Dutton tells Tasmanians Labor will ‘destroy’ salmon trade
Krishani Dhanji
Opposition chief Peter Dutton can also be at a marketing campaign rally, within the battleground state of Tasmania.
A key subject within the state has been the way forward for the salmon trade at Macquarie Harbour and its influence on an endangered fish, the Maugean Skate.
Throughout finances week, Labor handed laws to safe the trade – with assist from the Coalition – however Dutton’s claiming Labor will “destroy” the salmon trade.
You understand the story all too nicely, Labor was on a pathway to destroy the Tasmanian salmon trade, precisely what they need to do to forestry on this nice state as nicely … we stopped Labor’s plan to cease salmon farming right here in Tasmania.
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Krishani Dhanji
Albanese says battery coverage helps make voting alternative ‘crystal clear’
On the battery coverage – which Labor says will profit Queenslanders greater than another state – Albanese mentioned it helped makes the selection between the 2 events “crystal clear”.
Our plan for cheaper dwelling batteries will begin on the first of July this yr. It makes the selection crystal clear: wait till someday within the 2040s for costly nuclear power below the Liberal celebration, or get monetary savings this yr and yearly afterwards with solar energy below Labor.
The $2.3bn plan will slash the cost of household batteries by 30%, as a part of a twin cost-of-living and local weather motion pitch to voters.
Overseas minister Penny Wong instructed Insiders this morning it could assist about 1m households to 2030.
PM says Labor to ‘make individuals higher off over subsequent three years’ in first marketing campaign rally
Krishani Dhanji
Anthony Albanese has formally launched the battery coverage at his first election rally, in Queensland.
The PM was met with a rapturous welcome, addressing adorning crowds of Labor supporters – and plugging his authorities’s tax cuts and funding in Medicare.
He additionally attacked feedback from the opposition chief – who hails from Queensland – that he’d wish to dwell at Kirribilli Home in Sydney over the Lodge within the nation’s capital.
Albanese celebrated what’s been a powerful first week of the marketing campaign for Labor.
[We’re] constructing on the sturdy foundations now we have laid over the past three years, specializing in the insurance policies that can make individuals higher off over the following three years.
And whereas now we have been working on our constructive plan, the LNP have been working for canopy. Working away from questions on their promise to chop wages and improve taxes, and attempt to run and conceal from the cuts they are going to make to schooling and well being to pay for his or her $600 billion nuclear reactors.
Labor’s dwelling battery plan welcomed as ‘important’ assist for decreasing payments
The Clear Vitality Council (CEC) has welcome the federal government’s rooftop photo voltaic battery announcement right this moment that might see customers save 30% on a family battery, calling it a “important and welcome cost-of-living measure” for the 4 million Australians with rooftop photo voltaic.
The CEC mentioned the typical upfront value of buying a battery was round $14,000, which had been a barrier to entry for a lot of owners, with lower than 5% of households with rooftop photo voltaic investing in battery storage, in line with CEC information.
“It’s been the lacking piece of the power transition puzzle in terms of additional lowering power payments for Aussie households,” mentioned Con Hristodoulidis, the CEC’s basic supervisor. He added:
The federal government’s proposed low cost of $4,000 on a medium-sized (11.5 kWh) battery will see owners save round $1,100 per yr on their payments…
The extra batteries now we have within the system, the extra energy we are able to retailer and use for these peak occasions when power is dearer, and taking stress off the distribution community results in decrease energy payments for everybody. Our evaluation exhibits this community saving will be as excessive as $190m for all power customers.
A nationwide battery scheme will guarantee extra households shall be empowered to turbocharge their power independence and save on their payments. It’s excellent news for everyone’s wallets, and the long-term way forward for Australia’s trendy power system – constructed on the most affordable type of renewable power backed by storage.
The Australian Council of Social Service (Acoss) welcomed the announcement, saying it could “assist a quicker transition to scrub power and assist decrease energy payments for all” but additionally known as on the federal government to funding in thermal effectivity, electrical home equipment and photo voltaic for these struggling probably the most.
“Supporting ongoing funding in renewable power and power storage, like dwelling batteries, is important to addressing the local weather disaster and decreasing energy payments, slightly than polluting and costly gasoline and nuclear,” mentioned the performing CEO of Acoss, Edwina MacDonald.
Nonetheless, if events are severe about offering focused power invoice aid to individuals with the least, there should even be additional funding in measures like thermal effectivity, electrical home equipment and photo voltaic for low-income housing and renters.
The truth is the house battery subsidy shall be taken up by individuals who personal a house and have already got photo voltaic and decrease power payments. It’s the individuals on the bottom incomes and renters that proceed to overlook out.
Greens blast Coalition’s worldwide pupil cap as ‘blatantly racist’
The Greens have issued an excoriating assertion blasting Peter Dutton’s announcement right this moment that the Coalition would minimize the consumption of overseas college students by 80,000, in a plan geared toward lowering demand for housing.
Below the plan there, at most 115,000 abroad college students can be allowed to start examine in Australia at publicly funded universities annually, and an extra 125,000 within the vocational schooling and coaching (VET), personal college and non-university increased schooling sectors.
The Coalition mentioned this may lead to a discount of greater than 80,000 in annual new abroad pupil commencements in contrast with 2023 ranges and was finished in a bid to scale back stress on housing.
However the Greens have labelled the transfer “blatantly racist” and “a cynical try to scapegoat migrants and worldwide college students for a housing disaster they didn’t trigger”.
Senator Mehreen Faruqi, deputy chief of the Australian Greens and spokesperson for increased schooling, mentioned:
Dutton’s plan to slash pupil numbers and triple visa charges is a cynical ploy to stoke worry and division within the lead-up to an election. It’s a smokescreen to cowl up the Coalition’s personal failures and inaction.
Labor should take accountability for beginning this spherical of punching down on worldwide college students with the caps they pushed for final yr. We knew this was going to show ugly and hurt so many individuals of color dwelling on this nation.
The information are clear, we’ve seen the proof: worldwide college students aren’t the reason for skyrocketing rents or unaffordable housing. That accountability lies squarely with successive governments who’ve refused to construct sufficient public housing and prioritised lining the pockets of rich property traders.
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Greens to push free of charge early childhood schooling
The federal Greens have named entry to free, common early childhood schooling as one in every of their precedence insurance policies within the occasion of a minority authorities.
The celebration has proposed treating early childhood like public colleges. It could push for each youngster to have entry to 50 hours of free schooling and care every week. It could additionally lengthen common entry to pre-school to 30 hours every week for all three- and four-year-olds.
The coverage would value an estimated $29bn over 4 years.
Greens chief Adam Bandt will launch the coverage alongside the celebration’s candidate for Macnamara, Sonya Semmens, and Senator Steph Hodgins-Could later right this moment.
Right here’s Bandt:
In a rich nation like ours everybody ought to be capable to afford childcare, however too many households are battling the associated fee.
What Labor’s doing isn’t working, and Peter Dutton would take childcare backwards.
Specialists predict we’re heading for a minority parliament, the place the Greens will preserve Dutton out and push Labor to deal with early childhood schooling like college, the place it needs to be free to go together with high quality assured.
Wong says one million households will take up photo voltaic batteries by 2030
Penny Wong has defended Labor’s announcement right this moment that it’s going to help homeowners with rooftop photo voltaic to purchase batteries, after being quizzed on how many individuals the coverage would truly assist.
The federal government has introduced that if re-elected it would make batteries cheaper for households, small companies and group services – lowering the price of the standard dwelling battery by 30%, ranging from 1 July.
Batteries for family photo voltaic value round $6,000–$14,000 for rooftop methods with 6-10kw capability, and David Speers requested the overseas minister how many individuals may benefit from the coverage, even with the 30% worth discount being supplied by the federal government.
“We expect, as much as 2030, about one million households,” mentioned Wong.
Can I inform you, the mismatch we’re attempting to deal with right here is now we have lots of people with photo voltaic on roofs however not lots of people with batteries to make sure they will make full utilisation of that energy. We have to bridge that hole. That’s what this coverage does.
However pushed on the truth that these on the bottom earnings won’t be able of afford this, she mentioned:
It’s not the one coverage now we have. You might have seen power rebates. We all know power costs have been troublesome, there’s a spread of causes for that. One among them is the struggle in Ukraine, the impact on international power costs, and the opposite is sort of a decade of Coalition authorities the place we noticed provide exit the system.
Wong says Australia will ‘follow Aukus’ regardless of Trump tariffs
The overseas minister, Penny Wong, has mentioned the Australian authorities will follow the Aukus submarine plan, regardless of the announcement of 10% tariffs of Australian exports to the US, as a result of “our strategic relationship and our alliance with the USA is larger than a foul choice”.
“The second level I’d make is Aukus is important to Australia’s defence functionality. That’s why we’re continuing down this path. It’s additionally why the decision for Mr Dutton to hyperlink defence right into a commerce dispute is so dangerous and so reckless, as prime minister Howard identified himself,” Wong instructed ABC’s Insiders.
Requested whether or not the federal government ought to “follow Aukus” whatever the US president’s behaviour, she mentioned: “We follow Aukus as a result of it’s in Australia’s nationwide pursuits. As all defence selections needs to be, as all financial selections needs to be.”
Wong additionally mentioned the Trump tariffs confirmed the significance of Australia diversifying its commerce relationships, saying Australia had “some company right here”.
We’ve got some capability to have interaction with different nations who additionally need to proceed to see commerce stream. We’ve got a capability to diversify our financial relationships.
We all know that US exports from Australia is about 5% of our exports and that’s why now we have bought to proceed to develop our exports with different nations. India, which has turn into our fourth largest export market, we see our south-east financial technique – which I talked about for the final couple of years – is so essential and we’re seeing that develop. And, after all, different commerce agreements that we’re in or pursuing.
Littleproud says Coalition to ‘impose a cost’ on gasoline exports till home wants met
The Nationals chief is being requested concerning the Coalition’s gasoline plan, introduced in the course of the opposition chief’s budget-in-reply speech, and confusion about the way it’ll work.
Littleproud mentioned:
In impact, there’s about 1200 petajoules which can be basis contracts that we’re not going to the touch. We’ve got to take care of our worldwide relationships. What we’re additionally having, our home grid in the meanwhile, is round 500 petajoules that comes from the home grid, however there’s 300 petajoules that Anthony Albanese [allows to be exported], slightly than retaining for Australians … we’re saying about 50 to 100 petajoules of that ought to come into the home market.
Littleproud mentioned he was additionally going to work to get extra gasoline into the system from the Gippsland area in Victoria.
That may then imply that it’ll give confidence for gasoline firms to proceed to drill and to get gasoline into our grid however proceed to export, as a result of that additionally helps us.
On the mechanism by which the gasoline reservation shall be enforced, which has been one of many main questions referring to the Coalition’s coverage, Littleproud mentioned the Coalition can be “imposing a cost” on exports till a specific amount of gasoline – a peak quantity of round 550 to 600 petajoules – was within the home grid.
However on what that cost shall be, Littleproud mentioned that was nonetheless to be introduced.
The Nationals chief has been requested why there are such a lot of particulars within the Coalition’s insurance policies that haven’t been introduced.
“Not too many individuals have been engaged,” he mentioned.
We’re going to announce our insurance policies when it’s proper and we get the perfect bang for buck on this.
Littleproud says PM’s ‘disparaging feedback’ about Trump could have affected tariffs
Nationals chief David Littleproud says the US and Australia wants “relationship reset” after Donald Trump’s tariff announcement this week.
Talking on ABC’s Insiders, Littleproud has argued that the US president’s announcement of 10% tariffs on Australian exports to the US could have been motivated partly by “disparaging feedback” made by Anthony Albanese about Trump. He didn’t say what the disparaging feedback had been to which he was referring.
Littleproud mentioned:
We’ve bought a first-rate minister that sadly can’t even get a cellphone name with the president, and I sense that’s most likely due to the non-public disparaging feedback he’s made about President Trump prior to now…
The prime minister’s made disparaging feedback about President Trump beforehand, and there’s no manner on this planet that his advisors haven’t dropped that in his ear someplace alongside the road.
Littleproud mentioned Mexico and Canada didn’t get blanket tariffs and there have been “some nuances by way of the concessions that they had been capable of get”, however that the Australian PM had not been capable of obtain the same association as a result of Albanese couldn’t “get a cellphone name or perhaps a assembly within the lead-up to what we may see was coming”.
You want to have the ability to get in that room.
Mexico and Canada were both spared blanket “liberation day” tariffs this week, however beforehand introduced 25% tariffs on sure industries and imports had been got here into impact hours after Trump’s Rose Backyard tariff announcement.
Coalition says its overseas pupil cap can be 30,000 decrease than Labor’s
We’ve acquired some extra particulars of the Coalition’s plan on slicing worldwide college students. It says that below its plan, there shall be at most 115,000 abroad pupil commencements annually at publicly funded universities and at most 125,000 within the vocational schooling and coaching (VET), personal college and non-university increased schooling sectors.
The Coalition says this can lead to a discount of greater than 80,000 in annual new abroad pupil commencements in contrast with 2023 ranges; a discount in not less than 30,000 new abroad pupil commencements annually in contrast with Labor’s 2025 allocation.
Eager followers of this debate (or weblog) will recall that the Coalition blocked Labor’s plan to cap international student numbers on the finish of final yr.
The Coalition announcement right this moment says that to attain the discount at public universities, a proportion cap shall be utilized that’s is predicted to be about 25% and that it expects it to “overwhelmingly have an effect on” metropolitan, slightly than regional universities, particularly the Group of Eight universities, which the Coalition says “have admitted extreme numbers of worldwide college students”.
The Coalition can also be committing to:
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Conduct a fast evaluate into the momentary graduate visas (subclass 485) to deal with the misuse of post-study work preparations as a strategy to achieve entry to the Australian labour market and as a pathway to everlasting migration
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Enhance the scholar visa software cost to $5,000 for Group of Eight universities and $2,500 for remaining worldwide college students. A brand new cost of $2,500 shall be launched for college students who want to change schooling suppliers.
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Labor releases modelling to assert Coalition nuclear plan will value billions in debt repayments
Federal Labor has launched its personal evaluation claiming the Coalition’s plan to construct seven nuclear power plants may value up curiosity repayments of as much as $5.7bn a yr.
The calculations, which weren’t performed by an unbiased physique, name on varied sources of knowledge, together with modelling by Good Vitality Council, which suggests the total cost could be between $116bn and $600bn.
Labor’s evaluation assumes the associated fee can be $600bn.
The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, has highlighted Labor’s evaluation to argue Australians can pay billions of {dollars} simply to service the debt incurred by constructing nuclear energy crops.
Peter Dutton’s nuclear madness is the most important danger to family budgets and the most important danger to the commonwealth finances.
Australians would have been a lot worse off if he had his manner on tax cuts, wages and power rebates they usually’ll be worse off nonetheless if he wins the following election.
Dutton says he’ll minimize 80,000 worldwide college students, citing housing demand
Elections are – not less than partly – battles over whose message wins the day. And right this moment’s message battle is between photo voltaic batteries and worldwide college students.
Peter Dutton has introduced right this moment that below the Coalition, overseas pupil intakes shall be minimize by 80,000, in a plan geared toward lowering demand for housing.
The Daily Telegraph reports that the transfer will see a proportion cap – believed to be round 25% – set on universities, VET and the upper schooling sector, and can scale back the variety of new worldwide college students from 320,000 in 2023 to about 240,000.
Dutton mentioned on Sunday morning that the variety of worldwide college students had contributed to driving up of rents, notably in Sydney and Melbourne.
Talking concerning the announcement in Melbourne this morning, Dutton mentioned:
Worldwide pupil numbers are up by 65% below this authorities over the past 12 months. We [will] put in place a cap which shall be 30,000 decrease than what Labor has in place or 80,000 decrease than what the numbers had been simply a few years in the past.
This can be a very important step that we’re taking. It’s all about ensuring that we do what we are able to to assist younger Australians get into dwelling possession extra rapidly and the way we may also help with the rental disaster that Labor’s created as nicely.
Dutton hits at Albanese’s cheaper battery plan, saying ‘individuals will see by it’
Peter Dutton has come out swinging towards the federal government’s battery announcement.
Talking in Melbourne, the opposition chief says that the announcement from the prime minister that his authorities will make batteries for rooftop photo voltaic cheaper for households and small companies was “an admission that he’s going to must compensate individuals with batteries as a result of his energy costs will go up within the subsequent time period of presidency.”
“I simply suppose individuals will see by it,” says Dutton. “Costs are going to go up for electrical energy below a re-elected Albanese authorities. And I don’t suppose Australians can afford that.”
Dutton is pointing again to Anthony Albanese’s promise over the past election marketing campaign that if elected energy payments would come down by $275.
Are you aware that since he’s been elected, he is not going to point out that determine… But it surely’s not simply your family energy invoice that’s gone up. It’s additionally the native IGA retailer, and it’s the native butcher, and it’s the native nook retailer. That’s why grocery costs have gone up by 30% and it’s simply having an inflationary influence throughout the group.
Dutton is pointing to the Coalition’s’ mooted gasoline coverage as a substitute for voters to contemplate. There have been criticisms that this policy is light on the detail and that it’s unclear if the plan will truly stream on to help customers with decrease costs. (We even have a fantastic episode of Full Story wherein atmosphere editor Adam Morton lays out what we all know concerning the Coalition’s gasoline plan and what it may imply for customers, that I extremely advocate).
However Dutton concludes the power chat throughout his doorstop in Melbourne by saying: “We’ll have extra to say about electrical energy costs over the approaching months, over the approaching weeks.”
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Vitality seems to be to as soon as once more be the theme of the day, as the government announces that if re-elected it would make batteries cheaper for households, small companies and group services – lowering the price of the standard dwelling battery by 30%, ranging from 1 July.
This can be a one thing that our reporter Dan Jervis-Brady exclusively revealed last month, however now we have the official announcement right this moment.
The federal government says that in line with evaluation by the Division of Local weather Change, Vitality, the Setting and Water, a family with present rooftop photo voltaic may save as much as $1,100 off their energy invoice yearly, and a family putting in a brand new photo voltaic and a battery system may save as much as $2,300 a yr – about 90% off a typical household electrical energy invoice.
Australia has one of many highest take-ups on this planet of rooftop solar energy, with 4m installations throughout the nation. One in three Australian households now have photo voltaic, however just one in 40 households have a battery.
The federal government’s announcement plans to vary that.
Small companies and group services will even be capable to entry the subsidy, with assist for as much as 50kWh of batteries sized as much as 100kWh eligible.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese mentioned:
Labor’s primary precedence is delivering cost-of-living aid. That’s why we need to be sure that Australians have entry to cheaper, cleaner power.
That is good for energy payments and good for the atmosphere. Solely Labor has a plan to construct Australia’s future.
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