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Natasha Might

The Consuming Issues Alliance of Australia (EDAA) is “wholeheartedly” backing the brand new nationwide technique launched by the well being minister, Mark Butler, earlier in the present day.

The alliance, which represents a couple of million Australians experiencing an consuming dysfunction, and contains the nationwide charity for physique picture and consuming problems, the Butterfly Basis, in addition to Consuming Issues Victoria, and Consuming Issues Queensland, have endorsed the stepped system of care strategy with higher emphasis on community-based psychosocial and lived expertise helps.

Belinda Caldwell, the CEO of Consuming Issues Victoria, says the technique will assist folks get take care of consuming problems earlier and in group:

We all know that almost all of consuming problems can and needs to be handled locally, earlier than folks find yourself needing intensive and dear hospital-based helps. If we drive funding into the sooner levels of the stepped system of care and utilise a various workforce, we’ll guarantee extra persons are picked up early, related to evidence-based therapy and are geared up with what they should get well, sooner.

Jade Gooding from the Australian and New Zealand Academy for Consuming Issues, the height physique representing consuming dysfunction well being professionals and researchers, commends the technique’s emphasis on communities who’ve historically confronted extra limitations to receiving assist, together with neuro and gender various folks in addition to these dwelling in rural and distant communities.

Consuming Issues Households Australia (EDFA) govt directorJane Rowan welcomed the technique’s recognition of households and carers as an integral a part of the restoration crew in addition to a transparent deal with making certain they’ve the assist additionally they want.

The EDAA name on state and federal governments to take decisive steps in the direction of implementing the technique throughout all states and territories.

‘In case you don’t know, vote no’, Dutton once more urges voters

Sarah Basford Canales

Opposition chief Peter Dutton has informed undecided or uncertain voters to not be “bullied right into a place” within the voice referendum.

In a short media convention in Brisbane this afternoon, Dutton stated there was not sufficient element for Australians to know the upcoming vote.

I don’t assume folks needs to be bullied into opposition in case you don’t perceive. In case you don’t know the element, in case you don’t actually have your questions answered in relation to the voice. In case you don’t know, vote no.

The referendum will put to Australians a fairly easy query – A Proposed Regulation: to change the Structure to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?

Particulars of how the advisory physique will look and work will likely be determined by politicians after a profitable vote adjustments the structure.

This implies Dutton, together with the remainder of his social gathering, crossbenchers and Labor politicians will get to vote on what the voice will appear like if the referendum is profitable.

Dutton insisted, nevertheless, the federal authorities was “intentionally” conserving its plans a secret.

We’ve acquired a chief minister who’s intentionally conserving element from the Australian public till after the vote takes place. However there’s no precedent for that in our nation’s historical past.

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Thunderstorm warning for elements of NSW

There’s some critical climate about this afternoon. The Bureau of Meteorology has this replace:

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Sarah Basford Canales

Dutton questions authorities’s ‘sweetheart’ take care of Qantas

Opposition chief Peter Dutton has stated the federal authorities should reply numerous questions within the coming weeks over what he described as a “sweetheart deal” with outgoing Qantas CEO Alan Joyce to dam further Qatar flights coming into Australia.

Talking from Brisbane on Wednesday afternoon, Dutton stated the federal authorities’s choice to disallow extra Qatar flights was “inflationary” and “unfair”.

The federal government had seven completely different positions in seven days on the Qantas-Qatar deal

I need to see Australians paying much less for his or her airfares, as a result of for the time being Anthony Albanese signed as much as a sweetheart deal in secret, however we don’t know any particulars … and it implies that Australians are going to be paying increasingly more for his or her airfares.

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Daniel Hurst

Voice correspondence launched

Letters between Anthony Albanese and the governor basic, David Hurley, concerning the timing of the voice referendum have been revealed.

The strictly procedural letters have been uploaded in the present day to the workplace of the governor basic’s freedom of knowledge disclosure log.

Within the first letter to Hurley, the prime minister suggested:

I like to recommend that the proposed legislation be put to electors for his or her consideration in a referendum ballot to be held on 14 October 2023.

I search your approval for a particular assembly of the Federal Government Council on or earlier than 11 September 2023 to allow your consideration of the writ for this referendum.

I additionally search your settlement to make an announcement of the meant date of the referendum upfront of this assembly of the Federal Government Council.

Hurley wrote “agreed” on that a part of the prime minister’s letter.

And in a proper response, dated on Monday 28 August, Hurley famous the prime minister’s suggestions, and stated he was “agreeable” to convening a gathering on or earlier than 11 September.

Hurley added:

I’m agreeable to you making an announcement of the meant date of the referendum upfront of the assembly of the Federal Government Council and earlier than the writ is issued, and I’ve no objection to the general public launch of your letter and this reply at an acceptable time.

You’ll be able to learn the complete letters right here.

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Cait Kelly

Rental inquiry debates deserves of lease caps

Within the rental inquiry, Greens senator Janet Rice has gone toe-to-toe with Australian Housing and City Analysis Institute managing director, Dr Michael Fotheringham, over lease caps.

In its submission, AHURI stated lease caps might trigger this property investor to not meet their authorized obligations and that it might trigger property buyers to divest.

Earlier within the inquiry, economist Cameron Murray argued that divestment could be an excellent factor, as it will release homes for first dwelling consumers to enter the market.

Rice: So on the primary [concern], you’re saying that we shouldn’t, at the least within the brief time period whereas we’re constructing our provide, give some aid in rental will increase?

Fotheringham: That’s what we did in 2020. And we’re seeing the results of that short-term considering. We have to really assume long-term and deal with that.

Rice: Nevertheless it’s going to take a while for that provide to come back on board. So that you’re saying rents might proceed to skyrocket and that will be acceptable?

Fotheringham: I’m not advocating for increased rents, however I do assume we have to steadiness affordability issues with the well being impacts of the deteriorating high quality of housing. Worldwide proof reveals that one of many knock-on results of lease caps is the dearth of upkeep being performed as a result of it turns into unaffordable.

Rice: To me, it doesn’t appear a robust sufficient argument, they will’t cease skyrocketing rental costs as a result of it would imply landlords don’t meet authorized obligations.

Fotheringham: They don’t have essentially authorized obligations, we don’t have the minimal requirements in place to implement that at this level.

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Josh Taylor

Safety researchers take management of weak Dfat web page

The Division of International Affairs and Commerce (Dfat) left a weblog hosted on the dfat.gov.au area open to vulnerabilities that resulted in safety researchers seizing management, together with different websites utilizing related programs.

The vulnerability, often known as dangling configuration, happens when a subdomain related to a particular cloud service – on this case, a WordPress weblog – is not in use. It implies that attackers can register an account on the identical cloud platform and level to the web site.

Whereas such an assault doesn’t give entry to authorities or enterprise programs and knowledge straight, the principle objective of taking up such pages could be to distribute malware – and make it appear like it’s coming from a good supply – or to have interaction in phishing assaults or social engineering utilizing the subdomain.

In observe, it implies that the Austrian researchers, Certitude Consulting, have been capable of take management of the subdomain on Dfat’s web site, together with the web site of different authorities businesses, universities, and media organisations around the globe. Certitude has estimated that there are over 1,000 organisations worldwide affected with the vulnerability.

Dfat’s weblog web page was initially changed with a holding display screen, after which later went offline, whereas different websites as a substitute had details about the exploit revealed on Wednesday afternoon on the web page.

Dfat was contacted for remark however had not offered a response by deadline.

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End line for voice in sight, assistant minister says

The assistant minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, is talking to the ABC’s Stephanie Borys.

The NT senator has used a sporting metaphor to summarise what she says has been “an emotional day”:

Immediately is one that’s stuffed with nice aid in a single sense and deep gratitude in one other. Six years [since the Uluru Statement from the Heart] is a very long time but it surely has been loads longer for a few of our elders. A few of them who’ve handed away as nicely. So it was fairly an emotional day.

If something, we simply see this now because the starter’s gun to the final quarter. I confer with it as a little bit of a grand last now. We see the end line in sight, we all know we now have to get out and about in all places. We now have volunteers throughout the nation knocking on doorways speaking to and listening to you wherever you’re throughout Australia.

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Hoping to see the blue moon?

As we informed you earlier this week, moongazers are in for a deal with for the second time in a month, with a “tremendous blue moon” anticipated on 31 August.

The astronomical occasion is a mixture of a supermoon and a “blue moon”, and is going on for the primary time since 2009.

In case you’re hoping to get a glimpse, the Bureau of Meteorology has your climate information:

And you may learn extra concerning the lunar occasion on this story from Donna Lu.

Economists say additional rate of interest hike ‘more and more pointless’

Just a little extra on these inflation figures, that are in fact one key indicator for what occurs with rates of interest.

EY senior economist Paula Gadsby stated the cooling was additional proof that price hikes are working, but it surely was nonetheless unclear if it will nail a mushy touchdown.

Ms Gadsby stated the studying would enable the RBA to remain on maintain on 5 September, with any future hikes later within the yr depending on the following spherical of inflation information and financial development report:

That appears more and more pointless to us.

KPMG economist Brendan Rynne stated items made up a considerable chunk of the July index, though it additionally confirmed welcome indicators of moderating companies inflation in keeping with slower wage development.

Dr Rynne stated falling automotive gasoline costs, which sunk 7.6 per cent yearly and made a beneficiant contribution to the weaker end result, could be unwound in September:

This displays the upward pressures from increased wholesale costs pushed by the availability curbs by OPEC+

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Inflation price eases to 4.9%

Australia’s inflation price eased final month to its lowest stage in 17 months, led by falling costs for recent produce and automotive gasoline, lowering the probability the Reserve Financial institution might want to elevate rates of interest once more.

Guardian Australia columnist Greg Jericho says this is good news and we seem like following tendencies within the US.

Get the complete story from Peter Hannam:

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Lorena Allam

Make 14 October a date to recollect, Central Land Council says

The Central Land Council (CLC) says its folks “desperately need to be heard” by governments “as a result of proper now they’re going backwards”.

CLC chief govt Lesley Turner stated he’d like 14 October, on which the voice referendum will likely be held, to develop into a date of which Australians from all walks of life might be very proud:

Let’s make this a date on which future generations will look again and keep in mind that they’re doing so significantly better since they stopped ignoring the options our folks have to supply.

Allow them to keep in mind that was as a result of the nation determined to listen to what our folks need to say earlier than legal guidelines and insurance policies are made that have an effect on them. Nowhere will this be extra apparent than within the Northern Territory, the place our folks desperately need to be heard as a result of, proper now, they’re going backwards.

The CLC’s 90 elected grass roots members signify distant communities throughout the southern half of the Northern Territory and overwhelmingly assist a sure vote within the referendum.

Turner stated they’d been subjected to “an unprecedented scare marketing campaign” concerning the referendum:

We’ll proceed our group data marketing campaign concerning the voice, dispel misinformation and disinformation, and assist our constituents to enrol forward of the referendum.

And in case you’re nonetheless uncertain concerning the referendum, try this explainer from The Guardian’s Sarah Collard:

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Bureau warns of extreme thunderstorms, potential flash flooding in elements of NSW

There’s some critical climate in elements of the nation this afternoon. Massive hailstones and heavy rain have been reported within the northern rivers area of NSW. There’s additionally a big storm close to the Blue Mountains and the NSW south coast.

Right here’s the formal warning from the Bureau of Meteorology:

Extreme thunderstorms are more likely to produce massive hailstones, heavy rainfall and enormous accumulations of small hail that will result in flash flooding within the warning space over the following a number of hours. Places which can be affected embrace Lismore, Murwillumbah, On line casino, Kyogle, Coraki and Alstonville.

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