It is another afternoon of big names making news.
Ita Buttrose will not seek a second term as chair of the ABC when her role ends in March next year, Mark Latham quit One Nation to sit as an independent in the New South Wales parliament, and Fox Corporation chief Lachlan Murdoch paid Crikey $1.3m in legal costs over a dropped defamation suit.
Globally, Thursday is set to be a big day: Japan will begin releasing wastewater from a ruined Fukushima nuclear plan, and Donald Trump is expected to surrender to Fulton county authorities.
- Donald Trump says he will surrender to authorities on Thursday |?The former US president says he will?surrender to Fulton county authorities in Georgia?to face charges in the case accusing him of illegally scheming to overturn his 2020 election loss. “Can you believe it? I’ll be going to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday to be ARRESTED,” he wrote on his social media network on Monday night.
- Ita Buttrose to step down as ABC chair |?Ita Buttrose?will not seek a second term as ABC chair when her role expires in March 2024. Her leadership of the public broadcaster has been described as “formidable” by the communications minister, Michelle Rowland.
- Mark Latham quits One Nation |?The upper house MP has?quit One Nation to sit as an independent in the New South Wales parliament, two weeks after the party’s federal leader, Pauline Hanson, intervened to have him axed as the state’s party leader. As Latham announced he was quitting, he accused the party in parliament of financial impropriety.
- Brisbane claims Gourmet Traveller’s restaurant of the year for first time since 1997 |?Brisbane’s?Agnes has been named Australia’s restaurant of the year?at Gourmet Traveller’s annual awards. It is only the second?Queensland?establishment to claim the title in the awards’ 44-year history.
- Lachlan Murdoch pays Crikey $1.3m |?The Fox Corporation chief executive has?paid Crikey $1.3m in legal costs for his failed defamation suit?against publisher Private Media. Murdoch paid more than the $1.1m the publisher expected, on the condition that the entire $588,735 from a Crikey fundraising campaign was paid to the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom.
- Wastewater from ruined Fukushima nuclear plant to be released |?Japan will begin?releasing more than 1m tonnes of wastewater?from the wrecked?Fukushima?Daiichi nuclear power plant on Thursday. The plan has received pushback from fishing communities, China and some scientists, because the water contains tritium, a radioactive substance that can’t be removed.
