Good Morning Australia!! - Marriage Equality is the will of the Australian people (now where is the government?) - Trump's misleading statements come back to bite - A worrying number of people are tricked by a University experiment into "fake news" - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Australia is rapidly evolving its views on marriage equality, according to the annual Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia report (HILDA) conducted by the University of Melbourne.  It says that 67 percent of women and 59 percent of men believe that gay couples should have the same marriage, parenting, and employment rights as heterosexual couples.  "It's quite clear that community sentiment has shifted in favor of marriage equality," said HILDA report author Professor Roger Wilkins.  This comes as the Liberal party faces internal strife over how some members want to do backflips to avoid recognizing the rights and dignity of Australian citizens based on their sexual orientation.

The White House is admitting that Donald Trump personally helped to draft a misleading statement about his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer during the presidential campaign.  Trump Junior eventually admitted he went to the meeting under the belief he was going to get Russian intelligence on Hillary Clinton - but in the clumsy handling of the story as it unfolded, he claimed the meeting was about "adoption", apparently the excuse cooked up by his orange clown father.  At least one Republican believes it's at least the beginning of obstruction of justice:  "You're boxing in a witness into a false story," said Richard Painter, a vocal Trump critic and former ethics attorney for George W. Bush.  "That puts them under enormous pressure to turn around and lie under oath to be consistent with their story." 

A former police detective is suing the Trump White House for allegedly helping Fox News concoct a fake news story about the death of Seth Rich, a former employee of the Democratic National Committee.  Washington, DC police say Mr. Rich was killed during a robbery, a random street crime.  Rod Wheeler says the conservative "news" network owned by Rupert Murdoch fabricated quotations from him to boost some idiotic, fever-swamp conspiracy theory.  After a week of criticism from DC police, the Rich family, and others in the press, Fox retracted its story.  Wheeler says his "smoking gun" is a text message and voice mail from a wealthy Republican supporter who clearly states that Trump read the story prior to publication and urged it be published quickly.

Scores, perhaps thousands of morons fell for fake news stories planted as part of a university experiment that tested how fast fake news spreads.  Researchers with Stuttgart, Germany's Hohenheim University planted stories on Facebook, including one that claimed that asylum seekers were having free sex with prostitutes funded by a local council.  Within days, 11,000 people read it and 150 complete idiots shared the story from a fake newspaper that researchers designed to resemble a nazi-era publication. 
Right Wingers Seeking Out Fake News To Believe In
"It was striking that our Facebook profile was never questioned - not by Facebook, that is, the institution itself, nor by other users," said Professor Wolfgang Schweiger.  Fake News and its impact on idiots are a major concern in Germany, which has national elections coming up in September.

Venezuela rearrested conservative opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma, claiming both men violated the terms of their house arrest deals by urging people to block and boycott the weekend plebiscite on forming a new constituent assembly to likely rewrite the constitution.  Lopez told citizens to block the streets and prevent the election; the US educated right-winger had already served three years in prison for whipping up anti-government street protests that got his "fellow Venezuelans" killed.  Ledezma also sent similar messages before and during the election.

Indonesia's ombudsman found the government executed a Nigerian prisoner, despite the fact that his plea for clemency was unresolved.  Authorities also failed to issue the legal 72-hour notice before Humphrey Jefferson, who was convicted of drug trafficking, was hauled before the firing squad with two other Nigerians and an Indonesian.  Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, "Indonesia should restore the unofficial moratorium on the death penalty and ensure the rights of criminal suspects, including those implicated in drug crimes, are respected rather than steamrolled."

Lawmakers in Jordan are moving to scrap a law enabling rapists to avoid punishment if they marry their victim.  The lower house approved legislation to scrap Article 308, but it still be approved by Jordan's upper house and ratified by the king.  "This is a victory for the women's movement and human rights movement in Jordan," said Salma Nims, of the Jordanian National Commission for Women.  HRW says at least six countries and territories in the Middle East and Nprth Africa still have laws that protect rapists by allowing them to marry their victims.