SA premier joins objections to Coalition nuclear coverage
The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, has joined the refrain of premiers objecting to the Coalition’s nuclear plan, saying his main concern was prices.
Malinauskas was on Sky News earlier, the place he questioned why the opposition chief has but to launch the potential value of the coverage:
I don’t understand how Peter Dutton utterly defies market economics, science and proof.
Unless Peter Dutton has purchased some new technological answer round nuclear energy, which in fact he doesn’t, as a result of if he did the remainder of the world would know.
So in the absence of that, we’ve obtained to go on the proof that’s earlier than us.
My concern is completely round value. What we all know from all of the impartial analysis that’s out there’s that nuclear energy in the context of the Australian power market is definitely going to drive up costs relatively than driving down.
There’s just one or two issues which have occurred. Either Peter Dutton is aware of how a lot the price is and he’s refusing to inform us – or, much more scary, he’s introduced a coverage with out even understanding how a lot it’s doable.
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NSW Health Minister Ryan Park has mentioned the federal government is “comfortable” with the present dealing with of the chicken flu outbreak at an egg farm in Hawkesbury.
NSW Health is at the moment working with the NSW Department of Primary Industries to conduct well being danger assessments for individuals who have doubtlessly been uncovered to the Avian Influenza virus.
Park mentioned the virus doesn’t “transmit easily between people” and that “we’ve got to stay calm about this.”
We’re snug the place it’s in the intervening time everybody who’s linked to that farm has been or will probably be contacted now by New South Wales Health, to offer them some recommendation, perform an evaluation and ensure they know what to do.
And this presents like many different flu’s and offers these kind of flu like signs that individuals get. It’s a flu that may be very doesn’t transmit simply between individuals. It doesn’t transmit simply from animal to human. We’ve obtained to simply keep calm about this New South Wales Health and Primary Industries are working collectively on scenario
Parts of Cape York listed on tentative Unesco world heritage checklist
Andrew Messenger
Parts of Cape York in far north Queensland have received a spot on the Unesco world heritage tentative checklist. The tentative checklist is submitted to Unesco by nations, and is step one to full worldwide safety and recognition.
The premier, Steven Miles, introduced the choice on ABC News Breakfast this morning.
“This is a very special announcement and Cape York is a very special place,” Miles mentioned. “It’s something I’ve worked on since I was the environment minister nearly 10 years ago and to get to this point is quite monumental.”
A location must be on the checklist for a 12 months earlier than the nominating nation can submit them to Unesco for full safety.
“There are people around the world that use the world heritage list to determine their bucket list,” Miles instructed the ABC. “We worked really closely with the traditional owners to identify those areas that they consent – that they support us having listed on the World Heritage list.
The federal environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, is travelling to Cairns to make the formal announcement later today.
Miles said it could take several more years before Cape York wins full protection. World heritage listing grants sites international legal protection because they have “cultural and natural heritage … considered to be of outstanding value to humanity”.
Australia at the moment has 20 world heritage websites, 5 of them in Queensland – Okay’Gari (previously Fraser Island), the Gondwana Rainforests, the Great Barrier Reef, the Riversleigh fossil mammal websites and the Wet Tropics in north Queensland.
Daniel Billings seems in court
Tamsin Rose
Molly Ticehurt’s accused killer, Daniel Billings, remained silent when he appeared earlier than a Justice of the Peace in the Parkes native court on Thursday morning.
Billings appeared by way of video hyperlink and wore a inexperienced through the temporary look earlier than Magistrate Brett Thomas.
Thomas ordered the general public prosecutor to provide the temporary of proof by 15 August forward of Billing’s subsequent court date on 22 August.
Ticehurst was discovered lifeless in her house early in the morning on 22 April. Billings was then charged along with her homicide.
Benita Kolovos
Victorian premier denounces graffiti at Trades Hall
Allan has condemned one other incident of vandalism in a single day, this time at Trades Hall, which was graffitied in a single day with statements together with “cops defend genocide”, “free Palestine” and “ACAB”.
She says:
For greater than 100 years Trades Hall has stood in solidarity with individuals from a complete vary of various backgrounds, supporting peace and cohesion right here in our state. And inside its partitions, it’s fought for a good go for everybody throughout the state. And the disgraceful, violent behaviour that vandalism we’ve seen at Trades Hall in a single day, simply flies in the face of that centuries outdated custom of preventing for what’s proper, for peace and concord, however doing it in a respectful manner. I need to make this message completely clear.
I’ve mentioned it numerous occasions – violence in Victoria doesn’t resolve and handle the violence that we’re seeing in the Middle East. So if you need peace, begin performing prefer it. If need to have a peaceable group, a peaceable society, be sure you reside these values right here on the streets of Victoria, as a result of this kind of disgraceful, violent anti-semitic behaviour is doing not one factor to cease the violence we’re seeing in the Middle East.
Andrew Messenger
Man charged with homicide after shootings in South Mackay
Queensland police have charged a person with homicide after allegedly taking pictures a girls sitting in a parked automobile in South Mackay yesterday.
The 31-year-old man can be accused of taking pictures a 66-year-old man, outdoors a house on Robb Place, in central Queensland, after he approached a short while later.
Two youngsters had been in the automobile on the identical time the 34-year-old girl was shot, however fled the scene for assist with out being injured.
A police spokesperson mentioned the 5 individuals concerned didn’t know one another, however lived on the identical avenue.
The alleged assassin fled the scene in a silver Mitsubishi Triton previous to police arrival, the spokesperson mentioned. He was later arrested at a petroleum station on the Bruce Highway close to Hilton Street.
Police charged him with one depend of homicide and one depend of tried homicide. He is because of seem at Mackay Magistrates court at the moment.
The 66-year-old man was handled at Mackay Base Hospital for wounds to the hand and sternum and is reportedly in a severe however steady situation. The 34 12 months outdated died on the scene
Benita Kolovos
Allan: Dutton and LNP ‘have a choice’ on nuclear
Asked if she considers nuclear “dangerous and deadly”, Allan replies:
“You simply have to take a look at the expertise internationally … [Former Victorian Liberal leader] Matthew Guy has spoken about this beautiful powerfully in the Victorian parliament about his family’s experiences with nuclear power that has gone mistaken in many various elements of the world. So we’ve to be taught from that however the vital level I need to make this morning is we’ve a alternative. Australia has a alternative.
We are blessed with a alternative. We can proceed on the pathway that Victoria has led with our robust renewable power focus and its supply. We have already got near 40% of our power combine right here in Victoria, being sourced from clear, safe, cheaper, renewable power that’s driving the transition, and most significantly to is offering safe jobs for our state.
Frankly, Peter Dutton and his federal Liberal National social gathering colleagues have a alternative. They can proceed to work with us. I’d like to work as we’re working with the federal Labor authorities, any authorities that desires to work with us on persevering with to drive that renewable power transition.
Benita Kolovos
Jacinta Allan reiterates opposition to nuclear reactors in Victoria
The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, is talking outdoors parliament concerning the letter she wrote to the opposition chief, Peter Dutton, telling him she wouldn’t negotiate on nuclear reactors in the state.
She says:
I made Victoria’s place yesterday completely crystal clear to the federal Liberal National social gathering chief Peter Dutton and his colleagues that I’ll stand with the Victorian group, significantly with the Gippsland group, and oppose him bringing poisonous, dangerous nuclear power reactors to the state of Victoria.
I’m making this clear for … easy and simple cause.
When you concentrate on the way forward for our state, when you concentrate on the long run we wish our youngsters to develop up in … I need it to be a state the place the power supply is clear, it’s safe, and it’s cheaper power. And what’s actually vital about our pathway that we’re already on with renewable power is that we all know that it really works.
We have the bottom wholesale costs right here in Victoria in that nation. We additionally to know that we’re on this pathway to renewable power transition. We have a alternative inside get on and preserve going on this pathway that helps jobs in Gippsland, jobs throughout regional Victoria [and] delivers cheaper, safer and cleaner power supply.
What the Liberal National social gathering is saying to Victoria and the nation, they need to reject that proof, they need to reject that future for our state and our nation. They need to convey poisonous, dangerous and costly nuclear power to our nation and we simply won’t stand for that.
SA premier joins objections to Coalition nuclear coverage
The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, has joined the refrain of premiers objecting to the Coalition’s nuclear plan, saying his main concern was prices.
Malinauskas was on Sky News earlier, the place he questioned why the opposition chief has but to launch the potential value of the coverage:
I don’t understand how Peter Dutton utterly defies market economics, science and proof.
Unless Peter Dutton has purchased some new technological answer round nuclear energy, which in fact he doesn’t, as a result of if he did the remainder of the world would know.
So in the absence of that, we’ve obtained to go on the proof that’s earlier than us.
My concern is completely round value. What we all know from all of the impartial analysis that’s out there’s that nuclear energy in the context of the Australian power market is definitely going to drive up costs relatively than driving down.
There’s just one or two issues which have occurred. Either Peter Dutton is aware of how a lot the price is and he’s refusing to inform us – or, much more scary, he’s introduced a coverage with out even understanding how a lot it’s doable.
AMA says not supporting vapes reform is ‘betrayal of a healthier, safer and cleaner future’
The Australian Medical Association has issued a warning that vapes are a “toxic threat to our health, environment and future.”
The affiliation urged all members of parliament to contemplate the well being impacts of vaping, with the Senate to quickly take into account the federal government’s vaping reforms.
The AMA mentioned materials used to make vapes additionally comes at a price to the setting with deforestation and destruction of habitats from mining for supplies and carbon emissions from their manufacture and transport.
The affiliation’s president, Prof Steve Robson, mentioned that something aside from assist for the reforms was “a betrayal of a healthier, safer and cleaner future for our kids.”
If you care concerning the well being of our kids, and the well being of our surroundings, then the selection is evident on vaping – assist the reforms earlier than the parliament.
Anything much less is a betrayal of a more healthy, safer and cleaner future for our youngsters.
Vapes are labeled as hazardous waste across the nation however most vapes are being thrown away in the rubbish, or worse – dumped as litter – which is horrible for the setting.
The plastic waste from the system physique and pod by no means absolutely decomposes.
The digital waste or lithium-ion battery waste can corrode and the metals and chemical compounds – like lithium – leak into the bottom, polluting the soil and water lengthy into the long run.
We know liquid nicotine can be an acute hazardous waste that’s poisonous to people if consumed.
Steven Miles says Queensland would oppose Coalition nuclear coverage
Queensland’s premier, Steven Miles, has flagged his state would oppose the Coalition’s nuclear coverage plan, elevating challenge with the price and the potential waste administration.
Miles was on ABC News Breakfast, the place he mentioned Queensland simply “didn’t need it” and that opposition chief Peter Dutton has an issue in that the state authorities owns the 2 websites picked for a possible nuclear reactor:
Well, fairly merely we disagree with them. The two huge issues with this plan is that the price and the way the waste will probably be managed. We know it will value a whole bunch of billions of {dollars} and that may imply individuals’s electrical energy payments will probably be greater and I’m involved concerning the future generations of Queenslanders who might want to handle this harmful radioactive waste perpetually.
We simply don’t want it. We have an in depth, costed plan to get to internet zero emissions in our power system via renewable, via photo voltaic and wind and pumped hydro storage in explicit, and that’s the plan we’re pursuing right here.
The different huge drawback for Peter Dutton is he’s chosen websites we personal. We nonetheless personal these turbines and we personal that land and we personal the transmission community from there and so with out our cooperation it’s very onerous to see how he can do it. You obtained to imagine he’s counting on an LNP state authorities cooperating with him.
I let you know what – if Labor is in authorities we are going to do all the things that we are able to to dam his plan to construct costly nuclear reactors on websites we personal right here in Queensland.
Cait Kelly
Domain predicts home costs will proceed to rise
Home costs will proceed to rise throughout Australia, with most capital cities anticipated to succeed in new document highs for each homes and items, Domain’s FY25 value forecast report has predicted.
Nicola Powell, Domain’s chief of analysis and economics, mentioned:
We predict that inhabitants development, building challenges, and borrowing energy would be the key drivers behind the value development. Demand has risen as housing composition adjustments, demographic shifts, and sturdy inhabitants development. We have seen a rise in single-person households and a lower in family measurement in normal (fewer individuals, on common, residing in every family), each amplifying housing demand, additional compounded by migration.
Home constructing has additionally struggled to maintain up with inhabitants development because of the shortage of land, weak constructing approvals, and excessive building prices, exacerbating the prevailing structural undersupply. This will result in an ongoing restricted provide of latest houses on the market.
Cait Kelly
Half of 4,000 interveiwed migrant employees being underpaid, analysis exhibits
A brand new report from Migrant Justice Institute has revealed simply how widespread underpayment is. Of the 4,000 migrant employees interviewed, over half had been underpaid. Most knew this, however 9 in 10 did nothing. One went to court – however recovered none of their wages.
It will not be clear that wages claims are being systematically resolved by way of different authorized boards or by the Fair Work Ombudsman, the report mentioned.
For these migrants, the dangers and prices of taking motion considerably outweighed the marginal prospect of success. However, 45% of those contributors indicated that they had been open to attempting to get well unpaid wages in the long run.
Associate Prof Laurie Berg mentioned:
The court processes have to be reformed to ship migrant employees the wages they’re owed. It is at the moment nearly inconceivable for a lot of migrant employees to make and pursue wage claims with out authorized assist.
The report known as for a brand new pathway for wage claims on the Fair Work Commission, and doubtlessly institution of a brand new truthful work court, extra funding for authorized help and a brand new authorities assure scheme so employees receives a commission when the employer disappears, liquidates or refuses to pay.
Migrant Justice Institute’s earlier survey discovered that out of 4,000 migrant employees, a minimum of a 3rd earned lower than $12 an hour.
PM: Coalition nuclear coverage has ‘no serious timeframe’ and ‘no details’
Albanese went on to say the coverage had “fallen apart within 24 hours.”
He mentioned there had been “no costings. There’s no serious timeframe. There’s no proportion of how much nuclear will be as part of the energy system. There’s no details on what type of reactor they will build.”
And the absurdity of Angus Taylor talking about hypotheticals. Well, is that hypothetical or is it actual? The seven websites going to get nuclear reactors imposed on them, it have to be mentioned, [are] a while twenty years away. But nonetheless, that’s what they’re saying. Is the session simply simply going via the motions? They can’t say in the event that they’ll present an actual session or not.
