Thomas Sewell crashed Victorian premier’s press convention
Benita Kolovos
Self-proclaimed neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell has crashed a press convention held by Victoria’s premier, Jacinta Allan, and the state treasurer, Jaclyn Symes.
As Allan was requested about Sewell’s involvement in Sunday’s March for Australia rally in Melbourne, he approached the premier and started yelling at her.
He was separated from her by the premier’s safety element and he or she and Symes shortly left, with the press convention deserted.
Key occasions
Josh Taylor
Age assurance report a ‘gross sales pitch’ for biometrics business, digital rights group says
The chair of Digital Frontiers Australia, John Pane, has mentioned the discharge of the age assurance expertise trial report on tech to maintain beneath 16s from social media vindicated his considerations raised final month concerning the venture.
Pane, who was on the stakeholder advisory board overseeing the trial previous to quitting final month mentioned the social media ban is “unhealthy coverage, unhealthy legislation, and a gap-ridden technological resolution that’s simply circumvented by technical means or third-party collusion”.
It doesn’t clear up the issue of algorithmic manipulation that steals customers’ consideration and engagement, nor does it repair the inherent shortcomings in our privateness and on-line security legal guidelines by means of a mandated digital obligation of care.
He mentioned the report reads “like a gross sales pitch or advertising materials for the age authentication, id verification and biometrics business”. The “inevitable” errors in tech comparable to facial age estimation would bolster the case for the federal government to deploy ID verification applied sciences, Pane mentioned.
Shadow lawyer basic says Labor talked ‘huge recreation’ on transparency however has not lived as much as guarantees
Labor talked a ‘huge recreation’ on transparency however has delivered something however, says the shadow lawyer basic, Julian Leeser, attacking the federal government’s transfer to cost for freedom of data requests.
Chatting with reporters in Canberra, Leeser says that beneath Labor’s watch, transparency has decreased, the variety of FoI refusals has elevated and the federal government has intentionally averted Senate orders to launch paperwork:
We’ve seen will increase in refusals of FoI [requests] since they got here to workplace. We’ve seen stakeholders being pressured to signal agreements in relation to non-disclosure agreements in relation to laws as various as office relations and non secular discrimination, we’ve seen the federal government intentionally flouting Senate orders for manufacturing of paperwork.
We’re now seeing adjustments to the standing orders to make the federal government much less accountable, and we’ve seen the workers of members of parliament, whose job it’s to carry the federal government to account, slashed.
Leeser says he’ll get a briefing from the federal government on the adjustments later at this time, and is open to reforms for the FoI system, to deal with points recognized by the federal government round bots and ‘nefarious actors’. However he says he’s “very involved a couple of transparency tax”.
Thomas Sewell crashed Victorian premier’s press convention
Benita Kolovos
Self-proclaimed neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell has crashed a press convention held by Victoria’s premier, Jacinta Allan, and the state treasurer, Jaclyn Symes.
As Allan was requested about Sewell’s involvement in Sunday’s March for Australia rally in Melbourne, he approached the premier and started yelling at her.
He was separated from her by the premier’s safety element and he or she and Symes shortly left, with the press convention deserted.
Australia helping UN and companions to look at injury and set up reduction efforts aftter earthquake in Afghanistan
The impacts of the earthquake in Afghanistan are “devastating”, says the international minister, Penny Wong, because the worldwide neighborhood helps to ascertain the extent of injury within the area.
At the least 800 individuals have been killed by a magnitude 6 earthquake that struck near the Pakistan border on Sunday.
In a press release, Wong mentioned Australian officers are in touch with the UN and worldwide companions.
The impacts of the earthquake in Afghanistan and the lack of life are devastating. Our ideas are with the Afghan individuals, in addition to the Afghan neighborhood in Australia.
Australian officers are in touch with the United Nations and different worldwide companions to ascertain the extent of injury and standing of reduction efforts.
ABC apologises for airing declare 9 reporter was warned to not ask about Katter’s Lebanese heritage
Amanda Meade
The ABC has apologised for airing an incorrect declare by news.com.au political editor Samantha Maiden on Insiders {that a} 9 reporter was warned to not ask Bob Katter about his Lebanese heritage earlier than a Brisbane press convention.
The impartial MP referred to as 9’s Queensland reporter Josh Bavas a racist and threatened to punch him at a press convention on Friday when he requested him “You’ve bought Lebanese heritage your self … ” earlier than being lower off.
The member for Kennedy walked as much as the Channel 9 reporter and shook his fist at him.
Maiden made the remarks when the incident was mentioned by a panel of journalists on the Insiders episode on Sunday. The feedback have been edited out of this system on iview.
On the Insiders episode broadcast on 31 August the panel mentioned Unbiased MP Bob Katter’s threatening behaviour in direction of 9 journalist Josh Bavas at a press convention in Brisbane,” the correction said.
In the course of the dialogue news.com.au journalist Samantha Maiden mentioned the 2 had a dialog earlier than the press convention about what was going to be requested and urged Mr Bavas was warned to not ask about Mr Katter’s Lebanese heritage. The ABC needs to make clear that no dialog passed off. Insiders apologises for the error. The remark has been faraway from the on-demand variations of this system.
FoI fees a ‘fact tax’, opposition says
Tim Wilson is looking the federal government’s plan to place a payment on FOI requests a “fact tax”, and says Labor wants to offer laborious proof that the system is being overrun by bots or nefarious actors.
Chatting with Sky Information, Wilson says Labor is placing a “veil of secrecy” over the federal government.
As Josh Butler simply introduced you a bit earlier, the federal authorities will begin charging for freedom of data requests, an accountability and transparency software used extensively by politicians and journalists.
Wilson doesn’t maintain again in his criticism of the thought.
The declare they put out there may be that there are bots on the market doing issues, now which may be occurring, however… that is handled by software program platforms day-after-day. If there’s different data that’s being accessed by nefarious actors, present proof the place it is a downside, however once more, present another resolution.
As an alternative, they’re simply imposing a veil of secrecy over all the authorities. It appears kind of like what you get when you could have a authorities with a 94 seat majority and doesn’t need scrutiny.
Josh Butler
Butler suggests FoI system overrun by AI bots presumably linked to ‘international actors’ or ‘legal gangs’
Cupboard minister Mark Butler has defended deliberate adjustments to the FOI system to make journalists and politicians pay for searching for authorities data, claiming departments had been “being inundated by nameless requests” – suggesting some could also be coming from abroad adversaries or criminals.
Butler stood behind the federal government’s plan to place what he referred to as a “modest cost” on the system, which at the moment permits free functions. He mentioned that somebody needed to pay for requests:
“Both taxpayers pay for them, or individuals searching for entry to that data, whether or not it’s to populate the media that they earn cash from, or whether or not it’s a enterprise group,” he mentioned at a doorstop this morning.
Requested why it was wanted, Butler claimed the system was being overrun.
Lots of them, we’re positive are AI bot-generated requests. They might be linked to international actors, international powers, legal gangs… we don’t know the place these requests come from.
We’ve taken the view, as state governments have, {that a} modest charging atmosphere is per ordinary value restoration rules.
Butler famous, as had lawyer basic Michelle Rowland, that folks searching for their very own private data which was held by the federal government would stay in a position to take action freed from cost.
Authorities to cost for Freedom of Info requests
Josh Butler
The federal authorities will begin charging for freedom of data requests, in a serious change to the elemental accountability and transparency software used extensively by politicians and journalists.
It’s more likely to face a fierce backlash within the parliament and from accountability advocates. The lawyer basic, Michelle Rowland, tomorrow will introduce laws the federal government says will “enhance Australia’s damaged FoI system”, claiming the adjustments would prioritise “real” requests and stop taxpayer cash getting used on “frivolous and automatic requests”.
At the moment anybody could make a request for presidency data, from the prime minister’s diary and emails with international leaders down to non-public data held about oneself.
Making a request is free, however departments can degree fees for the time to course of a request – from looking for paperwork and redacting them to make sure they don’t comprise delicate data.
Rowland mentioned the federal government would ban nameless requests, “strengthen” software necessities to “deter vexatious and frivolous requests” and add a “new fee-structure”.
Her workplace mentioned there can be payment exemptions for private data, which accounted for 72% of requests in 2023-24.
However for journalists, politicians and different specialists searching for entry to authorities data, a payment will apply. The federal government has not mentioned precisely how a lot, however it’s more likely to mirror modest fees on the state degree – round $50 per request.
Rowland’s workplace claimed the FoI system was beneath pressure from web sites or synthetic intelligence in “enabling massive volumes of imprecise, nameless, vexatious, abusive and frivolous requests – tying up assets, costing taxpayers cash and delaying real requests”.
Proof to aged care inquiry ‘traumatic and stunning’: Greens senator
The Greens senator Penny Allman-Payne says the Senate is keen to behave if the federal government isn’t to pressure Labor’s to launch extra house care packages instantly.
The social gathering’s aged care spokesperson mentioned the inquiry final Friday discovered that greater than 200,000 individuals are on a waitlist for a house care package deal and heard from witnesses who had relations die while ready for care.
Senator David Pocock has mentioned 20,000 further packages are wanted proper now. Allman-Payne says that might be the “naked minimal”.
Every single day that the federal government delays is one other day that someone … [is] not getting the care that they want. So we’ve got laws earlier than the parliament. The federal government might really repair this at this time. They budgeted to launch house care packages on the first of July. [Providers have] instructed us they’re able to go. There isn’t a purpose for this delay.
As one of many different witnesses on the inquiry mentioned, eight weeks is a very long time for an older individual. Six months to 2 years is catastrophic.
No readability on tariffs for prescribed drugs: Butler
Mark Butler says the Trump administration is targeted on attempting to get their drug costs down and has not given Australia any extra readability on whether or not our prescribed drugs are going to get hit with tariffs.
The US president flagged a potential 200% tariff on prescribed drugs earlier this yr.
Butler says, because the prime minister has, that the federal government received’t negotiate on the PBS.
The sincere reply to that’s no … the sufferers in America pay a number of the highest costs for medicines, as your listeners most likely know on the planet. However fairly how they’re going to do this, what the impression for the remainder of the world can be, is one thing we’re nonetheless, as each different nation is attempting to do, attempting to know a bit bit higher.
Butler defends aged care delay as ‘comparatively quick’ as requires early funding intensify
The aged care laws delay is “comparatively quick” says Mark Butler, dealing with questions on RN Breakfast over why the federal government received’t carry extra house care packages on-line now.
Chatting with RN Breakfast, Butler is requested what number of senior Australians will die ready for assessments and packages between now and November. Butler says he can’t predict that determine, however is working to get the waitlist determine down.
[This is] a comparatively quick delay. Actually, 4 months … we’ve pushed the brand new system down the street from the first of July to the first of November, as you say. The sector needed it. They didn’t assume they had been prepared to do that.
We’ve now bought to get this final a part of the laws by means of the parliament this week, as a result of if we don’t, we won’t be able to introduce the brand new system on the first of November.
The Coalition and crossbench will work collectively to pressure the federal government to carry ahead funding for extra house care packages, with an modification to the invoice at the moment being debated within the Senate.
Shadow vitality minister: Coalition will ‘take our time’ in figuring out social gathering’s vitality coverage
Dan Tehan is a person beneath strain. Whereas members of the social gathering together with Barnaby Joyce push for a extra rapid place on internet zero and nuclear, the shadow vitality minister has been charged with reviewing the Coalition’s vitality coverage, which he says will take 9 to 12 months.
Chatting with ABC RN Breakfast, Tehan says he received’t be rushed in setting the Coalition’s vitality coverage.
Requested whether or not the Coalition can come to an agreed place when Nationals like Joyce and senior Liberals like Andrew Hastie are pushing for internet zero to be scrapped. Tehan doesn’t give us an ironclad promise that they’ll come collectively:
That’s what we’ve set to work by means of over the following 9 to 12 months. And we’ve bought to guarantee that we land this in one of the best pursuits of the Australian individuals. And that’s what I’m searching for to do. And that’s why we’ll work methodically by means of it. Take our time to guarantee that we get it proper.
Sally Sara places former Liberal frontbencher and now OECD secretary basic Mathias Cormann’s plea to the Coalition to deal with how one can meet internet zero.
Tehan says “everybody’s feedback are all the time useful” on this debate, however that Cormann is worried about the place the Australian economy goes (fully steering away from Cormann’s name to the Coalition).
