First Dubai to Sydney flight scheduled for this morning
Penny Wong has instructed ABC AM that the primary flight from Dubai to Sydney might depart this morning (Australia time), however is “depending on the circumstances”.
The overseas minister nonetheless maintains that industrial flights are the best choice for Australians attempting to get house.
Wong says the federal government is partaking with nations within the area, significantly the United Arab Emirates, the place there are about 24,000 Australians. There are 115,000 Australians within the broader area.
She says the scenario is “a consular disaster that dwarfs any that Australia has needed to cope with when it comes to numbers of individuals.”
Clearly, it’s very unpredictable. And I perceive there’s a flight scheduled from Dubai to Sydney.
We’re taking a look at all contingencies which are doable, however I once more say what I’ve mentioned over the past two days. When you’ve got as many Australians as we have now in, significantly within the Emirates, however broadly within the area, so it’s 115,000 Australians within the broader area, 24,000 in Emirates … That quantity of site visitors will actually need to see industrial flights resume even when solely sporadically, to get individuals house.
Key occasions
Liberal overview launch ‘welcome’ says former MP
Former Liberal MP Jenny Ware, who misplaced her seat of Hughes within the 2025 election, has welcomed the discharge of the social gathering’s publish election overview, however says it’s “embarrassing” that the federal government needed to do it.
Ware had met with the authors of the report Nick Minchin and Pru Goward final June, however mentioned she hadn’t heard again from both of them since.
She instructed Guardian Australia the social gathering owes it to its members, supporters and donors to be clear concerning the shock election outcome.
After all it’s embarrassing that the Labor Authorities launched the report quite than the Federal Liberal social gathering taking possession and making it publicly accessible.
Essentially the social gathering owes it to its 1000’s of members, supporters, donors and former members to show the the explanation why we had the worst marketing campaign in our historical past. We additionally had many candidates who put their lives on maintain to run as Liberals within the election they usually have been frolicked to dry.
Ware added that she desires to see the social gathering higher have interaction with girls – as voters, candidates and structurally throughout the social gathering.
Jonathan Barrett
ASX to drop as battle raises inflation fears
Australian shares are poised to drop sharply when the markets open this morning over fears a protracted battle within the Center East will gasoline inflation.
Futures pricing signifies the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 will open down greater than 1.3%, taking the index to across the 8,940 level mark.
The battle has continued to widen across the Middle East, with a whole bunch of individuals killed throughout the area, the overwhelming majority in Iran. On the similar time, oil prices have recorded sharp features.
The anticipated transfer on the ASX would observe US shares, which recorded steep declines in a single day, though Wall Road did pare a few of the losses late within the buying and selling session.
ANZ mentioned in a analysis word this morning that monetary markets continued to evaluate inflation dangers from power market disruptions.
Whereas vital uncertainty stays over the period of the battle within the Center East, monetary markets are pricing within the threat of prolonged disruption.
Rising oil costs drive inflation by rising the price of power and elevating manufacturing and transportation bills for nearly all financial items and providers.
Jim’s economic system a ‘home of bank cards’, Wilson says
Of us, I feel we have now a brand new slogan, with shadow treasurer, Tim Wilson, pushing this one on Sky Information this morning.
We all know he’s [Jim Chalmers] constructed an economic system on a home of bank cards, and he’s at all times in search of extra money as a strategy to tackle his spending habit and his bank card.
Wilson, speaking concerning the gasoline excise, and threats to the economic system from the struggle within the Center East, gained’t say whether or not the federal government ought to contemplate chopping the gasoline tax, as costs are tipped to rise.
He says he’ll watch the scenario carefully however notes that when the gasoline worth does improve, so does the share of excise, which fits in direction of the price range.
Once more, he gained’t say what the Liberals would do on this scenario.
We’re going via our processes to deal with how we’re going to confront these realities, nevertheless it appears fairly clear to me that the treasurer might take that motion [to cut the fuel excise] if he selected to take that motion. At this level, he’s fairly glad to take extra cash from tax income from Australians as a result of he’s bought a bank card habit that he must repay.
I counted at the least 12 mentions of “bank card” within the interview.
Hastie digs in on declare worldwide guidelines primarily based order is over
Andrew Hastie says the world is in a “new stage” of historical past and that the foundations primarily based order, and United Nations are actually “defunct” constructs.
He calls Donald Trump – as he did yesterday – an “apex opportunist”, pointing to the US’s actions in Venezuela, Nigeria and now Iran.
Hastie says his concern is that Australia must be extra self-sufficient, and “rise up by itself two ft” militarily.
I feel that that assemble is defunct in a way. We’ve bought a special president who’s mercantilist with regards to his kind of economics. I feel he’s an apex opportunist.
And my concern foremost by making these feedback is to wake Australia up. We’ve solely bought 30-odd days price of gasoline. If our delivery traces are reduce, then our complete economic system might grind to a halt in a short time. By no means thoughts the truth that our industrial base can be shrinking. And that makes us susceptible to world occasions. So, my concern is for our nation and ensuring that we’re resilient and self-sufficient.
Here’s a reminder of what Hastie mentioned yesterday …
And for these (like me) who don’t know what a “mercantilist” is, a fast Google search says mercantilism is an financial idea developed between the sixteenth and 18th centuries that claims a authorities ought to management the economic system and a nation ought to improve its wealth by exporting greater than importing.
‘Boss transfer’ from PM to desk Liberal overview, says Hastie
Shadow minister for trade and sovereign functionality, Andrew Hastie, joins RN Breakfast subsequent, and says it was a “boss transfer” for Anthony Albanese to desk the Liberals publish election overview.
The Liberal party had tried to shelve the overview, nevertheless it was already leaking out to the media earlier than touchdown within the prime minister’s arms.
Hastie says the social gathering and the brand new leaders have already acknowledged a few of the issues they bought incorrect within the election.
[Albanese] likes theatre. He had a twinkle in his eye when he did that. Clearly, it was leaked, and there was a little bit of stagecraft from him … However we’re not going to stay prior to now, we’re going to stay sooner or later, and our mission is to revive Australian’s way of life. We’re going backwards underneath Labor and likewise to guard our lifestyle. And that’s why we’ve been pursuing the Isis sympathiser case this week, as a result of our lifestyle is being challenged.
Host, Sally Sara, asks Hastie why the social gathering is concentrating on the ladies and youngsters caught in a Syrian detention camp, quite than specializing in the economic system. He says the difficulty goes to the 2 core pillars of the social gathering’s platform, to “restore our way of life and defend our lifestyle,” and that simply because commentators won’t just like the query time technique, it “doesn’t imply it’s incorrect”.
‘Alarming parallels’ with Iraq 2003, says Wilkie
Andrew Wilkie, an unbiased MP and former senior intelligence analyst with the Workplace of Nationwide Assessments, says the US and Israel have “exaggerated” justifications for the strikes on Iran, and has accused Donald Trump of utilizing “political methods” to extend the Republicans’ polling forward of the midterms.
On RN Breakfast, Wilkie says there are “alarming parallels” between the scenario now and when the US invaded Iraq in 2003, which had adopted the 2002 US midterm elections.
Wilkie additionally factors out that the US speaking about nuclear risk in Iran 18 months away is “utterly inconsistent” with what Trump mentioned after the 12-day struggle, that that they had crushed Iran’s nuclear functionality.
In each circumstances there was a failure to safe the approval of the United Nations. In actual fact, this time round, the US hasn’t even tried to get the approval of the United Nations.
Again in 2003, that was simply after the 2002 congressional midterm elections when the Republicans had actually crushed the drums of struggle they usually did nicely in these congressional midterms. However by that stage they have been on an inevitable course to have the battle. Similar this time round. The Republicans are doing poorly for the time being, their polling is poor, president Trump’s polling is poor, in order that they begin to beat the drums of struggle once more. It’s a political trick as previous as nations themselves.
Farrell says $15bn of commerce might be impacted by struggle
Labor’s commerce minister, Don Farrell, says a “comparatively small” quantity of Australia’s exports undergo the Center East because the struggle escalates within the area.
Talking to ABC Information Breakfast, Farrell says he’s assembly with 40 of Australia’s largest commerce organisations right now to make sure the trade comes “out the opposite finish of this in a strong scenario.”
Farrell gained’t chunk on how lengthy the battle might probably go on for, and says he gained’t speculate.
A comparatively small quantity, about $15bn price of commerce goes via the Center East. Clearly, that’s crucial for these corporations which are buying and selling there.
Our commerce is, the truth is, rising within the Center East. We now have a free commerce settlement with the United Arab Emirates. Already, our beef commerce has doubled within the six months that that commerce settlement has been in operation. However after all, all of that will get affected by this uncertainty of the struggle within the Center East.
Wong avoids questions on legality of strikes on Iran
The Australian authorities has to date dodged any questions across the legality of the US and Israeli strikes on Iran, saying it’s a matter for the 2 nations.
ABC AM host, Melissa Clark, tries once more to push Wong on the difficulty, following US president Donald Trump’s assertion that he thought Iran was going to assault Israel, and so the US needed to strike first.
Wong gained’t chunk, however provides that this battle didn’t begin with these strikes by the US and Israel, and likewise factors to the position of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps over two antisemitic assaults in Australia.
The authorized foundation of those strikes is in the end a matter for the US and Iran, sorry, and Israel, is in the end a matter for the US and Israel. We all know Iran has didn’t adjust to UN safety council resolutions on its nuclear program. We all know what Iran has been doing over a few years. I feel it is crucial for us to recollect this has not began with these strikes. This has been occurring for many years, together with in Australia.
First Dubai to Sydney flight scheduled for this morning
Penny Wong has instructed ABC AM that the primary flight from Dubai to Sydney might depart this morning (Australia time), however is “depending on the circumstances”.
The overseas minister nonetheless maintains that industrial flights are the best choice for Australians attempting to get house.
Wong says the federal government is partaking with nations within the area, significantly the United Arab Emirates, the place there are about 24,000 Australians. There are 115,000 Australians within the broader area.
She says the scenario is “a consular disaster that dwarfs any that Australia has needed to cope with when it comes to numbers of individuals.”
Clearly, it’s very unpredictable. And I perceive there’s a flight scheduled from Dubai to Sydney.
We’re taking a look at all contingencies which are doable, however I once more say what I’ve mentioned over the past two days. When you’ve got as many Australians as we have now in, significantly within the Emirates, however broadly within the area, so it’s 115,000 Australians within the broader area, 24,000 in Emirates … That quantity of site visitors will actually need to see industrial flights resume even when solely sporadically, to get individuals house.
‘Give us an advert break’ marketing campaign requires curbs on advertising of dangerous merchandise
Natasha Might
The federal government is being urged to restrict the “relentless” promoting of alcohol, playing and unhealthy meals by a brand new nationwide public well being marketing campaign launched right now.
The “give us an advert break” marketing campaign is asking for the federal authorities to introduce “a dangerous merchandise advertising act” as probably the most necessary steps to enhance the nation’s long-term well being.
Modelled on Australia’s world-leading tobacco laws, the regulation would regulate promoting of playing, alcohol and unhealthy meals throughout platforms, together with on-line, and cut back youngsters’s publicity to advertisements for merchandise linked to most cancers and power illness.
Over 130 well being organisations and leaders are behind the marketing campaign together with the Alliance for Playing Reform, the Basis for Alcohol Analysis and Schooling (Fare), the Meals for Health Alliance and VicHealth.
The transfer has sturdy group assist, in keeping with a nationally consultant survey Fare commissioned Pureprofile to conduct in February, as 4 in 5 Australians need much less promoting for playing, alcohol and unhealthy meals.
VicHealth chief, Prof Anna Peeters, mentioned decreasing youngsters’s publicity to dangerous advertising is without doubt one of the strongest steps the federal government can take to enhance the nation’s long-term well being.
Limiting promoting for alcohol, playing and unhealthy meals would considerably cut back the burden of most cancers, liver illness, kind 2 diabetes, coronary heart illness and monetary hurt throughout the group. By decreasing youngsters’s publicity to alcohol, playing and junk meals promoting, we will stop power sickness earlier than it begins and ease stress on households and the well being system.
It is a sensible, evidence-based alternative for the federal authorities to reshape the environments our kids develop up in. If we act now, we will create a future the place fewer Australians expertise preventable most cancers and power illness.
Sarah Basford Canales
Parliamentary watchdog ‘doesn’t have the facility to make an actual distinction’, Thorpe says
Lidia Thorpe says the parliamentary watchdog is powerless to make an actual distinction towards racism and the remedy of girls after it launched its first public assertion final week.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission named Victorian senator Ralph Babet as having made “offensive, disrespectful and dangerous” remarks in a social media publish printed in November 2024. The watchdog mentioned it had sanctioned him to attend one-on-one behaviour coaching and comply with chorus from additional related feedback however Babet had didn’t comply, leading to a public assertion.
Thorpe, who was censured on the identical day as Babet within the Senate for earlier protesting King Charles’s go to to Canberra, mentioned the physique’s investigation was obscure and confirmed it “nonetheless doesn’t have the facility to make an actual distinction”.
Below the regulation, the requirements umpire is ready to make a public assertion about an investigation if a parliamentarian fails to adjust to a sanction. The place a extra critical breach of the code has been dedicated, an IPSC decision-maker can refer the incident to a parliamentary privileges committee. That committee can impose wage fines and droop politicians.
In an announcement, Thorpe mentioned:
This end result is complicated, and the general public has no actual perception into the way it was determined. With the way in which the foremost events arrange the IPSC to hide deliberations, we might by no means know …
On this first case that has been made public, it appears the one end result was naming the senator concerned. We’ve no manner of figuring out whether or not stronger sanctions have been thought-about by the IPSC or the Privileges Committee, or even when the committee mentioned the matter in any respect …
The general public need to know the way this choice was made, what position the IPSC performed, what position politicians performed, and why the end result appears to be like like this.
We warned {that a} closed-door course of dominated by Labor and the Coalition would compromise transparency, accountability, and public confidence …
Everybody must be secure at work, and we’d like sturdy accountability processes round unhealthy behaviour.
However this office nonetheless has deep issues, particularly with regards to racism and the remedy of girls.
Far more must be accomplished, and sadly the IPSC nonetheless doesn’t have the facility to make an actual distinction.
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NSW funding physique backs renewable tasks, two lodges, and fuel pipeline
Penry Buckley
The NSW authorities has introduced the primary spherical of tasks it’s endorsing via its Funding Supply Authority (IDA), together with greater than a dozen clear power and battery storage tasks, two lodges, and one fuel pipeline.
The endorsements by the IDA, a physique created at this yr’s state price range, will not be a direct funding, however present corporations with a “concierge service” to chop via pink tape, together with devoted authorities assist with planning approvals and infrastructure supply.
The NSW treasurer, Daniel Mookhey, who’s showing earlier than price range estimates right now, says the IDA “helps guarantee main funding proposals that matter to our economic system obtain the eye they require”.
The 16 tasks, price a mixed $34.4bn, embody 13 renewable power or battery storage websites, comparable to electrical energy and fuel large AGL’s Hunter power hub, and wind and photo voltaic farms. Additionally they embody Hunter Fuel Pipeline Pty Ltd, acquired by Santos in 2022, which owns an permitted fuel pipeline route from Wallumbilla in Queensland to Newcastle, passing near Santos’ controversial Narrabri gas project.
The opposite endorsements are two resort tasks price a mixed $482m. One, the Vuez Eco Resort, describes itself on its web site as a “future-focused eco-tourism vacation spot on the shores of Lake Jindabyne, bringing collectively sustainable design, nature, and year-round alpine experiences”.
The opposite is a redevelopment of a heritage-listed warehouse close to Sydney’s Central station that was gutted during an “apocalyptic” blaze in May 2023. The state authorities expects to announce knowledge centre proposals to the IDA at a later date due to the size of power and water infrastructure required by the sector.
Victorian premier reveals begin date for authorized proper to make money working from home
Benita Kolovos
The precise to make money working from home two days per week can be enshrined in Victoria’s Equal Alternative Act, the premier, Jacinta Allan, will announce right now, with plans for the legal guidelines to take impact earlier than the state election.
After asserting yesterday that the best to make money working from home would apply to all businesses, Allan will right now verify the federal government will introduce laws to the Victorian authorities in July. If handed, it will take impact on 1 September.
Final yr, the premier announced that her authorities would legislate the best to make money working from home two days per week for individuals who can “fairly” accomplish that. It has since develop into a key pillar of Labor’s re-election pitch forward of the November ballot.
On the time, she mentioned the authorized proper would apply to each private and non-private sector staff nevertheless it was unclear how it will be enforced. It’s because Victoria, like different states, transferred its industrial relations powers for personal sector staff to the federal authorities years in the past.
Allan will say right now that the best to make money working from home can be enshrined within the Equal Alternative Act. The act, launched in 2010, makes it illegal to discriminate towards an individual primarily based on particular person attributes comparable to age, race, intercourse and incapacity.
It’s understood the federal government will search to make it illegal to discriminate towards individuals who make money working from home two days per week. It might not apply to individuals whose roles stop them from working from house.
Allan mentioned in an announcement:
Solely Labor has new options to make life simpler, safer and extra inexpensive. That’s why we are going to defend make money working from home in regulation from 1 September.
Albanese talks to UAE chief about stranded Australians
Tom McIlroy
Anthony Albanese spoke final evening with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates.
They mentioned the scenario going through stranded Australians within the Center East.
There are about 24,000 Australians within the UAE, many stranded on account of flight disruptions brought on by bombings by the Iranian regime, in retaliation to weekend strikes by the US and Israel.
The 2 leaders have been capable of trade views on the present scenario within the Center East, and Albanese thanked the president for assist for Australians stranded by the battle.
The pair additionally mentioned the significance of the resumption of economic flights as quickly as doable.
Albanese additionally spoke along with his New Zealand counterpart Christopher Luxon yesterday.
They exchanged views on the Center East and mentioned the consular challenges led to by the battle.
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Anthony Albanese has mentioned the scenario going through stranded Australians within the Center East with the president of the United Arab Emirates as many proceed to hunt an exit from the area engulfed within the US-Israeli struggle on Iran. Extra coming.
The federal government is being urged to restrict the “relentless” promoting of alcohol, playing and unhealthy meals by a brand new nationwide public well being marketing campaign launched right now. We’ve extra particulars shortly.
And the Victorian premier has introduced her intention to present Victorians the authorized proper to 2 days per week of working from house by the primary of September this yr.
