What we learned today, Saturday 29 October
’Tis the weekend for terrifying costumes – and that was just Derby Day at Flemington. Here’s your round up of today’s stories:
Four Australian women and their 13 children arrived safely in Sydney from the Syrian refugee camp where they had been detained.
Australia has dropped its opposition to a treaty banning nuclear weapons (if that double negative stumps you, Australia used to vote “no” but will now abstain).
The Australian Press Council delivered its ruling on the Sydney Morning Herald threatening to “out” actor Rebel Wilson.
She hits, she does not miss. So don’t you dare miss her – Katharine Murphy on Peter Dutton’s budget reply.
And Benita Kolovos has everything you need to know ahead of the Victorian state election.
We’ll be back here tomorrow, and into the week that heralds the announcement that causes the nation to stutter – that’s right, interest rates. Hold on to your wallets!
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Yes, this is a space for Australian news. But this is news from the sun, so it’s Australian in a meta sort of way. A satellite photo shows what appears to be a happy face pattern on the sun, with dark patches called coronal holes.
Move over, man in the moon:
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