Australia news LIVE: Beaconsfield mine disaster survivor Todd Russell dies; Consumer confidence among homeowners plummets

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By Emily Kaine

Hello and welcome back to our live coverage of Australian and world news this Tuesday, November 10. Here’s what is making headlines today.

Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen is leading UN climate talks in Turkey as president of negotiations. In his opening remarks, Bowen warned every delay in taking action on climate change adds to its human and economic toll.
One Nation’s former campaign director, convicted rapist Sean Black, quit the party voluntarily rather than being sacked as Pauline Hanson claimed, a leaked text message seen by this masthead suggests. Hanson told The Australian Financial Review yesterday she had “sacked him” – but the party’s general manager Kelvin Morton sent a text message to staff in April saying Black made the decision himself.
Todd Russell, a survivor of the Beaconsfield mine collapse, has died at the age of 54 after an undisclosed physical illness, his family confirmed. Russell was one of two Tasmanian miners who became trapped by a rockfall on Anzac Day in 2006. The pair were presumed dead after the body of another miner was found among the rubble.
And Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10½ years in a British prison for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others. Justice Joel Bennathan denounced Brand’s “casual and arrogant disregard” for any woman who said no to him, and castigated him for the series of lies he told in testimony denying assaults that dated back to 2004.