Albanese searching for name with Netanyahu as quickly as potential after Sydney march
Tom McIlroy
The prime minister is searching for to press his Israeli counterpart concerning the devastation in Gaza in an upcoming telephone name.
Anthony Albanese is searching for a name with Benjamin Netanyahu as quickly as potential after a minimum of 100,000 individuals marched throughout the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday to protest bloodshed and struggling within the battle.
Guardian Australia has been informed Albanese hopes to talk to Netanyahu as quickly as a telephone name will be locked in.
Individually, the assistant minister for immigration, Matt Thistlethwaite, informed Sky Information this morning a dialog between Albanese and Netanyahu is “being pursued” this week.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
Albanese has stated publicly extra humanitarian support was badly wanted, amid worldwide outrage about hunger.
Australia has been criticised by Netanyahu in current months, together with over authorities responses to high-profile antisemitic assaults in Sydney and Melbourne. Albanese stated final week:
We’ve a humanitarian disaster unfolding there, and Australia is prepared to play our half there.
That’s certainly one thing that’s bringing, I feel, legit criticism of the actions of the Netanyahu authorities. Too many harmless lives have been misplaced.
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NSW SES says 200 vehicles trapped in snow over the weekend largely free, however black ice stays a priority
Roughly 200 vehicles have been trapped in snow this weekend after heavy falls blanketed the northern tablelands. The NSW SES stated most of these vehicles have since been in a position to escape from that occasion as situations eased, and the snow is not a serious concern.
However black ice could also be harmful within the space across the area because the snow melts.
Emergency officers are urging drivers to journey fastidiously and pay attention to altering street situations. The NSW SES stated:
For those who do have to be on the roads, use the brakes gently and drive slowly.
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Man sporting Scream masks allegedly graffitis Melbourne synagogue
Victoria police are investigating a number of incidents of graffiti at a Melbourne synagogue after a person allegedly triggered prison harm to the constructing a number of instances during the last six months.
Police stated an unknown man arrived to the Torah Highway synagogue a minimum of 5 instances between March and July on a black e-scooter earlier than allegedly spray-painting offensive phrases on the constructing. Throughout two incidents in July, officers stated the person was sporting a “ghostface” masks from the Scream movies that utterly lined his face.
The person is considered of Caucasian look, bald and of medium construct and bald. Police have appealed for details about the incident and launched video footage from the synagogue, saying:
There’s completely no place in any respect in our society for hate-based behaviour.
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Albanese searching for name with Netanyahu as quickly as potential after Sydney march
Tom McIlroy
The prime minister is searching for to press his Israeli counterpart concerning the devastation in Gaza in an upcoming telephone name.
Anthony Albanese is searching for a name with Benjamin Netanyahu as quickly as potential after a minimum of 100,000 individuals marched throughout the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday to protest bloodshed and struggling within the battle.
Guardian Australia has been informed Albanese hopes to talk to Netanyahu as quickly as a telephone name will be locked in.
Individually, the assistant minister for immigration, Matt Thistlethwaite, informed Sky Information this morning a dialog between Albanese and Netanyahu is “being pursued” this week.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
Albanese has stated publicly extra humanitarian support was badly wanted, amid worldwide outrage about hunger.
Australia has been criticised by Netanyahu in current months, together with over authorities responses to high-profile antisemitic assaults in Sydney and Melbourne. Albanese stated final week:
We’ve a humanitarian disaster unfolding there, and Australia is prepared to play our half there.
That’s certainly one thing that’s bringing, I feel, legit criticism of the actions of the Netanyahu authorities. Too many harmless lives have been misplaced.
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Sian Cain
Lynne McGranger wins gold at Logies, as Fisk dominates and Man Montgomery named greatest newcomer
The House and Away actor Lynne McGranger received the Gold Logie award for hottest character on Australian tv as she ends her report 32-year run taking part in the much-loved matriarch Irene Roberts.
McGranger is the longest-serving feminine actor in any Australian drama, having performed Irene for practically 33 years. She introduced her departure in February and her remaining episode will air mid-August.
Man Montgomery. {Photograph}: Hanna Lassen/Getty Photographs for TV WEEK Logies Awards
The ABC comedy Fisk was the large winner on Sunday, taking house greatest scripted comedy, greatest lead actress in a comedy for Kitty Flanagan for the second yr in a row, greatest lead actor in a comedy for Aaron Chen, greatest supporting actress for Julia Zemiro and greatest supporting actor for Glenn Butcher.
Man Montgomery, the host of Man Montgomery’s Man Mont Spelling Bee on ABC, additionally received the Graham Kennedy award for hottest new expertise. The New Zealander gave a bullish speech, telling Australia: “Suck it, we’ve got one up in your nation this time!”
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Andrew Messenger
Brisbane biking teams to make second try to dam Story Bridge later this month
The Story Bridge – considered one of Brisbane’s few high-quality lively transport routes – has been closed to anybody however motorists since March.
Brisbane metropolis council refused to reallocate any of its six car lanes, redirecting cyclists on a much less direct route. The council halted an try to carry a protest on a part of the bridge in Could within the Brisbane magistrates court docket on the idea of neighborhood security.
On 24 August, council will partly shut a part of its various at Kangaroo Level Bridge for the Brisbane trend competition.
Brisbane’s Story Bridge. {Photograph}: Nicky Dowling/Getty Photographs
Story Bridge Energetic Journey Alliance organiser Kathryn Good stated the group deliberate to carry a protest at 11am that day to protest each choices. It should take the type of a trend present. Good stated:
On daily basis Brisbane commuters who usually use the Story Bridge shared paths are pressured right into a prolonged and unsafe detour. Brisbane metropolis council, as traditional, is unfashionably late to supply ample lively transport routes.
If Council can roll out the pink carpet on the Kangaroo Level inexperienced bridge for a trend present, they’ll definitely make area on the Story Bridge for the 1000’s of us simply attempting to get to work.
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Police persevering with seek for lacking small airplane close to Bass Strait
Tasmania police will proceed looking for a small airplane that went lacking en route from the state’s north to NSW on Saturday.
Authorities stated the sunshine airplane was carrying two individuals and a canine on Saturday because it left George City at about 12.45pm, on its option to Hillston airport in NSW. Search efforts are beneath manner in northern Tasmania, the Bass Strait and regional Victoria in hopes of finding the plane. A Tasmanian police official stated:
There was no growth in a single day in regard to discovering the airplane, the 2 Tasmanian residents on board, or realizing their whereabouts.
Tasmania police, the Australian Maritime Security Authority and Victoria police are all aiding with the search effort, which features a helicopter and several other boats.
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Krishani Dhanji
Commissioner will probably be a ‘fierce advocate’ for Indigenous kids, minister says
First Nations advocates and peak our bodies have lengthy sought a commissioner for Indigenous kids. Indigenous kids are virtually 11 instances extra more likely to be in out-of-home care than non-Indigenous kids, and 29 instances extra more likely to be in youth detention.
It’s taken 18 months for Hunter to be appointed to the position, after Labor first promised an unbiased nationwide fee in February 2024. In an announcement, the minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy stated Hunter will probably be a “fierce advocate” for Indigenous kids. McCarthy stated:
The variety of First Nations kids in out-of-home care and youth detention is deeply distressing and can take a collective effort to show the figures round.
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Krishani Dhanji
Sue-Anne Hunter appointed First Nations kids’s commissioner
The federal government has appointed the primary nationwide commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids and younger individuals, to assist urgently flip across the excessive charges of First Nations kids in out-of-home care and in youth detention.
Adj Prof Sue-Anne Hunter, a Wurundjeri and Ngurai Illum Wurrung lady has been chosen for the position, which she is going to start later this yr.
Sue-Anne Hunter. {Photograph}: James Ross/EPA
Hunter was a commissioner and deputy chair of the Yoorook Justice Fee in Victoria, and stated in an announcement that her position will assist elevate the voices of First Nations kids.
We’re prone to dropping one other era to techniques that fail them, to elimination, out of house care detention and a bleak future. The work is pressing and the statistics are grim. However our kids will not be statistics, they’re our future.
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Husic says politicians ‘underestimated’ how strongly Australians really feel about Gaza
Labor MP Ed Husic stated an increasing number of Australians had grown involved concerning the influence of Israel’s struggle towards Hamas on civilian populations. He informed RN Breakfast:
I feel individuals particularly imagine it’s simply not proper … To deal with children in the way in which that they’ve been handled in Gaza. It offends our values as individuals, and so individuals turned up in giant numbers.
Husic went on:
I feel Australian politics has underestimated how strongly Australians really feel about this subject … I feel this can be a second, a form of wake-up name for Australian politics.
I feel once I appeared in that crowd – yep, you had the individuals that you’d count on which were there from the beginning protesting, however there was lots of center Australia there, and I feel that’s one thing that may’t be ignored.
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Authorities declares $20m extra support funding for Gaza
Krishani Dhanji
The federal authorities will present $20m in support for organisations to ship meals and medical provides into Gaza.
The help announcement adopted mass protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide on Sunday, with 1000’s of demonstrators, together with state and federal Labor MPs marching throughout the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The international affairs minister, Penny Wong, stated the newest funding brings the full support supplied by Australia to Gaza to $130m since struggle broke out after the October 7 assault.
Penny Wong. {Photograph}: Hilary Wardhaugh/AAP
In an announcement, Wong stated Australia has been persistently calling on Israel to permit the “full and rapid resumption of support”, consistent with the binding orders of the worldwide court docket of justice.
The struggling and hunger of civilians in Gaza should finish. Australia will proceed to work with the worldwide neighborhood to name for a direct and everlasting ceasefire, the discharge of hostages and a two-state resolution.
The funding will probably be distributed by organisations together with Unicef, the UN World Meals Programme, and Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross.
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Ed Husic says Sydney march ‘a wake-up name for Australian politics’
Labor MP Ed Husic has described yesterday’s pro-Palestine march throughout the Sydney Harbour Bridge as a “wake-up name for Australian politics” and stated he was shocked by the sheer quantity of people that confirmed as much as protest. Husic informed RN Breakfast:
It was an amazing instance of peaceable meeting, of individuals popping out in drive to let governments understand how deeply they really feel and the way a lot they need governments to behave on the issues that they’ve, triggered by horrific photographs that we’ve seen out of Gaza …
I believed it was manner bigger than the 90,000. It did definitely really feel like that.
Federal MP Ed Husic, far proper. {Photograph}: Farid Farid/AAPShare
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Flood warnings issued throughout Newcastle area, evacuations in Gunnedah in a single day
The NSW State Emergency Service (SES) has issued flood watch warnings for giant elements of Newcastle and the decrease Hunter area this morning. The alerts come amid evacuations in a single day in Gunnedah within the New England area.
NSW SES stated they’d acquired greater than 3,600 calls and responded to almost 2,100 incidents throughout a weekend of untamed climate, together with 25 flood rescues. Emergency crews are nonetheless looking for a 26-year-old lady who was swept away by flood waters within the Hunter area on Saturday evening.
Additional evacuation warnings are potential all through the day, officers stated. There are actually 57 warnings throughout the state, in line with Hazard Watch.
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Good morning and joyful Monday. Nick Visser right here to take you thru the primary of this week’s information. Right here’s what’s on deck:
The NSW State Emergency Service has issued a number of Watch and Act warnings for flooding within the decrease Hunter, with giant elements of Newcastle urged to heed steering. There was main flooding in Gunnedah close to Tamworth final evening.
NSW police stated the organisers of the pro-Palestine march throughout the Sydney Harbour Bridge have been “very cordial” through the lead-up to yesterday’s occasion. However they stated they have been deeply involved a few crowd crush and the sheer quantity of people that confirmed up, prompting the march’s cancellation halfway by. No accidents or arrests have been reported.
The Logies have been awarded, with Magda Szubanski inducted into the Corridor of Fame and cleaning soap star Lynne McGranger profitable gold for her future on House and Away.
Keep on with us.
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