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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces criticism for declining to wear a traditional floral garland during a welcome ceremony in Tuvalu, with Energy Minister Chris Bowen also refusing the headpiece. Cricket Victoria introduces a $16 Sheffield Shield ticket package allowing workers to watch cricket while working, offering function rooms, WiFi and refreshments. A French member of Parliament proposes legislation to grant friends similar legal rights to partners and family in matters of caregiving, housing and inheritance.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thirty-six children have been hospitalised over the past eight years due to injuries or illnesses caused by gels and polymers inside viral squishy toys.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hammam al-Hammami, an Omani national and Flydubai co-pilot, is detained in Abu Dhabi accused of attacking his co-pilot with an axe aboard a passenger plane bound for Israel.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Australian Taxation Office has announced it will stop accepting credit card payments following the government's surcharge ban, sparking division within the Albanese government.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mick Mundine, a 79-year-old prominent Indigenous elder and chief executive of the Aboriginal Housing Company, has been arrested by Sex Crimes Squad detectives at his Redfern home.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.