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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the update. I'm Michelle Stevenson. The

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Speaker 1: Alberanezi government maintains it did not repatriate a group of

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Speaker 1: women and children out of Syria to Australia. The women

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Speaker 1: traveled to the strive torn region with their husbands who

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Speaker 1: were finding for Isis early this year. They got themselves

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Speaker 1: out of northern Syria and over the border into Lebanon.

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Speaker 1: Foreign Minister Pennywong telling of Parliamentary Committee the group only

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Speaker 1: received the legal help required as Australian citizens.

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Speaker 2: We are not supporting the repatriation of these individuals of

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Speaker 2: this cohort and I would reflect that position is confirmed

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Speaker 2: by what Save the Children has said.

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Speaker 1: While Liberal leader Susan Lee says the government must explain

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Speaker 1: what talks were involved.

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Speaker 3: Were secret deals being done between the minister and the

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Speaker 3: third party in that meeting with no note taker from

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Speaker 3: the department. Isn't what people returning from a holiday where

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Speaker 3: they got lost overseas somehow. This is ational security issue.

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Speaker 1: Australian authorities are investigating how a group of six Chinese

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Speaker 1: nationals came to be wandering through a remote Wa coastal

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Speaker 1: town and off duty police officer is believed to have

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Speaker 1: stumbled across the men and they've now been taken for

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Speaker 1: medical checks. Three Border force vessels have also been called

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Speaker 1: in to search for their boat. Tax may have funded

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Speaker 1: military assistance to Ukraine now tops one point seven billion dollars,

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Speaker 1: with the Albanese government tipping in another ninety five million today.

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Speaker 1: Ukraine's ambassador to Australia has welcomed the latest announcement, which

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Speaker 1: includes forty three million dollars worth of military equipment and munitions,

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Speaker 1: and cycle on Alfred Charlie Kirk and the federal election.

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Speaker 1: We're among Australia's top trending Google searchers for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Internet users have also turned to the search engine for

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Speaker 1: recipes and DIY projects, as well as looking for answers

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Speaker 1: to questions like what does six seven mean? It's fort

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Speaker 1: entertainment to next to sport on? The Queensland Government is

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Speaker 1: forecasting a thirty five million dollar boost to the economy

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Speaker 1: as thousands of fans descend on the Gabba for the

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Speaker 1: second ash test. More than six thousand international fans including

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Speaker 1: members of the Barmie Army, as well as more than

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Speaker 1: fifteen thousand interstate travelers. Well in your entertainment news Lady

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Speaker 1: Gaga has been spotted dining at a trendy Sydney restaurant,

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Speaker 1: just hours after touching down in Australia for her Mayhem

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Speaker 1: Ball tour. The megastar and her fionce Michael Polenski enjoying

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Speaker 1: a low key Cantonese meal at mister Wong's Well. Marley

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Speaker 1: Cyrus has shut down the possibility of a Hannah Montana

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Speaker 1: remake with a new actress the newly engaged superstar, clapping

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Speaker 1: back of suggestions Disney could cast a new lead. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if there is a new Hannah. There is

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Speaker 1: the only Hannah. And Riptide by vance Joy has taken

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Speaker 1: the top spot for the most streamed Aussie song on

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Speaker 1: Spotify this year. Credit house Stone dream It's overcame in second,

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Speaker 1: with Sweet Disposition by Temper Trap rounding out the top five.

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Speaker 1: That's the ladies from the NEV podcast news team. I

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Speaker 1: have another episode of the Update for you tomorrow. I'm

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Speaker 1: Michelle Stevenson