Nuclear is a expertise ‘we should always contemplate for the long run’, Sussan Ley says
Opposition chief Sussan Ley is talking in Tomago, NSW, the place she is attacking the federal government’s vitality coverage. Rio Tinto has urged its aluminium smelter within the area might stop operations as soon as its present contract expires, with out authorities help.
Ley says:
This authorities must acknowledge that its vitality coverage is inflicting producers to exit of enterprise …
How dare we advise to the generations that observe us that they need to have a decrease lifestyle than we have now and pay again a debt that we have now accrued. I would like the following technology to inherit alternative, not debt.
When requested if nuclear could be the reply to maintain manufacturing in Australia, Ley mentioned:
Nuclear is a expertise that we should always contemplate for the long run. We’re expertise agnostic. It’s not about one expertise over one other.
Share
Up to date at 21.33 EDT
Key occasions
Present key occasions solely
Please activate JavaScript to make use of this function
Albanese meets Xi on Apec sidelines
Anthony Albanese has met with the Chinese language president, Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the Apec summit in South Korea.
Share
Up to date at 00.07 EDT
ANZ takes $1.1bn hit to backside line amid fines and redundancies
ANZ has flagged a $1.1bn bottom-line hit tied to its lately introduced mass job cuts and the largest settlement ever with the securities regulator, AAP studies.
The large-four financial institution will take an after-tax cost of $414m for the three,500 employees redundancies introduced in September, it mentioned on Friday.
The financial institution will even take a $271m cost for a $240m tremendous from the Australian Securities and Investments Fee, the most important punishment the regulator has handed to a single entity.
{Photograph}: James Ross/AAP
As a part of that settlement, ANZ admitted mishandling a $14bn bond deal for the federal authorities and failing to reply to a whole lot of notices about buyer hardship, making false and deceptive statements about its financial savings rates of interest and failing to pay these quantities to prospects.
It’s additionally recognising a $68m cost associated to prices related to accelerating its integration of Suncorp Financial institution, a $281m write-off of its funding in an Indonesian financial institution and a $78m write-off of Cashrewards, a digital coupon enterprise that ANZ is shutting down.
The impairments will affect ANZ’s statutory and money revenue, which the financial institution will announce on 10 November.
Share
Up to date at 23.56 EDT
Main NT gasoline reserves might assist save tasks like Tomago, chief minister says
Lia Finocchiaro, the chief minister of the Northern Territory, says massive gasoline reserves within the Beetaloo Basin could possibly be a lifeline to tasks just like the Tomago aluminium smelter in New South Wales.
Rio Tinto, which owns the smelter, mentioned lately it might stop operations in Tomago after the enterprise has struggled with excessive energy costs, making its business viability troublesome.
Finocchiaro instructed Sky Information the Beetaloo undertaking ought to begin producing gasoline by the tip of 2025:
We’ve 200 years of gasoline within the Beetaloo Basin which is predicted to come back into manufacturing early-to-mid-next yr and we’ve been actually giving gasoline the inexperienced mild right here within the Territory …
We will have a safe, dependable, reasonably priced vitality supply proper right here at residence, well-regulated in our personal yard and ship the alternatives for that Australian-made focus.
Tomago Aluminium in Tomago, NSW. {Photograph}: Michael Gorton/AAPShare
Up to date at 23.33 EDT
Extra on Australia’s first formal treaty with conventional house owners
My colleague Benita Kolovos has a extra detailed report on Australia’s first formal treaty with conventional house owners, which handed in Victoria’s parliament earlier at this time.
Ngarra Murray. {Photograph}: James Ross/AAP
First Peoples’ Meeting co-chair Ngarra Murray mentioned after the vote it was a “historic second for our folks”, including:
We are going to inform our youngsters about at this time, and they’ll inform their kids, passing right down to future generations the story of how a long time of Aboriginal resilience and activism led to Australia’s first treaty.
Treaty marks the start of a brand new period, one the place First Peoples’ 60,000 years of information and tradition is revered and celebrated. It’s a chance for all Victorians to acknowledge our shared historical past, heal and transfer ahead collectively.
Learn extra from Benita right here:
Share
Up to date at 23.22 EDT
How the EU and Nato are countering a brand new kind of warfare – Australian Politics podcast
From cyberattacks to disinformation campaigns, hybrid warfare is reshaping international safety.
Guardian Australia’s political editor, Tom Mcllroy, spoke with Teija Tiilikainen, the director of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, about how the EU and Nato are confronting covert interference from Russia, China and different non-democratic nations – and what Australia can be taught from Europe’s method.
Take a hear:
Share
Up to date at 22.55 EDT
Jordyn Beazley
Former NSW MP Gareth Ward sentenced to virtually six years in jail for sexually abusing two males
Former New South Wales MP Gareth Ward has been sentenced to 5 years and 9 months in jail after he was discovered responsible in July of sexually abusing two younger males.
Ward was sentenced by choose Kara Shead on Friday within the Parramatta district court docket. Ward, who had been remanded in custody whereas he awaited sentencing, appeared through video hyperlink from Cessnock jail.
Gareth Ward. {Photograph}: Dean Lewins/AAP
Shead sentenced Ward to a most time period of 5 years and 9 months with a non-parole interval of three years and 9 months.
The sentence was backdated to late July 2025, which means he could possibly be launched in April 2029.
Learn extra right here:
Share
Dan Tehan all however confirms nuclear to be a part of Coalition vitality plan
Josh Butler
Extra from that Coalition local weather assembly: requested whether or not nuclear vitality would function closely of their energy plan, Dan Tehan all however confirmed it will play a task.
“I believe I’d be talking for just about each single considered one of my colleagues, we don’t suppose Labor is critical about decreasing emissions in the event that they gained’t take a look at nuclear expertise,” he mentioned, including:
Chris Bowen and the Labor get together are absolute relics in relation to their views on nuclear vitality, as a result of the remainder of the world is seeing it as a key method that we’re going to have the ability to cut back emissions.
Share
Up to date at 22.21 EDT
Josh Butler
Coalition overhaul of web zero dedication continues
The Coalition assembly on local weather and vitality has completed and, as anticipated, there’s been no formal change to coverage on web zero – but. However shadow vitality minister Dan Tehan has made stronger indications that the Coalition could possibly be edging away from its web zero dedication made in 2021 beneath the Morrison-Joyce authorities, and a minimum of making massive modifications to the coverage.
As Krishani introduced you earlier, round 30 Coalition members attended and had been invited to make a contribution to the assembly. It was the most recent in a sequence of standard conferences by Coalition backbenchers on vitality and the financial system, and although no remaining coverage consequence was anticipated at this time, many Liberals are itching to have the difficulty resolved a technique or one other.
Tehan, talking after the assembly, mentioned there was “actually constructive dialogue” which was “extremely respectful”. He mentioned the coverage evaluation he’s enterprise had been slated for a six to 9 month timeframe – indicating a remaining place might come by the tip of this yr or early 2026.
He wouldn’t decide to protecting or dropping web zero by 2050, however mentioned the guiding markers for the get together room had been “everyone seems to be dedicated to us decreasing emissions in order that we’re taking part in our half in relation to local weather change” but in addition “our primary focus and primary precedence needs to be addressing vitality prices.”
Share
Up to date at 22.04 EDT
Luca Ittimani
Six folks now caught in Queensland rat poisoning cluster
A sixth particular person has been discovered to have consumed rat poison in a cluster case in south-east Queensland, with selfmade dough revealed as one other vector within the poisoning alongside a selfmade chilli paste.
The dough, together with capsicum and chilli paste and marinated eggplant, had been made in a house kitchen and had been gifted or bought regionally within the Logan space from mid-September, Queensland Well being has mentioned.
The sixth particular person was a relative of a number of the different 5 beforehand discovered to be uncovered to brodifacoum, the energetic ingredient in rat poison. All six are nicely and receiving therapy at residence, Queensland Well being has mentioned.
The state’s chief well being officer, Dr Catherine McDougall, mentioned there was not believed to be an ongoing threat to the broader group. No additional circumstances exterior the household clusters have been recognized and the merchandise weren’t nonetheless being made or distributed, she mentioned.
Authorities had been nonetheless investigating how the meals examined constructive for brodifacoum and requested clinicians to observe for signs that will point out brodifacoum poisoning, significantly these associated to bleeding.
You possibly can learn extra in regards to the cluster right here:
Share
Up to date at 21.58 EDT
Sarah Basford Canales
Jacinta Worth says Victoria’s treaty with conventional house owners a ‘defiance of democracy’
Jacinta Nampijinpa Worth has accused the Victorian authorities of a “defiance of democracy” after the state parliament handed the nation’s first treaty with conventional house owners on Thursday.
The treaty will set up the First Peoples’ Meeting as a everlasting consultant physique to offer recommendation to authorities, beneath a brand new statutory company referred to as Gellung Warl. It is going to additionally embody a truth-telling and accountability physique to maintain Victoria on monitor with its commitments to closing the hole.
Jacinta Nampijinpa Worth. {Photograph}: Lloyd Jones/AAP
Nampijinpa Worth, a Nationwide-turned-Liberal senator who stood because the face of the anti-voice referendum, criticised the state premier, Jacinta Allan, for giving “her center finger” to all Victorians who voted no within the 2023 referendum.
In Victoria, 54.15% voted no whereas 45.85% voted sure to an Indigenous voice to the federal parliament.
In her assertion on Friday, Nampijinpa Worth mentioned:
Everyone knows the place this treaty leads: Victorians will likely be divided by race.
The activists will likely be empowered to pursue their objectives of reparations and segregation, pushed, as they’re, by retribution and resentment – not reconciliation and forgiveness.
And Victorian kids will likely be taught a distorted and revisionist view of historical past so they’re indoctrinated to really feel nationwide guilt as an alternative of the nationwide satisfaction they need to really feel for Australia – a rustic the place our achievements and successes far outweigh our wrongdoings and failures.
Share
Up to date at 22.29 EDT
Australians urged to get flu vaccine as flu deaths exceed Covid deaths for first time since 2020
Demise information exhibits the flu is killing extra folks than Covid-19 for the primary time for the reason that peak of the pandemic, AAP studies.
The figures have prompted one of many nation’s high docs to induce folks to be vigilant towards rising vaccine complacency, saying it was a wake-up name. The president of the Royal Australian Faculty of Basic Practitioners (RACGP), Michael Wright, mentioned:
This highlights the necessity for Australians to get the flu vaccine, significantly these at increased threat of issues … If fewer folks obtain the influenza vaccination, extra folks find yourself getting sick.
August noticed 265 folks in Australia die from or with influenza in contrast with 195 deaths related to Covid-19, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported on Thursday. It was the primary month since February 2020 the place influenza was extra lethal than Covid-19.
This yr’s flu season additionally produced a report 410,000 lab-confirmed circumstances of influenza, in accordance with the RACGP.
Greater than 10% of Australia’s flu infections occurred in kids beneath 5, which Wright described as a “wake-up name” after estimates of falling vaccination charges, with only one in 4 kids beneath 5 given a flu shot in 2025.
Share
Up to date at 21.24 EDT
Nuclear is a expertise ‘we should always contemplate for the long run’, Sussan Ley says
Opposition chief Sussan Ley is talking in Tomago, NSW, the place she is attacking the federal government’s vitality coverage. Rio Tinto has urged its aluminium smelter within the area might stop operations as soon as its present contract expires, with out authorities help.
Ley says:
This authorities must acknowledge that its vitality coverage is inflicting producers to exit of enterprise …
How dare we advise to the generations that observe us that they need to have a decrease lifestyle than we have now and pay again a debt that we have now accrued. I would like the following technology to inherit alternative, not debt.
When requested if nuclear could be the reply to maintain manufacturing in Australia, Ley mentioned:
Nuclear is a expertise that we should always contemplate for the long run. We’re expertise agnostic. It’s not about one expertise over one other.
Share
Up to date at 21.33 EDT
21-year-old dies in Queensland after being struck by lightning at sports activities complicated
A 21-year-old lady died on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast yesterday after she was struck by lightning, emergency officers mentioned.
Queensland Ambulance Service mentioned paramedics had been referred to as to the scene within the suburb of Cooroy simply after 5pm yesterday. Officers mentioned:
One affected person, a feminine in her 20s, was handled in a life-threatening situation and transported to Nambour hospital with a important care paramedic onboard.
Cooroora United Soccer Membership mentioned the incident occurred on its grounds, in a put up on social media. The membership mentioned it will not share any additional particulars in regards to the incident out of privateness of these affected, however mentioned “you will need to share that these in and across the grounds, together with each members and emergency providers, confirmed admirable motion, respect and look after one another”.
Police mentioned a report could be ready for the coroner.
Share
Up to date at 20.49 EDT
Lidia Thorpe welcomes first treaty with conventional house owners and says PM ‘must take discover’
Victoria senator Lidia Thorpe welcomed the passage of Australia’s first treaty with conventional house owners, as we reported within the weblog earlier.
Thorpe, a Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung lady, mentioned in a press release:
I congratulate the First Peoples’ Meeting on this historic milestone. And the entire nation ought to recognise the a long time of first peoples’ resistance, organising and activism that introduced us right here.
This treaty is welcome progress and a great begin in the direction of actual self-determination.
Lidia Thorpe. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
Thorpe mentioned the milestone shouldn’t be trigger for congratulations to the Labor get together, saying prime minister Anthony Albanese wanted to “take discover” of the treaty in mild of the failed voice referendum:
Labor will pat themselves on the again for this second, however the fact is they’re nonetheless destroying Nation, locking up our folks, and forcibly eradicating our youngsters in large numbers. I can’t congratulate Labor for treaty whereas they proceed harming our folks.
Albanese must take discover of this. The federal authorities has utterly stalled for the reason that failed voice referendum. It’s for Albanese to recover from it and transfer on.
Share
Up to date at 20.25 EDT
