3 Jul 2024

Australia: New Governor-General, Senator exiled, trippy gummies

From Nine To Noon, 9:50 am on 3 July 2024
Newly-elected Labor Senator Fatima Payman (R), the first Afghan-Australian Muslim woman in Parliament, attends a session in the Senate chamber during the opening of the 47th Parliament at Parliament House in Canberra on July 26, 2022. (Photo by AFP)

File photo of Fatima Payman, who's been indefinitely suspended from Australia's Labor Party. Photo: AFP

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about the swearing in of Sam Mostyn, the second-ever woman to take on the role of Governor-General.

Meanwhile the first hijab-wearing woman in Australia's parliament, Fatima Payman, has been indefinitely suspended from Labor's caucus after she crossed the Senate floor to vote with the Greens on a motion to recognise a Palestinian state.

A controversial new ban on the sale of flavoured vapes and restriction on sale through pharmacies has taken effect this week - but not everyone is happy, and the makers of Uncle Frog brand mushroom gummies have had to withdraw them from sale after a number of people took ill. 

Karen Middleton is political editor of the Guardian Australia