SBS Korean Progam anslyeses and sums up the top stories featuring today in the Australia's mainstream newspapers.
The Daily Telegraph
Homeless people have set up a shantytown complete with couches, mattresses and
even an ironing board in the poshest part of the CBD while authorities bicker
over what to do about it. Retailers in the historic Queen Victoria Building,
which is home to high-end fashion boutiques and jewellery stores, have
complained about behaviour at the camp.
The NSW Liberal Party has dumped its candidate for the ultra marginal seat of
Gilmore to make way for Scott Morrison's preferred pick - former ALP president
and indigenous leader Warren Mundine.
The Age
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen says the Senate must accept Labor will have a
mandate to push through tax changes including the overhaul of negative gearing
and capital gains if it wins power, arguing recent government attacks add to his
"moral authority" to change key economic policies.
Australia's former most senior Aboriginal leader, Geoff Clark, and members of
his family are facing more than 1000 new fraud, theft and deception charges
following a major police investigation into more than $2 million in allegedly
stolen funds.
International students who speak little English are struggling to keep up with
their peers at Australian universities, prompting the Victorian government to
call for a review of entry requirements. Premier Daniel Andrews has written to
the National Tertiary Education Union promising to take up the issue of English
entry standards with the federal government.
The Financial Review
President Xi Jinping says he is worried about China's slowing economy, US trade
tensions and potential political instability, urging the country's top Communist
Party officials to be "highly alert" to unexpected risks.
The disendorsed Liberal candidate for the seat of Gilmore, local real estate
agent Grant Schultz, has quit the party over Scott Morrison's move to name
former Labor Party national president Warren Mundine to run at the election and
intends to run as an independent.
Australia's newest bank, Volt, plans to launch savings accounts in March,
transaction cards in May, personal loans by mid-year, and home loans towards the
end of this year, after the prudential regulator awarded it an unrestricted
banking licence, making it the first of a new generation of purely digital banks
to compete with the big four.
The West Australian
The underdog southern suburbs city of Rockingham is set to be added to the
bucket lists of millions of Asian tourists after it was chosen as a location for
the mega-popular Chinese dating TV show Viva La Romance.
Sales commissions paid between BHP and its iron ore marketing company in
Singapore are at the centre of the multimillion-dollar feud between the mining
giant and the state government.
The Perth property market is at its most affordable in more than two decades, as
falling prices and wage growth make entry into the housing market easier for
Perth families.
The Courier-Mail
Highly trained security guards will be brought in to protect doctors and nurses
from violent assaults at one of Queensland's biggest hospitals, after calls for
a "paramilitary style of security" to combat the increasing risk to vulnerable
staff.
Brisbane City Council has put parents on notice ahead of students returning to
school next week. Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said parking inspectors would
concentrate on 10 school zones. The warning comes as figures reveal council
dished out more than 620 fines worth $60,528 in the final term of 2018.
Queensland has seen a 20 per cent jump in the number of people signing on to the
organ donor register in the past year.
