Australia news Australia news live: police locate parents of toddler found wandering Sydney street alone at 2am Follow updates live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast LIVE Updated 7m ago Nick Visser Tue 1 Sep 2026 03.23 BSTFirst published on Mon 31 Aug 2026 21.47 BST Share Key events 55m ago Police find parents of toddler found wandering Sydney street alone at 2am 2h ago South Australia asks federal government to remove telehealth barriers for voluntary assisted dying 2h ago China pledges ‘consequences’ over Taiwan’s presence at Pacific Islands Forum 4h ago NSW HSC students limited to one take-home assessment per subject 4h ago Rowland says One Nation needs to look at its own behaviour amid political extremism 5h ago Man fatally shot during Sydney home invasion 6h ago Most capital city home prices fall below $1m in August 6h ago Nepali and Tibetan communities mourn in Melbourne 6h ago Aid on way to Nepal amid grave concerns for missing Australians, Wong says 6h ago Welcome A young child was found in Ramsgate, a suburb in southern Sydney, without his parents or carers.
He was thought to be about two years old.
Official initially issued a public appeal for information after the young child was found in Ramsgate, a suburb in southern Sydney, without his parents or carers.
Police said just before 8am that his parents had been found.
An official said: Police would like to thank everyone who shared our appeal.
Inquiries are continuing into the incident.
Key events 55m ago Police find parents of toddler found wandering Sydney street alone at 2am 2h ago South Australia asks federal government to remove telehealth barriers for voluntary assisted dying 2h ago China pledges ‘consequences’ over Taiwan’s presence at Pacific Islands Forum 4h ago NSW HSC students limited to one take-home assessment per subject 4h ago Rowland says One Nation needs to look at its own behaviour amid political extremism 5h ago Man fatally shot during Sydney home invasion 6h ago Most capital city home prices fall below $1m in August 6h ago Nepali and Tibetan communities mourn in Melbourne 6h ago Aid on way to Nepal amid grave concerns for missing Australians, Wong says 6h ago Welcome Albanese dismisses concerns over no-shows at Pacific Islands Forum Anthony Albanese remains positive despite several countries pulling out of this year’s Pacific Islands Forum in Palau.
Leaders from Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa and Kiribati all pulled out ahead of the meeting.
Speaking to journalists on the ground a little earlier alongside the energy minister, Chris Bowen, and the minister for Pacific Island affairs, Pat Conroy, the PM instead spruiked the bilateral agreements Labor has struck with Pacific nations.
From time to time, the Pacific Islands Forum has had issues with people not participating.
Everyone’s participating at this forum … There is a presence here, and everyone is focused on outcomes at this forum.
Albanese says climate change, security and transnational crime are the big-ticket items at this year’s forum.
Anthony Albanese (middle) stands with Chris Bowen (left) and Pat Conroy during a press conference at the Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting in Palau on Tuesday.
The basin is a major onshore shale gas resource in the Northern Territory’s Sturt Plateau, about 500km south-east of Darwin.
On Tuesday, first gas is set to flow, with more than 40 terajoules a day going into the territory’s gas grid.
The territory uses about 60 terajoules a day of gas at peak levels for power generation and mines.
The NT chief minister, Lia Finocchiaro, said: Every time Territorians flick on a light switch, or pull a cold beer from the fridge, they’ll see the benefits of the Beetaloo Basin at work.
Beetaloo fracking, construction of pipelines to get the gas to market, and using the gas to power AI datacentres have all been vigorously opposed by environmental groups.
Fracking could see up to 6,000 wells drilled through underground water supplies, which supply 90% of the territory’s water needs, Environment Centre NT acting chief executive, Bree Ahrens, said: Water is life in the territory and we are calling for a ban on fracking and AI datacentres before it’s too late.
A drone view of Tamboran Resources’ Shenandoah drilling site in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin.
Continuing on from the last post … Dowling, who told estimates she first met Hutley when she came to the bar in 1997, said she knew “most of the senior members of the inner bar after 30 years in Sydney”.
Asked if she and Hutley were friends, she said: I know him professionally and socially and have utter respect for his professionalism, and if Mr Hutley considered that he had some kind of conflict that meant that he shouldn’t accept that from the attorney general, I have total confidence that he would have informed the attorney general of that.
She said her signing a statement of support for Hutley’s candidacy for the NSW bar council in 2015 did not give rise to a conflict, saying she was one of 26 other barristers who signed the letter “ten years ago”.
She said none of the names were interstate lawyers.
Asked if it would have been more appropriate for someone from interstate to write the review, she said: It’s a matter for the attorney general whom he seeks advice from.
On Monday morning, Daley told estimates he rejected the suggestion that Dowling and Hutley were friends.
He said he had “full and absolute confidence” in Dowling and that Hutley’s review had provided “an objective and expert analysis of [the report’s] shortcomings”.
NSW state’s top prosecutor discussed barristers to review findings against her office The NSW director of public prosecutions (DPP), Sally Dowling, says she discussed a list of barristers to lead an independent review into controversial findings against her office with the NSW attorney general, before he appointed someone she had known “personally and professionally” for nearly 30 years.
Last month, a parliamentary committee voted 4-3 to find Dowling had given false evidence about the pitching of a story about an Indigenous child performing an acknowledgement of country at a sentencing hearing to radio station 2GB.
Dowling admitted her office had pitched the story, but denied she had authorised it.
NSW director of public prosecutions, Sally Dowling.
At budget estimates on Monday, Dowling said that she and the NSW attorney general, Michael Daley, had spoken before Noel Hutley SC was appointed to lead an independent review, which found there was “no positive basis” to find she had given false evidence.
Dowling said: The attorney [general] called me to tell me that he was appointing a senior counsel to review the evidence that was before the inquiry and its report of the majority.
He raised quite a number of [senior counsel’s] names that he was considering, including Mr Hutley’s name, and some of those people did have a conflict, they had acted for the ODPP, for me, and that was about the extent of the discussion.
She said Daley had not asked for “advice”.
“He mentioned some names, and I responded to those names,” she said.
Dowling said of the list of eight to 12 people, she said two “would not be appropriate”, but she did not raise Hutley as inappropriate as she did not believe there was a conflict of interest.
Under further questioning, Dowling said she had indicated to Daley that she knew Hutley, but had not given any further detail.
Here’s a dispatch from our reporter Cait Kelly in Nepal Rescue efforts continue as 43 Australians remain missing in Nepal – video Border area between Nepal and China where 33 Australians are missing still almost entirely cut off Guardian Australia’s Cait Kelly has another dispatch from Nepal.
She writes: It has been almost a week since the catastrophic floods in Nepal and not even a vehicle can get into the area where the majority of missing Australians were last heard from.
Gyirong Port, the border area between Nepal and China, was the first to be hit.
Images from Chinese rescue teams who have managed to get in by helicopter or hiking show the area has been completely flattened.
The immigration building, the power lines, everything, just wiped away.
News that phone connectivity to the area was back on spread quickly on Monday around the families of lost Australians who have come to Kathmandu to wait.
In WhatsApp groups and over Facebook, they shared any updates they had.
