Andrews defends tender course of to overtake myki
Benita Kolovos
Victoria’s premier, Daniel Andrews, has defended the tender course of to award a $1.7bn contract to overtake the myki ticketing system to US-based firm Conduent after a shedding bidder warned of “potential errors within the tender course of”.
The ABC on Tuesday reported Cubic’s executives wrote to the premier saying their bid was $100m cheaper than Conduent’s and famous their observe document of utilizing cellphones and bank cards for public transport fares. The Guardian has beforehand reported different bidders might have carried out open fee bank card compatibility quicker than Conduent’s proposal.
Talking at Holmesglen Tafe in Glen Waverley on Tuesday, Andrews stated he had been briefed on the contents of Cubic’s letter however stated he had “no recommendation” to recommend there have been errors within the tender course of:
I’m not right here to share correspondence with you or anyone else. What I’m right here to do is to easily level out to you that there’s been a course of run. There’s a probity auditor that’s been deeply concerned in that course of. Recommendation was supplied as to who received that course of. And the tender has been awarded. Past that I’m actually not ready to have something greater than that to say, aside from to direct you to the related minister, who has been throughout this from the very starting.
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Benita Kolovos
Andrews denied the federal government was pulling promoting as a result of the 2 newspapers have been holding it to account by way of their reporting. Andrews informed a Herald Solar reporter:
Why would you proceed promoting in your web site if that was the case? … That is about the place individuals get their data … and the place there’s the utmost profit. In our judgment and the judgment of those that advise us [say] it skews way more in the direction of digital [and] tv.
Advertisements will nonetheless run in regional newspapers, Andrews confirmed.
Benita Kolovos
Victorian authorities to stop newspaper promoting
Victoria’s premier, Daniel Andrews, says the federal government’s plans to stop promoting within the Herald Solar and the Age newspapers is about delivering taxpayers higher return on funding.
From 1 July, metropolitan newspaper adverts is not going to be positioned by the federal government except required by legislation, costing them thousands and thousands of {dollars} in income.
Andrews, nevertheless, stated he made “no apology” for focusing its promoting efforts on tv and digital promoting:
That’s the place the viewers is, that’s the place the return on funding for taxpayers is and that’s the choice that’s been made. There would possibly even be extra adverts on [newspaper] web sites than in any other case. The opposite level too, in fact, is we’ve had peak instances of Covid. All of the totally different promoting that we wanted to do. Now we have to rebalance that we’ve to get again to … an extended common. I believe when all of those preparations are settled, you’ll see that spending within the coming years might be a lot nearer to what it was in 2017, -18, -19 than what it was throughout these Covid instances as a result of there have been extraordinary circumstances.
Authorized knowledgeable estimates Folbigg might be entitled to as much as $7m in compensation
Dr Robert Moles, a authorized educational and researcher from Flinders College, estimates Kathleen Folbigg might be entitled to between $2.5m and $7m in compensation.
Moles gave proof to the second inquiry into Folbigg’s convictions which has seen her pardoned.
He’s informed ABC Information if her convictions are quashed and Folbigg can search compensation, the instances of Henry Keogh and David Eastman could be a “good information.”
[Henry Keogh] was imprisoned for the same time period as Ms Folbigg, 20 years, and after he was – after his conviction overturned, it being understood that the crimes which he was convicted by no means occurred – he was getting an ex gratia fee of round $2.5m.
Within the case of David Eastman within the ACT, he was wrongly convicted for the same time period, about 20 years, and he undertook authorized proceedings for compensation and he was awarded over $7m.
So given the similarity within the durations of time, an apparent calculation could be one thing between $2.5m-$7m for Ms Folbigg.
Andrews defends tender course of to overtake myki
Benita Kolovos
Victoria’s premier, Daniel Andrews, has defended the tender course of to award a $1.7bn contract to overtake the myki ticketing system to US-based firm Conduent after a shedding bidder warned of “potential errors within the tender course of”.
The ABC on Tuesday reported Cubic’s executives wrote to the premier saying their bid was $100m cheaper than Conduent’s and famous their observe document of utilizing cellphones and bank cards for public transport fares. The Guardian has beforehand reported different bidders might have carried out open fee bank card compatibility quicker than Conduent’s proposal.
Talking at Holmesglen Tafe in Glen Waverley on Tuesday, Andrews stated he had been briefed on the contents of Cubic’s letter however stated he had “no recommendation” to recommend there have been errors within the tender course of:
I’m not right here to share correspondence with you or anyone else. What I’m right here to do is to easily level out to you that there’s been a course of run. There’s a probity auditor that’s been deeply concerned in that course of. Recommendation was supplied as to who received that course of. And the tender has been awarded. Past that I’m actually not ready to have something greater than that to say, aside from to direct you to the related minister, who has been throughout this from the very starting.
AMA says experiences of youngsters in solitary confinement ‘extremely regarding’
Australia’s peak medical physique say Guardian Australia’s revelations in the present day about youngsters locked in solitary confinement for a weeks at a time in a Queensland youth jail are “extremely regarding.”
The Australian Medical Affiliation referred to as for Queensland to lift the age of felony duty to uphold basic medical and well being rights:
It’s disappointing the Queensland authorities is just not ready to lift the state’s age of felony duty.
It have to be raised to a minimal of 14 years of age to uphold the elemental medical and well being rights of all individuals in custody.
On any given evening, lots of of youngsters aged 10-17 are held in detention amenities in Australia. Proof reveals jailing youngsters beneath the age of 14 harms their well being, wellbeing and growth.
The main points on this report are extremely regarding and present why jail is not any place for teenagers. These amenities are usually not rehabilitative and have deeply antagonistic bodily, psychological and emotional results. https://t.co/mlNfpC8M0o
— AMA Media (@ama_media) June 6, 2023
Ben Smee’s unique investigation hears from whistleblowers, judges and youth staff who say youngsters are leaving Townsville’s Cleveland youth detention centre scarred, offended and extra prone to commit additional crime. Learn it right here:
Alyx Gorman
How Australian trend fell to items
Bear in mind Alannah Hill? Lisa Ho? Collette Dinnigan? Bettina Liano? Willow? What about Alice McCall, whose enterprise went into liquidation earlier this yr?
Previously 10 years, Australia’s luxurious and quick trend markets have roughly doubled in worth, that means we’re spending extra on garments than we ever have. So why did these labels stop buying and selling? And why are so few of the garments we purchase now designed in Australia, and even fewer made right here (round 3%)?
We’ve interviewed a few of Australia’s most profitable designers of the 90s and 00s to seek out out the place all of it went incorrect for trend. From tariff reductions and globalised manufacturing, to the rise of e-commerce, it’s an advanced image with a easy consequence.
Lately cash – not expertise – rises in trend, and should you wished to begin a profitable trend model now, you’d want, as Alannah Hill places it: “At the very least one million {dollars}. At the very least.”
Richard Marles indicators safety settlement with Indonesia
The defence minister, Richard Marles, has signed a defence cooperation settlement along with his Indonesian counterpart, Prabowo Subianto, elevating the safety relationship between the 2 nations.
Thanks Minister @prabowo for internet hosting me in the present day.
🇦🇺 + 🇮🇩 are elevating our safety relationship by putting in a complete and bold Defence Cooperation Settlement.
Our conversations in the present day mirror the truth that our relationship goes from power to power. pic.twitter.com/HBssvDa90N
— Richard Marles (@RichardMarlesMP) June 5, 2023
A really productive dialog with Indonesian Vice President Okay. H. Ma’ruf Amin whereas in Jakarta.
We each noticed that the connection between our two nations has by no means been in a greater place than it’s in the present day. pic.twitter.com/zwIhwLrU2d
— Richard Marles (@RichardMarlesMP) June 5, 2023
In that earlier interview, the minister for office relations, Tony Burke, stated it wasn’t the Honest Work’s enhance to the minimal wage which was resulting in larger inflation.
I’ve seen in the previous few days because the annual wage evaluate got here down, some individuals successfully wanting responsible staff for any determination that the Reserve Financial institution would possibly make.
Now, it’s worthwhile to bear in mind final yr’s annual wage evaluate was solely 10% of the full wage progress within the nation.
That’s as a result of the individuals affected by the annual wage evaluate are the individuals on the bottom incomes. They’re the individuals counting on it.
Angus Taylor says Labor’s ‘cocktail of insurance policies’ worsening inflation
Forward of that call, the shadow treasurer, Angus Taylor, has criticised the federal government’s “cocktail of insurance policies” for creating an inflationary setting and creating stress for the speed to go up once more.
He informed ABC Information this morning:
The unhappy actuality is the Reserve Financial institution is beneath huge stress now to lift rates of interest.
There’s huge stress on price of residing on the market and meaning there’s stress on rates of interest and, sadly, we’re ready the place the expectations of markets and economists say we’re going to see extra ache.
I definitely hope these pressures come off. However sadly, we’re seeing a cocktail of insurance policies because the price range that, if something, are inflationary. Meaning there’s actual stress for rates of interest to go up.
Reserve Financial institution gears up for an additional shut money price name
The Reserve Financial institution of Australia board is about to make one other robust rate of interest determination within the combat in opposition to persistent however tempering inflation.
Board members will weigh up sturdy however considerably unreliable month-to-month inflation information – which got here in at 6.8% in April, up from 6.3% in March – in addition to indicators of an easing however nonetheless strong jobs market.
The central financial institution can also be contemplating recent wage information, which revealed pay packets rising at 3.7% within the March quarter.
– AAP
Folbigg’s lawyer says the system failed her ‘at each step’
Folbigg’s lawyer, Rhanee Rego, ends the press convention saying the authorized workforce needs to make sure proper is completed by her, after the system failed her shopper “at each step”.
Increasing on why they’ve likened the case to Lindy Chamberlain’s, Rego says:
A mom wrongly accused of killing her little one. However we’ve obtained to have a look at the dimensions we’re coping with, with Kathleen. She not solely misplaced one little one, she’s misplaced 4. She’s been in jail for 20 years.
The system has failed her at each step. As an alternative of making an attempt to grasp why her youngsters died, doubtlessly via an inquest, which was stated ought to have occurred, all the way in which again in 2001, we threw her in jail, locked her up, referred to as her Australia’s worst feminine serial killer, put her in solitary.
How would any of you are feeling to have it occur to you? None of us might put ourselves in Kathleen’s sneakers. That’s what makes it so exhausting to imagine. And we, as her authorized workforce, will stand sturdy together with her and stand together with her all the way in which alongside to ensure her title is cleared and proper is completed by her.
Requested if there have been any tears when Folbigg arrived at Chapman’s house, she says:
It was bizarre. I really feel like – I don’t know tips on how to clarify it. We each wished to cry. However we couldn’t cry. I don’t know tips on how to clarify it. I’m certain as soon as the whole lot settles down, there might be tears. Each of us really feel fairly animated in the mean time. I don’t know if it is sensible to you all.
What a distinction a day makes, Chapman says:
She could be anticipated to be dressed and doing muster right now.
She didn’t get to say goodbye to anybody yesterday. It occurred so shortly.
She’s undoubtedly going to be lacking fairly a number of individuals. I do know that for certain.
Folbigg ‘would have appreciated a bit extra discover’ of launch
Chapman says she and Folbigg would have appreciated extra discover of the pardon yesterday, and that Folbigg may have extra to say “ultimately.”
Kath didn’t discover out, I didn’t discover out. We might have appreciated a bit extra discover.
There’s so many issues she’ll say about that ultimately.
Chapman says she and Folbigg need to see reform within the justice system:
There’s loads of issues that might have been achieved higher with this case.
So, we wish to see a big quantity of reform within the system. Much more empathy within the area.
… There’s been so many issues that the system might have achieved higher, even yesterday, for instance.
So, yeah. A bit extra humanity, I all the time say. Kath and I are very a lot that individual.
