Australia

AARON PATRICK: The government is expected to replace the ASIC chair with a lawyer who will continue his high-profile approach of suing companies, investment managers and superannuation funds.

A former MP who sexually assaulted and abused a staffer and an 18-year-old will plead his case for leniency as his sentence is considered.

Many pundits will be watching to see if the Prime Minister finally secures his long-delayed meeting with Donald Trump on the UN sidelines in New York.

Diesel utes and four-wheel drives could become very expensive. But Labor’s climate target could also make it cheaper to get solar batteries to avoid the power bill shock as networks are rewired.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has committed to slashing emissions by 2035 in fresh targets aimed at avoiding the worst ravages of climate change.

New technology, electrification and carbon management solutions in Australia’s resource sector will be central to the Government’s plans to cut emissions by between 62-70 per cent by 2035.

China has warned Papua New Guinea and other Pacific Island nations not to sign up to security deals which ‘target any third party’.

The failure to seal two regional deals could follow Prime Minister Anthony Albanese across the Pacific to a meeting with US President Donald Trump.

Australians are too polite to blame migrants for housing shortages, a top population expert said after the Government’s statistics agency published a private poll recording overwhelming support for immigration.

Tasmania’s AFL dream is in crisis after a damning report found the proposed $1.8bn stadium would harm the state’s economy but Jeremy Rockliff has other ideas.

Images of Xi Jinping’s envoy meeting with Papua New Guinea’s PM have raised fresh questions about Anthony Albanese’s failure to secure the signing of a defence treaty with Port Moresby.

Donald Trump has threatened to dob in a veteran journalist to Anthony Albanese during an angry exchange outside the White House, in which the President revealed he meeting Anthony Albanese soon.

Officials are scrambling to finalise the PNG defence treaty signing after independence celebrations cause another setback for Anthony Albanese.

AARON PATRICK: The former US vice-president predicted melting ice caps would cause devastation across the world, a false but powerful message that the climate change minister has learned from.

Australia’s eSafety commission will meet with social media giants and AI firms in America’s Silicon Valley next week as the world-first under-16s ban fast approaches.