Streets erupt in protests, social media ban approved, Dezi Freeman's wife makes plea to husband.

Ugly scenes as rival protests collide in cities across the country.

Labor's social media ban for kids - gets the seal of approval - in a new report.

The wife of alleged cop killer Dezi Freeman begs him to surrender to police.

China rolls out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good Morning.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
There have been ugly and violent scenes in cities across
the country as protesters clashed with police. In Melbourne, officers
use rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse the crowd.
When anti immigration and pro Palestinian rallies collided in the CBD,
the Australian flag was torched and six people arrested. In Sydney,

(00:25):
two men linked to the protests have now been charged
after allegedly assaulting an officer at a bar on Broadway.
Neo Nazis were spotted in the crowd at an anti
mass migration rally attended by around fifteen thousand people in Adelaide.
One protester was carrying around a placard featuring alleged cop
killer Desi Freeman with the words Freeman. Labour's social media

(00:51):
ban has been given the seal of approval in a
new study. A government back trial has found technology which
tracks the ages of social media users does work, calling
it effective and practical.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
But it's not all good news.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
The study found there's no one size fits all solution,
meaning platforms would have to use a combination of tools
to enforce the ban, which comes into effect on December tenth.
Seven days into the search, there's still no trace of
Victorian fugitive Desi Freeman. His wife has begged him to surrender,
saying she and her children are also grieving the loss

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of the officers her husband allegedly gunned down. Meanwhile, a man.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Charging connection to the case has spoken out.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Steve Mullett described the moment heavily armed police knocked on
his door.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
I looked up once and I thought, and I saw
all of the hands on the triggers Jesus Christ, and
I thought, don't even move, don't even move, and I
struck me bloody hands up and I'm waiting for the
bullets to come holing in on me. I'm just waiting
for it, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
He claims he's never met Freemen personally. A trial to
remove sharpnecks from three beaches in the Greater Sydney region
will go ahead this summer. The New South Wales government
is working with Waverley, Northern Beaches and Central Coast councils
to figure out which beaches will be best. Nets are
going to be temporarily installed today until the full details

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of the trial are worked out. More than two hundred
marine creatures were killed after swimming into.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
The nets last summer.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Around two dozen bushfires are still burning across Queensland, even
as wild winds die down. Lake Wivenhoe campers have been
allowed to return and collect their belongings after they are
forced to evacuate. The emergency right at the end of
winter has prompted this warning from firefighters.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
In a moment's notice.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Things can change and we're asking people to be prepared
for those changes.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Forecast range should help crews gain the upper hand.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Today parents are pulling their kids out of childcare or
reducing the hours they spend there in the wake of
Victoria abuse scandal. According to new data, a server by
the Mindaroo Foundation found as many as one in ten
parents has taken their child out of care since allegations
of sexual abuse emerged earlier this year. The survey also

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found more than fifty percent of parents support the introduction
of a national register of childcare workers. We're taking mondays
where the now showers increasing in Brisbane and twenty two
mostly sunny in city.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
In twenty morning frost and sunnay in Canberra.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Seventeen A shower tour in Melbourne at sixteen partlet cladi
in Hobart, fifteen a shower to in Adelaide and fifteen
sunny in Perth and twenty sunny in Darwin, and thirty
four for the first day of Spring