Four French footballers who might break Australia's heart
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Wastewater disposal in Antarctica (left), rubbish on the seafloor next to Casey station (top right) and an abandoned waste disposal site near the former Wilkes station (bottom right).
10/08/2023

Toxic pollution at Antarctic base, victims’ advocate calls for the cane, four French footballers to fear

Paul Gallagher
 

Good morning. That vast and relatively untouched frozen continent at the bottom of the world, Antarctica, is one of the frontlines of the climate crisis – and human impacts are increasingly taking a toll. Today we report that pollution from Australia’s main Antarctic research station – including arsenic, carcinogenic compounds and toxic metals – has exceeded accepted limits for almost two decades.

Meanwhile, corporal punishment is banned in state schools but a Queensland man who has just joined the state government’s youth justice group says schools should reconsider the cane.

Plus: We take a look at the biggest threats in the French squad as the Matildas prepare for their Fifa Women’s World Cup quarter-final.

Australia

Ken Cunliffe during a youth crime community forum in Toowoomba in February.

‘They would think twice’ | Ken Cunliffe (pictured), appointed to Queensland’s youth justice strategy reference group as a victims’ representative, believes that schools should consider bringing back the cane.

Antarctica | New research shows that levels of contaminants such as arsenic and lead at Australia’s largest Antarctic research station eclipsed international quality guidelines between 1997 and 2015.

‘Misconception’ | Business leaders have rebuffed the Coalition’s “disingenuous” claims around migration, rejecting concerns of a surge in arrivals with a call to make migration more business-friendly.

Opinion | Amid continued protests Labor is struggling to get its story straight on why it is helping fund a major expansion of the fossil fuel sector in the Northern Territory.

Mushroom mystery | Local residents have been left reeling as police investigate a family lunch that left three people dead in Leongatha in rural Victoria.

World

A Trump hat sits on a table outside the rally for Donald Trump in New York City.

Donald Trump | Investigators obtained a search warrant for Trump’s Twitter account; and a previously unseen internal memo describes in detail the plot to subvert election results in six states, reports say.

‘We were overwhelmed’ | At least 41 people are feared to have died after a boat carrying asylum seekers sank in rough seas off the Italian island of Lampedusa, in the central Mediterranean.

‘Nature needs money’ | The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has told developed countries to put their money where their mouth is to help protect the world’s remaining tropical forests.

Russia-Ukraine war | Ukrainian forces have made an attempt to cross the Dnipro River dividing liberated and occupied Kherson; Germany arranges supply of 30 Leopard 1 tanks for Ukraine.

‘It’s a big crisis for us’ | A dam in Norway has partly collapsed as the country battles record high river levels, flooding and landslides as Storm Hans continues to cause chaos.

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The world of sport

Kadidiatou Diani, Vicki Bècho, Wendie Renard and Eugénie Le Sommer of France.

Women’s World Cup | As the Matildas prepare to face France in their upcoming quarter-final showdown, we focus on four French players who might break Australia’s hearts.

Golf | Céline Boutier is in form but is playing down her Women’s Open chances; and players express doubt over the LIV deal after meeting with the PGA commissioner.

Football | A 13-year-old has become the youngest professional player in US; how the Saudi Arabian takeover changed Newcastle United, and West Ham agree deals for Harry Maguire and James Ward-Prowse.

Media roundup

More than 3,000 sites – including current and former psychiatric hospitals and disability centres – have been identified by the NSW government as public land suitable for redevelopment as housing, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Victoria’s fight against organised crime is being hobbled by serious problems recruiting new informers amid concerns their safety and identities cannot be protected in the wake of the Lawyer X scandal, reports the Age. Tasmania is facing an energy crisis due to a lack of new electricity generating capacity as rising demand from industry and consumers outstrips supply, reports the Mercury.

What’s happening today

ACT | Committee inquiry hearing into the implications of severe weather on the national regional, rural, and remote road network.

Western Australia | Hearing scheduled in class action over conditions at the Banksia Hill youth detention centre.

New South Wales | Hearing scheduled in case of government agencies sued by Jubilee for failing to report climate impacts of fossil fuel projects.

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