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- Underlying inflation increases, dampening hopes for mortgage-holders...
- Federal police warn young girls are being hunted by young men online and coerced into acts of violence...
- Cardiff City upset Wrexham at home with a 2-1 win in the League Cup.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has acknowledged that more work needs to be done to ease inflation after an uptick in price growth seen in the latest data.
New numbers from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show underlying inflation has risen to three per cent over the year to September, up from 2.7 per cent in June.
The figures have damages mortgage holders' hopes of an interest rate cut and have revealed a stubborn cost-of-living crisis.
Mr Chalmers says his government must continue to act to help those struggling with the high cost of goods and services.
"Since we came to office inflation has halved and that reflects our efforts to do as much as we responsibly can to help with the cost of living to get the budget in a much better condition than we inherited from those opposite. Now we've made good progress when it comes to a number of the most important indicators in our economy but we do acknowledge that people are still under pressure and we see that in the numbers today."
The new head of the Australian Federal Police warns that young girls are being hunted by young men online who are coercing their vulnerable victims into carrying out acts of violence.
In an address to the National Press Club in Canberra, Krissy Barrett has announced three domestic arrests and 59 alleged offenders identified as members of decentralised online crime networks.
The AFP commissioner has also announced the creation of a new taskforce that will crack down on these networks and perpetrators.
"These crimes are now spilling into the real world and have real-world consequences. While these networks don't have a centralised hierarchy or a single ideology, they are prolific and are attracted to violent extremism, nihilism, sadism, Nazism and Satanism."
Hurricane Melissa has churned toward Cuba's second-largest city with the force of a powerful Category 4 storm, hours after making landfall in Jamaica as the strongest-ever cyclone to hit that Caribbean island nation.
Melissa has caused landslides and widespread flooding across Jamaica, killing at least three people and packing sustained winds of up to 300 kilometres per hour.
In southwestern Jamaica, an official says the parish of St. Elizabeth has been left underwater with more than 500,000 residents without power.
Samuel Zinzan Ziff is an Australian in Jamaica who's experienced the chaos in the capital Kingston.
"God, I think it was like midday today. That's when it actually full on hit Jamaica. So we were just getting all this, we're getting wind and the rain and stuff. And yeah just lots of flooding and we've just had pretty heavy rain and consistent wind."
The hurricane is now forecast to curve to the northeast on a trajectory toward Santiago de Cuba, Cuba's second-most populous city.
A new report released today by SBS and the University of Canberra highlights an overall increase in the sense of belonging for multilingual audiences when compared to the first wave of research published in 2023.
The most significant increase was in the proportion of multilingual audiences that say their needs are being met, with an 8 per cent increase to 69 per cent.
The survey of 1,876 respondents found that 63 per cent of audiences also felt a stronger sense of belonging in Australia when they saw their culture and language had been represented fairly in news coverage.
One researcher and S-B-S staff member Thu Nguyen tells SBS Vietnamese that this media representation can be critical.
"Representation definitely has a role in fostering the sense of belonging and participation amongst the communities. Providing the content that is available in their own language, that would be one of the key needs and that also explains why consistently the multilingual community surveilled in this research expressed much stronger sense of representation when it is about SBS News compared to how they feel about the general news."
In football,
Cardiff City have upset Wrexham at home with a 2-1 win in the League Cup as one of Welsh football's oldest rivalries takes centre stage.
Cardiff have booked a spot in the quarter-finals of the cup after Will Fish struck the winner with his first goal for the League One side in the 71st minute, slotting in at the back post.
Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson had made seven changes from his side with an eye on Friday's home game against Championship leaders Coventry, but it proved costly.
Meanwhile Premier League side Fulham needed penalties to get past third-tier Wycombe Wanderers and Brentford thrashed fourth-tier Grimsby Town 5-0.
