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Australia news live: Shoebridge doesn’t rule himself out of Greens leadership race; RBA interest rates decision expected
Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast New South Wales police say they are investigating the suspicious deaths of two men in the state’s north. Police said they found the first man – who has since been identified as a 79-year-old – dead at a property on Summerland Way at Gurranang, near Grafton, on 13 September. And that’s equally important in the Reserve Bank’s mandate, dual mandate, which talks about maintaining full employment at the same time as they go for price stability, which means inflation in the target band. Well, it’s still lower than what we saw under Howard and Costello, is the first point. I think that’s pretty clear. And what we’ve seen in recent years is that it’s possible to have low and steady unemployment at the same time as we see inflation moderate to more normal levels. Continue reading...
Fighter jets escort Pope Leo on final day of his France tour
Pope Leo XIV was escorted by fighter jets to Metz, the final stop of his four-day France tour.

‘New kind of cyber incident’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack and reveals extent of attack
Chief strategy officer to fly to Australia to front joint committee on AI after breaches of government websites Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast OpenAI has apologised to Australians for its agent attack on Medicare , and will front parliament next week, as the tech company revealed more details about its June hack of Australian government websites. In a blog post released on Tuesday, OpenAI said it should have handled its response better. Continue reading...
Iran’s Araghchi meets Qatari mediators as US calls for nuclear talks
Tehran awaits reply on Hormuz plan as a US official says there will be no deal unless nuclear issues are addressed.

OpenAI scraps rollout of new model over safety concerns
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.

‘Looked like dried blood’: worker tells Beau Lamarre-Condon trial about finding suspicious belongings in skip
Former Sydney police officer, 31, has pleaded not guilty to murdering AFL umpire Jesse Baird and flight attendant Luke Davies Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Brand new AFL shorts, a Qantas card and other bloodied belongings were found in a dumpster two days after football umpire Jesse Baird and flight attendant Luke Davies were allegedly murdered, a Sydney court has heard. Beau Lamarre-Condon, 31, has been accused of fatally shooting the couple with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024. Continue reading...