Sydney man charged with allegedly trafficking 17-year-old child from Indonesia
A Sydney man has been chargedwith allegedly trafficking a child from Indonesia, as the Australian Federal Police says it has removed seven potential victims from sexual exploitation.
The 43-year-old Arncliffe man is expected to appear before Downing Centre court today after a complex AFP-led investigation in Australia and Indonesia.
The man has been charged with one count of trafficking in children, carrying a maximum penalty of 25 years, and was arrested at his Arncliffe home this month.
It will be alleged he facilitated the transportation of a 17-year-old from Indonesia to Sydney to engage in sex work.
The investigation began in December 2022 after the AFP received intelligence alleging foreign nationals were arriving in Australia and being forced into sexual servitude in breach of their visa conditions.
Investigators identified the Arncliffe man as the alleged on-shore facilitator for multiple women who had arrived in Australia and subsequently engaged in sex work. A woman in Jakarta was identified as allegedly helping recruit women to travel to Australia.
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The 43-year-old Arncliffe man is expected to appear before Downing Centre court today after a complex AFP-led investigation in Australia and Indonesia.
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The man has been charged with one count of trafficking in children, carrying a maximum penalty of 25 years, and was arrested at his Arncliffe home this month.
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It will be alleged he facilitated the transportation of a 17-year-old from Indonesia to Sydney to engage in sex work.
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The investigation began in December 2022 after the AFP received intelligence alleging foreign nationals were arriving in Australia and being forced into sexual servitude in breach of their visa conditions.
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Investigators identified the Arncliffe man as the alleged on-shore facilitator for multiple women who had arrived in Australia and subsequently engaged in sex work. A woman in Jakarta was identified as allegedly helping recruit women to travel to Australia.
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The Port Macquarie Hastings Lifeguards have shared a statement to social media, following a shark attack at North Shore beach on the NSW mid-north coast today.
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It said lifeguards responded to a “serious shark attack” around 11am, where “some members of public and a fellow surfer were rendering assistance by using makeshift tourniquets.”
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Beaches between North Shore and Lighthouse Beach (Tacking Point) are closed and will remain closed for at least 24 hours.
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A Port Macquarie beach is “closed until further notice following a serious shark incident today”, according to NSW Shark Smart.
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The notice comes amid reports of a man suffering a leg injury after a shark attack at North Shore beach on the mid-north coast, New South Wales.
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A tagged white shark was detected in the area earlier today.
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More to come.
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DPI Fisheries advise: tagged White Shark #1677 detected by Port Macquarie receiver at 06:07:55 AM (AEST) on 23-July-2024. Last detected at 12:43:59 AM (AEST) on 25-May-2024 by Stanwell Park receiver.Tagged and released 12-October-2022(AEDT) at Warilla Beach, Warilla.
— SharkSmart (@NSWSharkSmart) July 22, 2024
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Tasmanian police have launched a search operation after an experienced bushwalker did not make contact with friends as planned following a multi-day hike.
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The man in his 20s set off for the hike along the Eastern Arthurs Traverse, in the Southwest national park, last Tuesday.
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He was due to finish the walk over the weekend, police said, but has not made contact with friends as planned and was last heard from on Friday.
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The Westpac rescue helicopter is being used as part of the search effort.
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The Queensland premier, Steven Miles, has slammed the state opposition for using AI to produce a fake video on TikTok.
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As we flagged earlier, the video shows the premier dancing to Closer by Ne-Yo, with a caption over the video reading, “POV: my rent is up $60 a week, my power bill is up 20%, but the Premier made a sandwich on TikTok,” with a disclaimer: “Creator has labelled as AI-generated.”
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Miles argued the video “represents a turning point for our democracy”.
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Until now we’ve known that photos could be doctored or photoshopped. But we’ve been trained to believe what we see in video, and for a political party now to be willing to use AI to make deepfake attack videos, it’s a very dangerous turning point. And that means that Queenslanders between now and October will have to question everything that they see from the LNP and ask themselves, is this real? Or is this a deepfake?
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He promised that Labor wouldn’t use its own form of AI-generated content for election advertising.
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The CrowdStrike president, Michael Sentonas, has spoken with Sky News Australia, following last week’s global outage that saw 8.5m devices affected:
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On Friday during the outage, thousands of flights were cancelled, broadcasters were forced off air, healthcare appointments disrupted and millions of PCs failed to start after CrowdStrike’s software update inadvertently crippled devices using the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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Sentonas “deeply” and “personally” apologised for what occurred and said “we got this very wrong”:
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We understand the disruption and the distress we caused a lot of people … The update that we put out, obviously as I said, we got wrong with some logic in that update. We’ve been using that technique for the better part of a decade and in this case, we made that mistake …
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He said conversations about losses and compensation “has to happen” but the immediate focus is on remediation.
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It seems deepfake content has reached the Queensland election.
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Last week, the Liberal National Party posted an AI video of Steven Miles on their TikTok account, showing the premier dancing to ‘Closer’ by Ne-Yo.
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A caption over the video reads, “POV: my rent is up $60 a week, my power bill is up 20%, but the Premier made a sandwich on TikTok,” and the video has a disclaimer: “Creator has labelled as AI-generated.”
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Miles is an avid TikTok user and regularly shares videos of himself chatting to the camera about state government policy, while making a sandwich.
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In a statement to the ABC, Miles said that it was “appalling and disgusting” the state opposition leader, David Crisafulli, had “stooped to using AI and deep fake videos to attack me.”
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Mr Crisafulli needs to explain why he thinks this is OK. It’s a test of his character. In a time when misinformation is everywhere, we as politicians have a duty to communicate with our audiences and to voters clearly and honestly.
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Separately in May, the Australian Electoral Commission said it expected AI-generated misinformation at the next federal election, but warned that it doesn’t have the tools to detect or deter it. You can read more on this below:
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And hello! Thanks to Martin for kicking things off for us. I’m Emily Wind, and I’ll be taking you through our rolling coverage for most of today.
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See something that needs attention on the blog? You can get in touch via X, @emilywindwrites, or you can send me an email: emily.wind@theguardian.com.
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Let’s go.
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A potential first female US president would be a political milestone not just for America but for other democracies like Australia, advocates say, ahead of Kamala Harris’ likely endorsement as candidate in the upcoming election, Australian Associated Press reports.
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President Joe Biden announced he would not seek re-election after mounting pressure to drop out and endorsed Harris as his successor to run against Donald Trump in the presidential election on 5 November.
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While Harris would have to be formally nominated at the Democratic Party’s national convention in August, the chief executive of Women for Election Australia, Licia Heath, said the move would be “significant” for women in politics around the world.
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Heath said:
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Compared with Australia and other western democracies, America is the stand out in terms of being a laggard of having women in the top job.
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America is behind other countries in comparison, and their time is well and truly due.
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(Harris) being vice-president in this particular term and having taken over from the previous administration puts her in a very strong strategic advantage in terms of any future debate with Trump.
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A supporter of Julian Assange has posted a picture of the WikiLeaks founder and his wife, Stella, and their children enjoying a trip to the beach at an unspecified location in Australia.
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The WikiLeaks founder has been keeping a low profile after his dramatic return to a free life in Australia after years in prison in the UK before pleading guilty to a US espionage charge.
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A member of the group Melbourne 4 Assange posted the picture of the family with the following message:
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Good morning and welcome to our rolling news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight yarns before Emily Wind takes over.
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Australia is criminalising disabled children and allegedly keeping them “in cages” in police watch houses, according to the national children’s commissioner. In the latest part of our investigation series In the box, Anne Hollonds calls the situation “absolutely abominable”.
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As momentum continued to mount overnight for Kamala Harris to win the Democratic party nomination for this year’s US presidential race, the chief executive of Women for Election Australia said the move would be “significant” for women in politics around the world”. Licia Heath says the US has been a “laggard” in terms of having a female leader compared with other western nations such as Australia. More follows.
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Australia has recorded its deadliest 12 months on the roads for more than a decade, with 1,310 deaths to 30 June according to the Australian Automobile Association. The shocking figures show that more than one person dies every eight hours in road crashes with the figure up 11.7% on the previous financial year.
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Key events
AAP has some more details on the shark attack at Port Macquarie earlier today:
A man believed to be in his 20s has been rushed to hospital with critical injuries after being attacked by a shark.
Bystanders used makeshift tourniquets to treat the man’s wounds after he was bitten in the leg at North Shore Beach, near Port Macquarie on the NSW mid-north coast.
Emergency services were called to the scene about 11am after reports of shark attack.
The man was taken to Port Macquarie Hospital with a leg injury. He was in a critical but stable condition.
Beachgoers and a surfer were treating the man when lifeguards arrived from nearby Town Beach, Port Macquarie-Hastings lifeguards said in a statement on social media. Nearby beaches will be closed for at least 24 hours.
Lisa Cox
Federal government to award new acreage for offshore petroleum exploration, carbon capture
The Albanese government has announced it will award new acreage for offshore petroleum exploration and carbon capture and storage off western and southern Australia.
The resources minister Madeleine King says the government is finalising permits for Esso and Beach Energy in the Otway and Sorrell basins “with any discovered gas to support the domestic east coast market”.
She says the government is finalising permits for Chevron, INPEX, Melbana and Woodside Energy on Australia’s west coast. The government is also finalising 10 permits for offshore carbon capture and storage exploration.
Climate groups and environment groups reacted quickly to the announcement, with the Wilderness Society describing the release of new petroleum acreage as “reckless” and the Climate Council saying “more gas means more climate pollution harming our kids and more unnatural disasters driving up our costs of living”.
Louise Morris from the Australian Marine Conservation Society says some of the permits would be issued despite strong community opposition to seismic testing in areas such as the Otway Basin:
These permits for exploration for gas and carbon pollution dumping will impact some of the most important areas for our endangered marine life.
She says offshore carbon capture and storage is being used “to prolong the life of the fossil fuel industry”.
King said gas “supply challenges could persist into the mid-2030s unless new sources of gas supply are developed”:
As ageing coal generation comes offline in coming years, gas will continue to be needed to firm renewable energy generation and as a backup during peak energy use periods.
Sydney man charged with allegedly trafficking 17-year-old child from Indonesia
A Sydney man has been chargedwith allegedly trafficking a child from Indonesia, as the Australian Federal Police says it has removed seven potential victims from sexual exploitation.
The 43-year-old Arncliffe man is expected to appear before Downing Centre court today after a complex AFP-led investigation in Australia and Indonesia.
The man has been charged with one count of trafficking in children, carrying a maximum penalty of 25 years, and was arrested at his Arncliffe home this month.
It will be alleged he facilitated the transportation of a 17-year-old from Indonesia to Sydney to engage in sex work.
The investigation began in December 2022 after the AFP received intelligence alleging foreign nationals were arriving in Australia and being forced into sexual servitude in breach of their visa conditions.
Investigators identified the Arncliffe man as the alleged on-shore facilitator for multiple women who had arrived in Australia and subsequently engaged in sex work. A woman in Jakarta was identified as allegedly helping recruit women to travel to Australia.
Members of public and fellow surfer assisted after shark attack: lifeguards
The Port Macquarie Hastings Lifeguards have shared a statement to social media, following a shark attack at North Shore beach on the NSW mid-north coast today.
It said lifeguards responded to a “serious shark attack” around 11am, where “some members of public and a fellow surfer were rendering assistance by using makeshift tourniquets.”
Beaches between North Shore and Lighthouse Beach (Tacking Point) are closed and will remain closed for at least 24 hours.
‘Appalling’: thieves steal first world war memorial honour roll
A Sydney council has lashed the “appalling” disappearance of a bronze honour roll commemorating the service of local residents during the first world war.
As AAP reports, Ku-ring-gai council – in the city’s north – has called in police to investigate the late-night theft from a local park.
The 2m-high bronze plate missing from the gate of Turramurra Memorial Park listed the names of 67 residents, including seven who died in battle. The memorial was opened in 1928 by then-NSW governor Dudley de Chair and was funded through community donations, mayor Sam Ngai said:
It provided an ongoing and solemn reminder of the service of local residents fighting for our nation on faraway battlefields. It is appalling to think that, nearly 100 years on, the roll has been stolen in the dead of night.
Ngai said police were investigating the theft and encouraged any witnesses to come forward. Police have been contacted for comment.
IT outage compensation talk inevitable: CrowdStrike
Back to the fallout from Friday’s global IT outage, with more from AAP:
The outage, which hit an estimated 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide, was caused by a logic flaw in a software update sent by cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike to its customers, the company’s Australian president Michael Sentonas told Sky News (which we covered earlier in the blog here).
Sentonas conceded it would be hard to avoid affected businesses seeking compensation or litigation.
Those conversations have to happen and will happen.
That phase will come after we get our customers remediated.
While the full cost of the outage is difficult to quantify, some experts have estimated the impact to businesses globally at over $1bn, with Business NSW estimating the bill to top $200m in that state alone.
Airline Jetstar was particularly hard hit, with hundreds of cancelled flights leaving thousands of customers stranded.
Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox said it remains to be seen whether businesses would be able to seek compensation, either from CrowdStrike directly or via some form of government redress scheme.
Willox told ABC News:
It’s impacted different businesses and different sectors of the economy in wildly different ways, and the reality is we’re going to be seeing the tailpipe of this for weeks to come.
Man reportedly injured after shark attack at Port Macquarie beach
A Port Macquarie beach is “closed until further notice following a serious shark incident today”, according to NSW Shark Smart.
The notice comes amid reports of a man suffering a leg injury after a shark attack at North Shore beach on the mid-north coast, New South Wales.
A tagged white shark was detected in the area earlier today.
More to come.
DPI Fisheries advise: tagged White Shark #1677 detected by Port Macquarie receiver at 06:07:55 AM (AEST) on 23-July-2024. Last detected at 12:43:59 AM (AEST) on 25-May-2024 by Stanwell Park receiver.Tagged and released 12-October-2022(AEDT) at Warilla Beach, Warilla.
— SharkSmart (@NSWSharkSmart) July 22, 2024
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DPI Fisheries advise: tagged White Shark #1677 detected by Port Macquarie receiver at 06:07:55 AM (AEST) on 23-July-2024. Last detected at 12:43:59 AM (AEST) on 25-May-2024 by Stanwell Park receiver.Tagged and released 12-October-2022(AEDT) at Warilla Beach, Warilla.
— SharkSmart (@NSWSharkSmart) July 22, 2024
Medical devices at risk under 3G closure, inquiry told
Vulnerable people who use emergency medical devices connected to 3G data may slip through the cracks when the ageing mobile network is switched off in coming weeks, AAP reports.
It is not known how many 3G-reliant medical devices, such as personal cardiac alarms, need to be upgraded before the network closure, National Rural Health Alliance chief executive Susi Tegen has told a Senate inquiry into the 3G shutdown.
Tegen said while the federal government was in touch with a major manufacturer of the devices, the public was largely having to rely on information from private medical companies.
Telstra’s written submission to the inquiry acknowledged the challenge of reaching people with medical alarms using 3G sim cards, as they cannot be tracked like phones. The telco has been working with alarm providers, including the aged care sector, to make sure they are upgraded in time.
Snowy Monaro mayor Chris Hanna told the hearing that locals endured communications outages during the Black Summer bushfires and experience mobile black spots on long trips between towns.
We’ve got a lot of farmers out there who are on tractors and big machinery that have had accidents in the past. Our biggest concern is: will they be able to call triple zero?
Fire equipment ‘failure’ during giant factory blaze
Firefighters battling Melbourne’s largest industrial blaze on record have said they had to use broken, dangerous and outdated equipment to fight the flames.
As AAP reports, the United Firefighters Union has said equipment needed by firefighters during the Derrimut factory fire on 10 July was unavailable due to being moved to parts of the city to replace other machinery that was out of service.
One 20-year-old pumper truck failed to produce foam twice during the response and firefighters were forced to use equipment that was slower to set up. The union said this forced firefighters closer to bulk stores of flammable chemicals and the fire grew rapidly during the time it took to establish these positions.
The union’s Victorian secretary Peter Marshall said the equipment issues could be the difference in being able to contain major fires early before they spread or intensify.
You cannot put firefighters into a situation where they haven’t got the tools to do the job. We need to have a rolling replacement program, the government needs to intervene in this. Invest in the fire trucks before one of our members gets injured or worse.
Nearly a quarter of Fire Rescue Victoria’s fleet were involved in fighting the blaze with one-in-two of the vehicles at the scene past their use-by date. A Fire Rescue Victoria spokesperson said more than three million litres of water and 40,000 litres of foam were needed to stop the blaze.
Andrew Messenger
Greens announce plan for Queensland housing developer
The Queensland Greens want to set up a state developer to build 100,000 homes by 2030.
At a press conference this morning, Griffith MP Max Chandler-Mather and state MP Amy MacMahon estimated the policy would cost $60bn over six years.
It’s not the first time the state has led the way out of a housing crisis. State governments built about a quarter of all new dwellings during the period after the second world war. The Queensland Housing Commission developed entire suburbs like Inala, Stafford and Zillmere at the edge of the city during the 40s and 50s.
MacMahon said the organisation would be looking at the 99,000 dwellings across the state where she said private developers had development approval but were “refusing to build”.
For instance, they could take over the stalled AVJennings Caboolture West proposal for 3500 homes in the city’s north.
That’s one potential site, but a public developer would be looking at sites right across Queensland that would be close to transport close to other services.
Four charged in alleged ‘pump and dump’ shares manipulation scheme
Four people have been charged following an alleged “pump and dump” scheme to artificially increase the price of Australian shares before dumping them.
Syed Yusuf, Larissa Quinlan, Emma Summer, and Kurt Stuart were charged in the Downing Centre local court with conspiracy to commit market rigging and false trading, facing a maximum penalty of 15 years’ prison and a fine of more than $1m for market manipulation.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (Asic) alleges that the defendants formed a private group on Telegram to discuss and select penny stocks, before announcing them to a public Telegram group named the “ASX Pump and Dump Group”.
The group has also been charged with dealing with the proceeds of crime in relation to the money they allegedly obtained from selling the shares.
The Asic chair, Joe Longo, said that “market manipulation is illegal”:
Pump and dump schemes are a form of financial fraud, eroding investor wealth, threatening the integrity of our markets and potentially the Australian economy more broadly.
The matter is being prosecuted by the commonwealth director of public prosecutions after a referral from Asic in December 2022. It was adjourned to 30 July in the Downing Centre local court, for a detention application to be made in respect of each of the defendants.
Peter Hannam
Spring shoots as tax cuts start to flow (or will RBA mow them down?)
The RBA wants to see employment hold up but not inflation, and getting the interest rates setting that best delivers that outcome will probably only be known in hindsight.
For now, there’s some evidence of consumers getting a bit more confident, at least according to the ANZ/RoyMorgan weekly survey.
Their gauge rose to a six-month high (with all their main subindices picked up) and even inflation expectations edged slightly lower.
Latest weekly survey by @ANZ_Research and @RoyMorganAus has consumer confidence ticking up to a six-month high. Inflation expectations are moderating a bit too… pic.twitter.com/jCDnSdk6ur
— @phannam@mastodon.green (@p_hannam) July 23, 2024
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The ANZ economists said:
Notably, households’ confidence in their current financial situation was the second-highest since early-2023. This suggests households may be starting to see a boost to their incomes from the Stage 3 tax cuts and other cost-of-living relief measures.
Those tax cuts are also expected to take the edge off households facing mortgage stress, according to a separate Roy Morgan report. Just as well, as their latest report had those borrowers “at risk” and “extremely at risk” of hitting stress rising in June (although still below peaks earlier in 2024).
Mortgage stress remains high, although down a little from peaks earlier in the year. Stage three tax cuts should see the levels ease a bit – provided the jobs market holds up, @RoyMorganAus says. pic.twitter.com/vq3u9RajWL
— @phannam@mastodon.green (@p_hannam) July 23, 2024
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Mortgage stress remains high, although down a little from peaks earlier in the year. Stage three tax cuts should see the levels ease a bit – provided the jobs market holds up, @RoyMorganAus says. pic.twitter.com/vq3u9RajWL
— @phannam@mastodon.green (@p_hannam) July 23, 2024
Michele Levine, Roy Morgan’s CEO, said:
The Stage 3 income tax cuts are delivering significant financial relief, and a boost to take home pay, for millions of Australian taxpayers – including many mortgage holders.
We’ll have to see if that relief is enough over the coming months. One factor will be what the RBA does, with a 14th interest rate rise in the current cycle still only an outside chance when its board next meets on 5-6 August.
The special envoy for disaster recovery, Labor senator Tony Sheldon, is visiting Cairns to assess recovery projects following Tropical Cyclone Jasper.
The cyclone made landfall just north of Port Douglas last December, hitting the coast as a category two cyclone but taking almost five days to move west across Queensland. Many areas recorded more than a metre of rain.
In Cairns to see how recovery projects are progressing after Tropical Cyclone Jasper.
At Holloways Beach, a new bridge is being built to ensure our community is safer and more resilient in the face of future flood events.@cairnscouncil @nemagovau @QReconstruction pic.twitter.com/n3iRLVDPn9
— Senator Tony Sheldon (@TonySheldonNSW) July 23, 2024
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Morning frosts forecast for inland Queensland
Parts of Queensland will wake up to another frosty morning tomorrow, with morning frost forecast inland south of Emerald.
But no frost is expected from Thursday, as temperatures are set to increase and the cold snap will finally break, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
Above average temperatures are forecast across the state from Thursday for several days.
🥶Morning frost is forecast inland south of Emerald on Wednesday. No frost is expected from Thursday as temperatures increase and the cold snap finally breaks! Above average temperatures are forecast across #Qld from Thursday for several days. MetEye: https://t.co/8QnIc7aRJZ pic.twitter.com/hdOepQx61W
— Bureau of Meteorology, Queensland (@BOM_Qld) July 23, 2024
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🥶Morning frost is forecast inland south of Emerald on Wednesday. No frost is expected from Thursday as temperatures increase and the cold snap finally breaks! Above average temperatures are forecast across #Qld from Thursday for several days. MetEye: https://t.co/8QnIc7aRJZ pic.twitter.com/hdOepQx61W
— Bureau of Meteorology, Queensland (@BOM_Qld) July 23, 2024
Two men charged after 10kg of meth allegedly imported from Mexico found in Melbourne storage facility
Two men have been charged and 10kg of methylamphetamine allegedly imported from Mexico has been seized amid an investigation into drug importation.
A joint operation between Victoria police and the Australian Border Force commenced in July after an illicit substance was detected at the border, with 10kg of methylamphetamine allegedly sent via international freight from Mexico to a storage facility in Richmond.
Three search warrants were executed at the facility and residential addresses in St Kilda and Malvern. Around 6kg of MDMA, two gel blaster pistols, a Mercedes-Benz GLC and 11 luxury watches were seized from the St Kilda address.
A 43-year-old St Kilda man was charged with importing a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug, remanded to appear at Melbournes magistrates court on 21 October.
A 42-year-old man with no fixed place of address was charged with attempting to possess a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug, and was bailed to appear before Melbourne magistrates court on 10 November.
Both charges carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
A 44-year-old Malvern woman was arrested but released pending further enquiries. The investigation remains ongoing.
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