SBS Korean Program analyses and sums up the top stories featuring today in the Australia's mainstream newspapers.
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Reserve Bank has warned of higher unemployment and lower inflation if house
prices fall further as new figures revealed a 58 per cent drop in property
investment by overseas buyers.
The Daily Telegraph
Forget Chinese hackers. The Daily Telegraph has discovered an unsecured pit on a
main road in Canberra, a few hundred metres from Parliament House, where anyone
with a $150 device could hack into the government's "dark fibre" secure
intranet.
The Age
Australia's US ambassador Joe Hockey asked embassy staff to meet corporate
travel company Helloworld, before it lobbied for government work, even though
the former treasurer is close friends with Andrew Burnes, the company's chief
executive and now a big shareholder.
The Herald Sun
Melbourne chiropractor Dr Andrew Arnold is under investigation after posting
online a video of himself performing controversial spinal treatments on a two-
week-old baby - including hanging the bub upside down.
The Canberra Times
The Catholic Church is unlikely to comply with new child protection laws that
will force them to break the seal of confession to report sexual abuse
allegations, an external review has found.
The Australian
Bill Shorten's mentor, former union leader Bill Ludwig, has blamed a "few
lefties" within Queensland's Labor government for politicising the Adani
coalmine and backed the CFMEU's threatened campaign against federal ALP
candidates who refuse to support the project.
The Courier-Mail
Residents in the southern Brisbane suburb of Salisbury are furious after it was
revealed one of Queensland's worst sex offenders, Robert John Fardon, was living
in a house just a few hundred metres from a school and childcare centre.
The Advertiser
Councils across South Australia will demand funding for 180 "shovel-ready"
projects, from fixing neglected roads to upgrading swimming pools and airports,
in a major lobbying campaign ahead of the federal election.
The West Australian
Authorities were last night refusing to explain how the accused Claremont serial
killer ended up with potentially fatal stab wounds while under guard awaiting
Australia's most complex murder trial.
