Australia’s New South Wales parliament has approved strict gun controls and temporary protest bans after a deadly antisemitic terror attack in Sydney, as federal authorities move to tighten hate speech and extremism laws.
The modern world, before Danish architect Jørn Oberg Utzon, had little known such geometric temerity in structural design as the Sydney Opera House, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The late Utzon never visited Australia nor saw his completed masterpiece in person.
Around 18,000 people had been evacuated from flooding in New South Wales by Monday and emergency services feared up to 54,000 people could be displaced with rain forecast to continue until Wednesday.
The neighbouring state of Victoria will close its border to Sydney from midnight Sunday. South Australia state introduced a 14-day quarantine for all Sydney arrivals on Sunday and banned travellers from the affected suburbs.
Overdrive this week finds out how the KUV100 fares against cars in the same price range and Shubhabrata Marmar takes a trip to New South Wales in Australia.