Ed Husic hits again at Dutton over ‘Muslim candidates from Western Sydney’ feedback
Josh Butler
Cupboard minister Ed Husic has additionally taken a swipe at Peter Dutton’s claims about “Muslim candidates from western Sydney” on the subsequent election, pointing on the market are already “two of us who function ministers”.
A type of, after all, is Husic himself, the minister for trade and science. The opposite is Anne Aly, the minister for early childhood and youth.
“Um, Pete? Newsflash. There’s not solely been a Muslim candidate from western Sydney for greater than a decade now, there’s additionally two of us who function minister …” Husic wrote in a put up on Instagram.
Possibly strive exhibiting some management and convey folks collectively relatively than tear them aside … it’s been completed earlier than.
Husic, the member for the western Sydney seat of Chifley, was responding to Dutton’s feedback yesterday about defecting Labor senator Fatima Payman.
Dutton claimed Labor would fall into minority authorities within the subsequent time period of Parliament, and would govern with an alliance that “will embrace the Greens, it’ll embrace the Inexperienced-Teals, it’ll embrace Muslim candidates from Western Sydney, will probably be a catastrophe.”
“In the event you assume the Albanese Authorities is dangerous now, anticipate it to be a minority authorities with the Greens, the Inexperienced-Teals and Muslim independents,” Dutton claimed.
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Already described as Queensland’s largest sewage spill, an impartial report now reveals the Gold Coast leak was worse than first reported.
Quite a few components led to a burst sewage pipe spilling about 450 megalitres of effluent into the Albert River south of Brisbane, the report stated.
The determine is 100ML greater than what was first reported when the state authorities launched its personal investigation into the leak. About 5 megalitres a day spilled from the Gold Coast Metropolis Council sewage system into the river from 11 January to eight April.
Corrosion triggered the pipe leak, whereas the Gold Coast council’s reliance on the general public and one other native authorities to detect spills contributed to why it took so lengthy to establish, the report stated.
“The extent of the spill was confirmed on April 12 with a complete calculated spill quantity of roughly 450 ML,” the impartial report commissioned by the Gold Coast council stated.
The council could face prosecution after the state authorities introduced it might additionally examine the “catastrophic failure” again in April. “We haven’t seen a spill of this magnitude in Queensland to my information,” the Division of Atmosphere, Science and Innovation stated on the time.
The state authorities probe is ongoing.
Native prawn farms had been pressured to cease their operations whereas the leak was contained and anybody who caught seafood within the river was urged to not devour it. Greater than a month after the spill was first reported, the Gold Coast council reopened the river for industrial and leisure fishing.
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Ed Husic hits again at Dutton over ‘Muslim candidates from Western Sydney’ feedback
Josh Butler
Cupboard minister Ed Husic has additionally taken a swipe at Peter Dutton’s claims about “Muslim candidates from western Sydney” on the subsequent election, pointing on the market are already “two of us who function ministers”.
A type of, after all, is Husic himself, the minister for trade and science. The opposite is Anne Aly, the minister for early childhood and youth.
“Um, Pete? Newsflash. There’s not solely been a Muslim candidate from western Sydney for greater than a decade now, there’s additionally two of us who function minister …” Husic wrote in a put up on Instagram.
Possibly strive exhibiting some management and convey folks collectively relatively than tear them aside … it’s been completed earlier than.
Husic, the member for the western Sydney seat of Chifley, was responding to Dutton’s feedback yesterday about defecting Labor senator Fatima Payman.
Dutton claimed Labor would fall into minority authorities within the subsequent time period of Parliament, and would govern with an alliance that “will embrace the Greens, it’ll embrace the Inexperienced-Teals, it’ll embrace Muslim candidates from Western Sydney, will probably be a catastrophe.”
“In the event you assume the Albanese Authorities is dangerous now, anticipate it to be a minority authorities with the Greens, the Inexperienced-Teals and Muslim independents,” Dutton claimed.
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Albanese congratulates new UK Labour prime minister
Anthony Albanese has congratulated the brand new UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, in a put up to X. Albanese wrote:
Congratulations to my buddy and new UK Prime Minister [Keir Starmer] on his resounding election victory – I look ahead to working constructively with the incoming [UK Labour] Authorities.
Congratulations to my buddy and new UK Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer on his resounding election victory – I look ahead to working constructively with the incoming @UKLabour Authorities
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) July 5, 2024
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NSW preschool academics name for pay rise as much as 25%
Preschool academics are demanding extra money to draw and retain workers amid subsidies geared toward boosting enrolment, AAP stories.
The Impartial Training Union has utilized to the Truthful Work Fee to carry pay by as much as 25% for workers at greater than 100 community-based NSW preschools.
Employees shortages in schooling have been even worse within the early studying sector, the preschool instructor Janene Rox advised reporters outdoors the fee right now.
Paediatric medical doctors will not be paid any much less as a result of they’re supporting the youngest in our neighborhood, so why is it completely different for our academics?
Early-career schoolteachers yearly earn virtually $15,000 greater than colleagues in preschools, whereas skilled academics can earn virtually $32,000 extra, the union’s secretary, Carol Matthews, stated.
Lifting wages within the extremely feminised preschool sector might additionally slender the gender pay hole, whereas helping dad and mom juggling carer obligations, she stated.
The schooling and early studying minister, Prue Automotive, stated the NSW authorities was in a roundabout way concerned in negotiations, however supported the method and would monitor the union’s utility.
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Local weather group behind Parliament Home protest to carry weekend rally
Rising Tide, the group behind the local weather protest at Parliament Home yesterday, says will probably be holding a folks’s local weather meeting in Sydney tomorrow afternoon.
In an announcement, the group says the previous Socceroo and human rights activist Craig Foster will communicate on the meeting in Surry Hills, urging the federal authorities to “present a pink card” to fossil gas corporations.
The group has additionally flagged that on Sunday a gaggle of kayaks are set to paddle throughout Sydney Harbour and ship a message to the PM at Kirribilli Home – a scroll with “1000’s” of signatures of individuals pledging “resistance to finish coal exports from Newcastle by 2030”.
The Newcastle regulation pupil and Splash organiser Zach Schofield says:
If the federal government gained’t tackle the fossil gas trade, we’ll … The Folks’s Local weather Meeting is an effective way for all of us to return collectively and realise we’re not alone, there are various of us who really feel the identical approach and are ready to take motion for a greater future.
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Individual rescued from lengthy drop rest room in regional Victoria
Each Australian baby’s worst nightmare has come true for one individual, who was rescued after turning into caught in an extended drop rest room in regional Victoria.
The Nation Fireplace Authority assisted Ambulance Victoria with the incident at about 2.13am right now, after stories an individual was caught in a drop rest room on McSweens Street in Indigo Valley.
Crews labored to “take away construction across the individual” and safely extricate them, earlier than handing them over to paramedics.
The incident wrapped up simply earlier than 3am, a CFA spokesperson stated.
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Second case of fowl flu in ACT detected in again yard chickens
A Canberra again yard has grow to be the newest web site hit by a pressure of fowl flu, stories AAP.
ACT authorities on Friday confirmed a gaggle of chickens saved on the residence had examined constructive to the virus, the territory’s second web site to be affected.
The house is in a quarantine space arrange after an egg facility in Canberra’s north detected the virus final week. Together with the 2 websites within the ACT, eight farms in Victoria and two in NSW have been pressured to shut to cease the fowl flu spreading.
The ACT surroundings minister, Rebecca Vassarotti, praised the house’s residents for stopping additional unfold of the virus to the broader fowl inhabitants.
Vassarotti stated:
Whereas disappointing to have a second case, it’s not surprising. Like jurisdictions throughout the nation that is sadly the fact of such a extremely transmittable virus.
Avian influenza could be very simply transmitted by shifting sick birds from property to property, in addition to from contaminated boots, tools and autos if correct biosecurity measures aren’t in place.
Greater than 1 million chickens and geese have been culled as a result of outbreaks.
The unfold of fowl flu has prompted main supermarkets in NSW, Victoria and the ACT to introduce limits of two cartons of eggs per buyer. Quick-food chain McDonald’s has additionally been pressured to shorten its breakfast hours resulting from egg provide points.
You possibly can learn Guardian Australia’s explainer on the egg scarcity right here:
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Group festivals might assist rescue stay music scene, inquiry hears
Funding neighborhood music festivals with a confirmed monitor report would assist rescue Australia’s stay music scene, an inquiry has been advised.
“Each musician in Australia begins from a grassroots degree,” even John Butler and Daniel Champagne, the Cobargo folks competition director, Zena Armstrong, advised the parliamentary listening to in Canberra.
It’s inspecting Australia’s stay music trade because it contends with hovering prices, last-minute ticket gross sales and excessive climate occasions.
Queensland’s Caloundra music competition just lately grew to become the newest in a string of cancellations that features large occasions equivalent to Splendour within the Grass, Groovin the Moo and Falls competition.
The Cobargo folks competition, which is held within the NSW city in February, attracts about 7,000 folks, however competes in a crowded market.
“We will’t compete towards the fly-in fly-out festivals,” Armstrong defined. “They take our volunteers, they take our audiences, they take our greenbacks, and we love them, nevertheless it’s problem for us.”
Organisers of a few of Australia’s longest-running music occasions, together with Tamworth nation music competition and Port Fairy folks competition are additionally fronting the listening to on Friday.
– AAP
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BoM warns damaging wind gusts anticipated in Flinders Ranges tomorrow
The Bureau of Meteorology says damaging wind gusts are anticipated to develop from early tomorrow morning across the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.
Peak gusts of about 90km/h are more likely to develop over elements of the ranges and its speedy western slopes from early Saturday morning, the BoM says.
Damaging wind gusts are forecast to ease under warning thresholds by Saturday afternoon.
Places which can be affected embrace Hawker, Melrose, Parachilna and Quorn.
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Authorities plans growth of marine park for Heard and McDonald Islands
Adam Morton
The Australian authorities plans to considerably develop a Southern Ocean marine park that features the distant subantarctic Heard and McDonald Islands, including greater than 300,000 sq km to the protected space.
Heard and McDonald Islands are 1,700km north of Antarctica, world heritage listed and residential to penguins, seals, whales and albatross.
The surroundings minister, Tanya Plibersek, says the proposal to quadruple the dimensions of the marine park would enhance Australia’s marine protected areas to greater than half the nation’s ocean territory. She says it might assist defend endangered seabirds and seals however nonetheless permit “the continuation of the sustainable fishing trade”.
It is a distinctive and extraordinary a part of our planet, we now have to do every thing we are able to to guard it.
Conservation teams have welcomed the growth, however say the plan doesn’t go far sufficient.
The nationwide oceans supervisor for Pew Charitable Trusts, Fiona Maxwell, says:
The plan doesn’t adequately defend key conservation options, equivalent to undersea canyons, seamounts and the Williams Ridge, which have necessary seafloor habitats and help feeding grounds for wildlife equivalent to Antarctic fur seals, elephant seals, penguins, albatross and fish.
Public session on the growth is open till 5 September.
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‘Grubby politics’: Pocock calls out Payman ‘smear’
The impartial senator David Pocock has referred to as out the politicking round Senator Fatima Payman’s citizenship after she give up the Labor get together, AAP stories.
“Senior Labor figures” quoted in The Australian raised considerations about Payman’s Afghan citizenship. She declared her citizenship earlier than the election and was supported by Labor as a candidate, and has declared she made representations to surrender however couldn’t go additional due to the Taliban authorities.
Pocock, who himself needed to take care of twin citizenship points earlier than operating, advised AAP:
Elevating questions on her eligibility underneath part 44 by folks from the identical get together who took accountability for making certain the eligibility of her candidacy and now are too cowardly to place their identify to the allegations is such grubby politics.
I hope folks will see this backgrounding and smear marketing campaign for what it’s.
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Cait Kelly
Tyrrell urges Labor to reform ‘damaged’ employment supplier system
The impartial senator for Tasmania Tammy Tyrrell has weighed in on the federal government’s response to the evaluate into employment suppliers, which was launched yesterday.
(We had extra particulars earlier within the weblog right here.)
Tyrrell says:
The committee report on employment providers final yr had 75 suggestions. The federal government’s response is 23 pages lengthy. There’s numerous phrases and never numerous substance.
I labored in employment providers for 15 years. You have been made to see folks as greenback figures as an alternative of human beings. The system is damaged. We have to put folks again on the coronary heart of employment providers.
The committee really helpful that Labor instantly fund a pilot program of Tassie’s Regional Jobs Hub program. It’s doing superb issues connecting jobseekers with companies of their native communities. All Minister Burke has to do is signal the cash over and he’s failed to do this. If Labor is dedicated to reforming this damaged system, they should fund this Tassie program instantly.
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Younger folks really feel robbed of their youth, new report finds
Younger folks really feel like they’re lacking out on being younger, in keeping with a brand new report from the Monash Centre for Youth Coverage and Training Apply.
In accordance with knowledge collected for the 2022 Australian Youth Barometer, 45% of Australians aged 18-24 usually really feel like they’re lacking out on being younger due to cost-of-living pressures and balancing work with examine.
Younger folks recognized challenges round 4 key areas – funds, work, schooling and long-term planning. Some key findings of the report included:
69% of younger individuals who usually frightened about having sufficient to eat usually felt that they have been lacking out on being younger.
60% who usually skilled monetary difficulties usually felt that they have been lacking out on being younger.
51% who have been unemployed usually felt that they have been lacking out on being younger.
55% who felt that it was unlikely they’d have kids sooner or later felt that they have been lacking out on being younger.
The report’s co-author Prof Lucas Walsh stated the report highlights how younger folks have to be on the centre of this dialogue about how they are often higher supported:
Younger folks, locked up in the course of the pandemic, navigating a hostile employment surroundings and upended research, have advised us they’ve missed out on being younger. They’ve been denied key life-experiences throughout a crucial interval of growth of their lives.
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Caitlin Cassidy
Greens condemn ‘despicable’ new restrictions on college protests
The Greens have taken intention on the College of Sydney over new restrictions on campus protests, introduced yesterday, which require 72 hours of discover to be supplied to administration for any deliberate demonstration and approval to make use of megaphones and fasten banners to school buildings.
Tenting can be banned, whereas breaches might result in the removing of workers or college students from campus. It follows the dissolution of the college’s pro-Palestine encampment, which was the longest operating in Australia.
The Greens deputy chief and better schooling spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, stated college students and workers shouldn’t want permission to train their proper to protest.
What we’re seeing here’s a despicable try by neoliberal, company college administration to stifle pupil activism and shut down political expression.
Staunch campus activism has modified the world. College campuses ought to at all times be political areas the place college students and workers are inspired to talk out on problems with social, racial and environmental justice.
In an e mail to workers, the vice-chancellor of the college, Mark Scott, stated it was necessary to have the “proper settings in place to help wholesome debate and freedom of expression whereas offering a secure, welcoming and energetic campus for all members of our neighborhood”, acknowledging the camp’s presence had “challenged” the campus in some ways.
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Sarah Basford Canales
Persevering with from our final put up: The AFP’s deputy commissioner, Krissy Barrett, stated the local weather protesters had not been arrested however have been a part of the “ongoing investigations” into incidents at Parliament Home on Thursday.
Barrett stated the AFP have been conscious of different protesters within the constructing past those that made it to the roof and who glued themselves to the lobby’s marble columns.
In whole, we have been conscious of as much as 30 protesters who have been within the neighborhood, both inside or outdoors [on Thursday] who have been eliminated … a part of our ongoing investigation will probably be to speak to others, evaluate footage, these kinds of issues, to see if there are different offences that we are able to cost and prosecute.
Barrett added preliminary inquiries counsel the roof protesters scaled a $125m safety fence put in in 2018 to maintain protesters and safety threats out. Barrett stated:
The knowledge we now have accessible to us is that they breached the fence that sits on the grass both aspect of the home and was capable of recover from that fence. It did set off an alarm and due to this fact, we have been clearly conscious, however they have been up on the roof.
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Parliament Home protesters used ‘premeditated’, ‘diversionary techniques’, AFP chief says
Sarah Basford Canales
It’s onerous to imagine there was a big protest at Parliament Home amongst all the opposite political information yesterday.
Whereas the press gallery was targeted on the resignation of the Western Australian senator Fatima Payman from the Labor get together, the Australian federal police (AFP) have been once more showing earlier than senators for a spillover estimates listening to.
Basically, that occurs when senators really feel they’ve much more questions and matters than might be slotted right into a neat timeslot in the course of the estimates week schedule.
It was significantly helpful timing as earlier on Thursday two protests occurred throughout the constructing concurrently. Round 10am, a gaggle of local weather protesters glued their fingers to marble columns within the constructing’s lobby.
Shortly after, whereas the local weather protesters have been being handled, one other group of protesters scaled a safety fence to succeed in a sealed-off roof part of Parliament Home’s facade. There, they unfurled banners protesting the Labor authorities’s method to the warfare in Gaza and remained there for a while in the course of the morning.
The AFP commissioner, Reece Kershaw, advised the estimates listening to the protesters had used “premeditated”, “diversionary techniques” to the preliminary response.
We did even have some false telephone calls of different protests taking place at close by areas that didn’t happen. So … not solely was there diversionary efforts at Parliament Home, however there was on diverting AFP assets to different areas. So this was fairly what I might name a felony act. Therefore the 4 arrests and the fees.
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Benita Kolovos
Victorian minister provides enthusiastic endorsement of recent practice platform
Victoria’s appearing premier, Ben Carroll, and the transport infrastructure minister, Danny Pearson, are holding a press convention to mark trains resuming on the Lilydale line after degree crossing removing works.
Talking from the brand new platform at Croydon station, which is about to open later this month, Pearson provides it a really, very enthusiastic endorsement. He says:
It’s million greenback views, child. You’re trying over the Dandenongs, it’s simply beautiful, proper? Like significantly, I might see me on a Friday night time having a barbecue up right here, trying over the views, proper? Prefer it’s simply an absolute knockout being delivered by this authorities … it’s epic. It’s simply so unbelievable. It is going to be a whole recreation changer for the neighborhood … It’s cool. It’s superior. It’s nice.
He goes on to explain the Metro Tunnel, which the federal government says will open in 2025, as a contemporary equal to the Historic Roman aqueduct.
Requested by a journo why he’s so excited this morning, Pearson says: “It’s simply caffeine. Simply plenty of caffeine within the morning right now.”
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