New Ralph Carr allegations; Nvidia CEO quits; and Tasmania’s message for tourists

Morning everyone. Sophie* thought she had landed her dream job when she started working for talent manager Ralph Carr at just 21. She couldn’t have been more wrong. Carr is now in prison for raping a former employee – and in an exclusive investigation for the Guardian, Sophie and two other women have come forward with new allegations of sexual misconduct.

We also investigate the rise of teenage extremism, an Indigenous activist pleads with Anthony Albanese at the Cop summit to “start listening”, and Jensen Huang is forced out of Nvidia.

Australia

• Bush rescue | Video shot by a police helicopter has revealed the dramatic rescue of a 17-year-old boy found alive after almost a week lost in dense bushland in Victoria. “He is never leaving the house again,” his mother said after they were reunited.

• ‘Full of gore’ | Police have warned this week about a surge in teenage extremism linked to “hard drives full of gore”. Experts say arresting teenagers is not the whole answer, as our investigation finds that many have health and social problems, including autism, learning challenges and troubled backgrounds.

• ‘Start listening’ | An Indigenous climate activist who is taking the Australian government to the UN human rights committee over its coal and gas exports stood alongside Greta Thunberg at the Cop summit to demand Anthony Albanese “stop speaking and start listening.”

• Lobby fight | The NSW premier, Chris Minns, is trying to address the threat of undeclared lobbying after the recent headline-grabbing Icac hearings, but his efforts fall well short of what has been recommended.

• Messaging loophole | Political parties are exploiting a loophole in political communication laws by which they can promote their own messages under the banner of official state social media accounts. Our reporters investigate.

• Tasmania travel | The island state has declared it “is not really for tourists” in a new campaign – but is the marketing strategy just a cheeky piece of reverse psychology?

World

• Huang out to dry | Jensen Huang has resigned as the chief executive of Nvidia after reports of extramarital affairs with an alleged Chinese spy and a company employee. Where now for the pioneering company?

• Hospital strike | After an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in southern Gaza killed six people, including a surgeon and a man with a disability, the seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said during a visit to the Rafah border crossing that “Israel’s genocide is appalling”.

• Exclusive | A top Democratic senator has launched an investigation into evidence that Robert F Kennedy Jr “unlawfully lied” in his 2025 confirmation hearings to become the US health secretary, citing a report by the Guardian.

• US | Pete Hegseth has awarded a medal to the soldier who called him out and members of his staff after some in the group were heard laughing and talking near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

• Space mission | A European mission has revealed more than 900m galaxies together with about 15,000 potential cases of a phenomenon that could help unlock the secrets of the “dark universe”.

Full Story

Beau Lamarre-Condon takes the stand

Kat Wong joins Taylah Strano to unpack the tense courtroom exchanges and what happens next in the high-profile trial.

In-depth

In August, talent manager Ralph Carr was sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of raping a former employee. Carr has maintained his innocence, and last month lodged an appeal. Now, in an exclusive Guardian investigation, three women are airing new allegations against Carr – the most shocking of which comes from Sophie. Within months of her starting a job with Ralph Carr Management, Sophie was excited to be invited on a glamorous work trip to LA. But that excitement soon turned to trauma and shame: “I feel violently ill at all of this,” she messaged a friend hours after allegedly being assaulted by her boss.

Not the news

This week’s leading question is from a woman whose best friend is pregnant. She worries that, although she wants to help, she’s not “good with babies”.

Sport

• Cricket | Pat Cummins will face the media in Sydney this morning as the sandpaper scandal continues to dog Australian cricket and white-ball skipper Mitch Marsh refused to answer questions from reporters yesterday.

• Football | Manchester United have sacked Michael Carrick as their head coach and lined up Mauricio Pochettino to take over. Our correspondent says Carrick is just the latest fall guy for the club’s dysfunctional hierarchy. Harry Kane is set to break England’s all-time appearance record when his team take on Croatia.

• Basketball | Steph Curry’s forceful defence of his wife over an on-screen kiss has exposed the ugly double standards and fragile masculinity of sport’s manosphere, writes Andrew Lawrence.

The Herald Sun claims polling shows Victoria’s premier, Ben Carroll, faces losing his own seat in the 28 November election. The Albanese government is scrambling to reverse its crackdown on backpacker visas in order to avert what the Telegraph calls a “harvest catastrophe”. Lobster fishers have been banned from Tasmania’s D’Entrecasteaux Channel due to salmon farm antibiotic risks, the Mercury reports.

What’s happening today

• Sport | Pat Cummins set to address Usman Khawaja’s ball-tampering claims at Cricket Central at 9.30am.

• UN | UN special rapporteur for the rights of Indigenous peoples gives a media conference in Sydney at 1pm.

• Canberra | Public hearing of parliamentary inquiry into the big four banks.

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