Finish of gasoline excise reduction will probably be ‘powerful’: assistant treasurer
Requested whether or not the federal government will lengthen the reduction from the gasoline excise launched by the final authorities, Jones says:
Labor can’t maintain going round doing what the previous authorities did, which is write billion-dollar cheques to unravel each political downside … We all know that that is going to be powerful on motorists. We all know we’ve acquired to make some powerful selections. And I believe Australians perceive, they’ll count on the federal government to take some powerful selections that will probably be needed, not solely to get us via this era …
Over the subsequent few months, the place inflation goes via the roof, we now have acquired to have a course of the place we’re working hand-in-hand with the Reserve Financial institution to make sure the fiscal coverage and financial coverage is working hand-in-hand. However I believe Australians perceive that we can not maintain writing, as the previous authorities did, billion-dollar cheques and letting the debt mount up and up and up.
The gasoline excise reduction is because of finish on Wednesday.
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Australian authorities to provide $2.3m increase to elite rugby league in PNG
The Australian authorities will use $2.3m to spice up help for prime efficiency rugby league in Papua New Guinea.
The worldwide growth minister, Pat Conroy, and the sports activities minister, Anika Wells, introduced the federal government will accomplice with the Queensland Rugby League to help the PNG Orchids and Kumuls, the ladies and men’s groups, improve alternatives for feminine gamers, and develop home-grown excessive efficiency experience.
The nations’ prime ministers, Anthony Albanese and James Marape, will attend the prime minister’s XIII rugby league matches tonight in Brisbane. Conroy:
Australia is a steadfast accomplice and buddy to Papua New Guinea, our closest neighbour. We’re sure by wealthy historic ties, shared values and our love for rugby league, which has been a binding drive in our relationship for over a half a century.
The Australian Authorities has supported rugby league in PNG since 2013 via the community-driven League Bilong Laif program. This new funding extends our help to the excessive efficiency degree for each women and men.
Finish of gasoline excise reduction will probably be ‘powerful’: assistant treasurer
Requested whether or not the federal government will lengthen the reduction from the gasoline excise launched by the final authorities, Jones says:
Labor can’t maintain going round doing what the previous authorities did, which is write billion-dollar cheques to unravel each political downside … We all know that that is going to be powerful on motorists. We all know we’ve acquired to make some powerful selections. And I believe Australians perceive, they’ll count on the federal government to take some powerful selections that will probably be needed, not solely to get us via this era …
Over the subsequent few months, the place inflation goes via the roof, we now have acquired to have a course of the place we’re working hand-in-hand with the Reserve Financial institution to make sure the fiscal coverage and financial coverage is working hand-in-hand. However I believe Australians perceive that we can not maintain writing, as the previous authorities did, billion-dollar cheques and letting the debt mount up and up and up.
The gasoline excise reduction is because of finish on Wednesday.
Assistant treasurer slams opposition for ‘giving up on forming coverage’
The assistant treasurer, Stephen Jones, spoke to reporters in Sydney a bit of earlier.
He slammed the shadow finance minister, Jane Hume, for saying the opposition has no insurance policies as a result of it’s not in authorities.
An admission from the opposition finance spokesperson this morning that the opposition has no insurance policies. They gave up on governing and now it seems they’re giving up on forming the coverage foundation for a brand new authorities. If the Coalition hasn’t acquired any insurance policies of its personal, they need to get out of the way in which of the federal government [and] limiting its insurance policies. We have now acquired some large challenges.
Subsequent week, Jones says the federal government will probably be introducing reasonably priced childcare laws, a invoice for the federal integrity fee, and will probably be trying to “restore the $1tn of debt and the mess within the finances that the previous authorities has left us”.
He says Australia is going through “very powerful financial circumstances”.
We have now acquired the US financial system, the largest financial system on the earth, in all kinds of bother. The conflict in Ukraine is pushing up the costs of vitality and all different items. Europe and different financial strife. It’s inconceivable that these items is not going to affect on Australia.
Regardless of all of those modifications, Labor is dedicated to implementing our election insurance policies, which is to place in place restore to the finances, together with coping with a structural deficit we now have inherited from the previous authorities.
Selwood mulls future after record-breaking fourth premiership look
Geelong captain Joel Selwood will take time to ponder his AFL future, intent on not making an emotional determination within the wake of his newest premiership.
Selwood made a record-breaking fortieth finals look within the grand last thrashing of Sydney – yet one more than Hawthorn legend Michael Tuck.
And the resounding victory made the 34-year-old the primary Cats participant to function in 4 flags.
It could be the right means for Selwood to log out, after 355 video games throughout a adorned 16-year profession.
However coach Chris Scott fanned the flames of chance on Sunday, impressed by his skipper’s influential show towards the Swans.
I make it a rule to not converse for our gamers, and positively not for our captain, however I didn’t see any downside with the way in which he performed yesterday.
Selwood, who debuted in 2007, was the oldest participant in Geelong’s grand last line-up as they fielded the oldest staff in AFL/VFL historical past.
A call on the veteran midfielder’s taking part in future might be made inside days. Selwood mentioned:
We’ll discuss all through the week with the membership and there’s a bit to undergo.
I’ll converse with individuals who have been watching me and seeing how I’ve been going.
It’s not only a determination for myself.
– from AAP
Victoria to broaden program to assist sufferers with disabilities depart hospital
The Victorian authorities will broaden a program serving to sufferers depart hospital whereas ready for an NDIS plan.
This system is designed to scale back mattress block within the state’s hospital by serving to these with a incapacity to transition into residence or “home-like” lodging when they’re deemed medically match however are nonetheless ready on NDIS-funded lodging.
The Victorian authorities piloted this system in Melbourne. It freed up 3,000 hospital mattress days, based on the federal government. It would now be expanded into regional areas.
A press release issued by the well being minister, Mary-Anne Thomas, mentioned:
Following a profitable pilot in metropolitan Melbourne which noticed greater than 3,000 hospital mattress days freed up, this system will broaden into regional Victoria for the primary time – serving to extra individuals with a incapacity regain their independence and spend extra time with their households.
After years of NDIS neglect from the Morrison authorities, delayed discharge occasions for sufferers with a incapacity rose to a median wait of 5 months, with some spending so long as 600 days ready for discharge.
Tory Shepherd
Australian businessman denies threatening to promote Battle Islands to China
The proprietor of 21 tropical islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea says he by no means threatened to promote them to China and his important purpose is to save lots of the turtles that nest there.
Ian Gowrie-Smith, an Australian businessman and investor, purchased the Battle Islands, which lie lower than 1,000km from the Australian coast, nearly twenty years in the past.
The largely uninhabited atolls are a nesting floor for critically endangered hawksbill and inexperienced turtles, whose breeding season begins inside weeks. Some then migrate to the Nice Barrier Reef.
Gowrie-Smith had been speaking about promoting the islands or creating partnerships to help the conservation work for a number of years, and hoped the Australian authorities may work with PNG, or by supporting a charity, to guard the breeding grounds.
The “atoll custodian” informed Guardian Australia he contacted the workplace of the international affairs minister, Penny Wong, in June to debate the way forward for the land, however grew annoyed ready for a response.
“Right here’s a chance to guard not solely the world however the Nice Barrier Reef’s conservation – that in itself ought to have been sufficient of a motive for somebody to answer and say this can be a fairly essential website,” he mentioned.
In August that frustration led him to seem on A Present Affair, which centered on the “hazard” if the islands ought to “fall into Chinese language fingers”.
However Gowrie-Smith mentioned any suggestion he was threatening to promote the islands to China was fully mistaken.
“I don’t have any intention of promoting these islands to the CCP,” Gowrie-Smith mentioned.
Federal Icac laws to incorporate public curiosity take a look at for public hearings
Sky Information is reporting that the integrity fee laws, set to be launched subsequent week, will embrace a public curiosity take a look at to find out whether or not public hearings are acceptable for particular person investigations.
The problem of public hearings has been a key level of rivalry. Integrity advocates say public hearings are essential in each selling authorities transparency, deterring misconduct, and attracting witnesses and whistleblowers. However opponents say they unfairly tarnish the reputations, earlier than any discovering of wrongdoing is made.
NSW’s impartial fee towards corruption additionally features a public curiosity take a look at for conducting public hearings.
It’s been a bumper weekend for soccer, and one other Australia vs New Zealand sport has simply begun at Eden Park – barely a day after an Australian defeat in a special code (poor, humiliated Wallabies).
The Socceroos are taking over the All Whites, and you may comply with stay updates from my colleague Emma Kemp right here:
Defence minister says timeline for nuclear submarines being ready amid experiences US will expedite supply to mid-2030s
The defence minister, Richard Marles, who spoke earlier immediately concerning the conflict in Ukraine, has additionally mentioned an interim report on Australia’s navy capabilities and a timeline for nuclear submarines are being ready.
Marles says preliminary experiences will probably be offered to him in November however they received’t be made public.
The Wall Road Journal reported the White Home is in talks to expedite the supply of the subs to the mid-2030s by constructing the primary ones within the US in a bid to counter China’s rising navy may.
A spokesperson for Marles reiterated his feedback, saying:
It’s essential to get the potential as quickly as we are able to.
We’re nonetheless doing the consultations to set out the optimum pathway for Australia to accumulate the potential.
Marles informed Sky Information the unique timeline for receiving the submarines within the 2040s would have opened a navy functionality hole:
What we’ve sought from the method that’s underneath means with Aukus proper now just isn’t merely to reply the query as to what platform we run with … however how quickly we are able to get it.
Price would even be thought-about within the bringing ahead of any development or acquisition, he mentioned.
– from AAP
Two northern NSW cities more likely to be remoted for days as floods proceed
Two NSW cities are more likely to be remoted for days because the NSW flood emergency continues.
State Emergency Service employees carried out six rescues and answered 112 requires assist between 6am on Saturday and 6am on Sunday.
The cities of Warren and Wee Waa, within the state’s north, are reduce off by street and anticipated to stay that means for days.
Emergency providers are utilizing plane to supply water, medication, meals and different provides to residents.
The city of Gunnedah continues to be impacted by main flooding as of Sunday morning, nonetheless water is slowly receding.
The Namoi River peaked on the main flood degree of 8.24 metres on Saturday and SES employees have been on the bottom to evaluate the harm because it turned clear.
– from AAP
Kieran Pender
Biking street race favorite Van der Poel charged with assault
Dutch bike owner Mathieu van der Poel, who was the favorite going into the UCI Highway World Championships elite males’s street race in Wollongong, was arrested and charged with widespread assault on Saturday evening following an incident at his resort.
He began the race on Sunday morning however retired after lower than an hour of racing.
Van der Poel is known to have gone to sleep early forward of the race, the largest one-day occasion on the annual biking calendar, solely to be repeatedly woken by two teenage ladies knocking on his door on the resort in Brighton-Le-Sands, in Sydney’s south.
A spokesperson for New South Wales police informed Guardian Australia that late on Saturday evening, an unidentified 27-year-old man was allegedly concerned in a verbal altercation on the resort.
It’s additional alleged the person then pushed each youngsters, with one falling to the bottom and the opposite being pushed right into a wall, inflicting a minor graze to her elbow.
Lodge administration have been notified of the incident, who then referred to as police. Officers from St George police space command attended and arrested a 27-year-old man shortly after.
The person, understood to be Van der Poel, was taken to Kogarah police station and charged with two counts of widespread assault. He was granted conditional bail and is because of seem on Tuesday on the Sutherland native court docket.
NSW premier: ‘near 60 flood rescues’
NSW premier Dominic Perrottet says the Bureau of Meteorology and the State Emergency Service are working across the clock to help the state via the continued flood disaster.
We have now had over 800 requests for help and near 60 flood rescues throughout this time period. I need to proceed to emphasize for individuals throughout our state, please comply with the directions of the SES. If there are directions of evacuation warnings in place please get able to evacuate, if there are evacuation orders in place, please depart instantly, and whether it is flooded, overlook it. We are saying it each time. Please don’t drive via floodwaters.
Peter Hannam
Australia’s golden alternative to broaden photo voltaic manufacturing
Australia has a golden alternative to broaden its photo voltaic vitality manufacturing capability because the business booms and nations scramble to chop their over-dependence on China, a report by the Australian Australian PV Institute Institute says.
The nation is putting in 4GW of photo voltaic photovoltaic (PV) capability a yr already however assembly simply 3% of that from a neighborhood provider, Adelaide’s Tindo Photo voltaic. That annual set up tally, although, is predicted to triple by 2050, notably if Australia turns into a significant provider of hydrogen produced by renewable vitality for export.
“We have now a urgent want, we now have the pure assets and we now have a really sizeable market,” the report mentioned. “Until Australia good points management over probably the most strategic components of the PV worth chain, the event of any ‘inexperienced’ export market will probably be fully depending on international powers.”
Renate Egan, the APVI secretary and head of the Australian Centre for Superior Photovoltaics, mentioned China would stay an essential provider of panels to Australia nevertheless it was essential to diversify provide, together with by utilizing native corporations.
“You possibly can liken it to Europe’s reliance on fuel from Russia,” Egan mentioned, referring to shortages and hovering fuel costs after Moscow imposed export curbs in retaliation to sanctions for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“The world is relying more and more on photo voltaic vitality era for the vitality transition [from fossil fuels],” she mentioned. “They’re turning into conscious of the dangers … in that over 90% of the tech comes from China.”
Indigenous Australian objects to be returned by New Zealand museum
4 objects from the Warumungu individuals will probably be returned from a New Zealand museum to nation within the Northern Territory.
Two hooked boomerangs (wartilykirri), an adze (palya/kupija) and an axe (ngurrulumuru) have been collected by well-known anthropologist Baldwin Spencer and telegraph operator James Discipline.
Within the early 1900s, the boys amassed greater than 6,000 objects from central Australia which have since been dispersed world wide.
The 4 objects now within the Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Battle Memorial Museum will probably be returned to the Warumungu individuals later this yr. Senior Warumungu man Michael Jones mentioned:
They been taken away earlier than us, however we all know that they belong to Warumungu individuals as the brand new era.
– from AAP