SBS Korean Progam anslyeses and sums up the top stories featuring today in the Australia's mainstream newspapers.
The Sydney Morning Herald:
Reforms that would give new workers an extra $500,000 by retirement are set to
face resistance under a Labor government after the party criticised a key
recommendation of a landmark three-year review into the $2.8 trillion
superannuation sector.
Girls' confidence tends to fall below boys' from about the age of nine and the
gap doesn't close until they are elderly. But groundbreaking Australian research
has found one group bucking that trend - girls at single-sex schools. A study
involving 10,000 students found no significant differences in self-confidence
between girls and boys in gender segregated high schools.
The proportion of graduates in full-time employment four months after finishing
their degrees has plummeted over the past decade to 72.9 per cent last year from
as high as 85.2 per cent in 2008, according to the 2018 Graduate Outcomes
Survey.
The Age:
Key sections of the Great Ocean Road are at risk of being washed away, raising
safety fears and calls for the Andrews government to reroute parts of the world-
renowned tourist road.
Detainees at a high-security Melbourne detention centre say they have launched a
hunger strike, with up to 200 men protesting what they describe as brutal
conditions in the new compound.
A third of the nation's 76 senators swept into power at the 2016 election have
resigned, retired, been kicked out by the High Court or dumped by their own
colleagues, as major parties prepare to pick up as many as six seats from
crossbenchers at this year's federal election.
The Daily Telegraph:
By 2023, every major highway in NSW will be sealed and waterproofed as part of
the state government's multibillion-dollar rural roads cash splash. Since it was
elected in 2011, the coalition has spent $31.9 billion on improving regional
roads, with $7.2 billion of that in the past four years.
Magistrate Dominique Burns, who put a teenager in the cells in order to "give
him a bit of a scare", has been found guilty of misbehaviour by the NSW Judicial
Commission.
Massive orange road barriers crippling the livelihoods of scores of business
owners remain throughout inner Sydney construction zones, flagging the continued
delays dogging the city's embattled $2.1 billion light rail project.
The Advertiser:
The number of burst water mains surged almost 20 per cent over the past year,
with 3940 pipes rupturing across the state, causing chaos for residents,
commuters and business owners. Water Minister David Speirs has vowed to continue
to demand SA Water take additional action to stop pipe breaks and leaks, after
they increased by 778 on 2017's result.
A new drug created from Australian research has significantly slowed the
progression of motor neurone disease. The trial of the copper-delivery capsule
in 32 patients was partly funded by AFL legend Neale Daniher's Fight MND
Foundation and is the result of 15 years of research and testing from Parkville
institutes, in Melbourne.
The Mercury
Blackmans Bay beach has closed and other Hobart beaches face possible closure
after water tests found elevated faecal contamination in the River Derwent.
Water tests conducted by the state government-partnered Derwent Estuary Program
yesterday revealed beaches across the river were unsafe for swimming or needed
retesting due to extremely high results.
Greater Hobart mayors have rubbished suggestions their ratepayers should
partially fund the Taste of Tasmania.
The development application for the University of Tasmania's temporary student
accommodation village at Sandy Bay shows it could be there for the next five
years.
Tasmania has again been thrust into the international spotlight after the state
was named one of the top 10 wine travel destinations of 2019 by wine lifestyle
magazine Wine Enthusiast.
