SBS Korean Progam anslyeses and sums up the top stories featuring today in the Australia's mainstream newspapers.
The Age
Labor leader Bill Shorten's pledge to give underperforming superannuation funds
their "marching orders" threatens to strip some of Australia's most powerful
union leaders of hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonus pay-packets, setting
up a pre-election clash with his most influential supporters.
Some of Victoria's brightest students want to be teachers, with the average ATAR
required for education degrees jumping to 76.2 this year. It is significantly
higher than the ATAR benchmark of 70 set by the Andrews government as part of
its push to boost teaching standards.
The Daily Telegraph
Animal activists sent emails to live export workers appealing for them to leak
footage of cruelty on ships with promises of lucrative payments. So-called
whistleblowers even offered to cut off ventilation and switch off the exhaust
fan to distress sheep on voyages in order to receive the payments on offer from
Animals Australia.
The great Aussie barbecue is feeling the burn, with a group of British academics
keen to curb climate change by chopping down the size of meat serves to just a
14g mouthful per person per day.
Sexual misconduct incidents have increased by two thirds in NSW schools as
teachers and students chat more frequently online outside of school hours.
The Advertiser
Surfer Gethyn Singleton saved a drowning man in a gruelling 40-minute rescue but
was unaware the foreign father had been trying to save a teenager still lost at
sea off the state's South Coast.
Sex predator Vivian Frederick Deboo has asked the state's highest court to
overturn his six-year prison term and allow him to serve it in the comfort of
his home, alongside his wife.
The Courier-Mail
The dreams of more than 8000 school leavers were realised yesterday when they
received an offer to study their chosen university course. Medicine, nursing and
business were the most in-demand degrees. As part of the major round of offers,
the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre revealed the minimum OP score required
for an invitation into each degree.
An audit of a $443 million government grant to protect the Great Barrier Reef
has revealed administrative overheads could chew through $86 million of public
funding.
Speed limits have been set for three major southeast Queensland highway upgrades
due for completion before the end of 2020.
The Mercury
A small army of firefighters supported by aircraft is battling 72 bushfires
across the state - including crews at Gell River, above - and fireys are bracing
for more in coming days. An "Emergency Warning" was issued yesterday for a fire
on the Central Plateau, but it was later downgraded to "Watch and Act".
Greens senator Nick McKim has offered to hold citizenship ceremonies for
Tasmanian councils that ignore the Federal Government's demand to hold them on
Australia Day.
