National news headlines from Australia's daily newspapers, February 15

news headlines

Source: SBS

SBS Korean Program analyses and sums up the top stories featuring today in the Australia's mainstream newspapers.


The Australian

The endangered black-throated finch is on the verge of halting Adani's controversial coalmine after a review by a Melbourne academic, commissioned by the Queensland government at the 11th hour, found the multibillion-dollar project's plan to protect the rare bird was inadequate.

The housing downturn is hitting suburbs that boomed to unrealistic highs, with nearly 100 suburbs around the country dropping out of the so-called "million- dollar club".

The Sydney Morning Herald

Teetering wealth giant AMP has been smashed by investors after revealing its customers are fleeing in droves to industry super funds in what the group called "a perfect storm".

The Herald Sun

A brazen drug ring being run from a Housing Commission block has been smashed by police. One unit where heroin and meth were being sold was uncovered by the Herald Sun last month, as detectives were conducting a secret probe into the alleged trafficking network.

The Morrison government will further seek to exploit a divide with the Opposition over national security, after Labor signalled it won't support new laws giving the Home Affairs Minister powers to strip terrorists of their citizenship.

The Courier-Mail

Ben Barba has begun a new career as a truck driver as he tries to recover from an NRL life ban following his sacking by the Cowboys for an alleged domestic violence incident. He has gone from earning $500,000 a season to around $27.20 an hour.

The West Australian

The judge in the Claremont serial killer case has agreed to watch a sickening porn movie to decide if it can be used in the case against accused murderer and rapist Bradley Robert Edwards.

The Advertiser

Rebooted plans for a significant expansion of the Olympic Dam mine that could deliver more than 1800 jobs have taken a key step forward, gaining major project status to help expedite the development.


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