Senate committee told foreign student cap would ‘gut’ private education sector – as it happened

A Senate inquiry has heard some public universities face international student reductions of more than half. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

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Here are the main stories on Friday, 6 September:

• The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, announces a $4.7bn package to address gender-based violence after a meeting of the national cabinet. He said that a “nationally coordinated approach is required to address this national crisis”;

• The ALP president and former treasurer, Wayne Swan, says the Reserve Bank of Australia is ‘putting economic dogma over rational decision-making’ and ‘punching itself in the face’ with its approach to interest rates;

• The federal government will pay up to $202m compensation to thousands of Indigenous workers whose wages were stolen while working in the Northern Territory last century;

• A Senate committee has been told that a proposed foreign student cap would ‘gut’ the private education sector;

• The new NT chief minister, Lia Finocchiaro, defends the use of spit hoods to “protect frontline workers”;

• Victoria police say they are considering further action on allegations of criminal links within the CFMEU after a senior union official was charged with alleged threats to kill an Indigenous labour-hire owner; and

• Bruce Lehrmann has been given extra time to refile the grounds of his appeal against his defamation trial loss to Network Ten and presenter Lisa Wilkinson, after he missed court-set deadlines.

Thanks for reading this week, and enjoy your weekend.

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Prof Michael Salter, an expert in child sexual exploitation and gendered violence, says today’s announcement of $4.7bn to address gender-based violence is an “ambitious new plan”.