Cruise passengers and crew rescued from uninhabited island 100km north of WA
Ten passengers and eight crew members from a luxurious cruise have been rescued from a distant uninhabited island off the northern coast of Australia.
The Silver Cloud cruise ship. {Photograph}: Wayleebird/Alamy
Earlier, about 60 different passengers made it to security after they have been compelled to desert zodiac boats grounded off Adele island about 100km north of the West Australian mainland.
The passengers and guides from Silversea’s Silver Cloud ship have been collaborating in an expedition tour close to the island yesterday afternoon when a fast-moving tide caught the group abruptly.
They have been stranded in knee-deep water about 4 nautical miles from the ship.
About 70 passengers and 10 guides have been compelled to wade 500 metres by way of a coral reef to deeper water the place they have been met by a flotilla of zodiac vessels despatched from the ship to rescue them.
By sundown, most had been rescued and returned to the Silver Cloud the place some have been handled for minor cuts and abrasions.
The remaining passengers and crew have been stranded in darkness for greater than 4 hours whereas their zodiac vessels have been unable to cross an uncovered reef till the tide turned about 10pm (AWST).
The Silver Cloud has set sail for Talbot Bay to proceed its 12-day cruise of the Kimberley area.
– Australian Related Press
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Tremendous funds spared multi-billion greenback US ‘revenge tax’
Australian superannuation funds have been spared a multi-billion greenback hit after the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, introduced they’d drop a so-called “revenge tax” on overseas buyers.
Part 899 of Donald Trump’s proposed invoice would have raised taxes by as much as 15 share factors on overseas entities in retaliation to “unfair taxes” different nations had imposed on US firms.
The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, raised Australia’s issues in regards to the tax throughout a cellphone name with Bessent on Wednesday, when he advised reporters he was hopeful of optimistic growth within the coming days:
We don’t wish to see our buyers and our funds unfairly handled or deprived in relation to developments out of the US Congress … I’m very grateful to Scott Bessent for listening to me out and for additionally endeavor to make what progress he can to try to resolve these points.
At present, Bessent revealed the part could be faraway from the invoice in a social media submit after a deal was reached with G7 nations permitting the US to again out of a world minimal tax price. He wrote on X:
After months of productive dialogue with different nations on the OECD international tax deal, we are going to announce a joint understanding amongst G7 nations that defends American pursuits.
OECD pillar 2 taxes won’t apply to U.S. firms, and we are going to work cooperatively to implement this settlement throughout the OECD-G20 inclusive framework in coming weeks and months.
Based mostly on this progress and understanding, I’ve requested the Senate and Home to take away the Part 899 protecting measure from consideration within the one, massive, stunning invoice.
The announcement was met with a sigh of aid from the $4.2tn Australian superannuation business, which might have been significantly uncovered to the tax, given it holds greater than $600bn value of US property.
Modelling performed for the Affiliation of Superannuation Funds of Australia by consulting agency Mandala discovered it may have reduce $3.5bn from returns over the primary 4 years.
– Australian Related Press
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The dangers for Australia in backing US navy motion
Anthony Albanese and the overseas affairs minister, Penny Wong, have endorsed the US bombings of three Iranian nuclear services, arguing the focused strikes have been crucial to stop the regime growing a nuclear weapon.
However worldwide regulation specialists have condemned the assaults as illegal below the UN constitution.
Host Nour Haydar is joined by our editor, Lenore Taylor, and deputy editor Patrick Keneally to debate Australia’s entangled relationship with the USA.
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Constable shot lifeless delivering warrant to be farewelled
An skilled Tasmanian police officer shot lifeless at work might be farewelled by family members at a personal funeral and with a guard of honour.
Keith Anthony Smith, a 57-year-old Tasmania police constable, died on 16 June when he approached a property in rural Tasmania to ship a court-ordered dwelling repossession warrant. His loss of life marked the primary deadly taking pictures of an officer within the island state in additional than a century.
A 46-year-old North Motton man has been charged with homicide, tried homicide and aggravated assault.
Household, pals, colleagues and different invited visitors will mourn Const Smith at a personal funeral in Devonport immediately.
It is going to be adopted by a guard of honour and funeral procession by way of Devonport and Ulverstone, with members of the general public who want to pay tribute to him inspired to attend.
“Keith was a proud member of Tasmania Police who was deeply revered by his colleagues and his group,” the Tasmanian police drive stated. “His service and spirit won’t be forgotten.”
– Australian Related Press
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Cruise passengers and crew rescued from uninhabited island 100km north of WA
Ten passengers and eight crew members from a luxurious cruise have been rescued from a distant uninhabited island off the northern coast of Australia.
The Silver Cloud cruise ship. {Photograph}: Wayleebird/Alamy
Earlier, about 60 different passengers made it to security after they have been compelled to desert zodiac boats grounded off Adele island about 100km north of the West Australian mainland.
The passengers and guides from Silversea’s Silver Cloud ship have been collaborating in an expedition tour close to the island yesterday afternoon when a fast-moving tide caught the group abruptly.
They have been stranded in knee-deep water about 4 nautical miles from the ship.
About 70 passengers and 10 guides have been compelled to wade 500 metres by way of a coral reef to deeper water the place they have been met by a flotilla of zodiac vessels despatched from the ship to rescue them.
By sundown, most had been rescued and returned to the Silver Cloud the place some have been handled for minor cuts and abrasions.
The remaining passengers and crew have been stranded in darkness for greater than 4 hours whereas their zodiac vessels have been unable to cross an uncovered reef till the tide turned about 10pm (AWST).
The Silver Cloud has set sail for Talbot Bay to proceed its 12-day cruise of the Kimberley area.
– Australian Related Press
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Albanese says Australia will drive its personal defence spending regardless of US tariffs strain on Spain
Albanese was repeatedly requested whether or not he’s nervous Australia might be threatened with tariffs by the US – which was Spain’s destiny after prime minister Pedro Sánchez opted-out of the Nato defence spending pledge.
“I’m not going to touch upon issues between Spain and the USA,” Albanese stated. “What my job is to take care of Australia’s nationwide curiosity, that features our defence and safety pursuits and that’s exactly what we’re doing.”
After being pushed a quantity extra occasions, Albanese continued:
There’s a giant deal with Spain … right here immediately. We’ll put money into no matter functionality we want.
Relating to financial points, I met with the treasury secretary of the USA only a week in the past in addition to with their commerce consultant.
Sánchez rejected Nato’s proposal for member states to extend their defence spending to five% of their GDP, saying the thought would “not solely be unreasonable but in addition counterproductive”.
The proposal – superior by the Nato secretary normal, Mark Rutte, in response to Donald Trump’s calls for for a 5% goal – suggests member states agree to lift defence spending to three.5% of their GDP and commit an additional 1.5% to wider safety spending.
Trump criticised Spain after the summit, saying they’d “pay twice as a lot”.
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Prime minister deflects questions over defence spending after Nato pledges
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, was requested if he’s sticking to lifting defence spending to 2.4% of GDP, after Nato states pledged to extend defence spending to five% of GDP by 2035. Albanese stated:
What we’re doing is ensuring that Australia has the potential that we want. That’s what we’re investing in. We’ll proceed to try this – put money into {our capability} and put money into {our relationships}.
Along with that, we’re making main bulletins like this one right here on 1 July – subsequent week – the rise within the superannuation assure, the rise in paid parental depart, paying superannuation on paid parental depart, the rise within the minimal wage.
It’s all in regards to the agenda that we took to the election that acquired the overwhelming endorsement of the citizens.
You possibly can learn extra about Albanese pushing again on US calls for for Australia to extend defence spending to three.5% of GDP right here:
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Verdict due in trial over loss of life of WA Indigenous teen Cassius Turvey in 2022
A murdered Indigenous teenager who was chased into bushland and crushed to loss of life was a peacemaker hoping to cease a combat, his shattered mom says.
Cassius Turvey, a Noongar Yamatji boy, died in hospital 10 days after he was intentionally struck to the top in Perth’s jap suburbs on 13 October 2022.
Jack Steven James Brearley, 24, and Brodie Lee Palmer, 30, have been convicted in Might of murdering the 15-year-old after a 12-week trial. Mitchell Colin Forth, 27, who was additionally on trial within the West Australian supreme courtroom for Cassius’ homicide, was discovered responsible of manslaughter.
They’re anticipated to be sentenced immediately.
– Australian Related Press
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Leigh warns of have to counter technology-assisted scams, greenwashing and darkish patterns
In his speech, Leigh will hail the passing of the Australian Shopper Legislation in 2011 – which covers all states and territories – as an incredible nationwide achievement.
However he’s anticipated to say extra must be accomplished to guard shoppers and new reforms are wanted – for instance, to fight developments in expertise utilized by scammers. Leigh is anticipated to say:
AI and automation are reshaping the merchandise we use and the providers we depend on. With that comes the chance of opaque selections, embedded bias, and new types of exploitation.
Scams are rising extra refined, with deepfakes, spoofed numbers, and social engineering changing into commonplace.
Greenwashing threatens to erode public assist for real sustainability efforts, as obscure claims substitute verifiable credentials.
Digital darkish patterns are proliferating … the web equal of a salesman who gained’t allow you to depart the shop.
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Andrew Leigh to stipulate Albanese authorities’s client safety agenda in Melbourne
Australians could be higher protected against on-line scams involving digital manipulation and have the correct to restore defective merchandise at aggressive costs below a sequence of client reforms being investigated by the Albanese authorities.
The assistant minister for productiveness, Andrew Leigh, will define the federal government’s plans to strengthen client protections in a speech to the 2025 Shopper Congress in Melbourne this morning,
Organised by the Australian Competitors and Shopper Fee, the convention brings collectively representatives from client teams, group organisations and the federal government.
In response to a duplicate of the speech distributed to Guardian Australia earlier than the convention, Leigh will level to a sequence of reforms – a few of that are below manner and a few which nonetheless must be legislated – which embrace:
Civil penalties for breaches of client ensures
New obligations on banks, telcos and platforms to stop scams
Strengthening regulation of AI-enabled services and products
Motion on “digital darkish patterns”, or on-line manipulation designed to frustrate client alternative
Harder product security and assist for the correct to restore
A evaluate of how AI-enabled services and products are regulated
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Penny Wong to affix Quad counterparts in US subsequent week
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The overseas minister, Penny Wong, is anticipated to affix a gathering of her Quad counterparts in Washington DC subsequent week.
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, stated on Friday he would host overseas ministers from Australia, India and Japan on 1 July, with the assembly set to debate geopolitical points and China’s remedy of Indo-Pacific nations.
A US state division spokesperson stated the assembly would construct on “momentum to advance a free, open and safe Indo-Pacific”.
The assembly comes after latest summits of G7 and Nato leaders. Quad overseas ministers final gathered within the US capital on the inauguration of Donald Trump in January.
Penny Wong on Monday. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAPShare
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On gender quotas
Labor launched quotas for ladies in 1994, requiring ladies to be preselected for 35% of winnable seats. Within the outgoing parliament, 47% of Labor MPs, 70% of Labor senators and 53% of total representatives have been ladies.
In 2022, the Liberal celebration recorded the bottom variety of ladies in its parliamentary ranks in 30 years, with simply 9 ladies amongst its 42 MPs, and 10 ladies out of 26 senators. That is regardless of the parliament then having a file variety of ladies.
You possibly can learn extra on this from Kate Lyons, who wrote in regards to the latest federal election defeat for the Liberal celebration because it continues to lose feminine voters:
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Taylor repeats declare gender quotas ‘subvert democracy’
Angus Taylor says the Labor celebration “subvert democracy”, when requested once more about gender quotas.
The shadow defence minister was pushed on ABC RN this morning on his stance towards introducing quotas to the Liberal celebration.
“We’re in a democratic nation, and I wish to see a democratic organisation within the Liberal celebration,” she shadow minister stated.
Host Sally Sara reduce in: “the Labor celebration might be democratic and have ladies are available.”
Taylor responded:
what, the Labor celebration will do issues their very own manner, they usually do subvert democracy, and that’s a matter for them.
On the finish of the day, in the event you’re going to have quotas, it means you’ll subvert democratic processes.
Sara cuts in once more to say, “these ladies are elected”. Taylor continues:
Properly, you realize, throughout the Labor Celebration or the Liberal Celebration, we now have pre-selection processes, and I would like these to be democratic processes.
I’ve lengthy been a crusader on this, as I’ve lengthy been a crusader on attracting and retaining and mentoring gifted folks, together with, after all, ladies in our celebration.
Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAPShare
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Terrorgram listed as terrorist organisation
Tony Burke says the itemizing of Terrorgram as a terrorist organisation “gained’t be the very last thing we now have to do towards far-right white supremacist teams”.
The house affairs minister is talking on ABC RN:
That is very totally different to a variety of the opposite listings that we’ve accomplished. When folks usually take into consideration a terrorist organisation, you assume small teams of individuals, assembly in personal rooms, discovering folks to recruit and dealing as a cell.
Describing Terrorgram, Burke continues:
If folks think about a giant chat group devoted to hatred and violence, it’s a scenario the place the members gained’t essentially know one another. They gained’t essentially know the individuals who they’re recruiting, however the idea of what they’re attempting to do is a direct menace to the security of Australians, and there have been particular situations the place that is getting used with the intention to threaten Australians.
The kind of hatred we’re speaking about right here, it’s generally loosely known as excessive rightwing terrorism. You’re speaking about issues like white supremacism. These kinds of views. And they encourage not simply the sharing of the hatred, however the sharing of acts of violence, and how you can guides for folks to have the ability to commit these kinds of acts of violence.
Tony Burke final July. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
Requested how you can authorities can cease members from regrouping elsewhere, Burke says “you by no means cease chasing these characters down”:
You by no means cease this itemizing gained’t be the very last thing we now have to do towards far-right white supremacist teams. There’ll be extra. And you realize, there have been some teams that have been which have beforehand been listed. Terrorgram is the primary considered one of this explicit type.
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Angus Taylor says he opposes gender quotas as ‘I don’t imagine in subverting democratic processes’
Taylor says he doesn’t assist quotas to carry ladies into the Liberal celebration as a result of “I don’t imagine in subverting democratic processes”.
The shadow defence minister tells ABC TV:
We completely want extra ladies within the celebration at each degree, whether or not it’s members of our branches, whether or not it’s on our executives, whether or not, certainly, it’s as members of parliament. And I feel there’s an enormous job for us to ensure we’re consultant of our communities in each manner attainable, and meaning attracting essentially the most gifted folks from throughout our communities as we are able to, together with ladies …
I’ve by no means been a supporter of quotas, as a result of I don’t imagine in subverting democratic processes. The Labor celebration does. We historically haven’t within the Liberal celebration. I feel there’s higher methods of attaining this.
Taylor lists mentoring, recruitment and retention processes as alternate choices.
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Taylor says defence spending wanted to protect towards authoritarian regimes
Angus Taylor says Australia wants to extend spending on defence as “we’re seeing authoritarian regimes around the globe flexing their muscular tissues”.
The shadow defence minister stated on ABC TV:
It’s completely acceptable that we enhance defence expenditure as much as a minimum of 3% of GDP …
Finally, in the event you step again from this, we’re seeing authoritarian regimes around the globe flexing their muscular tissues. We’re seeing it, after all, with Russia, we now have seen it with Iran and their proxies. We’re seeing it with the navy buildup of the Chinese language Communist Celebration. And all of this implies we’re in a extra unsure world than at any time for the reason that second world conflict. So it’s important Australia be ready to face by itself two ft alongside our allies like the USA and the UK, and that does imply we now have to spend extra on defence.
Nato states pledged to extend defence spending to five% of GDP by 2035 – together with 3.5% in core navy spending and the remaining in infrastructure, intelligence, cybersecurity and different spending – earlier this month. You possibly can learn extra about that right here:
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Tony Burke is because of converse shortly on the ABC about Terrorgram’s itemizing as a terrorist organisation.
The net community for neo-Nazis promotes militant accelerationism, which requires violent acts to destabilise society.
As Dan Jervis-Bardy reported earlier within the yr, the group was hit with counter-terrorism sanctions in February, making it a felony offence to make use of or cope with the web entity.
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Sydney man dies from stab wounds in driveway
NSW police are investigating after a person died from stabbing wounds in Sydney in a single day.
Police have been referred to as to Pemulwuy in Sydney’s west at round 10.45pm on Thursday, they stated in a press release, after studies a person “believed to be aged in his 20s” was discovered wounded in a home driveway.
He was handled by paramedics however was unable to be revived and died on the scene, police stated.
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Good morning and welcome to our dwell information weblog. I’m Martin Farrer with one of the best of the in a single day tales earlier than Rafqa Touma takes you thru the day.
The Albanese authorities has reportedly listed white supremacist community Terrorgram as a terrorist organisation. Penny Wong introduced sanctions on the group earlier this yr. The house affairs minister, Tony Burke, can have extra to say on that quickly.
The large home political occasion of the day is available in Canberra with a joint Coalition celebration room assembly to debate reforms and the federal election evaluate. Our report this morning tells us that Sussan Ley might be in search of a extra inclusive policymaking course of with the intention to keep away from the errors of the Dutton period. We’ll have extra arising.
And as we reported earlier within the week, staffers from the places of work of the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, and the police minister, Yasmin Catley, have agreed to seem earlier than a parliamentary inquiry into the Dural caravan “faux terrorism plot” immediately – we’ll have extra on that.
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