Australia Put up will resume postal sending to US by 25 September
Australia Put up will resume postal sending to the US by Thursday 25 September after suspending some providers final month amid president Donald Trump’s tariff regime that modified the customs guidelines for many parcels. Parcels to the US at the moment are topic to duties equal to the tariffs imposed on the nation they’re despatched from, which might be the ten% baseline tariff in Australia.
Items valued beneath US$100 are exempt from the tariffs.
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Australia Put up mentioned it was working with a third-party supplier authorised by the US authorities to permit enterprise prospects an answer to “meet the brand new guidelines and permit deliveries to the US to renew”. Gary Starr, the corporate’s govt common supervisor for parcel, submit and e-commerce, mentioned:
Together with greater than 190 different postal suppliers internationally, we’ve been caught in a fast-moving state of affairs not of our making. The true impression has been on our prospects who export their items to the US accessing our cost-efficient postal service, so we’ve been working across the clock to discover a answer.
Our precedence has all the time been to have an answer up and operating as quickly as doable, whereas protecting our prospects up to date and knowledgeable.
Australia Put up mentioned it could elevate the block on shipments early if in a position to take action.
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Better rental protections for DV survivors in NSW
Survivors of home violence would have larger powers to go away unsafe houses and shield their privateness beneath rental reforms being launched to NSW parliament in the present day, the state authorities says.
The proposed adjustments to residential tenancy regulation will take away the necessity for victim-survivors to inform an alleged perpetrator of home abuse that they’ve left a shared lease, and can broaden the checklist of people that can declare a renter is experiencing home violence to allow them to break a lease with no penalty.
The reforms would additionally enable locks to be modified with out landlord approval if there’s a courtroom order that excludes an alleged perpetrator from dwelling at a rental property, and authorise the NSW civil and administrative tribunal (Ncat) to interrupt up a bond to permit home violence survivors to recuperate their share.
{Photograph}: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian
The adjustments come because the Minns authorities has been accused of weakening different reforms to renters’ rights, together with an finish to no-grounds evictions which got here into impact in Might. The Sydney Morning Herald has reported the premier, Chris Minns, intervened to make it simpler for landlords to evict tenants forward of deliberate renovations and to stop pets of their rental properties.
Talking in the present day, Minns rejected the concept adjustments would make it tougher for home violence survivors with pets to seek out new lodging.
We’re not pretending these are excellent adjustments to the regulation. We’re not pretending they’re excellent in any sense of the phrase, however we consider that we’ve made main positive factors and massive reforms, not simply in relation to home violence survivors and victims, but in addition to the final market, renting atmosphere within the state.
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Queensland police shoot man after incident in Brisbane suburb
Police in Queensland shot a person after an incident within the Brisbane suburb of Wynnum West this morning.
Officers mentioned police have been known as to a home about 9.20am amid studies of a fireplace. After they arrived, police mentioned there was an “interplay” between the person and officers and “consequently he was shot by police”.
Medical help was instantly given to the person, who was then taken to an space hospital for remedy. No officers have been injured and there’s no danger to the general public. A criminal offense scene has been established and investigations are ongoing.
No fees have been laid within the matter.
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Tom McIlroy
Ukrainian ambassador advocating for Australian prisoner’s launch
Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia, Vasyl Myroshnychenko, says he continues to advocate for the discharge of Australian Oscar Jenkins, who’s being held by Russia.
Jenkins, a 33-year-old former trainer and Australian citizen, travelled to Ukraine and enlisted to battle with the nation’s navy after Russia’s 2022 invasion. After being captured by Russian forces in December 2024, he was jailed for 13 years on the cost of being a “mercenary”.
The Ukrainian ambassador to Australia, Vasyl Myroshnychenko. {Photograph}: Dominic Giannini/AAP
Myroshnychenko instructed Guardian Australia that Jenkins needs to be returned to Australia.
The embassy of Ukraine in Australia continues to work intently with each the Ukrainian and Australian governments, actively advocating for the protected return of Australian prisoner of struggle Oscar Jenkins.
His case stays a excessive precedence, and each effort is being made on his behalf to deliver him residence.
Myroshnychenko mentioned the Ukrainian embassy continues to liaise intently with the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations, the height consultant physique for the Ukrainian Australian neighborhood.
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Albanese assured Vanuatu settlement shall be signed
Following from our final submit: Anthony Albanese wouldn’t be drawn on when the landmark Nakamal settlement could be signed, however mentioned he was assured it could finally be ratified. He mentioned
I await the great religion discussions that happen in the present day, however we’ve relationship … Vanuatu politics may be very complicated.
A earlier safety settlement struck with Vanuatu in 2022 was by no means permitted by the nation’s parliament, amid considerations over an absence of session and whether or not it was in line with Vanuatu’s philosophy of non-alignment in overseas coverage. Albanese instructed the ABC:
There’s nonetheless some work to do, however we’re making good progress and I stay up for progressing that nose to nose.
Albanese and Napat will maintain a joint media convention later this afternoon.
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Albanese lands in capital of Vanuatu
Anthony Albanese has landed in Port Vila, with the destiny of a bilateral safety and financial settlement he had hoped to signal together with his Vanuatu counterpart nonetheless unsure.
Albanese’s first cease shall be State Home, the place he’ll make a courtesy name to the Vanuatu president, Nikenike Vurobaravu.
The Vanuatu president, Nikenike Vurobaravu, pictured on the UN Normal Meeting. {Photograph}: Caitlin Ochs/Reuters
He’ll then maintain a bilateral assembly with the Vanuatu prime minister, Jotham Napat. Will probably be the primary time the pair have met in particular person since Napat got here to workplace in February.
Whereas the 2 leaders have been extensively anticipated to signal the landmark Nakamal settlement, Albanese admitted on Tuesday morning the deal was unlikely to be finalised throughout his time on the bottom within the Pacific nation.
The Nakamal settlement would see Australia pay about $500m to the Pacific nation to fund financial and local weather priorities in change for bolstering Australia’s position as a safety and financial associate. Nakamal is the Bislama phrase for a standard assembly place.
Fears over China’s ambitions to achieve a safety foothold within the Pacific, together with the danger of creating a navy presence, have been heightened since Beijing surprised the area in 2022 by hanging a safety settlement with the Solomon Islands.
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Josh Taylor
Australian AI agency guarantees $10m for creators for knowledge used for coaching
An organization billing itself as an “ethics pushed” AI enterprise has launched in Australia, promising $10m put aside for copyright holders whose knowledge is used to coach its large-language fashions.
Sovereign Australia AI has promised customers will understand how its fashions are constructed, what they’re skilled on and “that they mirror Australian values”.
The Australian-based firm, based by Troy Neilson and Simon Kriss, has ordered 256 of the most recent Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs that shall be used to coach the fashions, housed in Australia at NextDC datacentres.
The corporate mentioned it is going to pay a minimal of $10m to supply copyrighted supplies to coach the Ginan and Australis fashions, which the corporate mentioned “are designed to mirror the tradition, language, and rules of this nation, and to supply a substitute for offshore programs which will embed overseas values and biases.”
They are going to present visibility of the information used to coach the fashions, and can open supply the Ginan analysis mannequin totally free public use.
Neilson mentioned Sovereign Australia was not attempting to compete straight with ChatGPT and different international fashions straight, as a result of an area mannequin “will function viable options that higher seize the Australian voice.”
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Victorian premier has spent the previous week ‘sitting and listening’ with residents
The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, was requested earlier in the present day why she hasn’t held a press convention prior to now week. Her final press convention, this time final week, was gatecrashed by neo-Nazi, Thomas Sewell.
Since then, there was the funerals of the 2 officers killed in Porepunkah and the alleged homicide of two teenage boys by a gang armed with machetes.
Allan mentioned:
My focus prior to now week has been sitting and listening with many various communities who’re experiencing actual challenges, some on account of people who find themselves selecting to make use of distinction as a political weapon to drive division. I’ve spent a whole lot of time sitting with totally different multicultural communities, notably the Indian and the Chinese language neighborhood, speaking with the Islamic and Jewish communities, assembly with the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood, and a selected focus for me prior to now week has been supporting the Victoria police household, attending two funeral providers … [for] two courageous Victoria law enforcement officials who have been murdered for merely going to work and doing their job.
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan on the funeral service for Neal Thompson. {Photograph}: Con Chronis/AAP
She mentioned she’s additionally met with the South Sudanese neighborhood and her sympathies have been with the households of Chol Achiek, 12, and Dau Akueng, 15, who have been allegedly murdered in Cobblebank on the weekend. Allan went on:
My deepest sympathy goes to these communities who’re grieving the loss, the mindless loss, of two stunning younger boys, Chol and Dau, who have been killed in a mindless assault. My focus has been on supporting communities … about how we work collectively, about how we recognise among the root causes of what’s inflicting this ache and this grief and these challenges, after which setting up the applications and the buildings that we’ve addressing these points.
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Docs say well being employees tremendous fund investing in fossil fuels a ‘breach of our obligation of care’
A coalition of organisations representing well being employees have known as for tremendous fund HESTA to finish help for firms with new fossil gas developments, together with Woodside and Santos.
Market Forces, Wholesome Futures, Docs for the Surroundings Australia and the Local weather and Well being Alliance are urging HESTA – the business tremendous fund for individuals working within the well being and neighborhood providers sector – to instantly divest from fossil fuels.
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Michelle Isles, the chief govt officer of the Local weather and Well being Alliance, mentioned its 100 member organisations and well being employees served throughout Australia are beneath elevated stress coping with the burden of illness from fossil gas air pollution and the local weather change impacts it’s inflicting.
Dr Kate Wylie, a GP and govt director of Docs for the Surroundings Australia mentioned:
It’s fairly hypocritical for a well being sector tremendous fund to in any approach help the fossil gas business.
Coal oil and fuel are inflicting immense hurt to the well being of our communities and our surroundings, so it’s a transparent breach of our obligation of care as medical doctors to have our tremendous invested in them. HESTA doesn’t put money into tobacco or nuclear weapons, so why put money into fossil fuels?
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NSW police investigating after brawl on Bondi Seaside throughout Gaza protest and counterprotest
An unpleasant brawl between members of rival protest teams at Sydney’s Bondi Seaside over Gaza is being investigated by police, AAP studies.
The conflict between the pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel supporters broke out on Sunday morning as tons of of pro-Palestine supporters have been gathering on the seashore on Father’s Day for a paddle-out in help of the fathers of Gaza.
The occasion was organised by Jews In opposition to the Occupation, a Jewish-led pro-Palestine group, who known as on native board riders to participate within the “peaceable occasion”. A counter-protest was held on the identical time.
Amid considerations about neighborhood security, native police have been known as in to handle the protests alongside the general public order and riot squad.
As investigations proceed, police have launched photos of three males they consider might be able to assist with their inquiries.
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NSW Well being warns of rise in opioid overdoses linked to medicine regarded as cocaine
NSW Well being has issued a public warning to these utilizing medicine regarded as cocaine after a rise in opioid overdoses in Sydney and elements of northern NSW.
Official say 10 individuals have been hospitalised in August with suspected opioid overdoses after utilizing substances they thought have been cocaine, three of whom required remedy in intensive care. NSW Well being mentioned the figures have been a “marked improve” on the numbers usually seen in that interval, with solely two of the circumstances believed to be linked.
In circumstances the place blood or urine exams have been taken, outcomes confirmed heroin was current with the cocaine. Dr Darren Roberts, the medical director of the NSW Poisons Data Centre, mentioned:
One of many risks of illicit drug provide is the contents and energy of the substance you might be getting is unsure and may be inconsistent. An opioid overdose might shortly end result from a single line.
Opioids resembling heroin may be bought as or present in cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA (ecstasy). You can’t all the time inform the distinction between these medicine by look.
Signs of opioid use embody pin-point pupils, drowsiness, lack of consciousness, slowed respiratory/loud night breathing and pores and skin turning blue/gray. The medicine may be life-threatening.
NSW Well being additionally urged these which may be round medicine or vulnerable to an opioid overdose to hold Naloxone, a life-saving medicine that reverse the consequences of opioids. It doesn’t require a prescription and is free through many strategies.
Naloxone is a life-saving medicine that reverses the consequences of opioids. A nasal spray possibility is seen within the US. {Photograph}: Matt Rourke/APShare
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Patrick Commins
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund tops $250bn
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund has cracked $250bn for the primary time, after reporting a strong 12.1% return in the latest monetary yr.
The Future Fund’s annual return was twice its goal and over a decade has delivered 8% every year, in opposition to the goal of 6.9%. The Future Fund’s predominant fund pays for the superannuation liabilities of public servants however it additionally manages quite a few different, smaller pots of cash.
That features the $10bn Housing Australia Future Fund, which grew to $10.9bn as at mid-2025.
Jim Chalmers. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAP
Jim Chalmers late final yr modified the fund’s funding mandate to pressure it to “think about Australia’s nationwide priorities”, together with boosting housing provide, getting extra infrastructure constructed and supporting the online zero transformation.
Greg Combet, the Future Fund’s chair and a former federal Labor minister appointed to the position in June 2024, in an announcement highlighted how the fund had achieved stellar returns whereas additionally satisfying its new mandate.
He pointed to investments in an information centre developer and operator, and a ten% stake in electrical energy transmission operator Transgrid.
Chalmers mentioned “this vindicates our funding mandate as a result of it exhibits maximising returns is solely in line with modernising our financial system for the longer term”.
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Benita Kolovos
Battin thanks O’Brien for serving Victoria and Liberal social gathering
In an announcement, opposition chief Brad Battin thanked O’Brien for serving Victoria and the Liberal social gathering “with ardour, knowledge, and dedication”.
Battin mentioned:
For nearly 20 years he has represented the individuals of Malvern. And his dedication to his local people by no means wavered whilst he assumed larger roles and duties.
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Benita Kolovos
Former Victorian opposition chief to resign from parliament at 2026 election
Former Victorian opposition chief Michael O’Brien has introduced he’ll resign from parliament on the 2026 state election.
O’Brien, who has additionally served as treasurer within the Napthine authorities, was first elected in 2006. He was Liberal chief between late 2018 to mid-2021, when he was toppled by Matthew Man earlier than the 2022 election.
Michael O’Brien will resign from parliament on the finish of this time period. {Photograph}: Diego Fedele/AAP
O’Brien mentioned in an announcement:
Once I gave my maiden speech again in 2006, my daughter was a toddler and my son was a child in his mum’s arms. At present, they’re college college students making their approach on the earth. It’s a measure of how a lot time has handed and why it’s now the suitable time for me to cross the baton.
He mentioned serving because the member for Malvern has been the “biggest honour of my skilled life” however it was a “relentless occupation”:
Whereas I proceed to relish the problem it gives, it’s time to present that problem to a different and for me to pursue new alternatives. Additionally it is a chance for the Liberal social gathering to resume; to decide on a brand new candidate to characterize the fantastic Malvern neighborhood and strongly advocate for Liberal values.
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Australia Put up will resume postal sending to US by 25 September
Australia Put up will resume postal sending to the US by Thursday 25 September after suspending some providers final month amid president Donald Trump’s tariff regime that modified the customs guidelines for many parcels. Parcels to the US at the moment are topic to duties equal to the tariffs imposed on the nation they’re despatched from, which might be the ten% baseline tariff in Australia.
Items valued beneath US$100 are exempt from the tariffs.
{Photograph}: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Photographs
Australia Put up mentioned it was working with a third-party supplier authorised by the US authorities to permit enterprise prospects an answer to “meet the brand new guidelines and permit deliveries to the US to renew”. Gary Starr, the corporate’s govt common supervisor for parcel, submit and e-commerce, mentioned:
Together with greater than 190 different postal suppliers internationally, we’ve been caught in a fast-moving state of affairs not of our making. The true impression has been on our prospects who export their items to the US accessing our cost-efficient postal service, so we’ve been working across the clock to discover a answer.
Our precedence has all the time been to have an answer up and operating as quickly as doable, whereas protecting our prospects up to date and knowledgeable.
Australia Put up mentioned it could elevate the block on shipments early if in a position to take action.
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Lifeblood points pressing name for 12,500 additional donors in subsequent seven days
An ideal storm of file demand for blood over winter, coupled with cancellations, has left Australia’s inventory ranges critically low, AAP studies.
Pink Cross Lifeblood has issued an pressing name for donors as reserves of most blood sorts and plasma drop to important ranges. An additional 12,500 donors are wanted within the subsequent seven days to make sure Lifeblood can proceed to satisfy affected person wants throughout the nation.
Knowledge present that demand for blood reached file ranges in June, July and August.
That demand surge coincided with the best appointment cancellation charges for the reason that Covid-19 pandemic, severely impacting the availability of a number of blood sorts.
Demand for blood reached file ranges over winter, coinciding with the best appointment cancellation charges for the reason that pandemic, severely impacting the blood provide. We’d like donors of all blood sorts, assist us discover them by sharing this submit. https://t.co/kWT0eFNpSu. pic.twitter.com/akEDtoOf5X
— lifebloodau (@lifebloodau) September 8, 2025
Stephen Cornellison, the CEO of Lifeblood, mentioned:
We’re urging anybody who’s eligible and feeling wholesome and properly to guide a donation instantly and assist restore our blood shares. Proper now, we want donors of all blood sorts. In the event you’ve by no means donated earlier than, now’s the time to begin.
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