The latest national news update from the National Indigenous Radio Service.
RESIDENTS in the Queensland town of Oakey are about to learn what’s in a report about health risks they might face after drinking contaminated groundwater.
The defence department has admitted chemicals from firefighting foams used at an Oakey training base have contaminated ground and surface water at the site, and up to 4.5km beyond the property’s boundaries.
Residents will attend a meeting in the town tonight, where defence officials are expected to share the results of the report.
REVENGE porn could soon be criminalised in NSW. The state government is considering new laws to go after people who distribute intimate or sexually explicit images of their former partners without their consent.
Plans for the new laws are part of the government’s response to a parliamentary justice committee inquiry into privacy with its report due to be tabled in parliament today.
MALCOLM Turnbull and other G20 leaders are set to endorse a new set of rules to guide cross-border investment and new ways to help the
world’s poorest nations.
The G20 summit in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou will wrap up this afternoon with the final communique released by the host, President Xi Jinping.
The leaders have supported goals of fostering an open, transparent global environment for investment and helping developing countries, especially in Africa, lift themselves out of poverty.
SHARE-riding service Uber becomes legal in Queensland from today.
Uber’s Queensland boss Sam Bool says it should be even easier to book a Uber ride after a receiving a strong influx of new driver applications.
Mr Bool says the company has support centres in Fortitude Valley, Sunnybank Hills and the Gold Coast to help new driver-partners.
EIGHT teenagers have been arrested in Melbourne over a series of aggravated burglaries in the city’s northwestern suburbs.
Police say the teens were nabbed yesterday when officers stopped an allegedly stolen car.
Six of the eight remain in custody while investigations continue into the burglaries and an attempted carjacking at Point Cook.
A smartphone app has helped police locate a lone bushwalker lost in Sydney’s south.
Dispatchers told the 56-year-old woman to download the emergency app to help work out her location from GPS co-ordinates, after she was lost in bushland on the Mooray walking track at Heathcote.
Police then established a concise search area and emergency workers found her safe and well.
COMMUTERS in Sydney are already saying they’ll be ditching public transport after the state government dropped its weekly free travel for Opal card users.
From today, cardholders who have reached their eight paid trips in a week will now have to pay half-fare rather than receive free travel for the rest of the week.
21-year-old Francesca Wallace says she doesn’t want to pay for a service she finds unreliable and often below standard.
In sport …
ENDURING Socceroos striker Tim Cahill says he has no plans to hang up the boots any time soon as he looks to lead a new Australian strikeforce to Russia.
The all-time Socceroos leading goalscorer is closing in on 100 caps, 50 goals, and a fourth World Cup appearance should Australia navigate their passage to the 2018 tournament.
Cahill was an unused substitute in Australia’s first-up win over Iraq last week in Perth, and the Socceroos journey continues on Wednesday morning Australian time when they take on the United Arab Emirates.
