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Here are your headlines for today.

The neo-Nazi party to learn their fate today as new hate laws are in full effect.

The White Australia Party will today find out whether it can continue operating under hate laws passed in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack.

The group, formerly known as the National Socialist Network before it disbanded, is challenging the laws passed following the attack, which the government has used to criminalise joining, supporting, fundraising or recruiting for White Australia.

At a High Court hearing on Wednesday, lawyers for the organisation pushed for the hate listing to be put on ice, at least until the full case could be heard in September.

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A decision on the injunction will be handed down this afternoon. 

Commonwealth lawyer Brendan Lim SC told the court that if the injunction is granted, people may "apprehend that they can commit crime with no risk of punishment or direction".

He also warned that allowing the White Australia party to exist as it currently stands involved more risks than listing the organisation as a hate group does. He cited the potential for the party's rhetoric to incite violence.

In a video posted to encrypted messaging site Telegram on Tuesday night, notorious neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell said the move to ban his organisation breached the constitution's implied right to freedom of political communication.

White Australia is also seeking to register as a political party.

The organisation was declared as a prohibited hate group by Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke in May following advice from spy agency ASIO.

Under the government's declaration, it is now a crime to support, fund or join the group.

"The Neo-Nazis have gone after almost every group you can imagine: the Jewish community, the Muslim community, people of Asian heritage, First Nations Australians," Burke said in Federal Parliament on May 27.

"They've engaged in all kinds of bigotry, but what the parliament has now done is set a standard that says: their views, their hate, has no place in modern Australia."

One Australian state will remove children aged under five from residential care.

Children under the age of five will be removed from a state's residential care following a major inquiry's "shocking" findings.

The Queensland government has revealed the significant policy change in response to the final report of a landmark inquiry into the state's "broken" child protection system.

"I have made a policy decision no children under the age of five are to remain in residential care," Child Safety Minister Amanda Camm told state parliament on Wednesday.

Child Safety Minister AMANDA CAMM told parliament Queensland had 2258 children in residential care, including 78 under the age of five, while the Child Safety Commission of Inquiry final report revealed the number of children and young people in state residential care more than tripled in a decade.

Queensland had almost as many children in residential care as every other state and territory combined.

The inquiry also found more than two-thirds of child sexual abuse victims were in state residential care when the crimes happened.

The state's Liberal National government, which was elected in 2024, pinned most of the blame on the former Labor government.

The commission made 52 recommendations, which the government said it would carefully consider.

US President Donald Trump confirms heated phone call with the Israeli leader. 

US President Donald Trump has acknowledged having called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "crazy" ‌in an expletive-filled phone exchange.

During an interview on the Pod Force One podcast, Trump was questioned about the call, which reportedly started over the leader's dissatisfaction of Israeli troops fighting in Lebanon while the US was trying to negotiate ‌an end to hostilities with Iran.

"I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon," he said.

"You know, at some point, as it would be, we're going to stop this. We've got to stop it."

Trump went on to say that he and Netanyahu ‌get along very ‌well.

"We get along very well, have a very good relationship," he said.

"We've done well together. He always says we could never have done it, but everybody knows that we could never have done it without the United States. 

"I like BB a lot. You know, I'm a wartime president, he's a wartime Prime Minister, very important part of the world, and I think we've done, you know, very well. We've got along very well." 

According to ⁠an Axios report, which cited an unidentified US official, Trump also said ​to Netanyahu in a call on Monday he'd be in prison if it weren't for the US leader. 

Iran says it won't ‌agree ​to a deal with the United States to end the war that Trump and Netanyahu ​launched in late February, ‌unless a ceasefire also covers Lebanon, which Israel invaded in March in pursuit of ​the Iran-aligned Hezbollah militia that fired across the border in support of Tehran.

Man who booed an ANZAC Day Welcome To Country ceremony shows no remorse.

A man who booed during a Welcome to Country at an Anzac Day dawn service has refused to apologise while being sentenced in court. 

Eli Joseph Toby pleaded guilty in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday to one count of committing a nuisance at a war memorial for booing loudly while Uncle Ray Minniecon was delivering the Welcome. 

When asked by Judge Greg Grogin whether he was sorry for what he had done, Toby said he had "mixed feelings". 

He said he was expressing his belief that the Welcome to Country ceremonies were overdone and should not be performed at Anzac Day commemorations. 

Toby was convicted and fined $880.

Queer Eye star Karamo Brown reveals toxic behind-the-scenes culture on the show.

Karamo Brown has opened up for the first time about the behind‑the‑scenes tensions on Queer Eye, calling the atmosphere "toxic" and saying the Fab Five were "broken" from the first week of filming the final season.

In a new interview with People magazine, he says a sexual harassment complaint made against him — which he says was later found to be unfounded — shattered the group's bond and left him feeling like an outsider among his co‑hosts.

Brown also recalls a painful moment when his mum visited the set in 2025 and allegedly overheard some of his cast mates speaking negatively about him, telling PEOPLE that the "tears in my mother's eyes" made him realise he could no longer stay silent.

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He says those experiences were a big reason he skipped joint press interviews for the show's last season, explaining in statements at the time that he had "felt mentally and emotionally abused for years" and needed to protect his peace.

"The Fab Five was broken since week one… week two, honestly," he said.

"I think we went to one group dinner week one, and I think after that never again." 

Producers strongly dispute any suggestion that concerns were ignored, insisting they provided training, support and a respectful workplace. Meanwhile, Brown says he still takes responsibility for his own mistakes and is focused on his next chapter.

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