Australia TODAY analyses key issues featuring in major daily newspapers on 10 April.
The Age
Former Liberal Party federal director Brian Loughnane asked Peter Dutton to
consider a request from Chinese Communist Party-aligned billionaire Huang
Xiangmo for special citizenship treatment just prior to Mr Dutton approving the
request.
The Australian
James Packer is eyeing a stunning $10 billion takeover offer to sell his casino
empire to Las Vegas gambling giant Wynn Resorts, effectively farewelling
corporate Australia more than a century after his family rose to dominate its
business landscape.
Queensland Labor has sought to blame the Morrison government for the prospect of
further delays to the stalled Adani coalmine, with the state's Environment
Minister claiming there were still environmental "uncertainities" over the
project.
Liberal MPs have turned up the heat on Bill Shorten for having lunch with the
Chinese Communist Party-linked Huang Xiangmo in 2015 after he gave the Labor
Party $55,000.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Billionaire James Packer's long-held dream of unveiling Crown Resorts' luxury
new casino and hotel complex at Barangaroo is still alive but his ownership
stake may be diminished as it emerged that his casino company is weighing a $10
billion takeover offer.
Slam poetry, a writer in residence, and a culture of reading for pleasure have
led Canterbury Boys' High, where almost 90 per cent of students come from a non-
English-speaking background, to huge improvements in reading.
Tumbling house prices, a slowing economy and cash-strapped households crying out
for a pay increase will confront whoever wins next month's federal election,
with warnings that more financial pain is facing the country.
The Daily Telegraph
Western and southwestern Sydney school students are blitzing NAPLAN tests,
achieving significantly higher results across multiple subject areas compared
with similar schools nationally. Daily Telegraph analysis of the NAPLAN results
of more than 650 schools across Western Sydney found 61 achieved results "above"
or "substantially above" other schools with similar students.
The Courier-Mail
Adani will today letterbox-bomb 130,000 battler households to blame the state
government for stalling thousands of jobs, after the coalminer was yesterday
granted federal approvals,
The Advertiser
South Australian parents want a higher minimum entry standard for teaching
degrees, to attract better candidates to the profession. More than 60 per cent
of nearly 1000 respondents to a survey by a public school parents' group backed
lifting the minimum ATAR to a uniform level across the nation.
The Canberra Times
The ACT government has temporarily shut down 32 construction sites in the past
three months, as part of a renewed crackdown on dodgy building work.
