Australians losing billions in savings due to poor management of appliance efficiency scheme, audit finds

20/06/2025 15:00 The Guardian

Scheme could lose credibility with consumers thanks to ‘weak’ minimum standards and risk of corruption and non-compliance, report warnsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian households and businesses are missing out on billions of dollars of power bill savings, an expert has warned, after a scathing audit found the department in charge of the efficiency scheme for appliances has failed to properly administer it.The poor administration of the program has left consumers worse off, said Alan Pears, a senior fellow at RMIT and Melbourne University, who helped develop appliance energy standards in Victoria.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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Macron lays out broad European offer for Iran to end war with Israel

Proposal would cover uranium enrichment and ballistic missile programmes and aim to end terrorist fundingMiddle East crisis – live updatesEurope is to make Iran a comprehensive offer to end its war with Israel that would include an Iranian move to zero uranium enrichment, restrictions on its balli...

20/06/2025 17:25 The Guardian

Israel warns of ‘prolonged war’ with Iran as conflict enters second week

Tehran let off a rare mid-afternoon salvo of ballistic missiles across Israel, triggering air-raid sirens across the countryIsrael-Iran conflict – live updatesIsrael’s military has warned of a “prolonged war” with Iran as the conflict entered its second week with no sign of stopping, with Is...

20/06/2025 17:14 The Guardian

Unicef warns children could die of thirst in Gaza amid collapse of water systems

Fears grow of drought as well as hunger as medics report more killings by Israeli forces of Palestinians seeking aidMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe collapse of water systems in Gaza is threatening the territory with devastating drought as well as hunger, Unicef has warned, as medics reported...

20/06/2025 17:06 The Guardian

Councils face millions in extra Send costs as overhaul delayed

High-needs deficits kept off council books for two more years in England, but some say it prolongs financial pain Cash-strapped councils in England will be hit with hundreds of millions of pounds in extra costs after the government delayed tackling the £5bn deficits spent supporting children and yo...

20/06/2025 17:00 The Guardian

Canada poised to pass infrastructure bill despite pushback from Indigenous people

Bill prioritizes ‘nation-building’ pipelines and mines, causing concern that sped-up approvals will override constitutional rightsCanada’s Liberal government is poised to pass controversial legislation on Friday that aims to kick-start “nation building” infrastructure projects but has rece...

20/06/2025 16:43 The Guardian

BBC drops Gaza medics documentary over impartiality concerns

Corporation says talks over how to broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack have ‘reached the end of the road’The BBC has scrapped plans to show a documentary about medics in Gaza after concluding it “risked creating a perception of partiality” over the corporation’s coverage of the conflict.I...

20/06/2025 16:08 The Guardian

Elizabeth Warren demands answers over reports of $500m deal for controversial Gaza Health Foundation

Senator from Massachusetts questions state department’s redirection of $500m to troubled organizationUS politics live – latest updatesElizabeth Warren has confronted the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, over reports that the state department is considering redirecting $500m from USAID to the...

20/06/2025 16:07 The Guardian

One in three across UK are overdue for cervical cancer screening

Screening rates are declining, with some parts of England at greater risk due to low uptake of HPV vaccineA third of people across the UK are overdue their cervical cancer screening, while in parts of England some are at greater risk of the disease than others due to a low uptake for the preventive...

20/06/2025 15:52 The Guardian

Norway backs Nato’s 5% defence spending target despite Spain rejecting it as ‘unreasonable’ – as it happened

PM Jonas Gahr Støre declared Norway’s support for the 5% target proposed by Nato’s secretary general Mark RuttePoland’s EU minister Adam Szłapka, who led the country’s EU presidency from January, will become the new chief government spokesperson, prime minister Donald Tusk has announced.Th...

20/06/2025 15:02 The Guardian

Pro-Palestine protesters break into RAF base on scooters and deface two aircraft

Palestine Action members break into Brize Norton airbase in Oxfordshire and spray military planes with red paintA pro-Palestine protest group said two of its members had broken into the RAF’s Brize Norton airbase, damaged two military aircraft with spray paint before escaping the site without bein...

20/06/2025 12:03 The Guardian

European ministers to hold talks with Iran as US says it is still deciding whether to join war | First Thing

Friday’s meeting comes a day after Trump said he would decide whether to attack Iran ‘within two weeks’. Plus, Los Angeles Dodgers say they denied Ice agents entry to stadiumDon’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning.Foreign ministers from the UK, France and German...

20/06/2025 09:52 The Guardian

Hong Kong teachers allegedly told to avoid US Independence Day events

Messages advise staff to also warn students off celebrations to avoid violating national security lawTeachers in Hong Kong have been warned to keep themselves and students away from any US Independence Day celebrations as they may breach national security laws, educators have alleged.A text message...

20/06/2025 09:28 The Guardian

NSW political staffers could be arrested after failing to appear at Dural caravan inquiry

Committee seeking warrants for staff from premier and police minister’s offices, but they insist they had ‘reasonable excuse or just cause’ not to attendAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA parliamentary committee is seeking w...

20/06/2025 07:17 The Guardian

News live: Caravan plot inquiry chair says arrest warrants will be sought for staffers; Wong says ADF deployed to help get Australians out of Iran

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBragg says ‘better value’ for taxpayers if Coalition part of Chalmers’ productivity roundtableAndrew Bragg, the shadow minister for productivity and deregulation, told RN Breakfast this morning it was up to tr...

20/06/2025 06:32 The Guardian

Paris airshow in subdued mood after deadly Air India crash

Industry professionals gather at civil and military aircraft event further overshadowed by war between Israel and IranEvery second summer more than 100,000 aviation industry professionals gather in Paris for an airshow – a flying display crossed with a vast conference. The mood at the latest gathe...

20/06/2025 06:00 The Guardian

Pioneering London playwright decried gentrification of ‘writer’s paradise’

In 1992 letter, Mustapha Matura warned of risk to Ladbroke Grove, home to strong Caribbean creative communityA groundbreaking Trinidadian-British playwright who paved the way for modern Black British theatre makers warned about the dangers of gentrification in Ladbroke Grove, which he believed would...

20/06/2025 06:00 The Guardian

Israeli military issues evacuation warning – as it happened

This blog has now closed here. You can follow our new live blog here The leader of Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service has said that a directive had been issued to reduce the number of people on the floor that was hit at Soroko hospital in Beersheba, according to the Haaretz newspaper.He adde...

20/06/2025 05:26 The Guardian

Deadly weekend heat in England ‘100 times more likely’ due to climate crisis

High temperatures likely to cause deaths and will worsen in future as global heating intensifies, scientists warnThe dangerous 32C heat that will be endured by people in the south-east of England on Saturday will have been made 100 times more likely by the climate crisis, scientists have calculated....

20/06/2025 05:00 The Guardian

Fear and shock in Iran: ‘I’m constantly afraid a missile might hit my home’

Anahita, a Tehran resident in her 30s, tells of fleeing the city, surging inflation and her hopes for regime changeMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe greatest impact of this war is fear and anxiety. We don’t know whether this situation will last for weeks, months or even years. Our lives have...

20/06/2025 04:00 The Guardian

The first rule is to forget your past life: Ukrainian marine tells of his three years of torment in Russian captivity

Dmytro Chorny tells of hunger, beatings and torture before a mass prisoner exchange freed him to go home to – and marry – his girlfriend, DianaDespite all they have endured, it doesn’t take much to draw shy smiles from Diana Shikot, 24, and Dmytro Chorny, 23.You could ask them about Chorny’s...

20/06/2025 04:00 The Guardian

Fire chiefs warn of barbecue wildfire risk amid amber heat alerts in England

Concerns raised about lighting outdoor fires after more than 500 blazes in the UK this yearFire chiefs have issued a warning over outdoor fires and barbecues after a sevenfold increase in UK wildfires, as amber heat alerts were issued across England before what is expected to be a scorching weekend....

19/06/2025 23:01 The Guardian

Trump sets deadline of two weeks to decide if US will join Israel’s war on Iran

US president leaves window for negotiation after Israeli defence minister openly embraces regime change Middle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump has set a two-week deadline to decide whether the US will join Israel’s war with Iran, allowing time to seek a negotiated end to the conflict, the...

19/06/2025 22:41 The Guardian

Time for Jews to repay ancient debt to Cyrus the Great and liberate Iran, Netanyahu suggests

Israeli prime minister compares war to liberation of Jewish people from captivity in Babylon, 2,500 years earlierIt was in the Beersheba, about a thousand kilometers and 2,500 years from Babylon, that Benjamin Netanyahu suggested on Thursday that the time had come for the Jews to repay their ancient...

19/06/2025 19:05 The Guardian

Pupils in England face lost learning from flooding and extreme heat, study finds

School leaders call for action on adaptation measures as DfE research warns of potential impact of climate crisisChildren in England face prolonged “lost learning” caused by extreme heat and flooding at school, according to research on the potential impact of the climate crisis on education.Scho...

19/06/2025 18:26 The Guardian

Denmark deploys ‘saildrones’ in Baltic to protect undersea cables from Russia

US-made unmanned vessels will monitor maritime activity as part of trial, amid criticism over closer ties with AmericaDenmark is deploying floating drones on the Baltic Sea to protect undersea infrastructure and bolster maritime surveillance amid the growing threat of hybrid attacks from Russia.The...

19/06/2025 17:11 The Guardian

Netanyahu stuns Israelis by describing ‘personal cost’ of Iran war - postponing son’s wedding

Israeli prime minister prompts furious backlash for remarks in front of missile-struck hospital at height of Iran conflict Middle East crisis – live updatesBenjamin Netanyahu has evoked the spirit of London during the blitz, and pointed to his own family’s sacrifice amid the blood, toil, tears a...

19/06/2025 16:52 The Guardian

Give thanks Priti Patel isn’t foreign sec – she’d already be at war with Iran | John Crace

While Ms Vacant was living up to her moniker, the PM perhaps wisely gave his G7 summit statement to MPs a missUK politics live – latest updatesBe thankful for small mercies. If it was up to Priti Patel, the UK would already be at war with Iran. In a former life as international development secreta...

19/06/2025 14:58 The Guardian

Spanish PM rejects Nato’s ‘unreasonable’ 5% GDP target for defence spending – as it happened

This blog is now closed, you can read more of our European news coverage hereEarlier today, I cheekily suggested that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is probably wondering how to persuade US president Donald Trump to stay at the Nato summit in The Hague next week long enough to get to discus...

19/06/2025 14:09 The Guardian

Amber heat alert issued across England with warning of ‘rise in deaths’

UKHSA warns of risk to people aged 65 and over as temperatures of up to 33C expected until MondayAmber heat alerts have been issued in England as the UK experiences its hottest day of the year so far, with a temperature of 32.2C recorded at Kew in west London.The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is...

19/06/2025 14:06 The Guardian

What are the legal issues around Britain helping Trump bomb Iran?

Keir Starmer is weighing up whether to back the US and – as a lawyer – will be aware of the legal landscapeMiddle East crisis – live updatesUK politics live – latest updatesAs Keir Starmer considers whether Britain should support the US if Donald Trump decides to bomb Iran, the attorney gene...

19/06/2025 13:25 The Guardian

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