Erin Patterson confirms she is going to enchantment
Nino Bucci
Legal professionals for Erin Patterson have confirmed she is going to enchantment her convictions.
Patterson’s barrister, Richard Edney, confirmed she would enchantment throughout a listening to on Thursday morning.
The listening to continues.
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William Summers
No less than 29 Individuals have sought asylum in Australia because the second Trump presidency started
Dozens of Individuals are looking for asylum in Australia as their US homeland turns into more and more fractured and politically unstable throughout Donald Trump’s second presidency.
No less than 29 US residents utilized for humanitarian safety visas within the first six months since Trump’s return to the White Home in January 2025, in accordance with Division of Dwelling Affairs figures obtained beneath freedom of data legal guidelines.
The deputy chief government of the Asylum Seeker Useful resource Centre (ASRC), Jana Favero, stated the centre had additionally seen a rise within the variety of individuals from the US calling its helplines for recommendation on tips on how to declare safety:
We’re deeply involved concerning the growing assaults on human rights in the US, and particularly the focusing on of the LGBTIQ+ group.
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Arrest warrant issued for rapper after petrol station taking pictures in Sydney
NSW police issued a warrant for the arrest of a rapper after two males allegedly jumped out of a stolen Porsche and gunned down an underworld determine at a petroleum station final yr, AAP experiences.
Police utilized for a warrant this month for Harley Johan, 31, who goes by the rap identify YC Ewzy. He’s believed to be abroad.
The taking pictures of 31-year-old Niddal Acherkouk passed off at a BP within the central Sydney suburb of Surry Hills after he’d completed having dinner at a close-by Turkish restaurant in November 2024.
Acherkouk had parked his automobile on the gas station when police allege he was ambushed by two masked gunmen, who shot him after he tried to flee. He was handled by paramedics, however died on the scene.
The assault was captured on CCTV and launched by NSW police on Thursday as they enchantment for public assist to establish the alleged perpetrators.
Erin Patterson confirms she is going to enchantment
Nino Bucci
Legal professionals for Erin Patterson have confirmed she is going to enchantment her convictions.
Patterson’s barrister, Richard Edney, confirmed she would enchantment throughout a listening to on Thursday morning.
The listening to continues.
Nino Bucci
Erin Patterson case again in court docket
Mushroom assassin Erin Patterson’s case returns to Melbourne’s supreme court docket on Thursday.
Patterson just isn’t anticipated to attend the transient listening to however might be monitoring by way of video hyperlink.
Legal professionals for Patterson have utilized to range a suppression order within the case, extending the date of expiry to three November.
On 8 September, Patterson was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole interval of 33 years for the murders of Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson and the tried homicide of Ian Wilkinson.
Patterson is but to verify if she is going to enchantment in opposition to the conviction or sentence in her case.
Sometimes, such appeals have to be lodged inside 28 days, which means it have to be lodged earlier than the tip of subsequent week.
However as of 1 October, the court docket is trialling an extension of the time allowed to enchantment. An extension of not more than an additional 28 days can now be granted.
Defence drive joins seek for lacking four-year-old in South Australia
The Australian defence drive will be part of the continuing seek for a lacking four-year-old boy named Gus in South Australia.
The boy was final seen at his household’s property about 40km from the city of Yunta on Saturday night. He’s described as having lengthy blond curly hair and was final seen sporting a gray solar hat, a blue T-shirt with a yellow Minion on it and light-weight gray pants and boots.
Forty-eight personnel from the ADF will be part of a large group of searchers, together with plane, mounted operations and search canine.
The boy’s household launched a press release yesterday saying they have been “devastated by the disappearance of our beloved Gus”:
This has come as a shock to our household and pals, and we’re struggling to understand what has occurred.
Gus’s absence is felt in all of us, and we miss him greater than phrases can categorical. Our hearts are aching, and we’re holding on to hope that he might be discovered and returned to us safely.
Fireplace bans stretch throughout south-east Queensland earlier than lengthy weekend
Queensland Fireplace Division has imposed an area hearth ban for a lot of the state’s south-east going into the lengthy weekend, with officers warning present circumstances in lots of areas are “excellent for bushfires to ignite and unfold shortly”.
Current bans apply from simply south of Rockhampton to the NSW border, overlaying Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast, and in in the direction of Toowoomba and the Western Downs area. Separate bans apply inland from Townsville. The bans notice:
Beneath an area hearth ban all open fires are prohibited and all Permits to Mild Fireplace which have been issued within the designated areas have been suspended throughout the ban.
Most of the bans are anticipated to stay till at the least Sunday evening, with some extending past.
Q: Can you could have a campfire throughout a fireplace ban?
A: NoIn case you plan on pitching a tent for the lengthy weekend, please test hearth restrictions in your vacation spot.
Fireplace bans are in place for a lot of areas throughout Queensland for the ultimate days of the varsity holidays.
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— Queensland Fireplace Division (@QldFireDept) October 1, 2025
Patrick Commins
Tech and streaming giants paid simply $254m in tax regardless of incomes a collective $15bn
Amazon, Google, Meta (proprietor of Fb and Instagram), Netflix and Disney collectively paid simply $254m in tax in Australia final yr, regardless of incomes a collective $15bn in income, in accordance with the Australian Financial Review.
“We’re paying shut consideration and centered on tax paid within the tech trade,” Sams stated.
Australia has applied country-by-country rules that from this monetary yr would require worldwide companies working in Australia to publicly disclose a breakdown of their actions by jurisdiction – together with income, tax paid, the variety of workers, and associated get together income.
The ATO report additionally confirmed the variety of corporations paying the petroleum assets hire tax (PRRT) jumped from 11 to 16 in 2023-24, versus the prior yr, as new guidelines capping deductions got here into impact.
Regardless of extra companies paying the tax, whole PRRT collections dropped by a fifth, from $1.9bn final yr to $1.5bn this yr, which the ATO stated was “largely because of decreased manufacturing and decrease oil costs”.
Regardless of the current tweak, many economists and consultants have criticised the PRRT scheme, saying it doesn’t seize practically sufficient tax from massively worthwhile gasoline corporations.
NSW authorities raises cap on main occasions in Sydney’s Centennial Park
Penry Buckley
The NSW authorities says a rise of the cap on main occasions in Sydney’s Centennial Park will assist the town’s night-time economic system get better from “a decade of lockouts after which lockdowns”.
The adjustments, which can take impact forward of the 2026 season, will imply the variety of occasions attracting greater than 20,000 individuals will improve from eight to 12 every year.
Giant-scale cultural, sporting and music occasions will proceed to be held on the park’s Brazilian Fields. The federal government says it’s investigating infrastructure and transport enhancements to cut back disruption for different park customers.
The NSW arts minister, John Graham, says lifting the cap will assist “restore Sydney again to its 2000 Olympics heyday”:
With extra occasions occurring, we’re encouraging the chance for occasions to return to again over a single weekend.
Meaning they’ll share infrastructure and scale back prices, which ought to imply decrease prices for occasion organisers and the general public. It’s a really sensible method of preserving prices down.
Patrick Commins
Extra particulars from ATO’s company tax transparency report
Big companies paid greater than $100bn in tax for the second yr in a row, though that was barely down from the earlier yr as decrease commodity costs dragged on mining and vitality sector income.
The ATO stated that 28% of companies incomes greater than $100m paid zero tax, the bottom share within the report’s 11-year historical past and down from 36% in 2013-14.
The best share of corporations paying zero tax have been within the mining, vitality and water phase, at practically 40%, which the ATO stated was “because of elements equivalent to unstable commodity costs and prolonged lead instances earlier than initiatives turn into income producing”.
Getting multinational corporations, and significantly tech corporations, to pay their fair proportion of tax stays a excessive precedence for the tax workplace.
Sams stated 70% of the ATO’s present disputes relate to “international-related get together dealings and cross-border investments and constructions” – disputes associated to worldwide companies shifting income out of Australia to guardian or associated corporations in decrease taxing jurisdictions.
Shadow vitality minister didn’t tour any renewables services throughout US fact-finding journey
Dan Tehan, the shadow minister for vitality and emissions discount, stated he didn’t tour any renewable vitality services throughout his fact-finding journey to the US.
Tehan was requested about his journey on RN Breakfast, throughout which he stated he found a “nuclear renaissance”. Host Barbara Miller requested:
Nuclear makes up a bit lower than 20% of the US is energy technology there. Renewables, barely extra. Did you tour any renewables services?
“I didn’t,” Tehan replied.
The shadow minister stated he spoke with nuclear consultants and stated the “clear” message was that nuclear can work “aspect by aspect with renewables”.
It simply makes absolute sense for us to allow nuclear to be a part of our vitality equation going ahead, particularly given the truth that it’s emissions impartial.
Krishani Dhanji
A number of boats within the Gaza flotilla have been intercepted and boarded
The International Sumud Flotilla experiences that a number of of its boats have been intercepted and boarded by Israeli naval forces.
Their social media states their cameras are offline and communications have been intercepted. Their dwell monitoring and livestream pages are each at the moment down.
We have now reached out with two Australians who Guardian Australia spoke to yesterday and are ready to listen to again.
There are six Australian on board the greater than 40 ship flotilla which has been attempting to get humanitarian support to Gaza.
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Australian aboard humanitarian flotilla describes expertise as Israel begins intercepting boats
Juliet Lamont, an Australian on board a vessel within the pro-Palestinian flotilla off the coast of Gaza, described her expertise as Israel started intercepting some boats.
Lamont spoke to RN Breakfast
I can really feel that my coronary heart goes just like the clappers, and I needs to be feeling, you already know, usually your physique offers your self these alerts, so you ought to be freaking out. However I imply, I really feel outstanding. Calm. I’ve by no means been in, I’ve by no means been intercepted.
Oh, they’re coming once more. Sorry, I’m going to need to most likely put my fingers up.
Lamont stated the humanitarian group had “the data that we’re doing the appropriate factor, and that’s a extremely fortifying and type of a fantastic factor, actually”.
The collective resolution with the flotilla is we’d go forward regardless, that we’re not going to bow and cower to their calls for as a result of this isn’t an unlawful factor. To ship humanitarian support to a rustic that’s struggling a genocide just isn’t an unlawful factor to do.
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A 3rd of massive corporations paid no tax in monetary yr earlier than final
Patrick Commins
Practically three in 10 massive corporations paid no tax within the monetary yr earlier than final, in accordance with the Australian Taxation Workplace’s newest company tax transparency report.
Michelle Sams, an assistant commissioner on the ATO, stated “we all know there are authentic explanation why some corporations pay little or no tax”.
Corporations might have reported a loss for the monetary yr, or used tax offsets or losses from earlier years to cut back their taxable incomes.
However Sams might provide little additional perception into whether or not there have been too few or too many companies which earned greater than $100m however paid no tax in 2023-24.
I don’t assume that’s one thing you may reply in absolute phrases, there isn’t any proper quantity.
What we will do is guarantee you that we now have devoted packages of labor these taxpayers, and we now have excessive ranges of confidence that the majority massive companies pay the correct amount of tax.
And the place we see little or no tax paid we pay significantly shut consideration.
Kelly Burke
Web zero isn’t working and nuclear ‘can exchange gasoline and coal’, Tehan says
Tehan stated Labor’s coverage of web zero wasn’t working and the opposition confronted the problem of presenting a substitute for the Australian individuals – and to colleagues inside his personal get together equivalent to Jacinta Nampijinpa Worth and Andrew Hastie, who has threatened to give up cupboard if the get together doesn’t dump web zero.
“Nobody is saying … that renewables shouldn’t be a part of the combo,” he stated, when requested about Australia’s potential for photo voltaic and wind energy.
However what everyone knows is that you simply want baseload energy as nicely … and what nuclear can do is present that [baseline] over time. It might exchange gasoline and coal.
Tehan disagreed together with his former get together colleague Mathias Cormann, secretary normal of the OECD, who lately stated Australia was on observe to satisfy its renewable targets, regardless of the current flatlining of emissions.
That’s Mathias’s view and he’s doing an excellent job over in France on the OECD. What I’m coping with is the fact right here on the bottom … and we’re listening to from a variety of consultants that that 2030 goal gained’t be met.
What I wish to know is, with regards to truly addressing emissions discount, if you’ve obtained a confirmed expertise, why gained’t you even take into account it, with regards to nuclear.
Dan Tehan hails international ‘nuclear renaissance’
Kelly Burke
The Liberal’s shadow minister for vitality and emissions discount, Dan Tehan, has put nuclear vitality again on the agenda, after getting back from a fact-finding journey within the US the place he stated he found a “nuclear renaissance”.
When requested by Sarah Ferguson on ABC’s 7.30 final evening if he meant to exchange Peter Dutton’s former nuclear coverage with a brand new nuclear one, Tehan stated he had briefed his get together colleagues on Monday and a coverage was nonetheless being formulated.
“Having seen this nuclear renaissance, and particularly the technological advances happening, using tremendous computing to drive this expertise, using AI to drive this expertise, I’ve little doubt that my colleagues, like I do, see very a lot a future for nuclear as a part of our vitality combine right here in Australia,” he stated.
“And I’ve little doubt that the US authorities would like to, like they have with the United Kingdom, enter into some type of settlement with us, so like we’re with nuclear-powered submarines, we’ve obtained in depth cooperation between the US, the UK and Australia, they wish to do the identical with regards to civil nuclear vitality.”
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The Liberal’s shadow minister for vitality and emissions discount, Dan Tehan, informed ABC’s 7.30 final evening that the Coalition might reboot the nuclear vitality coverage as he hailed a “nuclear renaissance” after a go to to the US. Extra developing.
Practically three in 10 massive corporations paid no tax within the monetary yr earlier than final, in accordance with figures launched by the Australian Taxation Workplace this morning. Large corporations paid greater than $100bn in tax for the second yr in a row, though that was barely down from the earlier yr. The large tech companies paid tax equal to lower than 2% of their income. Extra particulars developing.
