Larissa Huntington

Yeah, this story's been picking up steam this week.

The detainees were part of a convoy of 54 ships in the global Samud flotilla, which left Turkey on the 14th of May carrying humanitarian aid like food, medicines and medical supplies for Palestinians in Gaza.

And on board were activists from more than 40 countries, including those Australians.

And what happened out at sea is that the Israeli Navy has a maritime blockade in place to prevent weapons from being smuggled to the terror group Hamas.

And they intercepted the flotilla on Monday.

And yesterday, it didn't take long for criticism of his video to start pouring in.

If you haven't seen it, it shows detainees kneeling with their foreheads on the floor and their hands zip tied, as well as some of them being shoved by Israeli troops.

And in one part, Ben-Gavir says, welcome to Israel, we're your landlords.

And he asks Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to put them in jail.

Netanyahu, for his part, spoke out against that.

He said that Ben-Gavir's actions are not in line with Israel's values and our Foreign Minister Penny Wong called it shocking and unacceptable.

She's condemned Ben-Gavir and the degrading actions of Israeli authorities towards those detained.

So in simpler terms, it means that 18,600 less people are in work across the country.

And there are concerns that that number could rise even higher given the pressures on the global and Australian economies, largely because of the oil crisis in the Middle East.

And experts say that the downturn in hiring is a sign that our economy is slowing down.

They say that business confidence has cratered because people are spending less due to the cost of living and higher interest rates.

Yeah, this case dates back to 2023 when Inman Grant asked big tech companies to show how they were tackling material that's harmful to children on their platforms.

And it was actually the tech giant itself that admitted failing to show how it was protecting children from child abuse material, which brings us to yesterday.

The federal court ordered X to pay a fine of $650,000 plus legal costs as a deterrent so that large corporations don't skip out on their obligations in Australia.

Yeah, it's exciting.