Butler says authorities to ‘rapidly’ transfer to deal with little one security in centres
The well being minister, Mark Butler, has vowed this morning that the federal government will introduce pressing laws when parliament sits subsequent week. This comes after revelations yesterday that a further 800 kids ought to be examined for STIs after Victoria police mentioned alleged paedophile Joshua Dale Brown had labored at extra childcare centres than disclosed initially.
Butler spoke with 9’s Right this moment, saying “so many” Victorian mother and father would now be questioning whether or not they have been going to “get a name” about their little one’s well being. He mentioned:
We now have to repair this, and we have now to repair it urgently. And the federal government’s dedicated to doing that. We’ve been speaking to the opposition to guarantee that it’s one thing that has a broad base of help and might occur as rapidly as attainable.
Brown’s work historical past now contains 24 present or former childcare centres. {Photograph}: Joel Carrett/AAPShare
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Albo’s agenda right this moment? The Nice Wall of China and the nation’s panda capital
Prime minister Anthony Albanese will go to the Nice Wall of China as his journey continues right this moment. Albanese, who met president Xi Jinping and premier Li Qiang yesterday, may even transfer on to the town of Chengdu – often known as the panda capital of China – the place he’s anticipated to make an announcement associated to pandas.
Albanese may even reportedly make an announcement a couple of tennis event.
Albanese will make some form of announcement about pandas right this moment. {Photograph}: China Information Service/Getty Photographs
In Beijing yesterday, Albanese instructed Xi: “In Chengdu tomorrow, I’ll take a look at the place Australia has rising ties, notably on medical know-how and sports activities.” He added:
Tomorrow I’ll additionally go to the Nice Wall, the place Australia’s prime minister, Gough Whitlam, who in fact, initiated the popularity of the Folks’s Republic of China when he got here as Labor celebration chief in 1971.
You would anticipate to see extra of the prime minister’s journey and any public statements someday within the afternoon.
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Butler says authorities to ‘rapidly’ transfer to deal with little one security in centres
The well being minister, Mark Butler, has vowed this morning that the federal government will introduce pressing laws when parliament sits subsequent week. This comes after revelations yesterday that a further 800 kids ought to be examined for STIs after Victoria police mentioned alleged paedophile Joshua Dale Brown had labored at extra childcare centres than disclosed initially.
Butler spoke with 9’s Right this moment, saying “so many” Victorian mother and father would now be questioning whether or not they have been going to “get a name” about their little one’s well being. He mentioned:
We now have to repair this, and we have now to repair it urgently. And the federal government’s dedicated to doing that. We’ve been speaking to the opposition to guarantee that it’s one thing that has a broad base of help and might occur as rapidly as attainable.
Brown’s work historical past now contains 24 present or former childcare centres. {Photograph}: Joel Carrett/AAPShare
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Extra on the teenage vaping information launched this morning
The federal authorities believes harmful vaping charges amongst youthful Australians might have turned a nook after years of speedy development, with new analysis exhibiting take-up may have peaked amongst youngsters and excessive school-age kids.
An indication promoting vapes in Melbourne.a {Photograph}: Joel Carrett/AAP
Knowledge launched by the well being minister, Mark Butler, on Wednesday confirmed that vaping charges fell from 17.5% at first of 2023 to 14.6% in April this yr amongst kids aged 14 to 17. The report says the information follows the July 2024 vaping reforms, which have been designed to curb youth entry and use, and to cut back the social acceptability of vaping.
The figures come because the Therapeutic Items Administration and Australian Border Power introduced greater than 10m illicit vapes had been seized since January 2024, price a mixed avenue worth of $500m.
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Ladies who expertise start trauma report excessive ranges of unmanaged ache
Ladies who expertise start trauma are reporting excessive ranges of unmanaged ache and bodily accidents resulting in vital psychological well being impacts, AAP experiences.
Analysis by Start Trauma Australia has discovered distressing or emergency procedures and poor administration of ache or bodily accidents are essentially the most vital contributors to start trauma. The research has been launched throughout start trauma consciousness week, held every year to spotlight the difficulty and supply help to ladies and their households.
‘Start trauma will not be new nevertheless it’s simply traditionally been shrouded in secrecy’, BTA founder Amy Dawes says. {Photograph}: LM Otero/AP
Start accidents are linked to a spread of bodily, psychological and social impacts together with circumstances like pelvic organ prolapse, painful intercourse and urinary incontinence.
Relationship pressure, diminished physique confidence, problem returning to work and ongoing social or bodily limitations can all be skilled on account of these accidents. Start Trauma Australia co-founder Amy Dawes mentioned:
Start trauma will not be new nevertheless it’s simply traditionally been shrouded in secrecy and there’s an ongoing tradition of dismissing ladies’s issues. For the time being entry to care after trauma relies in your submit code however we’d like a holistic strategy that every one ladies have entry to.
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Mark Butler says he’s assured ‘peak’ of vaping behind us
Well being minister Mark Butler says he’s confidence the “peak of vaping” is behind us amid new information that reveals vaping charges have fallen amongst Australian kids aged 14 to 17. General, charges for these over 15 diminished by greater than a 3rd, whereas vaping charges among the many 30- to 59-year age group additionally dropped by about half.
Butler spoke to the ABC this morning, saying fewer younger individuals have been now smoking each vapes and cigarettes, and there have been now fewer optimistic messages about vapes circulating. The information comes a yr after Labor launched world-leading legal guidelines proscribing the sale of vapes to pharmacies, in addition to different necessities. Butler mentioned:
We all know we’ve obtained an extended option to go. It is a powerful combat towards some fairly powerful opponents – large tobacco. Organised crime remains to be decided to become profitable out this public well being menace, however I’m happy that we appear to be we’ve turned the nook.
Well being minister Mark Butler. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
I’m assured that we have now seen that peak of vaping behind us and we’re beginning to see a discount, notably amongst kids and youngsters, which was our major focus. However under no circumstances am I sanguine about this.
I do know it is a actually, actually powerful combat and we’ve obtained much more to do, not simply within the space of vaping, however illicit tobacco as effectively, which might be now the largest menace we have now, the most important public well being goal we have now as a rustic, which is to stamp out smoking, nonetheless the largest preventable killer of Australians.
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NT police say it’s ‘deeply regrettable’ Bradley Murdoch died with out disclosing location of Peter Falconio’s physique
NT police acknowledged the loss of life of assassin Bradley John Murdoch, saying his refusal to reveal the placement of Peter Falconio’s stays had denied the backpacker’s household “the closure they’ve so lengthy deserved”. The drive mentioned:
It’s deeply regrettable that Murdoch has died with out, so far as we’re conscious, ever disclosing the placement of Peter Falconio’s stays.
His silence has denied the Falconio household the closure they’ve so lengthy deserved. Our ideas are with the Falconio household in the UK, whose grief continues.
Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees. {Photograph}: AAP
NT Police mentioned it remained dedicated to discovering Falconio’s stays, pointing to the reward of as much as $500,000 for info that results in the invention of his physique:
We proceed to attraction to anybody who might have info that might lead us to Peter Falconio’s stays to come back ahead, regardless of how small the element could appear.
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Torres Strait neighborhood leaders will maintain ‘knocking at authorities’s door’ after court docket dismisses landmark local weather case
The lead plaintiffs within the federal case arguing the federal government breached its obligation of care to guard the Torres Strait Islands from local weather change, which was dismissed yesterday, mentioned they may maintain urging for extra motion to guard their houses.
Uncle Paul Kabai addresses the gang after the choice on the federal court docket of Australia in Cairns on Tuesday. {Photograph}: Brian Cassey(copyright)/AAP
Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai from the islands of Boigu and Saibai had requested the courts for orders requiring the federal authorities to take steps to deal with local weather hurt of their communities, together with elevated efforts to chop planet-warming greenhouse fuel emissions. The category motion case, filed in 2021, was dismissed in a call that mentioned whereas there was benefit to their factual allegations, the widespread regulation of negligence was not a “appropriate authorized automobile” to say damages or reduction.
Uncle Paul instructed the ABC this morning the pair have been exploring subsequent steps and would proceed to name for extra motion:
It’s time now for us to maintain knocking on the authorities’s door. We have to a greater consequence for our future, our youngsters and our youngsters and the following era to come back.
It’s time for us to move the message to the neighborhood and the individuals on the market, Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals, and allow them to know that local weather change is going on. To battle collectively and provides a robust voice to the federal government.
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SUV pushed into luxurious Sydney CBD retailer in ram raid concentrating on purses, police say
Police in Sydney are investigating after an SUV was pushed right into a luxurious retailer within the metropolis’s CBD early this morning, a part of a ram raid concentrating on purses.
NSW police mentioned officers had been referred to as to the shop about 3.45am by experiences the automobile had been pushed by way of a store window. An unspecified variety of luxurious purses have been taken earlier than a gaggle of individuals left in a white BMW wagon and gray Audi S3. The SUV stays on the scene.
All three automobiles have been stolen, police mentioned.
A criminal offense scene has been established and police are investigating how many individuals have been concerned and what was stolen. Authorities urge anybody who sees automobiles matching the outline to report them to police instantly.
Authorities urge anybody who sees automobiles matching the outline to report them to police instantly. {Photograph}: Carly Earl/The GuardianShare
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Husic says envoy’s report makes essential level all should play position to fight antisemitism
Ed Husic added that Jillian Segal’s report made a number of stark factors in regards to the unfold of antisemitism throughout Australia and the threats of hatred spreading amongst younger individuals. He instructed RN Breakfast:
I feel the essential level that it makes is we’ve all obtained a job to play in combating antisemitism, that everybody, not simply authorities, has a job to play. As a result of, because the report factors out, antisemitism poses a menace not simply to Jewish Australians, however when hatred goes unchallenged, our democracy is in danger.
He added that claims within the envoy’s report that youthful Australians have been liable to turning into “totally fledged anti-Semites” run the danger of being “a bit too sweeping”:
I admire the purpose that’s making an attempt to be made, however I feel that’s an announcement we’ve obtained to watch out as taking as an evident reality.
Husic went on to say that he had repeatedly spoken out towards antisemitism out of a sense that every one Australians ought to by no means really feel concern “for who they’re”, including:
I’ve spoken up towards antisemitism, aware of the intergenerational trauma brought on by the Holocaust … Because the particular envoy factors out, antisemitism has been an historic hatred. I simply have to stress I’ve by no means wanted a definition to take action.
I simply knew I by no means wished a fellow Australian to really feel concern for who they’re.
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Ed Husic says Australia shouldn’t essentially get ‘hung up’ on definition of antisemitism
Ed Husic says Australia shouldn’t “essentially get hung up on definitions” after a report from the federal antisemitism envoy referred to as on the federal government to undertake a working definition of it. Husic spoke to RN Breakfast about envoy Jillian Segal’s plan to deal with anti-Jewish hatred, saying he’d a lot favor an effort to “deliver individuals collectively with out essentially having to make use of sticks and threats of funding”.
‘I simply assume the difficulty of definition immediately brings into query whether or not or not individuals will have the ability to elevate their considerations’, Ed Husic mentioned. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAP
Segal has proposed universities and artists may have funding withheld in the event that they fail to behave towards antisemitism, amongst different suggestions in a wide-ranging plan launched this month. Husic mentioned this morning:
I might a lot favor us discovering methods to deliver individuals collectively reasonably than being heavy-handed in response. We must always at all times be specializing in what brings us collectively. …
We shouldn’t essentially get hung up on definitions. I perceive the federal government will undergo and tackle board the advice that’s within the particular envoy’s report. I simply assume the difficulty of definition immediately brings into query whether or not or not individuals will have the ability to elevate their considerations in regards to the actions, for instance, of what the Netanyahu authorities is doing in Gaza and the way that will be handled below a definition.
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NSW releases housing sample ebook with architectural house designs for $1
What in the event you may purchase architect-designed drawings for a brand new house for $1 – and have certainty your council would approve it inside 10 to twenty days?
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, will launch the state’s housing sample ebook on Wednesday, which comprises eight blueprints for architect-designed townhouses, terraces and manor homes, chosen from internationally famend corporations together with Sam Crawford Architects, Carter Williamson Architects, Saha and Anthony Gill Architects.
A design by Sam Crawford Architects, impressed by the Paddington terrace
The designs – which shall be obtainable for $1 for the primary six months after which for $1,000 – will be adjusted to suit a household’s wants and are designed with sustainability, ease of development and value effectiveness in thoughts. By comparability, getting customized architectural plans can value upwards of $20,000.
The plans are supposed to spice up the state’s sluggish housing development charges and assist alleviate value of dwelling pressures.
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Bradley Murdoch, man who murdered British backpacker Peter Falconio, lifeless at 67
Bradley John Murdoch, the person who killed British backpacker Peter Falconio in 2001, has died from throat most cancers. He was 67.
Murdoch died yesterday at a hospital in Alice Springs within the Northern Territory. He had been moved to the hospital from jail in June.
Bradley John Murdoch in Perth in 1995. {Photograph}: Barry Baker/Related Press
In 2005, Murdoch was convicted and sentenced to life in jail with a minimal interval of 28 years. The physique of Falconio, believed murdered in 2001, has by no means been discovered, and Murdoch at all times maintained his innocence. Final month police provided a $500,000 reward for info on the placement of Falconio’s stays.
Murdoch had been recognized with throat most cancers in 2019.
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Make US relations our precedence, Angus Taylor urges PM
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The shadow defence minister, Angus Taylor, has urged Anthony Albanese to shore up Australia’s relations with the US, together with signing on to a take care of Taiwan regardless of the prime minister’s journey to China.
Talking on ABC’s 7.30 on Tuesday, Taylor mentioned Australia ought to have robust commerce relations with China, however singled out the US and the necessity for the federal authorities to keep away from tariffs on exports:
After over 250 days of this new US administration we should always have seen a face-to-face assembly between the prime minister and the president of the US and we ought to be seeing relationship-building and work occurring … across the Aukus alliance, round our strategic alliance extra broadly.
Taylor singled out a joint dedication with the US on the safety of Taiwan and peace within the Taiwan Strait as one thing Australia ought to attempt in direction of, including that was why Aukus was “so vital”.
Requested if the Coalition can be ready to ensure to Donald Trump that Australia would be part of a warfare with the US over Taiwan, Taylor mentioned you couldn’t “codify your response in each state of affairs” however the safety and peace of Taiwan was wanted:
You can also make principled commitments to the safety of Taiwan, to peace by way of deterrence and functionality within the Taiwan Strait … that does imply you’re ready to behave below sure circumstances.
Shadow defence minister Angus Taylor. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAPShare
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Girl charged with homicide of seven-month-old child in Perth
A lady has been charged with homicide after the loss of life of a seven-month-old child in Perth on Monday.
Emergency providers have been referred to as to a residence in Balcatta, north-west of Perth, about 3.10am by experiences of a “severe assault”, Western Australian police mentioned.
Police and St John WA attended and located the toddler with essential accidents. The infant was later declared lifeless.
On Tuesday 15 July, murder squad detectives charged a 31-year-old Balcatta girl with homicide.
She is because of seem in Perth magistrates court docket right this moment.
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China hails Albanese’s ‘private efforts’ to revive ties
Relations between China and Australia reached a “low level” however are again on monitor below Anthony Albanese’s management, the Chinese language premier, Li Qiang, mentioned final evening after the pair met within the Nice Corridor of the Folks in Beijing.
China’s premier congratulated Albanese on his re-election, Australian Related Press experiences, and for his “private efforts” to stabilise the China-Australia relationship, which soured below the previous Liberal authorities throughout the Covid pandemic.
“China-Australia relations have moved past a low level and returned to the suitable monitor of stability and improvement,” Li mentioned.
Because the pair final met in October final yr “lots has occurred on this planet”, Li mentioned, and there was rising instability and uncertainty within the world economic system.
“The event of all international locations is confronted with new challenges. Given such circumstances, China and Australia as vital commerce companions, ought to strengthen dialogue and cooperation,” he mentioned.
Albanese mentioned he seemed ahead to the 2 nations exploring new alternatives in commerce, local weather change, tourism and tradition.
“We’ll even have a possibility to have a frank and open dialogue that allows us to navigate points that should be mentioned,” he mentioned.
For extra on Albanese’s go to and his assembly with Xi Jinping yesterday, try Tom McIlroy’s report right here:
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Good morning and welcome to our dwell information weblog. I’m Martin Farrer with the tales making the information this morning after which it’ll be Nick Visser to take the controls.
China’s premier, Li Qiang, final evening hailed Anthony Albanese for his “private efforts” to stabilise the China-Australia relationship, which went south below Scott Morrison’s management and the Covid pandemic. After a gathering within the Nice Corridor of the Folks wrapped up a busy day of diplomacy for Albanese, Li mentioned relations had “moved past a low level”. Extra arising.
As Albanese continues together with his diplomatic offensive in China, the shadow defence minister, Angus Taylor, instructed ABC’s 7.30 that he believes the prime minister ought to be making extra progress on shoring up Australia’s relations with the US. Taylor mentioned the reset of relations with Washington ought to embrace a deal to guard Taiwan – regardless of the issues that it would pose with China. Extra arising.
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