Australia news live: Sydney leads another surge in house prices Indonesian leader Joko Widodo to begin visit

Australian house prices rose by 1.1% in June, CoreLogic data shows. Follow the day’s news live

Childcare centres raising fees is in-line with inflation, says early childhood education minister

Minister for early childhood education Anne Aly says childcare centres increasing fees pre-emptively will not cancel out the federal government’s new childcare subsidies.

It’s pretty standard for centres to raise their costs around this time of year, in line with CPI.

It’s in-line with inflation and it’s pretty average of what the centres are charging around now. This is a very complex and mixed market, it includes NFP, community run, council run and right through to big corporates.

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Humpback whale buried in NSW dunes after stranding on Seven Mile beach

Research suggests buried carcass unlikely to attract sharks so long as it is placed above water table and high tide mark

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A 30-tonne humpback whale has been buried in the dunes behind where it beached and died on Seven Mile beach at Lennox Head on the New South Wales north coast.

The adult whale became stranded early on Saturday morning and, despite attempts by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to save it, died about 7pm.

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Traditional owners in NSW call for heritage reform to continue cultural practices

Kamilaroi elder Michael Cain used to collect wood for didgeridoos from Eura Forest but was banned once it became Breelong national park

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Twice a year, Kamilaroi elder Michael Cain, known as Uncle Mick, makes the eight-hour drive north from his home in Gilgandra to the Tabulam correctional facility to teach detainees how to make didgeridoos from scratch.

Until recently, he collected the wood himself from Eura forest, which is just outside Gilgandra in western New South Wales. But a few years ago he saw signs saying there were no chainsaws allowed.

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The false French riot posts spreading online

A number of false and misleading claims about the French riots have been circulating on social media.

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Australia news live: humpback whale dies near Byron Bay; South Australian universities to merge

A humpback whale stranded on a beach at Lennox Head has died. Follow the day’s news, live

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Ukrainian ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko will be speaking to ABC Insiders this morning which is broadcasting live from the National Press Club.

Meanwhile opposition leader Peter Dutton spoke to Sky this morning.

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France protests: Police throw tear gas in Marseille

Heavy clashes have been taking place between police and protesters all evening in the French city.

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Hachiko: The world's most loyal dog turns 100

The Akita Inu has been lionised in Japan and beyond as a symbol of devotion and fidelity

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Ukraine war corrosive for Vladimir Putin - CIA boss

William J Burns says dissatisfaction with the conflict in Russia is a valuable recruiting tool.

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Lawyer claims she wasnt told for months that Aboriginal teen tried to take her life in youth detention

Incident at South Australia’s Kurlana Tapa centre was downplayed, lawyer claims, but government says safety and wellbeing of children is ‘highest priority’

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A lawyer representing children detained at South Australia’s only juvenile justice centre claims she was not informed for almost two months when an Aboriginal teenager attempted to take her own life in custody.

The Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (ALRM) lawyer who represents the girl in her early teens said the seriousness of the incident in early 2023 at Kurlana Tapa Youth Justice Centre was not conveyed until eight weeks later.

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New Jersey: Dramatic rescue as helicopter pulls firefighters from river

The boat had stalled and went over the edge of a dam during a rescue mission in New Jersey in the US.

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