Anti-immigration protesters conflict with Invasion Day marchers in Melbourne
We’re listening to from reporters on the bottom that protesters from the March for Australia rally have caught as much as the Invasion Day march.
A lot of obvious members within the March for Australia have met the entrance of the Invasion Day rally, which has simply turned down Bourke Avenue.
Indigenous affairs reporter Douglas Smith, who’s reporting from the gang of the Invasion Day rally, says two folks have been rapidly moved on by police however extra have appeared, and are persevering with to look. Douglas says there are clashes between each teams.
The Invasion Day rally follows the identical route yearly: beginning at Parliament Home steps then marching down Bourke and Swanston streets to finish exterior Flinders Avenue station.
The March for Australia began at Flinders Avenue at 12pm and marched up Swanston Avenue, turning into Latrobe Avenue towards parliament. They have been blocked by mounted cops however have since turned down Lonsdale Avenue. Our reporter following that rally says riot police are actually shifting in.
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Victoria’s chief well being officer warns of risks of utmost warmth
Victoria’s chief well being officer, Dr Caroline McElnay, says extended warmth, along with excessive in a single day temperatures, pose an elevated threat of heat-related sickness.
“Excessive warmth can have an effect on anybody, and we’re urging Victorians to take easy steps to remain protected. Maintain cool, keep hydrated, plan your day across the warmth, and test in on household, buddies and neighbours, significantly these aged 65 or older, younger kids, pregnant girls and anybody with power well being points,” she says.
She continues:
We’re asking everybody to take the warmth significantly. Know the dangers, look out for each other, and by no means depart kids, adults or pets in parked automobiles.
Warmth‑associated sickness can come on rapidly, so it’s vital to know the warning indicators. The telltale signs embrace heavy sweating, dizziness, nausea, headache, pale or clammy pores and skin, or feeling unusually weak or confused. If somebody reveals indicators of heatstroke, akin to very excessive physique temperature, purple sizzling pores and skin, confusion or lack of consciousness, name triple zero (000) instantly.
Otways hearth prone to breaking its containment strains tomorrow
Staying with the Otways bushfire in Victoria, the place we now have an replace from hearth authorities.
“We’ve got about 300 firefighters at present within the park for the time being making an attempt to include this hearth,” the deputy incident controller, Alistair Drayton, instructed reporters a short while in the past.
Drayton stated firefighters have been engaged in a floor and air assault on the 9,000-plus-hectare hearth and tomorrow’s heatwave circumstances would ship added risks.
He stated:
The actual threat tomorrow is the climate coming in. We’re going to be seeing sizzling circumstances tomorrow with a gusty wind change coming via late tomorrow afternoon.
There’s a actual threat that this hearth will tomorrow break its strains. That’s the threat that we’re involved with for the time being and we’re asking folks to enact their hearth security plans to make sure that they’re made protected.
A bunch of Canadian firefighters are on their method to help Australian firefighters within the Otways, he stated.
Otways residents suggested to evacuate instantly
The sooner watch and act “prepare to act” warning for residents close to the Otways bushfire in Victoria has been upgraded to a “depart now” discover.
VicEmergency stated the “evacuate instantly” warning had been issued for Barramunga, Barwon Downs, Mount Sabine, Olangolah East, Tanybryn and Higher Gellibrand.
There’s a bushfire at Carlisle River that’s not beneath management. On your security and to assist emergency companies, you want to evacuate earlier than sundown at this time.
Andrew Messenger
Pauline Hanson speaks at Brisbane rally
Senator Pauline Hanson has simply stepped on to the stage at Brisbane’s March for Australia rally.
Hanson was welcomed on stage by the Hoodoo Gurus tune What’s My Scene, performed by a stay band, as a considerable crowd waved the purple ensign, One Nation flags and the Australian flag. The gang chanted her title as she stepped as much as the mic.
The One Nation chief and veteran politician was mobbed on the occasion, permitting a number of folks to take a selfie along with her.
Victorian One Nation senator Ralph Babet additionally spoke.
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Gold’s historic milestone amid Trump chaos
Patrick Commins
Gold has jumped above $US5,000 an oz. for the primary time, as buyers proceed to pile into the dear steel amid fears Donald Trump’s chaotic insurance policies will set off a monetary market meltdown.
This morning’s historic milestone comes as Trump threatened Canada with 100% tariffs if America’s northern neighbour “makes a cope with China”, and after Democrats warned of one other authorities shutdown.
The worth of gold, which final traded at $US5,074 an oz., in accordance with Bloomberg, has doubled over the previous two years.
It jumped by a rare 72% final yr – the most important rise since 1979 – and is already up 17% in 2026 as buyers search out the normal protected haven in an more and more unstable setting.
Final week, silver topped $100 an oz. for the primary time, and for comparable causes.
Driving demand for gold is the so-called “debasement commerce”: fears that the world’s primary foreign money, the US greenback, will finally collapse beneath the burden of America’s enormous debt and deficits.
Proof of this “sell America” trade got here final week when Danish pension fund AkademikerPension introduced it could promote its holding of US bonds, blaming weak US authorities funds.
Anne Davies
Sydney March for Australia attracts hundreds
About 2,000 folks waving and carrying Australian flags marched from Central station via the guts of Surry Hills to Moore Park as a part of the anti-immigration March for Australia.
The route was chosen to maintain demonstrators nicely separated from the Invasion Day rallies however stunned locals in inner-city Surry Hills.
At Moore Park members listened to grievance-filled speeches the place audio system warned of the alternative of white folks as a result of Australia’s immigration insurance policies and failure to guard Australia’s white heritage.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, was singled out by some within the crowd who chanted “Albo is a traitor”.
The principle speaker, John Ruddick, a NSW MLC for the Libertarian get together, warned that the NSW authorities was prioritising multiculturalism over free speech and stated that individuals wanted to take a stand at no cost speech and in opposition to harder gun legal guidelines.
Jesse Stewart, one of many organisers, famous that a number of distinguished members of the March for Australia motion weren’t in attendance as a result of that they had been visited by police and instructed to not attend. This seemed to be a reference to members of the Nationwide Socialist Community, a neo-Nazi group that has been declared a hate speech group beneath new federal legal guidelines.
There have been just a few minor scuffles however largely the rally was uneventful.
Ley dismisses management hypothesis as ‘media frenzy’
Tom McIlroy
The embattled opposition chief, Sussan Ley, says she will not be going through an imminent problem to her place on the high of the Liberal party, blaming a “media frenzy” for rising hypothesis.
Frontbenchers Angus Taylor and Andrew Hastie are discussing a doable management spill with colleagues, after the damaging cut up with the Nationwide get together over Labor’s hate speech laws final week. It’s all draw back for Ley, who would possibly battle to carry off a problem when MPs come again to parliament subsequent week.
Talking after Australia Day celebrations in Corowa, NSW on Monday, Ley stated she was targeted on working for the nation. She didn’t say when she would fill gaps in her frontbench lineup, insisting the door was open to reunification with the minor get together.
Requested if she accepted her management was over as Taylor and Hastie depend numbers, Ley stated: “Completely not.”
I do know there’s some frenzy of hypothesis within the media. I’ve been elected by my get together room to guide. I’m doing that, I’ve the arrogance of my group.
My group and I, and I’m very pleased with each single one in every of them, delivered an inexpensive power coverage in the direction of the top of final yr, and we’re united across the issues that Australians anticipate of us to be a powerful, credible opposition. That’s what I’m busy doing.
At present is about Australia Day and celebrating what it means on this superb day. Tomorrow we’re getting again to work for the Australian folks.
Andrew Messenger
Pauline Hanson speaks earlier than Australia Day march in Brisbane
Pauline Hanson completed talking earlier this afternoon, and the Brisbane Australia Day march has begun.
The Queensland senator and One Nation chief spoke a couple of broad vary of topics akin to local weather change, the Albanese authorities’s anti-hate laws and her daughter’s political ambitions in Tasmania.
However her principal topic was migration.
“We’ve had mass migration,” she stated.
Albanese for the time being is speaking about mass migration, that we’re slicing again the numbers. Effectively, it’s a bit bit too late, mate. You’re the one which created this mess. You’re the one which introduced all these folks within the nation, 1,560 a day …
He’s the worst prime minister I’ve ever recognized.
In an interview earlier than the rally, Hanson instructed Guardian Australia she was not involved concerning the variety of purple ensigns on the rally. When requested whether or not sovereign residents had attended the rally she stated: “I’m not going to get into that.”
One attender the Guardian spoke with stated sunscreen causes most cancers, and one other stated she attended a sovereign citizen “treason trial” at Previous Parliament Home final February.
All of Victoria beneath complete hearth ban tomorrow
As soon as once more, all the state of Victoria will probably be beneath a total fire ban tomorrow amid harmful hearth circumstances and scorching warmth.
Jason Heffernan, the chief officer of the state’s Nation Fireplace Authority (CFA), stated earlier temperatures would attain into the mid-40s, urging communities to remain on high of updates from the VicEmergency app as circumstances might change rapidly.
The principle hearth of concern proper now could be the Carlisle River hearth, with a number of communities urged to arrange to evacuate as circumstances change.
Heffernan stated the fireplace hazard can be intense, but additionally stated the intense warmth might put some communities in danger, together with the aged, the very younger and the sick, who have been extra inclined to excessive temperatures.
