‘We’re again to the usual climate wars in the Coalition,’ Murray Watt says
Murray Watt says the opposition has “started the new climate wars” after Barnaby Joyce and Keith Pitt, two senior Nationals, referred to as for Australia to tug out of the Paris settlement. You can learn extra on this from Karen Middleton under:
Speaking to ABC News Breakfast, Watt mentioned:
We’re again to the usual climate wars in the Coalition. I noticed in a single day that [Joyce and Pitt] brazenly referred to as for the Coalition to tug out of the Paris settlement. They’ve spent the final couple of days attempting to paper over the cracks in the Coalition, saying that they will withdraw the goal with out withdrawing from the settlement. Now it’s on the market in the open for everybody to see. And you possibly can set your clock by Barnaby Joyce inflicting new climate wars inside the Coalition. It’s appear to be we’re again to the dangerous previous days.
He additionally defended the authorities’s progress on assembly its climate targets, saying:
We’re on observe to get to 42%, which is just one% wanting the 43% goal.
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The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a extreme climate warning for damaging winds about south-east Victoria as we speak:
‘We have much, much more to do’ on emissions, Bowen says
Moving to the authorities’s power coverage, host Patricia Karvelas requested whether or not the authorities had underestimated how troublesome the rollout of renewables could be?
Chris Bowen mentioned the targets set had been “clearly ambitious, as they should be, but also achievable.” He mentioned that “a lot of the policies we put in place take time to work [and] we’ve never pretended otherwise” – pointing to the new automobile effectivity requirements as simply one instance.
Q: In the final two years we haven’t seen the outcomes, proper?
Bowen responded:
We have seen some emissions discount however I agree we have a lot, far more to do. I’m happy with what we’ve carried out in our first two years. I’m not but happy as a result of we have far more to do and we have to remain the course.
Now should you rip up the capability funding scheme, should you rip up new automobile effectivity requirements, should you say – as the opposition has – we’re going to pause the rollout of renewables so we have time to do nuclear someday in the 2040s after all, you’re not going to fulfill targets … you’re not attempting to fulfill targets. And that’s the level: they don’t need to meet the goal.
Chris Bowen says opposition’s climate stance ‘a terrible mess’
The climate change and power minister, Chris Bowen, has criticised the opposition’s stance on the Paris settlement, and its common power coverage, as a “terrible mess”.
Bowen simply spoke with ABC RN and mentioned:
The opposition has been a multitude all weekend. Peter Dutton didn’t simply say we wouldn’t meet the goal, and naturally confirmed underneath his coverage they definitely wouldn’t meet the goal with the nuclear fantasy and ripping up the new automobile effectivity requirements and every little thing else – he really mentioned he would oppose the goal and rip it up…
Since then, [the Coalition has] tried a number of formulations to attempt to retrofit some form of coherence. All of these have failed.
Ted O’Brien, in your present yesterday and elsewhere, was implying ‘oh we’ll have a 2030 goal however we’ll announce it after the election’. Now that both exhibits incompetence that they will’t have a look at what the influence of their insurance policies are, or dishonesty that they know they’ll have horrible impacts, however they only received’t share them with the Australian individuals earlier than. So that is all a horrible mess.
Monique Ryan: ‘Young people deserve politicians ready to tackle climate change’
The unbiased MP for Kooyong, Monique Ryan, has responded to the Coalition’s power stance in a publish to X, stating:
Australia generally is a clear power superpower.
Instead, the Liberals/Nationals need us to desert climate targets & the Paris Agreement.
Young [people] deserve politicians able to sort out climate change & the [business] group wants confidence their clear power investments are price it.
Australia generally is a clear power superpower.
Instead, the Liberals/Nationals need us to desert climate targets & the Paris Agreement.
Young ppl deserve politicians able to sort out climate change & the biz group wants confidence their clear power investments are price it.
— Dr Monique Ryan MP (@Mon4Kooyong) June 10, 2024
Steven Miles says as we speak’s Queensland funds designed to deal with rising family prices
The Queensland premier, Steven Miles, says the state funds – set to be handed down as we speak – is a “cost of living budget” designed to deal with family prices, defending the excessive debt.
Speaking to ABC News Breakfast, he mentioned:
This initiatives our debt will stay far far decrease that comparable states, notably NSW and Victoria. And we’ll even be capable of verify as we speak that we’ll end this yr in surplus, despite the fact that it was projected to be a deficit.
You’re proper, to fund the initiatives we go into deficit subsequent monetary yr however we return to surplus in years three and 4, and that could be a affordable step for a authorities to take when households are combating the value of residing like they’re proper now.
‘We’re again to the usual climate wars in the Coalition,’ Murray Watt says
Murray Watt says the opposition has “started the new climate wars” after Barnaby Joyce and Keith Pitt, two senior Nationals, referred to as for Australia to tug out of the Paris settlement. You can learn extra on this from Karen Middleton under:
Speaking to ABC News Breakfast, Watt mentioned:
We’re again to the usual climate wars in the Coalition. I noticed in a single day that [Joyce and Pitt] brazenly referred to as for the Coalition to tug out of the Paris settlement. They’ve spent the final couple of days attempting to paper over the cracks in the Coalition, saying that they will withdraw the goal with out withdrawing from the settlement. Now it’s on the market in the open for everybody to see. And you possibly can set your clock by Barnaby Joyce inflicting new climate wars inside the Coalition. It’s appear to be we’re again to the dangerous previous days.
He additionally defended the authorities’s progress on assembly its climate targets, saying:
We’re on observe to get to 42%, which is just one% wanting the 43% goal.
Watt questioned on stay sheep exports
Murray Watt was additionally requested about the ban on stay sheep exports – with a committee now to look into this earlier than the laws goes via.
Is there something that may change the authorities’s thoughts on this, given the pushback from the business in WA?
Watt responded that the authorities had promised to part out stay sheep exports at the earlier two elections and “we intend to proceed with that policy”.
But it’s vital the home of representatives committee “has an opportunity to review the legislation before any vote is taken”, he mentioned.
We must do not forget that there are large alternatives for Western Australia and the nation as a complete to extend the onshore processing of sheep. At the identical time that we’ve seen stay sheep exports plummet over the final 20 years, we’ve seen large booms in the quantity of sheep meat that we’re exporting proper round the world, as properly as home consumption. And that’s the place the value-adding will likely be in the future. That’s the place the jobs will likely be in the future and that’s what we need to ship to Western Australia.
Here is extra from the authorities’s preliminary announcement to part out stay sheep exports, from final March:
Australia’s egg provide not impacted by hen flu, agriculture minister says
Agriculture minister Murray Watt says Australia’s egg provide is just not in danger from hen flu.
Speaking on ABC News Breakfast simply earlier, Watt mentioned:
I do know that there was slightly little bit of alarm yesterday prompted by Coles making a pre-emptive determination to restrict egg gross sales to 2 cartons per buyer. Obviously, many different retailers have not adopted swimsuit. So individuals are in a position to store round in the event that they do want to purchase greater than two dozen.
He mentioned there have been 5 poultry farms in Victoria contaminated with a specific pressure of avian flu – however not the “highly dangerous strain … that we have seen circulating in other parts of the world”.
But the backside line is that day by day, Australia produces 18m eggs day by day and there’s no danger to that provide stopping any time quickly …
Of course, if you have this type of an outbreak, there’s at all times the risk that it turns into greater. But what I’ve seen and noticed and spoken with the Victorian minister about is that the Victorian authorities has carried out a implausible job in getting on the entrance foot early to restrict the unfold of this illness.
Our rural and regional editor Calla Wahlquist has extra on this under:
Grants for houses ‘save billions on big energy projects’
Each family ought to be supplied as much as $6,500 to put in grid-connected photo voltaic batteries and landlords ought to be incentivised to affix the renewable power revolution, a report has discovered.
As AAP experiences, the Clean Energy Council made the suggestions in a examine launched as we speak that investigates the influence photo voltaic panels, home batteries and different client belongings might have on Australia’s electrical energy market.
The report, which incorporates modelling from Oakley Greenwood, additionally discovered failing to adequately assist family renewable power investments might value the nation greater than $22bn and 18,200 additional jobs by 2050.
The council’s Powering Homes, Empowering People report examined how client power sources might scale back prices in the electrical energy system.
It discovered that supporting households to take up renewable power technology and storage units, at the price beneficial by the Australian Energy Market Operator, would save $20bn in any other case spent on large-scale initiatives and greater than $2bn on community infrastructure.
The report additionally discovered reaching the market operator’s client power sources goal would result in 3.6m extra houses putting in photo voltaic batteries, save all electrical energy customers between $35 to $71 a yr, and create 1000’s extra jobs in manufacturing, set up and upkeep.
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Man shot as eight masked men drive entry into Sydney home
A person has been shot throughout a home invasion in Sydney’s south-west by eight masked men.
NSW police mentioned that about 12.45am this morning emergency providers responded to experiences of a person being shot in a home in Carnes Hill.
NSW Ambulance paramedics handled a 25-year-old man for a gunshot wound to the proper leg. He was taken to Liverpool hospital in a severe however steady situation.
Officers from Liverpool police space command had been instructed that eight men sporting face coverings had compelled entry into the premises.
The men had been confronted by the 25-year-old man – a resident of the home – earlier than he was shot twice.
Petrol was then poured via the home – however not ignited – earlier than the men left in two separate automobiles.
Shotgun injury was sustained to a automobile parked in the driveway of the home.
A criminal offense scene has been established as investigations start. Police mentioned they consider it was a focused assault and have appealed for anybody with data to contact them.
Palestinian footballers ‘need to deliver pleasure’ to their individuals
Joey Lynch
Palestine’s soccer facet is refusing to be distracted from their World Cup qualifier in opposition to the Socceroos this night.
Already coping with the shadow forged by the Israel-Gaza conflict, one other diversion was thrust upon the squad on Saturday when 7 News reported that Palestine Football Association president Jibril Rajoub had been denied entry into Perth over a “technicality” in his visa utility.
Prime minister Antony Albanese distanced himself from the determination on Monday, saying:
These selections are made at arm’s size by the our bodies, by the immigration division.
In their official pre-match press convention on Monday, the crew was steadfast of their want to maintain their concentrate on their efforts to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and convey “joy” to the Palestinian individuals.
Midfielder Mohammed Rashid mentioned:
“The issues which can be occurring at all times have [happened]. Even if there was no conflict, there are particular issues that occur round every participant’s homes or households round Palestine that have an effect on [them].
What’s occurring proper now it’s affecting all of us. Because it’s actually laborious to see… if you see any harmless particular person get damage for no motive, you possibly can’t you possibly can’t assist however get affected by it.
But with regards to soccer, you attempt to, no less than for the recreation, simply get your head out of it and in your efficiency. Because should you’re performing properly, you’re doing what you realize your nation deserves.
Read a full report on the buildup:
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‘Trump is a bully’
Malcolm Turnbull additionally spoke about how Australian leaders would possibly take care of the “very different world” posed by a second presidential time period of Donald Trump.
Speaking about his personal experiences of coping with Trump, Turnbull recalled the “big row … quite a heated one in fact” that they had over the refugee resettlement deal he had made with Barack Obama.
He instructed ABC 7.30’s Laura Tingle on Monday:
Trump is a bully, clearly, a giant domineering persona. And, most individuals’s intuition coping with him is to suck as much as him and be deferential and inform him what he needs to listen to.
The solely factor you get from a bully, should you give into them, is extra bullying.
I had an excellent relationship with Trump despite the fact that we’re very totally different politics … as a result of I stood as much as him, and he revered me for it.
Should Trump be elected, he mentioned:
We will likely be coping with a really totally different America … We have to take care of the hand of playing cards that we’re dealt.
Turnbull sounds warning over nuclear power plan
Daisy Dumas
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has taken intention at Liberal chief Peter Dutton’s nuclear power coverage, warning that it might alienate these whose votes had been misplaced in 2022.
He instructed the ABC on Monday night:
The least expensive type of new technology is photo voltaic. Renewables will not be dearer and that is the downside Peter Dutton has as a result of he’s on the market saying renewables are dearer and so they’re placing costs up.
A second time period of Donald Trump in the White House wouldn’t be good for the climate globally, whereas Australia’s rejection of the 2030 climate targets underneath Dutton could be a “big negative” for funding into renewables, Turnbull mentioned on 7.30.
We want to take care of that continued momentum. The curious factor from an election viewpoint is why Dutton is doing it.
Because, you realize, nuclear energy is just not going to ship cheaper electrical energy that’s completely clear, and isn’t going to ship electrical energy any time quickly. It will take many years to ascertain nuclear energy vegetation and we don’t have an abundance of time.
And, so it appears to me and lots of different individuals in the Liberal occasion, that it’s an method that’s going to additional alienate the very individuals whose votes will final in 2022. And I don’t see the way it’s going to help Peter Dutton in profitable authorities.
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Martin Farrer
Good morning and welcome to our rolling news protection. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be bringing you the high tales earlier than my colleague Emily Wind comes alongside to take the controls.
Australia’s dedication to international climate targets is as soon as once more being questioned by the Coalition’s management and MPs. Former Nationals chief Barnaby Joyce and Morrison cupboard colleague Keith Pitt have called for the Coalition to desert the Paris international climate change settlement and associated emissions discount targets, claiming politicians risked getting “voted out” by backing the targets. The prime minister Anthony Albanese has accused Peter Dutton of strolling away from climate motion.
And it’s not simply the present prime minister. Malcolm Turnbull instructed the ABC’s 7.30 final evening that Dutton’s advocacy of nuclear energy dangers alienating the identical voters who abandoned the Coalition in 2022 and allowed independents to steal usually conventional conservative inner-city seats. Turnbull, who was ousted from the Lodge largely due to Dutton, mentioned nuclear energy was too costly and he couldn’t see how it will assist the opposition win energy. Business leaders, in the meantime, have urged the Coalition not to return to the “climate wars”, according to today’s Fin Review.
Palestine’s footballers have tried to brush off controversy earlier than their World Cup qualifier in Perth in opposition to the Socceroos tonight by downplaying experiences that the president of their FA was denied entry to Australia due to “technical” visa problem. With feelings working excessive in Australia about the Israel-Gaza conflict, the crew’s midfielder Mohammed Rashid mentioned the gamers simply wished to “bring joy” to people back home. More developing.
As the Queensland authorities presents its funds as we speak, the focus is on cost-of-living assist. But we have an unique story that the Miles authorities can even pour $56m into establishing a forensic examination service for victims of sexual violence in public hospitals throughout the state. It comes after the Guardian reported final October that an alleged teenage rape sufferer was made to wait three hours for care as a result of her treating physician had no coaching in the area. More developing on the Queensland funds and what to look out for.