WA news LIVE: WA to ban smart glasses in classrooms

Smart glasses will be banned from WA classrooms in an effort to protect teachers and students from being secretly recorded.

The ban will be announced by education minister Sabine Winton this morning, with the prohibition to come into place from the start of Term 4 for all public schools.

Smart glasses can record and even live-stream conversations, vision and images of people, without their knowledge or consent.

Winton said the crackdown was necessary as smart glasses become cheaper and more accessible.

Here’s what’s making headlines across the nation and around the world:

• The Coalition has locked in a three-way election battle with One Nation and Labor over superannuation, floating a plan to use retirement savings to make securing a home loan easier.
• Australia’s population is ageing more quickly than previously expected, driven by a rapid decline in the number of births per woman.
• Australia has joined a call for international safeguards on artificial intelligence amid warnings from scientists and industry executives that the rapid development of powerful systems could outpace governments’ ability to control emerging risks.
• The major American television networks are refusing to cover daily press events with US President Donald Trump after he banned one of them, CNN, and barred its reporters from the White House.

Good morning and welcome to our live news blog for this Tuesday, September 22.

Making headlines today, an iconic photo spot along the Nullarbor is getting a makeover. The Western Australia–South Australia border sign has stood tall for three decades, but it is now set to be replaced.

A public vote between two designs across 14 social media posts weighed up “bush to beach” or “ochre and ocean”.

Meanwhile, the disgraced former bishop of Broome who used church funds and properties to target vulnerable Aboriginal men will learn his prison sentence next month.

And, the federal government is allowing ongoing industrial damage to world-heritage-listed rock art near a major petrochemical plant, a traditional custodian is set to tell the UN Human Rights Council.

Stay with us as we bring you the news of the day in WA, as it happens.