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PwC Australia’s acting chief executive, Kristin Stubbins, has apologised on behalf of the company for sharing confidential government tax policy information and for “betraying the trust placed in us”.
In an open letter, Stubbins also announced the firm is standing down nine partners:
PwC Australia has directed 9 partners to go on leave, effective immediately, pending the outcome of our ongoing investigation. This includes members of the firm’s Executive Board and Governance Board.
My colleague Josh Butler will bring you more in a moment.
Updated at 21.58 EDT7m ago21.52 EDT
Vapers urged to see health risks ‘through the haze’
Young Victorians are being told to see through the haze as part of the largest anti-vaping campaign in Australia’s history, AAP reports.
A new Quit campaign highlighting the risks of vaping has been launched alongside research by Cancer Council Victoria’s Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer.
The “See through the haze” campaign includes footage of a young person vaping around friends.
The person exhales a cloud of aerosol which gradually morphs to represent objects containing chemicals that are also in e-cigarettes, such as biofuel, paint thinner and insect killer.
The federal government has vowed to ban the import of all non-prescription e-cigarettes under a $234m regulatory crackdown announced in the May budget, but no funding was set aside to enforce it.
Australia wants to be the first to turn youth vaping rates around – but will its plan work?Read moreUpdated at 21.53 EDT16m ago21.43 EDTDaniel Hurst
Richard Marles says there is ‘huge strategic alignment’ between Australia and South Korea
The defence minister has travelled to Seoul to attend an inaugural summit between South Korea and members of the Pacific Islands Forum today. His schedule also includes meetings with the South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, and defence minister, Lee Jong-sup.
In an interview with Sky News this morning, Marles said he and Lee would meet “a number of times over the next few months”. Marles added:
We really hope to be able to take the relationship to a new level in terms of the tempo of exercises, access to each other’s facilities, looking at ways in which we can do more exchanges between our two defence forces, looking at how we can increase what is already a very significant defence science exchange that happens now, and of course defence industry.
So across the board, there’s opportunity here, and this is really one of the key…
2023-05-28 20:53:33
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