What we learned today, Wednesday 25 January
That’s where we will leave the blog for today. Thanks very much for your company, as always. Here are some of the stories were covered today:
Jim Chalmers has said he is “absolutely furious” at findings a former PwC tax adviser breached the confidentiality of multinational tax consultations by disclosing them to other staff at the firm without authorisation.
Inflation in Australia reached 7.8% in the year to December, in what economists and the federal government hope will be the peak for runaway prices.
The Greens senator Lidia Thorpe says she may go against the party’s final decision on the voice to parliament and will not back the referendum without assurances that it “guarantees First Nations sovereignty is not ceded”.
The former airline pilot accused of the murder of two elderly campers in Victoria has been committed to stand trial.
Background checks and ID verification systems in dating apps are among the measures being considered as governments around the country grapple with how to keep people safe while they are looking for love online.
Two of senator Jacqui Lambie’s former staffers have been ordered to pay the commonwealth government almost $100,000 for their unreasonable conduct in an unfair dismissal trial in which a judge found they attempted to smear the senator.
Have a great evening, everyone.
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Prepare for the heat
The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting some very high temperatures for tomorrow, in parts of the country.
Hot and stormy for much of Australia this week into the weekend. Thursday will be cooler for #Vic, #Tas and #WA, but it will rapidly heat up for central and south-eastern Australia on Friday ahead of a cold front bringing showers and storms on the weekend. https://t.co/tbD1Whkcz4 pic.twitter.com/4SnBpLySy0
— Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (@BOM_au) January 25, 2023
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