Australia news live: Greens meet to elect new leader; shark bites man in South Australia

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Emergency services were called to the Port Noarlunga jetty about 9.45am today after reports that a man swimming in the water had been bitten by a shark.

He was helped from the water and treated at the scene by paramedics, before being taken to hospital in a serious condition, South Australia police said in a statement.

Swimmers were evacuated from the water.

Man bitten by shark in South Australia

A man has been hospitalised after being bitten by a shark at Port Noarlunga, South Australia.

The man, in his 40s, is in a serious condition with injuries to his thigh, SA Ambulance Service said.

More details soon …

AFL playing and coaching great Robert Walls dies

The AFL great Robert Walls, who won multiple premierships as a player and coach at Carlton, has died aged 74.

The Australian Football Hall Of Fame member had been diagnosed with cancer two years ago and he died on Thursday morning.

Walls, who also coached the Brisbane Lions and Richmond, played in Carlton’s 1968, 70 and 72 premiership teams.

He then coached the Blues to the 1987 flag and is a club legend.

A tough centre half-forward, Walls played 259 games for Carlton and Fitzroy from 1967-80.

He immediately went into coaching, first at Fitzroy and then the Blues, Lions and Tigers.

A famously combative personality, after his coaching career ended in 1997 Walls became a respected AFL commentator.

His wife, Erin, died of cancer in 2006, soon after his Hall of Fame induction. He is survived by three children and his partner, Julie.

“Having battled cancer for more than two years, Robert did it his way and chose to end a fight that had seen him spend more than 250 nights in hospital during the past two years,” the AFL said in a statement.

Walls “passed away peacefully in his unit overlooking the MCG”, it said.

Having spent the last couple of weeks tidying up his affairs and catching up with family and close friends, he chose that over more and more hospital visits for treatment.

– With reporting from Australian Associated Press

Adass community warned of ‘confronting’ vision of synagogue being set alight

The ultra-Orthodox Adass community in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs has been offered support before the public release of “confronting” vision showing their synagogue being set alight in December.

Community leaders were told this morning the footage would be released by police today. Police also warned community leaders to prepare their congregation for the distressing vision.

This is the statement issued to the kehilla, which means congregation, by Adass leaders this morning:

Victoria Police have contacted the Kehilla this morning to advise that they will be holding a Press Conference at 2pm today. They will be releasing footage from the shul recorded on the morning of the fire. They will seeking public assistance if anyone recognises or can identify anything from the footage. They have warned that the footage may be confronting for members of our Kehilla. If you have any questions or require any support please be in touch with the Kehilla board.

Police released the vision as part of a public appeal for information:

CCTV released today shows the blue Golf sedan drive past the Adass Israel Synagogue multiple times before parking outside the main entrance on 6 December 2024. The footage shows three individuals dressed in hoodies and masks get out of the vehicle and use an axe to damage the entrance of the synagogue. The footage shows at least two individuals commence pouring the contents of red jerry cans inside the entrance of the synagogue, before entering the building. It shows the individuals making multiple trips to the Golf to get more jerry cans, which were poured inside the synagogue before the liquid was ignited.

Greens gather to elect new leader

The Greens’ 11 senators and sole remaining lower house MP will meet at 1pm to decide a new leader for their party after Adam Bandt unexpectedly lost the seat of Melbourne at the federal election.

Senators Sarah Hanson-Young, Larissa Waters and Mehreen Faruqi are seen as possible successors. But those involved in choosing the new leader have been unusually tight-lipped – ignoring or politely declining calls and texts from the media.

We’ll bring you the news from their meeting as soon as we have it. Until then, you can read about how the process works, and what to expect, here:

Record share of Australian women employed in April, ABS figures show

A record share of women were employed in April, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures.

Some 60.80% of all women over 15 years old had a paid job, slightly higher than January’s previous record of 60.78%.

In a joint statement, the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, and minister for employment and workplace relations, Amanda Rishworth, said it was the only time since records began that the unemployment rate had been in the low 4s concurrently with headline and underlying inflation in the RBA’s target band.

The total unemployment rate remains 4.1%, and 89,000 new jobs were created in April. The number of women in work was up by 65,300 jobs.

Chalmers said “amid all the uncertainty and volatility in the global economy, our labour market remains an encouraging source of strength”.

Low unemployment and much lower inflation is a remarkable combination and means we are well placed and well prepared for the challenges coming at us from abroad.

Daniel responds to Wilson’s message to Liberal scrutineers

The independent MP for Goldstein, Zoe Daniel, has responded to Tim Wilson’s call for Liberal scrutineers to “knock out informal votes being counted for the Teals”.

The call was contained in leaked WhatsApp messages that show Wilson warning Daniel’s scrutineers were “knocking out votes for us with extreme precision”:

If the teals keep knocking out votes and we are not doing the same. The votes will be the votes. The difference is whether we have scrutineers to knock out informal votes that are being counted for the teals.

In response, Daniel says:

As always, I thank my volunteers for their participation in an open honest democratic process.

Almost one in five young Australians think it’s reasonable to track a romantic partner online

Almost one in five young adults think it’s reasonable to expect to track a romantic partner online, new research from the eSafety commissioner shows, raising concerns about coercive control.

About 2,000 Australians aged 18 to 75 were asked whether they agreed with expectations and attitudes associated with tech-based coercive control in intimate relationships, including monitoring a partner.

Some 18.6% of 18- to 24-year-olds agreed expecting to track an intimate partner whenever they wanted using location sharing apps was reasonable, dropping to 13.6% of all participants.

The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, said young people had become so accustomed to a certain level of online tracking that it didn’t seem strange to expect similar digital access in a romantic relationship.

As a country, we’re grappling with how to stem the devastating tide of intimate partner violence. But if we want to change these behaviours, we must challenge underlying attitudes that endorse and normalise controlling and monitoring behaviours in romantic relationships.

It isn’t an exaggeration to say preventing tech-based coercive control, and the attitudes that condone it, can save lives.

Greens’ First Nations Network rejects report it is working with Lidia Thorpe to elect Mehreen Faruqi as leader

The Australian Greens’ First Nations Network has slammed a story published in The Australian claiming the group is working with the former Greens senator Lidia Thorpe to elect Mehreen Faruqi as the party’s new federal leader, describing it as a “conspiracy theory” and “baseless”.

The report, published this morning, claimed “senior Greens figures” believed Thorpe was eyeing a return to the Greens after she left in 2023 and worked with the network to endorse Faruqi. Thorpe’s office denied the claims, and the now independent senator described them as a “beat up” on X this morning.

In a statement on Thursday, the network said Faruqi’s endorsement was initiated by grassroots members and passed by First Nations members with consensus.

The statement continued:

The suggestion that grassroots First Nations members are incapable of making independent decisions is not only absurd – it is deeply offensive. We are disappointed that so-called ‘senior Greens figures’ have chosen to spread conspiracy theories to Murdoch media outlets in an apparent attempt to advance their own personal agendas.

Liberal Tim Wilson urges scrutineers to 'knock out informal votes being counted for the Teals' in WhatsApp messages

As the vote count tightens in Goldstein, Liberal Tim Wilson has urged scrutineers to “knock out informal votes being counted for the Teals”, according to leaked WhatsApp messages:

They are knocking out votes for us with extreme precision. If a full recount occurs, we will need a massive scrutineering team because every vote will need to be scrutinised and it will be a race to see who can knock out the most votes. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.

If the teals keep knocking out votes and we are not doing the same. The votes will be the votes. The difference is whether we have scrutineers to knock out informal votes that are being counted for the Teals.

The leaked messages from a WhatsApp group called “Goldstein blue tsunami”, which lists Wilson as the administrator, said the narrowing vote should not be a problem but “highlights the EXTREME necessity for scrutineers to be available”. Wilson continued:

Sadly, this is something I am extremely good at doing, but I am legally prohibited from doing on this vote because I am a candidate.

When contacted, Wilson said there were plenty of Liberals scrutineering and that there was nothing unusual about this process of casting aside informal votes:

They are knocking out informal votes for us. We are knocking out informal votes for them. None of this is new.

Wilson said a recount would be likely if the margin was within 100 votes. He also cited material from Zoe Daniel’s campaign, seen by Guardian Australia, that instructed scrutineers to pay careful attention to Wilson’s votes:

We only challenge Tim Wilson’s votes.

No need to check that Zoe’s ballots are formal. Tim’s scrutineers will do that. When the counting is completed, there will be ballots where an objection has been made. This is the time when you can look at the objections made against votes for Zoe.

Gambling regulator asked to intervene in dispute over AFL wagering revenue

Victoria’s gambling regulator has been asked to intervene in a dispute over how much gambling revenue the AFL should receive from each bet placed on the sport.

Internal AFL documents reveal the league initially wanted to charge all bookmakers a minimum annual fee of $20,0000. For some, this was lowered to $3,000 in 2025, $5,000 in 2026 and $7,000 in 2027.

The AFL also wants to increase the percentage of money it gets from each bet.

Several smaller bookmakers opposed to the plan have told Guardian Australia they were granted extensions of their current wagering agreement, with a revised offer to be made by the AFL at a later date.

But at least one unnamed bookmaker has asked for the Victorian gambling regulator to intervene in the matter, arguing the proposal is unreasonable.

Here’s a response from the regulator:

The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission is assessing an application request from a bookmaker for a determination on the reasonableness of the AFL’s proposed new fee structure. We are not able to provide further detail on this matter until this assessment has been finalised.

The regulator will only intervene if there is no reasonable resolution in sight and it is clear that both parties have not negotiated appropriately. If that happens, the regulator can make a decision on the appropriate financial arrangement and recover costs.

Telstra trials text messages via Starlink outside mobile coverage areas

Telstra has trialled sending text messages via Starlink’s satellites direct to mobile phones in Australia.

Since April, the company has sent 55,000 text messages testing out the capability ahead of a commercial launch. A live trial in the past week has seen the telco send text messages successfully to mobiles outside its coverage areas in the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Queensland and NSW.

Telstra has also tested sending GPS coordinates and emojis via text.

The service for SMS messaging is expected to be launched in the coming months.

Last week, rival TPG announced it had sent a text message to a mobile in a limited coverage area in the northern tablelands of NSW using Lynk satellites with the Vodafone network.

The advances come ahead of the Albanese government’s plan for universal outdoor mobile coverage, which would use the satellite services for text messages and calls in areas with no mobile coverage.