Most of major newspapers in Australia have covered in today's edition the report that superannuation funds that persistently underperform should be stripped of their licences to help boost Australians' retirement savings.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Australians entering the workforce would be up to $533,000 better off in
retirement under plans to weed out poorly performing superannuation funds and
force regulators to focus on the interests of consumers.
Sydney house rents have fallen on an annual basis for the first time
in 12 years, with the city losing its title of the most expensive rental city to
Canberra.
The Morrison government's proposal for a national register that would make
public the names, faces and postcodes of paedophiles and other sex offenders has
met scepticism from the states, with the NSW government expressing "preliminary
concerns".
The Daily Telegraph
Parents are being slugged for classroom basics such as whiteboard
markers, rolls of paper towels and even hand soap as cash-strapped NSW public
school principals try to save money.
Aussie workers would retire more than $530,000 richer under a radical
plan to overhaul the country's broken superannuation system. If the new plan
from the Productivity Commission was acted on immediately, even a current
55-year-old worker could retire with an extra $79,000 in the bank.
The eight-year dominance of the Liberal/Nationals is facing its biggest
challenge at the upcoming state election in March, with the Coalition only
needing to lose six seats to be forced into a minority government.
The Courier Mail
Patients are being dumped in hospital corridors in what nurses claim is
an attempt to mask widespread ambulance ramping and "dodgy" up efficiency data.
Fears the practice will lead to deaths have prompted desperate nurses to take
legal action to try to save lives.
School students can get into teaching degrees at Queensland
universities with OPs as low as 17.
The West Australian
WA grain growers are poised to deliver the State a massive economic
stimulus of more than $6 billion on the back of soaring prices and a near-record
harvest, it can be revealed. In what is being described as a once-in-a-lifetime
windfall, the State's second-biggest crop - of more than 17.2 million tonnes -
has turned into its most valuable.
Wildlife volunteers who come to the aid of sick animals will be
slugged $250 for a licence and then a further $110 every year in the latest
McGowan Government cash grab.
A nine-year-old boy allegedly locked in a supermarket storeroom for more than 20
minutes was distraught when he was finally freed, his outraged family claimed
yesterday.
