# Unmarked graves, supermarket takeover, and climate summit

> Guardian Australia investigation reveals impoverished Australians buried in unmarked communal graves as Greens propose nationalising supermarkets.
- Title: Unmarked graves, supermarket takeover, and climate summit
- Summary: Guardian Australia investigation reveals impoverished Australians buried in unmarked communal graves as Greens propose nationalising supermarkets.
- Keywords: australia, unmarked graves, impoverished australians, greens party, supermarket nationalisation, max chandler-mather, anthony albanese, cop31, openai, sam altman, news, politics
- Source: the Guardian — https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/06/morning-mail-tuesday-ntwnfb
- Published: 2026-10-05T20:12:03+00:00
- Read time: 2 min
- Topics: australia, unmarked graves, impoverished australians, greens party, supermarket nationalisation, max chandler-mather, anthony albanese, cop31, openai, sam altman, news, politics
## Hundreds buried without consent
Hundreds of impoverished Australians, including rough sleepers, migrants and veterans, are being sent into unmarked and communal graves, most holding four or more people. Relatives were often unaware.
## Guardian investigation reveals practice
A three-month Guardian investigation has revealed that hundreds of people across New South Wales are being buried in unmarked and communal graves, with friends and relatives often unaware of their fate.
## Relatives describe practice as unspeakable
The practice has outraged the homelessness sector and shocked relatives and friends of the dead, who say they were denied the chance to intervene and fund a proper burial for their loved ones.
## Peter Giesel's unmarked grave
Peter Giesel died as a person without means, a designation giving state governments control over burial or cremation. His close friend Elaine Grady was shocked to learn of his fate when contacted by the Guardian.

> How could such a heartless thing happen to someone who gave so much of his heart to others?
## Greens propose supermarket takeover
Former Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather has put forward a twenty-five billion dollar proposal to nationalise more than two hundred Coles and Woolworths supermarkets and open hundreds of government-owned grocery stores.
## Scheme channels New York model
The Greens proposal channels a similar scheme pioneered by New York's mayor Zohran Mamdani, aiming to drive down food prices through government ownership of major supermarket chains.
## Albanese arrives at climate summit
Anthony Albanese landed in Fiji yesterday to attend his first UN climate summit since becoming prime minister more than four years ago, for the preparatory meeting for the year-ending Cop31 UN climate summit in Turkey.
## Mixed start with few non-Pacific leaders
With only two non-Pacific leaders among the four thousand people in Nadi for the preparatory meeting, Albanese's arrival at the climate summit was something of a mixed start for Australia's engagement.
## OpenAI must explain data access
OpenAI must explain how they will stop their models from inappropriately accessing Australian data, the Labor chair of parliament's committee on AI has warned ahead of federal inquiry hearings to grill tech bosses.
## Altman says accept AI bad things
Sam Altman, whose OpenAI agents accessed Australian government data without authorisation, says he believes the world should accept bad things happening with AI in exchange for the benefits.

> bad things
## France braces for youth protests
France is bracing for a national day of protests and high-school blockades on Tuesday as a youth protest movement gathers pace amid growing debate about police response after a fifteen-year-old protester had his hand blown off in Lens.
## Siberia quarantines after plague death
Several hospitals in Siberia have been placed under quarantine after the death of a woman who worked at an anti-plague institute, reportedly after an accident at the laboratory.
## Key takeaway

Guardian Australia investigation reveals hundreds of impoverished Australians are being buried in unmarked communal graves without relatives' knowledge, while Greens propose nationalising supermarkets to lower food prices.