Fifteen people have been killed, 10 are still missing and hundreds are now displaced after deadly flooding in Indonesia.

Persistent heavy rain on Tuesday and yesterday triggered deadly flooding across the East Nusa Tenggara province and on the tourist island of Bali.

Locals have been forced to evacuate to schools and mosques after their homes in low-lying regions were suddenly underwater.

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A flood disaster has now been declared in the two provinces, including in Denpasar, as authorities search for missing people and initiate a clean-up.

Flooding also closed major roads in and out of Denpasar's airport, disrupting travellers attempting to leave the island.

Australian flights to and from Bali have not been impacted by the flooding.

Jetstar confirmed it is now closely monitoring the situation.

"We're thinking of all those affected by this week's flooding in Bali. The flooding has not impacted the safe operation of our flights in and out of Bali and we are closely monitoring the situation," a spokesperson said.

"We're currently providing greater flexibility for impacted customers due to travel on Wednesday 10 or Thursday 11 September with the option to move to another flight in the next three days."

Virgin flights have also not been impacted.

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Travellers have been told to allow extra time to get to the airport.

Only trucks could access the island's only international airport yesterday.

Social media videos showed Australian tourists waiting in a traffic gridlock following the floods.

Footage released by the National Search and Rescue Agency showed cars floating in floodwaters.

One taxi driver told The Sydney Morning Herald it took him five hours to drive the 20 kilometres from Canggu to the airport.

No Australians have been confirmed as casualties of the flooding.

The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said yesterday it was ready to provide consular support should it be needed.

Officials say the death toll has reached at least 15, with 10 still missing.

Indonesia's National Disaster Management Authority said the flood-affected areas include Denpasar City, Jembrana County, Gianyar County, Klungkung County, Badung County, and Tabanan County.

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Five of those killed were in Denpasar, the most populous city in Bali, officials said.

The floods brought down two buildings in Denpasar, said head of the island's search and rescue agency I Nyoman Sidakarya.

Around 620 people have been impacted by the floods.

"The handling efforts continue to focus on the search, help, as well as the evacuation of the affected citizens," the agency said in a statement.

Around 200 rescuers were dispatched to the region.

Work is also being done to suction water which has flooded parking lots.

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A new survey has revealed a dramatic shift in how Australians are managing their money, with almost half of all "mum and dad" investors now asking artificial intelligence platforms for investment tips.

Findings from an Australian Retail Investor Confidence survey, conducted by Chartered Accountants ANZ, highlight a growing reliance on tools like ChatGPT and Co-Pilot to guide investment decisions.

The survey, which for the first time asked 1000 Australian investors about their use of AI, found that 48 per cent are now using these platforms.

"We have seen adoption of AI grow rapidly for both personal and professional use, but it is interesting to see investors are using it to guide where their money goes," Chartered Accountants ANZ CEO Ainslie van Onselen said.

The trend is particularly strong among younger investors, with 78 per cent of those aged 18-29 using AI for their financial decisions.

The survey also found a gender gap, with 15 per cent of male investors using AI extensively, compared to just 9 per cent of women.

While the adoption of AI is on the rise, trust remains a significant hurdle.

Around 43 per cent of those surveyed said they don't use AI because they lack confidence in the information it provides, and 46 per cent prefer to stick with more traditional sources.

The findings underscore the importance of reliable, human-backed financial information.

"Investors regard auditors as the foremost protectors of their interests, demonstrating a high level of trust in qualified professionals who deliver audit and assurance services," Van Onselen said.

"After all, AI information is only as good as its source."

This is supported by the survey data, which showed a four-point jump in strong confidence in audited financial statements since last year, now at 54 per cent.

Despite global uncertainty, investor confidence in the Australian market is on the rise.

CA ANZ chief economist, Professor Richard Holden, attributes this to a strong domestic economy.

"Confidence in Australian capital markets and listed companies has risen significantly at a time of global uncertainty, along with confidence in auditors and financial statements," Holden said.

The increasing use of AI highlighted the need for high-quality data to train these models, Holden added.

The survey also revealed a six-point increase in the percentage of investors with high confidence in Australian companies, and 42 per cent cited the recent federal election as a factor that boosted their confidence to invest.

However, global unrest is making investors more cautious about overseas investments, with confidence in these markets dropping from 78 per cent to 73 per cent.

The rise of AI in finance is not limited to retail investors.

A separate global report from Chartered Accountants Worldwide and Ipsos UK found that 79 per cent of chartered accountants believe their role as "data guardians" will become increasingly important as AI is integrated more into business.

The report, which surveyed accountants across 48 countries, found that 83 per cent of young professionals aged 18-24 are using AI tools at least once a week for tasks ranging from general productivity to data entry and risk management.

The verdict on Banksy's artwork on a courthouse wall of a judge beating a protester was that it had to go.

Unlike the elusive artist's other provocative works that are sometimes stolen or carefully removed and displayed in galleries or sold at auction for millions, his latest mural was being erased Wednesday from the record.

The stenciled spray-painting of a protester lying on the ground holding a blood-splattered placard while a judge in a traditional wig and black gown beats him with a gavel was scrubbed from wall of the iconic Royal Courts of Justice.

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The order to remove it came from court administrators because the 143-year-old Victorian gothic revival style building is valued for its historical significance and must maintain its original character, a spokesperson said.

Metropolitan Police said officers were investigating a complaint that the work was an act of criminal damage.

Banksy's spokesperson did not immediately return an email seeking comment.

The work appeared earlier this week and was quickly covered up after Banksy posted a photo of it on Instagram, his usual method of authenticating his work.

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The artist, who has never publicly revealed his identity, is known for criticising government policy on migration and war.

While the artwork didn't make overt reference to a particular event or cause, some activists saw it as a comment on the U.K. government’s ban on the group Palestine Action, which has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation.

On Saturday almost 900 people were arrested at a London protest challenging the ban.

The courthouse is home to the Court of Appeal and High Court, which have both weighed in on Palestine Action's efforts to appeal the ban. Appellate judges initially rejected the organisation’s request to appeal, but a High Court judge then allowed it to go forward, though the government is challenging that decision.

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The father of Australia's Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, has condemned "reckless" content creators amid outrage over a US influencer shown wrestling the wild reptiles.

Mike Holston, known as "The Real Tarzann" on social media, has been slammed by animal rights supporters and Australian authorities for two controversial videos he posted to his millions of followers.

In the footage posted on Instagram, he is shown chasing and catching freshwater and saltwater crocodiles in Cape York in Far North Queensland.

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Now Bob Irwin has joined the chorus of condemnation, demanding officials deport him, the Brisbane Times reports.

He also insisted his late television personality son was not to blame for the actions of Holston and other content creators.

"This isn't a Steve Irwin issue; this is about an individual illegally interfering with protected fauna," Bob said.

"When people compare the behaviour of blokes like Mike Holston to what Steve did, or claim they were influenced by him, it really gets under my skin."

Bob said his son's interactions with crocodiles were about respecting wildlife, and he always held the correct permits.

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He said Holston had "no clue" about what he was doing.

"The crocodile is clearly under extreme stress – it's disgusting," Irwin said of one of the posts showing the influencer grappling with one of the animals.

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli yesterday called Holston "a goose" over his handling of the crocodiles, while state environment officials opened an investigation into his actions.

Fines for interfering with crocodiles can lead to fines up to $37, 500.

Earlier this year, influencer Sam Jones stoked outrage when on her visit to Australia she grabbed a baby wombat from its mother.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined condemnation of the American woman's actions, describing the images as an "outrage".

"To take a baby wombat from its mother, and clearly causing distress from the mother is just an outrage," he said.

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Charlie Kirk, who rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to a top podcaster, culture warrior and ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed this morning during one of his trademark public appearances at a college in Utah.

He was 31; Kirk was married to podcaster Erika Frantzve and they have two young children.

Kirk died doing what made him a potent political force — rallying the right on a college campus, this time Utah Valley University. His shooting is one of an escalating number of attacks on political figures in the United States, from the assassination of a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota to last summer's shooting of Trump, that have roiled the nation.

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Trump announced Kirk's death on his social media site, Truth Social: “No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie,” Trump wrote.

Kirk personified the pugnacious, populist conservatism that has taken over the Republican Party in the age of Trump.

He launched his organisation, Turning Point USA, in 2012, targeting younger people and venturing onto liberal-leaning college campuses where many GOP activists were nervous to tread.

A backer of Trump during the president's initial 2016 run, Kirk took Turning Point from one of a constellation of well-funded conservative groups to the centre of the right-of-centre universe.

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Turning Point's political wing helped run get-out-the-vote for Trump's 2024 campaign, trying to energise disaffected conservatives who rarely vote.

Trump won Arizona, Turning Point's home state, by five percentage points after narrowly losing it in 2020. The group is known for its flamboyant events that often feature strobe lighting and pyrotechnics. It claims more than 250,000 student members.

Trump praised Kirk, who started as an unofficial advisor during Trump's 2016 campaign and more recently became a confidant. “He was a very, very good friend of mine and he was a tremendous person,” Trump told the New York Post.

Kirk showed off an apocalyptic style in his popular podcast, radio show and on the campaign trail. During an appearance with Trump in Georgia last year, he said that Democrats “stand for everything God hates.” Kirk called the Trump vs. Kamala Harris choice “a spiritual battle.”

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“This is a Christian state. I’d like to see it stay that way,” Kirk told the 10,000 or so Georgians, who at one point joined Kirk in a deafening chant of “Christ is King! Christ is King!”

Kirk had also remained a regular presence on college campuses. Last year, for the social media program “Surrounded,” he faced off against 20 liberal college students to defend his viewpoints, including that abortion is murder and should be illegal.

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Turning Point was founded in suburban Chicago in 2012 by a then 18-year-old Kirk and William Montgomery, a Tea Party activist, to campaign on college campuses for low taxes and limited government. It was not an immediate success.

But Kirk’s zeal for confronting liberals in academia eventually won over an influential set of conservative financiers.

Despite early misgivings, Turning Point enthusiastically backed Trump after he clinched the GOP nomination in 2016. Kirk served as a personal aide to Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s eldest son, during the general election campaign.

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Soon, Kirk was a regular presence on cable TV, where he leaned into the culture wars and heaped praise on the then-president. Trump and his son were equally effusive and often spoke at Turning Point conferences.

As money poured in, Kirk bought a US$4.75 million ($7.18 million) Spanish-style estate on a gated Arizona country club. Turning Point steered millions of dollars to contractors owned by Kirk and his associates, and some Republicans were sceptical when it announced it would spearhead an attempt to turn out infrequent voters during Trump’s 2024 campaign.

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But as younger voters shifted right in 2024 and Trump ran up a five-point margin of victory in Arizona, Kirk and his allies claimed vindication of his view of a sharp-elbowed, culture-war-oriented conservatism.

Kirk’s evangelical Christian beliefs were intertwined with his political perspective, and he argued that there was no true separation of church and state.

He also referenced the Seven Mountain Mandate, which specifies seven areas where Christians are to lead — politics, religion, media, business, family, education and the arts, and entertainment.

Kirk argued for a new conservatism that advocated for freedom of speech, challenging Big Tech and the media, and centring working-class Americans beyond the nation’s capital.

“We have to ask ourselves a question as a conservative movement: Are we going to revert back to the party of the status quo ruling class?” he said in his speech opening the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2020.

“Or are we going to learn from what I call the MAGA doctrine? The MAGA doctrine, which is a doctrine of American renewal, revival, one that America is the greatest country in the history of the world.”

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Chaos erupted when conservative political activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an event on the Utah Valley University campus.

Some prominent Hollywood names are among the filmmakers and industry figures who've signed a pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions — including festivals, broadcasters and production companies — that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people”.

The group Film Workers for Palestine posted an open letter today, including signatures from Hollywood luminaries like Emma Stone, Ayo Edebiri, Mark Ruffalo Olivia Colman, John Cusack, Riz Ahmed, Rob Delaney, Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton and Cynthia Nixon among many others. The group said it had collected more than 3000 industry signatures since the pledge was made public.

“As filmmakers, actors, film industry workers, and institutions, we recognize the power of cinema to shape perceptions,” the open letter says. “In this urgent moment of crisis, where many of our governments are enabling the carnage in Gaza, we must do everything we can to address complicity in that unrelenting horror.”

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Film Workers for Palestine — a group of film professionals based in various countries formed in early 2024 — said their pledge was inspired by Filmmakers United Against Apartheid, who refused to screen their films in apartheid South Africa.

“We pledge not to screen films, appear at or otherwise work with Israeli film institutions — including festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies — that are implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people,” the letter says.

The group has not called for a boycott on all Israeli film institutions. It claims on its website that Israel’s public and private broadcasters “have decades-old and ongoing involvement in whitewashing, denying and justifying Israel’s war crimes” and also says Israel’s major film festivals — including the Jerusalem Film Festival, Haifa International Film Festival and others — “continue to partner with the Israeli government while it carries out what leading experts have defined as genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”

But it says that it does not consider all film institutions in Israel complicit, and advises people to ask questions and “seek guidelines set by Palestinian civil society.”

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The Jerusalem Film Festival did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

The pledge also specifies that it is targeting institutions and not individuals: “The call is for film workers to refuse to work with Israeli institutions that are complicit in Israel’s human rights abuses against the Palestinian people. This refusal takes aim at institutional complicity, not identity.”

A representative of the Israeli film and television industry called the boycott “misguided.”

“We are the industry that (has been) struggling for years, making efforts for decades to promote discussion,” working with Palestinians and Israelis to tell the story of the conflict from all sides, said Tzvika Gottlieb, CEO of the Israeli Film & TV Producers Association, in an interview.

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Gottlieb said his industry “has consistently maintained a critical stance toward government policies, and is very vocal in criticism of this administration’s current actions. We urgently call for an immediate end to the violence, an end to the suffering, and the release of all hostages right now.”

His group added in official remarks that “this call for a boycott is profoundly misguided. By targeting us — the creators who give voice to diverse narratives and foster dialogue — these signatories are undermining their own cause and attempting to silence us.”

In response, Film Workers for Palestine issued a statement to The Associated Press, saying their initiative is “rooted in historic struggles," in particular "the successful international movement to end the apartheid regime of South Africa.”

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“Should Israeli film institutions wish to continue working with pledge signatories, their choice is clear: end complicity in Israel’s genocide and apartheid, and endorse the full rights of the Palestinian people under international law, in line with Palestinian civil society guidelines," the statement said. "To date, almost none has.”

The pledge comes after a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the recent Venice International Film Festival drew an estimated 10,000 participants. That followed a call by a group called Venice4Palestine for the festival to condemn the destruction in Gaza.

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Indonesian rescuers have recovered the bodies of at least 11 people but 13 people are still missing after flash floods struck two provinces of the island nation, authorities say.

Torrential rains beginning on Monday caused flooding and landslides in East Nusa Tenggara province and on the tourist island of Bali.

Three members of a family were found dead after their house was swept away and five people were missing on Wednesday in the Nagekeo district of East Nusa Tenggara, officials said.

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In Bali, rescuers retrieved eight bodies from several areas and eight residents were missing on Wednesday, according to Muhammad Iqbal Simatupang, the police chief in Bali's provincial capital of Denpasar.

Rain has caused rivers to burst their banks, tearing through nine cities and districts in Bali.

Mud, rocks and trees tumbled onto mountainside hamlets and rising rivers submerged at least 112 neighbourhoods and resulted in several landslides, Bali's Disaster Mitigation Agency said in a statement.

Four people were in a building that collapsed and was swept away in the Kumbasari market area of South Denpasar, said Nyoman Sidakarya, the head of Bali's Search and Rescue Agency.

Videos released by the National Search and Rescue Agency showed cars floating in muddy waters while soldiers and rescuers in rubber boats helped children and older people who were forced onto the roofs of flooded homes and buildings.

Severe flooding inundated thousands of homes and buildings in residential areas and tourist spots.

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Authorities have cut electricity and water, prompting hotels, restaurants, hospitals and other public facilities to use generators, Bali Governor Wayan Koster said.

There have been landslides in 18 neighbourhoods of Karangasem, Gianyar and Badung districts and flooding swept through at least 15 shops and houses and damaged several roads and bridges, he said.

"This disaster also caused material losses for traders and tourism businesses," Koster said, adding that more than 800 people were in temporary shelters after floodwater reached up to 2.5 metres in places.

National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said flash floods in Nagekeo swept away villagers and vehicles passing through devastated villages and triggered a landslide that blocked three roads, killing at least three villagers and four people were missing.

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The severe weather and rugged terrain hampered rescue efforts, he said, noting that the flooding in Nagekeo also destroyed two bridges, two government offices, a plantation, rice fields and livestock, Muhari said.

Heavy seasonal rain from about September to March frequently causes flooding and landslides in Indonesia.

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Kim Dotcom has fought extradition since the US request was lodged in 2012.

Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has resigned from the shadow ministry at the request of Sussan Ley after refusing to apologise for comments she made about Indian Australians and failing to publicly back the opposition leader.

Price, who only joined the Liberal party room from the Nationals after the May federal election, had walked back last week's "incorrect" statement that the federal government was allowing more migrants in from India to skew votes towards Labor.

However, she has continued to ignore calls to apologise for the remarks, including at a short press conference this afternoon called to address the saga.

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She also failed to publicly back her party leader, saying only that "those matters are for our party room" when asked if she had confidence in Ley's leadership.

Price has since spoken with Ley, who asked her to step down from the shadow ministry to the backbench this evening.

"I have accepted the leader's decision. And I reiterated my regret in not being clearer in my comments on the ABC last Wednesday," Price said in a statement.

"This has been a disappointing episode for the Liberal Party. I will learn from it. I'm sure others will too.

"No individual is bigger than a party. And I'm sure events of the past week will ultimately make our party stronger.

"Although my time as the shadow minister for defence industry and defence personnel has been cut short, it has been an honour to serve in the shadow defence portfolio."

Price was elevated to the shadow ministry after she defected from the Nationals to sit with the Liberal Party after the opposition's historic loss at the federal election

She planned to run on the ticket with former shadow treasurer Angus Taylor, in his bid to contest the party leadership, but failed to submit herself after he lost.

She was handed the defence industry and defence personnel portfolio after Ley was elected as Liberal leader.

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Earlier today, Price had called a press conference to address the fallout from her comments about Indian migrants.

"My comments were certainly clumsy," she said.

"The issue that's of great concern, which I won't be silenced on, is the issue of mass migration in our country, and that was the prime issue that I was talking about and continue to talk about.

"We should all be focused on that."

Price's refusal to apologise has spurred infighting — as her colleagues and the prime minister call on her to say sorry — while Liberal MP Julian Leeser has publicly apologised on her behalf.

It has also put pressure on Ley, who promised to rebuild the party's relationships with multicultural communities and women and tried to minimise damage by touring Little India in Sydney and meeting with members of the community.

Price declined to explain how she would repair the party divide caused by her comments, instead saying, "Those matters in terms of our party are for our leadership."

"I would love to be able to move forward from this, because there are issues we've been elected by the Australian people to stand up as the opposition to address the failures of the Albanese government, and that's what I would love to encourage, certainly my colleagues, to be focused on moving forward," she said.

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Last week during an interview with the ABC, Price accused the federal government of allowing more migrants in from "particular countries over others" to skew votes and singled out the Indian community.

She later walked back her statement and said: "Australia maintains a longstanding and bipartisan non-discriminatory migration policy. Suggestions otherwise are a mistake."

Her remark came days after anti-immigration rallies, some of which targeted Indian Australians, were held across the country on August 31. 

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, as well as colleagues including Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie and senior Liberal MP Alex Hawke, have urged her to apologise for the harm caused by her incorrect remark.

Leeser has apologised to the Indian community on Price's behalf during an event at a Hindi language school in his north-west Sydney electorate of Berowra over the weekend.

"I wanted just to say something, and it pains me to say it, but I feel I have to say it," he said in a video posted to social media on Monday.

"My colleague, Jacinta Price, said something this week that I want to apologise unreservedly for.

"As my leader, Sussan Ley, said, she was wrong to say it, and she has walked back those remarks, and I am pleased that she has."

Ley has said Price was wrong to make those remarks, but remained tight-lipped on whether she spoke to her or asked her to apologise.

She has also declined to apologise on her behalf.

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Price also accused Hawke of "cowardly and inappropriate conduct" when he called her office to advise her to apologise, by berating her staff and threatening her position within the Liberal Party.

"If people want to talk about a so-called 'woman problem' in the Liberal Party, then it's this: we don't stand up for women when they are mistreated by our own colleagues," she wrote in a fiery statement on Sunday.

Hawke has denied the claims.

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