Liberal MP recounts her expertise of household violence
Liberal MP Karen Andrews gave a really emotional speech within the chamber this morning whereas addressing the Worldwide Day for the Elimination of Violence Towards Girls, as she recounted her expertise of watching somebody she cared for, undergo a violent scenario:
Everyone knows many of those victims. And sadly, I’m one of many individuals who has needed to watch for textual content messages to return in and cellphone messages to return by way of and the cellphone calls are a lot worse, questioning if somebody that you just love remains to be alive.
Within the time that I’ve lived on this place nevertheless lengthy it may be, I’ll dedicate myself to working to cease this violence. I’m actually sorry.
For these individuals who don’t have any expertise you might have concept what it’s like and for the individuals who sit innocently on the facet, and as I mentioned watch for that decision ready to listen to if somebody they love is OK, it’s traumatic.
And once you’re there at evening and the cellphone rings, you marvel what you’re going to listen to.
It’s a terribly traumatic expertise.
However for all of the issues that I’ve skilled, there are lots of different individuals who have been on the frontline and have skilled it themselves.
And for these individuals, I’ll dedicate my time left on this place to attempt to help you.
Andrews went on to talk on the worldwide shift which wanted to happen to finish violence in opposition to girls and youngsters. She additionally spoke of the necessity to assist educate individuals on consent and pledged her bipartisan help with the federal government on engaged on addressing all the problems round violence in opposition to girls.
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The Albanese authorities has backed down from a controversial proposal that might have made it tougher for individuals with drug and alcohol-related circumstances to get entry to the incapacity help pension.
However it’s nonetheless going through calls to do extra to handle longstanding issues with the design of the incapacity pension, amid document ranges of individuals on jobseeker residing with a incapacity.
The federal government has proposed new “impairment tables” that govern eligibility for the pension below a once-a-decade session and overview course of.
Lambie requires committee to evaluate preparedness for local weather disasters
Senator Jacqui Lambie says she been moved by the BoM and CSIRO report into Australia’s local weather. She needs a committee set as much as see how ready Australia is to cope with the approaching pure disasters:
I’m not shocked the report says climate occasions are getting worse due to local weather change. Everybody in Australia is aware of that we’re having increasingly more floods. Bushfire season is stretching out longer yearly.
Because of this I’m organising a Senate committee into Australia’s Catastrophe Resilience. We have to get a plan in place now to cope with these occasions. We will’t maintain calling within the military to assist. That’s not what they’re there for and it’s stretching their capability to guard our nationwide safety.
A committee will hear from individuals throughout the nation. It’ll ask them about one of the simplest ways to take care of our communities earlier than and after climate occasions hit.
I’m optimistic we are able to get this committee up by finish of the sitting fortnight. Time to get our skates on and get this shifting.
Daniel Hurst
Simon Birmingham says worth of Australia and China’s defence ministers assembly shall be in outcomes
The Coalition’s international affairs spokesperson, Simon Birmingham, has spoken to Sky Information following the assembly between the defence minister, Richard Marles, and China’s defence minister, Wei Fenghe, in Cambodia (a second assembly between these ministers).
Birmingham mentioned:
The check of the good thing about dialogue shall be in regards to the outcomes achieved. Before everything we wish to see peace and stability in our area. We should always be capable to work by way of troublesome points collectively.
Birmingham mentioned it will be of mutual profit for Australia and China for shut financial cooperation to proceed. He mentioned it had “actually not been to China’s profit” to roll out a collection of commerce actions in opposition to Australian export sectors. He cited actions that had been imposed by Beijing both straight although tariffs – resembling within the case of barley and wine – or in “many oblique methods” by way of different commerce restrictions.
He labelled this as “tried financial coercion”.
Impartial and Greens renew push to decrease voting age
May Australia get a decrease voting age?
Paul Karp has had a chat to the Kooyong unbiased, Monique Ryan, in regards to the proposal:
Impartial MP Monique Ryan and the Greens will each renew a push to decrease the voting age in Australia within the new yr.
Ryan has mentioned she is going to introduce a non-public member’s invoice, to require 16 and 17-year-olds to vote however with out the specter of fines, or work with the Greens, which have a invoice within the Senate to increase the franchise with voluntary voting.
The transfer follows a New Zealand courtroom ruling that the present voting age of 18 is discriminatory, which has prompted New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, to green-light a parliamentary debate on decreasing the voting age.
In an encouraging signal for these agitating in regards to the difficulty in Australia, the particular minister of state, Don Farrell, mentioned the federal government had “by no means dominated out” decreasing the voting age.
‘Qantas play hardball on office relations’ – Invoice Shorten
Anthony Albanese is reportedly assembly with Qantas boss Alan Joyce at this time, whereas the IR laws negotiations proceed.
Invoice Shorten was requested in regards to the assembly on ABC RN Breakfast this morning and mentioned he was “unaware of the dialogue” so couldn’t communicate on that, however typically:
Qantas is a nationwide provider and there’s many issues that they do nicely, nevertheless it’s a matter of document that even earlier than I entered parliament I used to characterize Qantas engineers.
Qantas play hardball on office relations. They’re entitled to their opinion and through Covid they’ve been doing outstanding issues.
However relating to office relations, my voters covers Melbourne airport, I’ve numerous airline individuals who stay in my voters. I don’t agree that when Qantas was shedding employees it was doing the correct factor.
So Qantas has all the time had a specific viewpoint on office relations. They’ve by no means hidden it. However, you recognize, I’m going to depart Qantas to run an airline, however I don’t need them in control of the wages system of this nation.
Liberal MP recounts her expertise of household violence
Liberal MP Karen Andrews gave a really emotional speech within the chamber this morning whereas addressing the Worldwide Day for the Elimination of Violence Towards Girls, as she recounted her expertise of watching somebody she cared for, undergo a violent scenario:
Everyone knows many of those victims. And sadly, I’m one of many individuals who has needed to watch for textual content messages to return in and cellphone messages to return by way of and the cellphone calls are a lot worse, questioning if somebody that you just love remains to be alive.
Within the time that I’ve lived on this place nevertheless lengthy it may be, I’ll dedicate myself to working to cease this violence. I’m actually sorry.
For these individuals who don’t have any expertise you might have concept what it’s like and for the individuals who sit innocently on the facet, and as I mentioned watch for that decision ready to listen to if somebody they love is OK, it’s traumatic.
And once you’re there at evening and the cellphone rings, you marvel what you’re going to listen to.
It’s a terribly traumatic expertise.
However for all of the issues that I’ve skilled, there are lots of different individuals who have been on the frontline and have skilled it themselves.
And for these individuals, I’ll dedicate my time left on this place to attempt to help you.
Andrews went on to talk on the worldwide shift which wanted to happen to finish violence in opposition to girls and youngsters. She additionally spoke of the necessity to assist educate individuals on consent and pledged her bipartisan help with the federal government on engaged on addressing all the problems round violence in opposition to girls.
The statistics on violence in opposition to girls
This Friday is the Worldwide Day for Eliminating Violence Towards Girls.
The Home isn’t sitting on Friday, so there was time this morning put apart to acknowledge the day and simply how far we’ve got to go.
Amanda Rishworth went by way of the statistics:
I’d wish to take this second – right here on this place – to focus on the sobering statistics that confront us right here in Australia.
One lady dies each 10 days in Australia by the hands of her former or present associate.
Earlier than the tip of the yr, primarily based on these statistics alone, three girls will lose their lives to violence, typically by somebody who has professed to like and look after them.
Each two minutes, police across the nation cope with a home and household violence matter.
That’s 5,000 calls every week, on common.
We all know for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls, the statistics are even starker.
First Nations girls are 11 instances extra prone to be killed as a result of experiencing household violence than non-Indigenous girls.
They’re additionally 34 instances extra prone to be hospitalised because of violence they face.
The statistics right here in Australia on these girls who’ve skilled violence for the reason that age of 15 replicate these globally – one in three.
One in two girls have skilled sexual harassment of their lifetime.
These statistics have to vary.
Poverty is among the largest contributing components. Monetary strain and the dearth of sources can lure individuals in conditions. Elevating the Jobseeker and related social safety cost charges would have a huge effect and assist obtain the purpose the federal government has set itself to handle household and home violence, however there was no motion there.
Benita Kolovos
Expanded function for pharmacists in Victoria below Labor
The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, has introduced if re-elected on the weekend, a Labor authorities will spend $12m to trial an expanded function for pharmacists.
Beneath the pilot, pharmacists will be capable to deal with minor sicknesses like widespread pores and skin circumstances and administer journey vaccinations and extra public well being vaccinations.
They’ll additionally be capable to deal with simple urinary tract infections (UTIs) and reissue prescriptions for contraceptives.
Pharmacists would obtain $20 per session, with all charges paid by the federal government and sufferers paying not more than the present Pharmaceutical Advantages Scheme co-payment for any drugs required.
Andrews informed reporters in St Albans, in Melbourne’s west:
We all know that discovering a bulk-billing physician, significantly after hours, has maybe by no means been tougher than it’s now. That’s an actual problem. We received to do one thing about that.
He mentioned the federal government would additionally make investments $32m to incentivise docs to turn into GPs. This consists of $30,000 top-up funds for first-year trainee GPs to make sure they don’t take a big pay lower:
For those who’re a junior hospital physician incomes round $100,000 a yr, if you happen to select basic observe you’re compelled to take a $30,000 pay lower. Now that’s an energetic disincentive, a barrier if you happen to like, to extra of our junior docs selecting basic observe. One of the best factor for us to do is to bridge that pay hole to ensure that there’s no monetary disincentive.
Andrews mentioned the federal government would additionally cowl the prices of their exams of their first yr, investing $10,000 per trainee.
State of play within the Senate
Anyway, the Senate continues to be … attention-grabbing.
For what it’s value, although, on the numbers it’s a progressive Senate and numerous the standard suspects now not have any affect on whether or not payments get handed or not. They aren’t the stability of energy. And whereas they will nonetheless transfer motions, put ahead personal members’ payments and pursue their “particular pursuits” they will’t truly change coverage at this level of the political cycle.
So it’s swings and roundabouts
Glenn Druery debate in Senate
For many who weren’t glued to the Senate yesterday (I do know, are you able to think about NOT being completely riveted by a chamber of parliament?) Pauline Hanson additionally led a debate on:
“The necessity for the Senate to sentence the Premier of Victoria, Dan Andrews, for his workplace’s dealings and affiliation with Glenn Druery who, it was reported this morning, admitted to utilizing his place in a Senator’s workplace for private monetary acquire; and – in mild of revelations higher home group voting tickets are getting used to mislead voters to the unethical good thing about the Andrews Labor Authorities – to affirm the Senate’s help at no cost and honest elections with integrity.”
Which led to this contribution from UAP senator, Ralph Babet:
The scandal shouldn’t be solely about Dictator—sorry: Premier Daniel Andrews’s offers with dodgy Glenn Druery. The actual scandal is that federal Labor shield the corrupt and tyrannical Premier Dan Andrews as one among their very own. That’s the actual scandal. Mr Glenn Druery, this political fixer, has boasted on digicam about creating sham political events to be able to idiot voters into voting for candidates and events that shall be cooperative to Premier Dan Andrews, when these voters might need affordable perception that they’re truly voting in opposition to Dan Andrews. This election fixing is permitted within the state of Victoria, and it’s outrageous. It’s outrageous that we permit this to occur to the good thing about Daniel Andrews. It beggars perception.
The movement didn’t obtain the help it wanted.
‘This invoice is harmful’: Greens reply to Hanson schooling push
Queensland Greens senator Penny Allman-Payne was not having ANY OF IT within the Senate a bit earlier at this time:
I rise to talk on the Australian Training Laws Modification Kids Invoice 2020. I really feel like I’m uniquely positioned to talk to this invoice. I’ve been a state secondary college instructor for almost 30 years. I began out my profession as a well being and bodily schooling instructor, and I additionally taught sexuality, human relationships and sexual schooling. I’m additionally certified to show secondary college science in addition to humanities. After I left the division, I used to be a head of humanities and languages.
This invoice seeks to place restraints on what academics of well being and bodily schooling and sexual schooling, science and humanities can train of their lessons. It’s not about stability. It’s about hate and propaganda. We, as academics, train to the curriculum that we’re offered. It’s a curriculum that’s grounded in fact and science. We don’t cherrypick the bits of science that we agree with or disagree with. We don’t cherrypick the bits of historical past that we like … And we don’t discriminate in opposition to the kids who’re in entrance of us in our lessons.
Throughout this debate, I’ve watched individuals on the opposite facet of the chamber laughing once we’ve spoken about schooling round college students’ gender. I invite you to return into a faculty and sit in entrance of a pupil who has made a number of makes an attempt on their life as a result of they’ve been topic to hate and transphobia. How dare you employ our younger individuals as political footballs. They aren’t wanting something besides to be accepted for who they’re. We train a curriculum that’s grounded in human rights and science.
Younger persons are beneficiant of spirit, they’re accepting of others they usually care in regards to the planet and their future. They’re vital thinkers and they’re downside solvers they usually deserve an schooling that’s grounded in fact and justice and human rights. They deserve and schooling that’s grounded in science. It’s not academics in colleges who’re trying to indoctrinate our younger individuals, a occupation that works laborious to offer each younger particular person on this nation the optimistic future that they deserve, it’s the individuals on the opposite facet of this chamber who’re in search of to indoctrinate their hateful and bigoted views in our colleges.
I cannot topic younger individuals on this nation to your bigotry and hate. I’ll rise up each time my see it and the Greens will name it out.
This invoice isn’t about vital pondering. This invoice is about legislating a far-right curriculum. And particular person senators and events interfering in what’s taught in our colleges as an alternative of leaving it to the schooling specialists is a really slippery slope. Within the US we see some states banning academics from educating about racism or sexuality and a few are even banning books. This invoice is harmful, and as a instructor with over 30 years expertise in our colleges, it’s an injustice to the younger individuals in our colleges and it’s an insult to academics.
Pauline Hanson’s bid for schooling tradition warfare
Nonetheless within the Senate, and Pauline Hanson is once more making an attempt to import US tradition wars to Australia. The One Nation chief is making an attempt to get a invoice she first launched into the Senate in 2020 help.
What does the invoice do?
Right here is the official clarification:
Amends the: Australian Curriculum, Evaluation and Reporting Authority Act 2008 to require the Australian Curriculum, Evaluation and Reporting Authority to make sure that college schooling supplies a balanced presentation of opposing views on political, historic and scientific points; and Australian Training Act 2013 to make monetary help to a state or territory conditional on the state or territory having sure legal guidelines in pressure.
Pauline Hanson’s clarification is the invoice does this:
The aim of this Invoice is to offer mother and father the authorized proper to guard their youngsters from indoctrination at college.
Dad and mom have the correct to maneuver their baby from a faculty or to dwelling college their baby however they don’t have the correct to problem educating in colleges resembling gender fluidity principle and man-made world warming.
There isn’t any means that this invoice will stand up – it received’t move the Senate, however in case it did, it’s by no means passing the Home. However the debate as soon as once more dangers being very damaging in opposition to a few of our most marginalised children and their mother and father.
Demand for Covid paperwork
Over within the Senate, a small cross-party group of senators are nonetheless wanting on the lookout for smoking weapons.
Liberal senator Alex Antic, alongside along with his colleagues Matt Canavan and Gerard Rennick have joined with One Nation and UAP’s Ralph Babet to demand this from well being minister Mark Butler:
I, and in addition on behalf of Senators Hanson, Roberts, Rennick, Canavan and Babet, transfer: That there be laid on the desk by the Minister representing the Minister for Well being and Aged Care, by no later than 3 pm on Tuesday, 29 November 2022:
(a) any contractual paperwork (with out redaction) together with any schedules, appendices or comparable doc (with out redaction), for the provision, manufacturing, distribution or administration of any COVID-19 vaccine in Australia (‘the vaccine contracts’) executed by or on behalf of the Australian Authorities and any of the next (‘the vaccine producers’):
(i) Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd and/or its mother or father corporations, nominees, brokers or subsidiaries,
(ii) AstraZeneca Pty Ltd and/or its mother or father corporations, nominees, brokers or subsidiaries,
(iii) Moderna Australia Pty Ltd and/or its mother or father corporations, nominees, brokers or subsidiaries,
and (iv) Novavax Inc and/or its mother or father corporations, nominees, brokers or subsidiaries;
(b) some other doc referenced, referred to or included into any of the vaccine contracts however not included within the contractual doc;
(c) some other doc evidencing any pre-contractual representations with respect to effectiveness, unwanted effects, health for objective, merchantability, warranties or exclusions of guarantee associated to the provision, manufacturing, distribution or administration of any COVID-19 vaccine in Australia by any of the vaccine producers;
and (d) some other doc evidencing any indemnity, assure, waiver or launch of legal responsibility, forbearance to sue or comparable enforceable proper offered by or on behalf of the Australian Authorities to any of the vaccine producers with respect to the provision, manufacturing, distribution or administration of any COVID-19 vaccine in Australia.
Restrict on campaigners outdoors Victorian polling place after poor behaviour
Benita Kolovos
The Victorian electoral fee is limiting the quantity of campaigners outdoors a voting centre in Melbourne’s northwest following poor behaviour.
The appearing electoral commissioner, Dana Fleming, says she made a authorized dedication to extend compliance at voting cubicles “to make sure a secure and safe voting expertise in any respect voting areas”:
With extra Victorians voting early than ever earlier than, I’m happy to see most voters reporting a optimistic expertise when they’ll vote. Sadly, this isn’t the case for all voters as a small variety of campaigners are persistently behaving poorly. Right now’s dedication acknowledges the lawful powers of election managers and election officers to reply when behaviour doesn’t meet expectations. The actions of the few campaigners outdoors a small variety of voting centres have prompted the necessity to think about an applicable answer.
She says the primary early voting centre to be topic to an “elevated compliance strategy” would be the Watergardens City Centre in Sydenham, the place there shall be a restrict launched on the variety of campaigners allowed outdoors:
Resulting from repeated points by these campaigning outdoors, we are going to restrict the variety of campaigners permitted for every candidate or get together listed on the poll paper for the District. The necessity to take this motion is disappointing, however sadly needed. The security of voters and our election employees is our precedence.
Fleming says the Electoral Act consists of a number of offences for unacceptable behaviour in, and round, voting centres. Election managers and election officers also can request police help to take away an individual who’s disrupting the election course of or obstructing entry for voters.
Benita Kolovos
Drive-through voting for Victorian election
Victoria’s electoral fee has introduced a drive-through voting service for individuals who have examined optimistic for Covid forward of the state election on Saturday.
The appearing electoral commissioner, Dana Fleming, mentioned voting by cellphone had initially been deliberate for Covid-positive voters however this was scrapped when it was introduced isolation necessities had been ending.
In good conscience, we felt we needed to supply at the least one possibility for voters on this scenario. Now we have an early voting centre positioned at a former Bunnings web site in Melton West that we’ve became a drive-through centre. There merely wasn’t sufficient time to search out and lease some other premises that had been massive sufficient to manage.
Voters should keep of their automobile and might want to present a optimistic RAT or a textual content from the Division of Well being to verify a optimistic PCR check consequence to be eligible to make use of the service, as there’s a very actual threat that we are going to be inundated by voters who similar to the thought of drive-through voting.
Now we have employed registered nurses in full private protecting tools to be the middleman between election employees and the voter to make sure everybody’s security. It is going to take a bit longer and I ask for voters who use the service to be as affected person as potential.
The centre at 149 Barries Highway, Melton West shall be open between 9am and 5pm tomorrow (Thursday) and Friday, and 8am and 6pm on Saturday.
If that doesn’t sound like your cup of tea, you possibly can nonetheless apply for a postal vote till 6pm tonight.
Karishma Luthria
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Inflation response should not embody equal wage rises, says Lowe
One of many causes we’re feeling a bit extra pulled aside as a society, as Murph mentions in her report, is inflation and the rising value of residing.
One of many causes the price of residing is growing, is as a result of rates of interest are persevering with to rise – which is among the RBA’s levers to sort out rising inflation.
In Melbourne tackle final evening, the RBA governor, Dr Philip Lowe, once more mentioned the central financial institution expects to extend charges additional:
Given our mandate for value stability and full employment, the board expects to extend rates of interest additional over the interval forward. We’re not on a preset path. Now we have not dominated out returning to 50 foundation level will increase if the scenario requires that. Nor have we dominated out conserving rates of interest unchanged for a time frame as we assess the state of the financial system and the outlook for inflation. The board’s precedence is to return inflation to focus on over time. We’re resolute in our dedication to verify this occurs.
However Lowe additionally doesn’t wish to see wages enhance too shortly, because the ABC reported from his Q&A at that very same Melbourne occasion:
If all of us purchase into the concept wages must go as much as compensate individuals for inflation, will probably be painful, so greatest keep away from that.
So in Lowe’s view, there ought to be no wage will increase matching inflation:
If that had been to occur, what do you suppose inflation can be at subsequent yr? 7% plus or minus (a bit). After which we’ve received to get compensated for that? 7% … and that is what occurred within the 70s and 80s. It turned out to be a catastrophe.
So rates of interest will enhance, which supplies the banks tens of millions extra in mortgage repayments, which is then redistributed to shareholders (and the occasional government bonus), and that’s the price of financial coverage, however employees shouldn’t be allowed wage will increase close to inflation, as a result of that might be inflationary.
That is the talk in the meanwhile (and ceaselessly). It’s value noting the RBA board doesn’t have a employees’ consultant on it, and Lowe earns near $1m a yr. Makes understanding a few of these cost-of-living pressures a bit laborious.
In the meantime, Murph has regarded over the most recent Scanlon report taking a look at our social cohesion. Appears we’re not as sticky:
For extra on the local weather report Tanya Plibersek shall be launching, Graham Readfearn has you lined