Headlines: PM criticises China's Pacific missile test
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From The Daily Oz, I'm Emma Gillespie. I'm Lucy Tarsal. It's Tuesday the 7th of July. Here's what's making headlines this evening.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has criticised China for testing a long-range missile in the Pacific Ocean after Australia and Fiji signed a historic defence pact. Chinese officials gave the federal government just hours' notice of the test on Monday before a nuclear-capable missile was fired from a submarine in the Pacific. The missile is understood to have landed between Nauru and Tuvalu. Earlier on Monday, Australia inked a $1 billion defence alliance with Fiji, aimed at countering Chinese influence in the region. Albanese said the government has made its concerns known to Beijing, calling the test provocative and destabilising. The PM said the lack of advance notice was not his only worry. What we need is less nuclear weapons, certainly not more, he said, adding the nature of the weapon that was tested has a capacity to cause considerable damage were it to be weaponised.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson defended the test, saying it was a routine arrangement in its military training program.
TikTok says it deployed crisis teams to prevent footage of the Bondi terror attack spreading within an hour and a half of the massacre, despite having no Australian content moderators. Appearing before the Anti-Semitism Royal Commission in Sydney on Tuesday, TikTok officials said the Chinese-owned platform employs specialist teams to stop emerging trends online before they go viral. TikTok's global head of market integrity, Valiant Rishi, told the inquiry, quote, it's like our basic police force versus a SWAT team. More than 760 people work across the social media giants Sydney and Melbourne offices, but none of them work in content moderation.
What did Prime Minister Albanese say about China's missile test?
When pressed, Rishi said he didn't know why there were no moderators here. It comes a day after Meta told the inquiry it treats hate speech, including anti-Semitism, differently to, quote, truly heinous content such as glorification of terrorism. The parent company of Facebook and Instagram was grilled over its controversial decision to ease its content moderation policy. Representatives from YouTube are also scheduled to front the inquiry as hearings continue.
A British vessel travelling through the Strait of Hormuz has been struck and set on fire, UK officials have confirmed. The tanker was carrying liquefied natural gas, or LNG, through the narrow shipping lane off the coast of Oman when it was struck by a projectile. Iranian state television said the LNG tanker came under attack after ignoring warnings, but Tehran has not directly claimed responsibility. The British military said no one was injured in the strike, which came a day after US media reported Iran had fired multiple missiles at two commercial ships in the strait, causing significant damage. Regime officials have repeatedly declared that only its approved route through the shipping lane is safe.
Vessels using another route close to the Omani shore have been the ones targeted by recent strikes. Iran and the US agreed to allow ships to pass in the strait without paying charges for 60 days as part of an interim deal.
And today's good news, the US state of Michigan will make it easier for kids to run their own lemonade stands with a new bill to remove current permit and fee requirements. Three brothers aged 8, 11 and 13 have been advocating for reform after they were told they'd have to spend about 40 bucks a week to run a summer lemonade stand. Their efforts have led to a proposed amendment to the Michigan Food Act, which would allow children to run temporary stalls on private property. Under the conditions, kids will only be able to sell lemonade or other non-alcoholic beverages that do not need to be temperature controlled for safety. Earnings must also be below US$5,000 a year. The reform has already passed Michigan's House of Representatives with unanimous support and is expected to be approved by the Senate later this week.
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