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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."
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.
Mr Joyce had been due to leave in November, which would have marked 15 years after he landed the role in 2008.
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.''
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.
Researchers say temperatures around the Great Barrier Reef are at their highest in 400 years.
Scientists using coral skeleton records have produced a more accurate dataset on rising temperatures.
They found that sea temperatures were relatively cool and stable for the past four centuries, and that recent sea surface heat is unprecedented.
The Great Barrier Reef has undergone a series of mass bleaching events in recent years.
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 men's team were knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Paris tournament with a 2-0 loss to the Netherlands on Sunday.
