SBS Korean Program analyses and sums up the top stories featuring today in the Australia's mainstream newspapers.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Chinese spies are the prime suspects in an unprecedented hack of Australia's
political parties that could have exposed information about voters and private
data of MPs ahead of the federal election.
A Federal Circuit Court judge who jailed a father of two for a maximum of 12
months for contempt of court in family law proceedings has been blasted by the
Family Court for committing a "gross miscarriage of justice".
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has committed nearly $1 billion towards upgrading
two Sydney hospitals and slashing elective surgery waiting times.
The Daily Telegraph
A man who died in a suspected Sydney home invasion won the Asia's Strongest Man
competition in 2017. Bradley Soper's family and friends are baffled over how he
came to be inside the Harrington Park home of Johan Schwartz.
Police have launched a new wave of charges against music festival revellers
caught driving home under the influence of drugs after a rave where a man died
of an overdose. Fifty-nine people will be charged with driving with MDMA in
their system after leaving the Lost Paradise festival near Gosford on the New
Year's weekend.
The Age
Chinese spies are the prime suspects in an unprecedented hack of Australia's
political parties that could have exposed information about voters and private
data of MPs.
Owners of buildings covered in highly flammable materials are being ordered to
move smoke alarms closer to danger zones as a stop-gap measure to prevent deadly
fires from spreading.
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann's flights for a family holiday to Singapore
were paid for by a travel company controlled by Liberal Party treasurer Andrew
Burnes within weeks of that company winning a $1 billion contract from Senator
Cormann's department.
The Australian Electoral Commission has declared activist group GetUp! is not
associated with any political party, defying conservatives who argued it should
be treated as an arm of Labor and the Greens.
The Australian
Households will pay nearly $2 billion for rooftop solar installation subsidies
this year, costing every home nearly $200 and threatening to derail Scott
Morrison's pledge to cut power bills.
Veteran union boss and Labor powerbroker Dave Hanna allegedly filmed an
unconscious woman while he raped her hours after they met briefly in an inner-
city Brisbane nightclub.
The Financial Review
An irate corporate sector has taken a swipe at the Morrison government for
caving in to Labor and the Nationals and supporting a bill making it easier for
small business to take legal action against big business.
Bill Shorten's political strategy to keep Adani's controversial $2 billion
Carmichael mine out of the spotlight before the federal election has imploded,
with a key union boss accusing the Palaszczuk Labor government of deliberately
delaying approvals for the mine before the May poll.
The outlook for growth among the major banks remains clouded after Westpac
posted a first-quarter update showing flat profits, sustained margin pressure
and a slight deterioration in asset quality. The unexpected release of a
quarterly update came as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission
said it would continue to pursue Westpac over a campaign for its superannuation
arm.
