Australia news live: banks pass on interest rate hike to customers; Sydney ‘globalise the intifada’ forum held in park
Lenders increase borrowing rates by 0.25%; pro-Palestine meeting barred from council venue goes ahead outside in Darlington.
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I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then Nick Visser will be your guide.
The “globalise the intifada” forum banned from taking place in a council venue on Monday night went ahead last night in a park in Sydney where participants discussed legal challenges to the ban on using the phrase, as well as the phrase “from the river to the sea”.
More details coming up.
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