8 September 2026
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8 September 2026
More than 230 residents, including children, are facing eviction from Darwin's largest homeless shelter within weeks as the federal and Northern Territory governments remain locked in a funding stand-off.
8 September 2026
Five other children and a woman were also rushed to hospital.
8 September 2026
Results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 indicate achievement is stabilising after years of decline but more needs to be done to lift performance, Education Minister Erica Stanford says.
8 September 2026
Norwegian seismic player Shearwater GeoServices is putting its newly installed electric ROV systems into commercial service for the first time on a seven-week ocean bottom node campaign in the North Sea. The Bergen-based company said the work will be carried out by the SW Tasman, deploying its proprietary Pearl nodes with the upgraded ROV spread, …
8 September 2026
QatarEnergy has sent an LNG carrier openly through the Strait of Hormuz for the first time in nearly six weeks. The QatarEnergy-controlled vessel, Al Marrouna, transited with AIS switched on, rather than using the dark-mode navigation adopted by much commercial traffic in recent weeks, and is bound for Pakistan’s Port Qasim, where it is due …
8 September 2026
Eighteen of the world’s leading maritime nations have issued an unusually stark warning that the international rules underpinning global shipping are being eroded, threatening to fragment both maritime markets and global trade. In a public statement titled In defence of free shipping, the Consultative Shipping Group (CSG), whose members include Greece, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, …
8 September 2026
Melting ice is opening a trade route through the Arctic. China has begun the first regular service, part of its polar ambitions.
