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Over the weekend, Sweden took out the 67th Eurovision song contest, with singer-songwriter Loreen winning the title for the second time. Loreen is only the second person to win Eurovision twice.

Finland and Israel rounded out the top three.

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The quote
"We need to treat racism as a scourge in much the same way we commit to addressing child abuse and family violence." – Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan after violent clashes broke out at an ‘anti-immigration’ rally attended by neo-Nazis in Melbourne on Saturday.

The stat
9
The position Australia ranked in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

Today in history
1972: Alabama Governor George Wallace is wounded in an assassination attempt while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination. Wallace was left permanently paralysed below the waist after the incident.

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Some headlines from this morning:

• Up to half a million people have been evacuated from the world’s largest refugee camp in eastern Bangladesh because of a cyclone destined for the region. Cyclone Mocha has already passed through parts of Myanmar, with the UN warning it could be the worst cyclone in the region since 2010.

• Virgin Australia passengers will now be able to track their baggage under a new trial program rolled out this month. The tracking system is the first to be introduced by an Australian airline, and began on flights between Sydney and Brisbane on Thursday. It will send push notifications to customers when their baggage has been received after check-in and at its destination, and is set to be expanded to all major Australian cities by the middle of the year.

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TW: Sexual assault
Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne will serve a maximum of four years and nine months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in 2018.

Hayne was sentenced in a Sydney court on Friday, after a jury found him guilty of sexual assault in April.

The sentence was backdated to take into account the nine months Hayne had previously spent in jail for the same incident. There will be a non-parole period of three years.

The assault:
Hayne assaulted the then-26-year-old woman at her Newcastle home in 2018.

It was found that Hayne committed two counts of sexual intercourse without consent. The woman suffered injuries as a result of the assault.

Hayne pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Previous trials:
The trial that ended in April with a guilty verdict was the third trial over this incident.

The first trial resulted in a hung jury. The second trial resulted in a guilty verdict and Hayne spent time in jail, but was freed after he successfully appealed the guilty verdict.

Since the guilty verdict in the third trial, Hayne has been held in custody while awaiting his sentence.

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The U.S. Government is preparing for a spike in illegal crossings of its southern border this week as a pandemic-era border law ends.

That law, called 'Title 42', has allowed border officials to swiftly deport illegal migrants.

The Biden administration plans to introduce new restrictions in its place, but migrants have been seen gathering at the border in preparation to cross.

Background:
Thousands of people attempt to cross the border between the U.S. and Mexico every day without authorisation. Many seek asylum. Ordinary U.S. border laws require asylum claims to be assessed, which can be a lengthy process.

However, in 2020 the Trump administration imposed a rule allowing border officials to deport people before they claimed asylum in as little as ten minutes.

This rule, 'Title 42', relied on the Federal Government's powers to keep people out to stop the spread of a disease – in this case, COVID.

End of Title 42:
Title 42 has not stopped border crossings altogether – several thousand people have still attempted to cross the border every day. However, millions of people have been deported under the powers.

Upon taking office, the Biden administration kept Title 42 for nearly a year before announcing its plan to remove it. This plan was challenged in the courts, and last December the Supreme Court ordered Title 42 be kept in place past its planned end date while it considered the matter in detail.

However, the Court has since cancelled its consideration and the law expired just before midnight last Thursday (U.S. time).

New rules to come:
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has warned prospective migrants the U.S. border is "not open" and promised a new rule to restrict entry.

The details have not yet been revealed, but the rule is likely to consider asylum claims ineligible by default in some way.

Biden has sent 1,500 U.S. troops to patrol the border. The U.S. Government has not indicated how many additional migrants it expects, but there are concerns a spike in arrivals could worsen overcrowding in border processing facilities.

States frustrated:
Several U.S. states have expressed concerns about the end of Title 42. Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has sent his own enforcement personnel to the border (Texas is one of four U.S. states which shares a border with Mexico). Abbott also plans to pass a state law criminalising border crossings, which would likely lead to a Supreme Court case to test the limits of states to enforce their own border rules.

Republican Governors in southern states have been sending busloads of migrants to Democratic-run northern states, and Democratic New York Mayor Eric Adams has called for federal government aid to accommodate a rising number of migrants.

Give me some good news

Wind was the highest-used energy source in the UK during the first three months of the year, new data has found.

It's the first time wind provided the greatest share of energy in any UK quarter period.

It was part of a renewable energy portfolio that made up over 40% of the UK's electricity generation from January to March.

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A TDA tidbit

Do you remember when Elon Musk asked his followers if he should step down as CEO of Twitter?

Well, 57.5% said yes. And now he has.

Over the weekend, Musk confirmed that Linda Yaccarino, who was previously NBCUniversal's advertising chief, will take the top job.

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