Katie Watson

But what does this signal about Australian politics? The BBC's Katie Watson, who is in Sydney, spoke to Lise Doucette. I think there's a growing frustration with the traditional parties here in Australia. There's a cost of living crisis. That's something that people talk about a lot, the high cost of housing. And I think that's driven people to look for other alternatives. I mean, we've seen it in other parts of the world. Australia is no exception.

I mean, that's what the candidate called it. It's not going to change anything in terms of the Labour government's vast majority, but it's also been the first kind of federal test of One Nation support. So back in March, when South Australia had state elections, it recorded the second highest number of votes out of any political party. So Labour won, that was clear, but it was its best ever electoral performance. So clearly there's a move there.

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I was talking to many analysts who say that helps make Australia much more kind of central. And the fact that there's compulsory voting means that they don't have the swings kind of to extreme left or extreme right that we might have seen in other countries. But that's clearly not true.

How would you describe One Nation? What are some of their defining slogans, policies? Anti-immigration, for sure. Pauline Hansen has talked about how Australia does not want Sharia law. So that's very clear and that's very difficult right now because of what happened back in December with the terrible shooting at Bondi Beach at a Hanukkah event, which was Australia's worst terrorist attack ever.

It's a difficult time for Australia and I think that's perhaps made people a bit more on edge. So perhaps there's an element of what Pauline Hansen is talking about, making people listen more. For a long time she didn't gain so much traction, but she's clearly resonating. She's a right-wing populist and anti-immigration is pretty much her strongest political argument.

When I speak to people in Australia after Bondi as well, and I was at the hearing for a royal commission on antisemitism, so many people talk about how Australia is such a great multicultural country. But being here for the last few years, I feel that that pride in multiculturalism is being tested, that it makes it more difficult for politicians to read the room or they read the environment, especially after what happened in December. Katie Watson in Sydney in Australia.

First, here's our correspondent Katie Watson in Doha in Qatar on the latest there and across the UAE. Kuwait had a few hits overnight early this morning. The Ministry of Electricity and Water said a power and water desalination plant was attacked. There was material damage to some components.

They also had an attack on a key oil refinery, Mina al-Ahmadi. It's one of the largest in the Middle East. It has a capacity of about 350,000 barrels of oil a day. It's also been targeted before, and that's just Kuwait. There were alarms that went off in the UAE and Bahrain, an attack in the UAE on a gas facility. So clearly what we're seeing and continue to see is this retaliation by Iran, and the Gulf continues to feel those effects.

Yes, the Gulf Nations have warned Iran against targeting water plants, as you mentioned there. Is there a sense of growing anger in the region? Certainly, I mean, I think there's frustration. Nobody, no authorities really speak publicly, but there is a sense of wanting, obviously, this war to be over, but wanting the threat of Iran to be over. I was talking to some Qatari officials earlier this week who made clear that attacks on civilian infrastructure, such as desalination...

This is a huge threat to the region. This is a part of the world that 90% of drinking water roughly comes from desalinated water. So if you don't have access to that, then it makes the region pretty unlivable pretty quickly. And that is a concern here, certainly. And what about the mood where you are, Katie? How much is normal life being affected? Have you been able to gauge a sense of how people are feeling?

It's much quieter than it normally is, that's for sure. It doesn't feel particularly vibrant at the moment. Obviously there were people who decided to leave when the war started. Some of those people might be coming back. Obviously there's a lot of Qataris who are still here. This is their home.

But I think it's difficult because the authorities are trying to make it clear that they're safe, that they're doing their best to defend themselves. Perhaps foreigners might feel a little less certain about that. But overall people are getting on with their lives. It just might be that there are fewer people here right now.

Campari was invented in 1860 and it's grown in popularity the world over ever since. Its use in a variety of cocktails has made one of the key ingredients, cascarilla oil, extremely popular. Harvesting cascarilla has also provided a vital source of income for residents of Aklins Island in the Bahamas.

It's hoped that by prioritizing sustainable harvesting practices, such as cutting the bark without damaging the plant, finding new ways to cultivate cascarilla in greenhouses and bringing in new modern equipment to extract the oil, the Bahamas will be able to plant more trees. Because the fact is, right now...

Stock is extremely limited, and Kirk Cunningham from the Bahamas Forestry Unit is worried, because that's driving up the price, which means more people want to get their hands on it. A lot more persons are now getting Cascarilla, and a lot more persons are now going out to harvest Cascarilla. And that being the case, sooner or later we're going to run out of the local stock.

The Bahama Pine Islands Project, which is funded by the Global Environment Facility and the UN, is also aiming to boost Cascarilla profits by producing perfume and soap from the oil, which will not only bring more money to Acklands Island, it will boost exports, and that means more work for local people. Cheers to Wendy Eckert for that report. And still to come in this podcast...

Our Australia correspondent Katie Watson reports. I've come to Western Sydney, a neighbourhood called Lakemba, which has a really big Muslim population. They've shut off the main road in front of the mosque. There are hundreds of trestle tables, and every so often there are buffet stations. On one side are the women's tables, on the other the men's, and there are families, young, old, everybody here. They're waiting patiently for sunset. I love you!

Vaikka täällä on henkilökohtainen viibi, poliisiturvallisuuden traila paikallaan, jossa on 360-kameraa, puhutaan myös yleisöstä. Koska on saapunut monia vaikeuksia, Moskva pyysi lisää poliisipäästöjä Ramadanin jälkeen. He ovat käyttäneet myös yksityisen turvallisuuden.

Anti-islamin haittaa on tullut enemmän kuin 600 prosenttia vuoden 7.2.2023, kun Hamas haittoi Israelin. Bondaiin decemberin haittaminen, jossa poliitikot olivat islamilaisen valtion ideologian ympärillä, on myös haittanut enemmän haittaa.