"Technology","titleRaw":"Technology"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2530534}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"AP & Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"tech-news","urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/tech-news\/tech-news"},"vertical":"next","verticals":[{"id":9,"slug":"next","urlSafeValue":"next","title":"Next"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":9,"slug":"next","urlSafeValue":"next","title":"Next"},"themes":[{"id":"tech-news","urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News","url":"\/next\/tech-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":40,"urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":391,"urlSafeValue":"oceania","title":"Oceania"},"country":{"id":4611,"urlSafeValue":"australia","title":"Australia","url":"\/news\/oceania\/australia"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gv_safe','gb_safe','gb_safe_from_high','gb_safe_from_high_med','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','pos_ukraine-russia','pos_ukrainecrisis','gs_politics','gs_tech','gs_tech_compute','gs_tech_compute_net','neg_facebook','gt_negative','neg_saudiaramco','gs_family_children','gs_politics_issues_policy','gs_politics_misc','gs_busfin','neg_tiktok_q1_2024_eng','neg_bucherer','neg_audi_list1','gt_negative_dislike'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/next\/2024\/09\/10\/australia-proposes-social-media-age-limit-but-experts-warn-it-would-be-problematic","lastModified":1725979079},{"id":2608716,"cid":8654850,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"240815_NASU_56282741","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"GREEN_Deadly toads are poisoning crocodiles. Australians have come up with an ingenious solution","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Deadly toads are poisoning crocodiles. Australians have come up with an ingenious solution","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Scientists have taught crocodiles to stop eating poisonous toads","titleListing2":"Deadly toads are poisoning crocodiles. Australians have come up with an ingenious solution","leadin":"The taste aversion method could save many other native animals.","summary":"The taste aversion method could save many other native animals.","keySentence":"","url":"deadly-toads-are-poisoning-crocodiles-australians-have-come-up-with-an-ingenious-solution","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/08\/15\/deadly-toads-are-poisoning-crocodiles-australians-have-come-up-with-an-ingenious-solution","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Cane toads might look like a tasty snack to crocodiles, but they have a habit of poisoning their predators.\n\nImported from South America in the 1930s, these pests have left a trail of native animal casualties across Australia - including goanna lizards, snakes and freshwater crocodiles.\n\nBut scientists and Indigenous rangers have come up with a clever way to get the crocs to think twice before snapping a cane toad.\u00a0\n\nBy injecting (de-poisoned) toad carcasses with a chemical that makes crocodiles sick, and leaving the bodies as bait, they are training them to avoid eating the animals in future.\u00a0\n\n\u201cOur baiting completely prevented deaths in areas where cane toads were arriving and decreased deaths by 95 per cent in areas where toads had been for a couple of years,\u201d says Dr Georgia Ward-Fear from Macquarie University, lead author of the new study.\n\nWhy is it important to save freshwater crocodiles?\n\nScary to some, freshwater crocodiles play a vital role in their environments.\n\n\u201cLosing freshwater crocodiles to cane toads will mean that bottom feeders in our rivers will eat all the bait such as judembah (cherrabin, a large freshwater prawn) and lardy (bony bream, an estuarine fish), leaving no fish for the barramundi and stingray to eat,\u201d explains ranger coordinator Paul Bin Busu.\n\nNot only does the loss of freshwater crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) upset the balance of local ecosystems; they are a culturally significant animal and part of traditional owners\u2019 Dreamtime stories in the region.\u00a0\n\nHow did the team set up toad baits?\n\nScientists from Sydney\u2019s Macquarie University worked with Bunuba Indigenous rangers and the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) in Western Australia to trial a canny solution.\u00a0\n\nOctober to May is the dry season in the country\u2019s tropical north. It sees river systems shrivel to a series of isolated pools, supporting far fewer of the prawns, fish and amphibians that freshwater crocodiles normally eat.\n\n\u201cThey end up congregating in large numbers with very little food, and as toads begin to use these waterbodies for rehydration, the two come into contact and we see large numbers of crocodile deaths over a few months.\u201d\n\nBetween 2019 to 2022, Bunuba and DBCA collected hundreds of cane toads, removed the poisonous parts and injected the bodies with enough of a nausea-inducing chemical to make crocodiles temporarily sick.\n\nUsing canoes, rangers left over 2,000 defanged toads by riverbanks across four large gorge systems in the northwest Kimberley region.\u00a0\n\nUnder the \u2018conditioned taste aversion\u2019 experiment, they also deposited control baits of chicken meat with no nausea-inducing additives, and monitored the responses of crocodiles.\n\nA win for behavioural ecology\n\n\u201cThe first three days we noticed the crocodiles were taking the cane toads then they would go away,\u201d recalls Bin Bisu.\n\n\u201cThen we noticed they would smell the cane toad before eating, and on the last day we noticed that it was mostly the chicken necks getting eaten.\u201d\n\nUsing nocturnal surveys and wildlife cameras to monitor crocodile and toad numbers, the team found that areas where these trials took place had greatly reduced crocodile mortality rates compared to unbaited control sites.\n\n\u201cThese are really exciting results that provide land managers with tools to use ahead of the invasion, but that also work behind the invasion front,\u201d says Sara McAllister from DBCA.\n\n\u201cTogether we\u2019ve shown that collaborations between academics, Indigenous rangers and land management agencies can be really effective for conservation science,\u201d she adds.\n\nSenior author Professor Rick Shine says the study shows the successful use of conditioned taste aversion as a behavioural ecology technique.\n\n\u201cAt a time when globalisation has massively increased the spread of invasive species, behavioural ecology can protect vulnerable ecosystems,\u201d he concludes.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Cane toads might look like a tasty snack to crocodiles, but they have a habit of poisoning their predators.<\/p>\n<p>Imported from South America in the 1930s, these pests have left a trail of native animal casualties across Australia - including goanna lizards, snakes and freshwater <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//05//13//which-species-are-worst-affected-by-trafficking-un-report-paints-bleak-picture-for-wildlif/">crocodiles./n

But scientists and Indigenous rangers have come up with a clever way to get the crocs to think twice before snapping a cane toad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By injecting (de-poisoned) toad carcasses with a chemical that makes crocodiles sick, and leaving the bodies as bait, they are training them to avoid eating the animals in future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur baiting completely prevented deaths in areas where cane toads were arriving and decreased deaths by 95 per cent in areas where toads had been for a couple of years,\u201d says Dr Georgia Ward-Fear from Macquarie University, lead author of the new <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////royalsocietypublishing.org//doi//10.1098//rspb.2023.2507/">study./n

Why a \u2018virgin\u2019 crocodile pregnancy has \u2018tantalising\u2019 implications for dinosaur researchers<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//08//08//deforestation-in-brazils-amazon-is-down-by-almost-half-since-2023-but-savannah-is-sacrific/">Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon is down by almost half since 2023 - but savannah is \u2018sacrificed\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Why is it important to save freshwater crocodiles?<\/h2><p>Scary to some, freshwater crocodiles play a vital role in their environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLosing freshwater crocodiles to cane toads will mean that bottom feeders in our rivers will eat all the bait such as judembah (cherrabin, a large freshwater prawn) and lardy (bony bream, an estuarine fish), leaving no fish for the barramundi and stingray to eat,\u201d explains ranger coordinator Paul Bin Busu.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Not only does the loss of freshwater crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) upset the balance of local ecosystems; they are a culturally significant animal and part of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//04//26//indigenous-australians-urge-pension-funds-to-stop-gas-companys-trail-of-destruction/">traditional owners<\/strong><\/a>\u2019 Dreamtime stories in the region.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>How did the team set up toad baits?<\/h2><p>Scientists from Sydney\u2019s Macquarie University worked with Bunuba Indigenous rangers and the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) in Western Australia to trial a canny solution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>October to May is the dry season in the country\u2019s tropical north. It sees <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//08//07//protesters-fight-to-prevent-illegal-construction-on-the-una-one-of-balkans-most-unique-ri/">river systems<\/strong><\/a> shrivel to a series of isolated pools, supporting far fewer of the prawns, fish and amphibians that freshwater crocodiles normally eat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey end up congregating in large numbers with very little food, and as toads begin to use these waterbodies for rehydration, the two come into contact and we see large numbers of crocodile deaths over a few months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Between 2019 to 2022, Bunuba and DBCA collected hundreds of cane <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//03//23//conservationists-plead-with-public-to-stop-milking-toads/">toads, removed the poisonous parts and injected the bodies with enough of a nausea-inducing chemical to make crocodiles temporarily sick.<\/p>\n<p>Using canoes, rangers left over 2,000 defanged toads by riverbanks across four large gorge systems in the northwest Kimberley region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the \u2018conditioned taste aversion\u2019 experiment, they also deposited control baits of chicken meat with no nausea-inducing additives, and monitored the responses of crocodiles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7949970,8171602\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//30//positive-environmental-stories-from-2024/">Electric wallpaper and carbon-sequestering cows: Positive environmental stories from 2024<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//10//06//australias-mega-bushfires-are-driving-platypuses-from-their-homes-first-of-its-kind-study-/">Australia/u2019s mega bushfires are driving platypuses from their homes, first of its kind study shows<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>A win for behavioural ecology<\/h2><p>\u201cThe first three days we noticed the crocodiles were taking the cane toads then they would go away,\u201d recalls Bin Bisu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen we noticed they would smell the cane toad before eating, and on the last day we noticed that it was mostly the chicken necks getting eaten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Using nocturnal surveys and wildlife cameras to monitor crocodile and toad numbers, the team found that areas where these trials took place had greatly reduced crocodile mortality rates compared to unbaited control sites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are really exciting results that provide land managers with tools to use ahead of the invasion, but that also work behind the invasion front,\u201d says Sara McAllister from DBCA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether we\u2019ve shown that collaborations between academics, Indigenous rangers and land management agencies can be really effective for <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//10//10//over-75-of-earths-undescribed-plants-threatened-by-extinction-new-report-warns/">conservation science,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>Senior author Professor Rick Shine says the study shows the successful use of conditioned taste aversion as a behavioural ecology technique.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when globalisation has massively increased the spread of invasive species, behavioural ecology can protect vulnerable ecosystems,\u201d he concludes.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1723728971,"updatedAt":1723734118,"publishedAt":1723734053,"firstPublishedAt":1723734053,"lastPublishedAt":1723734117,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/65\/48\/50\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_bd4b4dd5-5eb1-51b2-989d-d07324b3e707-8654850.jpg","altText":"A freshwater crocodile and a cane toad - 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Will other lenders follow suit? ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Australia\u2019s largest bank pulls funding for fossil fuel companies","titleListing2":"Australia\u2019s largest bank pulls plug on fossil fuel financing. Will other lenders follow suit? ","leadin":"CBA has explained that they will stop financing fossil fuel companies that don\u2019t comply with climate goals set out by the Paris Agreement.","summary":"CBA has explained that they will stop financing fossil fuel companies that don\u2019t comply with climate goals set out by the Paris Agreement.","keySentence":"","url":"australias-largest-bank-pulls-plug-on-fossil-fuel-financing-will-other-lenders-follow-suit","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2024\/08\/15\/australias-largest-bank-pulls-plug-on-fossil-fuel-financing-will-other-lenders-follow-suit","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Australia\u2019s largest lender has announced it will stop financing fossil fuel companies that don\u2019t comply with the Paris Agreement\u2019s climate goals by the end of 2024.\n\nThe Commonwealth Bank\u2019s (CBA) move is unusual among other rivals, who have yet to stop supporting coal, oil and gas businesses.\u00a0\n\nIn a new report, CBA confirmed that clients who fail to meet an emissions pathway consistent with keeping global temperature increases to the \u201cwell below 2C goal of the Paris agreement\u201d would not receive \u201cnew corporate or trade finance, or bond facilitation with a maturity beyond 31 December 2024\u201d.\n\nThe bank also put in place \u201ccore criteria\u201d for clients, which includes a medium-term emissions reduction plan for 2035 as well as a net-zero ambition covering at least 95 per cent of the carbon pollution from processing and extraction.\u00a0\n\nCBA had been called \u201cthe worst offender on climate and lending to fossil fuel companies\u201d, by Market Forces. The climate lobby group has now praised it as \u201cthe first of Australia\u2019s major banks to announce its break up with climate-wrecking clients\u201d.\n\nWill other banks follow suit on fossil fuel lending?\n\nOn Wednesday, Market Forces commended the bank\u2019s u-turn.\n\n\u201c[CBA] has a crystal clear message to oil and gas companies: the buck stops here and if your plans are out of step with global climate goals, we\u2019re not going to bank you,\u201d a senior Market Forces analyst told UK newspaper the Guardian.\n\nAt the same time, the lobby criticised banking rivals for their decision to lend around \u20ac450 million to gas giant Santos to aid it with \u201cmassive and dangerous expansion plans\u201d.\n\n\u201cANZ, NAB and Westpac shareholders, customers and staff will be furious [that] these banks are breaking their climate promises again, and expect them to match [CBA] when they release their disclosures in November,\u201d the analyst added.\u00a0\n\nAmong those big four banks, Market Forces confirmed that CBA already had the least exposure to the gas, coal and oil industries, with financing of fossil fuel extraction at a relatively low 0.2 per cent of its total outstanding loans.\n\nANZ announced it managed to reduce its financed emissions in the power sector by a quarter as well as cutting oil and gas by 30 per cent and thermal coal by 96 per cent between 2020 and 2023.\n\nIn turn, NAB said it had decided to stop financing \u201cnew-to-bank thermal coal mining customers or new thermal coal mining projects\u201d in September of 2023.\n\nWhat was behind CBA\u2019s decision to u-turn on fossil fuel financing?\u00a0\n\nIn its report, CBA explained that there is a \u201cgrowing concern that the frequency and impact of extreme weather events,\u201d adding that these issues are having an adverse effect on property values as well as the insurability of some homes.\n\nIt added that average insurance premiums went up by 28 per cent in the year to 31 March and acknowledged that some 12 per cent of households are \u201cexperiencing extreme home insurance affordability stress\u201d.\n\n\u201cWhile insurance affordability has not yet materialised as a financial risk to the bank, we have identified it as an emerging risk, given the risk it presents to our customers and subsequently the bank,\u201d CBA made clear in the report.\n\nThe bank also estimated that home loans at \u201chigh physical risk\u201d from climate change totalled billions of Australian dollars, especially in terms of risks from cyclones, floods, wildfires and rising sea levels. All in all, that is 2.2 per cent of CBA\u2019s overall exposure.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Australia\u2019s largest lender has announced it will stop financing fossil fuel companies that don\u2019t comply with the Paris Agreement\u2019s climate goals by the end of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Bank\u2019s (CBA) move is unusual among other rivals, who have yet to stop supporting coal, oil and gas businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a new report, CBA confirmed that clients who fail to meet an emissions pathway consistent with keeping global temperature increases to the \u201cwell below 2C goal of the Paris agreement\u201d would not receive \u201cnew corporate or trade finance, or bond facilitation with a maturity beyond 31 December 2024\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The bank also put in place \u201ccore criteria\u201d for clients, which includes a medium-term emissions reduction plan for 2035 as well as a net-zero ambition covering at least 95 per cent of the carbon pollution from processing and extraction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBA had been called \u201cthe worst offender on climate and lending to fossil fuel companies\u201d, by Market Forces. The climate lobby group has now praised it as \u201cthe first of Australia\u2019s major banks to announce its break up with climate-wrecking clients\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8432716,8427596\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//05//10//banking-on-fossil-fuels-thats-a-one-way-ticket-to-global-economic-meltdown/">Banking on fossil fuels? That's a one-way ticket to global economic meltdown<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//05//13//banks-are-propping-up-the-fossil-fuel-industry-to-the-tune-of-65-trillion-new-report-finds/">Banks are propping up the fossil fuel industry to the tune of \u20ac6.5 trillion, new report finds<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Will other banks follow suit on fossil fuel lending?<\/h2><p>On Wednesday, Market Forces commended the bank\u2019s u-turn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[CBA] has a crystal clear message to oil and gas companies: the buck stops here and if your plans are out of step with global climate goals, we\u2019re not going to bank you,\u201d a senior Market Forces analyst told UK newspaper the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the lobby criticised banking rivals for their decision to lend around \u20ac450 million to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//10//17//these-eu-countries-are-aiming-for-100-per-cent-clean-power-by-2030/">gas giant Santos<\/strong><\/a> to aid it with \u201cmassive and dangerous expansion plans\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cANZ, NAB and Westpac shareholders, customers and staff will be furious [that] these banks are breaking their climate promises again, and expect them to match [CBA] when they release their disclosures in November,\u201d the analyst added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among those big four banks, Market Forces confirmed that <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2022//11//13//anz-class-action/">CBA already had the least exposure to the gas, coal and oil industries, with financing of fossil fuel extraction at a relatively low 0.2 per cent of its total outstanding loans.<\/p>\n<p>ANZ announced it managed to reduce its financed <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//06//27//renewables-surge-green-energy-made-up-the-majority-of-eus-electricity-in-2023/">emissions in the power sector by a quarter as well as cutting oil and gas by 30 per cent and thermal coal by 96 per cent between 2020 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, NAB said it had decided to stop financing \u201cnew-to-bank thermal coal mining customers or new thermal coal mining projects\u201d in September of 2023.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//65//44//90//808x539_cmsv2_d6e513d7-809f-52ae-96a5-05e156dfa5c9-8654490.jpg/" alt=\"A demonstrator displays a sign reading &quot;end fossil fuels&quot; at the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai in 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/65\/44\/90\/384x256_cmsv2_d6e513d7-809f-52ae-96a5-05e156dfa5c9-8654490.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/65\/44\/90\/640x427_cmsv2_d6e513d7-809f-52ae-96a5-05e156dfa5c9-8654490.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/65\/44\/90\/750x500_cmsv2_d6e513d7-809f-52ae-96a5-05e156dfa5c9-8654490.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/65\/44\/90\/828x552_cmsv2_d6e513d7-809f-52ae-96a5-05e156dfa5c9-8654490.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/65\/44\/90\/1080x720_cmsv2_d6e513d7-809f-52ae-96a5-05e156dfa5c9-8654490.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/65\/44\/90\/1200x800_cmsv2_d6e513d7-809f-52ae-96a5-05e156dfa5c9-8654490.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/65\/44\/90\/1920x1281_cmsv2_d6e513d7-809f-52ae-96a5-05e156dfa5c9-8654490.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A demonstrator displays a sign reading &quot;end fossil fuels&quot; at the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai in 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Joshua A. Bickel\/The AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What was behind CBA\u2019s decision to u-turn on fossil fuel financing?<\/h2><p>In its report, CBA explained that there is a \u201cgrowing concern that the frequency and impact of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//07//30//freedom-from-fossil-power-wind-and-solar-electricity-grew-to-all-time-high-in-first-half-o/">extreme weather events,<\/strong><\/a>\u201d adding that these issues are having an adverse effect on property values as well as the insurability of some homes.<\/p>\n<p>It added that average insurance premiums went up by 28 per cent in the year to 31 March and acknowledged that some 12 per cent of households are \u201cexperiencing extreme home insurance affordability stress\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile insurance affordability has not yet materialised as a financial risk to the bank, we have identified it as an emerging risk, given the risk it presents to our customers and subsequently the bank,\u201d CBA made clear in the report.<\/p>\n<p>The bank also estimated that home loans at \u201chigh physical risk\u201d from climate change totalled billions of Australian dollars, especially in terms of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//07//24//just-the-start-airports-crack-down-on-climate-protesters-as-summer-of-disruption-begins/">risks from cyclones, floods, wildfires and rising sea levels<\/strong><\/a>. All in all, that is 2.2 per cent of CBA\u2019s overall exposure.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1723721185,"updatedAt":1723731042,"publishedAt":1723730418,"firstPublishedAt":1723730418,"lastPublishedAt":1723731042,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/65\/44\/90\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_5b821a98-70d6-5c78-91d1-6502d05a4fce-8654490.jpg","altText":"U-turn: The Commonwealth Bank branding is displayed on its headquarters in Sydney","caption":"U-turn: The Commonwealth Bank branding is displayed on its headquarters in Sydney","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Rick Rycroft\/The 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helicopter flight ends with crash on hotel roof in Australia, killing pilot","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Pilot dies after 'unauthorised' helicopter crashes into hotel roof in Australia ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Pilot dies after 'unauthorised' chopper crashes into Australian hotel","titleListing2":"Pilot dies after 'unauthorised' helicopter crashes into hotel roof in Australia ","leadin":"Authorities in the northeastern coastal city of Cairns said they had not confirmed the pilot's identity, the reason for the flight, or how the tourist helicopter could take off from the local airport.","summary":"Authorities in the northeastern coastal city of Cairns said they had not confirmed the pilot's identity, the reason for the flight, or how the tourist helicopter could take off from the local airport.","keySentence":"","url":"pilot-dies-after-unauthorised-helicopter-crashes-into-hotel-roof-in-australia","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/08\/12\/pilot-dies-after-unauthorised-helicopter-crashes-into-hotel-roof-in-australia","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A man died after an unauthorised helicopter flight in Queensland ended in a crash on a hotel roof early Monday morning, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of people from the building as flames engulfed the aircraft.\n\nAuthorities in the city of Cairns said they had not confirmed the pilot's identity, the reason for the flight, or how the tourist helicopter took off from the local airport. \n\nA couple staying at the hotel were hospitalised for smoke inhalation and have now been discharged, Queensland Police Service Acting Chief Superintendent Shane Holmes told reporters. No one else on the ground was hurt.\n\nHolmes said it was unknown if the man flying the helicopter held a pilot's license or if he worked for the company that owned the craft, Nautilus Aviation. \n\n\u201cThere is no further threat to the community, and we believe this is an isolated incident,\u201d Holmes said.\n\nNautilus Aviation said in a written statement that the flight was \u201cunauthorised\u201d but would not disclose any further details. \n\nCairns Airport CEO Richard Barker said initial findings on Monday showed \u201cno compromise of the airport security program or processes.\"\n\nAbout 400 people were evacuated from the hotel after the crash, which happened in the early morning hours in a busy tourist district of Cairns \u2014 a tropical city of 150,000 people in far north Queensland \u2014 amid peak season for holidaymakers. Witnesses told local news outlets that the crash sounded like a bomb explosion. \n\nSmoke and flames billowed from the roof of the Doubletree Hilton, and one of the helicopter's rotor blades landed in the hotel pool, the Australian broadcaster ABC reported.\n\nThe hotel remained cordoned off while its structural integrity was being examined.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A man died after an unauthorised helicopter flight in Queensland ended in a crash on a hotel roof early Monday morning, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of people from the building as flames engulfed the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in the city of Cairns said they had not confirmed the pilot's identity, the reason for the flight, or how the tourist helicopter took off from the local airport. <\/p>\n<p>A couple staying at the hotel were hospitalised for smoke inhalation and have now been discharged, Queensland Police Service Acting Chief Superintendent Shane Holmes told reporters. No one else on the ground was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes said it was unknown if the man flying the helicopter held a pilot's license or if he worked for the company that owned the craft, Nautilus Aviation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no further threat to the community, and we believe this is an isolated incident,\u201d Holmes said.<\/p>\n<p>Nautilus Aviation said in a written statement that the flight was \u201cunauthorised\u201d but would not disclose any further details. <\/p>\n<p>Cairns Airport CEO Richard Barker said initial findings on Monday showed \u201cno compromise of the airport security program or processes.\"<\/p>\n<p>About 400 people were evacuated from the hotel after the crash, which happened in the early morning hours in a busy tourist district of Cairns \u2014 a tropical city of 150,000 people in far north Queensland \u2014 amid peak season for holidaymakers. Witnesses told local news outlets that the crash sounded like a bomb explosion. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8644532,8643074\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//08//11//families-of-brazilian-plane-crash-victims-gather-in-sao-paulo-as-experts-work-to-identify-/">Families of Brazilian plane crash victims gather in Sao Paulo as experts work to identify the dead<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//08//09//passenger-plane-carrying-62-people-crashes-in-sao-paulo/">Plane crash in Brazil's S\u00e3o Paulo state kills all 62 on board<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Smoke and flames billowed from the roof of the Doubletree Hilton, and one of the helicopter's rotor blades landed in the hotel pool, the Australian broadcaster ABC reported.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel remained cordoned off while its structural integrity was being examined.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1723448141,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1723458306,"firstPublishedAt":1723458306,"lastPublishedAt":1723458306,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/64\/64\/58\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c879e2f1-cd0c-5a1d-9cb0-798049acffb2-8646458.jpg","altText":"A broken window hands precariously at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in Cairns, Australia, after a helicopter crashed into its roof early Monday, Aug. 12, 2024.","caption":"A broken window hands precariously at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in Cairns, Australia, after a helicopter crashed into its roof early Monday, Aug. 12, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Brian 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Australia pelvic painclass","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Australian online programme teaches GPs to better understand chronic pelvic pain","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Online programme teaches GPs to better understand chronic pelvic pain","titleListing2":"Australian online programme teaches GPs to better understand chronic pelvic pain","leadin":"Experts say chronic pelvic pain is often underdiagnosed and undertreated with the average diagnosis time of endometriosis being 6.6 years worldwide.","summary":"Experts say chronic pelvic pain is often underdiagnosed and undertreated with the average diagnosis time of endometriosis being 6.6 years worldwide.","keySentence":"","url":"australian-online-programme-teaches-gps-to-better-understand-chronic-pelvic-pain","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2024\/08\/10\/australian-online-programme-teaches-gps-to-better-understand-chronic-pelvic-pain","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"An online training programme in Australia aims to help women who suffer from chronic pelvic pain feel less abandoned.\n\nVagenius Training also wants to help general practitioners (GPs) to understand persistent pelvic pain better.\n\nAccording to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) in the UK, long-term pelvic pain affects around one in six women at some point in their lives.\u00a0\n\nChronic pelvic pain is any pain in the lower abdomen or pelvis lasting more than 6 months.\n\nLouise Richardson-Self, a chronic pelvic pain patient in Hobart, Australia, uses stretching, medication and an anti-inflammatory diet to manage these symptoms which are a consequence of her endometriosis and adenomyosis.\n\n\"Sometimes I experience burning and searing pain, sometimes I experience deep aching, sometimes I have muscle spasms and a kind of bruising sensation,\u201d said Richardson-Self.\n\nRichardson-Self said it was not easy to get the diagnosis.\n\n\"It blows my mind that it took until the age of 33 to get a diagnosis of endometriosis when it runs in my family,\" she told Australia\u2019s public news service, ABC News.\n\n\"I had to plead with people, to get them to take me seriously and bother to look,\u201d she added.\u00a0\n\nExperts say chronic pelvic pain is often underdiagnosed and undertreated. According to research done by the University of York, endometriosis takes an average of 6.6 years to be diagnosed worldwide, with delays of up to 27 years reported in the UK.\n\n\"When pain is affecting someone's function on a day-to-day basis where they can't go to work, they can't school, they can't parent their family as well as they can, that's not normal,\" Emily Ware, a women's health GP and educator at Vagenius Training, said.\n\nWare says she didn\u2019t learn a lot about chronic pelvic pain during her medical training.\n\n\"These patients need a team but the GP is the perfect person to direct that team and direct that care, follow the patient up well,\u201d Ware added.\n\nThe founder of the training programme says it\u2019s also designed to disprove myths and misconceptions.\n\n\"People are still being told even today to have a baby to cure endometriosis,\" said Rachel Andrew, a physiotherapist, educator and founder of Vagenius Training.\n\nAustralia was the first country to introduce a national action plan for endometriosis launched in 2018.\n\nIn 2023, the Australian government opened 20 endometriosis and pelvic pain clinics across the country, with a planned budget of more than 700,000 Australian dollars (\u20ac421,000) per clinic over four years, according to the country\u2019s Ministry of Health and Aged Care.\n\nFor more on this story, watch the video in the media player above.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>An online training programme in Australia aims to help women who suffer from chronic pelvic pain feel less abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>Vagenius Training also wants to help general practitioners (GPs) to understand persistent pelvic pain better.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.rcog.org.uk//for-the-public//browse-our-patient-information//long-term-pelvic-pain//#:~:text=Chronic%20pelvic%20pain%20is%20any,psychological%20and%2For%20social%20factors.\"><strong>the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)<\/strong><\/a> in the UK, long-term pelvic pain affects around one in six women at some point in their lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chronic pelvic pain is any pain in the lower abdomen or pelvis lasting more than 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>Louise Richardson-Self, a chronic pelvic pain patient in Hobart, Australia, uses stretching, medication and an anti-inflammatory diet to manage these symptoms which are a consequence of her endometriosis and adenomyosis.<\/p>\n<p>\"Sometimes I experience burning and searing pain, sometimes I experience deep aching, sometimes I have muscle spasms and a kind of bruising sensation,\u201d said Richardson-Self.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson-Self said it was not easy to get the diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>\"It blows my mind that it took until the age of 33 to get a diagnosis of endometriosis when it runs in my family,\" she told Australia\u2019s public news service, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.abc.net.au//news//2024-06-09//new-training-course-to-empower-gps-on-persistent-pelvic-pain//103939660/">ABC News<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\"I had to plead with people, to get them to take me seriously and bother to look,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8636816\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//08//08//female-patients-less-likely-to-be-prescribed-pain-medication-compared-to-men-in-emergencie/">Female patients less likely to be prescribed pain medication compared to men in emergencies<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Experts say chronic pelvic pain is often underdiagnosed and undertreated. According to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.york.ac.uk//news-and-events//news//2024//research//diagnosis-endometriosis-delay//#:~:text=Endometriosis%20takes%20an%20average%20of%206.6%20years%20to%20be%20diagnosed,policy%20makers%2C%20the%20researchers%20say.\"><strong>research done by the University of York<\/strong><\/a>, endometriosis takes an average of 6.6 years to be diagnosed worldwide, with delays of up to 27 years reported in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\"When pain is affecting someone's function on a day-to-day basis where they can't go to work, they can't school, they can't parent their family as well as they can, that's not normal,\" Emily Ware, a women's health GP and educator at Vagenius Training, said.<\/p>\n<p>Ware says she didn\u2019t learn a lot about chronic pelvic pain during her medical training.<\/p>\n<p>\"These patients need a team but the GP is the perfect person to direct that team and direct that care, follow the patient up well,\u201d Ware added.<\/p>\n<p>The founder of the training programme says it\u2019s also designed to disprove myths and misconceptions.<\/p>\n<p>\"People are still being told even today to have a baby to cure endometriosis,\" said Rachel Andrew, a physiotherapist, educator and founder of Vagenius Training.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8588608\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//07//20//cases-of-breast-implant-illness-causing-a-spike-in-the-number-of-women-seeking-removal-sur/">'Breast implant illness' cases leading to a spike in women seeking removal surgery<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Australia was the first country to introduce a national action plan for endometriosis launched in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the Australian government opened 20 endometriosis and pelvic pain clinics across the country, with a planned budget of more than 700,000 Australian dollars (\u20ac421,000) per clinic over four years, according to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.health.gov.au//ministers//the-hon-ged-kearney-mp//media//australias-first-endometriosis-and-pelvic-pain-clinics-now-available-nationally/">country/u2019s Ministry of Health and Aged Care<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on this story, watch the video in the media player above.<\/strong><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1723218013,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1723273204,"firstPublishedAt":1723273204,"lastPublishedAt":1723273250,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/64\/27\/80\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_406a8d42-bece-5690-8912-292fa787c6bb-8642780.jpg","altText":"Emily Ware talking to Rachel Andrew and another 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Many democracies are working to address this, including our friends in the United States and in the United Kingdom. There are many things driving this global trend towards violence. Governments around the world are concerned about youth radicalization, online radicalization and the rise of new mixed ideologies.\u201d\u00a0\n\nAustralian authorities last declared a terrorist act in April, when a 16-year-old boy was accused in the stabbing of a Sydney bishop while a church service was being livestreamed.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Australia government elevated the nation\u2019s terrorism threat alert level from \u201cpossible\u201d to \u201cprobable\u201d on Monday, citing concerns amidst tensions over the Israel-Hamas war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time the threat level has been elevated to the midpoint of Australia\u2019s five-tier threat level since November 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the last eight years, the level has remained at \u201cprobable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that while government officials believe terrorism has become an increased danger, they are not aware of any particular threats.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to reassure Australians probable does not mean inevitable, and it does not mean there is intelligence about an imminent threat or danger,\u201d Albanese told reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Albanese said his government was acting on the advice of the nation\u2019s domestic spy agency.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe advice that we\u2019ve received is that more Australians are embracing a more diverse range of extreme ideologies, and it is our responsibility to be vigilant,\u201d Albanese said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a global rise in politically motivated violence and extremism. Many democracies are working to address this, including our friends in the United States and in the United Kingdom. There are many things driving this global trend towards violence. Governments around the world are concerned about youth radicalization, online radicalization and the rise of new mixed ideologies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Australian authorities last declared a terrorist act in April, when a 16-year-old boy was accused in the stabbing of a Sydney bishop while a church service was being livestreamed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1722828729,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1722829193,"firstPublishedAt":1722829193,"lastPublishedAt":1722829193,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/62\/89\/58\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_7a891b07-b9f8-5eed-9c11-790a6fa03348-8628958.jpg","altText":"The Australian flag flutters below a Multiplex crane at a building site in Sydney, Tuesday, June 12, 2007.","caption":"The Australian flag flutters below a Multiplex crane at a building site in Sydney, Tuesday, June 12, 2007.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Rick Rycroft\/AP","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":570}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":11935,"slug":"terrorism-threat","urlSafeValue":"terrorism-threat","title":"Terrorism threat","titleRaw":"Terrorism threat"},{"id":29226,"slug":"israel-hamas-war","urlSafeValue":"israel-hamas-war","title":"Israel Hamas war","titleRaw":"Israel Hamas war"},{"id":9333,"slug":"australian-politics","urlSafeValue":"australian-politics","title":"Australian politics","titleRaw":"Australian politics"}],"widgets":[],"related":[{"id":2586488},{"id":2606190}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":391,"urlSafeValue":"oceania","title":"Oceania"},"country":{"id":4611,"urlSafeValue":"australia","title":"Australia","url":"\/news\/oceania\/australia"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'neg_saudiaramco','neg_facebook_q4','neg_mobkoi_castrol','gb_safe_from_high','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','pos_ukraine-russia','gs_politics','gb_terrorism_high_med','gb_terrorism_high_med_low','gb_terrorism_news-ent','gv_terrorism','gt_negative','gt_negative_fear','gs_politics_issues_policy','gs_politics_misc','neg_facebook_neg1','neg_meta_oct23_eng','neg_citi_campaign','gs_science','gs_science_geography','gb_crime_high_med','gb_crime_high_med_low','gb_crime_news-ent','gt_positive_curiosity','gv_crime','gs_busfin','gs_politics_australian'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/2024\/08\/05\/australia-lifts-terrorism-threat-level-amidst-tensions-over-israel-hamas-war","lastModified":1722829193},{"id":2593490,"cid":8604086,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"240725_C2SU_56121163","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Culture - Former James Bond actor George Lazenby retires from acting","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Former James Bond actor George Lazenby retires from acting","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Former James Bond actor George Lazenby retires from acting","titleListing2":"Former James Bond actor George Lazenby retires from acting","leadin":"The former model and actor took up the 007 mantle from Sean Connery in 1969 for 'On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service'. He only starred in one James Bond film - which is now regarded as one of the best in the series.","summary":"The former model and actor took up the 007 mantle from Sean Connery in 1969 for 'On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service'. He only starred in one James Bond film - which is now regarded as one of the best in the series.","keySentence":"","url":"former-james-bond-actor-george-lazenby-retires-from-acting","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/07\/25\/former-james-bond-actor-george-lazenby-retires-from-acting","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Australian actor and former James Bond star George Lazenby has announced he has retired from acting at the age of 84.\n\nThe former model took up the 007 mantle from Sean Connery in 1969 for On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service. He was the second actor ever cast in the role, and only appeared as Bond in only one film.\n\nLazenby announced that he was officially retiring from acting and won\u2019t be making any more public appearances.\n\n\u201cThis hasn\u2019t been an easy decision but it\u2019s time to announce my retirement from work,\u201d the actor wrote on X.\n\n\u201cTherefore, I won\u2019t be doing any more acting or making public appearances, doing any more interviews or signing any more autographs as of today. It\u2019s been a fun ride but getting older is no fun.\u201d\u00a0\n\nLazenby added: \u201cI can now concentrate on spending more time with my family. My sincere gratitude to everyone out there for your love and support over the years. It has meant a lot to me. George xx.\u201d\u00a0\n\nOn Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service, directed by Peter Hunt,\u00a0was Lazenby's first major acting job.\u00a0He claimed to have turned down $1 million in cash to reprise the role, and stated at the time: \"Bond is a brute \u2026 I've already put him behind me. I will never play him again. Peace - that's the message now.\u201d\n\nHe struggled to find more major roles after quitting the role, starring in TV movies and commercials. Some of his other credits include the\u00a0Emmanuelle\u00a0film series and several James Bond movie spoofs like 1975\u2019s The Man From Hong Kong. He most recently starred in the action film\u00a0Mundije.\n\nPanned for many years, On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service is now regarded as one of the best James Bond films, with fans and directors like Christopher Nolan championing it as one of the series\u2019 strongest instalments. \u00a0\u00a0\n\nIn December last year, Lazenby had a fall which caused a head injury and left him hospitalised. He has been keeping a low profile in recent years, after being accused of making offensive comments during an on-stage interview in Australia in 2022. Lazenby reportedly made misogynistic comments about his sexual prowess and was accused of making \"creepy\" and \"disgusting\"\u00a0remarks, some of which audience members in Perth described as \"homophobic\".\n\nIn March this year,\u00a0Lazenby gave his stamp of approval for Aaron Taylor-Johnson to become the next James Bond \u2013 the 34-year-old being repeatedly linked to the role.\n\nLazenby advised the actor \u201cto be true to himself and reinvent the role to fit him.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Australian actor and former <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//tag//james-bond/">James Bond<\/strong><\/a> star George Lazenby has announced he has retired from acting at the age of 84.<\/p>\n<p>The former model took up the 007 mantle from Sean Connery in 1969 for <em>On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service<\/em>. He was the second actor ever cast in the role, and only appeared as Bond in only one film.<\/p>\n<p>Lazenby announced that he was officially retiring from acting and won\u2019t be making any more public appearances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis hasn\u2019t been an easy decision but it\u2019s time to announce my retirement from work,\u201d the actor wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, I won\u2019t be doing any more acting or making public appearances, doing any more interviews or signing any more autographs as of today. It\u2019s been a fun ride but getting older is no fun.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lazenby added: \u201cI can now concentrate on spending more time with my family. My sincere gratitude to everyone out there for your love and support over the years. It has meant a lot to me. George xx.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1816257429010514379\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1816257432772878384\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service<\/em>, directed by Peter Hunt,\u00a0was Lazenby's first major acting job.\u00a0He claimed to have turned down $1 million in cash to reprise the role, and stated at the time: \"Bond is a brute \u2026 I've already put him behind me. I will never play him again. Peace - that's the message now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He struggled to find more major roles after quitting the role, starring in TV movies and commercials. Some of his other credits include the\u00a0Emmanuelle\u00a0film series and several James Bond movie spoofs like 1975\u2019s <em>The Man From Hong Kong<\/em>. He most recently starred in the action film\u00a0<em>Mundije<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Panned for many years, <em>On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service<\/em> is now regarded as one of the best James Bond films, with fans and directors like Christopher Nolan championing it as one of the series\u2019 strongest instalments. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//60//40//86//808x454_cmsv2_d06b1ca7-e5df-5737-a2e3-390b1b006fbe-8604086.jpg/" alt=\"George Lazenby in &#39;On Her Majesty&#39;s Secret Service&#39;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/60\/40\/86\/384x216_cmsv2_d06b1ca7-e5df-5737-a2e3-390b1b006fbe-8604086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/60\/40\/86\/640x360_cmsv2_d06b1ca7-e5df-5737-a2e3-390b1b006fbe-8604086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/60\/40\/86\/750x422_cmsv2_d06b1ca7-e5df-5737-a2e3-390b1b006fbe-8604086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/60\/40\/86\/828x466_cmsv2_d06b1ca7-e5df-5737-a2e3-390b1b006fbe-8604086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/60\/40\/86\/1080x608_cmsv2_d06b1ca7-e5df-5737-a2e3-390b1b006fbe-8604086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/60\/40\/86\/1200x675_cmsv2_d06b1ca7-e5df-5737-a2e3-390b1b006fbe-8604086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/60\/40\/86\/1920x1080_cmsv2_d06b1ca7-e5df-5737-a2e3-390b1b006fbe-8604086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">George Lazenby in &#39;On Her Majesty&#39;s Secret Service&#39;<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">United Artists<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In December last year, Lazenby had a fall which caused a head injury and left him hospitalised. He has been keeping a low profile in recent years, after being accused of making offensive comments during an on-stage interview in Australia in 2022. Lazenby reportedly made misogynistic comments about his sexual prowess and was accused of making \"creepy\" and \"disgusting\"\u00a0remarks, some of which audience members in Perth described as \"homophobic\".<\/p>\n<p>In March this year,\u00a0Lazenby gave his stamp of approval for Aaron Taylor-Johnson to become the next James Bond \u2013 the 34-year-old being <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//03//19//aaron-taylor-johnson-reportedly-chosen-as-the-next-james-bond/">repeatedly linked to the role<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lazenby advised the actor \u201cto be true to himself and reinvent the role to fit him.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1721907995,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1721908554,"firstPublishedAt":1721908554,"lastPublishedAt":1721908554,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/60\/40\/86\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d6f6f5c1-b8f5-5885-88a5-c6c023d6a971-8604086.jpg","altText":"Former 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Australia breast explant surgeries on the rise","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"'Breast implant illness' cases leading to a spike in women seeking removal surgery","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Rising 'breast implant illness' cases sparks removal surgery demand","titleListing2":"Cases of 'breast implant illness' causing a spike in the number of women seeking removal surgery","leadin":"Researchers say the condition is not medically recognised but needs further investigation as the numbers having procedures to remove implants grows.","summary":"Researchers say the condition is not medically recognised but needs further investigation as the numbers having procedures to remove implants grows.","keySentence":"","url":"cases-of-breast-implant-illness-causing-a-spike-in-the-number-of-women-seeking-removal-sur","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2024\/07\/20\/cases-of-breast-implant-illness-causing-a-spike-in-the-number-of-women-seeking-removal-sur","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Australia has seen a rapid increase in breast implant removal in recent years as many women report experiencing severe symptoms post-implantation.\n\nAccording to data from the Australian Breast Device Registry, the number of women undergoing \"explant surgery\" - the procedure to remove an implant - has surged from 0.4 in 2016 to seven in 2022.\u00a0\n\nThese figures include women who had their implants extracted post-cancer.\n\nCristina Tamba, a dermal therapist living in Queensland, Australia, is one of those who underwent an explant procedure.\n\n\"I know that I've done the right thing because I feel incredible now,\" she said.\n\nTamba had cosmetic breast surgery more than 10 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symptoms, and so many variables, you have to take time, systematically go through all the data, and obviously look at outcomes over a period of time,\" Anand Deva, a professor at Macquarie University, said.\n\nExperts advise women with implants to have annual check-ups.\n\nAccording to a survey published by the Australasian College of Cosmetic Surgery in 2023, breast augmentation was the second most cosmetic surgery with 26 per cent of the respondents having undergone the procedure.\n\nFor more on this story, watch the video in the media player above.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Australia has seen a rapid increase in breast implant removal in recent years as many women report experiencing severe symptoms post-implantation.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the Australian Breast Device Registry, the number of women undergoing \"explant surgery\" - the procedure to remove an implant - has surged from 0.4 in 2016 to seven in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These figures include women who had their implants 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and suicidal thoughts\".<\/p>\n<p>These symptoms have been linked to what some call \"breast implant illness\".<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say the condition is not medically recognised but needs further investigation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7769632\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2023//07//24//two-in-three-cosmetic-surgery-injections-in-the-uk-are-not-administered-by-doctors-new-stu/">Two in three cosmetic surgery injections in the UK are not administered by doctors, new study finds <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Improved health within 6 months<\/h2><p>\"I've been removing breast implants now for I'd say five or six years with people that come in who feel that they're unwell, and probably about 80 per cent of them will come back in six months and say they feel a lot better,\" Dr Peter Widdowson, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at the Lotus Institute, said.<\/p>\n<p>A study, conducted by Macquarie University in Australia, on 226 women with breast implants found that 85 per cent of the 77 who underwent explant surgery reported improved health six months after the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>The study was the first attempt to look at illness suffered by women with breast implants in the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7794270\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" 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above.<\/strong><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1721390466,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1721458855,"firstPublishedAt":1721458855,"lastPublishedAt":1721640631,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/08\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_1fcbeafd-6e04-56ff-8fa9-4c69d88dc405-8588608.jpg","altText":"Breast augmentation is one of the most popular cosmetic procedures.","caption":"Breast augmentation is one of the most popular cosmetic procedures.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Canva","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/08\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_92ab0a75-a320-57f8-8a3b-0d93ed84b8d4-8588608.jpg","altText":"A silicone gel breast implant is shown at Mentor Corp., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, in Irving, Texas. 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MONA PICASSO HOAX","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Curator of Australian \u2018Picasso\u2019 show that sparked gender row admits faking the paintings","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Tasmanian museum curator admits faking Picassos after gender row","titleListing2":"Curator of Australian \u2018Picasso\u2019 show that sparked gender row admits faking the paintings","leadin":"A museum in Tasmania hit the headlines when it hung works by Picasso in a women\u2019s toilet following a discrimination complaint \u2013 but they weren\u2019t Picassos at all.","summary":"A museum in Tasmania hit the headlines when it hung works by Picasso in a women\u2019s toilet following a discrimination complaint \u2013 but they weren\u2019t Picassos at all.","keySentence":"","url":"curator-of-australian-picasso-show-that-sparked-gender-row-admits-faking-the-paintings","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/07\/15\/curator-of-australian-picasso-show-that-sparked-gender-row-admits-faking-the-paintings","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Hobart\u2019s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is no stranger to controversy.\u00a0\n\nIn April 2023, the museum was found to have discriminated against a man who was refused entry to the museum\u2019s women-only \u2018Ladies Lounge\u2019 space, despite having paid for museum admission.\n\nThe row took an unexpected turn last month, when \u2018Ladies Lounge\u2019 creator and MONA curator Kirsha Kaechele announced the museum had found an innovative workaround to restrict access to the\u00a0space \u2013 hanging artwork, namely works by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, in a female toilet cubicle.\n\nNow there\u2019s a new twist in the tale, with Kaechele revealing last week that the so-called Picassos were, in fact, the work of her own hand.\n\nKaechele took to the MONA blog on Wednesday in a post entitled ''Art is Not Truth: Pablo Picasso\", saying she was revealing herself as the works\u2019 creator, following questions from a Guardian reporter and the Picasso Administration in France about their authenticity.\n\nWhat was unbelievable to the curator, who is also the wife of the museum\u2019s owner, was that the paintings had been displayed for more than three years before their provenance was questioned \u2013 even though she had accidentally hung one of the fake paintings upside down.\n\n\u201cI imagined that a Picasso scholar, or maybe just a Picasso fan, or maybe just someone who googles things, would visit the Ladies Lounge and see that the painting was upside down and expose me on social media,\u201d Kaechele wrote.\n\nAccording to Kaechele, the lounge had to display \u201cthe most important artworks in the world\u201d \u2013 or at least the semblance thereof, as the case turned out to be \u2013 in order for men \u201cto feel as excluded as possible.\u201d\n\nA spokesperson for MONA told The Associated Press that the gallery would not supply more detail about the letter Kaechele said she had received from the Picasso Administration,\u00a0 which manages the late Spanish artist\u2019s estate.\n\nWhen the AP asked MONA to confirm the veracity of the statements in Kaechele\u2019s blog post, spokesperson Sara Gates-Matthews said the post was \u201ctruthfully Kirsha\u2019s admission\u201d.\n\nComments on Kaechele\u2019s blog post show mixed reactions, with some readers dubbing the stunt \"brilliant and brave\". Some in the art world, however, were less impressed.\n\nArt expert Christopher Heathcote told the Guardian he thought \"the entire episode is childish, unprofessional, and reflects poorly on MONA\u201d.\n\nThe Tasmanian museum drew the (rather more positive) attention of music fans the world over last month, when it held listening parties for the sole copy of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the Wu Tang Clan album dubbed the \u201cworld\u2019s rarest album\u201d.\u00a0\n\nThe jury\u2019s out, however, on this latest revelation \u2013 was MONA\u2019s Picasso hoax a childish prank or poignant performance art?\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Hobart\u2019s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is no stranger to controversy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In April 2023, the museum was found to have discriminated against a man who was refused entry to the museum\u2019s women-only \u2018Ladies Lounge\u2019 space, despite having paid for museum admission.<\/p>\n<p>The row took an unexpected turn last month, when \u2018Ladies Lounge\u2019 creator and MONA curator Kirsha Kaechele announced the museum had found an innovative workaround to restrict access to the\u00a0space \u2013 hanging artwork, namely works by Spanish painter <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//05//09//an-italian-artist-is-attempting-to-recreate-picassos-guernica-in-less-than-a-fortnight/">Pablo Picasso<\/strong><\/a>, in a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//06//24//tasmanian-museum-hangs-picassos-in-womens-toilet-after-discrimination-complaint/">female toilet cubicle<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now there\u2019s a new twist in the tale, with Kaechele revealing last week that the so-called Picassos were, in fact, the work of her own hand.<\/p>\n<p>Kaechele took to the MONA blog on Wednesday in a post entitled ''Art is Not Truth: Pablo Picasso\", saying she was revealing herself as the works\u2019 creator, following questions from a Guardian reporter and the Picasso Administration in France about their authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>What was unbelievable to the curator, who is also the wife of the museum\u2019s owner, was that the paintings had been displayed for more than three years before their provenance was questioned \u2013 even though she had accidentally hung one of the fake paintings upside down.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//57//63//82//808x484_cmsv2_115a1a44-12c0-53f5-959f-6237edbd01e7-8576382.jpg/" alt=\"The Ladies Lounge at MONA\" 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she had received from the Picasso Administration,\u00a0 which manages the late Spanish artist\u2019s estate.<\/p>\n<p>When the AP asked MONA to confirm the veracity of the statements in Kaechele\u2019s blog post, spokesperson Sara Gates-Matthews said the post was \u201ctruthfully Kirsha\u2019s admission\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Comments on Kaechele\u2019s blog post show mixed reactions, with some readers dubbing the stunt \"brilliant and brave\". Some in the art world, however, were less impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Art expert Christopher Heathcote told the Guardian he thought \"the entire episode is childish, unprofessional, and reflects poorly on MONA\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Tasmanian museum drew the (rather more positive) attention of music fans the world over last month, when it held <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//05//28//the-worlds-rarest-album-by-wu-tang-clan-can-finally-be-listened-to-if-you-head-to-australi/">listening parties for the sole copy of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin<\/strong><\/a>, the Wu Tang Clan album dubbed the \u201cworld\u2019s rarest album\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The jury\u2019s out, however, on this latest revelation \u2013 was MONA\u2019s Picasso hoax a childish prank or poignant performance 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found.","keySentence":"","url":"ivf-success-drops-by-38-per-cent-with-exposure-to-air-pollution-study-finds","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2024\/07\/08\/ivf-success-drops-by-38-per-cent-with-exposure-to-air-pollution-study-finds","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Exposure to air pollution can significantly lower the chance of having a live birth after in vitro fertilisation (IVF), according to new research that indicates poor air quality impacts fertility at an earlier stage than previously known.\n\nThe study included roughly 1,800 patients and 3,700 frozen embryo transfers from 2013 to 2021 in Perth, Australia.\n\nResearchers analysed exposure to fine particulate matter at various points before the patients\u2019 eggs were collected, and followed them throughout their pregnancies later on.\n\nWomen who had the highest level of pollutant exposure in the two weeks before their eggs were collected had a 38 per cent lower chance of giving birth to a live baby compared with 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Higher exposure in the three months before egg retrieval also led to lower odds of live birth, the study found.\n\n\u201cThese findings suggest that pollution negatively affects the quality of the eggs, not just the early stages of pregnancy, which is a distinction that has not been previously reported,\u201d Dr Sebastian Leathersich, the study\u2019s lead author and a fertility specialist in Perth, said in a statement.\n\nLeathersich will present the findings on Monday at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology\u2019s (ESHRE) annual meeting in Amsterdam.\n\nNotably, air quality was very good during the study period. Levels of PM2.5, the fine particulate matter linked to gas, oil, diesel fuel, and wood, exceeded international guidelines on just 4.5 per cent of days, while levels of PM10, which also includes dust from landfills, farms, industrial sites, and more, exceeded guidelines on 0.4 per cent of days.\n\n\u201cClimate change poses a serious and immediate threat to human reproductive health, even at so-called \u2018safe\u2019 levels,\u201d Leathersich said.\n\nThe study adds to a growing body of research that shows exposure to air pollution can lead to worse pregnancy outcomes, including low birth weight and preterm birth. It\u2019s also been linked to lower semen quality in men.\n\nDr Anis Feki, ESHRE\u2019s chair-elect and an obstetrician-gynaecologist in Switzerland, said the findings \u201cemphasise the need for ongoing attention to environmental factors in reproductive health\u201d.\n\nAir pollution also has broader impacts on human health, particularly respiratory issues.\n\nExposure increases the risk of stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer, and pneumonia, and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that both household and outdoor air pollution causes nearly 7 million deaths per year.\n\nLeathersich said people can use air filters, keep their doors and windows closed on high-pollution days, and close their car windows when driving in traffic to minimise their own exposure, but that government and industry-level action are needed to meaningfully curb emissions.\n\n\u201cMinimising pollutant exposure must be a key public health priority,\u201d Leathersich said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Exposure to air pollution can significantly lower the chance of having a live birth after in vitro fertilisation (IVF), according to new research that indicates poor air quality impacts fertility at an earlier stage than previously known.<\/p>\n<p>The study included roughly 1,800 patients and 3,700 frozen embryo transfers from 2013 to 2021 in Perth, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers analysed exposure to fine particulate matter at various points before the patients\u2019 eggs were collected, and followed them throughout their pregnancies later on.<\/p>\n<p>Women who had the highest level of pollutant exposure in the two weeks before their eggs were collected had a 38 per cent lower chance of giving birth to a live baby compared with women who had the lowest level of exposure. Higher exposure in the three months before egg retrieval also led to lower odds of live birth, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese findings suggest that pollution negatively affects the quality of the eggs, not just the early stages of pregnancy, which is a distinction that has not been previously reported,\u201d Dr Sebastian Leathersich, the study\u2019s lead author and a fertility specialist in Perth, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Leathersich will present the findings on Monday at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology\u2019s (ESHRE) annual meeting in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8529336\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//06//25//high-blood-pressure-diabetes-dementia-how-plane-pollution-could-threaten-the-health-of-52m/">High blood pressure, diabetes, dementia: How plane pollution could threaten the health of 52m Europe<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Notably, air quality was very good during the study period. Levels of PM2.5, the fine particulate matter linked to gas, oil, diesel fuel, and wood, exceeded international guidelines on just 4.5 per cent of days, while levels of PM10, which also includes dust from landfills, farms, industrial sites, and more, exceeded guidelines on 0.4 per cent of days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimate change poses a serious and immediate threat to human reproductive health, even at so-called \u2018safe\u2019 levels,\u201d Leathersich said.<\/p>\n<p>The study adds to a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////jamanetwork.com//journals//jamanetworkopen//fullarticle//2767260/">growing body<\/strong><\/a> of research that shows exposure to air pollution can lead to worse pregnancy outcomes, including low birth weight and preterm birth. 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