Carbon monoxide recognized in Sydney gasoline leak, fireplace superintendent says
Extra from NSW fireplace and rescue superintendent Adam Dewberry a few deadly gasoline leak at a Sydney restaurant:
[We] responded to experiences that an individual had been rescued out of this constructing, non-responsive, unconscious, and was being resuscitated.
Sadly, they might not be revived. It was apparent to the primary arriving emergency companies, the air high quality within the constructing was compromised. Firefighters sporting protecting clothes, together with respiratory apparatuses, entered that construction with the gasoline detectors, and recognized that there was a carbon monoxide in there and another merchandise that you simply simply can’t survive in if you’re respiratory that.
The place we’re at now could be we’ve received our firefighters who concentrate on hazardous supplies on scene. They’re within the constructing. They’re really taking samples. They’re diagnosing the air high quality as they work to search out out what the merchandise are which can be contaminating the air so we are able to decide the place it’s coming from and shut it off and render the realm secure.
The knowledge that we are able to get can even assist the hospital deal with all of the individuals which were transported. However, extra importantly, we do have to isolate this space so we are able to render the positioning is secure, after which these investigations can begin by New South Wales police.
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Benita Kolovos
1,400 machetes handed in as a part of Victoria amnesty program
The Victorian authorities’s machete amnesty program has netted greater than 1,300 weapons in its first two weeks of operation, the performing premier, Ben Carroll, and police minister, Anthony Carbines, introduced.
On 1 September, Victoria enacted a ban on machetes as a prohibited weapon, making it unlawful to personal, carry, use, purchase or promote them with out an exemption. The ban features a three-month amnesty interval from September to November, throughout which individuals can safely give up their machetes at bins at police stations.
Jacinta Allan and Anthony Carbines examine a machete amnesty security disposal bin. {Photograph}: Joel Carrett/AAP
Caroll mentioned:
We’ve seen roughly 1,400 machetes off our streets in two weeks. Add to that one other almost 3,500 from our retailers. That’s some 5,000 machetes, unlawful knives off our streets, which is a very, actually necessary factor for Victoria.
Carbines added that the $13m amnesty program was designed to present individuals a chance to soundly get rid of machetes earlier than it grew to become a criminal offense to personal one, which in flip would make it tougher for criminals to entry them. He went on:
It’s making it a lot tougher for many who wish to do hurt locally – you possibly can’t buy them on-line, you possibly can’t buy them from shops, you possibly can’t pinch them from another person’s house or a again shed. I believe it’s only a demonstration that extra [people] locally perceive that we don’t want them at house or wherever else.
Carroll mentioned he would take a proposal to ban machetes to a nationwide assembly of police ministers in Canberra in a fortnight’s time.
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NBN customers to get even larger speeds after new improve
NBN customers on fibre-to-the-premises or hybrid fibre-coaxial connections will be capable of get even larger speeds after an improve launched by the corporate on Tuesday.
Underneath the adjustments, customers who’ve appropriate connections will be capable of get excessive velocity obtain and add will increase for a similar value they’re at present paying, with retailers to roll out the upgrades over the approaching weeks.
Customers at present on a 100Mbps down and 20Mbps up plan will probably be upgraded to 500Mbps down and 50Mbps up. For these on 250/25, it can improve to 750/50, and from 500Mbps down to just about 1Gbps down and 100Mbps up.
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The corporate can be launching a brand new house wholesale plan for 2Gbps down and 200Mbps up plan for house, with the enterprise model providing 500Mbps add speeds.
These velocity will increase ought to occur robotically, however web suppliers are urging customers to verify their NBN machine is able to delivering these larger speeds.
NBN says greater than 9.8m properties and companies are eligible for the speeds, as much as 10m by the tip of this yr as extra of the previous fibre-to-the-node connections are upgraded.
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Caitlin Cassidy
Mark Scott to serve second five-year time period at College of Sydney
The vice-chancellor of the College of Sydney, Prof Mark Scott, has been unanimously endorsed to serve a second time period within the position.
On Tuesday, the college’s chancellor, David Thodey, confirmed the Senate had universally endorsed Scott to serve a second five-year time period, starting in July subsequent yr.
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He mentioned Scott, who was “unwavering in his pursuit of excellence and innovation – will proceed to guide the college in the direction of its mission and guarantee our work is extra compelling, and extra necessary to our society, than at every other time in our historical past”.
Scott mentioned it was with “nice satisfaction” that he continued to serve college students, workers and the broader neighborhood and he was “energised every day by our work to rework lives by means of schooling and analysis, and contribute to a greater world”.
The vice-chancellor’s management got here beneath fireplace over the college’s dealing with of a pro-Palestine encampment final yr, with some Jewish teams and then-opposition chief, Peter Dutton, urging him to resign. Scott apologised at an inquiry into antisemitism, noting there have been issues the college might have completed higher, however mentioned it hadn’t referred to as in police for worry of escalating tensions.
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Dan Jervis-Bardy
Treasury modelling one particular determine for emissions discount, inquiry hears
Treasury has been modelling one particular determine for a 2035 emissions discount goal, reasonably than a spread of numbers, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.
Senior Treasury official Alex Heath wouldn’t reveal the quantity in query however probably let slip the modelling work was beneath method earlier than the federal election in Could.
A lot of the hypothesis across the authorities’s soon-to-be introduced 2035 goal has centred on the prospect of a goal vary after the Local weather Change Authority’s preliminary recommendation put a span of 65% to 75% on the agenda.
Fronting a parliamentary inquiry into the newly launched nationwide local weather threat evaluation on Tuesday, Heath revealed Treasury has been modelling a selected goal – not a goal vary, or varied completely different numbers.
She mentioned that was because of the “issue” in modelling a goal vary versus particular person numbers.
The character of the modelling that we now have completed has some extent estimate for 2035. I might refer you to the Local weather Change Authority recommendation, which is explicitly the recommendation that the federal government is utilizing to take a look at the potential implications of various targets.
Requested when the work began, Heath mentioned she “genuinely can’t recall” and requested to take the query on discover.
The Greens chief, Larissa Waters, sought clarification after believing she heard Heath say “I believe it was prior [to the election]”.
Waters requested Heath if that was right.
Heath responded:
I believe that’s proper however I might a lot favor to take it on discover.
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Benita Kolovos
An replace on the Victorian premier’s China journey
Jacinta Allan declared boosting worldwide college students is the highest precedence of her China technique, which she unveiled at an occasion with Chinese language and Victorian enterprise leaders, diplomats and commerce officers final evening.
Within the speech, Allan nominated her three priorities for the five-year technique as “schooling, schooling and schooling”. In keeping with a duplicate distributed after the occasion, she mentioned:
Training has been our largest companies export for 23 years operating, and Melbourne has once more been voted Australia’s finest pupil metropolis. Our worldwide college students hail from 175 nations. And one in each 5 is from China. From major college to PhD, each single stage of our public schooling system reaches out to your personal … I need us to construct the most effective schooling system on the earth, collectively. That’s my undertaking right here in China.
Jacinta Allan. {Photograph}: James Ross/AAP
Victoria’s China Technique: For A New Golden Period is the federal government’s first China technique since 2016. On the time, Daniel Andrews had sought to draw funding from China for the state’s infrastructure initiatives, double the state’s exports and increase tourism from the nation.
However Allan mentioned her technique had “three massive variations with its precursor”, together with a deal with regional Victoria, “empowering” the state’s Chinese language neighborhood and schooling. It forecasts that Chinese language guests will almost double to 800,000 individuals by 2029 however comprises no projections on future pupil numbers, that are finally managed by the federal authorities.
She additionally made a number of references to her house city of Bendigo – “the Huge Gold Mountain” – which noticed an inflow of Chinese language migration in the course of the gold rush.
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NSW and Queensland to roll out free flu nasal spray for kids beneath 5
Each NSW and Queensland mentioned this week youngsters aged two to beneath 5 will be capable of entry a free intranasal influenza vaccine subsequent yr, a transfer well being officers hope will assist improve the uptake of the vaccine earlier than the 2026 winter flu season.
The vaccine, referred to as FluMist, could be the primary non-injectable influenza vaccine to be accessible in Australia as soon as it’s gone by means of the complete regulatory approval course of. It’s administered as a nasal spray and has been broadly used abroad, with nations providing it seeing a rise in immunisation charges.
The vaccine is anticipated to be accessible privately for different age teams, relying on regulatory approval.
Queensland well being minister Tim Nicholls mentioned in an announcement:
Our funding signifies that dad and mom can keep away from the nervousness of a needle injection for his or her younger ones. Analysis has proven that six in 10 dad and mom expertise misery when fascinated by vaccinating their little one in opposition to influenza, and greater than 1 / 4 of younger children expertise intense needle phobia.
NSW well being minister Ryan Park mentioned this system would supply “an accessible and handy needle-free possibility for kids and enhance vaccination uptake forward of the 2026 winter flu season”.
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NSW fireplace and rescue working to comprise space of hazardous air high quality, Dewberry says
Adam Dewberry, from NSW fireplace and rescue, says it’s unclear the place the leak began:
At this stage, all we all know is the air high quality in the entire constructing – two ranges – has been compromised.
Numerous the oxygen has been pushed out and, at this stage, carbon monoxide is a powerful line of curiosity. However we’re additionally in search of different gases that could possibly be in and round. It’s too early to invest what else could possibly be in there.
However what I can inform you is Hearth & Rescue New South Wales, with our specialist firefighters, these hazardous supplies specialists, are utilizing all of the gear they’ve on the truck to undergo and take these samples and interrogate the air that they’ve collected and recognized to work out what we’re coping with right here.
Dewberry mentioned all firefighters responding are secure.
Our firefighters are secure. Ambulance paramedics are nonetheless on scene. They’re offering overwatch for our firefighters which can be sporting fairly heavy clothes, respiratory equipment, and dealing in these confined areas being within the constructing in room, and simply in case one thing goes fallacious, they’re there prepared for us.
I do know police have already began their investigations. They’re on scene, they usually’re additionally accumulating the knowledge that they should conduct their investigations.
It’s nonetheless an operation that’s ongoing. We’ll simply work right here till we’re glad that the realm is rendered secure and contained, steady, and it’s not going to get any worse – it’s all cleared up so these investigations can begin.
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Carbon monoxide recognized in Sydney gasoline leak, fireplace superintendent says
Extra from NSW fireplace and rescue superintendent Adam Dewberry a few deadly gasoline leak at a Sydney restaurant:
[We] responded to experiences that an individual had been rescued out of this constructing, non-responsive, unconscious, and was being resuscitated.
Sadly, they might not be revived. It was apparent to the primary arriving emergency companies, the air high quality within the constructing was compromised. Firefighters sporting protecting clothes, together with respiratory apparatuses, entered that construction with the gasoline detectors, and recognized that there was a carbon monoxide in there and another merchandise that you simply simply can’t survive in if you’re respiratory that.
The place we’re at now could be we’ve received our firefighters who concentrate on hazardous supplies on scene. They’re within the constructing. They’re really taking samples. They’re diagnosing the air high quality as they work to search out out what the merchandise are which can be contaminating the air so we are able to decide the place it’s coming from and shut it off and render the realm secure.
The knowledge that we are able to get can even assist the hospital deal with all of the individuals which were transported. However, extra importantly, we do have to isolate this space so we are able to render the positioning is secure, after which these investigations can begin by New South Wales police.
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Jordyn Beazley
Extra particulars on the gasoline leak at a restaurant in Sydney which has left one lifeless:
Adam Dewberry, Hearth and Rescue NSW superintendent, mentioned fireplace rescue is but to find out the reason for the leak.
He mentioned:
Hazmat crews are going by means of with varied detection gear to find out what the product is and the way we are able to render is secure.
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Greens query local weather threat
Throughout a parliamentary inquiry into the nationwide local weather threat evaluation on Tuesday, the Greens’ chief, Larissa Waters, opens questioning on the prospect that 597,000 individuals could possibly be at direct threat of coastal hazards by 2030.
Communities at highest threat from local weather change situated in Queensland, Victoria, WA and SA – videoShare
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Father or mother firm of Insurgent Sport and Supercheap Auto fires chief govt over office relationship
The guardian firm of Insurgent Sport and Supercheap Auto has fired its chief govt and managing director over a office relationship, AAP experiences.
Tremendous Retail Group mentioned on Tuesday it had terminated the employment of Anthony Heraghty “with quick impact” and had lapsed his unvested incentives and vested however unexercised inventory rights. The group mentioned:
The board made this resolution after receiving new info from Mr Heraghty relating to his relationship with the corporate’s former chief human assets officer. In gentle of his new info, the board has concluded Mr Heraghty’s prior disclosures weren’t passable.
Heraghty had been Tremendous Retail Group’s managing director since April 2015, and was given the extra title of CEO in February 2019, in line with his LinkedIn profile.
Tremendous Retail Group additionally owns Macpac and the chain of cruising, tenting and fishing shops referred to as BCF.
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One individual lifeless and 6 taken to hospital after gasoline leak at Sydney restaurant
NSW police mentioned one individual has died and 6 others – together with 5 cops – have been taken to hospital after experiences of a gasoline leak at a restaurant within the suburb of Riverstone at the moment.
Emergency companies responded to the restaurant round 9.15am this morning.
These taken to hospital are in steady situation.
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Dan Jervis-Bardy
ACS didn’t personally transient PM on findings in nationwide local weather threat evaluation
Australian Local weather Service officers didn’t personally transient Anthony Albanese on the findings of its nationwide local weather threat evaluation, the inquiry has heard.
Mason mentioned her workforce briefed the prime minister’s workplace and the Division of Prime Minister & Cupboard (PM&C) – however not the prime minister himself.
Local weather change division official Jason Munday mentioned it was typical for PM&C to behave because the middleman that will run the prime minister by means of such a report.
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Again to the parliamentary inquiry into the nationwide local weather threat evaluation
The Greens and others repeatedly accused the federal government of delaying the report’s launch to bury its findings earlier this morning.
Vicki Manson, the pinnacle of the Australian Local weather Service, mentioned solutions that the work was accomplished way back to December have been incorrect. She mentioned a “working draft” was ready in December but it surely was clear “we would have liked to do a bit extra work”.
The [draft] was not for sharing with decision-makers with any confidence.
Manson mentioned the completed evaluation, and the complete suite of supplies accompanying it together with 20 technical experiences and an interactive web site, was solely finalised on 5 September.
Vicki Manson, the pinnacle of the Australian Local weather Service. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAP
She mentioned a draft report was offered to the division and the local weather change minister, Chris Bowen, in March 2025, which was used to assemble suggestions from throughout the federal government. One other draft was produced in July 2025.
The Greens’ chief, Larissa Waters, requested what adjustments have been comprised of the July 2025 iteration to the ultimate report two months later. Manson mentioned:
It was high quality assurance. There was no further evaluation from the July work. It was presenting the information in an applicable method and making certain that the knowledge was offered in an comprehensible format. It was actually our personal high quality assurance course of.
Waters asks Mason if she suggested Bowen to launch the report instantly.
I offered the report and it was a choice of presidency when to launch it.
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Josh Taylor
Claims each person will probably be age checked is a ‘scare tactic’, eSafety commissioner says
The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, says it has been a “scare tactic” to assert that each Australian might want to have their age checked.
The steering launched on Tuesday states the federal government doesn’t need each person to undergo age checking, claiming the usage of AI, and the information the platforms accumulate on customers can be utilized to deduce ages for lots of present accounts, both by their pursuits or the age of the account.
Inman Grant mentioned:
Adults mustn’t see big adjustments to the platform … We expect it might be unreasonable if platforms verified everybody’s age.
It’s price noting that any new account registration after the ban is available in would require that account holder to undergo an age verify and whereas some firms like Meta do accumulate important quantities of knowledge on their customers, firms like BlueSky have beforehand mentioned they don’t accumulate this info on their customers ± that means they must take a look at different strategies.
On enforcement, Inman Grant says she doesn’t anticipate each under-16 account to be passed by 10 December however she will probably be taking a look at systemic failures to use the ban on their platforms. The commissioner’s workplace will have interaction informally with platforms that could be non-compliant earlier than transferring to the stage of probably launching courtroom motion and looking for fines of as much as $50m.
Inman Grant will probably be assembly with Apple, Discord, Character AI, Open AI, Anthropic, Google and Meta in Silicon Valley subsequent week.
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