SBS Korean Progam anslyeses and sums up the top stories featuring today in the Australia's mainstream newspapers.
The Financial Review
The federal government would host competitive tenders to manage default
superannuation investments for workers to try to deliver higher returns via a
system involving the Future Fund, under an option being canvassed by the
Morrison government.
Fair Work Commission president Iain Ross is sidelining the Morrison government's
new employer-dominated commission appointments to lesser duties in a move some
insiders say is "unprecedented".
ANZ Banking Group has taken a strategic stake in online home loans platform
Lendi. Street Talk understands ANZ paid close to $40 million for a minority
stake, to become Lendi's second-largest strategic shareholder behind fellow
Australian financial services giant Macquarie Group.
The Australian
Wharfies earning up to $150,000 a year for working 33 hours a week will launch
industrial action at Hutchison Ports Australia this week, condemning the loss-
making stevedore's bid to cut their pay and conditions as the "most severe
attack on waterfront conditions in a generation".
Teachers must be given better training to manage classroom discipline, Education
Minister Dan Tehan has said, amid concerns graduates are increasingly unable to
control disruptive and abusive students.
The Sydney Morning Herald
The number of MDMA poisoning cases in NSW over the new year period hit a four-
year high in 2019. There were 115 emergency department presentations in the week
ending January 3.
Independent Cathy McGowan, one of the MPs whose vote could deliver the Morrison
government a humiliating loss on the floor of parliament, is unsure whether to
back a bill to fast-track medical treatment for refugees on Manus Island and
Nauru.
Conservative Australian shoppers started to wind down their use of cash and
credit in the run-up to the key Christmas shopping period, new figures from the
Reserve Bank show amid suggestions this year could see record numbers give up
their credit cards for good.
The Daily Telegraph
Music festivals with a shocking drug death record will be put on a hit list to
be shut down under new government guidelines. Health authorities are
investigating whether any rules were broken following the overdose death of
teenager Alex Ross-King at Saturday's FOMO event.
The Herald Sun
Dying patients will be treated with synthetic "magic mushrooms" in a Melbourne
medical trial that aims to ease the paralysing anxiety felt by many who are in
palliative care.
Yet another toddler has been found trapped inside a locked car, as temperatures
yesterday soared beyond 40C in parts of Melbourne. The 20-month-old boy was
rescued, unhurt about 11am by firefighters who forced their way into the car,
which was parked outside Derrimut Village Shopping Centre.
A measles warning has been issued at Box Hill Hospital after a man was diagnosed
with the highly contagious disease. Health authorities issued an alert yesterday
afternoon for visitors to the hospital, in Melbourne's east, after a man aged in
his 20s developed symptoms last week.
