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Sydney news: Strike Force Hawk officers arrest 15 men in Firearm Prohibition Order raids

MORNING BRIEFING: NSW police put new Firearm Prohibition Orders to use in week-long raid operation targeting alleged organised crime figures.

ABC News

Eddie Mabo and Gerard Brennan overturned the terra nullius policy and changed Australia forever

As a young reporter, I saw a listing for a case at the High Court of Australia. Few Australians then knew the name Eddie Mabo but I sensed this case may change Australia, says Stan Grant in this extract from his 2022 Mabo Lecture.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 4 June 2022

It may sound like a sickeningly sweet lolly but that hasn't stopped "platinum jubilee" from rolling off a lot of tongues lately. As Britain marks 70 years of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, we ponder what maketh a monarch.

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Crown symbol returning to pint glasses as part of government post-Brexit plans

Crown stamp gave customers confidence they were not being sold a short measure of beer

Wales Online

Boris Johnson announces plans to revive imperial measurements in UK supermarkets

The UK Government has also unveiled plans to bring back the Crown symbol on pint glasses.

Daily Record

Crown could secure licence to open Barangaroo casino despite being found unfit by gaming regulator last year

Crown Resorts is on the verge of securing a licence to finally open its Sydney casino 15 months after being deemed "unfit" by the NSW gaming regulator.

ABC News

Boris Johnson announces return to imperial measurements in British shops to mark Jubilee

British shops will be able to sell products in pounds and ounces, while the Crown symbol will replace the EU-wide ‘CE’ marking on glasses, to declare it will adequately measure a pint of beer

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Consultation to review ‘overbearing EU rules’ on imperial measurements

Plans to revisit regulations on the use of imperial measurements in Britain will restore ‘common sense’ to the statute book, the Government said.

The Independent UK

Star conduct could be criminal: inquiry

An inquiry's been told many systems failed at Star Entertainment as a lawyer assisting the probe concluded her argument on the gambling giant's Sydney casino.

AAP

Court orders former community councillor who embezzled £130,000 from elderly relatives to pay £52,000

A former Stirling district community councillor who embezzled nearly £130,000 from a frail elderly relative she had invited into her Strathyre home has finally been hit with a court order under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Alice Duncan, 74, once a res

Daily Record

Former NSW minister Ian Macdonald seeks judge-alone trial

The Crown has yet to say whether it will oppose the application for the trial, which relates to a Hunter Valley mining licence.

Newcastle Herald

New ward boundaries for almost every ward in Trafford as new political map announced

The Local Government Boundary Commission has made changes across the borough

Manchester Evening News

Chris Dawson murder trial delayed for a week due to prosecutor's COVID-19 diagnosis

The high-profile murder trial of Chris Dawson hits a roadblock as the Crown prosecutor is diagnosed with COVID-19, delaying further evidence from a key witness.

ABC News

Boris Johnson believes imperial measurements are 'universally understood' in UK

The Prime Minister's deputy spokesman said Boris Johnson defended his move back towards pounds and ounces as critics branded it a 'distraction' that won't actually change much about how we shop

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Crown Casino in Melbourne fined $80 million for illegal China Union Pay scheme

The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission says Crown's scheme was illegal, and the casino "went to some lengths to hide what it was doing".

AAP

Crown Melbourne hit with record $80m fine

Crown Melbourne has been fined a record $80 million over a scheme that allowed the illegal transfer of funds from China.

Daily Mirror

What law actually says on Imperial measurements - what will Boris Johnson really change?

Boris Johnson will announce a Queen's Platinum Jubilee bid to give traders the choice between metric and imperial units - after two decades of EU law. He'll also 'bring back' the Crown stamp on pints. We look at how much of the patriotic bluster is true

The Canberra Times

Alleged skatepark killer fabricated knife find claim: prosecutor

She claims he came up with an "impossible" version of events in an attempt to explain how the deceased's blood came to be on his clothes.

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Chris Dawson 'very flirtatious' with schoolgirl he would later marry, court hears

Former Sydney teacher Chris Dawson was "very flirtatious" and "very vain" while interacting with a schoolgirl he would later marry, a close friend of the woman has told a court.

The Conversation

Whose ‘identity’ are we preserving in Auckland’s special character housing areas?

A minor culture war has broken out over Auckland’s urban identity since Auckland Council responded to the government’s new housing rules: on one side, defenders of “special character” areas of historic housing; on the other, advocates for higher-density development with fewer constraints.

The Guardian - AU

Yachts and mansions: founder of company that left thousands of Aboriginal people out of pocket made more than $20m, tax-free

Ron Pattenden continued to make money from the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund even after selling it in the wake of damning royal commission findings

Newsroom.co.nz

The go-to uncle who 'shook the face' of the nation

Obituary: Ngāti Whātua kaumatua Joe Hawke, who spearheaded the Takaparawhau/Bastion Point protest, has died, aged 82.

Birmingham Post

Anglesey pub that shut in 2018 could be transformed under new plans

SBJJ Group Ltd plan to redevelop the site and reopen the Y Goron (The Crown) in Bodedern

The Guardian - UK

Kendrick Lamar: Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers review – towards a state of grace

The Pulitzer prize-winning rapper grapples with Black trauma and his own family’s struggles on this brave, electrifying fifth album

Benzinga

Crown-Blackstone Deal's Prospect Hangs Subject To Regulatory Approval

Blackstone Inc's (NYSE:BX) $6.3 billion buyout of Crown Resorts Ltd (OTC:CWLDY) got delayed pending regulatory approval despite positive shareholder approval, Reuters reports. Gambling regulators in New South Wales, Victoria, and Western Australia found the Crown unfit to hold gaming licenses at different times. Crown's license for the flagship A$2.2 billion casino skyscraper in Sydney…

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