Australia news live: supermarket suppliers to raise grievances at competition watchdog hearing
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by Martin Farrer
8m ago
The ACCC is holding an inquiry into the nation’s supermarkets. Follow today’s news headlines live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it’ll be Emily Wind with the main action. Optus has paid more than $12m in penalties for breaching emergency call rules over its nationwide network outage a year ago, which caused significant disruption. The telco failed to provide access to the emergency call service for 2,145 people during the course of the outage, an investigatio ..read more
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Optus fined $12m after thousands could not call triple zero during 2023 outage
The Guardian | Australian politics
by Josh Taylor
6h ago
Australian Communications and Media Authority says telco did not do welfare check on 369 people who tried to make a call while lines were down Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Optus has paid a $12m fine over its mobile network outage last year that resulted in more than 2,000 people being unable to make triple zero calls. One year ago on Friday, a routine software upgrade to Optus’s mobile network brought down the service for 14 hours across the country for the company’s 10 million customers. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email ..read more
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Newsroom edition: what Trump 2.0 may mean for the future of Australian politics – Full Story podcast
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by Presented by Bridie Jabour, with Lenore Taylor, Josephine Tovey and Mike Ticher. Produced by Miles Herbert and Joe Koning
6h ago
Countries around the world are coming to terms with what a second Donald Trump presidency will mean for their climate policies, trade and economies. In Australia political leaders will be drawing their own conclusions about what the American result means for their own election campaigns. Bridie Jabour talks to editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor, head of newsroom Mike Ticher and national news editor Josephine Tovey about how Trump won and how the media will cover his presidency ..read more
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Matt Kean says Australia must take ‘strong and decisive action’ on climate crisis despite Trump re-election
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by Karen Middleton and Adam Morton
11h ago
Chair of Climate Change Authority says ‘climate change waits for no one’ as pressure mounts on Coalition to dump net zero commitment Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The chair of the Climate Change Authority, Matt Kean, has declared Australia must take “strong and decisive action” to address the climate crisis despite Donald Trump’s return to the White House, arguing the world needs cheap renewable energy and the country can provide it. Kean, a former News South Wales Liberal treasurer and energy minister, told ..read more
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‘Only dictatorships pretend to be perfect’: Albanese gives fiery defence of democracy after US election
The Guardian | Australian politics
by Karen Middleton Political editor
11h ago
‘A fierce contest can be a good thing, as long as it’s a contest about substance’, PM tells global democracy conference in Sydney Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The prime minister who vowed before the last election to herald a “kinder, gentler parliament” has now hailed Australia’s rowdy, robust and combative style of political debate as proof of a functioning democracy, warning “only dictatorships pretend to be perfect”. In remarks to a global democracy conference in Sydney a day after the United States retu ..read more
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‘We don’t want them in Australia at all’: Labor wants more powers to re-detain and remove non-citizens to third countries
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by Paul Karp Chief political correspondent
11h ago
Tony Burke introduces bill to facilitate removal of unlawful non-citizens and regulations to reimpose ankle bracelets and curfews on those released after high court’s NZYQ decision Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government has introduced a bill to facilitate removal of non-citizens from Australia, including paying third countries to accept people released from immigration detention, triggering cancellation of their bridging visas and possible re-detention. The home affairs minister, Tony Burke, i ..read more
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Pauline Hanson claims Brisbane councillor racially vilified her by calling One Nation ‘racist’
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by Andrew Messenger
11h ago
Party leader threatens to take Labor’s Emily Kim to Human Rights Commission over ‘racial comments’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Pauline Hanson has threatened to take Emily Kim, a Brisbane city councillor to the Human Rights Commission, claiming racial vilification for Kim describing One Nation as “racist”. Kim, a Labor councillor received a letter from Hanson’s legal representative Donald Bundesen by email on 25 October, the day before Queensland’s state election. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking n ..read more
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ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle to face trial after high court refuses attempt to appeal
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by Sarah Basford Canales
11h ago
Former tax office employee who spoke publicly about the agency’s pursuit of debts has pleaded not guilty to all charges Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A South Australian court’s decision that federal whistleblower protections do not grant immunity for criminal acts committed while gathering evidence will stand, after the high court refused Richard Boyle’s attempt to appeal it. The decision on Thursday will mean Boyle, a former Australian Taxation Office official, will soon face a criminal trial in Adelaide fo ..read more
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'Offensive tirade': Mehreen Faruqi clashes with Penny Wong over Israel in Senate estimates – video
The Guardian | Australian politics
by Guardian Staff
11h ago
Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi and the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, trade blows in Senate estimates over Australia’s investigation into the killing in Gaza of World Central Kitchen aid worker Zomi Frankcom by Israeli defence forces. Wong accuses Faruqi of embarking on 'a very offensive tirade' in 'an attempt to make a political point ..read more
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Big four consultancy firms should have partner numbers slashed by up to 600, Australian inquiry says
The Guardian | Australian politics
by Henry Belot
11h ago
Banning political donations or restructuring firms to reduce conflict of interest are not part of recommendations Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Big four firms should be banned from providing a client both audit and consultancy services at the same time, and have their number of partners slashed by up to 600, a parliamentary inquiry has recommended. But it stopped short of calling for a ban on political donations or for the structural separation of consultancy firms to reduce conflicts of interest, as recomme ..read more
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