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Identity suppressed of Seven Network personality accused of child sexual offences
A magistrate has ordered that a Seven Network personality accused of child sexual offences cannot be named in public unless she is committed to stand trial.
The woman has been charged with multiple counts of indecent treatment of children aged under 16, rape, sexual assault, torture and assaults.
The woman’s identity was due to be revealed under changes to Queensland’s laws, but she was granted a non-publication order in Richlands Magistrates Court today.
A court has ruled a woman accused of child sexual offences can’t be named until she is committed for trial.Credit: Peter Rae
Magistrate Aaron Simpson said the woman had a complex medical history and a psychiatrist found she was having trouble sleeping and was hyper-vigilant and anxious due to fears that vigilantes would try to harm her or reveal her name to the public.
The psychiatrist said the woman attempted to take her own life after being told her alleged victims had contacted Nine program A Current Affair and that social media users had posted derogatory comments about her. Nine also owns this masthead.
Simpson said he did not want to be seen to punish all media outlets for the actions of a few, but he found it likely that the online threats would increase if she was named.
Queensland police, two of the woman’s alleged victims, Nine and Ten networks, and News Corp Australia opposed granting the order.
The barrister for the woman’s alleged victims had told the court it was important that her clients had the right to self-identify.
1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732); National Sexual Abuse and Redress Support Service 1800 211 028; Lifeline 13 11 14; beyondblue 1300 22 4636
Australian sharemarket extends last week’s losses
The Australian sharemarket has extended the previous week’s losses as fears of a broader regional conflict in the Middle East continue to fuel a sell-off in equities.
The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index today finished down 54 points, or 0.79 per cent, at 6,772.9 after recovering somewhat from a 12-month low of 6,755.7 shortly after the open.
The share market closed down on Monday.Credit: Wayne Taylor
The broader All Ordinaries fell 54 points, or 0.77 per cent, to 6,960.2.
As mentioned earlier in the blog, hotter-than-expected retail sales figures for September heightened the prospect of a Melbourne Cup rate rise after inflation data also beat estimates.
Millie Muroi will the updated full report shortly.
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The seven people who will advise the government on economic competition
By Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Turning to Australian political news, the Albanese Government has appointed seven experts in business, government, law and economics to advise on competition policy settings to build a more dynamic and productive economy.
The expert advisory panel for the new Competition Taskforce will provide continuous advice on whether Australia’s competition policy settings are fit for purpose in the face of the big shifts underway in our economy.
Dr Kerry Schott will chair the Competition Taskforce.Credit: Oscar Colman
The new members are:
- Dr Kerry Schott, an experienced leader across public and private sectors, as chair of the panel. Her roles include chair of the Energy Security Board and director of NBN.
- Professor John Asker at the University of California, whose economics research covers company-level productivity, antitrust policy and cartel behaviour.
- Competition lawyer Sharon Henrick, currently head of competition law and regulatory at King & Wood Mallesons.
- David Gonski, the current Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, chairman of Barrenjoey and president of the Art Gallery of NSW Trust. He has previously served on the Takeovers Panel and famously led an eponymous Commonwealth review into school funding.
- Economist Dr John Fingleton, who was chief executive of the UK’s Office of Fair Trading and previously ran the Irish Competition Authority.
They join two appointments that were already announced: Grattan chief executive and incoming Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood and former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chair Rod Sims.
The expert advisory panel met for the first time in Sydney today.
Tropical storm bears down on El Salvador
By Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Staying in Latin America, another tropical storm is approaching land, this time further south in El Salvador.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has declared a state of emergency over tropical storm Pilar, which the US National Hurricane Centre says is expected to dump heavy rains and cause floods along the coast within the next 48 hours.
The government issued a “red” alert, the highest of a four-level scale, and suspended school. The emergency decree will enable the government to direct funds to handle the situation.
Some flooding has already been reported on the central coast and in the east. Pilar is expected to be near El Salvador’s coast later this week, though the NHC says “the core of the system is forecast to stay offshore”.
Winds are currently near 65 kilometres per hour, but could grow fiercer.
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Death toll climbs as Mexico reels from hurricane in resort area
In international news, the death toll from Hurricane Otis is continuing to climb in Mexico, mostly around the resort area of Acapulco on the southern Pacific coast.
Mexican authorities said at least 48 people died from the Category 5 hurricane - 43 in Acapulco and five in nearby Coyuca de Benitez.
The walls of a hotel are partially gone two days after Hurricane Otis hit as a Category 5 storm in Acapulco, Mexico.Credit: AP Photo/Marco Ugarte
It’s now 10.30pm on Sunday night in Mexico. Earlier in the day, families in Acapulco held funerals for the dead and continued the search for essentials while government workers and volunteers cleared streets clogged with muck and debris.
Military personnel and volunteers have cleared debris along Acapulco’s main tourist strip over the weekend, but residents say aid has been slow to arrive to outlying areas. There are 1 million people living in Acapulco.
Otis roared ashore last week with devastating 266 kilometre-per-hour winds after strengthening so rapidly that people had little time to prepare. It powered up from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just 12 hours.
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Gardening and other outdoorsy goods drive retail sales
It seems the warmer weather this spring has spurred more spending on gardening and other outdoorsy goods.
Overall, Australian retail sales grew by a robust 0.9 per cent last month - above market expectations of a 0.3 per cent increase and stronger than the 0.3 per cent lift in August.
Gardening goods were part of a lift in retail trade.Credit: iStock
Though the September result was the largest since January, lacklustre spending for most of the year means underlying growth in retail turnover remains historically low.
The information, and last week’s inflation data, will be considered by the Reserve Bank tomorrow when it meets to discuss interest rates.
AAP
Victoria lays groundwork to raise age of criminal responsibility to 14
To Victoria, where the state government has appointed an expert panel to create better safety nets for at-risk youths as part of its move to raise the age of criminal responsibility.
The Victorian government in April committed to lifting the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 years by the end of next year, before raising it again to 14 by 2027 with some exceptions.
The second stage of the changes is subject to the development of alternative early interventions and rehabilitative supports, which will be steered by an independent review panel.
Victorian Children Minister Lizzie Blandthorn.Credit: Diego Fedele
Children Minister Lizzie Blandthorn today announced former deputy commissioner of Victoria’s royal commission into family violence Patricia Faulkner as chair of the panel.
The Victorian government is set to introduce legislation to raise the age from 10 to 12 early next year.
The age of criminal responsibility remains 10 in all other Australian states and territories except the Northern Territory, which raised it to 12 in August.
The ACT and Tasmanian governments have pledged to raise it to 14, in line with the advice from United Nations, child welfare groups, medical experts, human rights lawyers and Indigenous advocates.
AAP
The candidates to coach the Wallabies
On a lighter topic, the speculation game for who will replace Eddie Jones as coach of the Australian rugby team is well and truly on.
Jones is leaving his second stint as coach of the Wallabies after only 10 months, during which time the team crashed out of the World Cup in the first round for the first time in history.
Read Jonathan Drennan about who the candidates are to replace him.
Russia’s defence minister warns of risk of war with the West
This is Caitlin Fitzsimmons and I’m your host for the rest of the afternoon.
Staying with international news, Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has warned that the escalation of conflict with Russia in the Ukraine war threatens a “direct military clash between nuclear powers”.
Shoigu, speaking at a defence forum in Beijing today, said in remarks reported by Russia’s TASS state news agency: “The Western line of steady escalation of the conflict with Russia carries the threat of a direct military clash between nuclear powers, which is fraught with catastrophic consequences.”
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.
Shoigu reportedly claimed the West intended to inflict “strategic defeat” on Russia in a “hybrid war”, and praised the model of Russia-China relations as “exemplary”. He was speaking at Xiangshan Forum, China’s biggest military diplomacy event.
Shoigu said the West sought to potentially expand the conflict in Ukraine to the Asia-Pacific region. He said NATO was covering up a build-up of forces in the Asia-Pacific region with an “ostentatious desire for dialogue”.
Shoigu said that Russia was ready for talks on the post-conflict settlement of the Ukraine crisis and talks on further “co-existence” with the West.
Reuters
This afternoon’s headlines
By Caroline Schelle
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