Authorities received’t be ‘bullied’ by YouTube on social media ban, Plibersek says
Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek says Labor will “do no matter now we have to” to verify Australian kids are secure, as the federal government considers the parameters of a social media ban for underneath 16s.
Google has threatened authorized motion if YouTube is included within the social media ban.
It’s at present not included, however the eSafety commissioner has suggested the federal government to incorporate it.
Plibersek informed Dawn this morning the federal government will do what’s within the “greatest pursuits” of youngsters.
Plenty of children, they’re actually genuinely harmed by what they’re being uncovered to on social media …
We’re not going to be bullied out of taking motion by any social media large.
Key occasions
There are a couple of personal members payments being launched into the Home this morning.
Following Joyce’s repeal internet zero invoice, impartial MP Kate Chaney is introducing her invoice to cease AI know-how that trains or facilitates the manufacturing of kid sexual abuse materials.
You’ll be able to learn a bit extra about that invoice here.
Following Chaney, fellow impartial Zali Steggall is introducing a fact in political promoting invoice that may sort out “deceptive or misleading political promoting, together with the rising dangers posed by AI content material and deepfakes.”
The federal government launched its personal laws on misinformation and disinformation in political promoting close to the tip of the final time period, however didn’t deliver ahead a vote on it.
Steggall is introducing a invoice that’s the similar as the federal government’s, however can also be calling on Labor to reintroduce its personal invoice. Over within the Senate, David Pocock will give discover to introduce the identical invoice within the higher home.
Steggall says:
We all know there’s a large drawback, the query is, is there a political will to repair it?
There isn’t any doubt there’s a consensus for this. We all know deep pretend movies are extremely damaging they usually unfold like wildfire, except guard rails are put in place, we’re going to see a continuing erosion of belief in politics and the outcomes of elections.
Barnaby Joyce introduces internet zero repeal invoice to parliament
Parliament has begun sitting for the week, and Barnaby Joyce is introducing his internet zero invoice to the Home of Representatives.
Joyce says:
Internet zero goes to have completely no impact on the local weather by any means.
He says China, India, the US, components of south-east Asia and Africa aren’t abiding by the coverage, and says it’s making households in Australia poorer.
Sitting on the benches round Joyce are WA Liberal Ben Small and Nationals MPs Michael McCormack, David Batt, Llew O’Brien, Colin Boyce and Jamie Chaffey.
Palestinian help employee enters day 6 of starvation strike exterior Parliament Home
Nahed Elrays, a Palestinian author and growth supervisor at Unrwa within the US has been exterior Parliament Home in Canberra, taking part in a starvation strike and calling for an arms embargo on Israel.
Elrays started the strike six days in the past, restricted to simply water and nutritional vitamins. He now says he’s following the weight loss program of his kin and pals in Gaza, solely consuming one piece of flatbread, or small rice bowl, 3 tablespoons of legumes, and saltwater. He says underneath the solidarity quick he received’t devour greater than 400 energy a day.
On social media he writes, “the one phrases Australians will settle for are ‘arms embargo’ – and we need to hear them now”.
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‘We could get to the identical place’: Nationals chief on Joyce’s anti-net zero invoice
David Littleproud says he “respects” Barnaby Joyce’s resolution to not look ahead to the Coalition’s evaluation of internet zero coverage by introducing his anti-net zero invoice.
Requested whether or not Joyce is undermining the evaluation course of, Littleproud tells Sky Information it’s a “dedication for Barnaby”, and doesn’t imagine it makes the coverage course of harder.
Barnaby didn’t need to wait, I respect that. He didn’t need to look ahead to the remainder of the get together room. However we could get to the identical place, I don’t need to pre-empt it.
So what about the way forward for the Coalition if the Nationals determine to scrap internet zero and the Liberals need to maintain the coverage? Average Liberals have voiced issues that abandoning internet zero would destroy the Liberals’ credibility with mainstream voters.
Littleproud says the Nationals’ place can feed into the broader Coalition course of on vitality.
The political actuality is now we have to win our seats. We received all of them on the final election, however we are able to’t flip our again on, on what’s been taking place in our communities …
If now we have an knowledgeable coverage resolution, we are able to then, as we did with the voice [referendum], be capable to say and feed into the method the Liberal get together and the Coalition needs to run extra broadly.
Coalition’s vitality precedence is fuel, says Liberal main vitality evaluation
Dan Tehan says the group reviewing the Coalition’s vitality coverage had a “excellent dialogue” at their first assembly final week, and can concentrate on fuel coverage.
Tehan was tasked by chief Sussan Ley to evaluation all the Coalition’s vitality insurance policies, to assist decide the way in which ahead. On all insurance policies, together with internet zero, the get together goes again to the drawing desk.
Requested on Sky Information, whether or not Barnaby Joyce’s invoice to finish internet zero is making his job harder, Tehan says:
I’ve all the time had tough jobs when it’s come to my function, whether or not or not it’s in shadow ministry or in ministry. And I like the problem of these of that job. I look ahead to seeing what Barnaby has to say in his invoice. Like everybody who’s a member of the coalition, he has a proper to specific these views.
Tehan was additionally requested about barbs traded final week between him and Joyce, the place Tehan referred to Joyce and McCormack as “steers preventing”. That prompted a swipe from Joyce who stated, “The folks say they’re from the nation, get it proper. Steers don’t battle”.
Tehan stated jokingly:
I feel there might need been some surgical precision to the usage of my language, however we had a joke about that. And we’ll, we’ll, we’ll proceed to smile about it and and have fun.
Joyce says ‘billionaires’ benefiting from internet zero insurance policies
Barnaby Joyce is exterior parliament talking on his invoice to reverse internet zero by 2050.
With him are Nationals MPs Matt Canavan, Michael McCormack and Colin Boyce – all of whom have publicly referred to as to finish the coverage.
Additionally with Joyce is Liberal MP Garth Hamilton, a conservative backbencher from Queensland who’s changing into increasingly outspoken.
Joyce says it’s “billionaires” who’re benefiting from packages just like the capability funding scheme, designed to spice up main renewable vitality initiatives.
Coalition ought to take into account modification to cap Hecs indexation, Jane Hume says
Former Liberal frontbencher Jane Hume says an concept from her colleague Sarah Henderson to cap Hecs indexation at 3% has “benefit” and ought to be thought-about by the get together room.
Hume and Henderson have been each booted from the frontbench after the three Might election.
The Coalition has stated Labor’s Hecs invoice, to chop 20% of money owed and enhance the earnings threshold to start paying the debt again, will move by way of parliament.
Henderson introduced her modification, to cap indexation, within the Australian newspaper this morning.
Requested on Sky Information whether or not the coverage ought to have been canvassed first internally, fairly than aired to the media, Hume stated it shouldn’t be a “shock” that backbenchers deliver coverage like this ahead.
What Sarah’s proposing is that, primarily, if governments can’t management inflation, properly, college students shouldn’t need to pay the value that there’s a cap on what it’s that they need to need to pay. I feel that’s one thing that has benefit and ought to be thought-about. So I look ahead to Sarah taking that to our get together room for additional dialogue.
Dan Tehan, in a separate interview on Sky, stated Ley has arrange inside processes to incorporate backbenchers in coverage creation.
When [anyone’s] bought their coverage concepts, they need to be capable to deliver them ahead, and that’s what that’s what we’re seeing. Then we’ve bought to have the interior debate. We resolve our manner ahead, after which in unity, we put that case to the Australian public.
Kate Chaney says ‘the time might be proper’ for Israel sanctions
Unbiased MP Kate Chaney says recognition of a Palestinian state will occur in “good time” however now might be the proper time for sanctions towards Israel.
Talking to ABC Information Breakfast a bit earlier, Chaney stated the fast precedence is to cease kids from ravenous, and getting humanitarian help into Gaza.
She provides, Hamas ought to have “no function” in establishing a Palestinian state.
I feel the fast precedence is stopping kids from ravenous and ensuring they’re not being shot when persons are making an attempt to entry meals. So my focus actually is on how we get the humanitarian help organisations in there, doing what they do greatest, and ensuring that hunger just isn’t getting used as a instrument of warfare. Recognition will occur in good time …
Given it appears very seemingly that Israel is breaching worldwide legislation, and it’s actually necessary that Australia performs its half in upholding worldwide legislation, and the time might be proper for sanctions at this level.
Taiwan received’t be a part of Train Talisman Sabre, says Labor MP
Leaping again to Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek on Dawn this morning, on a panel with Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce, Plibersek says the federal government isn’t contemplating permitting Taiwan to hitch a serious army train.
Train Talisman Sabre is the biggest train carried out in Australia, coordinated between Australia and the US with 19 nations concerned, and about 40,000 personnel.
Taiwan has made a request to hitch the train, however Plibersek says it’s not being thought-about.
Australia actually values our unofficial relationship with Taiwan. We now have bought plenty of trade on commerce and funding and on regional safety and stability. We expect one of the simplest ways to take care of safety and stability in area is for no unilateral adjustments for the standing of relations between China and Taiwan. And we’re not at present contemplating involvement of Taiwan in train Talisman Sabre.
Joyce agrees Taiwan shouldn’t be included within the train, and says “I feel you possibly can be courting hazard in case you usher in Taiwan.”
Dan Tehan claims Hamas accountable for IDF troopers capturing Palestinians at Gaza meals checkpoints
Liberal frontbencher Dan Tehan says Hamas has been taking help coming into Gaza, telling ABC RN Breakfast, that Hamas is the “sole accountable actor” for the scenario within the area.
The Coalition has stated in latest days that the delay in humanitarian help coming into Gaza is “unacceptable”, and put the blame on Hamas.
Tehan says the delays in humanitarian help has been to make sure the help doesn’t go to Hamas.
The Israelis have been offering help up till that time, nevertheless it was all going to Hamas. It was that help was not being distributed to the Palestinian folks. So the Israelis stated, why are we offering help when Hamas is simply weaponising that help.
(A leaked US evaluation seen by Reuters discovered no proof Hamas was looting humanitarian provides at scale.)
Host Sally Sara asks Tehan in regards to the capturing of civilians at help stations which can be run by Israel, not Hamas. Tehan says:
It boils all the way down to, what are the precise information on the bottom? How did they lose their lives? What was, what was the influence? What was the involvement of Hamas in these incidents? As soon as once more, whereas Hamas is there as an internationally listed terrorist organisation, we’re sadly going to see most of these outcomes.
Sara pushes again, saying that Israel has admitted its forces fired in a few of these incidents. Tehan replies:
Israel have admitted that, however they’ve additionally admitted the explanations for that was as a result of they have been anxious and anxious in regards to the involvement of Hamas in these incidents. And clearly the perfect resolution could be if we are able to rid Gaza of Hamas.
Albanese says he picked 5 entries in Australian Hottest 100
Anthony Albanese says 5 of his 10 votes for the Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian songs made it into the countdown, however says he ought to have put the winner, INXS’s By no means Tear Us Aside, on his listing.
Becoming a member of Triple J Breakfast, the PM (or DJ Albo as he’s additionally been recognized), who has been a protracted follower of Australian music, reminisces on the gigs of his early 20s and 30s at iconic Sydney pubs.
However the dwell music scene has modified drastically within the many years since, and we’ve seen the variety of dwell music festivals diminish throughout the nation.
Albanese touts the federal government’s Revive Reside coverage to assist flip this round, and the election promise to increase it:
Something that we are able to do which to advertise Australian artwork throughout the board, is one thing that I do know [arts minister] Tony Burke is absolutely enthusiastic about.
Requested on the finish of the interview whether or not he’ll entrance as much as Triple J’s present affairs program, Hack, which he hasn’t been on for a yr, he says he’s “all the time completely happy to have a chat” and has been “fairly accountable” to the media and to the ABC.
Australia ‘prepared to maneuver’ on recognising Palestinian state, Bob Carr says
Former international affairs minister Bob Carr has welcomed Anthony Albanese and the federal government’s stronger statements on Gaza, however says Australia must go additional, and will recognise a Palestinian state.
Talking to ABC RN Breakfast, Carr stated the worldwide group might work with Palestine now to ascertain it as a state and guarantee it’s not militarised, and stated it was “unlucky” Australia was ready for the UK to maneuver first, fairly than following the France’s initiative.
That is the primary time within the eyes of the world {that a} trendy nation has used mass hunger towards the civilian inhabitants as a weapon of warfare.
We’ll insist that the Palestinian state that comes into being shall be one which opts to be a non-militarised state, that’s not to have armed forces, that could be a severe safety assure that may be delivered in negotiations, and the Palestinians have already supplied to placed on the desk.
Carr describes the horrific scenes the world has seen in latest days, of infants “with their vertebrae exhibiting by way of their starved pores and skin”, and says Israel’s army “controls all of the levers”.
The purpose is that the IDF controls all of the levers. It controls meals entry, and it’s opted to make use of its energy, even, on events, to shoot the people who find themselves distributing the meals.
Carr spoke out on Friday to induce the federal government to impose sanctions on the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu:
Authorities received’t be ‘bullied’ by YouTube on social media ban, Plibersek says
Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek says Labor will “do no matter now we have to” to verify Australian kids are secure, as the federal government considers the parameters of a social media ban for underneath 16s.
Google has threatened authorized motion if YouTube is included within the social media ban.
It’s at present not included, however the eSafety commissioner has suggested the federal government to incorporate it.
Plibersek informed Dawn this morning the federal government will do what’s within the “greatest pursuits” of youngsters.
Plenty of children, they’re actually genuinely harmed by what they’re being uncovered to on social media …
We’re not going to be bullied out of taking motion by any social media large.
Kate Chaney to introduce invoice banning AI baby abuse apps
Unbiased MP Kate Chaney will introduce a invoice in the present day to cease AI know-how that trains or facilitates the manufacturing of kid sexual abuse materials.
The invoice would make it an offence to obtain know-how for creating baby abuse materials and an offence to gather, scrape or distribute knowledge with the intention to coach or create know-how for creating baby abuse.
Chaney is on ABC Information Breakfast and says whereas its necessary to manage AI extra broadly (as the federal government has stated it’s taking a look at), she believes the parliament must also reply to particular gaps the place they emerge.
We completely do must take an holistic method to regulating AI, however we additionally want to have the ability to nimbly reply to dangers as they emerge. And this can be a clear hole in our felony code …
At present, possession of those photographs is unlawful, nevertheless it’s not unlawful to own these specific kinds of AI instruments which can be designed for the only real goal of making baby sexual abuse materials. So, it signifies that perpetrators can generate the fabric utilizing photographs of actual kids, delete the pictures, after which recreate them every time they need and keep away from detection.
Chaney says she’s met with the lawyer basic’s workplace however the problem is that there are plenty of “reviews and consultations” being performed whereas the know-how quickly evolves.
PBS ‘not a bargaining chip’ amid US tariff tensions, assistant minister says
The federal government has stated the Pharmaceutical Advantages Scheme (PBS) is “not a bargaining chip” because it launched laws to fulfil its election promise of constructing PBS prescription medicines cheaper.
Final week the federal government introduced some laws could be lifted to permit extra beef from the US to be imported to Australia, one thing the Trump administration had been publicly calling for.
Labor stated biosecurity legal guidelines wouldn’t be weakened within the course of, and stated there was no coincidence within the timing of the ten yr evaluation with the US administration’s calls.
The US pharmaceutical foyer has been calling for the Trump administration to additionally slap tariffs on the PBS.
The assistant minister for psychological well being, Emma McBride, informed ABC Information Breakfast this morning the federal government’s place that the PBS isn’t on the negotiating desk hasn’t modified.
The PBS just isn’t up for negotiation, it’s not a bargaining chip. Labor launched the Pharmaceutical Advantages Scheme to ensure that important medicines have been obtainable to all Australians.
Josh Butler
Labor to introduce cheaper PBS drugs laws to parliament this week
The federal government will progress one other of its election commitments this week, introducing laws into parliament for cheaper medicines on the PBS.
Fulfilling a key marketing campaign pledge, the brand new laws will imply prescription on the Pharmaceutical Advantages Scheme shall be capped at $25 from January.
The federal government has spruiked this as a key cost-of-living measure, constructing on an identical measure launched in 2023. The change will imply a 20% reduce within the most price of medicines on the PBS, which Labor says will save $200m per yr.
Anthony Albanese stated:
The scale of your financial institution steadiness shouldn’t decide the standard of your healthcare. My Authorities will proceed to ship price of residing aid for all Australians.
The well being minister, Mark Butler, added:
Cheaper medicines are good for the hip pocket and good to your well being.
For basic sufferers medicines haven’t been this low cost since 2004.
MPs Georgie Purcell and Josh Burns announce being pregnant
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Victorian higher home MP Georgie Purcell has introduced she is anticipating a child lady in early 2026 along with her accomplice, federal Labor MP Josh Burns.
Purcell, an MLC for the Animal Justice get together representing the northern Victorian area, made the announcement on social media on Sunday night time and stated she is going to nonetheless be contesting the 2026 state election. She wrote:
I’ll be working proper up till the tip of the parliamentary yr, and I’ll return to sitting weeks as common in February, with each intention to marketing campaign and contest the 2026 election. I’m extra dedicated to animals, folks and the planet than ever earlier than, and this is only one extra path I’m selecting. And I’m able to name out any suggestion in any other case. Not only for me, however for everyone else who could face acutely aware or unconscious bias when selecting to have a profession and a household.
She additionally shared that on account of her autoimmune situation, she is taken into account a high-risk being pregnant and would require weekly hospital visits.
Purcell stated whereas “two members from two totally different parliaments having a child is a bit distinctive, and there’s certain to be curiosity in it” they’ve requested respect and privateness. She wrote:
Whereas we’re certainly in public life, being pregnant is an extremely private expertise, so I ask that we’re granted respect and privateness identical to anyone else (however I do look ahead to sharing the components with you that we’re keen to share).
Burns additionally posted on social media:
Georgie and I are so excited to share with you that we’re anticipating a child lady within the very first few days of 2026. Our little child already has probably the most excited and loving huge sister in Tia. And he or she’ll have a house stuffed with animals, love, and enjoyable.
Subsequent yr, my group and I’ll maintain working onerous for the group we love, however I additionally plan on being a gift and concerned dad each step of the way in which.
The couple made their official public debut at Canberra’s 2024 Midwinter Ball. You’ll be able to learn extra about them on this profile on Purcell from January:
Good morning
Krishani Dhanji right here with you, and we’re locked in for an additional busy sitting week right here in Canberra.
Unbiased MP Kate Chaney will introduce a brand new invoice in the present day concentrating on AI instruments that create or facilitate the manufacturing of kid sexual abuse materials.
It’s not too usually you get actually completely happy information round parliament, however Victorian MP Georgie Purcell and federal Labor MP Josh Burns expect a child collectively. Purcell shared the information on her social media – we’ll have extra particulars on that shortly.
And the federal government’s childcare invoice will proceed its passage by way of parliament this week. Guardian Australia has new knowledge exhibiting the depth of reviews of abuse in childcare centres – you possibly can learn that report here.
