John Hewson unleashes on Sussan Ley’s ‘lack of management’
Sussan Ley has been savaged by a former Liberal chief for missing technique and management, because the get together grapples with infighting and demoralising polling, Australian Related Press experiences.
The opposition chief has been accused of failing to articulate a approach ahead for the Liberals, who’re edging nearer to a remaining place on their power and local weather change coverage.
After a fortnight of damaging infighting and wild management hypothesis, Ley has known as a collection of get together room conferences to mattress down a brand new method to power and emissions discount.
Because the get together prepares to barter its remaining coverage, former Liberal chief John Hewson has delivered a withering evaluation of Ley and the get together she leads.
“She hasn’t proven any clear technique, or any robust capability when it comes to management,” he advised AAP.
Hewson, who let his membership lapse in 2019 due to considerations concerning the get together’s file on local weather change, stated the opposition was devoid of significant insurance policies as a result of its members had little expertise exterior politics.
“They haven’t acquired folks with important enterprise expertise … I don’t suppose that they’ve acquired people who find themselves coverage wonks in financial coverage,” he stated.
“You possibly can’t simply hold being adverse and hoping to win on criticism, as [Tony] Abbott did.”
As opposition chief, Hewson took a extremely detailed promise of financial reform to the 1993 federal election, which the Coalition misplaced to Paul Keating’s Labor authorities.
“I’d actually wish to see Sussan be given a good run with everybody pitching in and doing a correct coverage job,” he stated.
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Nacc watchdog nonetheless contemplating two complaints about doable conflicts of curiosity
Two complaints a few potential battle of curiosity between the nationwide anti-corruption commissioner and his ties to defence, his former employer, are into account.
Gail Furness, the Nacc inspector, a watchdog for the federal anti-corruption watchdog, has revealed in her newest annual report she remains to be contemplating at the very least two complaints obtained in 2024-25 referring to commissioner Paul Brereton.
Paul Brereton. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAP
Brereton, a former military main normal who turned the Nacc’s inaugural chief in 2023, has come beneath hearth for sustaining his connections to defence after taking over the function. Brereton has admitted to remaining within the military reserves and has assisted the Inspector-Basic of the Australian Defence Pressure, one other place Brereton held, on a lot of events.
The Nacc inspector’s report stated one matter had been dismissed, one had been resolved satisfactorily, one was nonetheless into account and the opposite “involved an ongoing matter which isn’t acceptable for the inspector to report”.
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HSC exams come to a detailed in NSW
Caitlin Cassidy
Yr 12 college students in NSW will breathe a sigh of aid immediately as this 12 months’s HSC exams come to a detailed. About 4,300 college students are set to file out of the ultimate examination, meals know-how, later this afternoon, bringing an finish to greater than 400,000 examination periods throughout 123 topics.
Final 12 months’s meals know-how examination included questions similar to “Which sector of the Australian meals trade has duty for the expansion of seaweed?” and “Clarify the potential well being implications for an adolescent who consumes 500 mL of bubble milk tea daily”.
General, about 75,000 college students may have sat an HSC examination, together with the brand new syllabuses in geography, software program engineering, and computing.
{Photograph}: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian
Marking is already beneath approach however anxious college students, lecturers and oldsters must wait till Thursday 18 December for Atar outcomes.
The appearing minister for schooling and early studying, Courtney Houssos, congratulated the category of 2025 on reaching the milestone.
Exams at the moment are behind you and you may look with confidence to the long run understanding you could have put your greatest foot ahead. Thanks to everybody who has supported our college students within the lead-up to and through exams – mother and father, households, lecturers and college employees who’ve been there each step of the way in which.
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Universities so as to add an additional 9,500 locations
Tom McIlroy
As many as 9,500 further Australian college students will be capable to enrol at college in 2026, after a choice by the Australian Tertiary Training Fee allocating further locations.
Figures launched final evening by the federal schooling minister, Jason Clare, present the additional locations symbolize a 4.1% enhance on 2025 ranges.
{Photograph}: Bianca de Marchi/AAP
Clare stated the variety of Australians beginning college will probably be at file ranges subsequent 12 months.
We’re creating extra locations at uni so extra Australians get a crack at uni.
Increasingly more jobs require an increasing number of expertise.
The federal authorities’s Universities Accord features a goal for 80% of the workforce to have a tertiary qualification by 2050, up from about 60% immediately.
Labor has additionally introduced an additional $66.9m to greater than double the variety of college research hubs in suburbs and cities throughout the nation, to assist outer suburban and nation college students entry larger schooling.
An additional seven hubs will probably be opened in Fairfield and Liverpool in New South Wales, Northam in Western Australia, Beenleigh in Queensland, Kangaroo Island in South Australia, Sorrell in Tasmania and on Norfolk Island.
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And for extra on the Coalition disaster, look no additional than this evaluation this morning by Dan Jervis-Bardy about how the web zero emissions subject turned so poisonous.
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Hewson criticises Andrew Hastie’s agenda
Hewson was additionally extremely essential of Western Australian MP Andrew Hastie, who’s extensively thought of a possible management contender.
“He’s been offered a little bit of a dump by the best of the get together,” the previous Liberal chief stated, arguing Hastie’s criticism of Australia’s immigration program was unlikely to be widespread within the broader citizens.
Hastie is a vocal critic of Australia’s local weather targets, a problem the Liberals seem like a step nearer to resolving their variations over.
After weeks of inner brawling, a celebration room assembly has been known as for subsequent week to finalise the Coalition’s power and emissions discount insurance policies.
Liberal members will talk about their power and emissions-reduction coverage on Wednesday. Shadow ministers will meet to formalise their place the next day.
However even when the Liberals land a cohesive plan amid fierce inner divisions, they are going to nonetheless have to strike an settlement with the Nationals.
A six-person committee – three Liberals and three Nationals – will try to achieve a compromise on the problem earlier than an internet hook-up of each get together rooms on 16 November.
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John Hewson unleashes on Sussan Ley’s ‘lack of management’
Sussan Ley has been savaged by a former Liberal chief for missing technique and management, because the get together grapples with infighting and demoralising polling, Australian Related Press experiences.
The opposition chief has been accused of failing to articulate a approach ahead for the Liberals, who’re edging nearer to a remaining place on their power and local weather change coverage.
After a fortnight of damaging infighting and wild management hypothesis, Ley has known as a collection of get together room conferences to mattress down a brand new method to power and emissions discount.
Because the get together prepares to barter its remaining coverage, former Liberal chief John Hewson has delivered a withering evaluation of Ley and the get together she leads.
“She hasn’t proven any clear technique, or any robust capability when it comes to management,” he advised AAP.
Hewson, who let his membership lapse in 2019 due to considerations concerning the get together’s file on local weather change, stated the opposition was devoid of significant insurance policies as a result of its members had little expertise exterior politics.
“They haven’t acquired folks with important enterprise expertise … I don’t suppose that they’ve acquired people who find themselves coverage wonks in financial coverage,” he stated.
“You possibly can’t simply hold being adverse and hoping to win on criticism, as [Tony] Abbott did.”
As opposition chief, Hewson took a extremely detailed promise of financial reform to the 1993 federal election, which the Coalition misplaced to Paul Keating’s Labor authorities.
“I’d actually wish to see Sussan be given a good run with everybody pitching in and doing a correct coverage job,” he stated.
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Sussan Ley’s management of the Liberal get together has been has been savaged by certainly one of her predecessors, John Hewson, for missing clear technique because the get together grapples with infighting and demoralising polling. Extra developing.
The Albanese authorities has introduced the creation of as much as 9,500 further locations at Australian universities after a choice by the Australian Tertiary Training Fee allocating extra spots. Extra in a second.
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