Outgoing President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is believed to have received advice from a US-based lawyer prior to launching his legal action seeking to overturn last month’s national election result.

Mr Bolsonaro was photographed with the unnamed lawyer (main picture) immediately prior to a news conference at which he announced his intention to question the victory of president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

“Sleepy crooked Lula has stolen the election which I won in a landslide,” Mr Bolsonaro said. “We must stop the steal.”

The mystery lawyer would not identify himself nor agree to be interviewed, except to say he was looking forward to “seeing a lot of Brazilians up close”.

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Queensland One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson says she is seeking urgent action by the Albanese Government to end what she describes as a “blatant and widespread campaign of racial discrimination”.

“I am calling on Prime Minister Albanese to mobilise the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Australian Human Rights Commission to take action today to stop the repeated references to ‘black Friday’ sales we have seen in recent weeks in retail advertising,” Senator Hanson said.

“All Fridays matter. What’s wrong with white Friday? I want the Prime Minister to act today to make sure this blatant and widespread campaign of racial discrimination ends as soon as possible.

“If he doesn’t act then I will lodge an official complaint with the Aunty Discrimination Commissioner myself,” she said.

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Football Australia has lodged an urgent application with soccer’s global governing body FIFA seeking an immediate retrospective change to the rules being applied to World Cup games now being played in Qatar.

A spokesperson for Football Australia said the organisation was pressing FIFA to limit the length of all World Cup matches to nine minutes.

“We’re asking that the new rule be approved urgently by FIFA and applied retrospectively from the first day of competition in the current World Cup,” the spokesperson said.

“We’ve explained in our application that the heat in Qatar is unbearable and, quite frankly, life-threatening if our Socceroos are required to play for more than nine minutes.”

The spokesperson said Football Australia was confident of achieving the rule change after attaching a huge but undisclosed sum of money in unmarked US dollars to the documentation supporting its request.