Hello. It’s Thursday, May 26th and you’re reading The Loop, a quick summary of today’s news.
Let’s start here: it’s National Penalty Day
- Today is National Day of Healing, or National Sorry Day, which commemorates and recognizes the mistreatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who were forcibly removed from their families and communities, now known as The Stolen Generations. .
- Today also marks 25 years since the Bringing Them Home report was handed over to the Australian government, highlighting the impact of decades of forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their families.
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- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made an indigenous voice enshrine an election promise in parliament, and some indigenous groups want the government to present a deadline for a referendum on the matter.
- National Reconciliation Week begins tomorrow and this year’s theme is “Be Brave. Make the Change”, a call to action for all Australians to help with the reconciliation process.
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who made an official apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples in 2008, said today: “Much remains to be done in the national challenge of closing the gap and the pending business of reconciliation.” .
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We’ve heard a lot of debate about gun control in the US
Following yesterday’s mass shooting at an elementary school in the U.S. state of Texas that left 19 students and two teachers dead, there has been a debate over the gun situation in the United States.
Here’s what you need to know:
- US states are quite divided over gun control, although mass shootings are on the rise
- Weapons control measures are unlikely to reach the U.S. Congress and have become increasingly scarce in most U.S. states.
- Aside from several Democratic-controlled states, most have not taken any action on arms control in recent years, or have actually expanded gun rights.
- Texas has some of the most pro-gun laws in the U.S. and has been the site of some of the deadliest shootings in the country in five years.
- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has repeatedly spoken out about the mental health struggles among young people and said tougher gun laws in places like New York and California are ineffective.
- Democrat Beto O’Rourke, who is running against Abbott, interrupted his press conference today, calling the tragedy “predictable.” Pointing to Mr Abbott, he said, “It’s up to you until you decide to do something different. This will keep happening.”
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to search, up and down arrows for volume. Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke interrupted Governor Greg Abbott’s press conference on the mass shooting.
- U.S. President Joe Biden has called on his nation to pass new laws and confront gun manufacturers who, he said, “have spent two decades aggressively marketing assault weapons that make them some of the greater benefits “.
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- Meanwhile, the satirical news site The Onion has covered its cover with a bunch of stories it has published after previous shootings, but all with the same timeless headline: “There’s no way to avoid this,” says only the nation where this usually happens.
Cover of The Onion on May 26, 2022. (The Onion)
News you may have missed
- Today the Meteorological Office dropped its winter forecast. It is expected that much of central and eastern Australia will have a wetter climate after a wet start to some parts of Queensland and New South Wales. La Niña is stubbornly hovering and it looks like a negative dipole in the Indian Ocean is on its way, so a wetter-than-average winter is expected for much of the country, which seems a bit like that …
A negative phase of IOD encourages rainfall from northwest to southeast. (Supplied by: Meteorological Office)
- Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has given his first interview since losing the election and stepping down as Liberal Party leader. He said he hoped to support the next party leader, Peter Dutton, who appeared unopposed. Morrison also told Nine Radio that he had no plans to leave politics, but that he hoped to “be a quiet Australian again” in his local Sydney community.
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- Europa League Conference. An emotional Jose Mourinho – the coach of the Italian football club AS Roma – has celebrated what he described as a historic success after becoming the second coach to win five major European titles. His team won the Europa Conference League title by beating Feyenoord 1-0 in Tirana for their first major European trophy. Mourinho, who previously won the Champions League, the Europa League and the UEFA Cup, has now completed a unique European trophy.
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- Kate Moss. There is still a lot of interest in the British model, who has denied actor Amber Heard’s claim that her ex-husband Johnny Depp threw Moss down a flight of stairs. ICYMI: The close court case between Depp and Heard is coming to an end, and Moss, who had a romantic relationship with Depp between 1994 and 1998, has testified as a witness in the defamation trial.
You are up to date!
Stay dry out there.
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