Bill Shorten says Scott Morrison ‘in complete denial’ over robodebt
Turning back to the news of former PM Scott Morrison being reported to be back in the country for the first time since the robodebt report was handed down.
Appearing on ABC News breakfast, the government services minister, Bill Shorten, has accused the former leader of being in denial over the entire incident:
Mr Morrison’s denied everything, said nothing to see here. For me, I just wish it had never happened.
It was a government of law breakers, the previous Coalition government. They thought they would get away with treating people receiving the social security safety net as second class Australians.
They implied there were hundreds of thousands of cheats who were hiding a mountain of gold worth billions of dollars. And Mr Morrison and others were going to catch them and make them accountable. It turned out that the people breaking the law were not the people they were assaulting on Centrelink payments, it was actually the government itself.
So, I don’t know what Mr Morrison can say. He’s obviously in complete denial about everything. That’s his prerogative. But the royal commission is gripping reading and there was a lot of evidence that seems to contradict Mr Morrison’s version of events.
Morrison has been contacted for comment.
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Appearing on ABC News breakfast, the government services minister, Bill Shorten, has accused the former leader of being in denial over the entire incident:
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Mr Morrison’s denied everything, said nothing to see here. For me, I just wish it had never happened.
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It was a government of law breakers, the previous Coalition government. They thought they would get away with treating people receiving the social security safety net as second class Australians.
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They implied there were hundreds of thousands of cheats who were hiding a mountain of gold worth billions of dollars. And Mr Morrison and others were going to catch them and make them accountable. It turned out that the people breaking the law were not the people they were assaulting on Centrelink payments, it was actually the government itself.
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So, I don’t know what Mr Morrison can say. He’s obviously in complete denial about everything. That’s his prerogative. But the royal commission is gripping reading and there was a lot of evidence that seems to contradict Mr Morrison’s version of events.
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Morrison has been contacted for comment.
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The shadow minister for workplace relations, Michaelia Cash, is accusing the government’s new rights for casual workers of being part of a campaign attacking casual work.
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Under the second tranche of the government’s industrial relations reforms, casuals who work full-time hours would be able to access leave entitlements and guaranteed hours if they change their employment status, with the government to legislate a new definition of casual work under the proposal.
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Cash said it was the former Coalition government that for the first time ever provided a pathway or casuals to become a permanent employee, but accused the Albanese government of reversing the certainty that provided. She told ABC Radio:
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What Mr. Burke seems to want to do now is to reintroduce the uncertainty that existed prior to a legislation the Coalition government introduced.
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… What this gets down to is one thing. These changes are part of the Albanese government’s ongoing campaign to attack and undermine those who choose to undertake casual work, despite the fact that it works for millions of Australians.
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… Ultimately, Labor primarily opposes casual work because they find it more difficult to unionise this workforce.
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The electoral commission says the 2023 referendum will have the best democratic participation of any federal electoral event in Australia’s history.
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New enrolment statistics as at 30 June 2023 show the estimated national enrolment rate is 97.5%, up from 97.1% since the end of last year and continual yearly increases up from 89.7% in 2010. The AEC said:
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The 2023 referendum will have the best base for democratic participation than any federal electoral event in Australia’s history.
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The commission also says the estimated national rate of Indigenous enrolment is above 90% for the first time ever, at 94.1% up from 84.5% since the end of 2022. This represents more than 60,000 Indigenous Australians.
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British soldiers based in Australia could be part of the next step to bringing the two military forces closer together.
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UK armed forces minister, James Heappey, said on a visit to Australia that stationing British troops in Darwin, where US marines have a presence, was “not impossible” as his nation looked to expand its influence in the Pacific, Australian Associated Press reports. He said:
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It comes up quite regularly in conversation about what the Aussies and the US are doing up there and whether we should be there too.
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But it’s not something we’ve got an active plan for and it’s certainly not something we’ve spoken to the Australian government about yet.
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Heappey also floated Australia joining a combat air program between the UK, Japan and Italy to develop a stealth jet fighter.
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God, it would be awesome if Australia wanted to join.
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The advocacy groups said a patchwork of state and territory laws influenced police responses, public perceptions of victimhood and jury deliberations in sexual assault matters.
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A parliamentary committee will this week hear advice from sexual consent advocates, domestic violence organisations and legal bodies about potential changes to consent laws as part of a push to strengthen protections for assault survivors.
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The committee is examining inconsistencies in consent laws across jurisdictions, the efficacy of directions to juries about consent, impacts of existing laws on the survivor experience of the justice system and adequacy of education programs.
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Good morning and here goes with another blog tracking all the news that is fit to publish across Australia. My name is Martin Farrer and I’ll be bringing you a couple of overnight starter dishes before Natasha May gets stuck into the main course.
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Labor must be “much more ambitious” in addressing the housing crisis, the CFMEU construction union says, and wants the government to implement a super profits tax of 40% to raise billions for building 750,000 new social and affordable homes. The CFMEU secretary, Zach Smith, will make the case today when he addresses the National Press Club in Canberra.
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There’s more controversy about the voice to parliament referendum this morning after former Labor minister, Gary Johns, last night said he refused to quit the no campaign after he doubled down on “outdated” views about Indigenous benefits. Johns had sparked anger by saying Indigenous people should be subject to blood tests in order to qualify for welfare payments. Barnaby Joyce, another prominent critic of the voice, was speaking last night on an online panel where he claimed the voice would become a “quasi House of Lords”.
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Australia needs a nationally consistent definition of affirmative sexual consent, women’s safety advocates say. Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory lack such laws, which say that silence or lack of resistance cannot be interpreted as consent. It comes as a parliamentary committee convenes to hear advice on potential changes to consent laws.
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Our latest Guardian Essential poll shows that more than 40% of Australians agree with Daniel Andrews’ decision to scrap the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, with support in his home state climbing to 44%. Western Australians were least likely to be in favour (36%). And with the Women’s World Cup in full swing, there was also widespread support for equal prize money for the Fifa’s female players.
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Key events
Amy Remeikis
Larissa Waters brought to tears at opening testimony to Senate consent inquiry
Greens senator Larissa Waters has been brought to tears listening to some of the opening testimony to the Senate consent inquiry.
The hearing was shown a compilation from the SBS documentary series, Asking For It, which was made by Jess Hill and Tosca Looby.
The women then spoke about how we treat rape as one of the worst crimes someone could commit, but yet seemingly have no response to it, given society’s attitudes to people who come forward and how low the conviction rates are in the courts.
Hill told the inquiry there was no point having consent education in schools without having some sort of harmonisation of how schools and universities deal with complaints:
There’s no point having considered education in schools without a code of conduct for how schools are to respond if they have victims and perpetrators in the same school and particularly in the same grade. There we had many, many years of failures.
Anne Davies
Plibersek points finger at Nationals over ‘sabotage’ of Murray Darling Basin plan
Plibersek laid the blame for the Murray Darling Basin plan failures squarely in the lap of the National party, which has held the water portfolio under a decade of Coalition governments.
The former Liberal-National government waged a decade-long guerrilla war against the basin plan. They attacked it in Opposition and then they sabotaged it when in government.
About 70% of the water was recovered through buying back entitlements for farmers. Labor completed this task after winning government in 2022.
But two other programs – one involving projects to use water more efficiently and another to recover a further 450GL via on-farm projects, which was the price of South Australia signing up to the plan – have failed to deliver.
The question now is whether Plibersek gives the states more time to make up the shortfalls or whether she orders more buybacks, which are very unpopular with farming communities because they tend to shrink economic activity. Plibersek said:
Let me be clear – the Albanese government is committed to delivering the Murray-Darling Basin plan in full, which includes the extra 450GL of water for the environment. I’ve said that from day one and I won’t budge.
Anne Davies
Plibersek to speak on Murray Darling water shortfall amid ‘next terrible drought … knocking on the door’
The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, is about to hold a press conference after being formally notified that Australia will fall short on reaching recovering water for the environment under the Murray Darling basin plan.
The shortfall is about 750GL, as the Guardian reported in February. That’s the equivalent of 300,000 Olympic swimming pools, or 1.5 Sydney Harbours short.
Plibersek said in a release:
The next terrible drought is knocking on the door. El Niño is coming back. Delivering this plan has to be a priority.
When the temperature gets hotter again, when the rain stops falling and the river stops flowing, we will seriously regret it if we don’t act now.
We don’t want Australians to wake up one day with a dead river system and find out their governments could’ve stopped it.
If we don’t prepare for those dry years, all Australians will suffer – risking our access to affordable food and water, with mass environmental collapse, dying native animals, choking fish, and intense pressure on river communities.
The targets in the plan – to recover 3,200GL from agriculture and return it for environmental flows – were due to be realised by June 2024.
Tamsin Rose
NSW premier: ‘We should demand the highest behaviour’ from parliamentarians
The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, said it was “intolerable” that people felt uncomfortable or as if they could not make a complaint about treatment within a parliamentary workplace.
He made the comments on ABC radio after being asked about the complaint made by former federal MP Lucy Wicks against her former staffer and current NSW upper house Liberal MP Taylor Martin over allegedly abusive texts.
Minns said:
We should demand the highest behaviour from members of parliament.
It’s important that if we’re going to set the rules for the state and the laws of the land that we need to make sure that we’ve got strict rules in place for parliament.
I can say unambiguously that it’s the case that that wasn’t the situation in NSW parliament for a long period of time.
It’s not a typical workplace. The reason we need to look at it closely is that there’s power structures and hierarchy and politics that might mean someone feels uncomfortable or unable to make a complaint and we can’t have that situation. It’s intolerable.
Wicks made the complaint to the Liberal party and wished to remain anonymous but was then named by 2GB host Ben Fordham on Monday.
The claims are being investigated by an SC appointed by the Liberal party and Martin has said he is cooperating.
Albanese weighs in on disgruntled Poms: ‘Suck it up, basically’
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, will be spending the morning with landcare volunteers at Milton rural landcare nursery on NSW’s south coast, which has received a grant for continuing bushfire recovery efforts as part of the Forest Recovery Project.
While there, Albanese spoke with local radio station Power FM Shoalhaven, about the importance of local community working together to rejuvenate bushland as well as sharing his thoughts on other recent events. His response to whinging Poms after Austalia retaining the Ashes?
Suck it up, basically. Australia won 2-1. We won the first two tests playing some brilliant cricket. That partnership between Cummins and Lyon was extraordinary into the early hours of the morning.
… Rain can happen. But you don’t know what would have happened with the outcome of the test. We had Mitch Stark still in … You had Cameron Green and we batted really really deep with Mitch Stark still to come.
Albanese also shared his delight seeing the Matildas’ opening win against Ireland at the Fifa Women’s World Cup, an event he says will unite all Australians behind the Matildas.
Liberal group supporting Indigenous voice says Gary Johns’ comments have no place in debate
The Liberal group backing the Indigenous voice to parliament, Liberals for Yes, says no campaign spokesperson Gary Johns’ comments have no place in the political debate, and are calling for other leaders in the no campaign to condemn them.
Kate Carnell, the co-convener of Liberals for Yes, released a statement saying:
The statements made by Mr Gary Johns last night calling for all recipients of Indigenous benefits to be blood tested, and for the introduction of a national public holiday celebrating intermarriage between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, are deeply disturbing comments that should have no place in Australian political debate.
The Voice Referendum debate will be passionate, and both sides have every right to make their case, both for and against, in the strongest possible terms. But there should be no room in this important debate for statements that evoke deeply discredited, and racially discriminatory policies and practices that have been left in the dustbin of history.
Liberals For Yes call on all reasonable and fair-minded leaders in the No Campaign to publicly condemn these comments by their fellow No Campaign board member in the strongest possible terms.
Australia can come out of this referendum a fairer and more united country, but to do so we must not let these comments stand.
Guardian Australia has contacted Johns for comment.
Read more from my colleague Josh Butler:
Cait Kelly
‘Stronger regulations would ensure less people fall prey to scams’: Choice CEO
Choice CEO, Alan Kirkland, said at the moment companies like banks, digital platforms and telcos are simply not doing enough to safeguard the community.
Consumers should not have to bear the entire cost of scam losses. Banks should be required to compensate customers when they fail to take reasonable steps to stop money being stolen through a scam.
A mandatory code that requires banks to reimburse their customers for scam losses would significantly reduce distress for customers affected by scams, and create the right incentives for banks to invest in scam prevention.
As scams surge, it’s clear the overwhelming majority of people in Australia would like to see the government force businesses to do more to prevent and detect scams. Stronger regulations would ensure less people fall prey to scams, and reduce the harm caused to those who do.
You can read more of our scam coverage here:
Cait Kelly
Most Australians think banks should reimburse scam victims, research shows
New research from Choice shows the majority of Australians think banks should reimburse scam victims, as the consumer association joins calls for financial institutions to provide compensation.
Last month, in a world first, the UK’s Payment Systems Regulator mandated that banks will have to reimburse victims of push payment fraud, where scammers impersonate financial institutions or the police, within five days – beginning next year.
The financial services minister, Stephen Jones, has indicated the government could possibly follow suit, saying it intends to introduce a new industry code that will require banks to “provide appropriate compensation”.
Choice surveyed more than 1,087 people, and more than half the respondents said they encountered a suspected scam every week.
The survey also found 64% of people think banks should reimburse people who lose money to scams and 80% of people agreed that the government should legally force businesses to do more to stop scams.
Tamsin Rose
Opera House sails to be lit up if Matildas win
The sails of the Sydney Opera House will be lit up to celebrate the Matildas if the team progresses further in the World Cup.
Speaking on ABC radio on Tuesday morning, the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, said he had not asked for them to be lit up already because he had not wanted to “jinx” the team.
He said:
I was mainly focused on not jinxing this wonderful team that are doing so well in the group stages.
I fully expect them to make the finals and if they do make it of course will roll out the red carpet and really get behind this team.
They are great ambassadors for sport in this state and this country and particularly for female participation in sport.
The Matildas can secure their passage from Group B with victory over Nigeria on Thursday night in Brisbane.
Bill Shorten says Scott Morrison ‘in complete denial’ over robodebt
Turning back to the news of former PM Scott Morrison being reported to be back in the country for the first time since the robodebt report was handed down.
Appearing on ABC News breakfast, the government services minister, Bill Shorten, has accused the former leader of being in denial over the entire incident:
Mr Morrison’s denied everything, said nothing to see here. For me, I just wish it had never happened.
It was a government of law breakers, the previous Coalition government. They thought they would get away with treating people receiving the social security safety net as second class Australians.
They implied there were hundreds of thousands of cheats who were hiding a mountain of gold worth billions of dollars. And Mr Morrison and others were going to catch them and make them accountable. It turned out that the people breaking the law were not the people they were assaulting on Centrelink payments, it was actually the government itself.
So, I don’t know what Mr Morrison can say. He’s obviously in complete denial about everything. That’s his prerogative. But the royal commission is gripping reading and there was a lot of evidence that seems to contradict Mr Morrison’s version of events.
Morrison has been contacted for comment.
Amy Remeikis
Senate inquiry into consent under way in Canberra
Good morning from Canberra where the “feels like” temperature is 0.1C. I hope you are somewhere a little more cosy.
The senate inquiry into consent is under way. The inquiry is looking at Australia’s laws, attitudes and education around consent. It’s hoped that by laying out the issues so clearly, we might find a way forward.
The Greens senator Larissa Waters said the inquiry was crucial.
We know that an alarming number of people still disbelieve or victim-blame survivors of assault. Sexual consent education in schools can help dismantle this persistent rape culture and ensure everyone understands that only informed and enthusiastic consent means yes.
We’ll be following the inquiry this morning and will keep you updated. First up is author and advocate Jess Hill.
Data of some Victorians put at risk during the pandemic
The Victorian health department is under fire after the state’s privacy watchdog found there were multiple breaches of personal information during the pandemic, AAP reports.
One of the worst cases involved a call centre worker who had a criminal record and used a department system to get the details of a young woman who was isolating at home.
He then impersonated a Covid-19 official to gain entry into her home and tried to pressure her into performing sexual acts, the Victorian information commissioner said in a report published on Tuesday.
During the pandemic, the health department hired third-party call centres to help with contact tracing for people infected with Covid-19.
The commissioner’s investigation concluded the department breached privacy and data protection laws by failing to take reasonable steps to protect against the misuse of people’s personal information.
While acknowledging the unprecedented circumstances created by the Covid-19 public health response, commissioner Sven Bluemmel said it did not ensure the third-party workers were adequately screened.
Scott Morrison seen publicly for first time since robodebt report’s release
Nine News is reporting that the former prime minister Scott Morrison has returned from his European holiday and has been seen publicly for the first time since the robodebt report was handed down.
#EXCLUSIVE: Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been seen for the first time since the Robodebt royal commission report was handed down. @MaggieRaworth #9News
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— 9News Australia (@9NewsAUS) July 24, 2023
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