Optus will lay off almost 200 staff members, Australian coal exports to China rebounds, Eddie Hayson arrested over alleged drug supply, New Zealand will repeal it’s world-first smoking laws, Alexei Navalny’s lawyer detained and released by Russian authorities, Michigan voters threaten to boycott Joe Biden in the upcoming U.S. election, and a first-edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has been auctioned off for $AU 21,000.
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