Marles and Wong reply to studies Russia desires to base navy planes in Indonesia
The deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, and overseas minister, Penny Wong, have responded to studies that Russia has requested to base a number of long-range plane in Indonesia.
UK navy web site Janes reported that Moscow lodged an official request with Indonesia to base its plane on the Manuhua air drive base.
Marles mentioned in a presser slightly earlier that Indonesia has “not responded” to the request, and Australia is participating with Indonesia.
I’d word at this level, Indonesia has not responded to this request. We are going to hold participating with Indonesia in a method which befits a really shut good friend and a really shut friendship between our two international locations. We’ve been very targeted on growing our bilateral relationship with Indonesia, together with our bilateral defence relationship with Indonesia.
Wong, at a separate press convention, mentioned she was “conscious of the studies”, and the federal government is within the strategy of discovering out extra data.
We, as a authorities, have reached out to substantiate these studies and to grasp whether or not or not these studies are correct and what the standing of these requests from Russia are.
Key occasions
Housing minister Clare O’Neil has known as on nationals chief David Littleproud to apologise for his feedback, evaluating Labor MP for Bendigo, Lisa Chesters, to a “Chihuahua”.
Littleproud advised reporters at a press convention, Chesters had “as a lot pull as a chihuahua” within the Labor celebration.
O’Neil mentioned the remark “tells us every little thing concerning the Liberals and the Nationals”.
The truth that we’re in an setting the place a number one male politician in our nation thinks that it’s applicable to check a feminine MP to a canine, I simply suppose that tells us every little thing about the place the Liberals and the Nationals are trapped. I believed that we’d transfer past this as a rustic. However it is a particular person vying to be Deputy Prime Minister of our nation… They don’t respect ladies they usually don’t pre-select ladies.
Anthony Albanese talking in Melbourne
Within the spirit of protecting all political messages below the one roof for at present (so to talk), Anthony Albanese is standing up once more at present at a housing property.
He’s once more backing within the authorities’s big-spending housing plan, promising 100,000 new houses for first house consumers, and permitting first house consumers to entry the 5% deposit scheme.
He’s with the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, and housing minister, Clare O’Neil.
Albanese’s pitch is “below Labor there will probably be extra houses and smaller deposits”, and is spruiking the event behind him.
This was one house. It’s been transformed into three one-bedroom dwellings with power effectivity that will probably be as low cost to run as is feasible.
He says that features working on renewable power, and putting in in correct insulation.
Marles and Wong reply to studies Russia desires to base navy planes in Indonesia
The deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, and overseas minister, Penny Wong, have responded to studies that Russia has requested to base a number of long-range plane in Indonesia.
UK navy web site Janes reported that Moscow lodged an official request with Indonesia to base its plane on the Manuhua air drive base.
Marles mentioned in a presser slightly earlier that Indonesia has “not responded” to the request, and Australia is participating with Indonesia.
I’d word at this level, Indonesia has not responded to this request. We are going to hold participating with Indonesia in a method which befits a really shut good friend and a really shut friendship between our two international locations. We’ve been very targeted on growing our bilateral relationship with Indonesia, together with our bilateral defence relationship with Indonesia.
Wong, at a separate press convention, mentioned she was “conscious of the studies”, and the federal government is within the strategy of discovering out extra data.
We, as a authorities, have reached out to substantiate these studies and to grasp whether or not or not these studies are correct and what the standing of these requests from Russia are.
Josh Butler
Anthony Albanese has touched down in Melbourne. The marketing campaign is off to a housing property north of town, within the Labor-held voters of Cooper.
There must be a number of cupboard ministers right here, for a tour and press convention. The group will go to a number of new houses constructed with funding from the federal government’s social housing accelerator. Albanese spruiked this coverage in an earlier press convention in Hobart.
Extra quickly.
Natasha Might
Lastly, the well being minister, Ryan Park, mentioned he and the treasurer have already briefed the Massa household, whose advocacy has sparked the federal government to analyze the hospital after their two-year-old son’s death.
Joe Massa suffered a cardiac arrest and died in September after ready three hours within the emergency division operated by non-public hospital supplier Healthscope in a public-private partnership.
Final month the government announced “Joe’s law” presently earlier than parliament to ban future privatisation of public acute hospitals.
Park mentioned:
We are trying to proper the incorrect of privatisation in our public well being system. We’re trying to proper a incorrect of creating positive that we’re placing earnings earlier than folks’s care.
We are actually in a scenario the place this crew, excessive stage, strategic crew, will begin that try and try to deliver that hospital part again in to public fingers.
… It received’t be carried out in any method, form or kind, to try to hand over tens of millions of {dollars} in cash to an organisation that basically, to be blunt, and doesn’t want it and doesn’t deserve it.
Natasha Might
Following from our final publish…
Mookhey mentioned there are two limitations within the course of – the distressed monetary place of Healthscope and any try by any of the non-public company gamers to see windfall features out of the method.
It’s no secret that Healthscope is in a distressed place, that Brookfield itself is making an attempt to divest themselves of this firm, and that there are a number of banks and different events which can be collaborating in that course of.
We word that this request that we obtained from the corporate final week coincides with the sale timetable, and what we’re making very clear is we need to know who exactly will probably be accountable for this hospital and this firm once we are having to have complicated conversations about reversing this privatisation catastrophe.
We’re making it very clear that the tempo round which these negotiations can happen will activate the pace through which the company management of well being scope is resolved.
The second barrier that we’re anticipating is that if there’s any try from Healthscope, Brookfield, or some other celebration to attempt to get the New South Wales Authorities to purchase out the subsequent 13 years of their operations at this hospital, that’s a no goer… any try and get the New South Wales taxpayers at hand over 13 years of fictional earnings is a windfall achieve, and that won’t be acceptable to the New South Wales Authorities.
Natasha Might
Taskforce to develop coverage choices for NSW authorities to purchase again Northern Seashores hospital
Stepping off the election path briefly …
Additional to the earlier post concerning the announcement a NSW taskforce will start the method of returning the Northern Seashores hospital again to public possession, the NSW treasurer and well being minister have now given a press convention with additional particulars.
The treasurer, Daniel Mookhey, has outlined the work the taskforce will probably be doing, beginning with interrogating Healthscope – and its non-public fairness proprietor Brookfield’s – compliance with the contract the earlier authorities signed again in 2014.
The taskforce will then present recommendation “whether or not or not any actions undertaken by Brookfield via their possession to divest itself of belongings – both on the Northern Seashores hospital or within the wider well being group – is contributing to the financial pressure that that company is currently facing,” Mookhey mentioned.
The taskforce will then develop coverage choices for the federal government.
It has already sought to satisfy with Healthscope and its management subsequent week, and made requests for monetary data, which is inside the authorities’s rights below the earlier Liberal authorities’s contracts.
We’re starting the method of economic due diligence on the hospital itself, and we are going to use that data together with publicly identified data to find out exactly how it’s that we’re coping with an organization in a precarious monetary state.
Benita Kolovos
Victorian Liberals rebuff Labor’s name to reject federal celebration’s nuclear plans
Victoria’s opposition chief, Brad Battin, has rebuffed calls from the deputy premier, Ben Carroll, to “get a backbone” on nuclear energy.
Carroll had urged Battin – who this morning distanced himself from the federal Coalition’s plans for a nuclear reactor within the Latrobe Valley – to come back out and reject the plan altogether.
However at a press convention at parliament this afternoon, Battin returned to the traces he had beforehand used on the subject (and had authorised by Peter Dutton):
No matter occurs after the federal election, we need to have a accountable and grownup dialog about what occurs with nuclear transferring ahead, however our precedence is fuel. So if we need to discuss rising a backbone, we’ll be sure that we’ll have fuel exploration obtainable as quickly as doable, as a result of that’s once we want it.
Victorians can’t afford to proceed to attend for a state authorities to implement the insurance policies that must be there proper now. If Ben Carroll desires to repair it – he’s the deputy premier, come out and get the exploration licences going.
Dutton fuels up once more
Peter Dutton is again at it once more, with a go to to petrol station quantity ten on the marketing campaign path.
He’s staying within the outer suburbs of Melbourne, the place the Liberals are hoping to safe some sturdy swings, and decide up a number of seats.
Gorton was held by former cupboard minister Brendan O’Connor, who has now retired, however was received by Labor in 2022 with a ten% margin.
Appears like there have been additionally some bonus canine pats at this petrol station go to.
WA Greens reschedule Anzac day ‘Greens Get together Get together’
Emily Wind
The Greens have rescheduled their Anzac day celebration which garnered criticism from each main celebration leaders at present.
The “Greens Get together Get together” in WA was promoted to fundraise for candidates Sophie Greer, working for the seat of Perth, and Senator Jordon Steele-John.
Greens WA co-convenor Chilla Bulbeck has launched a press release:
The occasion initially scheduled for 25 April has been rescheduled. Sophie Greer will attend an Anzac Day service on that day, and she or he was at all times desiring to do.
Albanese mentioned in his press convention this morning in response to questions on the celebration, that “Anzac Day is a day of respect”, whereas Dutton known as the occasion “fully inappropriate”.
