Protests, prostates and plastic promises

🎙️ Hey Blurtstars!

We’ve got a jam-packed episode for you today, so let’s blurt it out and dive right in!

🌍 Blurt Around The World

• Biden announced he has advanced prostate cancer — a sobering story from the States.

  • BBC News | Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer

• Europe votes — polls, protests, and political pivots as election results roll in.

  • BBC News | Romania’s liberal mayor wins presidency, as Portugal and Poland’s election results come in

• Yarra council in a bind.

  • ABC News | Controversial Fitzroy mural in Melbourne attracts more than 1,000 letters to Yarra council

• Soft plastic recycling is making a comeback in Australia... kind of a plasticky promise for now.

  • The Australian Institute | Soft plastic recycling is back in supermarkets!

• A lucky find at Harvard — an ancient Magna Carta copy unrolled in modern times.

  • ABC News | Harvard's $US27 Magna Carta 'copy' turns out to be an original

🫖 Blurt On Blighty

• Wencee will unpack a high-flying bust as UK nationals are nabbed for importing cannabis.

  • Guardian AUS | Young British woman held on drug charges in Sri Lanka could be linked to Culley case

• The Kegsta gets the scoop on a café conundrum: a gentleman denied his daily grind.

  • BBC News | 'I was refused service in a cafe because of my face'

🪃 Indelible Indigenous

• The Kegsta dives into the Sir Doug Nicholls Round — the footy celebration that packs both pride and power.

  • AFL | Sir Doug Nicholls Round

  • Wikipedia | Sir Doug Nicholls Round

  • ABC News | Stories of WA's Pilbara, Kimberley take pride of place in Geelong's AFL Indigenous round guernsey

• Wencee highlights the plight of Kimberley residents living in bureaucratic limbo without birth certificates — an issue that’s been left uncounted and unheard for too long.

  • ABC News | Outreach support helps Kimberley residents get their first birth certificates

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