ANZ closes money-back platform Cashrewards
Jonathan Barrett
ANZ has abruptly closed its Cashrewards enterprise, with the money-back platform ceasing operations right this moment.
The enterprise, a part of the ANZ-owned enterprise capital enterprise 1835i, gave members some money again on purchases made via accomplice retailers.
Money again companies often make their cash via commissions from retailers when clients use their offers, vouchers and promo codes to make purchases.
A word on the Cashrewards web site stated that from noon, the platform “ceased making affords accessible on its web site, app and notifier”.
ANZ and 1835i have been contacted for remark.
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Former priest charged with historic youngster sexual assault offences
A 82-year-old former priest will face courtroom on Tuesday after being arrested and charged with historic sexual assault offences.
Police within the state’s mid north coast started investigating in April after receiving a report alleging historic sexual assault offences between 1982 and 1984 at a church within the northern Riverina area of western NSW.
The 82-year-old was arrested at a house in Newcastle on Monday morning and took him to Newcastle Police station, New South Wales police stated.
The person was refused bail. He has been charged with 5 counts of sexual assault and indecent act with individual beneath 16 years of age and two counts of sexual assault, individual beneath 16 years of age.
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New head appointed to division of finance
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has named Matt Yannopoulos as the brand new boss of the division of finance. He replaces the previous secretary, Jenny Wilkinson, who moved to Treasury earlier this yr.
Yannopoulos has beforehand labored as an affiliate secretary on the defence division, since 2021. Previous to that he was within the price range and monetary reporting unit at Finance. Asserting his appointment, Albanese stated:
As an skilled senior chief throughout the Australian Public Service, Mr Yannopoulos brings numerous expertise to the place.
In January 2019, Mr Yannopoulos was awarded a Public Service Medal for his substantial achievements as Deputy Secretary, Senior Accountable Officer for the Little one Care Reform Implementation on the Division of Schooling.
Yannopoulos’ five-year time period will begin on 29 September.
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Finance minister welcomes new head of division
The minister for finance, Katy Gallagher, has welcomed Matt Yannopoulos’ appointment to steer her division.
Gallagher stated in an announcement:
Mr Yannopoulos brings in depth expertise and a deep understanding of public sector governance, price range administration and delivering outcomes for the Australian group.
His management might be crucial because the Division continues its important work supporting the Authorities’s priorities and guaranteeing sturdy, sustainable public funds.
I sit up for working carefully with Matt and the Division’s senior management workforce as we proceed the vital work of delivering accountable budgets, investing in Australia’s future, and strengthening our financial system.
As we reported earlier, Yannopolous has succeeded Jenny Wilkinson, who’s now heading up the Treasury.
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ANZ closes money-back platform Cashrewards
Jonathan Barrett
ANZ has abruptly closed its Cashrewards enterprise, with the money-back platform ceasing operations right this moment.
The enterprise, a part of the ANZ-owned enterprise capital enterprise 1835i, gave members some money again on purchases made via accomplice retailers.
Money again companies often make their cash via commissions from retailers when clients use their offers, vouchers and promo codes to make purchases.
A word on the Cashrewards web site stated that from noon, the platform “ceased making affords accessible on its web site, app and notifier”.
ANZ and 1835i have been contacted for remark.
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Hawke says he has vast assist for name for Nampijinpa Worth to apologise
Liberal MP Alex Hawke has stated he has heard vast assist for his requires Jacinta Nampijinpa Worth to apologise for her claims about Indian immigration to Australia.
Hawke, the Coalition’s supervisor of opposition enterprise, stated nobody apart from Worth had contacted him to specific anger over his criticism of the senator’s remarks. He advised the ABC:
Individuals have contacted me and supported the concept Jacinta ought to challenge an apology as a result of the problem remains to be creating and going very badly.
No person contacted me and stated ‘I’ve an issue with something you could have finished’. I’ve been clear with my colleagues about what occurred and so they settle for my standpoint.
Hawke stated he had not heard any suggestion Worth would lose her senior place as a shadow minister and declined to straight reply whether or not her feedback may hurt her future management ambitions
She is going to keep. I’ve heard no suggestion on the contrary … [but] there’s ongoing hurt.
I believe if anybody needs to … be a frontrunner on this nation, we’ve got to just accept the fashionable multicultural society we’ve got constructed.
Worth has up to now refused to apologise for her claims about Indian migration to Australia. Showing on ABC’s Insiders on Sunday, Ley additionally refused to apologise on behalf of the Northern Territory senator and the Liberal get together. Learn extra right here:
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Alex Hawke says hypothesis about his name to Jacinta Nampijinpa Worth’s workplace ‘feels like whole gossip’
Alex Hawke has described claims his cellphone name to Jacinta Nampinjpa Worth’s workplace lasted a number of minutes as “whole gossip” and denied it was directed by Liberal chief Sussan Ley.
Hawke stated his intervention was prompted by issues heard from his group and other people across the nation. He stated:
“I referred to as in to help and equally present recommendation round what I believed was fairly smart to do: a brief and sharp apology. This stuff nipped within the bud.
Worth on Sunday accused Hawke of suggesting Worth may “find yourself like one other feminine member of the Coalition” in a name to her workplace, shortly after she made remarks in regards to the Indian Australian group on the ABC on Wednesday.
Requested about claims he had referenced Hume or her post-election demotion from the frontbench, Hawke denied he had referenced Hume.
Hawke claimed the decision, made to Worth’s staffer, was solely a few minutes lengthy and rejected options the decision was longer.
Feels like whole gossip. I’m on one finish, someone on one other finish, it was an unplanned and surprising name, I gained’t go into that gossip and stupidity.
Requested about claims he berated the staffer, Hawke declined to debate the specifics of the decision.
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Liberal MP says Indians face extra racism after Liberal senator’s feedback
Alex Hawke has stated South Asian Australians have confronted extra racism since Jacinta Nampijinpa Worth’s feedback about Indian immigration.
Hawke, who at first privately after which publicly referred to as for Worth to apologise, stated he had seen heightened racial focusing on of the group within the days since Worth’s remarks made on the ABC.
Hawke, the shadow business minister, advised ABC’s Afternoon Briefing:
I’ve heard from the group round Australia, totally different communities and the South Asian group, not simply Indian group, saying there’s extra focusing on of them for the reason that feedback have been made.
When particularly requested, Hawke confirmed that he believed the Indian Australian group had confronted a larger degree of racism since Worth’s feedback on Wednesday. He stated he believed Worth didn’t intend for the comment to sound racist however stated “it got here out awkwardly”:
I don’t assume Jacinta went on with the intention of singling out the group. She has walked aback however within the course of has been a variety of commentary on the Indian Australian group and that’s not useful. It’s a time to get the apology and transfer on.
Alex Hawke and Jacinta Nampijinpa Worth. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAPShare
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Caitlin Cassidy
Universities’ early affords hit report excessive
Early supply functions to the College Admissions Centre (UAC) have reached a report excessive as 12 months 12 college students more and more bypass Atar entry admissions.
UAC processes tertiary training functions at round 30 universities, principally in New South Wales and the ACT, and calculates Atar scores.
Almost 28,000 college students lodged an software for the Faculties Advice Scheme (SRS) when functions closed on Friday through UAC, the physique revealed right this moment, a 3.3% enhance on final yr’s report consumption.
SRS permits universities to make early affords of admission based mostly on standards apart from, or along with, the Atar, together with 12 months 11 research and faculty references. Round 15,000 SRS affords have been made final yr, up from 14,000 in 2023.
UAC spokesperson Peter Gangemi stated the variety of functions confirmed faculty leavers had a “vital urge for food for college examine”.
The primary SRS affords might be launched on 13 November.
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Public sale exercise holding regular into spring
The winter chill on house gross sales is lifting, with the primary week of September seeing over 2,000 properties taken to public sale throughout the capital cities – the third straight week with volumes that prime.
Greater than 2,400 properties will go to public sale this week and about 2,600 subsequent week, in keeping with information launched right this moment from property analytics agency Cotality.
Restricted numbers of house gross sales in latest months have pushed up the speed of profitable auctions. The preliminary clearance fee held at or above 75% for the fourth consecutive week final week, indicating consumers have grown extra determined to buy accessible properties.
That preliminary fee has fallen for the reason that final week of August, when it was 76.3%, in an indication the rising quantity of properties might be easing consumers’ urgency. The most popular market, Sydney recorded a preliminary fee of over 80% two weeks in the past however 78% final week.
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Woolworths’ market worth rises regardless of backpay value surge
Traders aren’t too anxious in regards to the prospect of grocery store giants Coles and Woolworths dealing with a mixed $1bn invoice for underpaying their workers.
As we reported earlier, Woolworths introduced it may should pay out an extra $250m to $470m in unpaid wages and as much as $280m in further prices, whereas Coles estimated an extra $150m to $250m. Each chains have already paid giant sums in again cost.
Merchants appear to anticipate the cost can have little impression on the grocery store giants’ future profitability, with neither firm seeing a major transfer in its share value.
Woolworths’ market worth has risen right this moment after it launched its new backpay estimates after barely shifting when the federal courtroom on Friday dominated in opposition to the 2 manufacturers. Coles’ market worth has slipped simply 1% after making up some floor this afternoon.
The resilience of the businesses’ market values sits alongside a broader fall on the patron staples sector, which has slipped a bit decrease right this moment. Retail funds information out right this moment from the Reserve Financial institution confirmed Australians’ spending slipped in July, whereas Westpac’s card tracker urged client buying hardly improved in August.
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Queensland premier says ‘no place’ within the state for CFMEU
David Crisafulli says “there’s no place in a contemporary Queensland for the CFMEU”.
Requested about stories within the 9 newspapers that he believed the union was not capable of be reformed and must be abolished, the Queensland premier advised media that he believed in commerce unionism “however the Cfmeu isn’t a daily union”, including:
Their complete enterprise mannequin is totally different (to different unions). It’s about bullying, it’s about intimidation, it’s about misogyny. It’s about driving down productiveness, being anarchist, and that, to me, shouldn’t be that’s not a perform of the union motion.
The CFMEU has are available for heavy criticism from the federal government and others, after a report commissioned by their administrator was launched in July.
Requested how he deliberate to abolish the union, which is registered federally, Crisafulli stated “let’s see what comes out of the fee inquiry”.
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Tagged nice white shark detected off Manly
A tagged nice white shark has been detected off Manly seaside in Sydney, near the place a surfer was fatally mauled on Saturday.
Mercury Psillakis, a 57-year-old father of 1, misplaced each legs after being bitten by what was suspected to be an ideal white shark whereas browsing at Lengthy Reef with pals.
A NSW SharkSmart alert on social media stated a shark was detected at 10.51am at North Steyne and was final detected close to Coffs Harbour in June:
DPI Fisheries advise: tagged White Shark #2020 detected by North Steyne receiver at 10:51:23 AM (AEST) on 08-September-2025. Final detected at 10:02:52 AM (AEST) on 04-June-2025 by Troopers Seashore receiver. Tagged and launched 17-September-2023(AEST) at Diggers Seashore, Coffs Harbour.
A message on the Northern Seashores council web site stated Manly and Freshwater seashores have been right this moment closed due “to notification by NSW Authorities Shark Good app {that a} tagged shark within the neighborhood”.
Dee Why, near Lengthy Reef, has shark netting and drumlines. Each it and Lengthy Reef have been closed after the assault and can stay closed till additional discover, in keeping with the council.
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Tom McIlroy
Dan Tehan excursions US nuclear power infrastructure
Shadow power and emissions discount minister Dan Tehan is in the USA this week, a part of a visit to take a look at nuclear power infrastructure.
Tehan, who’s main the Liberal get together’s inside evaluate of internet zero insurance policies, advised Sky he had paid for the worldwide flights to America, whereas former Clear Power Regulator board member and investor Charles Keifel is paying for home flights and lodging.
Keifel is the chairman and co-founder of the Australian Advisory Board on Competitiveness.
The funding might be declared on Tehan’s register of members pursuits in coming weeks, he confirmed. Kiefel was appointed to the Clear Power Regulator board when Liberal Angus Taylor was the power minister.
Throughout the journey, Tehan will have a look at nuclear fusion know-how, in addition to uranium export alternatives and potential for information sharing between Australia and the US.
“We should be throughout these developments,” he stated. “If we’re not cautious, the remainder of the world goes to maneuver and we’re going to be left stranded.”
Tehan indicated the Coalition may stick to its nuclear coverage, promoted by former opposition chief Peter Dutton earlier than the election and regarded vital within the Coalition’s defeat.
“As soon as once more, if we’re not on prime of this, then, as a rustic, and particularly as a nation which wants power abundance to maintain up with the remainder of the world, then we’re simply not going to be within the image,” he stated.
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Porepunkah capturing sufferer farewelled with full police honours
Tears and laughter have flowed for a larger-than-life veteran policeman gunned down simply over per week earlier than he was presupposed to retire, AAP stories.
Detective main senior constable Neal Thompson was farewelled with full police honours in a funeral on the Victoria Police Academy right this moment.
The 59-year-old was considered one of two officers killed on 26 August whereas serving a warrant on Dezi Freeman at a property in Porepunkah, about 300km northeast of Melbourne.
The funeral service for detective main senior constable Neal Thompson on the Victoria Police Academy chapel in Melbourne. {Photograph}: Con Chronis/AAP
His accomplice, sergeant Lisa Thompson, broke down whereas main the tributes for the person affectionately often called “Thommo”.
She met Thompson in 2016 after arriving at Wangaratta Police Station as a constable.
“We labored one shift collectively and it modified the course of my life,” she advised mourners.
I had by no means laughed a lot with somebody and as I drove house that evening reflecting on my day, I knew with absolute certainty that I wished to be a detective.
I don’t need to stay my life with out you and I don’t need to end our goals by myself.
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Adam Bandt named CEO of Australian Conservation Basis
Adam Morton
The previous Greens chief Adam Bandt has been named as the top of one of many nation’s greatest and oldest environmental organisations, the Australian Conservation Basis (ACF).
Bandt, who unexpectedly misplaced the seat of Melbourne on the Might election, will change long-time ACF chief govt Kelly O’Shanassy, who introduced earlier this yr that she was resigning.
Bandt begins at ACF in January. The inspiration stated he would “not play any additional function within the Greens”.
The ACF chair, Ros Harvey, stated Bandt was the unanimous selection of the organisation’s board after a “rigorous search” that concerned screening greater than 300 candidates.
Adam Bandt. {Photograph}: Morgan Hancock/Getty Photos
She stated “onerous instances require daring management” and Bandt had the “imaginative and prescient, the bravery and the expertise required” for the job.
In an announcement, Bandt stated it was a “true privilege to assist lead Australia’s most revered voice for nature and local weather at such a crucial time”. He stated:
Local weather collapse is starting, nature is in disaster and that is the parliament that may keep away from extinction. This might be the very best parliament ever for nature and local weather. We’re setting politicians a take a look at we hope they meet.
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‘I don’t assume Jacinta has it in for Indians’ Barnaby Joyce says
The fallout continues from Jacinta Nampijinpa Worth’s feedback suggesting the Labor get together’s migration insurance policies have been makes an attempt to garner votes from immigrants together with these from India.
Barnaby Joyce appeared to defend Worth on the Seven Community this morning, placing the feedback all the way down to a “mistake”.
Shadow minister for defence business Jacinta Nampijinpa Worth. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
The Nationals MP stated:
You make errors in politics on a regular basis, and the very best factor to do is apologise, transfer on … Get on to a different matter. It’s simply the character of politics. You’re not going to be excellent on each assertion you ever make, you’re gonna make errors.
I don’t assume Jacinta has it in for Indians, by the best way. I believe that she’s making an attempt to convey … migration is uncontrolled. Why is it uncontrolled? Not due to the folks [but] as a result of we simply don’t have the assets. We don’t have the homes, the hospitals, the colleges, the dams to soak up them.
He stated Worth ought to apologise “if that solves the issue”.
Labor MP Tanya Plibersek, additionally interviewed on Dawn, stated the Indian group was due an apology.
Jacinta Worth ought to apologise and if she doesn’t, Sussan Ley ought to make her apologise … They’ve obtained all types of mess taking place within the Coalition.
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The Wiggles deny former CEO was illegally fired
The Wiggles have advised a courtroom they are going to struggle an illegal dismissal lawsuit from their former chief govt, who claims the blue Wiggle undermined him, AAP stories.
Luke O’Neill says he was denied bonuses and excluded from conferences earlier than being dismissed with no affordable foundation by the well-known youngsters’s entertainers.
He has launched authorized motion in opposition to the group, blue Wiggle Anthony Subject and its normal counsel Matthew Salgo within the federal courtroom. No defence has been filed with the courtroom however the band’s lawyer indicated on Monday the allegations have been contested.
The Wiggles’ lawyer, Bianca Dearing, stated on Monday:
“There are a number of complaints or inquiries pleaded through the course of the applicant’s employment … all of that are denied.”
Justice Michael Lee requested the events to set out timetabling forward of a possible listening to in April, noting he was “unclear about how lengthy it would take”.
The Wiggles and its former chief govt will doubtless attend mediation earlier than the tip of the yr to see if the problem might be resolved earlier than a listening to, the courtroom was advised.
O’Neill was fired in Might, a call he says got here with no affordable foundation and with none prior warning or earlier opposed suggestions. He alleges his dismissal was illegal.
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Coles and Woolworths underpayment invoice may prime $1bn
Jonathan Barrett
Coles and Woolworths are getting ready to pay greater than $1bn within the fallout from a serious wages case that discovered the grocery store giants had underpaid hundreds of employees.
The federal courtroom discovered final week the massive supermarkets hadn’t adequately tracked entitlements owed beneath the related retail award, leading to years of missed additional time, penalties charges and different varied funds.
The Truthful Work Ombudsman alleged Woolworths underpaid 19,000 employees and Coles underpaid greater than 8,700 workers, together with retailer managers.
Woolworths stated in an ASX assertion right this moment it may owe employees an extra $250m to $470m in pre tax funds, and as much as $280m in extra prices together with superannuation and payroll tax.
Coles estimates it would must pay an extra $150m to $250m to “replicate the findings of the courtroom, together with curiosity and on-costs”.
The estimates are along with vital sums Australia’s two greatest grocery store chains have already made in again funds. Proceedings are due again in courtroom in late October.
The underpayment challenge may develop into much more expensive for the supermarkets, given the figures don’t take into consideration potential payouts stemming from class actions.
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