Good Morning Australia!! - The EU steps up for the earth's oceans - More trouble for One Nation, caught injecting conspiracy theories into one of Australia's greatest tragedies - Facebook claims it's going to ban some racists - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The European Parliament has voted to ban single-use plastics to cut down on some of the crud that is fouling beaches and polluting oceans.  The sweeping ban includes plastic cutlery, cotton buds, straws and stirrers, lids for hot drinks, single-use polystyrene cups, as well as food containers and cups made from oxo-degradable plastics that disintegrate into tiny fragments.  Each EU nation will be responsible for passing legislation to enact the ban. "Today we have taken an important step to reduce littering and plastic pollution in our oceans and seas," said Frans Timmermans, a European commission vice-president, "We got this, we can do this.  Europe is setting new and ambitious standards, paving the way for the rest of the world."  By 2025, plastic bottles should be made of 25 percent recycled content, and by 2029 90 percent of them should be recycled.

I know, you're thinking, "Didn't they do this last year?"  Well, they did it again.

And now on to the Brexit..

The UK is inching towards the end of the Theresa May era.  The embattled prime minister reportedly tried to woo the Conservative Party's rebellious backbenchers by telling them, "I am prepared to leave this job earlier than I intended in order to do what is right for our country and our party," acknowledging that they don't want her to lead the next phase of Brexit negotiations "and I won't stand in the way of that".  She did not give a date that she would resign, but May's mayday may occur in May. 

Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said May's announcement "shows once and for all that her chaotic Brexit negotiations have been about party management, not principles or the public interest".  He added that "a change of government can't be a Tory stitch-up, the people must decide".  Corbyn offered one of eight options being put before Commons on how to do the Brexit.  But more importantly, Jeremy says Labour will back an amendment calling for a public referendum to approve whatever Parliament decides "to keep the option of a public vote on the table in order to stop a disastrous no deal or May's unacceptable deal".

On 1 April, Commons will debate the online petition calling for a new referendum petition calling for Brexit to be stopped.  The petition more than smashed the 100,000 signature threshold for being considered, gathering more than 5.75 million signatures and becoming the best-supported proposal in the history of the House of Commons and Government's e-petitions website.  But the May government will oppose it, claiming its mandate is to pursue the Brexit because of the 2016 referendum in which a majority voted to leave the European Union (without knowing how it would happen, how long it would take, how much it would cost, etc etc etc).

Anyway..

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is under pressure for answers after a video emerged showing her questioning the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre as a government conspiracy.  Al Jazeera released the hidden camera footage showing her saying she had "a lot of questions" about Port Arthur, adding:  "An MP said it would actually take a massacre in Tasmania to change the gun laws in Australia."  This comes on the heels of an Al Jazeera investigation purporting to show two party officials allegedly trying to solicit $20 Million from what they thought was the US gun rights group the NRA, but was actually an undercover reporter - although later they claimed to have been drunk at the time.

Brazil's far-right president Jair Bolsonaro probably enjoys the disgust and outrage over his order to the country's armed forces to commemorate the anniversary of a 1964 coup which unleashed 21 years of military rule by a US-backed fascist dictatorship.  "Brazil celebrating the anniversary of the ‘64 coup is like Germany instituting Hitler Day," tweeted journalist Hildegard Angel, whose brother and mother were murdered by the junta.  The office of the prosecutor general issued a statement reading, "If the unconstitutional, violent and anti-democratic defeat of a government wasn't enough, the coup of 1964 gave rise to a regime that restricted fundamental rights and violently and systematically repressed political dissidence."  An amnesty law passed by the right-wing ensured that Brazil never prosecuted the human rights abusers of its dictatorship, unlike Chile and Argentina which suffered similar abuses but at least attempts to hold the criminals responsible.

Facebook claims it's going to ban content supporting white nationalism and white separatism - no, really, they'll really do it this time!  This comes: A year after a Vice News investigation unearthed internal documents allowing comments and pages supporting the creation of white-only ethno-states; two weeks after an attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand that left 50 worshippers dead; nearly four years after nine were murdered in a racist attack on a black church in Charleston, South Carolina; and nearly two years after a car attack on protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, at a rally of racists and scum that was partly organized on Facebook.  So naturally, there's going to be some scrutiny on how this ban is implemented, or if Facebook actually goes through with it.