Albanese: ‘We assist the established order’ for Taiwan
Anthony Albanese says Australia is trying to associate with Journey.com to advertise Australia as a vacation spot for Chinese language guests, showcasing the potential for important occasions just like the Australian Open, the Melbourne Cup and the grand prix, but in addition important occasions of 12 months like New Yr’s Eve and the lunar new 12 months.
Tourism is such an vital financial profit for Australia. It’s about jobs, it’s sustainable jobs. Australia has a lot to supply as nicely. And one of many issues in regards to the market right here is that for lots of the guests to Australia, they may go for a protracted time period. It’s not simply dropping by for a weekend, they’re right here for a time period. They go to our cities, however additionally they go to our areas such because the Nice Barrier Reef, Uluru, the opposite websites which can be there in regional Australia.
The prime minister was requested the identical factor his counterparts had been requested throughout earlier appearances on Australian tv this morning: what would Australia do within the occasion China went to struggle with Taiwan; is Australia prepared to spend extra on its defence; and is it prepared to place more cash into the Aukus alliance?
Albanese provided the identical response his colleagues did – the identical numbers, virtually phrase for phrase: Australia is investing within the area and commerce to make sure its peace and safety; non-public conversations will stay non-public; Australia is already spending billions on defence and can take spending choices on advantage; Australia is already investing in its industrial functionality as a part of Aukus.
On Taiwan particularly:
I believe it’s vital that we have now a constant place, which Australia has had for a protracted time period. We assist the established order with regards to Taiwan. We don’t assist any unilateral motion there. We’ve a transparent place and we have now been constant about that.
What’s vital with regards to worldwide relationships is that you’ve a secure, orderly, coherent place going ahead. Australia does. We wish peace and safety in our area. We don’t need any change to the established order. That’s Australia’s place immediately. That was Australia’s place final week. That’s been a bipartisan place for a protracted time period.
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No less than 23,000 Australians have had their {qualifications} cancelled by the Australian Expertise High quality Authority (ASQA) since November following investigations into what the company calls “non-genuine suppliers and unhealthy religion actors”.
A spokesperson for the company mentioned its integrity unit is presently managing greater than 200 critical issues concerned 150 suppliers.
ASQA has cancelled greater than 25,000 {qualifications} and statements of attainment held by individuals who couldn’t display their supplier had outfitted them with the talents and coaching they’d been licensed for.
AQSA launched a tip-off line in October 2023 to catch out diploma mills and different organisers within the VET sector looking for to use college students looking for training. Since then it has acquired 5000 tip-offs, with greater than half offering helpful intelligence.
Minister for abilities and coaching Andrew Giles mentioned these investigations had been vital to make sure a viable VET system with the Albanese authorities taking a “zero tolerance” strategy to “dodgy suppliers that put college students or the neighborhood in danger.”
For a decade, ASQA was under-resourced and deprioritised, and the VET system was left to float.
The Albanese Authorities has modified that, investing greater than $40 million to strengthen VET integrity since we had been elected – and compliance exercise is surging.
We’ve zero tolerance for dodgy suppliers that put college students or the neighborhood in danger. The cancellation of greater than 25,500 shonky {qualifications} is proof that what we’re doing is working.
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All indicators level to jobs market holding agency in new knowledge
Ahead indicators recommend Australia’s unusually low unemployment charge will keep regular in recent dataset to be launched by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The weird resilience of Australia’s jobs market is predicted to proceed in keeping with the recent figures due out this week.
Regardless of expectations that unemployment will rise over the course of 2025, ahead indicators level to extra jobs development forward of the bureau’s labour power launch on Thursday.
Economists predict the figures to point out the unemployment charge held at a comparatively low 4.1% in June, whereas about 20,000 jobs are tipped to have been added to the financial system.
One other perception into family confidence ranges shall be revealed within the Westpac-Melbourne Institute client sentiment report on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the ABS will launch constructing exercise knowledge for the March quarter.
– AAP
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US place on Taiwan inconsistent
For some extra context on the questions being requested of the PM and different Labor figures about Taiwan on Sunday, the US undersecretary of defence for coverage, Elbridge Colby, is demanding extra of Australia and Japan than what the US is ready to do itself.
For many years the US coverage in direction of Taiwan has been underpinned by a doctrine of “strategic ambiguity”, refusing to say whether or not or not they’d defend Taiwan. The doctrine is aimed toward deterring each Beijing and Taipei from making important strikes – an assault or invasion by the previous, or a declaration of independence by the latter.
Below Xi Jinping, the Communist social gathering’s rising aggression clearly exhibits it desires to alter the established order and annexe Taiwan (by power if it may well’t persuade Taipei to peacefully settle for it), main some observers to argue that strategic ambiguity has misplaced its relevance.
Joe Biden beforehand prompt a number of occasions that the US would militarily defend Taiwan, not less than whereas he was president, and for now it stays US coverage.
Donald Trump’s place has been much less constant. Early in his time period he questioned whether or not it was price supporting Taiwan in any respect, however CNN additionally reported final week that he claimed to have advised Xi he would “bomb the shit out of Beijing” if China tried to invade it.
For extra on this, learn the complete report by Guardian Australia’s Josh Butler:
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‘The entire again of my HiLux was coated in rats’: what to do about Sydney’s rising vermin drawback?
Nathaly Haeren has seen patios in Sydney collapse as a result of brown rats have tunnelled underneath and created sinkholes. She’s been electrocuted within the roof of a home after they chewed by means of air-con wiring. She’s even visited a hairdresser the place they’d gnawed a circle by means of double brick.
Extra lately, Haeren has began seeing rats standing on the street in the course of the day, “oblivious” and unbothered – like they simply don’t care.
“It’s the destruction they trigger that blows my thoughts, that scares me, as a result of I’m competing in opposition to them,” the proprietor of Pesty Ladies pest administration says.
Rats must preserve gnawing to maintain their enamel down. Their energy is like iron. And so they can flatten to the dimensions of your thumb – they’ve bought hinged ribs … I have to be 10 steps forward.
For extra on this story learn the complete report by Guardian Australia’s Caitlin Cassidy:
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Albanese underscores significance of China commerce on first day in Shanghai
Anthony Albanese has given some temporary remarks on his first full day in China, speaking up the hyperlinks with Australia as he seeks to drum up financial and tourism ties.
In Shanghai, the prime minister went for a stroll alongside the riverfront together with his fiancee, Jodie Haydon, and Australian soccer coach Kevin Muscat, who’s managing Shanghai Port FC – a membership with robust ties to Australia. Albanese immediately may even go to the headquarters of Journey.com, one of many world’s largest journey agent corporations, to assist launch a brand new tourism marketing campaign.
Eagle-eyed readers and Australian politics tragics may keep in mind this was the identical river Albanese, clad in a yellow Socceroos jersey, took a stroll alongside on his prior go to in 2023 – video of which led to him going considerably viral on Chinese language social media and being branded a “good-looking boy” by the premier, Li Qiang.
On Sunday, Albanese mentioned he was eager to “construct the people-to-people relationships”.
I’ve introduced with me a complete vary of enterprise individuals from the sources sector, the tourism sector, from the training sector, as a result of one in 4 of Australian jobs depends upon our exports and overwhelmingly by far the biggest vacation spot for Australian exports is correct right here in China.
About 25%, greater than the following 4 international locations mixed: Japan, South Korea, america and India. That claims one thing about how vital this relationship is.
Albanese mentioned he was eager to speak about tourism and searching ahead to assembly Xi Jinping on Tuesday.
Tomorrow, we’ll have a very vital enterprise spherical desk as nicely from companies round Australia who’ve travelled as much as be right here and led by the Enterprise Council of Australia.
Anthony Albanese takes a stroll alongside Shanghai’s riverfront with fiancee Jodie Haydon and soccer coach Kevin Muscat. {Photograph}: Dominic Lorrimer/AAPShare
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Place on China a part of ‘non-public conversations’ – PM
The PM, like his ministers earlier this morning, has been resisting requires readability about Australia’s place on China, saying he gained’t touch upon “non-public conversations”.
It’s not clear what non-public conversations he’s referring to, or what precisely is being mentioned, however what is obvious is that the general public aren’t going to get solutions about enterprise ostensibly being carried out for his or her profit.
Albanese mentioned:
So that you don’t take non-public feedback [public] at a media convention. We have interaction in a mature manner. That’s the best way that we take care of {our relationships}.
The PM is requested in regards to the questions of sovereignty raised by the Aukus settlement, and he returns to speaking about how Australia is working to make sure “peace and safety in our area, within the Indo-Pacific”, saying “we have now our Aukus preparations in place”.
We’ll proceed to work by means of all of those points. Our alliance with america is an important one for Australia. So we’ll proceed to interact constructively in a coherent, secure, orderly manner. That’s the best way I conduct this authorities.
And that’s a wrap.
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Albanese: ‘We assist the established order’ for Taiwan
Anthony Albanese says Australia is trying to associate with Journey.com to advertise Australia as a vacation spot for Chinese language guests, showcasing the potential for important occasions just like the Australian Open, the Melbourne Cup and the grand prix, but in addition important occasions of 12 months like New Yr’s Eve and the lunar new 12 months.
Tourism is such an vital financial profit for Australia. It’s about jobs, it’s sustainable jobs. Australia has a lot to supply as nicely. And one of many issues in regards to the market right here is that for lots of the guests to Australia, they may go for a protracted time period. It’s not simply dropping by for a weekend, they’re right here for a time period. They go to our cities, however additionally they go to our areas such because the Nice Barrier Reef, Uluru, the opposite websites which can be there in regional Australia.
The prime minister was requested the identical factor his counterparts had been requested throughout earlier appearances on Australian tv this morning: what would Australia do within the occasion China went to struggle with Taiwan; is Australia prepared to spend extra on its defence; and is it prepared to place more cash into the Aukus alliance?
Albanese provided the identical response his colleagues did – the identical numbers, virtually phrase for phrase: Australia is investing within the area and commerce to make sure its peace and safety; non-public conversations will stay non-public; Australia is already spending billions on defence and can take spending choices on advantage; Australia is already investing in its industrial functionality as a part of Aukus.
On Taiwan particularly:
I believe it’s vital that we have now a constant place, which Australia has had for a protracted time period. We assist the established order with regards to Taiwan. We don’t assist any unilateral motion there. We’ve a transparent place and we have now been constant about that.
What’s vital with regards to worldwide relationships is that you’ve a secure, orderly, coherent place going ahead. Australia does. We wish peace and safety in our area. We don’t need any change to the established order. That’s Australia’s place immediately. That was Australia’s place final week. That’s been a bipartisan place for a protracted time period.
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Man arrested after alleged axe assault on NSW south coast
A person has been arrested after he allegedly attacked a police automobile with an axe, assaulted a lady with an axe, stole her automobile and commenced a chase throughout the New South Wales south coast on Saturday.
The state’s police say officers had been referred to as to a property in Worrigee simply earlier than 1pm on Saturday following stories of a person armed with an axe and a hammer.
When officers arrived, the person allegedly threw the axe on the police automobile, collected the weapon and ran to a close-by dwelling. There he allegedly assaulted a 66-year-old lady sitting in a Ford Mustang.
Police allege the person hit the lady many occasions with the axe earlier than forcing her from the automobile. Taking management of the automobile, he allegedly ran over the lady as he drove away.
Paramedics handled the lady for a number of leg and torso accidents earlier than she was rushed to Shoalhaven memorial hospital in a critical however secure situation. She has since been transferred to St George hospital in Sydney for additional therapy.
Police noticed the Mustang heading south on Princes Freeway at about 2pm and initiated a pursuit after the driving force did not cease.
The pursuit continued by means of Nowra, Bomaderry, Berry, Gerringong and Kiama, throughout which the sports activities automobile allegedly reached speeds of 180km/h in an 80km/h zone.
Police deployed street spikes, however the driver drove the automobile in direction of a freeway patrol officer, narrowly lacking him and the spikes.
The pursuit ended after the Mustang was seen driving on the other facet of the Princes Freeway at Kiama Downs, the place it collided with a ute earlier than stopping.
The alleged driver, a 25-year-old man, then tried to run from the scene, however members of the general public held him till police arrived.
He was arrested and brought to Wollongong hospital underneath police guard, the place he stays.
The motive force of the ute was additionally taken to Wollongong hospital for evaluation.
Police established a criminal offense scene and – following a search of the Mustang – seized an axe and a hammer for forensic examination.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Chalmers calls on Tasmanians to vote out ‘bumbling’ Liberals
Chalmers is in Devonport, Tasmania, the place he has helped launch Labor’s state election marketing campaign, urging these current to finish Jeremy Rockliff’s 11-year authorities subsequent Saturday.
The treasurer used the chance to advertise the federal Labor authorities’s file, however credited Labor’s Tasmanian representatives with driving among the most vital choices of the federal government’s agenda, significantly the choice to remodel the stage 3 tax cuts.
A number of the strongest voices in our caucus backing that call got here from proper right here in Tasmania.
I keep in mind how Brian Mitchell, on the time the member for Lyons, was so decided to reshape these tax cuts. He didn’t simply assist the modifications, he championed them.
He described the Rockliff authorities as “bumbling and stumbling”, saying the state authorities wasn’t “simply out of contact or out of concepts, they’re totally out of their depth”. Chalmers tried to hyperlink the embattled premier to failed Liberal chief Peter Dutton.
From what I see and listen to at world financial boards and within the professional recommendation I sift by means of each day, Tasmania has what the world desires. What the nation wants. And what the longer term calls for.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAPShare
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Chalmers backs RBA choice on charges
The treasurer mentioned he understood the frustration of many Australians on the choice to depart rates of interest on maintain however stood by the Reserve Financial institution governor, saying Michele Bullock had made clear it was “a matter of timing not a matter of path”.
The path of journey with regards to inflation and rates of interest is already fairly clear. The governor made that even clearer on Tuesday. We’ve already had two rate of interest cuts within the final 5 months. That’s due to the progress we’ve made collectively on inflation. That’s already offering some aid to thousands and thousands of individuals with a mortgage.
However in fact, persons are on the lookout for extra charge aid the place they’ll get it. The governor of the Reserve Financial institution has made it clear that that can come sooner or later, however that she and her board would really like extra data earlier than they make that call to chop charges for the third time this 12 months.
On authorities assist for trade, Chalmers mentioned the commonwealth was already speaking to the governments of South Australia and Tasmania about what it may well do to assist struggling producers.
The federal authorities has already provided $70m to assist Nyrstar, which operates the Port Pirie lead smelter in South Australia and operations in Tasmania, with the treasurer saying the corporate can entry a $2bn aluminium fund for smelters.
Nyrstar mentioned in the beginning of July that it was weeks away from closing its Port Pirie operation. The operation has confronted issues, together with environmental air pollution points, after dying birds and bats discovered throughout the city had been uncovered to guide at 3,000 occasions acceptable ranges.
The treasurer mentioned he was in Tasmania to assist out with Labor’s marketing campaign within the state election, which he framed as a “fairly merely selection”.
4 extra years of farce and failure and financial mismanagement from a Liberal authorities stumbling from one stuff-up to a different, or a recent begin underneath Dean Winter and Tasmanian Labor.
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Relationship with China ‘an excellent earner’ – Chalmers
The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, has described Australia’s relationship with China as “an excellent earner” as he has joined different Labor MPs on Sunday in framing the prime minister’s go to as a essential step in direction of strengthening financial ties with Australia’s greatest buying and selling associate.
Talking to Sky Information on Sunday morning, Chalmers mentioned China is a “large a part of our prosperity” and an “vital apparent focus of our financial diplomacy”.
Look, it’s a very vital a part of the buying and selling relationship. Little doubt about it. It’s an excellent earner for Australia. We’re very supportive of the trade and its efforts to create that prosperity with that commerce with China.
Chalmers was requested about an upcoming go to to South Africa for the G20 assembly this week, the place he mentioned financial instability will type a big a part of the discussions.
We are attempting to navigate collectively a world the place battle and rigidity and unpredictability and volatility are the norm quite than the exception. And so, we come at this problem of worldwide engagement in that gentle.
The treasurer mentioned he could be assembly together with his Indonesian counterpart on the sidelines of the assembly and hoped to have “a particular solution to announce later within the week that we will advance that basically vital financial relationship” referring to a two-way commerce in essential minerals and capital restrictions.
Extra broadly, if you concentrate on the fragmentation on this planet, you concentrate on the uncertainty, unpredictability and volatility which defines the occasions within the world financial system, our technique is extra engagement, extra various markets and extra resilience in our personal financial system as nicely.
These are the rules which drove our response to the tariff announcement out of DC, but in addition which drive our commerce and funding and international coverage as nicely, and also you’ll see that within the prime minister’s engagement this week.
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Queensland LNP to make use of CFMEU inquiry to pursue Labor
Joe Hinchliffe
Queensland’s governing Liberal Nationwide social gathering says it is going to use a fee of inquiry into the state department of the CFMEU to pursue its Labor opposition, which they described as a “safety racket” for the embattled union.
The deputy premier and chief LNP assault canine, Jarrod Bleijie, likened Sunday’s introduced inquiry into the Queensland Development, Forestry and Maritime Workers Union (CFMEU) to the landmark Fitzgerald inquiry, which led to the downfall of the longstanding conservative premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen and ushered within the state’s fashionable political period.
The LNP will purge the underbelly of the CFMEU and its enablers in Queensland. That is Labor’s Fitzgerald second.
In 2015 the Labor social gathering was elected again in authorities in Queensland and what we noticed ensue over the past 10 years is nothing however a safety racket for the CFMEU orchestrated by Labor, its administration and its ministers on the time.
The LNP swept Labor from energy final October after practically a decade in authorities. Bleijie named many of the senior Labor figures who stay in parliament however targeted closely on former industrial relations minister Grace Grace, whom he described because the CFMEU’s “chief enabler”.
The premier, David Crisafulli, mentioned he needed the inquiry to start its work “this subsequent month”, saying it was the “strongest device” on the authorities’s disposal and one wanted to deliver “sunshine” into the development sector forward of a constructing increase within the leadup to the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Video games.
Queensland deputy premier Jarrod Bleijie. {Photograph}: Jono Searle/AAPShare
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‘We don’t wish to be local weather refugees’: Torres Strait uncles worry for his or her islands and their individuals
Uncle Paul Kabai and Uncle Pabai Pabai are afraid for the way forward for their ancestral homelands.
Their nation on the outer islands of Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait), lower than 10km off Papua New Guinea, is underneath siege from the impacts of the local weather disaster.
The 2 males worry the lack of their islands, their tradition and their lifestyle, forcing their households and communities to turn out to be Australia’s first local weather refugees.
The uncles have taken the federal authorities to court docket within the landmark Australian local weather case, looking for orders which might require the commonwealth to undertake steps to stop additional hurt to their communities.
This would come with chopping greenhouse gasoline emissions in keeping with the perfect accessible science.
For extra on this story, learn the complete report right here:
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India ‘on the crossroads of quite a lot of the chop and alter within the world order’
Lemahieu added that whereas India was recognised as an “anchor” for strategic steadiness, Australia’s tutorial neighborhood was taking part in catch-up on the fast evolution of the bilateral relationship.
He mentioned India was typically understood by means of the prism of the Quad safety partnership, which additionally contains Japan and america.
However India sits on the crossroads of quite a lot of the chop and alter within the world order and I believe the understanding of that’s what may be underdone generally in Australia.
For extra, learn on this story, learn Daniel Filton’s evaluation on the Australian-Indian relationship:
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Tom McIlroy
New India analysis position ‘an asset to Australia’s international coverage panorama’ – Wong
The international affairs minister, Penny Wong, mentioned Labor would fund a worldwide seek for the brand new chair by means of the Maitri Grants program, administered by the Centre for Australia-India Relations.
We’re deepening cooperation throughout precedence sectors which can be very important to each nations’ futures, together with in defence, commerce, training and expertise.
In an more and more advanced Indo-Pacific, our international locations’ alignment on regional priorities continues to develop, whereas our cooperation is important to making sure lasting peace and stability for the area.
The institution of the Lowy Institute’s first India chair displays this significance; it is going to be an asset to Australia’s international coverage panorama, creating analysis, informing coverage and strengthening debate inside the sector.
Lowy’s director of analysis, Hervé Lemahieu, advised Guardian Australia the appointment was a big funding within the organisation’s world attain.
It elevates India, and south Asia extra broadly, when it comes to our analysis agenda, and brings in new expertise, extra depth and a deeper bench on an important piece of the puzzle when it comes to understanding the way forward for the regional order.
It additionally elevates our understanding of the position India will play globally in coming years.
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Tom McIlroy
Australia funding new Lowy Institute professional place on India
The federal authorities will enhance Australia’s international coverage and tutorial ties with India, serving to fund a brand new thinktank place to guide analysis on the worldwide energy.
The Lowy Institute will identify its first India chair in coming months, appointing a distinguished scholar to check the nation’s rising affect, specializing in relations with Australia, China and america, and altering dynamics within the Indian Ocean area.
The federal government’s technique for financial engagement with India, launched earlier this 12 months, mentioned the nation was including the equal of the New Zealand financial system to its nationwide GDP annually.
India’s financial system is on monitor to be the world’s third largest by 2030. With a inhabitants of greater than 1.4 billion individuals, it’s amongst Australia’s prime 5 buying and selling companions and is the nation’s largest supply of expert migrants.
Practically 1 million Australians have Indian ancestry, and greater than 15,000 Australians stay in India.
However regardless of its measurement and affect, India has lengthy been thought-about a lacking piece of Australia’s international coverage tutorial panorama, and assist for the brand new appointment will help creation of a brand new program of labor to progress Australia’s nationwide pursuits.
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