Bandt says Australia ought to cancel Aukus funds and depart pact
Bandt says Australia ought to rethink its relationship with the US and notably the Aukus pact.
It’s being led by a really harmful man, and we should always get out of Aukus. Now will not be the time to be hitching Australia’s wagon to Donald Trump. It places Australia in danger, and it’s billions of {dollars} that’s being spent on submarines which may by no means arrive, even america Congress has mentioned that they’re not constructing the submarines on the charge that’s wanted to with a purpose to abide by the Aukus settlement.
Bandt says that Aukus commits Australia to serving as “an assault power of america” and that any assumption the Trump administration is dedicated to standing with Australia if there was a safety menace is a mistake.
Considering that Donald Trump will trip to our rescue if there’s any safety menace, is now completely wishful considering.
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From sterilising child bottles to charging laptops, some Australians powered by means of Cyclone Alfred utilizing EV batteries
When Kat Hickey and her husband talked about what they’d do if Tropical Cyclone Alfred knocked out the ability of their north Brisbane residence, they had been extra involved than most.
The pair have a nine-month-old daughter and a three-year-old son – having a dependable approach to sterilise bottles and boil water for formulation was essential.
They knew the battery from their white BYD Atto 3 might energy their residence utilizing the vehicle-to-load system (V2L) – a backup energy system that permits the automobile battery to energy home equipment – however neither had truly hooked it up. They puzzled how a lot it might deal with.
When Alfred made landfall and so they had been amongst 450,000 properties to lose energy, Hickey figured she had nothing to lose. She set to work snaking extension cords by means of the home as her husband baby-proofed the setup.
Collectively the couple attached a fridge, kettle, toaster, cellphone chargers, a laptop computer charger and a lamp – after which, she says, there was mild.
We referred to as the lamp our canary. It’s this little lamp that usually sits out of the way in which, we hardly use it. Through the storm, it turned important. Each time we had been placing an excessive amount of stress on the system, it will flicker or flip off utterly.
Afterwards, we needed to thank it for its service, put it again within the nook, and it hasn’t been used since.
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A couple of images of the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, on the Fuldol celebration in Kemps Creek in Sydney.
NSW Labor divided over Chris Minns’ plan to increase controversial youth bail legal guidelines
The New South Wales premier is dealing with rising inside dissent over his plan to increase controversial youth bail legal guidelines, with one MP telling caucus the legal guidelines had put the federal government on a “slippery slope”.
Sources say Labor MLC Stephen Lawrence – a former barrister and one-time mayor of Dubbo – argued throughout a February assembly that the federal government was on a path whereby it might undertake additional punitive approaches as a result of the legal guidelines launched a yr in the past weren’t working.
If crime wasn’t taking place there might be requires even more durable measures, resulting in a harmful downward spiral, Lawrence advised.
The reforms are aimed toward repeat younger offenders. They make it more durable for 14- to 18-year-olds charged with severe break-and-enter and motorcar theft offences whereas on bail to get bail once more.
For extra on this story, learn the total report by Guardian Australia’s Jordyn Beazley:
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Rishworth defends PM over refusal to attend rally
The Labor frontbencher Amanda Rishworth has defended the prime minister’s resolution to not attend rallies calling for an finish to male violence in opposition to girls.
Anthony Albanese was invited to attend one in all a number of rallies on Saturday however declined to attend. A number of different politicians throughout main events had been additionally invited.
Organiser Sherele Moody advised a rally in Melbourne she was disenchanted many invited politicians had did not attend:
Leaders had been invited, particularly Albanese … There’s been no presence from him. There’s nobody turning up for the rallies in WA, nobody bothering to show up the large rally in Alice Springs, Brisbane, Canberra, they’re simply, it’s like they don’t care. Heading into the nationwide election … folks must vote for the events that give a shit about girls.
In response to Moody’s criticism, the social companies minister, Amanda Rishworth, defended the federal government’s observe document on addressing home violence:
The Albanese authorities has made ending household, home and sexual violence a nationwide precedence from day one. It’s one thing as minister for social companies I’ve considered, and labored on, every single day since taking up this portfolio and this work will proceed. I’ve attended rallies, neighborhood occasions and commonly interact with and take heed to girls’s security leaders and organisations to raised perceive and deal with neighborhood wants.
Albanese travelled from Perth to Melbourne on Saturday earlier than attending a Holi celebration in regional Victoria and discussing a attainable peacekeeping deployment to Ukraine with European leaders.
Final yr, the prime minister dismissed claims from an organiser of similar rallies that he lied about being requested to not converse, blaming it on an “emotional” day and situation.
This yr’s occasions had been organised and funded by the Australian Femicide Watch and the Crimson Coronary heart Marketing campaign.
Australian participation in Ukraine peacekeeping power ‘could be a small contribution’: PM
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has been in Melbourne this morning the place he spoke concerning the prospect of Australia contributing to a peacekeeping power in Ukraine.
Effectively, initially, you want peace, in fact, to have a peacekeeping power, and the individuals final evening had been all dedicated to peace in Ukraine.
With a view to obtain that, Russia should conform to a ceasefire, firstly, nevertheless it should additionally conform to cease its aggression in opposition to Ukraine, and so it’s untimely to speak about that element.
However Australia has a proud document, over 80 years, of collaborating in peacekeeping missions, together with in Africa, in Cyprus, in a spread of nations around the globe.
It might be a small contribution if we selected to take action, however what we need to see is peace in order that we will have peacekeeping.
The prime minister reiterated Australia’s help for Ukraine in a gathering with the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, and different European leaders in a single day, as he dedicated Australia to becoming a member of a “coalition of the keen” of nations keen to help Ukraine even when the US steps away.
Ley makes an attempt to clear up confusion on Coalition insurance coverage coverage
Earlier we reported that Sussan Ley spoke to Sky Information on Sunday morning the place she mentioned Ukraine. She was additionally requested concerning the blended message the Coalition was sending on whether or not or not it’ll intervene to interrupt up insurance coverage firms if re-elected.
Requested concerning the contradicting messages between Coalition MPs and the opposition chief, Peter Dutton, in latest weeks – described by her interviewer as “novice hour” – Ley insisted “there hasn’t been any distinction in our positions and our statements” on insurance coverage.
Let me step it out for you want this: what Peter mentioned entrance and centre was: we’ll all the time be on the facet of customers.
Now, again to divestiture. After we had been in authorities, in fact, we enacted divestiture across the power sector. In opposition, we’ve mentioned that our coverage on divestiture would embody already supermarkets and {hardware} shops.
After which we mentioned, each Peter Dutton and I and others, that if we get to authorities and there may be proof of focus of market energy within the insurance coverage sector, and the insurance coverage business is doing the flawed factor, what you simply heard Peter Dutton confer with, then we gained’t hesitate to step in.
Ley was then challenged by the host, who mentioned it was not what she had mentioned throughout a earlier look on Sky, to which she responded that she had been selectively quoted.
I don’t suppose you’ve performed my full quote.
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‘I need to see Peter Dutton stored as far-off from the Lodge as attainable’: Bandt guidelines out backing Coalition
Bandt guidelines out supporting Peter Dutton and the Coalition within the occasion of a hung parliament on the subsequent election saying “I need to see Peter Dutton stored as far-off from the Lodge as attainable”:
His Trump-style politics of division haven’t any place in Australia and this must be the election that we’ll say, we is not going to import that right here into this nation. He punches down. He emulates himself on Trump.
Bandt says the Greens “desire is to work with Labor and to have an understanding”, however he’s opened minded about whether or not there is perhaps a proper settlement or one other association.
In a state of affairs the place in the meanwhile, lower than a 3rd of the nation votes for the federal government. A bit greater than a 3rd votes for the opposition and a few third of the nation votes for another person.
What persons are wanting is extra voices on the desk to push Labor to behave on a few of these issues that they’ve been ignoring. And the flip facet is that when you’ve gotten higher illustration in parliament, we have now to work collectively and cooperate to get outcomes with folks, and that may be the spirit that we’d go into it with.
And that’s a wrap.
Bandt is requested a few proposal by the Greens to “Dutton-proof” sure insurance policies by legislating insurance policies to lock them in and guarantee they’re delivered whatever the end result of the election.
These embrace a promise to scale back scholar debt by a fifth, and to triple the majority billing incentive. Bandt says the Greens want to see dental and psychological well being get into Medicare and extra reasonably priced properties constructed.
Requested about inside politics inside the Greens – the suspension of Queensland Greens co-founder Drew Hutton over social media posts in 2022 that had been allegedly transphobic – Bandt says inside social gathering course of inside the Queensland Greens are being adopted.
There’s a course of that’s going by means of. It might not be applicable for me to touch upon that.
There isn’t any must proceed delivering fuel to folks’s properties, Bandt says.
As a result of fuel is as soiled as coal and we’ve simply seen communities smashed by a cyclone. We’ve bought folks nonetheless coping with the aftermath of floods. And we all know these excessive climate occasions are being fuelled by coal and fuel. Now, we ought to be having a dialogue in the meanwhile about tips on how to take actual local weather motion and cease opening coal and fuel mines.
Bandt: authorities might ship low-cost renewable power
The Australian authorities might use publicly owned electrical energy mills and retailers resembling Snowy Hydro to supply energy at value to households and companies, Bandt says.
I feel a surplus mentality, understanding that we have now bought an infinite quantity of solar and wind and if we again it up with storage, we might actually drive down the price of electrical energy on this nation, and make it a spot that you just carry your companies to from abroad, ship low-cost electrical energy for households. A thoughts shift is required and the federal government might play a giant position in that given its stake in a publicly owned generator.
Requested about Aemo saying 26 new fuel crops are wanted by 2050 to help renewables, Bandt says: “There’s loads of fuel within the system in the meanwhile”.
We have to fast-track the construct of renewables and likewise of storage.
Bandt says Greens would like to not see Australian troops despatched to Ukraine
On whether or not Australia ought to decide to a peacekeeping power in Ukraine, Bandt says his social gathering would like “to not be placing troops in hurt’s manner” however left the door open for his help.
However look, we have now to attend to see – is there a peace [deal]? What’s the settlement? What’s the request that’s being made? There are issues that might be carried out proper now, although. The ABC reported a few weeks in the past that Australia remains to be the most important purchaser of Russian oil. And it’s meant to be sanctions imposed.
Bandt mentioned the Greens would help extra sanctions on Russian oil which is one thing Australia “might do proper now”.
Cash being spent on Aukus submarines might be reallocated in defence: Bandt
Requested about whether or not Australia ought to shut Pine Hole, Bandt says his “precedence proper now could be Aukus” provided that Australia has already been paying the US and UK to rebuild their shipyards.
The prime minister and the federal government simply gave Donald Trump the perfect a part of $1bn within the final couple of weeks for submarines that will by no means arrive. And what’s occurred in return? We have now tariffs imposed on us and now the specter of extra.
That’s one thing that we might concretely do proper now, as a substitute of spending a whole lot of billions of {dollars} on submarines that will by no means arrive.
Pressed on the potential of elevated defence spending if Australia had been to stroll away from the US alliance, Bandt says the cash presently being spent on nuclear submarines might be reprioritised, together with to different components of the defence power.
We have now costed the Aukus contributions. It’s over the near-term, the subsequent decade. We’re $70bn being spent on it. Now, reallocating that may go an extended approach to making certain that Australia has a match for goal defence power.
Bandt says Australia ought to cancel Aukus funds and depart pact
Bandt says Australia ought to rethink its relationship with the US and notably the Aukus pact.
It’s being led by a really harmful man, and we should always get out of Aukus. Now will not be the time to be hitching Australia’s wagon to Donald Trump. It places Australia in danger, and it’s billions of {dollars} that’s being spent on submarines which may by no means arrive, even america Congress has mentioned that they’re not constructing the submarines on the charge that’s wanted to with a purpose to abide by the Aukus settlement.
Bandt says that Aukus commits Australia to serving as “an assault power of america” and that any assumption the Trump administration is dedicated to standing with Australia if there was a safety menace is a mistake.
Considering that Donald Trump will trip to our rescue if there’s any safety menace, is now completely wishful considering.
‘We have to rethink our relationship’ with US, Bandt says
Retaliatory tariffs are usually not the reply to Donald Trump’s tariffs proper now, the Greens chief, Adam Bandt, says, including that it’s “clear” Trump is not going to be giving Australia particular remedy.
I feel that Donald Trump is harmful. Donald Trump is a menace to peace. Is a menace to democracy. And he’s a menace to Australia as effectively. And Donald Trump proper now could be attacking marginalised communities at residence and delivering for billionaires and overseas he’s attacking allies and ripping up long-standing preparations. Now, this ought to be a wake-up name for Australia that we have to rethink our relationship with america.
Bandt says he believes extra tariffs are on the way in which, and that “it’s clear that Donald Trump doesn’t have regard to longstanding preparations with different international locations”:
I feel that there’s energy in numbers in the meanwhile. Donald Trump is doing this to different international locations around the globe, and economically, we ought to be exploring, diversifying our relationship with these different international locations who’re additionally on the receiving finish of Trump’s actions.
However by way of an enduring association now for the long run, it must be far more primarily based on what’s in Australia’s curiosity quite than hoping that Donald Trump will trip to rescue or someway give us particular remedy. It’s clear that he gained’t.
Boots on the bottom in Ukraine matter for Europe: Coalition deputy chief
Deputy Liberal Chief Sussan Ley has poured chilly water on the suggestion a Coalition authorities would commit Australian troops to a peacekeeping power in Ukraine.
Chatting with Sky Information on Sunday morning, Ley mentioned the Coalition “will all the time stand with Ukraine in opposition to the unlawful and immoral invasion” by Russia, however flagged that Australia’s help has limits.
We expect, although, that in the case of boots on the bottom, it is a matter higher dealt with by Europe.
Ley mentioned that “in the case of Ukraine, it’s what you ship that counts”.
Sydney to swelter by means of Sunday earlier than chilly entrance brings reduction
Sydney has been staring down the barrel of its hottest March day because it swelters by means of a weekend heatwave however a chilly entrance sweeping by means of southern Australia is predicted to carry reduction afterward Sunday.
A scorching air mass settled throughout south-east Australia on Saturday, bringing temperatures as excessive as 44C in Ceduna, South Australia and above 42C in different components of the state.
Victoria peaked at above 40C, with the mercury reaching 35C in Melbourne. Additional north, temperatures spiked to round 39C in Western Sydney, with a really heat evening growing.
The Bureau of Meteorology says there’s extra scorching whether or not in retailer till the fever breaks with senior meteorology Jonathan How says New South Wales can anticipate to see most temperatures of between 6c and 12c above common.
Which means we’ll see temperatures hovering into the mid-to-high 30s inland, even pushing 40C by means of western components of the state.
We’ll see temperatures reaching the mid-to-high 30s, together with the Illawarra, the Hunter and in Sydney, the temperature will attain 37C within the metropolis and 37C-to-38C in Western Sydney.
How additionally warned of elevated hearth danger throughout New South Wales, South Australia and components of Victoria.
Australia keen to think about becoming a member of peacekeeping effort in Ukraine
Anthony Albanese has advised European allies that Australian would contemplate contributing to a future peacekeeping effort in Ukraine.
The PM spoke to the UK prime minister Keir Starmer and different European leaders in a single day the place he dedicated Australia to a “coalition of the keen” that may proceed to offer help to Ukraine because it seeks to defend itself in opposition to Russia.
Albanese described Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as “imperialistic” and mentioned Australia would proceed to face with Ukraine “for so long as it takes”.
It’s the proper factor to do and it’s in Australia’s nationwide curiosity. As a result of what occurs within the Euro-Atlantic has severe implications for our area – the Indo-Pacific – and vice versa.
This can be a wrestle not only for the folks of Ukraine and their nationwide sovereignty. This can be a wrestle for the worldwide rule of regulation.
President Putin’s regime has imperialist designs, for Ukraine and past.
The PM mentioned Australia has already dedicated $1.5bn to assist Ukraine defend itself, together with $1.3bn in navy help together with tools and coaching.
The “coalition of the keen” is a throwback to the gathering of firms that George Bush organised to facilitate the invasion of Iraq.
The Greens chief, Adam Bandt, will converse to ABC insiders host David Speers on Sunday.
In the meantime, the minister for commerce and tourism, Don Farrell, has been doing the rounds on Sky Information this morning, with the Coalition’s Sussan Ley following on his heels.
We’ll carry you the most recent because it occurs.
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And welcome to a different Sunday morning Guardian dwell weblog.
Anthony Albanese has advised the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, that Australia will contemplate becoming a member of a future peacekeeping effort in Ukraine as a part of a “coalition of the keen”. Albanese made the pledge in a digital assembly in a single day the place he reiterated Australia’s help for Ukraine in its defence in opposition to Russia.
Sydney is braced for a extremely popular day with gusty winds after a heat night however the Bureau of Meteorology says a cool change is on the way in which. A chilly entrance has swept by means of South Australia and components of Victoria in a single day, and is predicted to carry reduction by means of the Sydney space afterward Sunday.
I’m Royce Kurmelovs and I’ll be taking the weblog by means of the day.
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