Australia news live: Victorian premier calls statues of state leaders ‘stupid waste of money’ after Daniel Andrews tribute scrapped | Australia news

In a sometimes fiery press conference, Carroll described the Jeff Kennett-era policy of erecting a statue for state leaders who have served more than 3,000 days in office as a “stupid waste of money”. On Saturday, he scrapped the $134,000 statue of Daniel Andrews.

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This morning, he said 50% of the contract had already been paid out:

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I am aware of design work completed and 50% of the contract being paid. I have now set up a process where the contract will be fulfilled for an alternative subject, an alternative location based on an independent panel that will give me advice. This was a Jeff Kennett, stupid waste of money, 3,000 days. In the Labor party, our statues are fixing up our roads, building better hospitals and better schools.

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Australia’s second smallest wallaby, the nabarlek, has been detected at two new locations in Western Australia’s vast Kimberley region, described as like “finding a needle in a haystack”.

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Images and scats showed the 1.2kg rock-wallaby on Yampi Sound Training Area on Dambeemangaddee Country – one of 20 priority places in the federal government’s Threatened Species Action Plan.

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A second population was also confirmed around 170km away in the north-east of Dambeemangaddee Country – the first detections of the species on mainland Dambeemangaddee Country in over 50 years and the first record for Yampi Sound Training Area.

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Exciting news to kick off Biodiversity Month! 🎉 After more than 50 years, the endangered Nabarlek has been confirmed at two new locations on mainland Dambeemangaddee Country in the northwest Kimberley.
📷 I Bool pic.twitter.com/yOFylDa4WN

— Australian Wildlife Conservancy (@awconservancy) September 1, 2026

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High fuel prices dragged on household spending in the three months to June, with Australians filling up their car less and putting off overseas travel as airlines pushed up their fares to compensate for more expensive jet fuel.

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National accounts figures showed consumption lifted by a weak 0.4% in the quarter – but even that was double the previous quarter’s pace.

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The Middle East conflict disrupted overseas travel, slashing the usual pilgrimage north of the equator.

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Grace Kim, Australian Bureau of Statistics’ head of national accounts, said “the number of Australians travelling overseas for the northern hemisphere summer fell for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic”.

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Vehicle purchases jumped by 10% in the quarter as Australians continued to shift away from gas guzzlers in an attempt to protect themselves from pain in the pump, both today and in the future.

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The household saving rate lifted to 6.5%, from 6.4% in March.

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National accounts figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed the three-monthly growth rate in real GDP ticked up from 0.3% in the March quarter.

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Economic growth remained subdued in the June quarter as households continued to behave cautiously. While increased spending and business investment occurred in pockets of the economy, imports supported much of the growth, moderating its contribution to overall GDP growth.

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Telstra did not prioritise systems that caused a major nationwide network failure and lacked the technical expertise to properly maintain them, AAP reports.

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An independent investigation into the telco’s 8 July network failure, which left thousands of Australians unable to make calls or access data, was released on Tuesday.

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A lack of ownership and oversight of the functions that led to the outage were identified as key contributing factors by Technology Audit Partners in the report. The investigation also found a further eight triple-zero calls did not go through to emergency services during the outage.

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The outage was triggered by a software update not being done on a GPS card, which resulted in incorrect date information.

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A separate ongoing Australian Communications and Media Authority investigation into the outage could result in fines of up to $30m per breach.

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Police are investigating the reported theft of 5,500 Dorper sheep from a western Queensland farm.

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The sheep were allegedly stolen from a property on Blackall-Isisford Road outside Blackall, about 962km west of Brisbane, between February and May this year.

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The stolen animals were worth more than an estimated $1.7m. They are fitted with white National Livestock Identification System tags and are Dorper sheep, a breed with white wool but a black face.

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Detective senior sergeant Paul Elliot from the Rural and Stock Crime squad encouraged anyone with information about the theft or who had seen Dorper sheep matching the description in the area to come forward.

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Investigators are particularly interested in speaking with anyone who observed suspicious stock movements, livestock transport activity, or other unusual behaviour in the area. Elliot said:

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Livestock theft investigations can be complex, often spanning large geographical areas, which is why we work closely with producers, saleyards, transport operators and industry stakeholders to identify offenders and disrupt criminal activity.

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Anthony Albanese has met with Palau’s president Surangel Whipps Jr at the Pacific Islands Forum this morning.

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On Wednesday, the government and Qantas confirmed more flights would travel between Brisbane and Koror, as part of the Palau Paradise Express direct air service.

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Qantas will also increase flights to twice weekly during Palau’s peak season, starting this December.

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Australia and Palau are getting closer.

We’re adding more flights between Brisbane and Koror, boosting tourism and creating new opportunities.

And we’re building more renewables to give Palau cleaner, more reliable power.

President Whipps and I met today to discuss what comes… pic.twitter.com/0C86N3FSTD

— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) September 1, 2026

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A Queensland man has been charged with hate crime offences after a joint investigation by Queensland police and the Australian Federal Police.

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Official said they began an investigation into allegations of ideologically motivated threats of violence. On 27 August, they arrested a man, 52, in the Queensland town of Mossman and seized an electronic device.

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The man has since been charged with two counts of threats with circumstance of aggravation, including serious vilification or hate crime. Police will allege the offences relate to abusive, threatening and antisemitic content directed towards a religious organisation.

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The man is due to appear in court later this month. AFP detective supt Anthony Conway said in a statement:

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Harm to social cohesion at a local community level ultimately impacts on Australia’s national security – we will not allow divisive and hateful rhetoric to grow and spread more widely.

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Investigations are ongoing.

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The federal government holds “grave concerns” for the 38 Australians still missing in the deadly flooding disaster, Anne Aly says.

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The minister for multicultural affairs spoke to ABC’s News Breakfast earlier, after the news a total of five Australians that were unaccounted for as of Tuesday morning had made contact.

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We hold grave concerns for those 38 Australians still missing. There are real logistic issues, including communications to find out where people are …

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For those families that are still waiting, those 38 individuals unaccounted for, we understand that it’s a really concerning time, and we’ll continue to do what we can to try and locate those people.

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Ahead of Chanel Contos’s address to the National Press Club, Matt Canavan has blamed the “feminisation of our curriculum” for the proliferation of algorithms serving up “manosphere” content.

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The Nationals leader said, as a “father of four boys” he believes society needs to have a “deep, hard look” at why kids are “attracted to this stuff online”.

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Speaking to Channel Nine’s Today, he claimed boys are “sick and tired of getting lectures about how bad men are at school”.

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They’re sick and tired of the feminisation of our curriculum and the lack of direction and leadership that they’re given. Maybe we should look at getting more male teachers in. That used to be an agenda. I don’t know what’s happened to that, but maybe we should have more male role models in schools.

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I just know young boys often feel that they don’t get any kind of instruction, leadership. They’re not cherished there. They’re patronised.

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The senator went on to say society needs to “marshal” young boys’ energy.

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They’re full of testosterone. … I just worry some of the solutions here don’t really understand what goes in a young boy’s mind.

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Independent MP Allegra Spender said the Australia government has an “opportunity” to make social media algorithms safer for all Australians, not just young people.

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The government is considering the change, saying social media was playing a “huge role” in the increase in sexual violence among teenagers and choking. Chanel Contos’s Teach Us Consent has campaigned for the tech giants’ algorithms to be opt-in only.

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Spender told RN Breakfast this morning:

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What we see is that the algorithms as they are currently running, in certain circumstances, can serve content that has real damaging effects potentially across our community. And so I think creating an opt-in for people to make the default of social media safer and to give people really active choice in relation to social media makes a lot of sense.

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The MP went on to say the under-16s social media ban was “not really working” and there was still a lot of work to do to see if the ban could be more effective:

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Let’s be honest that the challenges of social media don’t stop when you’re 16. You know, many adults struggle with … particularly the addictive nature of social media. And at the same time, we know that some of those issues that both Asio has highlighted and also the misogynistic content don’t just stop when you’re 16.

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Of the five Australians confirmed safe, one was found in Nepal, one in Tibet and three outside the crisis-hit area.

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These Australians had not spoken to families and next of kin since the disaster struck seven days ago.

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Dfat has received nearly 800 calls in relation to the floods, with 18 Australian personnel having travelled to Nepal to join staff on the ground.

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More humanitarian and disaster relief from Australia is due to arrive in Nepal this afternoon.

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  This post was amended on 2 September 2026. An earlier version misstated the number of people who had been found.

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Australia will step up its support to fight transnational drug trafficking flowing through the Pacific, with a $600m package.

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Anthony Albanese announced the new investment at the Pacific Islands Forum in Palau, which aims to stop the contraband arriving in Australia.

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The increase in drug flow across the Pacific is a huge problem in several countries: linked to increased gang activity in Samoa and Tonga, and a sharp rise in the HIV rate in Fiji.

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Heightened activity is showing up in Australian Federal Police interventions of narcotics in the region.

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In 2025, about 4.6 tonnes of illicit drugs were seized by local and international law enforcement, the Australian Federal Police reported.

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In the first five months of this year, 17 tonnes have been picked up – mostly cocaine.

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The new package – which will be opt-in for Pacific countries – will include enhanced aerial surveillance, and police and border training.

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“Drug trafficking is having a devastating impact on Pacific communities,” Pacific minister Pat Conroy said.

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“This initiative responds to the calls of regional leaders to do more, and to step up regional coordination to address this scourge.”

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Consent education advocate Chanel Contos will urge Australia to enforce a social media opt-in algorithm to help reduce the influence of the “manosphere” on both men and women.

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Contos will deliver a speech about the harms of social media algorithms in Australia in an address to the National Press Club in Canberra at midday.

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Contos is expected to say:

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This is crucial, and the detail in any reform will determine its success – as will be the overall strength of the proposed Digital Duty of Care reforms that are needed in their own right. It is too easy for Big Tech to design schemes that appear as structural reform but actually suit them just fine.

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The Teach Us Consent CEO will point to examples of algorithmic harms such as the “manosphere”, accusing bad actors of jumping on to “a market opportunity” that has misogyny “at the heart of its business model”.

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It usually starts with something as harmless as a workout video, or motivational content. Very quickly, boys and men are taken into the “manosphere”, communities that persistently promote the idea that emotional control, material wealth, and physical appearance and dominance, especially over women, are markers of male worth.

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This is harmful to the individual man consuming this content, and then anyone else close to him in life, including other men, but disproportionately women and girls.

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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it’ll be Nick Visser with the main action.

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Key events

Patrick Commins

Chalmers hails ‘resilient’ economy, but experts less impressed

Here’s what Jim Chalmers, the treasurer, had to say about this morning national accounts figures which showed economic growth was weak but better than expected in the June quarter:

This is a robust result in challenging international circumstances. It shows the resilience of Australia’s economy in the face of global uncertainty and conflict.

Annual growth in Australia was as strong or stronger than every major advanced economy – equal to the United States and much stronger than the rest.

While global circumstances are challenging and people are under pressure, we’ve got a lot going for us and we can see some of this reflected in today’s figures.

And here are a couple of (less positive) early impressions from economists: Stephen Smith, a partner at Deloitte Access Economics, said:

Today’s national accounts data confirm that the Australian economy is going sideways.

Without the spending on motor vehicles, household consumption growth would have been closer to just 0.1% in the quarter – far too weak to suggest households are shrugging off cost-of-living challenges.

Today’s accounts show too little growth and too much inflation.

Brendan Rynne, chief economist at KPMG, said:

The latest national accounts data … reveals an Australian that is at the crossroads.

Growth is stalling, it is cheaper to hire people than it is to invest in capital, productivity is continuing to go backwards, wages are falling in real terms and the ‘free gift’ that improving terms of trade offers has reversed.

These results continue to raise the bigger policy picture of what needs to happen differently to turn around Australia’s declining standard of living.

The outlook can best be summarised as continuing to muddle along.