Victorian Liberal leader plays down possibility of federal intervention
Victorian opposition leader John Pesutto says his leadership is not in danger despite the looming threat of a federal intervention.
Moira Deeming yesterday revealed she is mounting a legal challenge against her suspension after issuing a failed ultimatum to Pesutto, to declare that she is not a Nazi sympathiser.
Pesutto has told Sky News he heard the federal Liberal leader Peter Dutton’s comments on Breakfast news programs this morning telling the party to get “this mess sorted” and not ruling out a federal intervention.
The Victorian leader played down the possibility of a federal intervention:
I don’t believe federal intervention will occur and I don’t believe it’s necessary.
Pesutto says he has yet to speak to Dutton, but flagged the pair will “speak soon”.
Asked whether he believes his leadership is safe, Pesutto said “yes”.
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For one thing, the authority cost $23m in the first year.
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And the $400m that’s been reported by some media (not us) in relation to the transition is coming from an industrial transformation stream that itself is part of the $1.9bn Powering the Regions Fund. It seems the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena) will administer that $400m (and not the new authority). Easy to see how those streams can get a bit murky.
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Bowen didn’t disclose who will head the authority, but said it would “be broadly representative”, tapping people with “varying backgrounds in the energy transformation and industrial transformation”.
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Federal cabinet will consider the appointments “in coming weeks”. The aim is to legislate the authority over the next 12 months.
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Bowen said he had briefed New South Wales’ new energy minister Penny Sharpe. The new federal agency would be “complementary” with the planned state one(s).
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“She very much welcomed it,” he said. “I briefed all the, you know, all the energy ministers that I could reach, and it was broadly welcomed across the board.”
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The next gathering of energy ministers will be in a fortnight so perhaps the transition will be discussed there too.
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Victorian opposition leader John Pesutto says his leadership is not in danger despite the looming threat of a federal intervention.
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Moira Deeming yesterday revealed she is mounting a legal challenge against her suspension after issuing a failed ultimatum to Pesutto, to declare that she is not a Nazi sympathiser.
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Pesutto has told Sky News he heard the federal Liberal leader Peter Dutton’s comments on Breakfast news programs this morning telling the party to get “this mess sorted” and not ruling out a federal intervention.
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The Victorian leader played down the possibility of a federal intervention:
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I don’t believe federal intervention will occur and I don’t believe it’s necessary.
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Pesutto says he has yet to speak to Dutton, but flagged the pair will “speak soon”.
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Asked whether he believes his leadership is safe, Pesutto said “yes”.
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Father Bob’s longtime friend and radio co-host John Safran, brought the priest’s larrikin spirit to his eulogy:
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He was like a reverse Native American. He thought his soul would be taken away if a camera was not pointed at him.
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…I spent so much time with Father Bob over 20 years, I feel like I can auto generate an AI chat between him and me regarding today:
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Safran: Bob, you are dead. Do you want a state funeral?
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Maguire: No.
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The government says it will legistate its national Net Zero Authority “to ensure the workers, industries and communities that have powered Australia for generations can seize the opportunities of Australia’s net zero transformation”.
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That’s according to a media release sent out by the PM’s office, with treasurer Jim Chalmers and energy minister Chris Bowen signing on too.
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It’s not yet clear how much it will cost, nor who will head it (perhaps the media conference beside the less than idyllic Lake Liddell might tell us more). Former ACTU boss and Labor minister Greg Combet is one name being floated.
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Anyway, to add a little confusion, the government will first set up an agency by 1 July within the PM and cabinet office that will then advise on the final design of a National Net Zero Authority (so NZA becomes NNZA). The aim is to improve a poor trackrecord when it comes to replacing industries when they close. (Think, car industry, for one.)
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And, in line with the earlier post, the authority aim to coordinate programs across government, support workers through training to reskill, and lure in investors to generate the new jobs and industries.
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An noted in our piece from yesterday, the NSW government is also planning “transition authorities” too. It’s not clear, though, what coordination there is between the new Labor government in New South Wales and their federal counterparts.
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The point person in the NSW government appears to be finance minister Courtney Houssos, so we’ve been told. State-federal coordination, including among authorities, would appear to be a good first step.
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And, for those wonder, here’s why we hope the media event at Lake Liddell was a little distance from the water’s edge. (Naegleria Fowleri is unhappily known as a “brain-eating amoeba”.)
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Those attending today’s media event by Lake Liddell would be advised to keep away from the water… (the nearby power station’s releases of hot water have now ceased for good so perhaps the threat will ease too)… pic.twitter.com/vaxqb1kgGx
— @phannam@mastodon.green (@p_hannam) May 5, 2023
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Julia Gutman has won the 2023 Archibald prize for her portrait of Australian singer Montaigne, also known as Jessica Cerro.
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Announced at the Art Gallery of NSW just now, the winning painting was picked unanimously by the judges.
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Gutman is a first-time Archibald finalist, and a friend of Cerro’s.
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“I wanted to work with someone I know well,” she said in her artist statement.
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In this Archibald portrait, her pose mimics that of Egon Schiele’s Seated woman with bent knees, a painting of his wife Edith that subverted conventional representations of femininity when he composed it in 1917.
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Like Edith, Montaigne’s figure is distorted: at once angular and soft, representational and imagined. She sits in a vaguely suggested landscape, fragmented by a translucent screen, online and offline at once.
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The $100,000 prize is awarded to the best portrait of a person “distinguished in art, letters, science or politics” painted by an Australian resident.
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The Art Galley of NSW received 949 entries for this year’s Archibald, coming close to the record set in 2020.
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A Service NSW worker is in a critical condition after being stabbed multiple times at a service centre in Sydney’s CBD.
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Emergency services were called to Rawson Place in Haymarket after reports a 55-year-old man was stabbed in the lower back, chest and shoulder on Friday morning, police said.
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He was treated at the scene by paramedics and taken to hospital in a critical but stable condition. A 37-year-old man was arrested and taken to a police station as investigations surrounding the incident continue.
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There were 6,452 new cases in the weekly reporting period, and 17 people are in intensive care.
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Those numbers are up slightly on 6,255 cases and 42 deaths last week.
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This week we reported 6,452 new cases with a daily average hospital occupancy of 311 and 17 patients in ICU. 44 deaths were reported in the past 7 days.
Our thoughts are with those in hospital, and the families of people who have lost their lives. 🧵 1/2 pic.twitter.com/FXmBOFFLra
— Victorian Department of Health (@VicGovDH) May 5, 2023
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There were 12,323 new cases in the weekly reporting period, and 30 people are in intensive care.
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Numbers have gone up from last week’s 11,745 cases, returning to around the same level of the previous week. Recorded deaths are also up significantly from 35 last week.
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COVID-19 weekly update – Friday 5 May 2023
In the 7 days to 4pm Thursday 4 May:
– 12,323 new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded: 5,758 rapid antigen tests (RATs) and 6,565 PCR tests
– 53 lives lost pic.twitter.com/ZDM7zSNSd2— NSW Health (@NSWHealth) May 4, 2023
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That press conference has wrapped up now. What did we learn about the budget from the treasurer?
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There will be help for vulnerable people, while enforcing strict fiscal discipline.
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It will set up the country to take full advantage of opportunities for growth with clean energy at the centre of the strategy.
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Cost-of-living support will take pressure off inflation and not add to it.
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He wants to “attack entrenched disadvantage” through place-based initiatives partnering with philanthropic organisations, local communities and impact investing.
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We can expect a small improvement to the budget bottom line in the near term but there’s still substantial pressure in the medium term.
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The cost of servicing the previous government’s debt will be $112bn over forward estimates – which amounts to $60m a day in interest repayments.
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Asked about rental assistance in the budget, Chalmers has lashed out at the “coalition of weirdos” blocking the government’s housing future fund from passing in the upper house.
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One of the reasons why we have vacancy rates so low and rents so high is we don’t have enough homes and that is why it beggars belief that this coalition of weirdos in the Senate – the Liberals and Nationals and Greens – have banded together to say they will oppose building more social and affordable homes in this country. It beggars belief.
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Chalmers says the budget will particularly look to tackle “entrenched disadvantage” through a series of place-based initiatives.
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We also want to make sure, in addition to what we will do on cost of living for the most vulnerable Australians, a particular effort to attack entrenched disadvantage in communities like the one that I grew up in.
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What Minister [Amanda] Rishworth and I and the cabinet have agreed for Tuesday night’s budget is a series of place-based initiatives to try and shift the needle in disadvantaged communities.
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It has been a concern of ours for some time that even in an economy which is capable of creating opportunities and an economy with 3.5% national unemployment, there are parts of Australia – there are pockets of disadvantage in this country, and we don’t want to see long-term unemployment.
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We don’t want to see entrenched intergenerational disadvantage and so one of the initiatives, one of the package of initiatives in the budget on Tuesday night will be a dedicated effort to attack entrenched disadvantage in communities right around Australia.
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The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, has cancelled two applications for coal mines in Queensland on the basis that proponents failed to submit additional information requested of them.
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The two projects are:
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The China Stone Coal Mine project, a proposal by MacMines Austasia to construct and operate a coalmine in Belyando, Queensland. In 2018, further information was requested about the potential impacts on threatened species and water resources. More than four years later, nothing has been provided. The proposed project would produce approximately 55m tonnes per annum of coal, over approximately 50 years.
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The Range Coal project is a proposal by Stanmore Coal to construct and operate an open-cut coalmine and processing facilities 35km south-east of Wandoan, in Central Queensland. In 2013, further information was requested about the impact to threatened species and water resources. A decade later, and nothing has been provided.
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A Bangladeshi student has died after he was assaulted during a break-in at his Darwin home, triggering a homicide investigation, AAP reports.
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The 23-year-old man, who was enrolled at Charles Darwin University, was left in a critical condition after the early morning attack on Wednesday.
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Northern Territory police said a man entered the home at Millner, in Darwin’s north, about 4.25am on Wednesday and assaulted the resident before fleeing the scene.
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The alleged attacker, a 29-year-old man, was detained in a vehicle a short time later, while the injured student was taken to Royal Darwin hospital.
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Police said the 23-year-old died on Thursday as a result of the injuries he sustained in the attack and major crime detectives were investigating the death as a homicide.
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The 29-year-old man has not been charged over the incident.
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The university described the assault as a senseless attack that had devastated the community, with students and staff holding rallies in support of the student.
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Police have urged any potential witnesses to come forward, especially if they have any CCTV footage of suspicious activity in the area.
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ANZ has recorded a 23% rise in six-month cash profit to a record $3.8bn, and improved its margins, after profiting from a string of interest rate rises.
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The bank has warned, however, that the outlook is more subdued amid growing cost pressures on its customers.
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The ANZ chief executive, Shayne Elliott, said in a statement:
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We understand that sustained higher inflation and interest rates create further challenges for some households and businesses across the economy.
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Australia’s big banks have profited from the flurry of rate hikes dating back to May last year by increasing their lending rates at a faster pace than deposits.
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ANZ is the second major retail bank to report its six-month results to March this week, after National Australia Bank posted a $4.07bn cash profit on Thursday.
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Elliott said the next six months would be more difficult and that competition for customers has intensified.
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The co-author of Puberty Blues, Gabrielle Carey, has died.
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Kathy Lette, the other co-author of the coming of age classic, has paid tribute to her childhood friend and writing partner:
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I’m deeply saddened by the tragic news about my old friend Gabrielle Carey. I have such happy memories of our teenage years. They were halcyon, heady days full of love, laughter and adventure. 1/2 🧵 pic.twitter.com/2wZZiRf1hd
— Kathy Lette (@KathyLette) May 4, 2023
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We made some mischief and broke some barriers by writing “Puberty Blues“ – our raw, earthy take on the brutal treatment of young women in the Australian surfing scene which is sadly, still so relevant. My heartfelt condolences to her family and friends. 2/2
— Kathy Lette (@KathyLette) May 4, 2023
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Peter Dutton is not ruling out a federal intervention to “sort out the mess” of what’s occurred in the Victorian Liberal party this week.
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Moira Deeming yesterday revealed she is mounting a legal challenge against her suspension after issuing a failed ultimatum to leader, John Pesutto, to declare that she is not a Nazi sympathiser.
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Dutton says at the moment the state party is not a credible opposition.
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The federal leader is urging urgent mediation between Deeming and Pesutto, and says he “of course” supports Pesutto.
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That needs to be sorted out, and it needs to be sorted out sooner rather than later.
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Dutton said the situation doesn’t reflect well on broader party movement.
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If you’re still trying to wrap your head around what happened yesterday:
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Albanese has made his strongest statement yet on his frustration at Julian Assange’s ongoing incarceration.
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It’s frustrating. I share the frustration. I can’t do more than make very clear what my position is.
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… I think that the Assange case needs to be looked at in terms of what occurred, what the allegations are, and whether the time effectively that has been served already is in excess of what would be reasonable if it were proved that this had occurred.
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When Australians look at the circumstances – look at the fact that the person who released the information [Chelsea Manning] is walking freely … having served some time in incarceration, but is now released for a long period of time – then they’ll see that there’s a disconnect there.
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There is nothing to be served by his ongoing incarceration.
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The chief executive of Universities Australia will today call for greater federal government investment in research, forcing the sector to look overseas for revenue from international students to remain viable.
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Speaking at the Australian High Education Industrial Association’s conference today, Catriona Jackson will say Australia’s research funding model is “limiting and unsustainable”, leaving universities exposed at a time of economic volatility.
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New forecasts show government spending on research is at its lowest share of GDP, falling to 0.59% in 2022-23 and lagging behind the OECD average of 2.68%. It hadn’t dropped below 0.5% since records began in 1978:
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Government and industry funding as a share of GDP is going backwards. This is pushing the nation towards the lower end of the international order. Grant schemes are providing well below the full cost for projects, leaving universities to pick up the gap.
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And women are disproportionately affected by the funding system which is “not working in the national interest” and forces universities to seek alternative funding sources:
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We are increasingly reliant on international student fees to pay for this work, which is highly unsustainable and underscores the urgent need for change … it’s unfathomable that our ability to continue performing fundamentally important research for the good of the nation hinges on people choosing to study in Australia. No other nation funds their research effort quite like this.
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A 1% lift in funding for research would grow the economy by $24bn over a decade, Jackson will say.
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Australia’s free trade agreement with the UK will start at the end of this month, AAP reports.
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Under the deal, there will be no tariffs on almost all Australian goods exported to the UK and more Australians will be eligible for lengthier working holidays in the country.
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During a visit to Bondi Green, an Australian-themed restaurant in London’s Paddington, Anthony Albanese said:
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What the FTA between Australia and the United Kingdom is about is getting greater access to this market for Australian products – greater access for our beef, for our sheep products, for our wine.
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The prime minister said that, after a two-year period, there would be no tariffs on 99% of Australian exports to the UK and the same would apply to UK products arriving in Australia.
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After the same two-year phase-in, Australians will be able to apply for working holidays in the UK to the age of 35 – up from 30 – and stay for a maximum of three years instead of two. UK citizens coming to Australia will be also be able to work for three years.
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The UK’s free trade agreement with New Zealand, with similar conditions, will also start on the last day of May.
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Good morning and welcome to our rolling news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll have some overnight breaking stories and updates for you before my colleague Natasha May takes the helm.
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Jim Chalmers says Australia is “still paying the price” for the Coalition leaving behind a fiscal “mess” and a budget “heaving with a trillion dollars of debt” as he flags one of the most punishing items in his own federal budget – the cost of servicing the country’s debts. The annual cost will rise from $17.7bn in 2022-23 to a peak of $27.1bn in 2025-26, before falling to $26bn in 2026-27, according to estimates released last night, which is more than spending on family tax benefit, childcare or infrastructure.
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The Albanese government will scrap the controversial ParentsNext program from next year and stop compulsory obligations for participants immediately in a significant win for campaigners.
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Health officials are urging men who have sex with other men to be aware of symptoms for mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, with the first New South Wales case in six months detected in Sydney. There is concern that while cases have been linked to people who have been overseas, the man with the new infection has not been known to have been abroad, suggesting that mpox is spreading in the state.
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And the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has announced a start date for Australia’s free trade deal with the UK, which will (over a two-year phase-in period) lead to lower tariffs on exports – and longer working holiday visas for travellers.
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Key events
A 29-year-old man has been charged with murder after an international student was allegedly killed in a home invasion in Darwin earlier this week, AAP reports.
23-year-old Ishaqur Rahman Sifat from Bangladesh was critically injured and was taken to Royal Darwin Hospital where he died as a result of his injuries yesterday.
Police will allege the intruder assaulted Sifat while he was asleep at his home in Milner on Wednesday.
In a statement, NT Police said detectives from Serious Crime have now charged the alleged offender with murder, aggravated burglary and theft.
The man was denied bail to face Darwin Local Court on 8 May.
A combined vigil and protest was held by Sifat’s classmates at Charles Darwin University, with both federal ministers and students attended to pay their respects and call for more to be done to ensure the safety of NT residents at home.
Charles Darwin University’s Bangladeshi Student Association said in a statement yesterday:
It is with a heavy heart that we share the devastating news of the passing of our beloved friend and fellow student, MD Ishaqur Rahman Sifat.
He fought bravely in the ICU but sadly succumbed to his injuries at 4:35 PM today.
Our whole community is shaken by this tragic loss.
And with that, I will hand the blog over to Stephanie Convery, thanks for reading.
The parents of deceased fraudster Melissa Caddick have made an offer to resolve a dispute with duped investors regarding who gets what from the sale of a multi-million dollar property in Sydney’s east, in Federal Court on Friday.
AAP is reporting that Ted and Barbara Grimley have proposed a sum be taken out of funds gathered by receivers appointed over Caddicks’ property in exchange for the sale of an apartment in Edgecliff which has previously been the subject of heated disagreement.
Investors have claimed they are owed all money from the sale of the property while the Grimleys have battled for their own cut of the proceeds.
The couple claim they paid their now-deceased daughter almost $1.2 million as partial payment for the apartment’s purchase on the condition they would live there rent-free until they died.
The receivers urged investors to agree to the Grimleys’ “open offer” in Court.
“The (out of pocket investors) will not get a materially better return in the event that these proceedings are judicially determined in their favour,” said barrister Vanessa Whittaker SC.
The Grimleys’ barrister Robert Newlinds SC threw his support behind the suggestion.
“Of course we think it’s a good idea. We will be supportive of it,” he told Justice Brigette Markovic.
The exact amount proposed by Caddick’s parents has not been revealed but Ms Whittaker said even if the investors won in the best case scenario in court, the amount taken out by legal fees would leave them worse off than if they had simply accepted the offer.
The receivers will circulate material backing their position and will hold town hall meetings with investors before a hearing on May 31.
Investors will have the chance to raise objections to the proposal by May 24.
Mother sentenced for murder of her three children
AAP is reporting that a mother who stabbed, strangled and suffocated her three children before burning their bodies in a house fire will spend at least 25 years behind bars.
Margaret Dale Hawke, 36, pleaded guilty to three counts of murder after killing her 10-year-old daughter and two sons, aged seven and four months, in the family’s Port Hedland home on July 19, last year.
Sentencing her on Friday, Justice Michael Lundberg said it was a sad and distressing case and Hawke had failed her fundamental duty as a parent to protect her children.
“It is almost impossible to fathom how you reached a point where you knowingly … killed your three only children in your own home at such young ages,” he told her at the supreme court in Perth.
“It is impossible for any person to understand what you were thinking at the time and indeed, it appears you aren’t entirely clear why you came to engage in such serious and brutal attacks.”
The court heard Hawke strangled her daughter with an electrical cord and stabbed her eight times in her chest and heart.
She also strangled and stabbed her seven-year-old son. He was found with three stab wounds to his chest and wounds on his neck.
Hawke tried to drown her infant son but failed and instead smothered the child before walking to a beach where she disposed of the knife.
After she returned to the family home where her dead children lay, she lit two fires and walked out into the street as it was engulfed by flames.
Members of the public tried to enter the home and save the children, but it was too dangerous.
Firefighters put the blaze out. Hawke’s elder son’s body was found on a mattress in a room at the front of the property. Her daughter and other son were found in a room at the back.
Hawke was taken to hospital and later admitted she had murdered her children.
Hawke was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum non-parole period of 25 years for each of the three murders and two years and eight months’ jail for the criminal damage by fire, to be served concurrently.
Tanya Plibersek rejects Queensland coalmines
Two proposed Queensland coalmines have been knocked back, AAP is reporting, after failing to prove their environmental credentials, giving green groups hope more projects could be canned.
The China Stone Coal mine project is a proposal by MacMines Austasia to construct and operate a coal mine in Belyando.
In 2018, further information was requested about the potential impacts on threatened species and water resources.
But more than four years later, nothing has been provided.
The project aimed to produce 55 million tonnes a year of coal across 50 years.
The Range Coal project is a proposal by Stanmore Coal to construct and operate an open-cut coal mine and processing facilities 25km southeast of Wandoan.
In 2013, further information was requested about the impact on threatened species and water resources but nothing has been provided.
The two proponents wrote to the government in 2020 indicating they wanted to progress the projects but have not submitted the additional information requested of them.
The original material submitted to the government might no longer be current because impacts on the environment, species present in the area, and species considered threatened under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act have changed.
“I’ve been clear I will have zero tolerance for businesses who refuse to provide adequate information about the impact their projects will have on nature,” environment minister Tanya Plibersek said on Friday.
“If companies aren’t willing to show how they will protect nature, then I’m willing to cancel their projects – and that’s exactly what I’ve done.”
The Environment Council of Central Queensland, represented by Environmental Justice Australia, launched the Living Wonders legal intervention in July to compel the minister to reconsider 19 coal and gas proposals.
Three of the 19 projects have previously been refused by the minister or withdrawn by the companies.
The minister’s decision on the China Stone and Range Coal projects means there are now 14 coal and gas proposals subject to legal intervention.
Council president Christine Carlisle said the minister should now “show courage when assessing the remaining coal and gas proposals on her desk”.
“Each and every one of them will have a devastating impact on our climate and our living wonders, so must be properly assessed,” she said.
You can read more on the issue from our story, linked below:
Queensland premier urges crackdown on posts boasting of criminal behaviour on social media
AAP is reporting that Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is calling on social media companies to do more to prevent youth crime, after her state passed “the toughest laws in Australia” in an attempt to rein in offending.
The state government has been under pressure to defend its response after three people were killed in a collision this week involving a stolen Mercedes allegedly driven by a 13-year-old boy in Maryborough.
“Nearly everybody in that community knew one of the people who were killed,” Palaszczuk told Nine’s Today Show on Friday.
“It has been very upsetting and I think there’s not a Queenslander that is not touched by this tragedy in some way.”
Queensland’s parliament in March passed a raft of laws targeting young people, including harsher prison terms for car thieves and new penalties for people who boast about crime on social media.
The changes also make it a crime for a child to breach their bail conditions, allow GPS trackers on children as young as 15, and let courts declare certain youths serious repeat offenders.
“I can’t stop every single instance of youth crime but we can throw everything at it,” Palaszczuk said.
Posting crimes to social media can encourage copycat behaviour, and platforms such as Facebook can do more to “clamp down” on publication, the premier said.
Palaszczuk said the Queensland laws passed earlier this year were “the toughest in Australia” and were voted on by both sides of politics.
“They will take time to take effect,” she said.
“We’ve given the courts the laws, and now the courts have the opportunity to use those laws.”
The state also boosted funding to early intervention programs making “really substantial changes”, Palaszczuk said.
Universities Australia chief urges more funding for research
Universities Australia chief Catriona Jackson has warned that government spending on research has dropped to its lowest level on record, and that next week’s budget could be an opportunity to fix the problem.
Jackson told the the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association’s annual conference in Hobart earlier today that while the government “can’t fund everything,” it needed to take a serious look at research funding:
In tough fiscal circumstances, we recognise government can’t fund everything.
Tough decisions must be made at a time that calls for less public spending. But we know that research makes the nation stronger and wealthier.
It’s unfathomable that our ability to continue performing fundamentally important research for the good of the nation hinges on people choosing to study in Australia.
Mehreen Faruqi criticises ‘cringeworthy’ Albanese for attending coronation
Deputy Greens leader Mehreen Faruqi has criticised the PM for his “cringeworthy behaviour” in attending the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday.
Faruqi said it was time Australia became a republic, and accused the PM for wanting to “have it both ways”:
Now would be the perfect time to double down on becoming a republic, but instead the prime minister is swearing loyalty to an outdated institution.
The British monarchy and their obscene wealth is a racist, colonial institution built on the blood, backs and stolen wealth of brown and black people. The violent legacies of British colonialism are felt by people and countries all over the globe, including here in Australia, a nation born of dispossession and violence.
Becoming a republic is an important step towards achieving racial justice on this continent. Moving to a republic has to be done hand in hand with truth-telling and treaty for First Nations people.
Prime minister Albanese’s tepid commitment to the republic movement is yet another example of Labor trying to have it both ways.
New transition authority to cost $23m in first year, Bowen says
Peter Hannam
Climate and energy minister Chris Bowen has cleared a couple of things about the new national net zero authority (see earlier posts).
For one thing, the authority cost $23m in the first year.
And the $400m that’s been reported by some media (not us) in relation to the transition is coming from an industrial transformation stream that itself is part of the $1.9bn Powering the Regions Fund. It seems the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena) will administer that $400m (and not the new authority). Easy to see how those streams can get a bit murky.
Bowen didn’t disclose who will head the authority, but said it would “be broadly representative”, tapping people with “varying backgrounds in the energy transformation and industrial transformation”.
Federal cabinet will consider the appointments “in coming weeks”. The aim is to legislate the authority over the next 12 months.
Bowen said he had briefed New South Wales’ new energy minister Penny Sharpe. The new federal agency would be “complementary” with the planned state one(s).
“She very much welcomed it,” he said. “I briefed all the, you know, all the energy ministers that I could reach, and it was broadly welcomed across the board.”
The next gathering of energy ministers will be in a fortnight so perhaps the transition will be discussed there too.
Good afternoon, Mostafa Rachwani with you, taking you through some of this chilly Friday afternoon.
Natasha May
I am signing off for the day and wishing you a fabulous weekend.
Mostafa Rachwani will be with you for the rest of the afternoon and Amy Remeikis will be back for the politics blog bright and early Monday in what will be a very big week in Canberra with the budget handed down Tuesday.
Tamsin Rose
NSW department of customer service secretary, Emma Hogan, thanked witnesses of the alleged attack and all frontline workers across the state.
She said:
The safety and welfare of our teams is the most important thing to us and we are all devastated by this morning’s event.
The Service NSW worker has been operated on and is now in a stable condition in the ICU.
The 37-year-old man has been refused bail and will appear in court later this afternoon.
Tamsin Rose
Man expected to be charged after stabbing of Service NSW worker in Sydney
A 37-year-old man has been arrested and is expected to be charged after the stabbing of a Service NSW worker in inner Sydney this morning.
NSW police detective superintendent Martin Fileman alleged the man walked into the Service NSW building shortly before 9.20am this morning, had a short conversation with the 55-year-old worker before allegedly attacking him with a knife.
Fileman said:
The 37-year-old male was arrested by police at the scene and was taken to the Day St police station where he underwent a medical assessment.
The man is expected to be charged with wounding with intent.
Victorian Liberal leader plays down possibility of federal intervention
Victorian opposition leader John Pesutto says his leadership is not in danger despite the looming threat of a federal intervention.
Moira Deeming yesterday revealed she is mounting a legal challenge against her suspension after issuing a failed ultimatum to Pesutto, to declare that she is not a Nazi sympathiser.
Pesutto has told Sky News he heard the federal Liberal leader Peter Dutton’s comments on Breakfast news programs this morning telling the party to get “this mess sorted” and not ruling out a federal intervention.
The Victorian leader played down the possibility of a federal intervention:
I don’t believe federal intervention will occur and I don’t believe it’s necessary.
Pesutto says he has yet to speak to Dutton, but flagged the pair will “speak soon”.
Asked whether he believes his leadership is safe, Pesutto said “yes”.
John Safran delivers Father Bob eulogy at state funeral
Father Bob’s longtime friend and radio co-host John Safran, brought the priest’s larrikin spirit to his eulogy:
He was like a reverse Native American. He thought his soul would be taken away if a camera was not pointed at him.
…I spent so much time with Father Bob over 20 years, I feel like I can auto generate an AI chat between him and me regarding today:
Safran: Bob, you are dead. Do you want a state funeral?
Maguire: No.
Images from Father Bob Maguire’s state funeral
The state funeral service honouring Father Bob Maguire took place earlier at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne. The service was attended by premier Daniel Andrews, opposition leader, John Pesutto, federal NDIS minister, Bill Shorten, as well as former premiers Steve Bracks and Jeff Kennett.
Here are some of the images from the service:
Tamsin Rose
Chris Minns thanks first responders for helping Service NSW worker stabbed in Sydney
NSW premier Chris Minns, has thanked first responders who helped the Service NSW worker who was stabbed in Sydney this morning.
He said:
The stabbing of a Service NSW worker today in Sydney is horrifying.
The thoughts of our government and our state are with this worker and their family at what is no doubt a very difficult time.
To all the staff at Service NSW and those first responders on the scene – thank you.
Vietnam demands Australia stop using flag from defunct regime
Vietnam is demanding that Australia stops using a yellow flag from the country’s now defunct regime.
The Australian Mint released a special edition silver $2 coin to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam war, which featured South Vietnam’s flag (three red stripes against a yellow background).
Vietnamese paper VN Express reports that the deputy spokesperson of the ministry of foreign affairs Pham Thu Hang said Thursday:
We resolutely oppose the fact that the Royal Australia Mint and the Australia Post have issued products with the images of ‘yellow flag,’ which is the flag of a regime that no longer exists.
New energy transition authority to be legislated, Albanese government says
Peter Hannam
The government says it will legistate its national Net Zero Authority “to ensure the workers, industries and communities that have powered Australia for generations can seize the opportunities of Australia’s net zero transformation”.
That’s according to a media release sent out by the PM’s office, with treasurer Jim Chalmers and energy minister Chris Bowen signing on too.
It’s not yet clear how much it will cost, nor who will head it (perhaps the media conference beside the less than idyllic Lake Liddell might tell us more). Former ACTU boss and Labor minister Greg Combet is one name being floated.
Anyway, to add a little confusion, the government will first set up an agency by 1 July within the PM and cabinet office that will then advise on the final design of a National Net Zero Authority (so NZA becomes NNZA). The aim is to improve a poor trackrecord when it comes to replacing industries when they close. (Think, car industry, for one.)
And, in line with the earlier post, the authority aim to coordinate programs across government, support workers through training to reskill, and lure in investors to generate the new jobs and industries.
An noted in our piece from yesterday, the NSW government is also planning “transition authorities” too. It’s not clear, though, what coordination there is between the new Labor government in New South Wales and their federal counterparts.
The point person in the NSW government appears to be finance minister Courtney Houssos, so we’ve been told. State-federal coordination, including among authorities, would appear to be a good first step.
And, for those wonder, here’s why we hope the media event at Lake Liddell was a little distance from the water’s edge. (Naegleria Fowleri is unhappily known as a “brain-eating amoeba”.)