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Australia targets offshore wagering threat with major sporting events on horizon

guardian_world ｜ 2025-10-13 14:00

Sports integrity experts to improve collaboration to combat illegal bettingWomen’s Asian Cup is next global event to come with increased riskThe threat of organised crime and the emergence of new offshore wagering havens in tiny jurisdictions such as Vanuatu will be a focus of Australia’s largest gathering of sports integrity professionals this week, as the nation prepares to host at least one major international sporting event each year in the run-up to the 2032 Brisbane Games.Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) will bring together the codes, law enforcement agencies and wagering companies with the goal of establishing a major events taskforce on Wednesday, after a separate Victoria police summit on Tuesday featuring 200-plus integrity experts. Continue reading...

Keating praises super backdown – but with such a feeble opposition, Labor should spend more political capital

guardian_world ｜ 2025-10-13 14:00

If Albanese and Chalmers are to achieve the intergenerational fairness they say Australia so badly needs, much bigger fights than this will be necessaryFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIt has been clear for a while that something was up on the government’s plans to wind back superannuation concessions for retirement accounts worth more than $3m.Announced way back in February 2023, Labor had gone quiet on the plan to impose an extra 15% tax on earnings for the most well off. Continue reading...

Up to 300,000 Australians will be on aged care waitlist by 2030 under new changes, modelling shows

guardian_world ｜ 2025-10-13 14:00

Expert is forecasting a shortfall of more than 171,000 in-home packages by next June, to grow by about 30,000 places each yearFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAs many as 300,000 elderly Australians will be on the waitlist for assistance at home by 2030, according to new expert modelling of Australia’s redesigned aged care system.Kathy Eagar, a former adviser to the aged care royal commission and a University of New South Wales adjunct professor, has forecast demand for in-home packages under Labor’s changes to the national aged care system, now due to come into force from 1 November. Continue reading...

Albanese urged to ‘secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding

guardian_world ｜ 2025-10-13 14:00

CEO Doug Hilton says the agency’s budget allocation ‘has not kept up with the cost of doing science’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe CSIRO will embark on further cost-cutting to research units in a bid to repair a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall, as Australia’s national science and research agency reckons with an ongoing decline in funding.The institution’s annual funding level as a percentage of GDP has been falling with few exceptions over recent decades and is now at its lowest since 1978, a parliamentary library analysis commissioned by ACT senator David Pocock showed. Pocock requested data from 1980 in the analysis. Continue reading...

Minister urged to release advice amid concern overhaul of NSW housing laws may lead to coalmine approvals

guardian_world ｜ 2025-10-13 14:00

Greens MP Sue Higginson said Icac had confirmed to her it had not reviewed the bill, but had given general advice on some elements of itGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales planning minister, Paul Scully, is under pressure to release details of advice he has sought on corruption risks associated with a major overhaul of the planning system designed to speed up housing.Environmental groups and integrity experts have warned the new planning reforms go well beyond setting up a fast track for housing and would give the minister and his departmental secretary extraordinary powers to wave through development like mines without proper environmental assessment. Continue reading...

value: (CCILta.NS) | Stock Insights & Latest News - Reuters

reuters_business ｜ 2025-10-13 13:57

value: (CCILta.NS) | Stock Insights & Latest News  Reuters

Trump plan to invite Netanyahu to Gaza summit aborted after Erdoğan warning

guardian_world ｜ 2025-10-13 13:56

Turkish president threatens to pull out of Sharm el-Sheikh conference unless Israeli PM’s attendance ruled outGaza ceasefire – live updatesA last-minute plan by Donald Trump to invite Benjamin Netanyahu to a multinational Gaza summit in Egypt had to be aborted after the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said he would not land his plane in Sharm el-Sheikh if the invitation stood.The mid-air power power struggle started after it was announced that the Israeli prime minister had accepted a late invitation from Trump to the conference being jointly chaired by the US president and his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, in Egypt. Continue reading...

Trump salutes mega donor Miriam Adelson for help shaping US decisions on Israel - Reuters

reuters_world ｜ 2025-10-13 13:49

Trump salutes mega donor Miriam Adelson for help shaping US decisions on Israel  Reuters

Madagascar's president has left the country after Gen Z protests, officials say - Reuters

reuters_world ｜ 2025-10-13 13:48

Madagascar's president has left the country after Gen Z protests, officials say  Reuters

US is ready for deal with Iran when Tehran is, Trump says - Reuters

reuters_world ｜ 2025-10-13 13:48

US is ready for deal with Iran when Tehran is, Trump says  Reuters

Gaza will be in the shadow of famine as long as we cannot plant our land

aljazeera_all ｜ 2025-10-13 13:45

Israel destroyed or made inaccessible 98.5 percent of Gaza's agricultural land. My family's olive grove is part of it.

Explainer: What's causing the silver shortage in India this festive season? - Reuters

reuters_world ｜ 2025-10-13 13:34

Explainer: What's causing the silver shortage in India this festive season?  Reuters

Conflict sends 300,000 people fleeing from South Sudan in 2025: UN

aljazeera_all ｜ 2025-10-13 13:30

Renewed fighting between rival leaders forces mass exodus across South Sudan's borders as fears of wider war rise.

Superannuation tax changes: new rules have been proposed for your super – here’s what you need to know

guardian_world ｜ 2025-10-13 13:29

Major changes announced by Jim Chalmers include indexing superannuation balances to inflation and addition of a new threshold taxing balances between $3m and $10mGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Albanese government has dramatically rewritten its major tax policy, caving in to criticism on its controversial superannuation tax plan by raising thresholds and slashing the amount of money it will rake in.After a long period of sustained attack from politicians and lobby groups, the government has conceded defeat on all major criticisms, with the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, saying the policy rewrites would “better target superannuation concessions”. Continue reading...

Pakistani troops on high alert on Afghan border after fighting, trade halts - Reuters

reuters_world ｜ 2025-10-13 13:23

Pakistani troops on high alert on Afghan border after fighting, trade halts  Reuters

France's Macron won't resign, as no-confidence votes threaten his new government - Reuters

reuters_world ｜ 2025-10-13 13:20

France's Macron won't resign, as no-confidence votes threaten his new government  Reuters

Palestinians celebrate return of detainees freed by Israel

bbc_world ｜ 2025-10-13 13:18

Thousands of people gather in Gaza and the West Bank to welcome Palestinian prisoners and detainees freed by Israel.

Dollar bull case? There is one, and it's compelling - Reuters

reuters_business ｜ 2025-10-13 13:14

Dollar bull case? There is one, and it's compelling  Reuters