Australia has not made it by way of to Eurovision grand ultimate
The votes have been counted and in an enormous upset for Australia, it has not made it by way of to the Eurovision grand ultimate.
Australia’s entrant this time, band Electrical Fields, was knocked out of the operating early this morning alongside Poland, Iceland, Moldova and Azerbaijan.
Electrical Fields was listed as one to be careful for this 12 months, with the 2 members each refugees who appeared on Australia’s X Issue. Their Eurovision tune, One Milkali (One Blood), was partly sung within the First Nations language Yankunytjatjara.
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Key occasions
Paul Karp
Labor to assist enterprise cross environmental approvals
Persevering with from our final put up: Anthony Albanese can even use his speech to flag assist for enterprise to assist cross environmental approvals. Based on an advance copy, he’ll say:
We want quicker and higher processes to native funding in native initiatives … Whether or not it’s essential minerals or renewable vitality, the present environmental approval course of is way too sluggish. That’s why we’re investing practically $100m to hurry up decision-making.
Extra assist for employees reviewing enterprise proposals for renewables and demanding minerals. Extra assist for enterprise to assist them adjust to environmental legislation. Offering a greater steer on web site choice, with extra surveying work forward of time. And higher planning and cooperation with state and territory governments to make it clear the place improvement can happen – and the place the no-go areas are.
And to affix up neighborhood and business wants, so precedence initiatives have the correct surrounding community of roads, rail – and neighborhood infrastructure. Lots of you will have heard me say it earlier than: our authorities is pro-worker and pro-business. That’s by no means been some extent of pressure or compromise for us – it’s a matter of logic.
We all know that with out thriving companies, there aren’t any safe jobs or truthful wages. And our plans for a future made in Australia are additionally about making it simpler to do enterprise in Australia.
Prime minister to ship Future Made in Australia speech in Perth
Paul Karp
Anthony Albanese is delivering a significant speech in Perth as we speak on the federal government’s Future Made in Australia plan. In an advance copy of the speech, Albanese says subsequent week’s price range will spend money on a “new period of mineral exploration”.
We’ll fund the primary complete map of what’s below Australia’s soil – and our seabed. Which means we will pinpoint the brand new deposits of essential minerals and strategic supplies we want for clear vitality and its know-how. In addition to conventional minerals like iron ore and gold. And potential storage websites for hydrogen.
This landmark new funding commences on 1 July this 12 months and it will likely be long run – with $566m supplied over the 10-year medium time period. The most effective time to begin this generational venture was a decade in the past – the following finest time is true now.
Albanese mentioned Geoscience Australia would drive the work, and the “authorities will guarantee their findings are freely obtainable to business”.
So firms know the place to drill, dig and discover to search out the mineral assets that may energy our future progress and prosperity.
This can be a map to larger neighborhood certainty as nicely. As a result of it can help with infrastructure planning, environmental assessments and supporting the agriculture sector. And assist create a sustainable pipeline of initiatives – on an orderly timeline.
Authorized attraction to repatriate youngsters from Syria begins in federal court docket
Save the Youngsters Australia is as we speak launching an attraction within the federal court docket in Melbourne, looking for to compel the federal government to repatriate a bunch of Australian youngsters and their moms from north-east Syria.
In a press release the organisation mentioned it’s performing as a litigation guardian on behalf of 11 Australian youngsters and their six moms, with the attraction to be heard over two days.
In the course of the preliminary listening to final September, Justice Mark Moshinsky dominated Australia doesn’t have management of the detention of the ladies and kids and a writ requiring the federal government to repatriate them shouldn’t be issued.
Save the Youngsters says the federal government repatriated 13 youngsters and 4 girls in October 2022, and eight had been repatriated by the earlier authorities in 2019. CEO Mat Tinkler mentioned time was operating out:
These harmless Australian youngsters have spent the previous 5 years in desert camps with restricted entry to healthcare and schooling, and their state of affairs grows increasingly more determined each day they continue to be there, particularly with the present instability within the Center East …
These are Australian residents and we all know the federal authorities has the flexibility to deliver these youngsters and their moms residence in a managed method, the place they are often safely reintegrated into the neighborhood … It shouldn’t need to take authorized motion, supported by a toddler rights charity, to pressure the hand of the federal government to stick to its obligations.
Coalition urges PM to talk with Xi Jinping straight concerning flare incident
On ABC Radio Nationwide simply earlier, the shadow residence affairs minister, James Paterson, responded to China’s stance on a flare incident this week – with the Australian authorities saying a navy helicopter was compelled to take evasive motion after a Chinese language air pressure airplane launched flares.
The Chinese language authorities has responded, stating “the Australian army plane flew close to China airspace in a threatening approach.” You may learn extra beneath:
Paterson mentioned this was “not in step with our understanding of what occurred” and informed this system:
It was not solely not in China’s territorial waters, it wasn’t even in China’s unique financial zone, and so it seems to be approach out of the bounds of behaviour from the Chinese language Individuals’s Liberation Military Air Drive.
The shadow minister argued this was a “sample of behaviour” from China and mentioned the federal government’s labelling of the flare incident as unprofessional “doesn’t reduce it”.
That is far worse than unprofessional as a result of it’s finished [with] malign intent … and we shouldn’t tolerate that. We would like the prime minister to lift this on the highest ranges, to make use of what he claims to be good a relationship with Xi Jinping to make representations on behalf of our nation and our service personnel.
Australia has not made it by way of to Eurovision grand ultimate
The votes have been counted and in an enormous upset for Australia, it has not made it by way of to the Eurovision grand ultimate.
Australia’s entrant this time, band Electrical Fields, was knocked out of the operating early this morning alongside Poland, Iceland, Moldova and Azerbaijan.
Electrical Fields was listed as one to be careful for this 12 months, with the 2 members each refugees who appeared on Australia’s X Issue. Their Eurovision tune, One Milkali (One Blood), was partly sung within the First Nations language Yankunytjatjara.
You may learn extra concerning the act beneath:
Coalition to attend for presidency’s response to proposed adjustments to deportation invoice earlier than deciding ultimate place
The shadow residence affairs minister, James Paterson, simply spoke with ABC Radio Nationwide concerning the adjustments the Coalition has proposed to the federal government’s deportation invoice. My colleague Paul Karp has all the small print on this beneath:
Paterson expressed concern that the invoice would give “extraordinary powers” to the immigration minister with “little or no checks and balances or oversight or restraints on these powers”.
And whereas typically powers like that may be justified by circumstances, we expect it requires sturdy oversight and management to make it possible for it’s not misused.
If the Coalition’s adjustments should not adopted by the federal government, will they vote the invoice down? Paterson responded:
We proposed amendments, which we expect enhance the invoice. The ball is within the authorities’s court docket. We’ll wait and see what they need to say earlier than we look at our ultimate place.
Requested if the Coalition is making an attempt to melt the invoice, Paterson mentioned he thinks sturdy powers are “needed” however “sturdy and acceptable oversight” is required.
The immigration minister ought to have the follow-up course of earlier than making these choices, ought to have standards that he has to think about that the parliament ought to have the chance to scrutinise that call, that there needs to be a time restrict on a ban from these nations, and that there needs to be an impartial statutory assessment. Now I believe they’re all very affordable issues which nonetheless permits the federal government to guard the integrity of our immigration system, however doesn’t depart this sort of unfettered energy within the palms of a single minister.
Australian assist employee who fled Rafah says solely strategy to save youngsters is ‘speedy, definitive ceasefire’
In some worldwide information, Israel has carried out airstrikes in jap Rafah after issuing orders for the evacuation of 100,000 Palestinians from a part of town earlier on Monday, triggering an exodus of 1000’s of individuals. You may learn the newest on the growing state of affairs beneath:
Sacha Myers is an Australian assist employee with Save the Youngsters, who left Rafah simply days in the past and is now in Egypt. In a press release, she mentioned there have been “moments of jubilation” when information of the attainable ceasefire deal broke, however “because the bombing elevated all through the night time, all hopes had been dashed”. She mentioned in a press release:
Having lately met youngsters who’ve endured extreme accidents on this struggle, together with limbs amputated with little or no ache reduction, I concern for the youngsters in Rafah who might face an identical or worse destiny as we enter this new and even perhaps extra lethal section of this struggle. The worst-case state of affairs for Gaza’s youngsters is turning into a horrifying actuality. And it’s occurring because the world watches. The one strategy to save their lives is a direct, definitive ceasefire.
Australia has rightly referred to as for a ceasefire and warned Israel to not go down this path however, on the similar time, has not dedicated to banning all army exports to Israel, leaving open the chance that Australian-made weapons or elements of weapons may very well be utilized by Israeli forces to commit grave violations towards youngsters.
Guardian Australia’s Daniel Hurst has regarded into claims about Australian defence exports to Israel. Yow will discover out extra beneath:
Treasurer flags additional tax reforms in upcoming price range
Jim Chalmers was requested whether or not there can be extra tax reform within the price range, past what we already know (such because the stage-three tax cuts).
He prompt there can be, and mentioned this is able to purpose to “incentivise the sort of funding that we need to see in the way forward for our financial system and within the Future Made in Australia”.
Now we have indicated that we’re ready to make use of the tax system within the service of our large nationwide financial aims, because the price range will stability the price of residing … with our tasks to the longer term. And the tax system does have a task to play there, and there’ll be another tax adjustments as nicely.
In the entire budgets we’ve finished to this point there was modest however significant tax reform, and that’s as a result of I consider in doing this stuff in a sequenced and orderly and methodical approach and individuals ought to count on to see extra of that on Tuesday.
Chalmers on migration: ‘That’s not the one motive why we don’t have sufficient houses in our nation’
Sticking with the federal price range for a second, and the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, has been chatting with ABC Radio Nationwide about what we will count on subsequent week.
On housing, he was requested about feedback from the RBA governor, Michele Bullock, yesterday that migration was placing stress on the housing and rental markets.
Chalmers responded that college students specifically had returned “a lot faster” than anticipated following Covid and that has put stress on housing, however “there are different pressures as nicely”.
That’s not the one motive why we don’t have sufficient houses in our nation … The housing pipeline shouldn’t be what it must be. That’s why we’ve received this bold however achievable goal [to build 1.2m homes in the five years from July]. That’s why we’re already investing one thing like $25bn in 17 completely different housing insurance policies. And that’s why housing can be a giant focus and a giant precedence within the price range as nicely.
The treasurer additionally flagged additional housing measures within the price range:
The quick reply to that’s sure, [housing] can be a significant focus of the price range on Tuesday. We all know that there’s not sufficient houses, we have to construct far more housing in our communities and in our nation. We’ve made some fairly large investments already and other people ought to count on to see extra on Tuesday night time.
CFMEU welcomes funding of 15,000 fee-free building Tafe locations in price range
The CFMEU has welcomed a funding enhance for apprenticeships and traineeships within the upcoming price range.
As a part of a bundle introduced as we speak, the federal government will fund 15,000 fee-free building Tafe and VET locations over two years from 2025.
The CFMEU nationwide secretary, Zach Smith, mentioned:
This funding will imply extra apprentices and trainees will get the coaching they should construct essential housing and infrastructure that Australia desperately wants …
There’s an often-overlooked distinction between apprenticeships and traineeships however fortunately the federal government recognises the significance of each – that’s essential to addressing building expertise gaps.
Lisa Cox
Extra on the brand new report displaying decline of NSW surroundings
The report has prompted the NSW Greens and conservation teams to name on the Minns authorities to behave on election guarantees to raised defend the surroundings and ship its response to the Henry assessment of the state’s surroundings legal guidelines.
The Henry assessment, launched in August final 12 months, delivered a damning evaluation of the state’s legal guidelines, discovering they had been unlikely to ever efficiently defend nature except they had been considerably overhauled.
The Greens surroundings spokesperson, Sue Higginson, mentioned the newest figures within the biodiversity outlook report had been “excessive and bleak”:
In the event that they don’t mobilise this authorities into actual motion I simply don’t know what’s going to. Half of all threatened species turning into extinct is an insupportable final result.
Report after report has proven the horrible decline of biodiversity in NSW, and the Ken Henry assessment of biodiversity legal guidelines gave the federal government very clear suggestions on methods to sluggish and reverse this pattern, however the authorities nonetheless hasn’t responded after seven months.
Clancy Barnard, a spokesperson for the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, mentioned the report confirmed the federal government wanted to ship on its election guarantees for the surroundings:
This report is but extra proof the federal government must act on its election dedication and cease runaway habitat clearing which is the important thing driver of biodiversity loss in NSW.
Half of threatened species in NSW on target to be extinct inside century, new report says
Lisa Cox
Half of the threatened plant and animal species in New South Wales are on target to be extinct inside a century, in accordance with a brand new report launched by the Minns authorities, which finds the decline of the state’s surroundings has accelerated.
The state’s second biodiversity outlook report finds the most important driver of the continued decline of the state’s wildlife is habitat destruction.
The report finds solely 29% of the habitat in NSW has the capability to assist native species – down from 31% on the time of the primary report in 2020 – and that the black summer season bushfires elevated the chance of extinction for a lot of species.
Clearing of habitat elevated between 2016 and 2021, a interval during which native vegetation legal guidelines had been relaxed by the earlier Coalition authorities, and clearing for agriculture exceeded that brought on by forestry or infrastructure building.
The surroundings minister, Penny Sharpe, mentioned the mixed threats of habitat loss, local weather change and invasive species had put the state’s ecosystems below severe stress:
Worryingly, this report confirms biodiversity is in decline and getting worse.
We’re dedicated to fixing biodiversity offsets and stopping runaway land clearing. Now we have adopted a whole-of-government strategy to tackling local weather change and we now have boosted environmental protections to their strongest degree but.
There was some enchancment within the report, with the quantity of protected conservation land growing from 8.6% to 11.2% of the state.
Natasha Might
New vaping legal guidelines wanted to assist younger individuals who wrestle to give up, GPs say
Persevering with from our final put up: the RACGP president, Nicole Higgins, mentioned the legal guidelines had been wanted to assist defend the younger individuals who have discovered it very troublesome to cease vaping as soon as they begin:
The withdrawal results, together with anxiousness and hassle consuming and sleeping, could be a confronting expertise.
She inspired anybody making an attempt to give up nicotine merchandise to ebook a seek the advice of with their GP, with a variety of choices – “together with nicotine substitute remedy, behavioural assist, managing withdrawal signs and cravings, in addition to prescribing medicines that can assist you give up”.
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia nationwide president, Prof Trent Twomey, mentioned neighborhood pharmacies welcomed “this strategic alliance of frontline well being professionals to forestall youngsters from accessing vapes”.
Natasha Might
‘Strategic alliance’ of well being our bodies backs vaping reforms
The nation’s peak frontline well being our bodies have fashioned a “strategic alliance” backing the federal government’s vaping reforms, and are urging all federal MPs and senators to observe their lead supporting the following spherical of laws now earlier than the parliament.
The Australian Medical Affiliation, the Royal Australian School of Basic Practitioners and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia are this morning gathering in Brisbane to throw their assist behind the reforms guaranteeing vapes can be found as a therapeutic good to assist individuals to give up smoking, and never as a software utilized by large tobacco to hook a brand new technology on nicotine.
Vaping legal guidelines got here into impact in March banning the importation of vapes except the importer has a licence and allow. The following spherical of reforms now earlier than parliament would pressure vape shops to shut by stopping the home manufacture, commercial, provide and industrial possession of non-prescription vapes.
The AMA president, Steve Robson, described vaping as a “ticking timebomb” that’s “threatening the well being of future generations”.
Let’s be clear – youngsters and younger adults use vapes as their first nicotine-based product. They don’t seem to be making an attempt to give up, as they’ve by no means smoked earlier than.
Wong and Birmingham heading on bipartisan journey to Tuvalu
Daniel Hurst
The overseas affairs minister, Penny Wong, and her opposition counterpart, Simon Birmingham, will fly to Tuvalu as we speak as a part of a renewed bipartisan push to keep up Australia’s standing within the Pacific.
The bipartisan journey comes shortly after Tuvalu’s new authorities confirmed it will retain the local weather and safety cope with Australia that was signed final 12 months however was positioned in query after elections in late January.
Wong and Birmingham are anticipated to fulfill the prime minister, Feleti Teo, and his cupboard to debate what each nations have described because the Falepili Union – a Tuvaluan time period for neighbours who stay in shut homes and seen as reflecting the responsibility of neighbours to look after, share with and defend one another.
The local weather disaster is a key merchandise on the agenda, provided that low-lying Tuvalu is very susceptible to sea degree rise. Wong and Birmingham are as a result of go to a coastal adaptation venture that has concerned the reclamation and stabilisation of land, earlier than returning to Australia on Thursday night time.
It’s the second Australian high-level bipartisan journey to the Pacific on this time period of presidency.
Wong mentioned the joint go to despatched a sign to the Pacific “that Australia is a steadfast companion in guaranteeing a area that’s peaceable, secure and affluent”, whereas Birmingham mentioned Australia was “stronger once we communicate with one voice”.
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Australia groups up with UK and US towards hackers
Australia has imposed a focused monetary sanction and journey ban on the Russian citizen Dmitry Khoroshev for his senior management function within the LockBit ransomware group.
Beneath Operation Cronos, the Australian Indicators Directorate and federal police labored with worldwide companions, together with the UK and the US, to determine Khoroshev as a part of LockBit’s senior management, the federal government mentioned.
It described LockBit as a prolific felony ransomware group which works to destabilise and disrupt key sectors for monetary acquire.
LockBit ransomware has been used towards Australian, UK and US companies, comprising 18% of whole reported Australian ransomware assaults in 2022-23 and 119 reported victims in Australia.
The brand new sanction below the cybersanctions framework makes it a felony offence to supply belongings to Khoroshev or to make use of or cope with his belongings.
The deputy prime minister and minister for defence, Richard Marles, mentioned:
We proceed to see governments, essential infrastructure, companies and households in Australia focused by malicious cyber actors.
Cyber sanctions are a key element of the Australian Authorities’s work to discourage cybercrime and assist defend Australians by exposing the actions and id of cyber criminals working throughout jurisdictions.
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Australia’s army engaged in ‘provocative’ behaviour in South China Sea, Beijing says
China has accused Australia’s army of provocative and threatening behaviour after a harmful episode in worldwide waters.
An Australian navy Seahawk helicopter was compelled to take evasive motion to forestall being hit by flares launched by a J-10 Chinese language air pressure airplane on Saturday night, in accordance with the defence minister, Richard Marles.
The Australian authorities has condemned the motion, with the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, calling it extremely harmful.
However China’s overseas ministry spokesperson, Lin Jian, mentioned the army had taken the mandatory steps to warn Australia.
On Tuesday he informed media:
The Australian army plane flew close to China airspace in a threatening approach.
What actually occurred was that an Australian army plane intentionally flew inside shut vary of China’s airspace in a provocative transfer which endangered China’s maritime air safety.
We urge Australia to cease provocations to forestall misunderstanding and miscalculation.
The suitable diplomatic representations had been made to Beijing by way of all channels obtainable to his authorities, together with defence-to-defence, Albanese mentioned.
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An alleged chief of worldwide ransomware group LockBit has been hit with monetary sanctions and banned from travelling to Australia. The federal government named Dmitry Khoroshev, a Russian citizen, as having a “senior management function” in a felony group that equipped a world community of hackers with the instruments and infrastructure to hold out on-line assaults. The announcement was made in a single day in coordination with authorities within the UK and the US. Extra arising.
Now we have an unique story on how the Albanese authorities has efficiently suppressed particulars of the effectiveness of digital monitoring, arguing that transparency may encourage former immigration detainees to breach ankle bracelet visa circumstances. On Friday the excessive court docket granted a suppression order on knowledgeable proof regarding how ankle displays work in a problem of harsh new visa circumstances, set to be heard as early as August.
China’s overseas ministry spokesman has accused an Australian navy helicopter of constructing “dangerous strikes” after Monday’s encounter with a Chinese language jet over the Yellow Sea between the Chinese language and Korean coastlines. Australia has condemned China after the airplane launched flares in entrance of the helicopter. However Beijing’s overseas ministry spokesman mentioned in a single day that the helicopter “endangered China’s maritime and air safety”. Extra arising.
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