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Protests in assist of Palestine and Gaza are anticipated throughout the nation on Sunday as a part of a nationwide day of motion to protest Israel’s assaults on the beleaguered enclave. The protests will embrace a march throughout the Victoria Bridge in Brisbane after a court docket order discovered a proposal to cross Story Bridge was unsafe.
The Albanese authorities has pledged to “minimize crimson tape” and fast-track environmental approvals for brand spanking new properties to hurry up development by freezing constructing rules till 2029. The federal government says it’s going to assist velocity up the method of constructing 26,000 new properties below environmental legal guidelines.
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The Coalition has accused the federal government of adopting its coverage with the choice to pause adjustments to the nationwide development code.
Shadow Treasurer Ted O’Brien spoke to Sky Information on Sunday following an look by Clare O’Neil the place he accused the federal government of copy the Coalition’s homework.
The one concrete step that comes out of the roundtable is coalition coverage.
It will have saved quite a lot of time, quite a lot of effort, if you already know, they simply put a put up on social media saying, ‘thanks, coalition, good thought’.
On questions concerning the Coalition’s efficiency on the final election, O’Brien stated the occasion had obtained it mistaken on tax however stated he anticipated the federal government to raise taxes this time period.
For those who simply carry on spending, you’ve obtained to get the cash from someplace.
When you’ll be able to’t management your spending, you’re simply going to extend debt and enhance taxes. That’s fairly clear.
– with AAP
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Housing minister say Australia’s constructing code is just too complicated
Australia’s 2,000-page constructing code is “unusable” for a lot of builders, Clare O’Neil says.
O’Neil spoke to Sky Information on Sunday morning earlier than the federal treasurer Jim Chalmers, appeared on ABC Insiders as a part of a broad push to spruik the federal government’s deregulatory agenda.
She stated the federal government’s pauses on adjustments to the code means “there actually received’t be significant adjustments to the code for a seven-year interval, so that is the place we’re giving our builders a little bit of room to breathe.”
The most important difficulty we’ve obtained within the code for the time being is simply sheer complexity. This can be a code which has ballooned out to greater than 2,000 pages.
It’s actually about streamlining, about simplifying and ensuring that we offer builders the easiest alternative to construct extra properties extra rapidly.
O’Neil stated this might assist speed up the push for the federal government’s housing goal of 1.2m new properties by the tip of the last decade.
We desperately want extra properties for Australians in our nation, and that is the best way to get it.
These are huge, significant steps ahead on housing which have come as a direct results of the roundtable dialog.
For extra on this story, learn the Guardian’s earlier reporting:
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Slava Ukraini! PM reveals assist to Ukraine on impartial day
Prime minister Anthony Albanese has used the return of smuggled artefacts and the anniversary of Ukraine’s Unbiased to reiterate Australia’s assist for the nation in response to Russia’s ongoing invasion.
In a press release posted to social media on Sunday, the prime minister expressed admiration for its folks’s “extraordinary braveness” and stated the nation stood by all these in Australia with Ukrainian heritage.
All Australians share the hope and expectation of the Ukrainian those that victory and justice will prevail
Could the spirit of Independence Day maintain our perception in a way forward for simply and enduring peace.
Slava Ukraini!
Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union on 24 August 1991.
– AAP
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Australia returns smuggled Ukrainian artefacts
Prime minister Anthony Albanese has praised the braveness of Ukraine’s folks on the thirty fourth anniversary of its independence, as archaeological gadgets are returned.
Australia has returned two illegally exported archaeological objects to Ukraine because it renews assist for the war-torn nation amid peace talks.
Arts minister Tony Burke formally handed again the gadgets to Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia Vasyl Myroshnychenko at a live performance in Sydney to mark Ukraine’s Independence Day.
Ukrainian ambassador to Australia Vasyl Myroshnychenko in February. {Photograph}: Dominic Giannini/AAP
The gadgets are an iron arrowhead courting from the twelfth or thirteenth century and a pendant from the third millennium BCE that was doubtless a conventional adornment within the historic Yamnaya tradition.
They have been illegally trafficked to Australia in late 2023 and intercepted and seized upon arrival in Sydney.
Burke stated:
Returning this stuff displays Australia’s ongoing dedication to combating illicit trafficking of cultural heritage in all international locations, notably these struggling the hardships of conflict.
These objects are a part of the historical past and heritage of the folks of Ukraine, which should be preserved for future generations.
– AAP
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UK’s Nigel Farage campaigning on harsh refugee insurance policies with ‘mass deportations’
Far-right UK politician Nigel Farage is campaigning to emulate Australia’s refugee coverage forward of the following election with requires “mass deportations” of migrants.
In an interview with The Instances of London reported by The Sydney Morning Herald, Farage stated that asylum seekers intercepted whereas crossing the English Channel could be compelled to return house. Those that refused could be redirected to Ascension Island “as a backstop” he stated.
Ascension Island at the moment hosts British and American air drive bases close to the equator within the South Atlantic Ocean. He didn’t say how many individuals it must accommodate as a part of this system.
Farage, a lead campaigner within the profitable push for Britain to go away the European Union has beforehand spoken to former prime minister Tony Abbott and seems to be taking a leaf out of the Coalition’s e-book.
You’ll not be staying on this nation when you pay a trafficker to cross the English Channel.
Farage informed The Instances that “we will’t be accountable for every thing that occurs in the entire of the world” and, in response to a query about whether or not those that are returned are killed or torture, stated “I can’t be accountable for despotic regimes all around the world. However I may be accountable for the protection of girls and ladies on our streets”.
Migrants attempt to board a smuggler’s boat in an try to cross the English Channel off the seaside of Gravelines, northern France on 12 August 2025. {Photograph}: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Photos
Reform at the moment solely has three MPs within the Home of Commons however is taken into account an rebel risk to a struggling Labor occasion and a damaged Conservative occasion. Former Conservative chief Rishi Sunak beforehand proposed redirecting asylum seekers to Rwanda – one other coverage that echoed the Australian immigration system.
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Nationals chief says Coalition will take market-based nuclear energy coverage to election
David Littleproud continues to insist the Coalition shouldn’t be setting itself up for one more election defeat by sustaining its assist for nuclear energy.
Talking to 2GB on Sunday, Littleproud stated the Coalition would take a special method than it did on the final election by lifting the moratorium on nuclear energy technology in Australia and “let the market do it”.
This in distinction to the Coalition’s method on the final election, which was to create a state-owned firm to drive the event of nuclear energy – a standard method to nuclear power growth owing to the large monetary dangers and long-term time horizons concerned.
Littleproud claimed that renewable power was driving payments up, and that it was not the “most cost-effective type of power’.
I simply say to your metropolis viewers, regional Australia is bearing the brunt of this. I’m seeing cities and I’m really seeing households being torn up by these renewable tasks which are tearing up their productiveness, your meals safety and truly the native atmosphere. And it’s all with out premise.
Earlier this week, the occasion handed non-binding movement calling on the Coalition management to desert assist for insurance policies to succeed in web zero by 2050.
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AI ‘will change every thing’ says Chalmers
Chalmers says the federal government is all-in on the substitute intelligence increase saying the know-how will “change every thing” and that it’s the authorities’s function to handle the introduction of the know-how to “maximise the advantages and minimise the dangers”.
Synthetic intelligence was completely central to our discussions as a result of it is going to be completely gamechanging in our financial system and our society into the long run.
On the NDIS and hospital funding, Chalmers says “4 years in the past, spending on the NDIS was completely uncontrolled.” The place it was as soon as rising at 22%, the federal government is working to get this fee down to eight%.
Getting it to eight% can be an excellent effort however not adequate, as minister Mark Butler has identified, so we’ll proceed to work with the states on offering the assist that individuals want and deserve, notably on this occasion, on the subject of Thriving Children.
One of many questions the federal government is working by means of, he says, is whether or not the federal government will hyperlink hospital funding to their coordination with the NDIS.
Properly, that’s the continued discussions that we’ve been having, whether or not it’s treasurers, well being ministers, NDIS ministers, leaders, have been having this dialogue because the deal was struck.
What’s one of the best ways to implement. Two offers, not one. They’re intently associated. There are billions and billions of {dollars} tied up in them and so we’ve been making an attempt to progress each of these offers directly for good motive as a result of there are swings and roundabouts for each of us.
And that’s a wrap.
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Treasurer says authorities engaged on highway consumer cost for EV drivers
Chalmers says the federal government is now working by means of methods to make sure that the introduction of any highway consumer fees doesn’t “double tax” motorists who already pay gas excise by driving worldwide combustion engine (ICE) autos.
We’re not making an attempt to work out methods to double tax inner combustion engines. We are attempting to be sure that individuals who drive EVs, growing numbers of people that drive electrical autos are making a contribution to the maintenance of the roads that they use.
It’s essentially about making the system a bit fairer. We are going to take the time to get it proper. The states are placing collectively an choices paper for us to contemplate at our assembly earlier than lengthy, really, fifth September, and so we’ll undergo that.
Chalmers says the “principal level” of the latest roundtable was whether or not the scheme would start with heavy electrical autos like electrical vans, and what “sequence” will comply with thereafter.
Australia’s transport emissions have been persistently excessive with the most recent information suggesting they’ve risen. Electrical autos, as clear automobiles, are a key half to responding to local weather change.
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Roundtable was ‘about informing tax insurance policies for the following three budgets’
Requested how formidable the federal government can be on tax reform, Chalmers reiterates the federal government is dedicated to implementing what it took to the election and that it has time to contemplate its choices.
The roundtable was by no means about finalising tax insurance policies, it was about informing tax insurance policies for the following three budgets and past and that’s the method I take to it.
On the finish of the day, as I’ve stated, in a number of other ways over the course of the final week or so, essentially it is a resolution for cupboard ministers to soak up the standard means, and on the standard timing
For what it’s price, what the federal government is saying right here is necessary as these selections form how a lot cash there can be for social safety, new hospitals, aged care and childcare – the final of which was a signature coverage for the federal government on the election with a promise to offer free childcare.
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‘GST and desserts have a protracted and chequered historical past,’ says Chalmers
The federal government shouldn’t be on the level the place it’s contemplating simplify the tax system however is open to taking a look at potential proposals.
The treasurer was requested about complexity within the GST system – particularly how the system treats like merchandise in another way. For instance, Tiramisu is GST-free, cheesecake shouldn’t be. Yoghurt is GST-free, however frozen yoghurt shouldn’t be.
Chalmers acknowledged this was a contentious space.
The query round GST and desserts have a protracted and chequered historical past within the politics of our nation.
Extra critically, the federal government was open to conversations about simplify however hadn’t but “obtained into that element” however flagged there was “a job for know-how” for making issues simpler for small enterprise, a “actual time tax” initiative.
If we will make it simpler for small companies particularly to do the proper factor within the tax system, that’s good for everybody, so I’ve obtained a very open thoughts to attempt to progress that agenda.
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Treasurer says ‘no plans’ to vary tax-free therapy of tremendous for retirees
Retirees nonetheless deserve “concessional therapy” on the superannuation regardless of strain on the federal government to shake up the tax system to for the good thing about future generations, federal treasurer Jim Chalmers says.
Talking to ABC Insiders host David Speers on Sunday, Chalmers is responding to questions on what the federal government plans to do after the latest roundtable, saying the suggestions from enterprise will inform what the federal government does going ahead.
He’s requested whether or not the tax-free therapy of superannuation for retirees is “nonetheless justified”, and repeatedly says the federal government has no plans to vary this.
Chalmers says the federal government’s tenet is a protection of the truthful go for future generations.
We have to guarantee collectively as Australians that the truthful go is the defining a part of our future and never simply the defining a part of our previous. That’s the precept at stake right here.
However he additionally says that regardless of strain on the federal government to shake up Australia’s tax system, the federal government is concentrated on delivering the proposals it took to the final election.
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‘Dam has burst’: Palestine assist swells earlier than march
Australians in additional than 40 cities are set to march for Palestine, in what organisers say could be one of many largest mobilisations in Australian historical past.
A whole bunch of hundreds of Australians are anticipated to march in a nationwide groundswell of assist for the Palestinian trigger, days after famine was declared in Gaza for the primary time.
Marchers, backed by greater than 250 neighborhood organisations, unions and outstanding public figures will flip up at rallies in additional than 40 cities on Sunday to demand sanctions and an finish to Australia’s arms commerce with Israel.
Palestine Motion Group’s Sydney spokesman Josh Lees stated organisers are anticipating as much as half one million folks to prove, up from the estimated 300,000 that attended the Sydney Harbor Bridge march in early August, which they are saying was a mirrored image of the massive outpouring of assist for Palestinians.
That bridge march has generated a lot momentum across the nation.
The dam has burst by way of assist for Palestine and opposition to this genocide.
The motion comes days after the United Nations confirmed famine in components of the Gaza Strip for the primary time, as Israel prepares for a navy takeover of all the metropolis.
Audio system slated to handle crowds embrace high-profile activist Grace Tame and journalist Antoinette Lattouf.
Israel has rejected its actions in Gaza quantity to genocide, a declare that has additionally been introduced towards it earlier than the Worldwide Court docket of Justice, and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu known as the famine declaration an “outright lie”.
– AAP
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Albanese authorities cuts crimson tape in bid to spice up house constructing
The Albanese authorities has promised to chop crimson tape and fast-track environmental approvals for brand spanking new properties in an effort to handle Australia’s housing disaster.
On Saturday, the federal government introduced plans to pause additional residential adjustments to the Nationwide Building Code and to streamline the evaluation of greater than 26,000 properties below the Atmosphere Safety and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
The announcement follows the financial reform roundtable this week, at which housing was a spotlight. In keeping with the federal government, there was broad consensus that “commonsense adjustments may cut back the regulatory burden for builders and increase housing provide”.
“For too many builders in Australia, it takes longer to get approval for a house than it does to construct one,” the federal government stated in a press release.
The federal government stated it might work with states and territories to pause additional adjustments to the Nationwide Building Code. It will then seek the advice of on methods to streamline the code, together with the usage of synthetic intelligence to assist tradies, small enterprise and households in utilizing the three-volume, 2000-page code.
For extra on this story, learn the complete report by Guardian Australia’s Petra Inventory:
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Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers will converse to ABC Insiders host David Speers this morning.
Federal minister for housing Clare O’Neil spoke to Sky Information this morning to spruik the federal government’s proposal to quick monitor housing approvals and Shadow Treasurer Ted O’Brien.
We are going to carry you the most recent because it develops.
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Good morning
And welcome to a different Sunday morning Guardian reside weblog.
Protests in assist of Palestine and Gaza are anticipated throughout the nation on Sunday as a part of a nationwide day of motion to protest Israel’s assaults on the beleaguered enclave. The protests will embrace a march throughout the Victoria Bridge in Brisbane after a court docket order discovered a proposal to cross Story Bridge was unsafe.
The Albanese authorities has pledged to “minimize crimson tape” and fast-track environmental approvals for brand spanking new properties to hurry up development by freezing constructing rules till 2029. The federal government says it’s going to assist velocity up the method of constructing 26,000 new properties below environmental legal guidelines.
I’m Royce Kurmelovs and I’ll be taking the weblog by means of the day.
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