Hello and welcome to our coverage of national news for Friday, September 11. Here’s what is making headlines today.
- Today marks 25 years since 9/11, when twin planes hit the World Trade Centre towers in New York. Terrorists hijacked four passenger planes. Two were deliberately crashed into the towers in New York, another into the Pentagon building in Virginia. The final plane exploded in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers intervened to stop the aircraft from hitting its intended target of the US Capitol building in Washington. The death toll from that day was 2977, including 10 Australians.
- Former prime minister Kevin Rudd used a National Press Club address yesterday to warn that Australia is operating on borrowed time, as he challenged the prime minister and business leaders to pursue a more ambitious policy agenda, including sweeping government intervention in the economy.
- One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has acknowledged the “contentious” political debate swirling around accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith, after apologising to Andrew Hastie for a cartoon that branded the Liberal frontbencher a traitor.
- The Coalition rejected Labor’s proposed Digital Duty of Care Bill yesterday, which would fine social media companies for not preventing harm to users under the age of 18, calling it censorious.
- The United Nations atomic watchdog says it has observed construction activity at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, a heavily fortified site suspected of housing nuclear-related activities. remote imagery indicates new movement at the site just south of Tehran’s main uranium-enrichment plant, IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi said.
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