Labor pronounces monetary protections for home violence victim-survivors if elected
Labor has introduced it can assist shield victim-survivors of home violence from monetary abuse by way of tax, superannuation and social safety money owed, if elected on 3 Could.
The minister for finance and girls, Katy Gallagher, introduced the ladies’s platform in a speech earlier at this time. The measures embrace:
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Stopping perpetrators from utilizing the tax and company techniques to create money owed as a type of coercive management and make perpetrators accountable for these money owed in the event that they do;
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Taking a look at making perpetrators answerable for social safety money owed incurred by a victim-survivor on account of coercion or monetary abuse; and
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Taking a look at strategies of stopping perpetrators of home and household violence from receiving their sufferer’s superannuation after dying.
It follows a push by advocates to guard girls and youngsters struggling monetary abuse by the hands of a accomplice. It additionally comes after a report from a Labor-chaired Senate inquiry into monetary abuse that was handed right down to the federal government in December.
That inquiry made 61 recommendations, together with making a mechanism co-eddesign with victim-survivors of economic abuse to assist implement legislative, regulatory and sector-driven reforms.
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Santos wins last approval for Barossa gasoline mission as surroundings advocates condemn ‘local weather bomb’
Santos has acquired federal approval to begin manufacturing from its Barossa offshore gasoline subject off the coast of the Northern Territory.
The Nationwide Offshore Petroleum Security and Environmental Administration Authority (Nopsema) determined to accept the environment plan for the mission’s manufacturing operations. It marks the ultimate approval required for the mission, clearing the way in which for the gasoline big to extract and pipe the gasoline to Darwin.
The event is projected so as to add greater than 270m tonnes of heat-trapping CO2 to the environment over its life as soon as the gasoline is offered and burnt abroad. Gavan McFadzean, the Australian Conservation Basis’s local weather change and clear vitality program supervisor, stated:
That is Australia’s dirtiest gasoline mission and it ought to by no means have been given the inexperienced gentle.
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Superannuation advocates welcome Labor pledge to crack down on monetary abuse
Labor’s promise to crack down on financial abuse has been welcomed by the Tremendous Members Council, who say closing authorized loopholes will assist to guard victims of household violence.
The council has been calling on the federal government to reform laws to make it tougher for an abuser to obtain a sufferer’s superannuation dying profit. For the time being, the abuser can obtain that profit until they’re the direct reason behind that individual’s dying.
They’re additionally calling on the opposition and independents to match the dedication.
The deputy CEO of the council, Georgia Brumby, says perpetrators “mustn’t revenue from their crimes”:
A perpetrator getting their sufferer’s tremendous dying profit is an extension of the abuse. The intention to introduce these reforms is a essential step in direction of guaranteeing that individuals’s superannuation is protected and never used as a monetary reward for perpetrators … Perpetrators mustn’t revenue from their crimes.
The federal government has stated at this time it can “take a look at” methods to cease perpetrators of household violence receiving that.
Dutton makes transient remarks after attending mass at St Mary’s Cathedral
Peter Dutton made transient remarks outdoors St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney following a mass.
Dutton stated it was “applicable” that there was no campaigning throughout the day and didn’t take any questions from reporters.
I’m very humbled to have been right here as a part of this service.
He and Anthony Albanese will seem collectively tonight for the third leaders debate.
Labor pronounces monetary protections for home violence victim-survivors if elected
Labor has introduced it can assist shield victim-survivors of home violence from monetary abuse by way of tax, superannuation and social safety money owed, if elected on 3 Could.
The minister for finance and girls, Katy Gallagher, introduced the ladies’s platform in a speech earlier at this time. The measures embrace:
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Stopping perpetrators from utilizing the tax and company techniques to create money owed as a type of coercive management and make perpetrators accountable for these money owed in the event that they do;
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Taking a look at making perpetrators answerable for social safety money owed incurred by a victim-survivor on account of coercion or monetary abuse; and
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Taking a look at strategies of stopping perpetrators of home and household violence from receiving their sufferer’s superannuation after dying.
It follows a push by advocates to guard girls and youngsters struggling monetary abuse by the hands of a accomplice. It additionally comes after a report from a Labor-chaired Senate inquiry into monetary abuse that was handed right down to the federal government in December.
That inquiry made 61 recommendations, together with making a mechanism co-eddesign with victim-survivors of economic abuse to assist implement legislative, regulatory and sector-driven reforms.
Peter Dutton pays respects to Pope Francis in Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral
Peter Dutton has attended a mass at St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney this afternoon.
Dutton began the day in Orange, in regional NSW, earlier than coming to Sydney to pay his respects to Pope Francis and the Catholic church.
Each leaders at the moment are in Sydney to organize for his or her third televised debate on Channel 9 tonight.
Pollsters inform press membership Greens and independents hottest amongst younger voters
Over on the nationwide press membership at this time, pollsters have taken over the stage, speaking concerning the generational shifts Australia is seeing and the way the events are reacting.
Unsurprisingly, as we’ve been listening to extra lately, the Greens are way more well-liked amongst Gen Z and millennials and the brand new rising independents are fracturing votes that might usually go between the 2 main events.
Kos Samaras, a pollster at Redbridge, stated the main events, and significantly the Coalition, are struggling to win again votes that they’ve misplaced:
Inside Gen Z, our most up-to-date evaluation the place we’re simply surveying Liberal versus Labor contests – the Greens main is the best at 33%. Larger than Labor, increased than the Liberal social gathering.
Amongst the leaders themselves, Jessica Elgood, the director at Ipsos Public Affairs, says neither is definitely profitable the election. She says the query is: “Who’s dropping it sooner?”
Once I take a look at this present federal election polling knowledge, it tells us that Australians don’t view both of the candidates as nice politicians by this definition. There’s no sense of a transparent new narrative. And it doesn’t counsel that both of them are literally profitable the election.
[The] query is who’s dropping it sooner … from our knowledge, we see that Peter Dutton’s approval score sitting at 27. Clearly our relationship with politicians has modified over the many years, nevertheless it’s the bottom approval score we’ve got measured for an opposition chief this century.
How is the polling knowledge on the lookout for Anthony Albanese? Properly, it’s not significantly better. On the finish of his first time period, solely a 3rd of the nation assume he’s heading in the right direction.
Katter MP says potential breach of alcohol ban an accident
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A Katter MP who posted a photograph of himself apparently ingesting a banned alcoholic beverage on an island in North Queensland says he wasn’t conscious it was prohibited.
The photograph, posted on Nick Dametto’s official Fb web page on Good Friday, reveals him holding a can of full-strength Nice Northern beer on Curacao Island with different individuals.
Your entire LGA is roofed by an alcohol administration plan banning drinks over 4% alcohol by quantity. The Nice Northern unique lager is 4.2% power.
“If any guidelines have been damaged right here, if any, it’s been achieved by pure mistake and an sincere mistake,” he stated.
Dametto stated the island is unpopulated and nearly empty with no indicators that warn of the ban. He wasn’t conscious it was within the Palm Island native authorities space, he stated.
In case you’re on Orpheus Island, solely a kilometre away from one of many outskirt islands of the Palm Island group, you’re allowed to have no matter you want. Journey 500 metres to a kilometre the opposite manner, and also you fall beneath these draconian rules.
Alcohol administration plans have been enforced in discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities throughout Queensland since 2003. At the moment they’re in impact in 15 native authorities areas.
Dametto stated it was “ridiculous” that the federal government nonetheless imposed what he stated was a “discriminatory” ban on alcohol in Indigenous communities.
I feel that every one Australians ought to be handled the identical. All adults ought to be handled the identical, and you must have the precise to decide whether or not or not you wish to devour a sure kind of alcohol or not.
Henry Belot
Coalition to relaunch regional fund Labor criticised as ‘big rorted slush fund’
The Coalition will relaunch a regional grants program that supplied Liberal-held seats with twice as many grants as Labor electorates, in line with the nationwide audit workplace.
The Constructing Higher Areas fund was strongly criticised by Labor for instance of alleged pork-barrelling and was described by one MP as a “giant rorted slush fund”.
A 2022 assessment by the audit workplace discovered “funding choices weren’t appropriately knowledgeable by departmental recommendation and the idea for the funding choices has not been appropriately documented”.
In 2021, the previous deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, stated “I don’t care” in response to Labor claiming $300m of regional grants under the scheme were examples of “pork-barrelling”.
In a press release, Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie made no reference to Labor’s criticism of the scheme, as a substitute accusing the Albanese authorities of ignoring regional cities:
There’s a clear must convey again the [fund] after Labor axed greater than $10bn price of regional applications on coming to workplace.
Labor’s regional financial growth applications have been beset by power delays, obscure standards, inconsistent evaluation processes and poor communication with communities.
Candidates to Labor’s applications have needed to wait greater than 18 months from submitting functions in August 2023 to receiving contract agreements in January 2025, and the states have been imposed as ticket-clipping middle-men creaming funds off this system that have been supposed for the areas.
Adeshola Ore
Victorian ankle bracelet trial for younger offenders begins
Shifting off the marketing campaign path for a second…
A trial to suit alleged youth offenders in Victoria with ankle brackets as a part of their bail circumstances has begun.
The state’s attorney-general, Sonya Kilkenny, this morning stated the Victoria’s kids’s courtroom and supreme courtroom will now have the facility to impose digital monitoring as a part of bail circumstances.
The state authorities final yr introduced the trial involving 50 younger offenders aged between 14 to 18 who’re accused of great crimes. The units will alert authorities if an alleged offender is outdoors their deal with after curfew or enters an exclusion zone.
The state authorities’s bail crackdown, revealed earlier this yr, has faced backlash from authorized, human rights and Indigenous advocates.
