Welcome to the 9News.com.au live blog for Thursday, August 25, 2022. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called the previous government's robodebt scandal "a human tragedy with very real consequences" as he announced a royal commission into it. Sydney rail workers are holding a further strike today despite the New South Wales government conceding to the union's demands. Qantas has recorded an underlying loss of nearly $2 billion, marking the third year in a row the airline has lost substantial amounts of money.And a $1 million reward is on the table for any information that could help police solve the 1992 murder of Michele Brown in Melbourne.
– Qantas records $1.9 billion loss as it takes off again after pandemic
– What can we expect from a Robodebt royal commission
– Strike to go ahead despite NSW government caving to union
– Vanessa Bryant awarded $23 million in suit over grisly Kobe crash photos
– Truck driver behind crash that killed four police officers has jail sentence reduced
We'll wrap up the 9News live news blog for Thursday, August 25 there.
Here's what happened today.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called the previous government's robodebt scandal "a human tragedy with very real consequences" as he announced a royal commission into it.
Sydney rail workers held a further strike today despite the New South Wales government conceding to the union's demands.
Qantas has recorded an underlying loss of nearly $2 billion, marking the third year in a row the airline has lost substantial amounts of money.
And a $1 million reward is on the table for any information that could help police solve the 1992 murder of Michele Brown in Melbourne
We'll return early tomorrow with the latest updates.
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Victims of the robodebt scheme have embraced Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's announcement today of a royal commission into the scandal.
Queensland mother Kath Madgwick lost her only child, son Jarrad to suicide.
Madgwick said she was "delighted" to hear news of the royal commission today, adding that she hoped it would bring closure for herself and others who had lost their closest loved ones.
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Police have charged two men with the alleged murder of Andrew Christopher Walsh, whose body was found buried in concrete at a Queensland transport depot.
Walsh was discovered during forensic investigations at the Coopers Plains business, where police were searching for another missing man, Queenslander Lachlan Griffiths.
Detective Inspector Damien Hansen said both men, and the two men charged today were connected to the depot.
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A multi-vehicle crash involving a truck on a Melbourne freeway has caused major traffic headaches, with vehicles banked up for kilometres.
The crash happened at about 1pm, closing all Altona-bound lanes of the M80 Ring Road at Sydney Road, Campbellfield.
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The mother of a seven-year-old girl is going up against the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) in a fight to keep her daughter's physical therapy funded.
Ava was diagnosed with cancer when she was nine-months-old and has been learning to walk under fully-funded "activity based therapy" for four years
Find out what NDIA has to say here.
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