Your Briefing: Taxpayers face bill for Sydney Opal Tower defects

Hello readers. Taxpayers may pay the bill for Sydney Opal Tower defects and unions plan seven-day strike over labour hire practises.

Hello readers. Taxpayers may foot the bill for the Sydney Opal Tower’s defects and unions plan a seven-day strike over labour hire practises.

Opal Tower in Sydney Olympic Park as work is being carried out on the tenth floor. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Taxpayers may foot Opal Tower bill

The NSW government may be on the hook for millions to fix the cracks and defects in Sydney’s damaged Opal Tower.

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Minister for Women, Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations Kelly O'Dwyer after speaking at a doorstop at Parliament House in Canberra.

Unions go to war over labour hire

Unions will use a seven-day strike next week to intensify pressure over the ‘exploitation’ of labour-hire workers.

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Mr Fifita was arrested after the plane was forced to returned to the gate.

‘Grossly stupid event of century’

An Australian teenager has been deported from New Zealand after typing a bizarre message into an in-flight messaging app.

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Police on scene in Wellington Street, St Kilda. Belived to be a stabbing. Picture: Nicole Garmston

Man stabbed in home invasion

A man who stabbed his neighbours is still at large and believed to be injured following a violent home invasion in Melbourne.

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US President Donald Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum as workers and their families protest the US government shutdown.

‘Only way to end wall deadlock’

Donald Trump may declare a national emergency as a way of paying for his border wall — and he’s right to do so, writes Cameron Stewart.