One deer had become tangled in a fence by its antlers and had to be euthanised.

A local resident interrupted Treasurer Jim Chalmers' press conference in Queensland to ask the government for help following a "horrific" attack on her home.

Chalmers was speaking at a media conference in the Brisbane suburb of Logan when a woman, later identified as Anoushka Arro, said she had a plea for the state's Minister for Housing Sam O'Connor.

"I recently have been the victim of an absolutely horrific, catastrophic event at my home, where the front gate was ripped off of my property onto the road," she said.

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"I live in fear. I have emailed him. I have tried to get some sort of resolve for the situation I am living under.

"I have counsel who are now assisting [me] but I am not being given anything from the state government."

Arro, who previously ran as a Logan City Council candidate, claimed tenants of public housing on her street have been harassing her.

She told Chalmers she can't leave her home because she is so "deeply scared".

"I want something addressed. I am shaking because I am so fearful and scared," she added.

"I can't leave my home, this person has a network of hoons, who drive past my house."

Chalmers said he was sorry to hear the woman was going through a difficult time.

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He asked for a private conversation to discuss the matter and said he would involve local MP for Nudgee Leanne Linard.

"What we'll arrange is, if we can have a private conversation and get your details, if Leanne (Linard) is your state member, we'll make sure that Leanne makes that representation to Minister O'Connor's office in the Crisafulli government, and we'll follow that up for you," he said.

"We're so sorry you are going through this very traumatic period and we will do what we can to represent you and represent your interests.

"Thank you for raising it with us."

After Chalmers responded to a question from a journalist, the woman was seen shaking and crying.

The treasurer was speaking in Brisbane about a pay bump for aged care workers.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said today he was concerned about reports BHP, Australia's biggest mining company, has been temporarily banned from exporting iron ore to China.

He was speaking amid reports by Bloomberg News that state-run iron ore trader China Mineral Resources Group (CMRG) urged local mills to temporarily pause purchases of any dollar-denominated seaborne iron ore cargoes from BHP.

"I am concerned about that and what we want to make sure is that markets operate properly, and of course, we have seen those issues in the past," Albanese said.

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"I want to see Australian iron ore to be able to be exported to China without hindrance.

"These measures are always disappointing, but let's hope, certainly, that they are very much short-term."

Albanese said it was important the ban was "resolved quickly".

The prime minister's concerns were echoed by Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who said he was seeking a meeting with BHP chief executive Mike Henry.

"I've seen those reports. They're concerning reports," he said.

"Ultimately, though, they are about the commercial arrangements between two companies. And so, in one respect, a matter for the company to work through.

"I'll have discussions with Mike Henry about that in due course, when we can set that up."

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At the opening of trading on the ASX today, shares in BHP fell 1.5 per cent.

The move by CMRG comes as contract talks between the Australian miner and Chinese buyers stall.

CMRG was created to bolster China's influence in the global iron ore market, and this move further highlights Beijing's determination to gain greater sway over prices.

Iron ore is a key ingredient in steel production, and Chinese demand for it has been instrumental in Australia's economic prosperity, accounting for up to 5 per cent of the country's gross domestic product.

Last financial year, iron ore exports were worth about $138 billion.

BHP is the world's biggest listed mining company and is a major player in the Australian share market.

A spokesperson for BHP said the company couldn't comment on commercial arrangements.

Last month, the mining giant said its annual profit dipped to the lowest in five years amid slowing demand from China-impacted iron ore prices.

– With Reuters

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A driver has died after a truck crashed into two parked trucks – while people were sleeping inside them – and caught fire in north-east Victoria early today.

It is believed the truck driver lost control before crashing into two parked trucks on the Hume Freeway near Wangaratta South just before 5am.

The driver, who is yet to be identified, died at the scene.

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The two occupants of the parked trucks were sleeping at the time and were not injured.

Police are still investigating the circumstances around the crash.

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Anyone who witnessed the incident or has dashcam or CCTV footage is urged to contact police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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A member of the Trump administration has seemingly raised a red flag after China bought millions of tons of Argentinian soybeans, taking advantage of a financial lifeline the US Treasury Department said it plans to provide to Buenos Aires – all while American soybean farmers are struggling with a Chinese blockade of their crops.

A photo of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's phone captured by the Associated Press shows a text from a contact named "BR," presumed to be US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.

The message linked to the X account of grain trader Ben Scholl, who has sounded the alarm on what Argentina's massive bailout means for America's soybean farmers.

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"Just a heads up. I am getting more intel, but this is highly unfortunate. We bailed out Argentina yesterday and in return, the Argentine's (sic) removed their export tariffs on grains, reducing their price to China at a time when we would normally be selling to China," the message said.

"Soy prices are dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us. On a plane but scott I can call you when I land."

Administration officials did not respond to requests for comment.

The caught-on-camera text conversation appears to show how President Donald Trump's haphazard foreign policy agenda has produced a number of unintended negative consequences for American farmers – a situation Trump has acknowledged by suggesting his administration may take action to help bail them out.

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"There's no doubt that the farm economy is in a significant challenge right now, especially our row croppers," Rollins told reporters on Tuesday.

"The ability to offset any payments to the farmers through potential tariff revenue is really where the president wants us to head, and that's what we're looking at."

A strategic friendship that is hurting US farmers

Since taking power in 2023, Argentina's President Javier Milei has overhauled the country's spending and regulations.

That has resulted in some success, such as monthly inflation slowing from over 25 per cent to around 2 per cent.

But other corners of the Argentine economy are languishing, and the president's party got trounced in local elections earlier this month.

Milei has a powerful friend in Trump, who has praised the chainsaw-wielding libertarian and endorsed his re-election at the United Nations last week, saying: "To the people of Argentina, we're backing him 100 per cent."

The Trump administration has said it is arranging a US$20 billion ($30.25 billion) lifeline to Argentina's central bank, which would exchange US dollars for pesos to help stabilise Argentina's financial market.

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Bessent said the deal would function as a "bridge to the election," thereby allowing Milei to continue with his radical reforms.

But after Argentina temporarily rolled back its export tax on grain in the hopes of juicing sales, China snapped up "at least 10 cargoes of Argentine soybeans," according to reporting from Reuters.

The move has further complicated America's trade relationship with China: once the largest buyer of American soybeans – Beijing bought $US12.5 billion ($18.91 billion) worth last year – USDA data shows it has not purchased any US soybeans since May, amid a trade spat with Washington.

The situation has hobbled America's $US60.7 billion ($91.81 billion) soybean industry, and there seems to be no concrete solution in sight without a trade deal and China reconfiguring its soybean supply chain.

"US soybean farmers have been clear for months: the administration needs to secure a trade deal with China. China is the world's largest soybean customer and typically our top export market," American Soybean Association President Caleb Ragland said in a September 24 statement.

"The US has made zero sales to China in this new crop marketing year due to 20 per cent retaliatory tariffs imposed by China in response to US tariffs."

Trump last Thursday at the White House suggested that his administration may distribute some tariff revenue to American farmers on a temporary basis to help alleviate their financial strain from his policies.

"We're going to take some of that tariff money that we've made, we're going to give it to our farmers, who are – for a little while – going to be hurt until it kicks in, the tariffs kick in to their benefit," Trump said.

It's the latest frustration for American farmers as they start to bring in this year's crop.

"We're always hopeful that those negotiations are moving forward, but yet with harvest here, patience may be running thin," one Indiana farmer told CNN, describing the result on America's heartland of inflation, Trump's trade war and the deportation of the industry's key migrant workforce.

"This is not your ordinary farm crisis. We call it 'farmageddon'," Joe Jennings, CEO of Daitaas Holdings, a Tennessee-based farm tech and software company, told CNN.

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A Sydney woman found herself in a race against the clock to buy an affordable home with her fiance amid warnings property prices could skyrocket under the federal government's new five per cent deposit scheme, which comes into effect today.

Linh Hoang, 29, was in the middle of a "deflating" journey trying to buy a house in the NSW capital when she realised the first home buyers scheme was creeping up – and it has the potential to send property prices skyrocketing.

Hoang told 9news.com.au she and her partner, Jeffrey, purchased a house and land package in western Sydney just three months ago.

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Nicole Kidman has filed for divorce from Keith Urban after 19 years of marriage, bringing a surprising end to a long and seemingly successful union that brought together two superstars from the worlds of movies and music.

The 58-year-old Oscar-winning actor petitioned on Tuesday to end her marriage to the 57-year-old Grammy-winning country singer in a Nashville court. The documents state the couple has undergone "marital difficulties and irreconcilable differences."

Kidman and Urban, two of the biggest stars to come out of Australia in recent decades, have been red carpet fixtures throughout their two-decade relationship, with Urban joining his wife at the Oscars and Kidman attending music events like the Academy of Country Music Awards.

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The filings include a marriage dissolution and childcare plan agreed on by the couple and submitted for a judge's approval.

"The mother and father will behave with each other and each child so as to provide a loving, stable, consistent and nurturing relationship with the child even though they are divorced," says the permanent parenting plan, using language common in the state's divorces.

"They will not speak badly of each other or the members of the family of the other parent. They will encourage each child to continue to love the other parent and be comfortable in both families."

The plan asks that Kidman be the primary residential parent to the couple's two daughters, ages 17 and 14, having them for 306 days per year with Urban taking them for the other 59.

The girls have lived in Nashville all their lives, and the documents give no indication that will change.

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The marriage dissolution plan lays out a roughly equal division of joint assets, with each keeping all the assets that are in their own name, including the copyrights and royalties for their artistic work.

The detailed agreements suggests that the divorce had been in the works for well over a month at the least. Urban signed the parenting plan on August 29, Kidman on September 6.

It will take at least 90 days for the divorce to become final under Tennessee law.

Representatives for Kidman and Urban did not respond to emailed requests for comment on Tuesday.

Both raised in Australia, Kidman and Urban met in 2005 at a Los Angeles event honouring Australians and were married in Sydney the following year.

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The marriage was the first for Urban and the second for Kidman, who was married to Tom Cruise from 1990 to 2001. Kidman also has two older children with Cruise.

The couple had publicly but lovingly described some marital difficulties, but there were still few if any signs they were headed for divorce. Media reports of their separation came just a day before the divorce filing.

Last year at the premiere of the Netflix series The Perfect Couple, Kidman told The Associated Press the term didn't apply to her and Urban.

"You're heading for trouble if you consider yourselves the perfect couple," she said. "I'm not a believer in perfect."

A few months earlier, Urban paid tribute to Kidman, and brought her to tears, when she received the AFI Life Achievement Award.

Urban said she showed him "what love in action really looks like" when his substance abuse problems emerged almost immediately after they wed in 2006.

"Four months into our marriage, I'm in rehab for three months," Urban said. "Nic pushed through every negative voice, I'm sure even some of her own, and she chose love. And here we are 18 years later."

Kidman's film roles have included Days of Thunder, Eyes Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge and The Hours, for which she won an Academy Award for playing author Virginia Woolf.

She has more recently worked in television, including the series Nine Perfect Strangers and Big Little Lies, for which she won Emmys as both actor and producer.

Urban has been a major country star since the 1990s, with hits including Somebody Like You and Blue Ain't Your Color. He has won four Grammy Awards and more than a dozen ACM Awards.

Their split was first reported by TMZ.

Two years of failures have left problem-plagued Optus with a multi-million-dollar hit to the brand's crumbling reputation, according to a public relations expert. 

Sphere PR Managing Director Louise Roberts said reliability is everything to a telco and, after three triple-zero outages since 2023 and a mass data breach in 2022, Optus' brand has taken repeated blows.

"The Optus brand is now in a fragile, high-risk state," she told 9news.com.au.

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"For telcos, reliability and resilience are really non-negotiables, and repeated failures will damage their credibility in ways that a single event may not have."

Roberts said the continued blunders could cost Optus millions in a loss of customers, fines, and a damaged brand reputation. 

She added that there may be lawsuits from the families of the three people who died during the triple-zero outage on September 18. 

"They'll risk ongoing customer churn, intensified reliability scrutiny, they're probably going to be subject to quite significant fines," Roberts said. 

"Companies can recover their reputation, but I think you'll find that Optus' issues will be mentioned for years to come."

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Days before the outage, a Roy Morgan survey ranked Optus as Australia's fourth most distrusted brand.

"It still has not recovered from the 2022 data breach," she said. 

"Optus has really got to take a long, hard look at itself and make sure that in future, that they have not only invested in their network and resilience, but they have also revised their processes.

"They really need to demonstrate that they've made long-term structural changes."

Optus' problems started years before the first triple-zero outage earlier this month. Here is a breakdown of everything that led to today.

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November 8, 2023

4am: Optus begins experiencing a nationwide outage that affects all services, including triple-zero calls and NBN.

6.47am: Optus tells customers it is aware of the issue and is working to restore services.

12.55pm: Some services begin to come back online.

4pm: Most, if not all, services are restored. 

November 13, 2023

The Australian Communications and Media Authority begins an investigation into the outage.

November 17, 2023

The Optus chief executive at the time, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, appears before the Senate to field questions on the outage and how the telco responded.

She insists she is not facing internal calls to step down.

November 20, 2023

Rosmarin resigns.

"Having now had time for some personal reflection, I have come to the decision that my resignation is in the best interest of Optus moving forward," she said at the time.

She is replaced in the interim by chief financial officer Michael Venter.

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January 24, 2023

Optus admits that almost 2700 triple-zero calls failed to connect, up from the initial 228 figure.

March 21, 2024

A government-commissioned review into the outage handed down its final report, making 18 recommendations to address structural issues within the broader telco system. 

The federal government accepts all the recommendations. 

May 6, 2024

Optus announces Stephen Rue as its new chief executive effective from November.

He is brought in to review the company and recover its reputation.

November 8, 2024

Exactly a year on from the 2023 triple-zero outage, the Australian Communications and Media Authority finds Optus failed to provide access to emergency services for 2145 people and failed to conduct 369 welfare checks on people who had tried to make an emergency call during the outage. 

The telco pays a $12 million fine. 

September 18, 2025

12.17am — 12.30am: Optus crews ready themselves for a firewall upgrade.

12.30am: Crews begin the upgrade.

1.30pm: Thirteen hours later, Optus becomes aware of an issue affecting triple-zero calls and works to resolve it.

3pm: Optus tells the Australian Communications and Media Authority that the outage affected 10 calls.

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September 19, 2025

3.40pm: Optus tells the Australian Communications and Media Authority that the outage actually affected 100 calls.

4pm: Optus tells the Australian Communications and Media Authority that the outage restricted more than 600 triple-zero calls, and three people died.

4.40pm: Newsrooms across the country receive an email alerting them to a flash press conference.

5.45pm: Rue tells the media that three people died in a triple-zero outage – two in South Australia and one in Western Australia.

This is the first time the public hears about the outage. 

7pm: South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas holds his own press conference, in which he tells the media that Optus did not tell the state about the deaths before Rue fronted the media.

He says he has not witnessed "such incompetence from an Australian corporation in respect to communications worse than this".

Police in South Australia and Western Australia also say they were unaware of the emergency service breakdown until the press conference. 

September 20, 2025

Rue tells the media that a fourth death has been confirmed in Western Australia.

He reveals that two people had called Optus' customer service centres alerting them to an issue affecting triple-zero calls on September 18, but the matter was not escalated.

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September 21, 2025

Rue calls another press conference, where he confirms the telco actually received at least five calls to the customer line about the outage, none of which were escalated.

"As we had not detected the triple-zero failures in our network at the time of these calls, there were no red flags for the contact centre to alert them to any live issues," he said.

South Australia Police confirm that the death of a four-month-old baby, which was initially linked to the outage, was most likely unrelated.

The death toll stands at two in Western Australia and one in South Australia. 

September 22, 2025

The outage widens.

Optus says seven people were unable to contact triple-zero during the brief period the upgrade was being readied between 12.17am to 12.30am on September 18. 

Communications Minister Anika Wells promises to hold the telco to account. 

September 24, 2025

Rue confirms the outage was caused by human error.

Crews, comprised of Optus and third-party Nokia staff in Australia and India, had failed to follow step one of the upgrade process, which would have allowed emergency calls to be redirected through the network.

Optus commissions an independent review as its owner, Singapore-based Singtel Group, issues its first apology.

Singtel CEO Yuen Kuan Moon announces he will visit Australia the following week.

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September 28, 2025

Optus experiences yet another outage that affects 4500 people in NSW's Dapto region between 3am and 12.20pm and impacts nine triple-zero calls.

Optus confirms all the people who tried to contact triple zero were okay, with several of them being accidental or test calls. 

September 30, 2025

Moon meets with Wells in Australia, where she tells him to bring in external advisors to independently assess the company's plans to avoid another outage.

Speaking to reporters, Moon declined to say whether he backs Rue.

"We brought in Stephen 11 months ago to transform Optus to really address the issues that we've had since 2022 and 2023," he said.

"It is very early days, it takes time to transform a company."

Where to now?

Optus has commissioned an internal review, and the Australian Communications and Media Authority is investigating.

Wells hints that there may be a wider review into the telco industry and emergency service network.

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More sunscreens have been temporarily pulled from sale or paused from supply over sun protection claim concerns, bringing the total number of affected sunscreens currently off the market to 18.

The nation's medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), issued the advice yesterday while revealing six more products had been voluntarily removed from its register in the past two weeks.

It's the latest chapter in the saga sparked by a June Choice report that claimed more than a dozen popular sunscreens "failed" to meet their own SPF claims.

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The TGA yesterday said it had received preliminary test results on the base formulation used in Ultra Violette Lean Screen SPF50+ and an export-only variant – both of which the company voluntarily recalled in August – and 19 other products from 13 other companies. 

Those tests found the formula was unlikely to have an SPF of more than 21 and "may, for at least some of the goods, be as low as SPF four".

The TGA said manufacturer Wild Child Laboratories had stopped manufacturing and supplying the base formulation but each sunscreen company would be carrying out its own tests.

"The TGA is considering whether to take regulatory action with respect to those sunscreens," it said.

"Each company is provided with an opportunity to respond to any proposed regulatory action before the TGA makes a decision."

The TGA also issued a warning about UK-based testing laboratory Princeton Consumer Research, saying it had "significant concerns" about the reliability of its tests.

It said "many" companies using the Wild Child-made base formula had – before being told of the regulator's concerns – relied on tests performed by PCR to support their SPF claims.

Wild Child Laboratories said the TGA had confirmed "no manufacturing issues were identified at our facility that could explain variability in SPF testing results" and said the discrepancies were "part of a broader, industry-wide issue".

"We understand the TGA has raised concerns about testing undertaken by PCR Corp and is conducting an ongoing investigation," chief executive Tom Curnow told 9news.com.au in a statement.

"Wild Child has ceased using PCR and initiated confirmatory testing with other accredited, independent laboratories to validate the SPF performance of our products.

"We remain committed to transparency, product safety, and supporting the introduction of more consistent and objective SPF testing standards across Australia."

The TGA said it had written to PCR but had not received a response.

In a statement to 9News.com.au Princeton Consumer Research said it "conducts sunscreen testing in good faith, to recognised industry standards, on the specific samples provided to us by sponsors at the time of testing".

The TGA yesterday released a list of sunscreens using the same base formulation. 

It stated that where the company responsible for a sunscreen has decided to cancel or recall the affected goods, it is working to support them in doing so.

It also advised consumers who purchased a product from the list that they may wish to consider using an alternative product until the TGA completes its review.

Skincare brand Naked Sundays yesterday said it had commissioned more independent testing for its Collagen Glow Mineral Sunscreen, which uses the same base formula but wasn't tested in the Choice report.

"Preliminary results for Collagen Glow have now been provided to the TGA, confirming our variant provides high sun protection, poses no concern, and we will await further guidance from the regulator," it said.

"Naked Sundays partners with various manufacturers in the US and Australia, and no other Naked Sundays products in Australia and or worldwide are impacted," the company said.

"Naked Sundays is working closely with the TGA to ensure we uphold the highest standards for all our products, and we will adopt any new testing requirements that the TGA may impose as soon as they are in place."

Of the 21 products sharing the same base formulation, only two remain on the market in Australia: Allganics Light Sunscreen SPF50+ and GlindaWand The Fountain of Youth Environmental Defence Cream SPF50+.

The others have all been either voluntarily recalled and cancelled from the regulator's register or temporarily pulled from sale.

You can find a full and regularly updated list of the sunscreens using the Wild Child base formulation on the TGA website.

Princeton Consumer Research statement

Princeton Consumer Research conducts sunscreen testing in good faith, to recognised industry standards, on the specific samples provided to us by sponsors at the time of testing. Our studies are performed by trained professionals following written, validated protocols and rigorous quality controls. Over many years we have tested thousands of product samples for global clients using established methods designed to estimate SPF and related claims.

Sunscreen performance measured in a laboratory reflects the exact batch and condition of the sample submitted at that moment. Multiple factors outside the laboratory — such as manufacturing variability between batches, raw-material differences, packaging, storage conditions, product age, and in-market handling — can influence the SPF of products sold later. Testing is therefore one part of a broader quality and regulatory process that includes manufacturing controls, stability programs, and post-market surveillance by brands and regulators.

We can only speak to the data we generated on the samples we tested; we cannot opine on any subsequently manufactured or sold product that we did not test.

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A man is dead and a 13-year-old girl is among two people in hospital after a drowning emergency at a Western Australian river popular with swimmers.

Families enjoying the school holidays were left shocked when seven people were pulled from Moore River in Guilderton – an hour north of Perth – after getting in trouble.

The day out on the water took a disastrous turn at the holiday spot when police received a distress call at 10.45am (12.45pm AEST) today.

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"It just makes you realise how easy things can go from ok to really bad," one witness said.

A group of seven people got into trouble after trying to navigate a steep drop off in the shallows.

It's understood the group of three adults and four children were walking along a sand bank, when a 38-year-old man went into the water.

It's understood he slipped into a deep area, disappearing beneath the surface.

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Bystanders rushed to help, pulling out seven people and starting first aid, before paramedics arrived.

The 38-year-old man didn't survive.

A 13-year-old girl is recovering at Joondalup Hospital and a woman in her 30s remains at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, both, in a stable condition.

Three children under 10 and a man and his 40s were also taken to hospital but discharged earlier today.

A report will be prepared for the coroner.

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