News live: Alan Kohler announces retirement from ABC after 31 years; six Australian universities in top 100 global rankings

<p>Follow the day’s news live</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p><strong>Who is potential Greens deputy leader candidate Steph Hodgins-May?</strong></p><p>So who is the first-term senator expected to announce a leadership ticket tilt with <strong>David Shoebridge</strong>?</p><p>Get your dirty hands off our kids, that is our message to the fossil fuel industry, who have no place in early-learning centres, in schools, or in our cultural institutions in this country.</p><p>Children should go to school to get evidence-based education, not to be brainwashed by fossil fuel corporations seeking to build social licence.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/sep/30/labor-anthony-albanese-coalition-polling-new-greens-leader-openai-hack-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>