Australia news LIVE: Trump says US-Iran peace deal reached; Hanson surges past Albanese as preferred PM

The US and Iran have reached a peace deal to end their war which began on February 28. The deal was announced by mediator Pakistan, US President Donald Trump and Iranian state media. Here’s what we know.

• Trump said the deal would yield an immediate ceasefire “on all fronts”, including Lebanon.
• The Strait of Hormuz is set to be reopened and the US naval blockade of Iranian ports will end.
• The deal will be signed in Switzerland on Friday, June 19, beginning 60 days of negotiations. Those talks will include the future of Iran’s nuclear program.
• Trump said he could restart attacks on Iran if an agreement on its nuclear program failed.
• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong welcomed news of the deal, and said that reopening the Strait of Hormuz would ease pressure on energy prices and the economy.
• Trump announced the deal on his 80th birthday. Celebrations include a UFC showcase at the White House.
• Iranian state media claimed that the US was “forced” to sign the deal and that Iran had “humiliated” the US and Israel.

Pakistani officials have arrested and charged one of their officers after he was involved in a tragic case of mistaken identity that left a Perth girl dead.

Hania Ahmad, 9, was visiting family in Chakwal with her parents on Wednesday and had stopped in to visit her mother’s uncle when the family was confronted outside their rental car.

“Two robbers arrived on a motorcycle. A robber carrying a pistol came to the car and asked Adeel and Sidra to hand over her jewellery and cash,” a family member told local media outlet Dawn.

He said his niece handed over some jewellery, but the incident drew the attention of a nearby Crime and Control Department official who went to retrieve a firearm before opening fire on the two thieves.

Pro-Palestinian activists who allege they were sexually abused and brutalised by Israeli forces after trying to reach Gaza will use a meeting with Foreign Minister Penny Wong this afternoon to demand an independent Australian investigation into their claims.

The flotilla participants will also call for Israeli ambassador Hillel Newman to be removed from the country unless he issues them an apology, and demand an end to all arms co-operation with Israel, a spokeswoman for the group said. The group will address the media after the meeting.

Wong said during Senate estimates hearings earlier this month that she believed the women’s claims about being abused.

The 11 Australians, who were detained in international waters by Israel on May 18, have provided evidence to the International Criminal Court at The Hague alleging they were subject to sexual assault and being injected with unknown substances. Israel has denied the allegations.

The first strike of the war killed Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei’s son, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is now supreme leader. He has not been seen in public since the war began, but his approval was needed for Iran to sign off on the newly announced deal.

There was apparent friction inside Iran in the hours before the announcement, as the government warned that division at home over the deal weakened its negotiating position.

The deal probably returns the region to a status that existed before the war, but with Iran having proven its ability to disrupt shipping in the strait. The waterway is crucial to significant shipments of oil, natural gas and related products such as fertiliser, and its effective closure rocked the global economy.

Even with a deal, it will take months for oil and gas supplies to flow freely enough for the world’s needs to be met because shipping and insurance companies want to be confident that the agreement will last, energy experts said.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said the US-Iran peace deal must see the “urgent and unconditional” reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. He said an international mission spearheaded by France and the UK was ready to support the opening of the strait.

“The resources are in place and ready to be deployed,” Macron wrote on X. “The resumption of maritime traffic, without restriction or toll, is an indispensable condition for regional stability and the global economy.”

US President Donald Trump has claimed the strait will be opened “toll free” under the agreement, but that hasn’t been confirmed by Iran.

He said the strait would reopen after the deal is signed on Friday. At least 60 days of negotiations are set to follow the deal’s signing, however.

US President Donald Trump has walked out of the Oval Office to attend his birthday cage-fighting show, commentated by podcaster Joe Rogan, on the White House lawn shortly after announcing a peace deal to end the US-Iran war.

Trump was joined by the UFC’s chief executive and close ally Dana White.

After the show, the president will depart for France to join the G7 summit, where the newly announced peace deal is set to dominate discussions among world leaders.

Follow our live coverage of the White House UFC event.

Iran’s soccer team arrived in the United States for the first time at this World Cup on Sunday, landing at Los Angeles International Airport and holding a press conference on the same day that a peace deal between the two nations was announced.

The Iranian squad arrived after a short flight from Tijuana, Mexico, where they left their base camp earlier to a rousing send-off ahead of their opening game against New Zealand at Los Angeles Stadium on Monday.

“I am very happy to be representing the great, proud and strong nation of Iran,” Iranian coach Amir Ghalenoei said through a translator in a press conference at the stadium. “I hope that football will bring about joy and enjoyment, and bring closer the cultures and countries.”

The squad’s Group G fixture against New Zealand will be played against the backdrop of the US war with Iran and the newly announced peace deal, adding a charged atmosphere to ​a contest between two nations that have never met at a World Cup.

NSW Premier Chris Minns says a cull of Sydney’s bull sharks is actively being considered, with department staff now counting the apex predator’s population.

The tragic mauling of a swimmer by a great white shark at Coogee Beach on Saturday capped a spike in attacks across Sydney’s coastline since December. Minns said all options were on the table, including vastly scaling up beach patrols by automated drones.

As Minns ruled out targeting great whites, citing the species’ protected status and migratory behaviour, he said that reducing the population of bull sharks was on the table.

“As it relates to bull sharks in the harbour, that’s a different story,” Minns said on Monday morning.

Hours after condemning Israeli strikes on Beirut that threatened to topple peace talks, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the US-Iran deal and said it marked a critical step towards the peaceful end of the conflict.

He thanked Pakistan, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye for their “constructive role” in reaching the deal.

In domestic business news, the company that operates the ASX will pay a $20.5 million penalty after admitting it misled the market about its troubled CHESS replacement project.

The corporate regulator ASIC and ASX have agreed to ask the Federal Court to impose the penalty, plus $3 million in costs, over a February 10, 2022 market announcement that said the project was “progressing well”.

The Clearing House Electronic Subregister System, or CHESS, is used to clear and settle share trades.

ASX has conceded the statement was misleading. Internally, the project had already been flagged red, meaning it carried significant unresolved problems. It was no longer on track to meet its planned April 2023 launch, and the trial versions of the system being handed to brokers and other users for testing had been stripped back, missing features and running below the performance ASX had promised.

The price of oil fell about 4 per cent towards $US83 ($117) a barrel after US President Donald Trump announced the Strait of Hormuz would reopen after the US-Iran peace deal is signed on Friday.

A liquified gas tanker that has been trapped in the Persian Gulf during months of war appeared to be heading towards the strait shortly after the deal was announced, Bloomberg reported.

The closure of the critical waterway has strangled the global energy market and driven the price of fuel skyward. The government’s 32¢-a-litre discount on fuel is set to expire at the end of the month.

The ASX was up 114 points, or 1.3 per cent, shortly after opening on Monday.