*** One Nations denies its new superannuation policy will lead to a rise in inflation... *** Lidia Thorpe clashes with the federal Health Minister ... And in tennis... *** Jessica Pegula and Carlos Alcaraz through to the U-S Open quarter-finals
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One Nation is denying its new superannuation policy will lead to mass superannuation withdrawals, or increased inflation.
The party has unveiled its policy, which would allow for people to funnel up to one quarter of their super to their take home pay for three years.
Employers would still be required to pay 12 per cent super, but a person's super fund would then pay three per cent of that amount to the people who choose to participate.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says this policy will give help to people who need it for things like housing and cost of living expenses.
The government says such a policy would wreck super as we know it.
But One Nation Senator Barnaby Joyce says the policy won't impact people who don't want to make use of it.
"They're not all going to start taking a section of their money out. People who are in stress will start taking some money out- they might not take all. And then you go to the inflationary aspects of it, well, that is pertinent to the volume of money that is in the economy. If someone was paying, for instance, $600 a week for rent, and they get assistance, well, guess what? They're still paying $600 a week in rent. So, the volume of money is not vacant and looking for a home, it's actually going to the source it was."
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Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has clashed with federal Health Minister Mark Butler over the plight of children with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder.
Also known as FASD, it's both a physical and neurodevelopmental disorder, caused by a mother's alcohol usage while pregnant.
Ms Thorpe says minors with FASD are particularly vulnerable to sexual assault in custody.
She says they should all be released into community care, and Mr Butler hasn't acted properly over their fate.
"Unless he addresses the overrepresentation of children with FASD in the prison system, then his words are cheap. Why can’t why we just release all children with FASD into community with holistic, wrapround care, including elders in community. Thats' the solution., That's the only solution."
SBS News has reached out to the Health Minister Mark Butler for comment
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The embattled property development company Bathla has stood down around 200 of its 350 staff- but New South Wales premier Chris Minns says the firm is a long way off receiving any kind of bailout from taxpayers.
Sydney-based Bathla, one of Australia's largest residential developers, is more than three billion dollars in debt.
It has 20,000 apartments and 7,000 houses in its delivery pipeline, and 45 projects under construction.
Administrators say they have secured short-term funding to keep some projects going for two weeks while further arrangements are sorted out.
Although many who bought off-the-plan from Bathla have been left in the dark as to what will happen to their homes and their money, Mr Minns says it's not as simple as the government just giving out some money.
"So, I think that there is an important process to take place before a line of credit or public money is extended to the company. And the reason for that is: it is not my money. It's public money. New South Wales taxpayers have got every right to believe it will be treated as if it was their own personal cash. And I can't just hand money over to an administrator, particularly when the finances of this firm are so opaque and difficult to decipher.”
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A gunman is still on the run after murdering a man in the car park of a suburban football club just weeks before his wedding.
22-year-old plumber Daniel Hussein was shot and killed in the suburb of Thomastown around 7:30pm last night [[sun night]], near H-R Uren Reserve on Victoria Drive.
The murder is not believed to be related to the nearby Lalor Football Club.
Police are urging anyone with information to come forward.
They do not believe the shooting is related to other recent ones, including one in Marigold Avenue, Altona, on the 16th of August, and another at Borrack Square Shopping Centre in Altona North on the 21st of August.
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In tennis, Jessica Pegula has set up a quarter-final showdown with fellow American Emma Navarro at the US Open in new York.
Pegula has defeated Romanian, Sorana Cirstea, 6-3, 6-4 in an hour and 25 minutes in their fourth round match.
Pegula says the match was harder than it looks on the scoreboard.
"I played very well tonight. Maybe I didn't, like, serve my best, but I felt like from off the ground, I played a really high level. I felt like I was moving well. Even though the score seemed a little bit more straightforward, I felt like it was a really tough two sets."
Number one seed Aryna Sabalenka will play reigning Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova in another of the women's singles quarter-finals.
In the men's singles, defending champion, Carlos Alcaraz, returning from five months out from a wrist injury, is through to the quarter-finals after beating Tommy Paul, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4.
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That's the latest SBS News and sport, and you can catch up with some of those stories in more detail on our News in Depth podcast series, available wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Allan Lee.
