James Paterson says housing targets must be ‘real looking’, not ‘delusional’
James Paterson, the shadow minister for finance, stated housing targets wanted to be “real looking” and “not delusional” after the Treasury warned the federal Labor authorities its insurance policies weren’t formidable sufficient to satisfy a promise to construct 1.2m new houses by 2030. Patterson spoke to RN Breakfast, a day after the federal government by chance shared particulars of the recommendation with the ABC beneath freedom of knowledge guidelines.
Paterson stated:
It’s definitely a great factor to have targets and it’s a good factor to be formidable, however the ambition must be real looking and achievable and never delusional and I feel we’re now entering into that degree of delusion as a result of a goal of 1.2m houses by 2029 would require the federal government to be constructing about 250,000 houses a 12 months when solely about 170,000 are being constructed.
James Patterson, the shadow minister for finance, stated housing targets wanted to be ‘real looking’. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
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Northern Territory police investigating after deadly helicopter incident linked to chicken strike
Northern Territory police are investigating a deadly helicopter incident in north-eastern Arnhem Land yesterday after an plane allegedly struck a chicken, which then prompted the animal to “fatally strike” a passenger.
Officers stated emergency providers obtained stories the helicopter was carrying two occupants close to Gapuwiyak earlier than it was compelled to make an emergency touchdown after the chicken strike. The pilot was in a position to land the plane safely and was unhurt, however a 54-year-old passenger was killed within the incident. NT police stated:
The influence allegedly prompted the chicken to fatally strike a 54-year-old male passenger. The pilot was in a position to land the plane safely and was unhurt.
Police and St John Ambulance attended the scene; nevertheless, the 54-year-old male was declared deceased.
A report shall be ready for the coroner.
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Sydney man charged over assault on Stone of Scone in Scottish museum
A person from Sydney has appeared in a court docket in Scotland charged with “malicious mischief” following stories a glass case containing the Stone of Scone was damaged in Perth, AAP stories.
It follows an incident at Perth Museum on Saturday afternoon when guests reported a person in a kilt trying to smash via the case containing the traditional artefact, which has lengthy been related to the monarchy.
The artefact, also called the Stone of Future, was moved to Perth Museum in 2024 after a £27m ($A55m) redevelopment. It has been related to the Scottish and UK monarchies for hundreds of years and was controversially stored in England at Westminster Abbey till 1996. {Photograph}: Jane Barlow/PA
Police stated they’d arrested and charged somebody after a “disturbance” on the museum, which has the sandstone block as its centrepiece exhibition. On Monday, 35-year-old Arnaud Harixcalde Logan appeared at Perth sheriff court docket going through a single cost of malicious mischief.
The artefact, also called the Stone of Future, was moved to Perth Museum in 2024. It has been related to the Scottish and UK monarchies for hundreds of years and was controversially stored in England at Westminster Abbey till 1996.
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Court docket will determine if authorities has responsibility to guard First Nations folks from local weather change
A court docket will determine whether or not the federal authorities has an obligation of care to guard First Nations folks whose houses and communities are being threatened by the impacts of local weather change, AAP stories.
Liable to changing into Australia’s first local weather refugees, Uncle Paul Kabai and Uncle Pabai Pabai filed the landmark case in opposition to the federal government within the federal court docket in 2021. They declare it failed to guard their homelands among the many Torres Strait Islands from local weather change.
Uncle Paul Kabai and Uncle Pabai Pabai filed the landmark case in opposition to the federal government within the Federal Court docket in 2021. {Photograph}: Talei Elu/GRATA FUND/AFP/Getty Photographs
The uncles are in search of orders from the court docket that may require the federal government to take steps to forestall hurt to their communities, together with slicing greenhouse gasoline emissions consistent with the most effective accessible science.
The court docket, which is because of hand down its choice on Tuesday, heard proof communities on Boigu and Saibai may have lower than 30 years left earlier than their islands turn out to be uninhabitable.
The commonwealth has argued it’s not legally required to think about the most effective accessible science or the impacts of local weather change when setting emissions discount targets.
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Albanese set to satisfy with Chinese language counterparts in Beijing at present
Political variations will bump up in opposition to financial alternatives as Anthony Albanese meets his Chinese language counterparts within the imposing Nice Corridor of the Folks in Beijing, AAP stories.
Right this moment’s bilateral conferences with the president Xi Jinping, the premier, Li Qiang, and the Communist social gathering chair Zhao Leji – the three highest-ranking members of China’s ruling committee – mark the centrepiece of the prime minister’s six-day tour of the Center Kingdom.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese and his associate, Jodie Haydon, arrive in Beijing on Monday. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAP
The optics of Albanese’s rendezvous with one of many world’s most influential leaders shall be highly effective. Nevertheless it’s his assembly with Li, notionally the pinnacle of presidency in China, that can ship any tangible agreements from the journey in the event that they happen.
The conferences come because the Chinese language-Australian free commerce settlement passes its tenth anniversary and Albanese will emphasise the potential for additional creating enterprise hyperlinks at a CEO roundtable hosted by the Enterprise Council of Australia this night.
“It allows us to precise our variations and to handle them, with out our relationship being outlined by them,” he’ll say. “That is about constructing stronger ties the place our nationwide pursuits are aligned.”
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Paterson says definition of antisemitism a ‘useful software’
Paterson was requested in regards to the federal antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal, and her suggestions the federal government undertake a working definition of antisemitism from the Worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). He instructed RN Breakfast the definition can be a “useful software”, however wouldn’t be used to restrict free speech, regardless of issues from some sectors it might achieve this.
Jillian Segal, the federal antisemitism envoy. {Photograph}: Dan Himbrechts/AP
Paterson stated:
I feel the IHRA definition of antisemitism is necessary as a result of what constitutes antisemitism is a extremely contested factor. So folks don’t naturally settle for what constitutes antisemitism and, in some ways, maliciously search to downplay or search to keep away from attributing issues to antisemitism. So I feel it has been a really useful software and it’s a useful guideline.
Nobody in Australia, although, is proposing that IHRA needs to be legislated or that there needs to be penalties beneath the legislation for transgressing IHRA. And I don’t suppose anybody ought to suggest that. I don’t suppose that may be in line with Australia’s method to free speech.
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James Paterson says housing targets must be ‘real looking’, not ‘delusional’
James Paterson, the shadow minister for finance, stated housing targets wanted to be “real looking” and “not delusional” after the Treasury warned the federal Labor authorities its insurance policies weren’t formidable sufficient to satisfy a promise to construct 1.2m new houses by 2030. Patterson spoke to RN Breakfast, a day after the federal government by chance shared particulars of the recommendation with the ABC beneath freedom of knowledge guidelines.
Paterson stated:
It’s definitely a great factor to have targets and it’s a good factor to be formidable, however the ambition must be real looking and achievable and never delusional and I feel we’re now entering into that degree of delusion as a result of a goal of 1.2m houses by 2029 would require the federal government to be constructing about 250,000 houses a 12 months when solely about 170,000 are being constructed.
James Patterson, the shadow minister for finance, stated housing targets wanted to be ‘real looking’. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
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Burke says media monitoring suggestions probably no more than merely watching and observing
The minister for house affairs, Tony Burke, additionally took little concern final evening with a suggestion within the report for the antisemitism envoy to “monitor media organisations to encourage correct, truthful and accountable reporting and … to keep away from accepting false or distorted narratives”.
He stated the envoy was already monitoring what occurred within the media “on a regular basis”.
Tony Burke stated the antisemitism envoy was already monitoring what occurred within the media “on a regular basis”. {Photograph}: James Ross/AAP
Questioned over whether or not this was extra than simply watching and observing what was taking place within the media and as a substitute enjoying an “energetic function”, Burke stated: “I’m undecided it’s greater than that”.
For those who’re speaking about monitoring, these are public broadcasters the place what they do is public … in the identical manner any free-to-air TV is public and monitored and is watched. If there are examples the place envoys consider there’s antisemitism, that’s one thing they might report on to the totally different networks and also you strive to verify this stuff cease.
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Mitchell Starc delivers one of many all-time nice spells of quick bowling
Mitchell Starc has produced one of many all-time nice spells of quick bowling, with 5 wickets in 15 balls placing Australia heading in the right direction to comb the Frank Worrell Trophy, AAP stories.
With West Indies chasing 204 for victory within the third Check in Jamaica, Starc took three wickets within the first over alone because the hosts fell to 6-22 at tea on day three.
Australia’s Mitchell Starc, proper, talks to captain Pat Cummins. {Photograph}: Ricardo Mazalán/AP
Enjoying in his one hundredth Check, Starc additionally turned the fourth Australian to succeed in the 400-wicket milestone and joined greats Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Nathan Lyon.
And the left-armer did it in type, ripping the center out of West Indies with a record-breaking spell at Sabina Park of 5-6 from 5 overs at Sabina Park.
Starc’s 15-ball five-wicket haul marked the quickest by any bowler in Check historical past, beating Ernie Toshack from 1947, Stuart Broad’s 2015 Trent Bridge effort and Scott Boland’s MCG heroics of 2021.
Every of these took 19 balls.
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Take a look at the Full Story – on Segal’s antisemitism plans
As probability would have it, at present’s version of the Full Story podcast is about Jillian Segal and whether or not her suggestions have the potential to silence debate and dissent.
Political reporter and chief of workers Josh Butler and schooling reporter Caitlin Cassidy converse to Reged Ahmad about why the proposed antisemitism plan has some folks apprehensive.
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Burke says goal of antisemitism measures not ‘cancelling folks’
Burke was unwilling to weigh in on whether or not the federal authorities would take up a suggestion within the report for brand spanking new powers to strip funding from universities who didn’t deal with antisemitism, or if the problem had turn out to be “normalised” in greater schooling.
He stated the target was to not be “cancelling folks” however “to by no means fall foul of the necessity to make it possible for we’re combatting antisemitism”.
That is the place loads of the dialogue – and I respect why – has gone straight to the perimeters of what would the punishment and the penalty be? The target right here is that you just don’t find yourself in that world … We need to make it possible for college students can go to college and research with out being harassed.
Requested if antisemitism was normalised at Australian universities, Burke stated he was certain Segal “wouldn’t have put it within the report except there have been some Jewish college students the place that has been their expertise”.
And so long as that’s been the expertise of any college students, that’s unacceptable.
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Burke on Segal household’s Advance donations: Australia not a spot the place ‘you’d blame a lady for selections of her husband’
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The minister for house affairs, Tony Burke, has defended the antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal, after it was revealed her husband had funded the correct wing foyer group Advance Australia. Segal stated she had no involvement in it.
Burke instructed ABC’s 7.30 on Monday, stated he was solely made conscious of the donations when the stories got here out however Segal wasn’t answerable for her husband’s selections.
Advance is an appalling organisation. And that organisation does the alternative of pursuing social cohesion … [but] it’s a very long time since we’ve been a rustic the place you’d blame a lady for selections of her husband. And so with that in thoughts, I don’t suppose she’s answerable for her husband. She stated she didn’t learn about it. And I’ve bought no motive to do something aside from consider her.
On the substance of Segal’s plan to deal with antisemitism and the way comprehensively it might be adopted, Burke stated she was unbiased of the federal government and had offered a report “to the federal government, not a report of the federal government”.
The prime minister made clear … that some features of the report may be applied instantly, there’s some the place you’re employed via it slowly and there’s a complete lot the place you hope that yow will discover pathways to keep away from antisemitism the place among the suggestions by no means must be thought of since you discovered different pathways.
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Tony Burke, the minister for house affairs, went on ABC’s 7.30 final evening to defend the antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal, after it was revealed her husband had funded the rightwing foyer group Advance Australia. Segal stated she had no involvement in it. Extra particulars on his feedback quickly.
Anthony Albanese will meet China’s president, Xi Jinping, the premier, Li Qiang, and Communist social gathering chair Zhao Leji at present – the three highest-ranking members of China’s ruling committee – in what would be the centrepiece of the prime minister’s six-day tour of the nation. We’ll have extra on this shortly as properly.
And Hannah Thomas, the previous Greens candidate who sustained a critical eye harm throughout her arrest at a protest in Sydney, will face court docket in Bankstown at present. She is charged with hindering or resisting police and never following a move-on path in an anti-Israel protest that police say was unauthorised. Extra arising.
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