Good morning. Scientists claim looming CSIRO job cuts will put vital modelling relied upon by government, industry and farmers at risk – and would leave Australia unable to contribute data to global climate reports.
People walk past rough sleepers every day in Australia. But now an online platform in Adelaide is helping the public notify outreach workers who can then check on homeless people and connect them with support.
Experimental vaccines could be used to combat Ebola in parts of Africa as fears grow over the outbreak’s speed and scale. And government analysis has revealed which Australians would be hardest hit by NDIS funding cuts.
Australia
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Homelessness | A program in Adelaide is helping rough sleepers be seen: concerned locals can make an online notification by dropping a pin on a map, alerting outreach workers to check on them.
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Exclusive | Scientists are warning that a “foolish” new round of job cuts at the CSIRO will mean that Australia will no longer be able to submit climate projections to contribute towards global reports.
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NDIS funding fears | Funding cuts to the NDIS would disadvantage Australians with visual impairment, psychosocial disability and Down syndrome the most, according to government analysis.
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Lots of lots | Australia risks squandering $5.2bn by building 86,000 more unwanted car parking spaces in the next five years, according to Grattan Institute research.
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Radio haul | The estate of John Laws will go under the hammer next month with 600 lots from the talkback legend’s collections of fine art and luxury collectibles.
World
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Ebola outbreak | Global health leaders are mulling whether experimental vaccines or medicines still in development could be used to fight Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as US secretary of state Marco Rubio says the World Health Organization was “a little late” in identifying the deadly outbreak.
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Middle East crisis | Donald Trump has again threatened Iran, saying the US may launch new attacks if Tehran continues to refuse the concessions he wants – and is turning to Middle East allies as deal to end Iran war proves elusive, Andrew Roth writes.
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Russia-Ukraine war | A Nato jet has shot down a drone over Estonia in what appears to be the latest case of Russian jamming diverting long-range Ukrainian drones into the alliance’s territory.
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Diplomacy in action | Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing for a state visit, just four days after Trump left China – reflecting its position as a centre of global diplomatic activity.
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‘Deeply concerned’ | Authorities have launched an investigation after CCTV footage of a woman’s fatal shooting by police at a protest over police shootings sent shock waves across Jamaica.
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Back to life? | There’s scepticism among scientists as “de-extinction” company Colossal Biosciences says it is a step closer to resurrecting New Zealand’s flightless moa after creating an artificial eggshell.
Full Story
Ebola, hantavirus: can the world avert another pandemic?
It’s been nearly three weeks since the first reports that a rare and deadly hantavirus had spread through a cruise ship. And now, the WHO has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a “public health emergency of international concern”. Melissa Davey speaks with Nour Haydar about the two viruses causing health authorities to reexamine pandemic response plans.
In-depth
Michelle Obama talked politics and going “a little low” as she delivered veiled but sharp remarks on the state of the US political system during the first event of an Australian speaking tour that began in Melbourne. The former first lady told the crowd that she hoped to teach children that accumulating wealth and assets was not a measure of happiness and self-worth: “I know plenty of billionaires, many of them are not happy people.”
Not the news
Tony Albert has spent decades collecting racist “Aboriginalia”: cups, tea towels, playing cards and figurines, all ostensibly depicting Aboriginal people, but created by non-Indigenous people, and often caricatured, exoticised or kitsch. Not A Souvenir, his new exhibition at Sydney’s MCA, highlights the commodification and misrepresentation of First Nations people – and invites the public to reckon with their own complicity.
Sport
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Football | Arsenal are Premier League champions for the first time since Arsène Wenger’s Invincibles in 2004 after Manchester City drew 1-1 at Bournemouth. Chelsea defeated Tottenham 2-1, leaving Spurs still at risk of relegation; and Southampton have been kicked out of the Championship playoff final over a spying scandal.
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Cycling | Jonas Vingegaard has failed to snatch the pink jersey as Filippo Ganna triumphs in the Giro d’Italia stage 10 time trial.
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Tennis | Carlos Alcaraz has been ruled out of Wimbledon as his recovery from wrist injury goes on.
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Cricket | Brisbane Heat have put their hand up to be one of the first teams to play a BBL game overseas and open this summer’s tournament in India.
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Basketball | Victor Wembanyama’s 41-24 double-double silenced the Oklahoma City Thunder in game one of the NBA West Conference finals.
Media roundup
Sydney’s Bankstown Airport could be redeveloped into a mini-city of 30,000 homes as radical plans gain momentum, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Football Australia could slash 20% of its workforce as it braces for another massive financial loss, the Age reports. Vanuatu’s prime minister has suggested that both Australia and China are “undermining” his country, ABC News reports.
What’s happening today
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NSW | A public hearing is scheduled in the parliamentary inquiry into fertility support and assisted reproductive treatment.
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ACT | The shadow treasurer, Tim Wilson, is due to give a budget reply speech at the National Press Club in Canberra.
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Sport | The Matildas squad is expected to be announced for their upcoming friendly against Mexico.
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