About an hour ago, the head of the Spanish soccer federation, Luis Rubiales, announced he had resigned from his position. It comes after he kissed a player of Spain’s national team, Jennifer Hermoso, without her consent after they won the Women’s World Cup.

In a statement on X, formerly Twitter, Rubiales said “it is evident that I will not be able to return to my position”.

He added: “My daughters, my family and the people who love me have suffered the effects of persecution excessively, as well as many falsehoods, but it is also true that in the street, the truth is prevailing more every day.”

The quote
"Obviously this will bring up memories and trauma for all those who were involved in the 2017 incident in Bourke Street and our hearts go out to them.” - Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police, Shane Patton, after a 26-year-old man drove his car into pedestrians and vehicles on Friday night on Bourke Street in Melbourne, killing one person. The driver has since been charged with murder.

The stat
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The number of Grand Slams 19-year-old Coco Guaff has won after she beat Aryna Sabalenka to win the U.S. Open over the weekend.

Today in history
2001: About 3,000 people were killed when three commercial planes were hijacked by terrorists and crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the U.S. A fourth plane was also hijacked, but it crashed in rural Pennsylvania after the crew and passengers on board attacked the terrorists and stopped it from hitting another target.

Some headlines from this morning:

A new report has found Sydney housing is less affordable than global cities including London and New York.

An Australian study ranked Sydney 6th in the world for unaffordable housing after analysing data from major cities (with a population of 2-10 million) around the world.

Hong Kong topped the list as the most unaffordable, followed by San Francisco, Singapore, Vancouver, and Tel Aviv.

Findings
Research from the Committee for Sydney (CFS) think tank compared property and rental prices against median household incomes in cities around the world.

Its findings highlighted the potential long term economic, social and mental health impacts of Sydney’s “chronically unaffordable housing” crisis.

Rental affordability
CFS found median rents in Sydney have risen by nearly 40% over the past decade, with 35% of renters now experiencing housing stress – meaning more than 30% of their monthly income is being spent on rent.

In the last twelve months, rental prices in Sydney have risen by 12.9% for houses and 27.6% for units, coinciding with record low vacancy rates.

Financial cost
The report revealed that Sydney’s housing crisis cost the economy an estimated $11 billion in lost talent, innovation, and productivity each year. For example, CFS said fewer workers are likely to remain in, or relocate to Sydney, because of the cost of housing.

According to a survey of the most desirable cities for skilled workers, Sydney fell from 4th to 10th place over the last seven years. Productivity was also impacted by additional money and time spent on transport for those forced to move further out of the city.

On 14 October, Australians will vote in a referendum on whether to put an Indigenous Voice to Parliament into our Constitution.

Over the next few weeks, TDA will give you simple answers to the most common referendum questions.

Today: Why are we voting on whether the Voice should be in the Constitution?

Origins of the Voice
The idea of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament comes from the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a 2017 proposal from 250 First Nations leaders. It would be an advisory body to advise on First Nations issues.

The Uluru Statement specifically called for a Voice to be enshrined in the Constitution.

At the moment, First Nations people in Australia are not recognised in the Constitution in any way.

Why the Constitution
Advocates for the Voice see it as a way to recognise First Nations people in the Constitution in a practical rather than symbolic way.

Unlike a Voice established under normal laws, a Voice in the Constitution would become a permanent feature of our political system.

It could only be removed with another referendum.

This does not mean the Voice could never change.

The referendum proposal is to put a Voice in the Constitution but specify that Parliament has the power to decide on its "composition, functions, powers and procedures".

This would mean politicians are responsible for deciding the details of the Voice in the same way they decide on any other law. The Constitution would only require that an advisory body called the Voice exist.

The details
If the Voice referendum succeeds, the Parliament would need to pass a law to establish the Voice.

The Government has not outlined a full proposal for the structure of the Voice it would seek to legislate.

However, it has announced a set of principles. These include that the Voice's members would be chosen by local communities, that the Voice would be gender balanced and have youth representation, and that it would not have decision-making power.

Alternative proposal
The Coalition opposes putting it in the Constitution, arguing it would be too big a change to our system of government.

Instead, the Coalition supports setting up a Voice in legislation. This would be voted on by parliamentarians like any other piece of legislation.

Such a Voice could be changed by successive governments or removed by Parliament in future.

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Konomie Island has become the first island in the Great Barrier Marine Park to become carbon-negative. This means the island is completely powered by renewables and removes more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits.

It comes after a large-scale renewable energy system was completed on the Konomie (North Keppel) Island Education Centre.

Are you someone who grabs a plastic bottle of water when you’re thirsty? Choosing bottled water on the regular can be a pricey and unsustainable way to hydrate.

When BRITA surveyed Australian households that mainly drink bottled water at home, they found these households collectively spend $3.9 million* daily on bottled water.

If this sounds like you, consider BRITA filtered water - to achieve that bottled water taste without the environmental and economic impacts. Check it out here.

*Figure based on 10% of Australian households who mainly drink bottled water at home consuming the recommended daily consumption of 2.5L per person purchasing the cheapest bottled water available at $0.60 per litre.

The Australian Red Cross has announced a new CPR anthem to guide the next generation of first-aiders, and it’s pinker than you might expect.

The organisation’s Instagram followers voted for Dua Lipa’s ‘Dance The Night’ to replace 70s disco track ‘Staying Alive’ by the Bee Gees as the tune Aussies are urged to follow while doing chest compressions.

Both songs were chosen because performing CPR at their tempo mimics the 100-120 compressions per minute required by first-aiders to perform the procedure effectively.

The ‘Barbie’ soundtrack hit was offered along with three other options by the Red Cross, who was “keen to revive the CPR repertoire” with a song that better appealed to the youth of today.

While the other options included fan favourites from Harry Styles (‘Late Night Talking’) and Taylor Swift (‘The Man’), TDA’s vote was for Kylie Minogue’s ‘Padam Padam’ – the name is quite literally an onomatopoeia for the sound of a heart beating!

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