SBS Korean Program analyses and sums up the top stories featuring today in the Australia's mainstream newspapers.
The Daily Telegraph
Pauline Hanson has smacked down sensational claims she sexually harassed fellow
Senator Brian Burston, calling accusations she propositioned him over two
decades a "load of bloody rubbish".
Activist doctors are already mobilising to bring up to 300 boat people to
Australia using Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's new medical transfer law as
government MPs warned that "the beast was stirring" - a reference to chatter
among people smugglers.
The Age
Informer 3838, the key witness in one of the biggest scandals in Victorian legal
history, may no longer be compelled to give evidence in the royal commission
that begins tomorrow.
Some of Melbourne's busiest rail lines are in urgent need of capacity upgrades,
Infrastructure Australia has said, warning that public transport congestion in
the city will hit the Australian economy if left to worsen.
The Morrison government is preparing to remove 300 refugees from Manus Island
and Nauru in the first wave of medical transfers under a divisive new law that
has sparked a political storm over the risk of boat arrivals resuming.
The Courier-Mail
United Australia Party Senator Brian Burston has sensationally claimed that
unwanted sexual advances by Pauline Hanson over two decades were a factor in his
decision to quit One Nation last year. Ms Hanson hit back yesterday, calling the
claims "a load of bloody rubbish".
Queenslanders are being asked for their views on euthanasia as part of a
historic and wide-ranging review into aged, palliative and terminally ill care.
The Advertiser
More than half of all Year 1 students who took part in the state's first full-
scale early reading check did not meet the expected standard, and more than 560
children could not read a single word correctly.
Adelaide Zoo fears losing its biggest drawcards, giant pandas Fu Ni and Wang
Wang, unless the Federal Government can assist with funding to stop them being
sent back to China.
The West Australian
Prosecutors are today set to argue why they believe Bradley Robert Edwards is
the Claremont serial killer. At a pre-trial directions hearing in the Supreme
Court, the State's deputy Director of Public Prosecutions will argue why she
should be able to use so-called "propensity evidence" against Mr Edwards.
WA's top union bosses have backed potentially an economy destroying push by the
militant maritime union to review all BHP mining licences in the State amid an
outcry over the sacking of local shipping workers.
