Police allege he fired a semi automatic rifle at a home with seven people inside around 12.30am on Saturday. One man had minor injuries.

Eight charges, including unlawful use of a firearm, endangering life and no authority to drive
Seven people were inside the home when the shots were allegedly fired
One man had minor injuries and was taken to hospital

"When a child gains access to a firearm it creates an unacceptable risk to that child and to the wider community."
Acting Senior Sergeant Heath Atkinson

The infrastructure department told the inquiry it had no role picking the projects. The Greens want to know who did. Minister Catherine King and other Labor figures won't appear.

$560m fund that backed Labor's 2025 election promises
$6m for Marrickville Golf Club, in the prime minister's electorate
Three times Albanese promised to fund an upgraded verandah at the club if elected, in 2013, 2016 and 2019

"The evidence is pointing towards an extraordinary level of ministerial and party discretion to hand out millions of dollars through a closed-off and shady grants process."
Greens deputy leader Steph Hodgins-May

Adrian Portelli's LMCT+ supermarket opened in Melbourne on October 13. Analysts say beating Coles and Woolworths takes scale, supply chains and buying power, not a single store.

Roughly 67% of Australia's $148 billion supermarket sector is held by Coles and Woolworths together, with Aldi on nine per cent
2.6 to 3% is the net profit margin for Coles and Woolworths, says retail analyst Gary Mortimer, leaving little profit to cut
$99 a year for the LMCT+ membership you need before you can shop at Portelli's discount supermarket

"The reality is that supermarket competition is won through scale, logistics and supply chains, not through the opening of a single store."
Gary Mortimer, retail analyst

Also in interviews

Retail analyst Gary Mortimer · says Portelli's venture is "unlikely to materially alter grocery prices" because a single store has almost no bargaining power with suppliers.

Money expert Joel Gibson · says "the more supermarkets the better", but agrees Portelli's venture is unlikely to provide a solution to high grocery prices.

The former industry minister says it is still not clear whether the planned energy and water standards will cover centres being built now. He calls Queensland's plan to power huge data centres with coal and gas lunacy.

5% hit to income for someone on an A$90,000 equivalent income between 2021 and 23, Husic says
Over ten years is how long Husic says he has been watching the AI space

Where people land

Labor backbencher Ed Husic · says Australia is going too fast on data centres and the government waited too long to move to mandatory standards.

Albanese government · plans national data centre standards on energy and water while trying not to lock out crucial investment.

Since 2024, Queensland's wind farm code hasn't let developers comply just by meeting a set separation distance. Projects must also meet noise criteria at neighbouring homes. The group says the wording on decommissioning guarantees is vague and could still leave landholders or taxpayers liable.

3km minimum setback from residences is what the coalition demands
13 wind turbines surround Glenn Franz's farm within a 3km zone, he says
More than 70 people went to the first big meeting at Diamondy, 280 kilometres north west of Brisbane

"They're actually being quite considered and it's coming from a lived experience."
Member for Maranoa David Littleproud

Also at the meeting on the Franz farm

Member for Maranoa David Littleproud · says affected landholders want practical safeguards rather than opposing renewable energy outright.

AgForce policy adviser Anna Lethbridge · says safeguards need to reach neighbouring producers, not just project hosts.

Helen Haines has lost one leg and surgeons are fighting to save the other. Witnesses say the driver reversed and rammed her a second time. The barber next door pulled him from the car.

1,067 reports of harassment or threats against high office holders last financial year, up from 951 the year before, Tony Burke says
Just under 30,000 people live in the wider Wangaratta council area where the alleged attack happened

"I had no choice but to take him out of the car because it was the right and safest thing to do"
Ricky Jefferies, the barber next door to Haines' office

Also weighing in

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke · says security agencies and police will work through what more could have been done to prevent the alleged attack and keep others safe.

Wangaratta mayor Irene Grant · says the barber was "extraordinarily modest about the very brave action that he took yesterday"

Earlier on r/InSnipNews: the thread

Avant's analysis of claims against doctors found one in five people involved in prescription related incidents suffered serious injury. The Guild says the data is based on doctors' prescribing.

One in five people involved in prescription related incidents suffered serious injury, Avant's analysis found
81 per cent of prescription related claims involved Section 4 drugs, Avant's report found
18 months of university training to prescribe, says Sydney pharmacist Catherine Bronger

Where people land

Avant chief medical officer Steve Robson · wants the expansion of autonomous pharmacist prescribing halted until a national safety framework is in place.

Pharmacy Guild of Australia · says Avant's data is based on doctors' prescribing and is driven by a long running turf war.

Teachers say they make up the lost time on early mornings and Sunday evenings. The union wants two more prep hours a week, and its survey says that would keep a similar share in the job.

24 minutes a day of prep time for primary teachers, which adds up to two hours a week
About 85% of 1400 union members surveyed say they thought about leaving education over the shortfall

"Before, I was happy to go home and do a bit of work if it means a student's going to succeed in the classroom, (but) I shouldn't have to choose between caring for my family and getting the work done."
Illawarra secondary teacher Josh Gonzales

Also weighing in

Federation president Henry Rajendra · says teachers need more prep time to attend to kids with learning difficulties as well as those who need to be extended.

Illawarra teacher Josh Gonzales · says he nearly quit a couple of times on bad days and that teachers feel undervalued.

An eSafety report in July found most underage users kept their accounts or made new ones. The government has doubled the maximum penalty to A$109.2 million.

A$109.2 million is the new maximum penalty for breaches, doubled by the government since the ban began
Five platforms are named: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube

The Grattan Institute wants the GST lifted to 15% and put on food, with the money going to tax cuts, welfare and the states. Neither side is buying.

What happened

• Grattan says a 15% GST covering all food would raise $76 billion a year.
• $58 billion of it would go to income tax cuts and welfare, including 20% more JobSeeker and 50% more Rent Assistance.
• Tanya Plibersek says the government isn't considering it, and shadow treasurer Tim Wilson opposes it.

"Outside of the Covid pandemic, the last time Australian governments owed this much, the country was still paying off debt from a world war." Aruna Sathanapally, Grattan Institute chief executive

The split: Debt 1 · Backers 2

On the debt

news.com.au · Grattan Institute calls to lift GST to 15 per cent

• Names the winners: people on benefits, the states, and homeowners looking to sell, as stamp duty is cut.

On the backers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Spender and Chalmers’ reform adviser back GST change to offset tax cuts

• Leads on Allegra Spender and Sathanapally, whom Chalmers picked for his reform roundtable, both backing a GST hike to pay for tax cuts.
• Splits the money: $33 billion for tax cuts, $25 billion for welfare, plus fiscal rules to curb "profligate state governments".

The Nightly · Grattan Institute think tank calls for GST to be raised to 15 per cent to fund income tax relief

• Leads on Sathanapally also sitting on the Parliamentary Budget Office panel that costs parties' policies.
• Brings in St Vincent de Paul's Mark Gaetani: a GST rise is "the last thing everyday households can afford".

Read Less, Know More

The new terms let Meta use bots on websites linked to business accounts. Meta says owners can block them with robots.txt. One marketing boss says leaving Meta can carry a serious commercial cost.

Where people land

Meta · says businesses can block its crawlers through robots.txt and that the terms are about ads and business products, not scraping news sites.

In Marketing We Trust CEO Paul Hewett · calls the terms a take it or leave it approach and says leaving Meta can carry a serious commercial cost.

A think tank put Australia's resource taxes beside Norway, Alaska and others. Mining did better than expected. Petroleum was very weak, and Queensland's coal royalties show more is possible.

$28b a year more from coal, iron ore, gold, copper, lithium and other miners, by Prosper Australia's estimate
$16b to $18b a year more from oil, gas and LNG, by the think tank's estimate
40% is Queensland's coal royalty rate once coal tops $300 a tonne, up from a 15% top rate before July 2022

"Once coal, iron ore, or gas is extracted and sold, it is gone"
Prosper Australia

Also weighing in

Some Queensland mine operators · began cutting jobs and production in 2025, blaming higher royalties alongside falling coal prices and rising costs.

Independent MP Helen Haines is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle outside the Wangaratta electorate office. Investigators say the motive is unknown. Threat reports were already climbing.

1,067 violent threats against high office holders recorded by federal police, up from 951 the year before
1,595 Australians were surveyed for the authors' research on conspiracy beliefs and violence against the government
Two police officers shot dead by self described sovereign citizen Dezi Freeman, who was then hunted for seven months

Also weighing in

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese · describes what happened to Helen Haines as a deliberate targeted act.

Young people aren't spending as much over the bar, and costs are up. Stephen Roberts says the run club at the pub brings up to 100 young people in. Leah Crowley says the drag nights keep selling out.

20 times less likely for Gen Z than baby boomers to choose to drink, a Flinders University study found
Six years of bimonthly drag nights at Leah Crowley's Yeppoon restaurant, which she says are consistently a sellout

"I just enjoy being healthy and drinking wasn't helping with that, so I realised at a certain point it doesn't fit into my life."
Harrison Boag, 26

Also weighing in

Nightlife economy commissioner John Collins · says young people are not spending as much over the bar and the cost of doing business has "gone through the roof".

Associate Professor Felix Septianto · says patrons remember an event over the drink, and different activities give regional customers reasons to keep coming back.

Main Group FX looked real because it held a financial licence. Thirteen known investors lost more than $2 million. Losses across the licensor's representatives are feared at up to $138 million.

As much as $138 million may have been lost on products sold by representatives under the MGF Capital licence
More than $2 million lost by 13 known investors through Main Group FX alone
One month as director on ASIC paperwork for Junru Sun, who Candice Driver says was 21

Where people land

Sydney marketing executive Candice Driver · has "no trust whatsoever" in the system that allowed the alleged fraudsters to have a financial licence.

MGF Capital director Matthew Starkey · says his firm "had no contact with any of the perpetrators of the [alleged] scam", and the firm denies any due diligence failures.

The tribunal ruled their first notice invalid in August. A new one came days later, and the ombudsman declined to investigate. The state says headleasing doesn't raise eviction risk.

$4,000 a month is the gap between the market rent the state pays the owner and the rent the Innes family pays
44 decades old public housing towers are being demolished, forcing some residents into headleasing
Three days between the 25 November eviction date and the 28 November Victorian election

Where people land

Public housing tenant Gail Innes · says the new eviction notice leaves them feeling "bullied" and "really, really anxious".

Victorian government · says using private homes for public housing tenants does not put those tenants at greater risk of eviction.

Brendan Nugent, 43, faces three charges and is due in Wangaratta Magistrates' Court today. Police will allege it was targeted. His father and his father's partner say Helen Haines has been their friend for more than 20 years.

10 years' imprisonment is the maximum penalty for the federal charge of causing harm to a Commonwealth public official
More than 20 years that Ms Haines has been a friend of Mr Nugent's father Rod and his partner Christine Cunningham
15 kilometres east of Wangaratta is the Tarrawingee home officers searched on Tuesday

"Helen Haines is a deeply respected, valued and much loved member of our local community"
Rod Nugent and Christine Cunningham, Mr Nugent's father and Rod's partner, in a statement

Also in statements

Victoria Police · will allege the incident was targeted.

Rod Nugent and Christine Cunningham · say Monday's events were "devastating and unfathomable"

Earlier on r/InSnipNews: the thread, 67 comments

His 2022 speech led to the corruption watchdog's Operation Rosny inquiry into his own party. He says whistleblowers get shunned and career opportunities quickly disappear.

690 words was the length of the speech that led to the corruption watchdog's investigation
Six sitting Liberal councillors and the mayor were replaced, and Williams questioned how
180 days after final submissions is what the presiding commissioner has to hand down findings