- Childcare workers in Australia to get a fifteen percent pay rise...
- Counter protesters turn out in their thousands, as anti-immigration riots continue in the UK
- Australia's Tom Craig stripped of his Olympic privileges for buying cocaine in Paris...
Childcare workers across Australia are set to receive a pay rise, if centres agree not to increase their fees by more than 4.4 percent over the next year.
The increase - funded by the government - will be phased in over two years, first by ten percent in December, then by five percent 12 months later.
Workers paid at the award rate would see wages increase by over $150 a week by December 2025.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the increase reflects the value of these workers.
"This 15 percent pay increase is justice. Justice for the work that early educators do, not just in minding our children because that's not what they do. Yes they mind them, but they care for them and importantly, they educate them as well."
The 3.6 billion dollar deal was reached at the Fair Work Commission, which is investigating the undervaluation of early childhood education and care work, disability home care, and other social and community services work.
Qantas has cut almost $10 million from Alan Joyce's $23 million pay packet, after the controversial former chief's early departure from the airline.
Other executives and directors are also facing a cut after action from the competition watchdog and reputational turbulence triggered Mr Joyce's decision to leave the job of chief executive in September, two months before his planned departure.
Mr Joyce had been due to leave in November, which would have marked 15 years after he landed the role in 2008.
A number of of incentive-based shares he held in the airline, valued at $8.36 million at the start of the financial year, will be forfeited.
Qantas says a short-term incentive bonus will also be cut by a third to $900,000.
Protests continue in the United Kingdom, with thousands of people gathering to counter far-right rallies targeting asylum centres and immigration law firms.
Violent protests and rioting began last week, after three young girls were killed in a knife attack near Liverpool.
The unrest has been fuelled by misinformation, with false claims circulating online that the attacker was an Islamist migrant.
It's the worst outbreak of violence in Britain in over a decade.
Counter protester Lee Monoghan [[MUN-uh-hen]] says he came out to take a stand against the hateful rhetoric.
"What we've done is we're made a stand, no violence, all peace, made a stand to say this is what our area's about. If you come here this is what you need to expect and we'll gladly just march it out of the area and put a stop to this.''
The BBC reports the messaging app Telegram is removing channels and posts containing calls to violence.
Earlier, it shut down a group of 15,000 members, believed to be one of the first to circulate calls for protests.
Organisers have cancelled three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna, after police arrested two people on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks.
A 19 year-old Austrian citizen, who allegedly made an oath of allegiance to I-S this year, was arrested in Ternitz.
A second person was arrested in Vienna.
A public security official says the two suspects were radicalised online, and that chemical substances were found and are now being analysed.
The concerts had been scheduled for Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Organisers say tickets will be automatically refunded.NASA says Boeing astronauts stranded on the International Space Station could return to Earth on board a Space X capsule.Boeing's Starliner spacecraft launched in June carrying NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.The mission was expected to last about eight days, but has been delayed due to problems with the spacecraft's propulsion system.NASA says if Starliner is deemed unsafe in February 2025, the two astronauts could return home on board rival Space X's Crew Dragon.The outcome would be a setback for Boeing, which was hoping to compete with Space X to ferry supplies and crew members to and from the space station.
To the Olympics,
Australian hockey player Tom Craig will lose all of his remaining Olympic privileges, after being arrested in Paris for buying cocaine.
The 28-year-old was held at a Parisian police station on Tuesday, but was released without being charged.
He apologised to his team and the country.
"I made a terrible mistake. I take full responsibility for my actions. My actions are my own and in no way reflect the values of my family, my teammates, my friends, my sport and the Australian Olympic team. I’ve embarrassed you all and I'm truly sorry.”
Australia's Chef de Mission Anna Meares says a review into his conduct will take place.
She says Craig is a good person who made a bad decision.
"Our team has been exemplary at these Games and his actions do not reflect the values of this team, nor do they diminish this team's performances. He has apologised, shown remorse, and he has owned up to his mistake, and we will support him if he needs help. As a result, Tom will lose all of his remaining Olympic privileges. He has already moved out of the Olympic Village, and as it was my understanding, he was not attending the closing ceremony. If he was, he would not be able to attend.”
Australia's men's team were knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Paris tournament with a 2-0 loss to the Netherlands on Sunday.
