Ben Carroll becomes Victoria's new premier after a Labor leadership spill; wild weather hampers the search for a missing baby off South Australia; Cape Verde’s Sidny Lopes Cabral wins the World Cup’s best-goal vote.
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- Ben Carroll becomes Victoria's new premier after a Labor leadership spill
- Wild weather hampers the search for a missing baby off South Australia
- Cape Verde’s Sidny Lopes Cabral wins the World Cup’s best-goal vote
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Ben Carroll has been sworn in as Victoria’s 50th premier, after Jacinta Allan resigned amid mounting pressure over her leadership.
Labor MPs elected the 51-year-old former deputy premier and education minister at a caucus meeting today.
Ms Allan said she had carefully considered her position and believed stepping down was the right decision for Victorians.
Mr Carroll used his first speech as premier to turn his attention to the October election.
"Polling says Victoria is on track for Australia’s first Liberal One Nation government - a Liberal One Nation government that will cut hospitals, cut schools and cut front line services. A Liberal One Nation government that will cut childcare, cut free TAFE and so many other services Victorians rely on every day. This election only Labor can stop the risk of the Liberal One Nation government."
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Dangerous weather is hampering the search for a missing baby after the bodies of a mother and child were recovered from the ocean.
Police are scouring waters off Port MacDonnell, on South Australia's Limestone Coast, in a desperate search for the infant.
Officers spotted the bodies of a woman and small child in the ocean after they were alerted to an abandoned car left with its engine running near Cape Northumberland about 11.15am on Monday.
The 36-year-old woman was from Compton, a small community near Mount Gambier and the age of her older child has not been released.
Police Commissioner Grant Stevens says emergency services are committed to finding the missing infant.
"What I can say is that despite the weather today which is not good, the search is continuing for the infant. There are no indications at this point of any specific location to search. The CFS the SES and police are doing an exceptional job to try and locate the small child."
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Origin Energy says the personal information of about 900,000 current and former customers was accessed in a cyber security incident.
The company says it was alerted to a possible breach on July 2, but did not consider the threat credible until new information emerged three weeks later.
Chief executive Frank Calabria has apologised and says affected customers are being contacted directly.
Customers are being urged to remain alert to scams, suspicious calls and unsolicited messages.
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The UN program on HIV/AIDS warns that global funding cuts, inequality and human rights setbacks are threatening decades of progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
According to a report released at an AIDS conference in Brazil, international financing for HIV in developing countries fell by 18 per cent in 2025.
Lower income countries with the highest rates of HIV are being forced to increase spending, however officials say they can't come close to funding what is needed.
The executive director of UNAIDS, Winifred Byanyima, says the report tells both a story of scientific achievement and a story of inequality.
"Today, we have prevention medicines so effective that if they reached everyone who needs them, we can realistically end AIDS as a public health threat. The second story is a warning. Funding cuts, rising inequality, attacks on human rights, shrinking civic space."
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The New South Wales government has unveiled Australia's first Blue Plaque Trail to commemorate a landmark civil rights movement.
The Trail follows the 1965 journey by 30 students, led by Dr Charles Perkins.
They travelled for two weeks by bus through regional New South Wales on a mission called the 'Freedom Ride'.
The state's minister for heritage, Penny Sharpe, says the activists contributed to greater equality and recognition for Aboriginal people.
"It shone a light on discrimination. It helps us tell stories about the past, it helps us show how far we've come and importantly, it also shows us how far we've got to go."
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Cape Verde has made more World Cup history, with Sidny Lopes Cabral winning the public vote for the best goal of this year's tournament - based on a shortlist of 12 goals FIFA submitted for voting.
The Cape Verde player's curling shot into the far top corner of the goal drew the unheralded African debutants level with defending champions Argentina at 2-all in extra time in the round of 32 game.
Cape Verde, the World Cup's second-smallest nation, would eventually lose the game to Argentina 3-2 and be eliminated from the competition.
Cabral says he is delighted to win the popular vote.
"Thank you everybody who has voted for me. I am very happy with this achievement that I won the most beautiful goal in the World Cup. I can't describe how grateful I am for this moment. I hope this season, I can make more goals like this. And thank you, everybody."
