Michael Thompson

He told reporters that we're going to bomb the hell out of them if they violate the agreement, while adding that he hoped Iran would honour its commitments.

Story number three, locally, thousands of Vodafone customers were left without mobile services today after a network outage disrupted calls, mobile data and other services across Australia.

The outage began around 8 AM and affected customers nationwide before services were largely restored by about 11 o'clock this morning.

Vodafone owner TPG Telecom said that the disruption was caused by a failure at one of its network hubs.

It apologized to customers.

but stressed that triple zero emergency services remained accessible throughout the outage and advised customers to restart their devices to restore connections.

Vodafone says it is investigating the incident and reviewing measures to strengthen network resilience.

Story number four, HSBC Australia has agreed to pay a $35 million penalty after admitting serious failures in its systems for detecting and preventing scams.

ASIC alleges that the bank breached its licence obligations between 2020 and 2024 by failing to implement adequate scam controls, including weak safeguards around transfers and lengthy fraud investigations that took an average of almost five months to complete.

The regulator said that the shortcomings left customers vulnerable to impersonation scams and contributed to tens of millions of dollars in losses.

Reports of unauthorized transactions surged almost 380% during 2023 and 2024.

HSBC has since launched a remediation program.

The proposed $35 million penalty must still be approved by the federal court.

And finally, story number five.

Qantas has confirmed that direct flights between Sydney and London will begin from October next year, marking the launch of its long-awaited Project Sunrise.

Honestly, probably the 10th time I think this has now been announced, but it has been confirmed that that first route will be Sydney to London.

The airline has taken delivery now of the first specially modified Airbus A350-1000 aircraft,

which is the ultra-long-range one capable of flying the route non-stop.

The journey is expected to take between 19 and 22 hours, cutting several hours off the current flight via Singapore.

Project Sunrise was first unveiled in 2017, aims to connect Australia's east coast directly with destinations including London and New York, but London has been chosen for the first flight.