One injured after Sydney house block blast
Hearth and Rescue NSW responded to reviews of an explosion at an house block within the western Sydney suburb of Lidcombe this morning.
Officers stated there was an explosion in a unit on the second stage of a three-story constructing that blew out a brick wall, broken a automobile and brought about harm to adjoining models within the construction.
Emergency officers discovered one particular person they described as “unconscious or semiconscious” who was rescued, handled by paramedics and brought to an space hospital for remedy.
Hearth and Rescue NSW superintendent Adam Dewberry stated there have been no different reported accidents at this stage, however that there was “important harm” to the constructing.
We’re not certain at this stage how this explosion has occurred. There isn’t a fireplace.
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Adam Morton
Conservation basis chief to resign after decade of ‘imaginative and prescient, compassion and integrity’
The chief govt of the Australian Conservation Basis, Kelly O’Shanassy, is resigning after greater than a decade within the job.
In a press release, O’Shanassy stated it had been an honour “to steer this powerhouse organisation and serve Australians who love nature and wish local weather motion”.
ACF president Ros Harvey stated O’Shanassy, who beforehand led Surroundings Victoria, would go away a “lasting legacy”.
Kelly has cultivated a welcoming and empowering tradition inside ACF and the broader setting motion and has all the time led with nice imaginative and prescient, compassion and integrity.
Underneath Kelly’s stewardship, ACF created greater than 40 ACF group teams throughout the nation and attracted greater than half 1,000,000 new supporters, from cities, farms, the bush, the seashore and mining communities.
O’Shanassy will keep within the function till the tip of the yr. The ACF board is conducting a nationwide seek for a alternative.
Albanese calls Air India crash ‘completely devastating’
The prime minister responded to the Air India crash final evening on social media, saying the occasion was “completely devastating”. He additionally wrote on X:
On this time of tragedy, Australia’s ideas are with everybody affected.
Our authorities is receiving common updates and we’ll proceed to watch the scenario carefully.
The information of a passenger aircraft crash in Ahmedabad is completely devastating.
On this time of tragedy, Australia’s ideas are with everybody affected.
Our authorities is receiving common updates and we’ll proceed to watch the scenario carefully.
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) June 12, 2025
Catie McLeod
Girl who witnessed Sydney gentle rail demise requires security upgrades
A lady who says she noticed a pedestrian fatally struck by a Sydney tram earlier this month is looking for security upgrades to the town’s gentle rail community.
Annalise Gasparre, 27, stated she was standing on the alternative platform at a lightweight rail cease on Devonshire Avenue in Surry Hills within the moments earlier than the person died on 5 June.
The person was the second pedestrian to die after being struck by a tram on Sydney’s gentle rail in two years, after the 2023 demise of a teenage woman who grew to become trapped beneath a tram whereas making an attempt to cross a road within the CBD.
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One Nation received’t contest Tasmania’s snap election
One Nation said at present it will not contest the snap election in Tasmania known as after a no-confidence vote in Liberal premier Jeremy Rockliff. Lee Hanson – daughter of Pauline – who misplaced her bid for a Senate seat within the federal election, criticised the timing of the brand new race, which comes simply 16 months after Tasmanians final headed to the state polls.
One Nation stated in a press release:
Not like the foremost events caught up in political theatrics over Hobart’s proposed stadium, One Nation is selecting precept over opportunism. Hanson stated neither Labor nor the Liberals may be trusted to handle Tasmania’s funds, particularly with each backing what she sees as reckless stadium spending.
The celebration stated it will as a substitute concentrate on rising “its sturdy federal base and getting ready correctly for the 2028 federal election and future state races”.
The ABC reviews the Jacqui Lambie Community may even not contest the election.
Lattouf case judgment set for 25 June
Amanda Meade
Justice Darryl Rangiah will ship his judgment within the illegal termination case introduced by former radio presenter Antoinette Lattouf in opposition to the ABC within the federal court docket on 25 June at 10.15am.
The extremely anticipated judgment will probably be livestreamed by the federal court docket.
Lattouf was let go three days right into a five-day fill-in stint on ABC Radio Sydney’s Mornings program when she shared a put up that stated Israel had used hunger as a “weapon of conflict” in Gaza.
After the Truthful Work Fee discovered the freelance journalist was sacked from her informal presenting function on the ABC, she pursued an illegal termination case within the federal court docket.
The ABC claimed within the trial that Lattouf was not sacked from her function however was merely requested to not current the ultimate two exhibits.
Replace on house constructing explosion
Hearth and Rescue NSW superintendent Adam Dewberry stated there was only one damage after the explosion and all different residents had been accounted for.
The injured particular person has been transported to hospital, however Dewberry stated officers advised him “they’ll be OK”. It’s unclear what accidents the particular person sustained.
Dewberry stated of the harm:
Numerous these folks will probably be displaced and won’t be able to return into their lodging as a result of harm to the construction.
NSW police are main investigations into how the explosion occurred.
One injured after Sydney house block blast
Hearth and Rescue NSW responded to reviews of an explosion at an house block within the western Sydney suburb of Lidcombe this morning.
Officers stated there was an explosion in a unit on the second stage of a three-story constructing that blew out a brick wall, broken a automobile and brought about harm to adjoining models within the construction.
Emergency officers discovered one particular person they described as “unconscious or semiconscious” who was rescued, handled by paramedics and brought to an space hospital for remedy.
Hearth and Rescue NSW superintendent Adam Dewberry stated there have been no different reported accidents at this stage, however that there was “important harm” to the constructing.
We’re not certain at this stage how this explosion has occurred. There isn’t a fireplace.
Catie McLeod
Turnbull says Australia ought to put together for defence plan apart from submarines
Turnbull stated Australia wanted to acknowledge the danger that the Aukus deal wouldn’t present it with the submarines it wanted and will begin planning for different defence functionality. He advised 7.30 final evening:
We have now a submarine deal which may be very prone to find yourself with us having no submarines and that we’ve obtained to begin acknowledging that threat.
It’s not Australia that’s strolling away from the US – the US is pulling away from its allies. However we’ve to stay in the actual world.
The folks which can be deluded are those which can be ignoring the actual dangers on this deal, and the truth that we must always have, responsibly, a plan B.
Taylor pushes for extra defence spending however doesn’t say how it will be funded
Taylor hedged a query this morning about how Australia may pay for elevated defence spending, in step with US Pentagon secretary Pete Hegseth’s name for the country to raise its allocation to 3.5% of GDP. Taylor stated Labor wanted to take these calls “critically”, including the Coalition stood able to work with the federal government to take action.
RN Breakfast host Sally Sara pressed Taylor about how the nation may pay for that enhance, pointing to the Coalition’s election plans to chop the general public service. Taylor stated:
It is rather clear as you look around the globe that international locations like us are having to step up … As we discovered cash to pay for the pathway to three% [of GDP for defence spending] within the lead-up to the final election, we should within the lead-up to this election.
Sara pressed Taylor on proposals to chop the general public service, with Taylor responding:
I’m not going to get right into a commentary on this stuff now. I imply, you’re the commentator, and I’ll depart you free to try this. However what I’ll say is peace in our area is one thing that must be invested in. It’s one thing that we’ve to prioritise and we’ve to search out methods of discovering that cash.
Catie McLeod
Turnbull expresses doubts Australia will ever get US-made submarines
Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull roundly criticised the Aukus deal, saying it will “very seemingly” find yourself with Australia “having no submarines”.
Turnbull additionally appeared on ABC 7.30 final evening, the place he disputed Richard Marles’ declare earlier on this system that the speed of manufacturing within the US of Virginia-class submarines was rising. Turnbull stated:
That’s not true. The most recent numbers given to the congress by the navy on 11 March this yr was that the speed of manufacturing is 1.1 every year.
They should get to 2 by 2028 to have the ability to meet their very own necessities, and to 2.33 to fulfill their very own plus Australia’s.
They usually haven’t been in a position to carry manufacturing charges regardless of the expenditure of over $10 billion over the past six or seven years. So that they’ve obtained an actual downside there.
Taylor says ‘very excessive worth to pay’ if Aukus goes awry
Shadow defence minister Angus Taylor stated he stays involved Australia may pay a “very excessive worth” if one thing goes south with the Aukus deal and the nation loses out on nuclear-powered submarines. He spoke to RN Breakfast this morning:
There can be a really excessive worth to pay if one thing had been to go mistaken with Aukus as a result of we should have peace in our area and Aukus is essential to that.
Taylor went on to once more advocate for extra spending on defence, saying “peace in our area is one thing that must be invested in”.
We don’t want rhetoric, we want readiness. We’d like sovereign functionality. We’d like agility. And we want the folks to have the ability to assist that. And Labor’s falling quick on all of these fronts.
Authorities ‘urgently following up’ to see if any Australians affected by Air India crash
Air India confirmed the nationalities of passengers onboard the plane that crashed in Ahmedabad yesterday.
The 242 folks onboard included two pilots and 10 cabin crew. The passengers included 217 adults, 11 youngsters and two infants, in line with Reuters.
Of them, 169 had been Indian nationals, 53 had been Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian, Air India said. A number of folks died on the bottom on the web site of the aircraft’s crash.
There was one survivor, a Briton.
The Division of International Affairs stated final evening it was “urgently following up” to find out if any Australians had been affected by the incident.
The Guardian has reached out for extra info this morning.
Catie McLeod
Marles once more says ‘fully acceptable’ for US to overview Aukus
The deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, downplayed the potential for the Trump administration’s Aukus overview to jeopardise the trilateral safety settlement.
Marles, who can be the defence minister, was questioned about the way forward for the nuclear-powered submarine deal on the ABC’s 7.30 final evening, after the US defence division introduced a 30-day overview of the settlement.
Marles primarily caught to his speaking factors through the interview, whilst host Sarah Ferguson put stress on him over whether or not the US has the capability to assemble sufficient typical submarines to fulfil its finish of the Aukus association, even earlier than Australia is because of begin constructing nuclear-powered vessels of its personal.
Ferguson stated the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defence for coverage, Elbridge Colby, had doubts about Aukus and the US’s capability to supply sufficient submarines to service its personal navy. She famous the US had by no means been in a position to produce a couple of typical Virginia-class submarine a yr, when it will want to supply two a yr to allow them to be made out there to Australia.
Marles insisted the challenges had been “well-known”, saying:
We have to get to that time within the early 2030s. That’s the timeframe. Proper now, we’re assured that we are able to meet that. And we’re seeing actual progress – will increase in each manufacturing and sustainment – related to what we’re doing with Aukus and what the Individuals themselves are doing.
That’s what is about out within the settlement that we have already got with the US, which kinds a part of the treaty that we now have between the US and the UK.
I believe it’s fully acceptable for this administration to take a look at the entire details and figures round that.
Albanese units off for G7 assembly in Canada
Tom McIlroy
Anthony Albanese is leaving Canberra this morning to attend the G7 leaders’ summit in Canada early subsequent week, a visit that can embrace stops in Fiji and the US. A gathering with US president Donald Trump may happen on the sidelines of the assembly in Kananaskis – however it’s but to be formally locked in.
The prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney, and the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the European Union may even be on the summit.
On Friday, Albanese will meet in Nadi along with his Fijian counterpart, Sitiveni Rabuka, for talks on local weather change and regional safety in Nadi. In Seattle over the weekend he’ll meet with enterprise leaders to debate expertise and synthetic intelligence.
As soon as in Canada early subsequent week, Albanese will take part in G7 discussions on international vitality, essential minerals, safe provide chains and infrastructure. The prime minister stated:
Visiting Fiji so quickly after the election is a deliberate choice to bolster my authorities’s Pacific priorities and to trade views with my pricey buddy prime minister Rabuka, a revered Pacific statesman.
I’m honoured to be invited by prime minister Carney to attend the G7 leaders’ summit in Alberta as a key associate.
I sit up for working productively with world leaders to debate how we deal with a few of the most difficult points dealing with Australia, our area and the world
Welcome
Good morning, Nick Visser right here to information you thru at present’s breaking information. Right here’s what’s on the playing cards this morning:
Prime minister Anthony Albanese will depart Canberra this morning en path to the G7 assembly in Canada early subsequent week. The journey will embrace stops in Fiji and the US, with all eyes on a possible sideline assembly with Donald Trump, though nothing has been confirmed.
The Division of International Affairs expressed condolences to these affected by the Air India crash within the metropolis of Ahmedabad final evening. The Australian excessive fee and consulate normal are “urgently following up” with native authorities to find out if any Australians had been affected.
Defence minister Richard Marles again downplayed the US overview of the Aukus submarine deal, telling the ABC final evening he believes it’s “fully acceptable” for the Trump administration to look into it.
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