Main events weaponise ‘teal’ label, Helen Haines says
A reporter requested Bob Katter and Helen Haines if they’d been confused as being teal independents – which Katter laughed off.
Haines described the “teal” label as an “invention of the media to attempt to describe what occurred in 2022”.
[This was] when so many ladies primarily from [Sydney, Melbourne and Perth] have been elected to the crossbench. So it’s shorthand for that group of ladies – improbable representatives of their communities. They maintain … a number of views and have an entire lot of views in frequent.
Haines stated she doesn’t consider it’s “confusion” when folks name her a teal, however it’s extra deliberate:
I feel it’s very deliberate as a result of there’s been, from the foremost events, a weaponisation of that time period. And any girls within the viewers as we speak who discover themselves being profitable of their profession and exercising the facility that comes with workplace will probably be aware of the numerous ways in which the system makes an attempt to undermine their authority. And I feel ‘teal’ is a part of that.
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Invoice Shorten conferred as College of Canberra VC
Caitlin Cassidy
Former NDIS minister Invoice Shorten has been conferred because the seventh vice chancellor of the College of Canberra (UC) in a ceremony at its Bruce campus.
Addressing attendees, amongst them chief minister Andrew Barr and former parliamentary colleague Katy Gallagher, Shorten acknowledged latest occasions had “not been straightforward” for UC, nor all through larger training, which he described because the “nice liberator of non-public freedom”.
Now we have to just accept the challenges of the present surroundings. Your entire college sector, not simply UC, is in a state of change – mirroring the state of our world. Our success will lie in what we do now, how we collaborate, how we glance after ourselves and the way we contribute to the wellbeing of others.
I’m prepared to understand the chance that at all times accompanies change. I convey to this function an vitality and imaginative and prescient and – for anybody who has adopted my profession – a persistence that rivals that of my bulldog, Walter, when he desires his dinner.
Shorten famous “divisions and bigotries” have been on the rise globally, ones that “we had hoped had been consigned, ceaselessly, to the chronicles of historical past”.
However this isn’t inevitable. We will make a distinction. We begin by guaranteeing our campus is protected. It have to be protected for everyone. There are pure freedoms, however there have to be respect. You possibly can debate and have any concept you want, however there isn’t any place for antisemitism, racism, homophobia, misogyny. Now we have to nourish our democracy and safeguard our pluralist society.
And the essential considering and embrace of variety, the publicity to completely different cultural views our college students expertise right here, is a key issue on this objective.
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Katter and Haines wrap up NPC look with questions from the Betoota Advocate
Wrapping up their look on the Nationwide Press Membership, a reporter requested Bob Katter and Helen Haines a query every on behalf of satirical information web site the Betoota Advocate. Katter was requested:
Pricey Bob, I’m sorry to betray your belief by revealing the personal dialog we had at Mount Isa’s Barkly Resort in 2017 over just a few drinks. I consider you’re the one man who is aware of the true story behind Waltzing Matilda … On behalf of Australia, I’m asking – what else are you aware concerning the joggy swagman’s demise? The folks of Australia deserve solutions.
With a lot laughter from the gang, Katter responded:
I’ve at all times been very concerned with commerce unions and my brothers know he was a scab.
And for Haines, Betoota requested if “Wodonga [is] the Springfield of the Higher Murray, and Albury the Shelbyville? Or is it the opposite approach round?”
She replied that “I feel truly Wodonga is the Paris of the north of Victoria” – to which Katter laughed, “Please, Helen, please.”
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Helen Haines: ‘rural and regional Australians really feel left behind within the transition to renewables’
On the Nationwide Press Membership, a reporter requested whether or not renewable vitality supplies an financial alternative for the areas – and Helen Haines stated it does, “if we do it proper”.
She stated the areas are battling “a decade of denial round our have to de-carbonise” and a decade of no planning.
And critically, we did no training piece. We did no real session with rural and regional Australians about how this was all going to work and who would profit.
Haines stated a spotlight of her time period in parliament has been working with the vitality minister to attract his consideration to this – that “rural and regional Australians really feel left behind within the transition to renewables”.
They’re seeing huge panorama change, a change to their visible amenity – which actually means one thing to us within the bush – real issues about what grid-scale photo voltaic means when it comes to bushfire security. What does grid-scale vitality appear to be when it comes to biosecurity dangers, insurance coverage, land values for adjoining properties? These are actual and real issues from actual and real rural and regional Australians.
She stated the federal government must get the neighborhood profit angle of the transition proper and “do away with the cowboys who fire up concern in communities”.
We want our rural councils, our leaders in rural communities, getting in there on the entrance foot and saying, ‘OK, we’re in a renewable vitality zone. That is what it means to us. That is what we wish out of it.’ … It is a huge alternative and I’m completely decided to carry whoever holds energy actually accountable for getting this proper for us within the bush.
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Main events weaponise ‘teal’ label, Helen Haines says
A reporter requested Bob Katter and Helen Haines if they’d been confused as being teal independents – which Katter laughed off.
Haines described the “teal” label as an “invention of the media to attempt to describe what occurred in 2022”.
[This was] when so many ladies primarily from [Sydney, Melbourne and Perth] have been elected to the crossbench. So it’s shorthand for that group of ladies – improbable representatives of their communities. They maintain … a number of views and have an entire lot of views in frequent.
Haines stated she doesn’t consider it’s “confusion” when folks name her a teal, however it’s extra deliberate:
I feel it’s very deliberate as a result of there’s been, from the foremost events, a weaponisation of that time period. And any girls within the viewers as we speak who discover themselves being profitable of their profession and exercising the facility that comes with workplace will probably be aware of the numerous ways in which the system makes an attempt to undermine their authority. And I feel ‘teal’ is a part of that.
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Haines says independents come collectively each week when parliament sits
Requested if there’s a common caucusing of independents, with toing and froing between places of work on varied laws, Helen Haines stated communication expanded after the crossbench grew in 2022:
What we do, and what we agreed to do – not a proper settlement – however what we talked about when the crossbench expanded so dramatically within the 2022 election, was [that] it might be helpful to all of us if we knew what one another was doing when it comes to amending laws, for instance … It’d be kinda loopy if each impartial was making an attempt to get the identical modification [on a particular piece of legislation]. We come collectively as soon as every week when parliament sits. We discuss – what’s the forthcoming laws? Has anybody received any amendments? Has anybody received any occasions developing that they’re sponsoring?
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Bob Katter and Helen Haines talking at Nationwide Press Membership
Katter’s Australian celebration MP Bob Katter and Impartial MP Helen Haines have been talking on the Nationwide Press Membership as we speak, moderated by Guardian Australia columnist Gabrielle Chan.
They’ve been discussing the function of regional independents, and whether or not they’re there to “hold the bastards trustworthy” or to alter the system. Katter stated that for him, it’s very a lot the latter.
Haines stated that Australia has “produced a neighborhood impartial motion which is totally completely different to what we’ve seen anyplace else on this planet”. As to the query, she stated she desires to be each.
Haines stated the impression of the independents in bringing concerning the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Fee “can’t be denied.”
And I feel it was one of many vital options that introduced concerning the downfall of the Morrison authorities, fairly frankly, as he was intransigent to doing something about that … The Nationwide Anti-Corruption Fee is one piece, however there’s an entire lot of reform within the integrity house that we have to do.
Haines additionally highlighted the “disrupting drive of notably a big group of ladies coming onto the crossbench” to fight “the misogyny, the terrible behaviour that was detailed breathtakingly within the Jenkins assessment.”
So if that’s disruption, if that’s a protest vote, it’s a distinct type of protest vote to what we’re seeing in the USA.
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The most recent on Tropical Cyclone Zelia
The Bureau of Meteorology says Tropical Cyclone Zelia is anticipated to make landfall this afternoon close to Port Hedland. It’s at the moment a class 5 system.
The tropical cyclone has sustained winds close to the centre of 205km/h, with wind gusts as much as 285km/h.
It’s at the moment 85km north of Port Hedland and 210km north north-west of Marble Bar, transferring south south-east.
It’s anticipated to make landfall this afternoon close to or to the east of Port Hedland, with intense rainfall because it crosses the coast. Presently, damaging wind gusts as much as 290km/h are possible near the centre of the cyclone.
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Failed triple zero calls ‘not associated’ to 3G shutdown, Telstra says
A number of failed triple-zero calls throughout a deadly farm hearth weren’t brought on by the closure of the 3G cell community, in keeping with a Telstra investigation.
AAP studies that the telco investigated studies that emergency calls failed or dropped out throughout a fireplace in a paddock at Goohli, in north-west NSW, on 14 December 2024.
A 39-year-old man who had been working equipment on the property was flown to Royal North Shore hospital with burns, however died the subsequent day. The incident had been raised at Senate hearings investigating the impact of the 3G cell community closure.
Shanyn Sparreboom, a senior public servant from the federal communications division on Wednesday informed the inquiry Telstra suggested the federal government of the incident and ready a report. It discovered eight calls have been made to triple zero on that day, three of which didn’t join resulting from poor sign energy, Sparreboom stated.
A Telstra assertion stated its investigation discovered the failed calls – together with some from different cell suppliers – both reduce out or didn’t join.
These calls have been made in areas with historically poor to no protection and never associated to the closure of 3G.
Its investigation discovered its 4G upgrades within the area allowed the opposite calls to attach.
There was beforehand little to no protection there. We provide our condolences to the household of the person who tragically misplaced his life … and we’ve totally investigated this incident.
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Video chat nurse taken to hospital over welfare issues
Rafqa Touma
A nurse on the centre of a video chat displaying two NSW hospital staff making anti-Israeli feedback was hospitalised final evening over welfare issues, after the recording revealed on Instagram by an Israeli content material creator attracted widespread political condemnation.
Emergency companies have been known as to a house in Bankstown round 8:55pm following studies of a priority for welfare, NSW Police stated in a press release. A 27-year-old man was taken to hospital for evaluation.
NSW Police stated yesterday which have spoken to an Israeli influencer who they are saying has agreed to supply investigators with an unedited model of a video chat.
Max Veifer, the influencer who posted the video, seems to have launched the complete recording of their video chat on Instagram as we speak.
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Tasmania hearth warnings downgraded as circumstances reasonable
Tasmanian State Fireplace commander Jeremy Smith has stated a number of warnings have been downgraded from emergency warnings to observe and act within the state’s north-west final evening. Nonetheless, members of the general public are requested to stay vigilant.
Encouragingly, bushfire circumstances have moderated in a single day, nevertheless we advise residents and members of the general public to stay alert and hold updated with the newest emergency info by TasALERT.
Now we have been coping with very dynamic circumstances on the fireplace floor resulting from robust winds and excessive hearth risks and we encourage all members of the general public, particularly these within the affected areas, to maintain updated with the newest emergency info.
Our predominant fires of concern are at Yellowband Plain, Pieman River, Mt Donaldson and Canning Peak fires.
An emergency warning stays in place for Corrina and surrounds and a watch and act stays in place for Zeehan and surrounds. The evacuation centre at Queenstown Sports activities Stadium stays open.
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