Albanese spoke with world leaders about remaining ‘dedicated’ supporter of Ukraine
Tom McIlroy
Anthony Albanese joined world leaders in a telephone hook up in a single day, discussing Ukraine’s talks on ending Russia’s invasion.
European leaders are set to accompany Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to the White Home this week for talks with the US president, Donald Trump.
In a single day, I joined a gathering of the Coalition of the Prepared convened by @Keir_Starmer and @EmmanuelMacron, alongside President @Zelenskyy_Uaa different democratic leaders.
Australia stays dedicated to supporting Ukraine and it was a chance to debate subsequent steps in…
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) August 17, 2025
The talks in a single day observe Trump’s Friday summit in Alaska with Vladimir Putin, which, regardless of a whole lot of hype, failed to provide any main new end result.
Albanese mentioned he spoke with British prime minister Keir Starmer and French president Emmanuel Macron, a part of the so-called coalition of the keen, the group of nations dedicated to serving to Ukraine. The Australian PM wrote:
Australia stays dedicated to supporting Ukraine and it was a chance to debate subsequent steps in reaching a simply and enduring peace.
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BlueScope earnings tumble to only a tenth of the earlier 12 months
Australia’s largest steelmaker, BlueScope, repeated requires an east coast fuel reserve after reporting its earnings tumbled to $84m in 2024-25, simply over a tenth of the earlier 12 months.
The corporate, which is main a bid for the struggling Whyalla steelworks in South Australia, noticed web revenue after tax fall from 2023-24’s $806m after taking a $440m hit to its underperforming coated metal merchandise arm of its American enterprise. Sliding international metal costs additionally dragged down income.
Bluescope nonetheless earned most of its income within the US, producing practically 3m tonnes of metal at its North Star mill in Ohio, which was boosted by Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on metal and aluminium imports, later hiked to 50%.
The Whyalla steelworks in Whyalla, South Australia. {Photograph}: Isabella Ward/AAP
The corporate’s annual report, launched this morning, didn’t level to vital tariff affect on its Australian enterprise, which noticed decrease earnings as costs slipped, regardless of rising home gross sales on account of elevated building work.
Bluescope stays fascinated with increasing domestically by shopping for out the Whyalla plant. The corporate earlier in August introduced it was main a consortium however would solely make a proposal if it might see a return on funding. Bluescope informed traders it had submitted a non-binding, indicative expression of curiosity and believed the plant had potential for low-emissions iron productions.
However the firm gave a warning to traders (and the Albanese authorities): “NO GAS, NO ‘FUTURE MADE IN AUSTRALIA’”. Electrical energy prices additionally dragged down Bluescope’s Australian earnings within the 12 months to June, seeing it repeat its requires an east coast fuel reserve and criticise the sector’s present strategy: “prioritising large exports over home market, since 2015”.
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Terence Stamp, star of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, dies at 87
Terence Stamp, one of many stellar faces of British 60s cinema, who had a second act from the late Nineteen Seventies as a personality actor within the likes of Superman: The Film, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and The Limey, has died aged 87.
His household mentioned in a press release that he died on Sunday morning. “He leaves behind a rare physique of labor, each as an actor and as a author, that can proceed to the touch and encourage individuals for years to come back,” they mentioned. “We ask for privateness at this unhappy time.”
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Stamp grew to become considered one of British cinema’s glamour figures in its most trendy decade, scoring early high-profile roles in Billy Budd and The Collector for the administrators Peter Ustinov and William Wyler respectively.
In 1994 he performed the trans cabaret performer Bernadette Bassenger in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, for which he obtained Bafta and Golden Globe nominations, adopted by a lead function in Steven Soderbergh’s revenge thriller The Limey.
The following many years noticed extra high-profile castings as curiosity grew in his earlier work, together with roles in Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Needed and The Adjustment Bureau.
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Atmosphere teams say nature ‘too essential’ to depart out of reform conversations
The surroundings sector, which has been given restricted illustration on the summit, held its personal roundtable final Friday. A consultant from Watt’s workplace attended. The teams mentioned half of Australia’s GDP and 75% of export earnings had been reliant on nature.
Dr Jody Gunn, the chief govt of the Australian Land Conservation Alliance, mentioned:
Nature’s financial function is just too essential to depart out of nationwide reform conversations. If we ignore nature, productiveness suffers. If we put money into the options it brings, all of us win – with stronger regional economies, higher catastrophe resilience, and more healthy communities.
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Conservation teams name for higher illustration at financial summit
Lisa Cox
Twenty of Australia’s main surroundings teams have written to treasurer Jim Chalmers asking for higher illustration for the surroundings at this week’s financial roundtable.
The teams, together with the Australian Land Conservation Alliance, BirdLife Australia and WWF Australia, warned that with out nature-based funding and reform, the continued decline of Australia’s pure capital would erode productiveness, financial development, and catastrophe resilience.
In a communique to Chalmers and surroundings minister Murray Watt, they’ve known as for measures together with:
Phasing out subsidies that hurt nature.
Strengthened surroundings legal guidelines and an impartial environmental regulator.
Treating nature like different essential financial property by measuring and sustaining its situation and forecasting how its loss will affect jobs, exports, and the price of residing.
Extra nature funding from each authorities and enterprise.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAPShare
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Stephanie Convery
Most Australians assume local weather disaster making cost-of-living rise
Three-quarters of Australians imagine the local weather disaster is growing the price of residing, and practically two-thirds assume coal, oil and fuel firms ought to pay for the harm they’ve induced, new polling suggests.
Timed for launch forward of this week’s financial reform roundtable, the Important polling was commissioned by the Make Massive Polluters Pay Alliance, a brand new coalition of surroundings, assist, political and social justice organisations, together with Oxfam Australia, Greenpeace, Local weather Motion Community Australia, Uniting Church of Australia, Human Rights Legislation Centre and extra.
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The alliance is looking for the Australian authorities to enact a local weather air pollution levy on coal, fuel and oil companies, and says the cash raised from the levy needs to be put right into a local weather compensation fund to “meet the wants of communities on the frontline of local weather impacts, and assist on a regular basis households dealing with rising prices from local weather change and the clear power transition”.
Important surveyed a nationally consultant pattern of 2029 Australian residents aged over 18 in June and located that 77% of respondents accepted that main fossil gasoline firms are contributing to local weather change, 83% imagine local weather change is growing the price of insurance coverage premiums and meals costs, whereas 75% imagine it’s growing the price of residing total.
Some 62% of respondents thought fossil gasoline firms ought to pay for local weather harm.
Julie-Anne Richards, from Make Polluters Pay Alliance, mentioned in a press release:
Australia’s coal, oil and fuel companies are making round $370 billion in income per 12 months, however typically pay little or no tax. They’re pushing the prices of the local weather air pollution they produce and the local weather change it creates onto communities. On a regular basis Australians are paying by way of greater insurance coverage, meals and different invoice prices, in addition to the prices of restoration from local weather disasters. It’s time these huge companies pay their fair proportion.
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Man useless and one other wounded after capturing exterior Sydney pub
One man is useless and one other has been taken to hospital with severe wounds after a capturing exterior a Sydney pub.
Emergency companies had been known as to the Harold Park resort on Ross Road in Forest Lodge in Sydney’s internal west at about 6.40pm on Sunday.
New South Wales police mentioned two individuals had been shot a number of occasions by unknown assailants who left the scene by automobile.
One man died on the scene whereas a second was handled by paramedics for gunshot wounds earlier than being taken to hospital in a severe situation.
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Shadow schooling minister says childcare security reforms ought to come extra shortly
Jonno Duniam, the shadow minister for schooling, mentioned governments on either side of the spectrum had failed for years to institute reforms on the childcare sector, issuing requires the Labor authorities and states to behave shortly to make such modifications.
Duniam informed RN Breakfast this morning:
Each governments of all persuasions have dropped the ball. The federal government I used to be part of dropped the ball. We should always have acted on that on the time. The truth that we didn’t and the truth that we at the moment are listening to these tales means we failed. However no matter who was in energy and who didn’t do what, right here we’re in the present day and we have to act.
The federal lawyer basic, Michelle Rowland, mentioned Friday all states and territories had agreed to introduce new reforms on working with kids checks by the top of the 12 months.
Duniam mentioned this morning that timeline needs to be faster:
With the sources of eight states and territories and the commonwealth mixed, I might be completely surprised if we couldn’t get this factor off the bottom within the subsequent few weeks. So I hope that issues do pace up. I hope that the top result’s a nationwide system.
Jonno Duniam says he hopes for a nationwide system on working with kids checks. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAPShare
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Albanese spoke with world leaders about remaining ‘dedicated’ supporter of Ukraine
Tom McIlroy
Anthony Albanese joined world leaders in a telephone hook up in a single day, discussing Ukraine’s talks on ending Russia’s invasion.
European leaders are set to accompany Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to the White Home this week for talks with the US president, Donald Trump.
In a single day, I joined a gathering of the Coalition of the Prepared convened by @Keir_Starmer and @EmmanuelMacron, alongside President @Zelenskyy_Uaa different democratic leaders.
Australia stays dedicated to supporting Ukraine and it was a chance to debate subsequent steps in…
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) August 17, 2025
The talks in a single day observe Trump’s Friday summit in Alaska with Vladimir Putin, which, regardless of a whole lot of hype, failed to provide any main new end result.
Albanese mentioned he spoke with British prime minister Keir Starmer and French president Emmanuel Macron, a part of the so-called coalition of the keen, the group of nations dedicated to serving to Ukraine. The Australian PM wrote:
Australia stays dedicated to supporting Ukraine and it was a chance to debate subsequent steps in reaching a simply and enduring peace.
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Qantas awaiting courtroom determination on positive for unlawfully sacking employees
The federal courtroom could quickly hand down a hefty penalty to Qantas in the present day in what can be the most recent courtroom blow for the nation’s largest airline, AAP stories.
Qantas outsourced its baggage handlers, cleaners and floor employees in 2020, in a transfer the courtroom dominated was designed to curb union bargaining energy in wage negotiations. The airline mentioned in December it will pay $120m in compensation to greater than 1,800 individuals it illegally sacked.
The Transport Employees Union has since sought a further penalty of $121m over the transfer to outsource these jobs, whereas Qantas has urged the courtroom to impose a “mid-range” penalty between $40m and $80m.
The airline has argued the actions had been a mistake, not a deliberate breach of the legislation.
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Research finds e-bike supply riders breaking guidelines in Melbourne
Supply riders on e-bikes caught dashing and driving the fallacious means down metropolis streets have triggered requires harder security and compliance laws, AAP stories.
Analysis revealed on Monday discovered widespread non-compliance amongst industrial supply e-bikes throughout Melbourne. E-bike riders had been recorded reaching speeds of as much as 54kmh in some metropolis hotspots, with nearly one in 5 exceeding 25 kmh.
Greater than 27,000 autos had been monitored within the research, with nearly half being supply employee e-bikes.
Printed by Monash College and commissioned by the Victorian Automotive Chamber of Commerce, the info centered on hotspot areas. They included Swanston Road within the CBD and Swan Road in close by Richmond, which had the very best charges of dashing.
The very best ranges of footpath driving and wrong-way journey had been on Elizabeth and King streets, within the CBD.
Peter Jones, the chief of the Victorian Automotive Chamber of Commerce, mentioned:
This report confirms what riders, pedestrians, and different highway customers have suspected – many of those supply e-bikes are working as unregistered motorbikes, with out the safeguards or enforcement that applies to different autos.
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Anzac Bridge absolutely open after crash
An replace from our earlier submit for Sydneysiders: The Anzac Bridge is again to regular after a crash snarled commuters this morning.
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Chair of Productiveness Fee optimistic about this week’s financial summit
Danielle Wooden, the chair of the Productiveness Fee, spoke to RN Breakfast this morning to say she’s optimistic the financial summit shall be a catalyst for significant change. Wooden mentioned:
After I take into consideration simply the quantity of productiveness dialog we’ve had during the last month, I believe it’s fairly extraordinary. However inside that, I believe the breadth of concepts coming ahead actually matter.
Productiveness Fee chair Danielle Wooden. {Photograph}: Dean Lewins/AAP
She was requested in regards to the fee’s proposal to chop the corporate tax price for all however the greatest companies, an concept the federal government doesn’t appear thrilled by. Wooden mentioned:
Look, you understand, governments will all the time need to make their very own calls on onerous selections like tax. What we are attempting to do is put some concepts on the market about the way you really do reform, however you do it in a smart means for the finances.
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Gallagher says productiveness roundtable shall be ‘real assembly’ of all sectors
Finance minister Katy Gallagher mentioned this morning the productiveness roundtable, set to kick off tomorrow, shall be a “real assembly” between totally different coalitions that can hopefully attain a consensus on concepts to spice up productiveness across the nation. Gallagher informed RN Breakfast:
It’s a real assembly of civil society, the union motion, trade leaders and authorities to take a look at a few of these challenges we’ve received throughout our economic system and see if there’s areas of consensus and within the final couple of weeks with the protection of the concepts and submissions which are coming ahead to that assembly, there is no such thing as a scarcity of concepts.
She went on to level to the hope for “glorious” discussions round AI and an effort to determine new methods to deal with the housing disaster.
Finance minister Katy Gallagher. {Photograph}: Dean Lewins/AAPShare
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Lambie says UN ought to ship peacekeepers to distribute Gaza meals assist
Josh Butler
The impartial Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie says the United Nations ought to ship peacekeepers into Gaza to assist defend and distribute meals, as Israel’s bombardment of Palestinians continues amid rising alarm over hunger and malnutrition.
Lambie made the decision in an e mail to supporters in a single day. She mentioned it will be a “protecting mission”:
The ‘blue helmets’ – as we name them in our militaries across the world- might be despatched in with the only job of securing meals assist and ensuring that it’s distributed to the individuals who want it. To make this occur would require UN authorisation
As a result of it is a safety mission and never a peacekeeping or peace enforcement mission, the worldwide group should not have any hesitation in supporting it.
Jacqui Lambie: ‘Kids are ravenous, moms are sobbing.’ {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
The senator mentioned she would search to take out promoting in newspapers and on-line calling for the transfer, together with her e mail in search of donations for an advert push.
Kids are ravenous, moms are sobbing as a result of they will’t feed their kids, not to mention themselves.
UN peacekeepers have an extended historical past of helping in humanitarian efforts, together with offering safety for the supply of assist. If we’re to ease the hunger of youngsters in Gaza, we’d like blue helmets defending these assist convoys.
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Crash closes a part of Sydney’s Anzac Bridge throughout morning commute
A crash between a automobile and a bike on Sydney’s Anzac Bridge has snarled visitors throughout the Monday morning commute. Transport for NSW stories the crash passed off simply after 6.30am, with at two of 4 lanes closed into the town and one closed westbound.
The company is cautioning there shall be main delays this morning.
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Good morning and pleased Monday. Nick Visser right here as we dive into one other week of reports. Right here’s what’s on deck:
Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie says the UN ought to ship peacekeepers into Gaza to assist distribute meals, saying the trouble can be a “protecting mission”. Lambie mentioned as a result of it will not be a peace enforcement mission, the worldwide group ought to have “no hesitation” supporting it.
New analysis on e-bike security discovered widespread non-compliance with laws amongst industrial e-bike supply throughout Melbourne. Some riders had been recorded travelling far above pace limits, the wrong-way on streets and driving on footpaths in metropolis hotspots.
Qantas will discover out in the present day if it is going to face a hefty positive for outsourcing baggage dealing with initially of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Transport Employees Union has urged a courtroom to levy the utmost penalty of $121m, which might come on prime of a $120m compensation fee it made to floor employees who misplaced their jobs.
Let’s get to it.
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