Liberals ‘not ruling out’ abandoning Paris settlement, Angie Bell says
The Liberals are “not ruling something out” in relation to their revised vitality coverage – together with abandonment of the Paris settlement – shadow minister for the surroundings, Angie Bell, has stated.
Talking on the Sky Information program, Sunday Agenda, Bell was at pains to notice that the get together was going by means of a long-term challenge to rethink their vitality coverage, together with internet zero, and had been “not fairly on the finish of that course of” but.
Bell stated:
On Friday, we had one other assembly of the backbench and I used to be current at that assembly, and all of us agreed that vitality costs want to come back down and that we have to do our half in world emissions. Now I don’t wish to get forward of that in respect for my colleagues. Dan Tehan is working that present [leading the review] and so I’ll go away that announcement of our coverage to Dan and Sussan [Ley].
Liberal MP Angie Bell. {Photograph}: Mike Bowers/The Guardian
The method of reviewing the coverage had been estimated to take between six and 9 months, Bell stated:
I feel we’re round about month six. And so, I’m positive that within the coming weeks or months we are going to see what our place is. However we’re not in a rush on this. It is a goal for 2050, Andrew. We have to undergo our correct processes to ensure that we’re proper on this as a result of, clearly, the Labor authorities is failing in relation to vitality costs.
Requested if the Coalition would possibly resolve to desert the Paris settlement, Bell stated:
I’m not ruling something out at this level … Once more, that’s a part of our coverage we are going to work by means of, on this course of that we’re enterprise in the meanwhile.
For extra on the ructions within the Coalition over vitality coverage and internet zero, check out this evaluation from Guardian Australia’s Canberra bureau on Friday:
Share
Up to date at 20.52 EDT
Key occasions
Present key occasions solely
Please activate JavaScript to make use of this function
Cait Kelly
Centrelink threatening fee suspensions at charge of 5 a minute, new evaluation suggests
Centrelink has been issuing fee suspension notices to jobseekers and people on incapacity assist pensions at a charge of greater than 5 a minute, new evaluation suggests, amid issues over the legality of the troubled system.
In whole, authorities knowledge collated by the Antipoverty Centre exhibits there have been 2,683,605 suspension actions between June 2024 and July 2025.
They’ve taken place underneath Centrelink’s mutual obligations regime, which is supposed to make sure recipients are actively wanting and getting ready for work. If they don’t fulfil actions – equivalent to finishing job functions or attending conferences with job suppliers – their funds might be suspended.
In line with the Antipoverty Centre, the information exhibits that is nonetheless often occurring, regardless of new guidelines providing a five-day grace interval for folks to contact their job supplier earlier than their funds are blocked. Nonetheless, the vast majority of suspensions are lifted earlier than an individual’s revenue is impacted.
Learn the total unique story right here:
Share
Up to date at 20.42 EDT
Little Creatures recall batch of Hazy Lager beers
The producers of in style beer model Little Creatures have issued a recall of a batch of its 375ml cans of Hazy Lager after it was discovered to be too robust and the cans probably explosive attributable to over-fermentation.
In a product recall discover revealed by Meals Requirements Australia on Saturday, Lion – Beer, Spirits & Wine Pty Ltd stated the affected batch was marked with the best-before date of 10/11/2025.
The issue was secondary fermentation, the discover stated, including:
Merchandise affected could comprise extra alcohol and carbonation, which may result in over-pressurisation of the can. This may occasionally trigger the can to burst, probably leading to damage.
Shoppers had been suggested that they need to not open or drink the product however somewhat get rid of it safely, and any shoppers involved about their well being ought to search medical recommendation.
The affected cans had been obtainable on the market in Dan Murphy’s and BWS in NSW, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia, IGA and Impartial liquor retailers in NSW, and Coles in WA.
Share
Up to date at 20.15 EDT
Albanese takes swipe at Sussan Ley whereas answering query about ‘Australian character’
Earlier we introduced you some feedback from Anthony Albanese in Korea after assembly with Donald Trump and Xi Jinping on the Apec summit. Taking questions from the media, the prime minister was requested about Trump as “a personality”, and what that they had in frequent.
Albanese responded:
Now we have bought on very properly within the cellphone conversations that we’ve had as properly. I take care of folks on an equal foundation. I feel Australians are like that. And I carry the Australian character to my prime ministership.
When requested what constituted the Australian character, the PM allowed himself a bit of snark, in reference to the current Sussan Ley-led kerfuffle round him carrying a Pleasure Division T-shirt when he bought off a flight from the US:
I feel we’re all a bit totally different, however we’re all fairly relaxed, and we’re all straight-talking. We’re much less formal than some cultures. That’s the reality. A few of us even put on T-shirts after we get off planes.
Share
Up to date at 20.13 EDT
Liberals ‘not ruling out’ abandoning Paris settlement, Angie Bell says
The Liberals are “not ruling something out” in relation to their revised vitality coverage – together with abandonment of the Paris settlement – shadow minister for the surroundings, Angie Bell, has stated.
Talking on the Sky Information program, Sunday Agenda, Bell was at pains to notice that the get together was going by means of a long-term challenge to rethink their vitality coverage, together with internet zero, and had been “not fairly on the finish of that course of” but.
Bell stated:
On Friday, we had one other assembly of the backbench and I used to be current at that assembly, and all of us agreed that vitality costs want to come back down and that we have to do our half in world emissions. Now I don’t wish to get forward of that in respect for my colleagues. Dan Tehan is working that present [leading the review] and so I’ll go away that announcement of our coverage to Dan and Sussan [Ley].
Liberal MP Angie Bell. {Photograph}: Mike Bowers/The Guardian
The method of reviewing the coverage had been estimated to take between six and 9 months, Bell stated:
I feel we’re round about month six. And so, I’m positive that within the coming weeks or months we are going to see what our place is. However we’re not in a rush on this. It is a goal for 2050, Andrew. We have to undergo our correct processes to ensure that we’re proper on this as a result of, clearly, the Labor authorities is failing in relation to vitality costs.
Requested if the Coalition would possibly resolve to desert the Paris settlement, Bell stated:
I’m not ruling something out at this level … Once more, that’s a part of our coverage we are going to work by means of, on this course of that we’re enterprise in the meanwhile.
For extra on the ructions within the Coalition over vitality coverage and internet zero, check out this evaluation from Guardian Australia’s Canberra bureau on Friday:
Share
Up to date at 20.52 EDT
Big hail and climate chaos leaves 9 injured in Queensland
9 folks attending a faculty honest had been injured by large hailstones in a supercell thunderstorm in Queensland yesterday, AAP experiences.
Big hailstones, some measuring as large as 9cm, and heavy rain smashed south-east Queensland on Saturday afternoon.
Paramedics assessed 9 folks, all with hail-related accidents, on the one hundred and fiftieth Anniversary of Esk State Faculty, about an hour from Brisbane, on Saturday afternoon.
One girl was taken to Ipswich hospital with neck and head accidents, a person in his 20s was taken to Gatton hospital with minor burns, and two ladies – one in her 20s and one other in her 30s – had been taken to hospitals privately, additionally with minor accidents.
Automobiles had been left with smashed windscreens after massive hailstones hit the Queensland city of Pratten. {Photograph}: Richard ManleyShare
Up to date at 19.54 EDT
On the bulk-billing announcement this morning, Guardian Australia’s well being reporter Natasha Could spoke to GPs and practices, who don’t all settle for the federal government’s claims that the scheme will assist as a lot as they are saying it would.
Previous to the election, GPs had been already warning that not everybody would make modifications to bulk billing if the incentives had been too low:
This function, from April, paints an image of why the outcomes of the funding aren’t as apparent as the federal government would love them to look:
Share
In the event you’d like a bit of refresher on the politics of the overhaul of federal environmental legal guidelines, Guardian Australia’s local weather and surroundings editor Adam Morton had this evaluation final week:
He writes:
There are some issues we all know. The proposed modifications to the EPBC Act don’t take care of its basic downside: regardless of its title, the legislation doesn’t prioritise defending the surroundings. Its precept position is to permit tasks – together with fossil gasoline developments – to go forward, with some circumstances hooked up to restrict environmental injury.
That strategy has failed, partly as a result of the surroundings minister of the day has a exceptional quantity of discretion to approve what they see match. Ministers have routinely authorized offsets that don’t compensate for the character that has been misplaced. Situations haven’t been enforced. The cumulative impacts of a number of developments haven’t been thought of.
… Added up, it means main surgical procedure shall be wanted to handle the systemic issues set out within the final main state of the surroundings report. The danger is that the overhaul finally ends up as tinkering somewhat than transformation.
Share
Up to date at 18.53 EDT
Giving Canavan and Joyce accountability for local weather coverage ‘like handing Dracula the keys to the blood financial institution’, Watt says
Giving Matthew Canavan and “the ghost of Barnaby Joyce” accountability for local weather and vitality coverage “is like handing Dracula the keys to the blood financial institution,” the surroundings minister, Murray Watt, has stated.
Commenting on ABC TV’s Insiders on the expectation that the Nationals will formally drop their dedication to a internet zero goal by 2050 at this time, Watt stated it appeared like “the tail wagging the canine within the Coalition”.
He continued:
We’ve bought the Nationwide get together which didn’t even charge 4% of the vote within the final federal election dictating phrases to the Liberal get together who declare to be the bulk get together in a Coalition. It’s a repeat of what we noticed with nuclear, the place the Nationwide get together went out first, dragged the Liberal get together into supporting nuclear solely to be resoundingly rejected by the Australian folks on the final election.
I imply, the concept you’d hand over local weather and vitality coverage to the likes of Matthew Canavan and the ghost of Barnaby Joyce is like handing Dracula the keys to the blood financial institution. Half the Nationwide get together don’t imagine in local weather change, the opposite half simply wish to want it away. What they’re doing in dragging the Liberal get together to this place is getting in the best way of the unbelievable financial alternative that transitioning to internet zero gives.
So it’s an actual check for the Liberal get together about whether or not they’re going to proceed being dictated to by a junior associate of their coalition who doesn’t imagine in local weather change or whether or not they’re going to get with the remainder of the world and take the financial alternatives that transition entails.
Share
Up to date at 18.57 EDT
Watt says Labor doesn’t have a coverage to finish native forest logging
Requested if he needed native forest logging to proceed (it’s not banned within the laws, regardless of the numerous unfavorable environmental impression that it has), Watt dodges the query by saying the get together doesn’t have a particular coverage of ending native forest logging.
He continued:
What we have now stated, although, is that we’ll comply with the advice from Graeme Samuel to use nationwide environmental requirements to the regional forestry agreements which are used for native forestry, so what meaning in apply is that native forestry would wish to satisfy greater environmental requirements than are at the moment required underneath the laws. That’s a giant step ahead by way of the environmental administration of native forestry. However it doesn’t go so far as what the Greens get together is in search of in being an all-out ban.
Share
Up to date at 18.43 EDT
Watt admits nothing in nature legal guidelines to stop fossil gasoline tasks
Watt admitted there’s nothing within the proposed laws to cease a coal or a fuel challenge going forward:
Not in its personal proper. We haven’t taken the strategy of claiming that specific tasks are altogether banned. Each challenge shall be assessed on its deserves whether or not or not it’s a coal and fuel challenge, whether or not or not it’s a housing and renewable challenge, they’ve all bought to display they’re not having a major impression on one of many 9 issues of nationwide environmental significance underneath the act.
The laws wouldn’t alter “whether or not a challenge can or can’t go forward” however somewhat determines a standards for use to determine if a challenge ought to go forward, he stated.
Watt continued:
If a coal or fuel improvement was in search of approval, then it could want to satisfy the nationwide environmental requirements. It might must keep away from and minimise its environmental impacts and offset them to realize a internet acquire. So they’d be enhancements in comparison with the factors that apply to a challenge in the meanwhile. If it was thought of to have an unacceptable impression on the surroundings then it could get knocked again as would a housing improvement or a renewable challenge.
We’re not attempting to type of put specifically standards for explicit sectors. What we’re attempting to do is put in a balanced bundle for all kinds of tasks, for all industries, that ship environmental and enterprise beneficial properties.
Share
Up to date at 18.42 EDT
Murray Watt defends overhaul of environmental legal guidelines
The federal surroundings minister, Murray Watt, has been defending his present overhaul of environmental legal guidelines, together with the powers of the minister to nonetheless approve tasks going forward on grounds of nationwide curiosity – even when they’re deemed too damaging to the surroundings.
Watt has been chatting with ABC TV’s Insiders program this morning. He claimed the brand new legal guidelines would supply extra readability than the present laws on what can be an unacceptable impression on the surroundings. He stated:
Underneath the present laws, a minister can knock again a challenge if it’s going to be clearly unacceptable, however there’s no definition of what meaning within the present laws.
What we’re in search of to do by means of these reforms is definitely present a definition of what can be thought of an unacceptable impression on the surroundings and would due to this fact would get a no. The type of issues we’re speaking about in that definition are, for instance, if one thing was going to significantly impair or have irreplaceable injury to a specific environmental matter, and among the examples I’ve given have been if, perish the thought, if somebody needed to mine Uluru, construct on the Nice Barrier Reef, or drive a species to extinction. I feel most Australians would say that form of challenge wouldn’t proceed.
The surroundings minister, Murray Watt. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAPShare
Up to date at 18.35 EDT
Simply to make clear on that earlier Medicare put up: the announcement pertains to Labor’s $8.5bn election promise to extend bulk billing coming into impact. It was not a brand new announcement or new funds.
ShareNino Bucci
Australia wants a nationwide definition of hate crime, specialists say
Hate crimes have lengthy been debated in Australia, however the struggle in Gaza and the rise in experiences of antisemitism and Islamophobia have thrust the legal guidelines designed to punish these crimes into the political highlight.
The Australian federal police commissioner, Krissy Barrett, has gone so far as saying new nationwide hate crime legal guidelines could have to be strengthened.
So what number of of those crimes have resulted in police prices throughout Australia? And the way in a different way is a report of a hate crime handled in every jurisdiction?
Within the wake of governments passing new legal guidelines – together with issues in regards to the accuracy of knowledge about antisemitic incidents reported by New South Wales police and a few states taking new approaches to the difficulty – Guardian Australia got down to discover hate crime.
The image that emerged was advanced.
Learn the total story from me and my colleague Adeshola Ore:
Share
Up to date at 18.18 EDT
Well being minister says bulk-billing enlargement will profit ‘each citizens within the nation’
A brand new $8.5bn injection of funds into Medicare will imply “each citizens within the nation will now have GP practices that bulk invoice each affected person,” the well being minister, Mark Butler has stated.
The brand new funding announcement from the federal authorities will broaden bulk-billing incentives for GPs, which is an extra fee on Medicare advantages that’s paid to the GP and the apply to encourage them to bulk invoice sufferers.
The motivation has beforehand solely been obtainable for bulk-billing youngsters underneath 16 and concession card holders. The enlargement of the scheme will imply GPs and practices will obtain the inducement fee for each affected person they bulk invoice.
The federal government claims this may lead to an extra 18m bulk-billed GP visits yearly, and that 9 out of 10 GP visits shall be bulk billed by 2030.
Butler stated in an announcement this morning:
I need each Australian to know they solely want their Medicare card, not their bank card, to obtain the well being care they want.
Each citizens within the nation will now have GP practices that bulk invoice each affected person.
The minister for well being, Mark Butler. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAPShare
Up to date at 18.26 EDT
Nationals anticipated to formalise internet zero place at get together room assembly
Krishani Dhanji
The Nationals are holding a particular get together room assembly this morning, after the get together’s federal council yesterday eliminated assist for internet zero from their federal platform.
Senators Matt Canavan and Ross Cadell, who had been charged with reviewing the Nat’s vitality and internet zero coverage, are anticipated to place ahead their overview to the get together room this morning for debate.
Nationals senator Matt Canavan. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
We’ve been informed this morning it may take about two hours, and there’s an expectation from some who shall be within the room that there shall be a coverage place determined at this time.
A bitter brawl had erupted between the Liberal and Nationwide events – and conservative and average factions – about whether or not to maintain the online zero goal, prompting hypothesis the Coalition may break up.
The problem has led to Barnaby Joyce leaving the Nationals get together room, however get together chief David Littleproud confirmed on Saturday that Joyce was nonetheless a member of the get together and was welcome to return to the get together room.
You possibly can make amends for the background to at this time’s assembly right here:
Share
Up to date at 18.16 EDT
Albanese praises Apec’s alternatives for ‘casual dialogue’
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has stated he’d prefer to see “extra cooperation” between China and the USA on synthetic intelligence, however felt that the assembly between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping in Korea this week was “an necessary step ahead”.
The leaders are in Gyeongju for the Apec summit, the place Albanese has additionally met with the brand new Japanese prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, and the brand new prime minister of Thailand, Anutin Charnvirakul.
Albanese stated he personally had “4 or 5 interactions” with President Xi and “a number of interactions with President Trump as properly”, together with final week’s casual dinner.
I fairly benefit from the casual dialogue as properly … the casual dinner, in fact, that occurred right here with President Trump, that was a few hours of casual dialogue. That’s the way you construct relationships. It’s the formal conferences the place there are bilats and other people take notes and I report back to you what is alleged, after which there may be simply engagement with folks.
On AI, Albanese stated Xi and Trump had “agreed to dialogue subsequent 12 months”:
It’s on the planet’s curiosity for the world’s two largest economies and powers to have interaction with one another constructively. What they do has an impression proper around the globe. We dwell in an interconnected world. The remark was made by just a few folks over current days in regards to the impression of the Russian invasion of Ukraine had an impression on grocery store cabinets in Chile, in Mexico in addition to in Australia.
So, we have to encourage cooperation as a lot as potential throughout the board. It’s what Australia does, and it’s what we wish to see extra of. And I feel there’s been some constructive steps ahead this week.
The Apec summit in South Korea. (Entrance row from left to proper) Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney, Chile’s president Gabriel Boric, Chinese language president Xi Jinping, South Korean president Lee Jae Myung, Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto, Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi, Malaysia prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon, the Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (Again row from left to proper) Hong Kong chief government John Lee, Papua New Guinea deputy prime minister John Rosso, Russia’s deputy prime minister Alexei Overchuk, Singapore’s prime minister Lawrence Wong, Thailand’s prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul, Vietnam’s president Luong Cuong, US secretary of the treasury Scott Bessent, Peru’s minister of international commerce and tourism Teresa Mera, Mexico’s economic system minister Marcelo Ebrard and Taiwan’s envoy Lin Hsin-i. {Photograph}: APShare
Up to date at 18.15 EDT
Extra rain on horizon after extreme storms and large hail in Queensland and NSW
Hundreds of thousands of individuals have probably seen the worst of a weekend of untamed climate after large hailstones, rain and harmful winds pummelled components of Australia’s east, AAP experiences.
Bands of thunderstorms lashed a area stretching from central Queensland right down to northern NSW on Saturday, drenching Brisbane and the Sunshine and Gold Coasts as they moved east, with the Bureau of Meteorology issuing alerts properly into the evening.
There have been experiences of shattered automotive home windows and broken properties in some areas because the storms introduced hailstones as much as 9cm extensive and gusts as much as 100km/h, whereas hundreds of properties had been left with out energy.
A number of folks had been handled after being hit by hailstones, in accordance the media experiences.
In NSW, components of the Hunter, mid-north coast, and central tablelands on Saturday recorded hailstones as massive as 7cm, whereas Grafton within the northern rivers area obtained 70mm of rain in half an hour.
Although storms are set to proceed at this time, they’re anticipated to be contained to a smaller space.
“Many locations won’t see the identical threat,” BoM forecaster Angus Hines stated. “However that doesn’t imply there’s no threat in any respect.”
There was an opportunity extreme thunderstorms would proceed to plague the sunshine state, however they had been anticipated to have an effect on areas from Brisbane to Bundaberg, Hines stated.
Share
Up to date at 18.08 EDT
Welcome
Good morning and welcome to your Sunday dwell information weblog. My title is Stephanie Convery and I’ll be with you for a lot of at this time, bringing you all the most recent information updates as they occur.
First up, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has stated he desires to see extra cooperation between the USA and China after diplomatic conferences between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping on the Apec summit in South Korea this week. Extra on these feedback in a second.
Again at house, and the federal well being minister, Mark Butler, has introduced an $8.5bn funding in Medicare, which expands the bulk-billing incentive funds to GPs, which the federal government says will make bulk billing obtainable to extra sufferers – as much as 18m extra bulk-billed GP visits yearly.
And the Nationals have a celebration room assembly this morning, the place they’re anticipated to formalise their internet zero place after voting to desert the dedication yesterday.
Seize a espresso and get settled: there’s all that and extra to come back very shortly.
Share
Up to date at 18.04 EDT
