Bowen says ‘each Australian has quite a bit at stake’ in local weather disaster
Chris Bowen, the local weather change minister, is holding a press convention after the discharge of a significant new report that finds no Australian neighborhood could be immune from the “cascading” dangers of worsening local weather change.
Bowen stated:
One factor that could be very clear from this local weather evaluation is that the entire nation has quite a bit at stake. Each Australian, no matter the place they dwell, has quite a bit at stake.
Importantly, the report makes clear that the sample of pure disasters that Australians are used to will not be a dependable information into the longer term.
The minister added: “It’s vital that we don’t gild the lily or downplay its impacts in any means. We have now to be trustworthy to the Australian individuals”.
Local weather change minister Chris Bowen. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAPShare
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AFL State of Origin to return subsequent yr
The AFL’s marquee State of Origin fixture will return subsequent yr to finish a 27-year hiatus, with Western Australia to host Victoria in Perth on Valentine’s Day. After a clamour from followers and gamers for the state-based rivalry’s return, the 2026 recreation shall be performed at Optus Stadium.
The final time an Origin recreation was contested between state groups was in 1999, when Victoria beat South Australia by 54 factors on the MCG, however South Australia was missed this time after sturdy lobbying from the Western Australian authorities.
It follows a profitable Indigenous All-Stars conflict at Optus Stadium earlier this yr, when 37,865 followers turned out to observe the consultant aspect beat the Fremantle Dockers. AFL CEO Andrew Dillon stated:
State soccer is without doubt one of the nice traditions of our recreation, with followers and gamers alike calling for its return for a while and we’re thrilled to see it again.
Origin conjures up ardour, State satisfaction and attracts upon years previous rivalries which might be central to the historical past of our recreation and our very best gamers. Will probably be a particular second to see a Massive V and a Sandgroper jumper again on the sphere earlier than we begin our 2026 AFL premiership season.
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Queensland authorities to attraction Emma Lovell killer’s sentence to excessive court docket
Queensland lawyer normal Deb Frecklington will attraction to the excessive court docket to extend the sentence for Emma Lovell’s killer.
The person – who can’t be recognized as a result of he was 17 on the time of offending – was convicted of Lovell’s homicide, on Boxing Day, 2022. He was initially sentenced to serve 14 years in jail, and was set a non-parole interval of 70% of the whole.
Queensland lawyer normal Deb Frecklington. {Photograph}: Darren England/AAP
However in August, the Queensland court docket of attraction diminished the non-parole interval by a couple of year-and-a-half, to 60% of his complete sentence.
Frecklington says the state authorities will argue that the court docket was fallacious to search out that “particular circumstances” existed. Frecklington says:
I’m not ever going to apologise for my course right here to make sure that we do apply for particular help to the excessive court docket, no matter the end result, as a result of we now have made a dedication to the individuals of Queensland that we’ll preserve them secure, and that’s precisely what we do.
What that is about is to make sure that [Emma’s husband] Lee Lovell and his daughters know that we’ll depart no stone unturned in relation to the offender’s sentence.
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Hiker discovered secure in Snowy Mountains after eight days
Penry Buckley
A person who went lacking whereas climbing within the Snowy Mountains has been discovered secure, eight days after he was final heard from, police say.
In an announcement, New South Wales police say the person, 57, set out backcountry snowboarding and climbing from Guthega energy station in Kosciuszko nationwide park on 4 September, and was final heard from two days later.
Police launched a land and air search that discovered him close to Valentine Hut, within the Snowy Mountains again nation space at 1pm yesterday. He has not required medical therapy.
NSW police:
Police would additionally wish to remind members of the general public that when heading out for a hike or a bush stroll, individuals ought to have a completely charged cell phone, together with extra charging gadgets.
A person who went climbing and snowboarding within the Snowy Mountains has been situated secure.
Following ongoing searches, at 1.00pm on Sunday, 14 September 2025, the person was situated secure within the Snowy Mountains again nation space close to Valentines Hut, within the Kosciuszko Nationwide Park.
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Head of Asic says ANZ has ‘betrayed the belief of Australians’ and ‘wants to vary’
Joseph Longo, the chair of Asic, is talking after saying a landmark penalty in opposition to ANZ earlier this morning. Longo stated:
Time and time once more, ANZ has fallen brief. Time and time once more, ANZ has betrayed the belief of Australians.
Belief is important in monetary providers. Clients, authorities and common want to have the ability to belief that banks will ship what they promise and uphold applicable requirements of behaviour. Right now, many Australians shall be questioning their belief in ANZ.
The basic and vital points require pressing consideration and the ANZ board and its executives must replicate upon them. ANZ wants to vary.
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‘The price of motion is smaller than the price of inaction’
Chris Bowen maintained there may be nonetheless time to rein within the worst results of local weather change, saying that whereas Australians are already dwelling in a modified world, “it’s not too late to keep away from the worst of the impacts”.
He stated:
Because the report makes clear, the distinction when it comes to impression between 1.5 to 2 levels [Celsius warming above preindustrial levels], not to mention 3, could be very actual for Australia.
It’s additionally vital that we keep in mind whereas this report is clearly confronting, the financial proof of motion for our nation is one with the perfect renewable vitality sources on this planet could be very actual. We have now the perfect renewable sources, we now have nice jobs and funding alternatives so if we get it proper, the chance for our nation is big, simply as a danger if we get it fallacious could be very actual.
Bowen added:
The price of motion is smaller than the price of inaction, below any state of affairs.
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Dan Jervis-Bardy
The report finds hundreds of thousands of Australians are in danger from rising sea ranges
The variety of heat-related deaths in Sydney might surge by virtually 450% if world heating surpasses 3 levels, in line with a landmark report that finds no Australian neighborhood could be immune from the “cascading, compounding and concurrent” dangers of a worsening local weather.
The report additionally lays naked the heightened danger from rising sea ranges on Australia’s populous coastal communities, together with flooding, erosion and inundation.
It discovered that by 2050, 1.5m coastal residents could be in danger, rising to greater than 3m by 2090.
The federal authorities on Monday launched the long-awaited nationwide local weather danger evaluation, offering probably the most detailed image of the extreme and far-reaching social and financial impression of the local weather disaster for Australia.
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Bowen says ‘each Australian has quite a bit at stake’ in local weather disaster
Chris Bowen, the local weather change minister, is holding a press convention after the discharge of a significant new report that finds no Australian neighborhood could be immune from the “cascading” dangers of worsening local weather change.
Bowen stated:
One factor that could be very clear from this local weather evaluation is that the entire nation has quite a bit at stake. Each Australian, no matter the place they dwell, has quite a bit at stake.
Importantly, the report makes clear that the sample of pure disasters that Australians are used to will not be a dependable information into the longer term.
The minister added: “It’s vital that we don’t gild the lily or downplay its impacts in any means. We have now to be trustworthy to the Australian individuals”.
Local weather change minister Chris Bowen. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAPShare
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Rooftop photo voltaic generated 12.8% of Australia’s electrical energy in first half of 2025
The rooftop photo voltaic increase hit a brand new milestone within the first half of the yr, with 12.8% of all electrical energy technology coming from the panels, in line with a brand new report from the Clear Power Council. That’s a rise from 11.5% in the identical interval a yr in the past, and up from simply 6% in 2020.
There have been greater than 115,000 rooftop photo voltaic items put in throughout Australia within the first half of 2025, an 18% lower from the identical interval a yr in the past. Rooftop photo voltaic stays on monitor to ship what’s wanted to the nationwide goal of 82% of electrical energy coming from clear vitality sources by 2030.
One other key findingwas battery gross sales hitting document highs, with 85,000 items bought within the first half of 2025, bolstered by authorities incentives making the techniques extra reasonably priced. That determine is a 191% improve over the identical interval final yr.
Photo voltaic panels on the roof of a home in Sydney. {Photograph}: Dan Himbrechts/AAPShare
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Scientists concern this ‘cute’ and ‘chonky’ flying fox may very well be one cyclone away from extinction
It’s the final native mammal on the island, however the “extremely cute and fluffy” Christmas Island flying fox is critically endangered with no restoration plan and severely outdated conservation recommendation.
The flying fox is smaller and fluffier than lots of Australia’s mainland flying fox species, in line with animal ecologist Dr Annabel Dorrestein, from Western Sydney College, who has studied the species for 9 years.
The variety of Christmas Island flying foxes, which is taken into account a’keystone species’ because of its vital function in pollination and seed dispersal, is declining. {Photograph}: Chris Bray
The bats are “extremely cute” and “chonky”; a bit like teddy bears, Dorrestein stated.
Christmas Island, situated 1,550km off north-west Western Australia, initially had 5 native mammals – two rodents, two bats and a shrew. The rodents disappeared within the early 1900s. The shrew has not been seen since 1985 and might be extinct.
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Taylor says Liberal celebration ‘completely’ needs Nampijinpa Worth to remain
Angus Taylor says that whereas Jacinta Nampijinpa Worth had made errors, “by her personal admission”, the Coalition “completely” needed to maintain her in its nook.
He spoke to RN Breakfast this morning, after Nampijinpa Worth’s saga surrounding her remarks on Indian migrants, together with her sacking from the shadow ministry:
We completely need her to stick with the Liberal celebration. We wish extra individuals within the Nationwide celebration, the Liberal celebration, whether or not it’s senators, members of the Home of Reps, volunteers, members, we wish extra assist for the Liberal arty throughout the board. We desperately must rebuild the celebration at a troublesome time. Jacinta is a gifted member of the Senate, a valued member of our group.
She made errors by her personal admission, I imply, there’s little question about that and Jacinta has stated that. It’s disappointing, there’s little question, however it’s crucial now we get again on monitor, we rebuild the celebration, and we deliver as many individuals into the celebration as we presumably can.
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Worth. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAPShare
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Coalition assist slumps to all-time low in newest polls
Infighting and the sacking of a frontbencher have left the federal Coalition with its worst-ever main vote end in Newspoll historical past, with One Nation showing to have scooped up disaffected voters, AAP stories.
The Coalition’s main vote collapsed to 27%, the bottom because the ballot started monitoring first preferences in 1985, the Newspoll carried out final week and printed in The Australian on Monday discovered.
Labor’s main vote was regular at 36%, giving prime minister Anthony Albanese a commanding 58% to 42% two-party-preferred lead, his largest margin since taking workplace.
The outcome comes within the wake of opposition chief Sussan Ley’s sacking of senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Worth from the frontbench, a transfer that uncovered bitter inner divisions over migration, local weather change and web zero insurance policies.
Opposition chief Sussan Ley. {Photograph}: Ethan James/AAPShare
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What misconduct did ANZ admit to?
Asic filed 4 proceedings associated to the misconduct, together with:
Appearing unconscionably in its dealings with the Australian authorities whereas managing a $14bn bond deal, together with incorrectly reporting its bond buying and selling information and overstating the volumes by tens of billions of {dollars} for practically two years.
Failing to answer a whole bunch of buyer hardship notices, in some instances for greater than two years.
Making false and deceptive statements about financial savings rates of interest and failing to pay the promised charges to tens of hundreds of consumers.
Failing to refund charges charged to hundreds of useless clients and never responding to households coping with deceased estates inside required timelines.
ANZ has admitted to the allegations.
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‘We made errors’: ANZ chair apologises for financial institution’s misconduct
The penalties should be accepted by the federal court docket, however Asic stated their dimension displays the gravity of the misconduct.
ANZ’s chair, Paul O’Sullivan, issued an apology to clients and guaranteed them the corporate had taken “the required motion, together with holding related executives accountable”, including:
Whereas we now have labored laborious to get regularity certainty on these issues, the fact is we made errors which have had a major impression on clients. On behalf of ANZ, I apologise.
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ANZ financial institution fined $240m for ‘widespread misconduct’ in Asic’s largest ever penalty
ANZ has stated this morning it can pay $240m in penalties to settle 5 misconduct claims with the Australian Securities and Investments Fee (Asic).
The financial institution admitted to participating in unconscionable conduct in providers supplied to the Australian authorities, incorrectly reporting bond buying and selling information to the federal government by overstating the volumes by tens of billions of {dollars} and to widespread misconduct throughout services and products that affected about 65,000 clients.
Asic stated the “widespread misconduct” occurred over a few years and was marked by ANZ’s “vital failure to handle non-financial dangers throughout the financial institution”. Joe Longo, the chair of Asic, stated in an announcement:
Time and time once more ANZ betrayed the belief of Australians.
The overall penalties throughout these issues are the biggest introduced by ASIC in opposition to one entity and replicate the seriousness and variety of breaches of legislation, the weak place that ANZ put its clients in and the repeated failures to rectify essential points.
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Opposition welcomes shipyard funds however says defence stays underfunded and ‘below ready’
Angus Taylor, the shadow defence minister, says any more money for defence, together with Aukus, is “welcome” however he believes the federal government had not spent practically sufficient to create “a fit-for-purpose defence pressure at a time which is extra harmful than any time because the second world conflict”.
Taylor instructed RN Breakfast that the opposition nonetheless needs to see defence spending improve to three% of GDP:
We simply noticed within the final week or so the Chinese language Communist celebration on show, their propaganda parade, and it’s clear that they’ve an affect that they haven’t had prior to now. They’re militarising at an unprecedented fee. However we’re additionally seeing authoritarian regimes proper throughout the globe flexing their muscle tissue. And so it’s essential that we see the funding mandatory and we have to see it urgently.
Proper now, this authorities is underfunding defence in a really substantial means.
We want this authorities to shift from rhetoric to readiness. We’re below ready.
Angus Taylor says the federal government is ‘underfunding defence in a really substantial means’. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAPShare
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Authorities ‘very assured’ Aukus will ship subs after additional $12bn for WA shipyard
Tim Ayres, the minister for science, trade and innovation, says the federal government stays assured Australia will get nuclear-powered submarines from the US after saying a $12bn “downpayment” on a shipbuilding facility in Western Australia to organize for them.
Ayres stated this morning that getting the submarines stays absolutely the goal of the Aukus deal, rejecting assertions that the US might again out of the deal. He instructed RN Breakfast:
I’m very assured that this settlement between Australia and the USA and the UK shall be delivered upon in full and it’s already effectively and actually below means. The preparations between us and the USA on the submarines particularly is deep.
We’re effectively on the pathway. There’s a lengthy strategy to go, however this is a crucial step for our nationwide safety, and we’re following it by way of diligently within the nationwide curiosity.
Tim Ayres: ‘We’re effectively on the pathway’. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
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Closure of Albanese’s Marrickville electoral workplace is ‘very unhappy’, Marles says
Richard Marles says the closure of Albanese’s electoral workplace in Marrickville is “very unhappy”, saying a spate of protests there had not helped any causes however disadvantaged locals of their capacity to go to their native member.
The prime minister stated the location would shut after serving as Grayndler’s citizens workplace for greater than 30 years. Albanese cited a string of protests there, many associated to the continued disaster in Gaza.
Marles, the deputy prime minister, instructed RN Breakfast this morning of the choice:
I feel it’s very unhappy. I feel the type of protests that we’ve seen outdoors of the prime minister’s electoral workplace during the last couple of years have been a whole shame. It does nothing to advance the arguments related to any of those points. It actually, I feel, finally ends up being far more concerning the protesters than the trigger that they fake to espouse.
It’s definitely denying the constituents of Grayndler having the ability to go to their native member and the workplace of their native member and obtain fundamental providers. I imply, I feel there may be an intimidatory diploma to what’s been occurring right here, however it’s appalling behaviour that it has resulted on this second.
Deputy prime minister Richard Marles. {Photograph}: Hollie Adams/ReutersShare
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Good morning, and welcome to Monday. Right here’s what’s on deck this morning as we get the dwell weblog rolling.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese is because of journey to Port Moresby for Papua New Guinea’s fiftieth anniversary of independence because the nations put together to signal a significant defence treaty. The deal will reportedly permit PNG nationals to serve in Australia’s defence pressure with related pay and a pathway to citizenship.
Rooftop photo voltaic accounted for 12.8% of all electrical energy generated in Australia for the primary half of 2025, the best fee ever, in line with the Clear Power Council. Greater than a 3rd of Australian households now have rooftop photo voltaic and the primary half of the yr additionally recorded a record-breaking 85,000 batteries bought amid new applications meant to encourage uptake.
We’ll see what else the day has in retailer. Persist with us.
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