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‘There isn’t a place for anti-Semitism, there is no such thing as a place for hatred and prejudice’: Wong

Wong is urging all Australians to take care of respect for each other as they categorical their views a few scenario which is “deeply distressing” for a lot of:

I need to say to Australians… What we’re seeing unfold is deeply distressing for a lot of in our group. It’s a problem near the guts of many and I do know that many individuals want to categorical their views. I need to urge all Australians to take care of respect for each other.

We’re a rustic that individuals need to come to as a result of we’re tolerant, we’re respectful. We’re peaceable.

There isn’t a place for anti-Semitism, there is no such thing as a place for hatred and prejudice. All of us have an obligation to one another and to the Australian group to uphold these worth values.

Our place has at all times been our guideline relating to the Center East, is a simply and enduring peace. A two state resolution the place each Israelis and Palestinians can stay inside safe borders. The actions of Hamas are fully inconsistent with this aspiration and so they have set again this trigger.

Wong says the federal government is “partaking with nations within the Center East and past in any respect ranges.”

Along with the Israeli international minister, final evening I spoke with my counterpart from Jordan, and we’re reaching out to a lot of different companions and officers have additionally been partaking with governments with affect within the area.

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The minister for international affairs, Penny Wong, and the minister for commerce and tourism, Senator Don Farrell are holding a media convention in Adelaide with their Filipino counterparts.

Wong begins off with an replace on the escalating battle within the Hamas-Israel conflict:

We proceed to hunt to verify the welfare of Australians who might have been caught up in these tragic occasions. Officers are monitoring the scenario intently. We stay in shut contact with native authorities as they be taught extra.

I’ve stated beforehand, I’ve additionally spoken to my counterpart the Israeli international minister.

What is obvious is there was a devastating lack of life in these assaults. What is obvious is the actions of Hamas are abhorrent. The federal government continues to assist Israel’s proper to defend itself. We name for all hostages to be launched and we proceed to induce the safety of all civilians lives by all events.

NSW minister says police didn’t ‘approve’ pro-Palestine rally however somewhat grew to become conscious it was occurring

The New South Wales police minister, Yasmin Catley, has advised the parliament she was in “fixed contact” with police assistant commissioner Tony Cooke all through Sunday and Monday and was “stored abreast of the occasions as they unfolded final evening”.

The feedback come after Cooke this morning stated he had not spoken with the minister “in any respect” earlier than the protest.

Requested in query time concerning the protest on the Opera Home, Catley stated:

The NSW police drive has engaged with group teams as they monitor the scenario right here and naturally abroad. I do know that the Jewish group have a superb relationship with the NSW police and that the police have been in fixed contact with the group over the previous few days.

She stated police didn’t make “political judgment calls” and so they made choices final evening “to stop the danger of battle and violence”.

She stated police had not “authorized” the march – a course of that requires a kind and a few week to course of.

As an alternative, Catley stated police had been “intently monitoring the scenario and have become conscious by way of intelligence and thru social media that giant numbers may very well be anticipated collectively within the metropolis”.

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Greens condemn civilian assaults in Center East and name for finish to occupation of Palestine

Greens chief Adam Bandt stated that for peace to be achieved within the Center East, the “occupation of Palestine should finish”.

Writing on social media platform X (previously Twitter), Bandt stated:

The Greens condemn the horrific assaults on civilians. We condemn the occupation. It’s time for a simply and lasting peace. To attain peace the occupation of Palestine should finish.

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Hesta advocates for fairer superannuation system to remove the gender hole

Superannuation fund Hesta is looking for a transparent aim to remove the “gender superannuation hole”, additionally highlighting the necessity for transparency in measuring progress in the direction of this aim.

Hesta is recommending the federal government builds a “extra equitable and dignified retirement revenue system” for all Australians, regardless of their revenue ranges.

Its submission on the 2 payments, the superannuation (goal) invoice 2023 and the superannuation (goal) (consequential and transitional provisions) invoice 2023, highlights the significance of offering monetary safety for low and middle-income earners – particularly ladies – as they put together for retirement.

The fund’s CEO, Debby Blakey, stated we should intention for gender fairness relating to superannuation, but additionally measure any progress:

The ambition to focus on assist within the superannuation system to these most in want can solely be achieved if the distributional outcomes of superannuation coverage are measured on totally different teams over time.

The submission recommends that compatibility statements incorporate complete analyses, together with rigorous modelling, to guage a coverage’s influence on superannuation financial savings and its potential antagonistic penalties.

Blakey:

A gender superannuation influence evaluation might help us obtain this aim.

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Eden Gillespie

Queensland to construct new deslination plant

Queensland will construct a brand new desalination plant to fulfill sturdy inhabitants development within the state’s south-east.

The premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, stated desalination was a spotlight of Seqwater’s 2023 water safety program “as a result of it goes straight into the water grid and isn’t misplaced to evaporation throughout droughts.”

Desalination leaves a higher flood buffer in Wivenhoe Dam on the finish of a drought and … secures the water grid throughout flood occasions when water therapy crops are being impacted by particles.

An in depth enterprise case for the plant might be accomplished for price range consideration in 2025, which will even determine the placement of the power.

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Cait Kelly

Again to the Victorian inquiry into rental affordability, the place Matthew Lloyd-Cape – director of the Centre for Equitable Housing, Per Capita – stated lease will increase gained’t work, however lease stabilisation must be checked out.

For instance, proper now, if we had a lease freeze, you may see that a complete bunch of landlords determined to place their home on Airbnb, it’s comparatively frivolously taxed, and it’s pretty unregulated.

He stated the concept is there can be a components for figuring out what a good and equitable lease enhance is:

Within the ACT, you’ve obtained the [cap at] 110% of CPI lease will increase, so if CPI rents go up by 5%, then you may enhance by %5.5.

Successfully, we don’t need [a rent freeze] that governs lease costs. However we don’t need to see these monumental lease will increase that we’ve seen prior to now 12 months or so… That has a extremely damaging impact on the financial system.

Josh Butler

Darcy Moore backs sure vote in voice referendum

Grand closing profitable Collingwood captain Darcy Moore has backed the Indigenous voice referendum, calling it “an intuitive subsequent step” and “an vital and sensible approach to assist Indigenous Australians”.

He advised ABC RN this morning:

All of it appears fairly easy and yeah, so I’ll be voting sure.

Moore, who steered the Magpies to the AFL flag final month, stated he didn’t agree with the no marketing campaign complaints about division, and didn’t consider it might create “all these additional rights” for Indigenous individuals as a result of advisory our bodies exist already and have existed for a while.

There are already type of advisory our bodies for Indigenous Australians which have come and gone as governments have modified… the mechanism has form of already existed anyway. So, by making it everlasting within the structure, it’s simply locking it in.

So, it’s in that approach not something new and so if these our bodies have at all times existed, then Aboriginal Australians can have already had these additional rights, which has by no means been an issue earlier than.

Moore additionally pushed again on claims from voice opponents that notable individuals, together with athletes, ought to keep quiet throughout political conversations.

In Australia, we don’t actually have a really sturdy form of activist tradition, political activist tradition amongst athletes … there are definitely individuals on the market that simply need you to close up and play sport.

There are athletes which might be human beings and residents of the nation too, to allow them to, you understand, train their rights and say what they need to say, and so they can do it in a extremely wholesome approach.

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Dutton says PM treating Australians as ‘silly’ if he thinks voice can go ‘on the vibe’

Persevering with to talk to the media, the opposition chief, Peter Dutton, is requested about polling surrounding the Indigenous voice to parliament, and whether or not a no result’s “inevitable”. He stated the one ballot that counts is on election day:

We want individuals to prove and ensure they vote.

He claimed the prime minister Anthony Albanese is treating Australians as in the event that they’re “silly” if he thinks the voice can go “on the vibe”.

… however Australians usually are not foolish. They perceive that solely eight out of 44 referenda questions have been profitable in our nation’s historical past. Individuals don’t frivolously change the structure and for good purpose.

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Dutton requires formal Nationwide Safety Committee assembly over Israel

Peter Dutton stated he finds it “outstanding” that prime minister Anthony Albanese is but to carry a nationwide safety assembly on the Israel-Hamas conflict.

I imply the risk to individuals of Jewish religion in our nation could be very actual. There are tales popping out of Jewish communities the place they’re telling children to not put on faculty uniforms in public …

I discover it outstanding that the prime minister has not held a proper assembly of the Nationwide Safety Committee to debate these essential issues, to debate the home risk stage, to have a look at methods through which they’ll de-escalate a number of the scenes we noticed or forestall these gatherings from happening within the first occasion.

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Dutton joins refrain of condemnation over pro-Palestine rally

Opposition chief Peter Dutton additionally responded to final evening’s pro-Palestine rally in Sydney and stated there’s “no excuse for this type of behaviour or conduct”.

If there was a terrorist assault in our nation as we speak, a few hundred individuals had been taken hostage, a whole bunch of individuals had been shot useless after a music pageant, as Australians we wouldn’t need to see protesters gathering in New Zealand or one other a part of the world, cheering and chanting that that was an awesome factor.

Talking of Hamas’ assault on Israel, Dutton stated “this isn’t a border battle” however “an act of terrorism and treachery” that “must be condemned by each respectable human being”:

I believe a number of the behaviour that we noticed on the Opera Home final evening doesn’t belong in our nation.

Individuals can protest peacefully. That could be a proper. Individuals can categorical their view, even when we disagree with it in our nation. However a number of the conduct final evening was appalling and albeit there ought to have been much more achieved to discourage that gathering from happening within the first occasion.

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Peter Dutton claims there are ‘rumblings’ inside Labor celebration on Anthony Albanese’s management

Opposition chief Peter Dutton is talking to the media from Adelaide.

Talking on the Indigenous voice to parliament debate, he claimed there are “rumblings” inside the Labor celebration on prime minister Anthony Albanese’s management attributable to falling assist for the voice within the polls:

I believe that’s why in the meanwhile there are all kinds of rumblings inside the Labor celebration concerning the prime minister’s management and the truth that he has turned 65% assist for the voice when it was first introduced into one thing extra akin to 35%. That’s a outstanding achievement over the course of the final 16 months …

Dutton reiterated feedback he has made prior to now concerning the voice being “divisive” and spoke of its permanency within the structure, and the way it “gained’t be capable of be overturned by laws within the parliament”.

(It’s vital to notice that whereas laws can’t overturn the voice, the voice constitutional modification states that parliament can have energy to determine the voice’s “composition, features, powers and procedures”).

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Australian tourism returns to 79% of pre-pandemic ranges

Tourism into Australia has reached 79% of pre-pandemic arrivals, with some areas again at 2019 ranges, in keeping with the commerce and tourism minister, Don Farrell.

Right now marks one 12 months because the authorities launched its “Come and Say G’Day” tourism marketing campaign. A press release from Farrell stated world consideration for an Australian vacation has elevated over the previous 12-months, and the variety of worldwide travellers looking flights to Australia is up by 10% globally, in comparison with 2019.

The assertion reads:

On the time of the Come and Say G’day marketing campaign launch, worldwide visitation to Australia was at 50% of pre-pandemic ranges, in comparison with October 2019.

The newest arrivals quantity for July 2023 present that has climbed to 79%, in comparison with July 2019.

Tourism Analysis Australia is projecting worldwide customer expenditure to exceed pre-pandemic ranges in 2024, and for worldwide customer arrivals to exceed pre-pandemic ranges in 2025.

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Cait Kelly

Economist recommends stress-free zoning laws to spice up Victorian housing provide

Staying with the Victorian inquiry into rental affordability:

On zoning divisions, Brendan Coates stated they’re constraining the flexibility to construct density in habitable areas. He stated it’s higher to construct the place facilities exist already, like the center ring suburbs about 5-10km out of the CBD.

The chief economist on the Centre for Impartial Research, Peter Tulip, stated councils ought to implement housing targets. There’s one problem although – Nimbys.

Even when I used to be to persuade all of you, the tens of millions of Victorians outdoors this conversion can be unconvinced. Public opinion is the large impediment.

Coates stated many residences are constructed poorly and this doesn’t assist. He stated residences should be constructed with good design, and good supplies.

The standard of growth makes an enormous distinction. It should reassure communities what will get constructed round them stands the check of time.

In Victoria, there are 120 planning permits which have been authorized however constructing hasn’t began but. Coats stated the ACCC ought to have a look at land banking:

Partly as a result of if there’s nothing there, then we will put the difficulty to relaxation. And if there may be there, then we will take motion.

Tulip stated shedding zoning laws may make housing 19% extra reasonably priced.

To present you some numbers: the typical condominium in Melbourne sells for about $670,000. However builders can present that, the price of supplying that’s about $550,000. So there’s a spot of $130,000 that arises due to zoning restrictions. It’s a provide constraint, simply the way in which that taxi licences put the worth nicely above the price to provide.

If we allowed extra buildings, costs may fall about 19% in the direction of the price of provide. There’s a basic rule of thumb for each additional p.c enhance within the housing inventory, the price of housing falls about 2.5%. So, there’s a considerable enchancment in affordability, you might get just by permitting extra constructing.

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Cait Kelly

Grattan Institute recommends 40% enhance in lease help for Victorians

Brendan Coates, the financial coverage program director on the Grattan Institute, has been talking on the Victorian inquiry into rental affordability. He has known as for a 40% enhance in lease help:

The 15% enhance is inadequate. We’ve really useful a minimum of a 40% enhance. There’s in all probability a case for the quantity to be greater. If you happen to don’t need retirees residing in poverty in the event that they’re renters, you should double the fee.

He says this, together with adjustments to damaging gearing and capital beneficial properties tax, can be a greater coverage, as an alternative of lease will increase.

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Sarah Collard

Psychological well being specialists urge Australians to again sure voice vote

Peak psychological well being our bodies and organisations are urging individuals to get behind a sure vote for the Indigenous voice to parliament, saying a profitable referendum will create a extra “united” and “compassionate” nation.

Right now is World Psychological Well being Day and the nation’s main psychological well being professionals and specialists are urging all Australians to get behind the voice in a brand new video.

The Royal Australian and New Zealand Faculty of Psychiatry, BlackDog, the Psychological Well being Commissions, Past Blue, the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Affiliation and Headspace have launched a video urging a “sure” vote.

The Centre of Finest Observe in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention’s Prof Pat Dudgeon stated she’s supporting a sure vote as a approach to make sure Indigenous experience and experiences are prioritised.

The Bardi girl stated:

I’ll be voting sure, as a result of I want to see self-determination for our individuals, I’d prefer to see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals have a say in what occurs for them.

Dr Simon Stafrace, chair of the Victorian department of the Royal Australian and New Zealand Faculty of Psychiatrists, says will probably be “vital” to making sure Indigenous peoples have higher well being equities.

Giving indigenous communities a say in how the legal guidelines that have an effect on their lives are made, will shut the hole in well being outcomes skilled by Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander individuals, and enhance their social and emotional wellbeing.

Watch the total video under:

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