Usman Khawaja to fulfill prime minister to debate playing advertisements
Henry Belot
Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja will in the present day meet the prime minister to debate playing advertisements, earlier than a roundtable dialogue with public well being consultants and docs.
Khawaja, who may also communicate to Anthony Albanese concerning the warfare in Gaza, has been essential of the shut affiliation between sport and the wagering trade, given the potential for social hurt.
Khawaja may also attend the roundtable dialogue with crossbenchers David Pocock and Kate Chaney, the Australian Medical Affiliation, the Australia Institute, public well being professional Samantha Thomas and folks with lived expertise of playing hurt.
The group is asking on the federal authorities to undertake the suggestions of a parliamentary inquiry led by the late Labor MP Peta Murphy, which known as for a ban on playing advertisements and inducements, amongst many different adjustments.
Earlier this week, when requested why it had taken greater than two years to reply to the inquiry, Albanese informed parliament the federal government was aware “of whether or not individuals simply go offshore” to proceed playing. Offshore playing service are banned in Australia and never topic to shopper protections.
Thomas, who will ship a brief speech on the occasion, stated that argument mustn’t delay reforms.
Regardless of trade rhetoric, there may be restricted impartial proof to recommend that advert bans would result in a mass exodus to unlawful markets. Impartial evaluation additionally reveals that we don’t want playing advertisements to guard free-to-air tv and large media manufacturers. If we’re to maneuver ahead in Australia, we should additionally disrupt trade affect over coverage.
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Worldwide popularity of Australian universities declining, new report finds
Australia’s worldwide schooling market is stagnating, a brand new report suggests, amid warnings a “stringent coverage setting” is deterring potential college students from enrolling.
The worldwide scholar flows analysis, launched by greater schooling analyst QS Quacquarelli Symonds on Thursday, discovered Australia risked dropping its main examine vacation spot place if visa settings and graduate outcomes didn’t meet the expectations of worldwide college students.
It forecasted Australia’s worldwide schooling sector would stagnate beneath present settings in contrast with international opponents, with an annual rise of two% in contrast with round 10% previous to the pandemic.
Jessica Turner, chief govt of QS Quacquarelli Symonds, stated the popularity of Australian establishments amongst lecturers and employers had been in long-term decline.
Schooling exports contributed round $50bn in 2023/24.
Nevertheless, a extra stringent coverage setting – the place the nation’s scholar visa price has develop into the costliest on the earth and visa allocations are set at particular person establishments – might depress the two% development forecast in coming years.
The report projected whole worldwide enrolments would stand at about 770,000 by the tip of the last decade throughout greater schooling, English language and non-award programs.
The determine is properly under the federal authorities’s revised goal of 295,000 annual locations from subsequent 12 months, equating to greater than 1.1 million college students by 2030.
The brand new Nationwide Planning Stage granted an extra 25,000 locations in contrast with 2025 after Labor’s worldwide scholar cap did not obtain Coalition backing final 12 months.
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The Coalition has been essential of the federal government for not itemizing the IRGC as a terrorist organisation sooner, however is going through its personal questions as to why the earlier Coalition authorities didn’t accomplish that.
Liberal MP Tim Wilson, was on ABC RN Breakfast earlier and stated the proof for the federal government to record the IRGC has prevalent over the past two and a half years.
When requested whether or not the earlier Coalition authorities ought to have executed extra, Wilson says they listed Hezbollah and Hamas as terrorist organisations.
Clearly, these items come right down to the recommendation at totally different occasions to guarantee that we accumulate the proof to take action … we all the time welcome the choice of the federal government to have taken this step at the moment. And crucial factor is that the actions have been taken now, even when we want that had have been executed earlier as a result of we consider the proof was clearer earlier.
Host Sally Sara pushes Wilson, saying that Asio’s proof of Iran’s involvement in two antisemitic assaults in Australia has solely come out now. Anthony Albanese stated on Tuesday that he was briefed by Asio on Monday, after which promptly pulled diplomats out of Australia’s embassy in Tehran on Monday evening. Wilson says:
It’s been fairly clear they’ve [Iran] been concerned in making an attempt to inflame tensions in Israel and around the globe. That’s what has now come to mild explicitly since previously couple of days, nevertheless it’s been fairly clear since [7 October 2023].
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Good morning
Krishani Dhanji with you for the ultimate sitting day of the week, due to Martin Farrer for getting us began.
Following final evening’s midwinter ball, there may be a couple of dusty faces round parliament’s corridors in the present day, however there’ll nonetheless be loads of motion.
There’ll probably be extra response in the present day to the itemizing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terror group, and to the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador.
Stick with us, it’s going to be a busy one!
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Politicians costume up for Midwinter Ball
In case you missed it, Canberra’s Midwinter Ball was held final evening giving the pollies (and press gallery) the possibility to decorate up.
Attenders included, after all, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and his fiancee, Jodie Haydon, seen right here arriving for the festivities at Parliament Home.
{Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAP
And the opposition chief, Sussan Ley, and her fellow feminine Liberal MPs.
{Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAP
And you may see many extra footage from the evening at our gallery right here:
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Usman Khawaja to fulfill prime minister to debate playing advertisements
Henry Belot
Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja will in the present day meet the prime minister to debate playing advertisements, earlier than a roundtable dialogue with public well being consultants and docs.
Khawaja, who may also communicate to Anthony Albanese concerning the warfare in Gaza, has been essential of the shut affiliation between sport and the wagering trade, given the potential for social hurt.
Khawaja may also attend the roundtable dialogue with crossbenchers David Pocock and Kate Chaney, the Australian Medical Affiliation, the Australia Institute, public well being professional Samantha Thomas and folks with lived expertise of playing hurt.
The group is asking on the federal authorities to undertake the suggestions of a parliamentary inquiry led by the late Labor MP Peta Murphy, which known as for a ban on playing advertisements and inducements, amongst many different adjustments.
Earlier this week, when requested why it had taken greater than two years to reply to the inquiry, Albanese informed parliament the federal government was aware “of whether or not individuals simply go offshore” to proceed playing. Offshore playing service are banned in Australia and never topic to shopper protections.
Thomas, who will ship a brief speech on the occasion, stated that argument mustn’t delay reforms.
Regardless of trade rhetoric, there may be restricted impartial proof to recommend that advert bans would result in a mass exodus to unlawful markets. Impartial evaluation additionally reveals that we don’t want playing advertisements to guard free-to-air tv and large media manufacturers. If we’re to maneuver ahead in Australia, we should additionally disrupt trade affect over coverage.
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Good morning and welcome to our dwell politics weblog. I’m Martin Farrer with the highest in a single day tales after which Krishani Dhanji might be alongside to take you thru the day.
Australia’s worldwide schooling market is stagnating, in response to a brand new report, with the blame being directed at a “stringent coverage setting” and better visa charges which might be deterring college students from enrolling. Extra developing.
The cricketer Usman Khawaja meets the prime minister in the present day to debate playing advertisements earlier than a roundtable dialogue with crossbenchers David Pocock and Kate Chaney, docs and public well being consultants. Khawaja may also elevate the scenario in Gaza with Anthony Albanese. Extra developing.
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