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- Voice referendum date to be announced in SA next week
- Rescuers save children and teacher from dangling cable car in Pakistan
- This morning’s headlines at a glance
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Voice referendum date to be announced in SA next week
Anthony Albanese will announce the date of the Voice to parliament referendum in the crucial swing state of South Australia at the end of next week.
The referendum date is expected to be October 14 and Albanese’s launch will mark the start of the formal campaign period of about six weeks.
Anthony Albanese will announce the date of the referendum next week in South Australia.Credit: Dion Georgopoulos
According to multiple government sources aware of internal discussions within the Albanese government, who asked not to be named as they were not authorised to speak, the launch will take place in Adelaide in the second half of next week – between August 30 and September 2.
The prime minister will make the announcement just days before two sitting weeks of parliament begin on September 4, and shortly before he departs Australia for international summits and meetings in Indonesia, the Philippines and then India from September 6 to 10.
Read more about the referendum date here.
Rescuers save children and teacher from dangling cable car in Pakistan
In international news, Pakistani rescuers pulled seven children and one man to safety after their cable car became stranded high over a remote ravine, ending a 15-hour-long ordeal.
“It was a unique operation that required lots of skill,” the military said in a statement.
Rescuers pull a boy attached to a harness to safety after being rescued from a stranded cable car in Battagram, Pakistan.Credit: Reuters
The high-risk operation in the north of Pakistan was completed in the darkness of night after the cable car snagged early in the morning, leaving it hanging precariously at an angle all day.
“All the kids have been successfully and safely rescued,” caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said in a post on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Read more about the rescue here, from Reuters.
This morning’s headlines at a glance
Good morning, and thanks for your company.
It’s Wednesday, August 23. I’m Caroline Schelle, and I’ll be anchoring our live coverage for the first half of the day.
Here’s what you need to know before we get started:
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will announce the date of the Voice to parliament referendum in the crucial swing state of South Australia at the end of next week.
- The federal government is preparing for the economy to slow even further as shoppers struggle to make ends meet, but it believes Australia will avoid a recession.
- Water Minister Tanya Plibersek announced a revamped plan to recover water for Australia’s largest river system, declaring states would have three years to meet water recovery targets.
- Treasurer Jim Chalmers has asked Treasury for options to toughen competition laws to protect consumers from big companies with too much market power.
Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek announced plans to revamp the Murray-Darling deal. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
- The Victorian government told Canberra it didn’t need additional funding to secure the Commonwealth Games, and made no formal request for a federal government contribution before cancelling the event.
- Experts say the overhauled NAPLAN literacy and numeracy results are a “wake-up call” as many students fall below expected levels of proficiency in basic knowledge areas in NSW and Victoria.
- Germany’s foreign minister has praised Australia for serving as a role model for resisting Chinese economic coercion, labelling the rising superpower a systemic rival.
- In other international news, the first of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in Georgia’s criminal case accusing the former US president and his associates of subverting his 2020 election loss surrendered at a state jail.
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