SBS Korean Program analyses and sums up the top stories featuring today in the Australia's mainstream newspapers.
The Daily Telegraph
The first time former Labor senator Sam Dastyari met with billionaire
Huang Xiangmo, he expected a dinner in a packed restaurant. Instead the
then-28-yearold new Labor general secretary was stunned to find the Chinese
donor - now believed stranded in Hong Kong after authorities stripped him of his
permanent Australian residency - his translator and himself the sole occupants
of the Dixon St eatery.
The cost of childcare in Sydney has gone through the roof with some
families paying a whopping $200 a day as red tape, soaring lease costs and
staff-child ratios combine to drive up the price of places at early learning
centres.
Children who are overweight by the time they turn two are at greater risk of
obesity-related health problems, such as high cholesterol and blood pressure, in
their teens than those kids who put on weight later, an Australian first study
has found.
The Age
Informer 3838 began working covertly for Victoria Police while she was
still a law student at the University of Melbourne in 1995, more than a decade
before police had previously admitted to recruiting the gangland barrister.
Australia's corporate regulator (ASIC) is on notice to show a
"radical" increase in court actions after the Hayne royal commission, with Labor
warming to a new enforcement agency to prosecute offenders.
The former chief of staff of embattled National Australia Bank boss Andrew
Thorburn allegedly rorted more than $500,000 from the NAB to fund an extravagant
overseas family holiday that included first-class travel and luxury resorts.
The Canberra Times
The ACT's commercial property market is facing a 'perfect storm' that
has already seen investors shun Canberra; amid rising rates, tighter lending
practices and high vacancy rates, an Assembly inquiry has heard.
Thousands of university students are flocking to Canberra and they all need a
roof over their heads. Amid the busiest rental period of the year, accommodation
pressure is being felt both on and off campus.
The CFMEU allegedly pressured migrant workers in Canberra to sign up to the
union using paperwork they did not understand. The Australian Building and
Construction Commission is understood to be examining the case, while
construction union officials have declined to comment.
The Australian
Intelligence agencies are understood to have warned in a classified
briefing to the government that the "third pillar" of the nation's border-
protection architecture - the offshore processing of asylum-seekers - would be
dismantled if Kerryn Phelps' medivac bill becomes law.
Career-destroying charges of drug-trafficking were withdrawn against the former
barrister at the centre of the Lawyer X scandal two years before she was first
registered as a police informant.
Townsville's official flood maps did not predict the inundation
across riverside suburbs where the city council approved swaths of new, ground-
level homes and businesses in recent years.
Secondary students should study books featuring same-sex-attracted characters to
reflect sexual diversity following marriage law changes, a group of English
teachers says.
