10 Sep 2025

Australia: ANZ staff cut, migration row, Roberts-Smith appeal

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 10 September 2025
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ANZ's cutting 4500 employees and contractors from its retail, technology and head-office areas. Photo: RNZ

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about the thousands of jobs being cut at ANZ - the biggest at one of the major banks in decades.

Comments by a Coalition MP about Indian migrants has sparked outrage, an appeal has been denied for the war hero turned accused murderer Ben Roberts-Smith and Victoria becomes the first state to forge a treaty with its First Peoples.

Karen Middleton is a political journalist based in Canberra

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