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The quote
"We are setting ourselves up for intergenerational tragedy, where young people have high HECS debts, they’re going to have to pay for climate change, they’re going to have to pay for the extremely high cost of housing…” - Independent MP Allegra Spender on the economic outlook for young people in Australia.

The stat
$US7.1 million
The amount Donald Trump’s campaign says it has raised since the former President’s mugshot was taken in Georgia last week, according to Politico.

Today in history
1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech at a civil rights march in Washington D.C.

Some headlines from this morning:

FIFA has announced the President of the Spanish Football Federation has been suspended after he kissed a player on the lips at the Women's World Cup final in Sydney.

Luis Rubiales kissed Spain's Jenni Hermoso as she received her winners' medal. Hermoso later said it was not consensual and that it "shocked" her.

The decision by FIFA comes after Spanish players announced they would boycott while Rubiales remained in his role.

The fallout
After the incident, Hermoso said in a statement she felt "vulnerable" and "a victim of an impulse-driven, sexist out of place act without consent".

She added: "Simply put, I was not respected."

Rubiales’ statement
Following multiple reports by Spanish media, Rubiales was expected to resign on Friday. However, at an emergency meeting of the Spanish Football Federation, Rubiales refused to resign, instead saying the "little peck" was "spontaneous, mutual, euphoric and consensual".

Rubiales said "...we live in a country of laws. Is a consensual kiss enough to remove me? I'm going to fight until the end."

The boycott
After the comments, a statement was released by the 23 members of Spain's World Cup squad, 32 other squad members, and 58 former players saying they would not play for the Spanish national team while Rubiales remained as President.

"After everything that happened during the delivery of medals of the Women’s World Cup, we want to state that all the players who sign this letter will not return to a call of the National Team if the current leaders continue" the statement said.

Suspension
On Saturday, FIFA announced Rubiales had been suspended for 90 days to allow for "disciplinary proceedings".

During this period, he is not allowed to engage in any football-related activities at national and international level, and is restricted from contacting Hermoso or anyone close to her.

In a statement, FIFA said it "reiterates its absolute commitment to respect the integrity of all persons and therefore condemns with the utmost vigour any behaviour to the contrary".

The Queensland Government has passed amendments allowing children to be kept in police watchhouses "even if it would not be compatible with human rights".

Here's what you need to know.

First, what are watchhouses?
Police watchhouses are holding cells at police stations that are designed to detain people overnight, or for 24 hours or longer.

Watchhouses don't offer the same rehabilitation facilities for children as youth detention centres, like education programs and cultural support.

The amendment
Until now, Queensland law has stated that if a child offender is refused bail, they must be taken to a youth detention facility "as soon as practicable". The new amendment allows the Government to hold young people in police watchhouses until beds become available in youth detention centres.

It says this is needed because there is not enough capacity in youth detention centres to meet demand.

The amendment will expire in 2026, when it is expected two new youth detention centres will become operational.

Human rights
The state's Human Rights Act says that detained children must be "segregated from adults", and that every child in Queensland has the right to access an education appropriate to their needs.

The Government says its amendments 'override' this human rights framework.

However, the Government says that holding a child in a watchhouse could be "less incompatible with human rights and safer" than detaining them in an overcrowded youth detention centre.

Why is this happening now?
This change comes after the Queensland Supreme Court this month found that the detention of children in police watchhouses was unlawful. The court ordered that children named in the case be immediately transferred to youth detention centres.

The new laws are also in response to the rising detention of children in Queensland.

Opposition
The Greens' Justice spokesperson Michael Berkman accused the Government of having "little regard for vulnerable young people".

Opposition MPs said they received "no notice" of the amendments, with

Manager of Opposition Business Andrew Powell calling it the "biggest affront to democracy in Queensland's history".

The Labor Government holds a majority in Queensland's one house of Parliament, meaning it does not need further support to pass legislation.

Advocates’ response
A group of local justice advocates called the decision an "attack on vulnerable children".

Youth Empowered Towards Independence (YETI), the non-profit that brought the watch house challenge against to court, condemned the amendment.

CEO Genevieve Sinclair called watch houses "recidivism [re-offending] factories", telling TDA the only people wanting to keep children in watch houses seems to be the Government.

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Lego will start selling bricks coded with Braille to help vision-impaired children play.

Braille bricks had previously been distributed for free to some learning organisations and will now be available for purchase in English and French languages.

Now that the dust has settled on Dry July, Australians are pausing to think about their alcohol consumption - and the alternatives are more popular (and delicious) than ever. New data from Finder shows 42% of Aussies are drinking less alcohol than they were a year ago, and a whopping 400,000 of us are cutting or planning to cut back on alcohol by the end of this year.

So, what are the options? Well, we've gone out searching for the best alcohol-free cocktails - and we've landed at the range from Yes You Can. This home-grown brand has five flavours (Spritz, Yuzu Sake, G&T, Dark & Stormy and Peach Bellini) in some gorgeous cans that you'll feel proud to rock at the bar.

They've given TDA readers a 20% off code to give their drinks a go - just put the code TDA20 in here!

A Newcastle man is back in prison after being released five months early due to an administrative error.

Randolph Convery was released from his cell on 16 August and spent nine days out of custody before he was re-arrested last Thursday.

Reports say authorities found Convery drinking a tequila sunrise at Shoal Bay County Club.

He was previously found guilty of three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of being armed with intent to commit an indictable offence.

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