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- Concerns that a new funding package for DV legal support will be too little, too late;
- Three men charged over the theft of antique handguns from regional New South Wales;
- Port Adelaide vice-captain Zak Butters in hospital.
Questions have already been raised over the new funding announced earlier today by national cabinet to combat domestic violence.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled a $4.7 billion package to fund critical legal services, saying it was time for "practical measures" to meet the crisis.
But there's concern that it's still not enough - and if it will flow in time to make a difference because the money won't become available until July 2025.
Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says that's not good enough.
"That is 10 months away. Sadly, on the current trajectory of women losing their lives, being killed by a man, we would see 40 more women lose their lives before a dollar of this money is spent."
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The federal government will pay up to $202 million compensation to thousands of Indigenous workers whose wages were stolen while working in the Northern Territory last century.
The payout is part of the settlement of a class action on behalf of workers and their families who were subject to Commonwealth wage control legislation between 1933 to 1971.
Indigenous Australians minister Malarndirri McCarthy says she hopes the settlement will bring closure to First Nations people impacted by the law.
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has gone forward with the biggest re-shuffle of his cabinet since the start of Russia's invasion in 2022.
The president has switched nine of his ministers, including the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
The Ukrainian parliament has approved the changes, despite criticism from Opposition members who claimed this was a move by Mr Zelenskyy to centralise power around himself.
But Zelenskyy says they are necessary to improve the government's negotiating capabilities, which will in turn improve their military strength.
"It is crucial that government institutions now operate as actively as possible – more actively than before – at all levels. More investments from partners in Ukraine’s defence production. More active progress in negotiations with the European Union as we prepare for the future accession agreement. More interaction and mutual understanding between the central government and communities. And of course, more support for the frontline."
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Experts say this year will end up as the warmest humanity has ever measured.
European climate service Copernicus says the northern summer - from June to August - were the hottest on record.
And if this sounds familiar, that's because the records the globe shattered were set just last year.
Scientists say that extreme weather got a temporary boost from an El Nino, but Copernicus director Carlo Buontempo says it's now climate change that is the main culprit.
"And of the many drivers of climate variability, I think one of the - the one we need to look into, in this case as a main responsible is really the anthropogenic climate change and the increase in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere."
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Bill Shorten has pledged to implement major reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme in his remaining time in politics.
The former Labor leader will not run in the next election, ending his 17 year parliamentary career.
But he will stay on as NDIS minister until he leaves federal politics, pledging to use every minute left to secure the future of the national disability scheme.
Mr Shorten says he much of the necessary work to reform the disability scheme has already been accomplished - and that it's slowly returning to its original purpose.
"Our NDIS is one of the great significant opportunities for Australia. We have made reforms to this system through the legislation, through working with the state governments - but we've already made reforms which are seeing that some of the growth has begun to decrease."
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Three men have been charged over the theft of more than two dozen antique handguns from a regional museum.
Police say the men - aged 46, 41, and 27 - were arrested after a series of raids where 13 of the 27 stolen firearms were allegedly found.
The commemorative handguns were stolen from the Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum, in the New South Wales Blue Mountains region, early on August 25.
The weapons include one from the 1700s and a pistol gifted by the Sultan of Oman.
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In A-F-L news,
Port Adelaide vice-captain Zak Butters has been hospitalised after suffering a rib injury in his club's qualifying-final capitulation to Geelong.
The extent of the dynamic midfielder's injury is expected to be known this afternoon.
Butters was sent to hospital for precautionary scans after being substituted from the Power's woeful 84-point loss on Thursday night at Adelaide Oval.
