Automobile crashes into Russian consulate constructing’s gates in Sydney
Caitlin Cassidy
A person is in custody after a automotive crashed into Sydney’s Russian consulate constructing this morning.
In an announcement, NSW police stated about 8am on Monday, officers have been known as to the constructing on Fullerton Road in Woollahra following studies of an unauthorised automotive parked within the driveway.
They stated when police arrived and tried to talk to a person, 39, who was behind the wheel, he allegedly drove into the consulate’s entrance gate.
The person was arrested and brought to Surry Hills police station the place he was aiding police with inquiries.
A 24-year-old constable injured his hand within the incident and was handled by paramedics on the scene. There have been no different studies of accidents, police stated.
“Inquiries are persevering with,” police stated.
A spokesperson for NSW Ambulance confirmed they acquired a name to attend the handle simply after 8am. The person was handled on the scene for a reduce to his hand and didn’t require hospitalisation, they stated.
A Google Maps road view of the consulate basic of the Russian Federation in Woollahra, Sydney. Composite: Google MapsShare
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Luca Ittimani
Chilly winter for house gross sales retains costs rising
Homebuyer demand has surged nicely forward of provide after an unusually gradual winter for public sale listings, as rate of interest cuts inflate Australians’ borrowing capability.
Marketed listings are usually decrease in winter however even fewer house owners than typical put their houses available on the market in August, dragging the variety of listings one-fifth under its common, information from property evaluation agency Cotality reveals.
Quick provide has seen a larger share of listings bought, with the speed of profitable gross sales – or the nation’s clearance charge – hitting 70% in late August, the best in 18 months.
Patrons in August bid home costs up by about $10,000 in Brisbane, Sydney and Perth and about $7,500 in Adelaide, with the nationwide median house costs rising to almost $850,000.
The three-month tempo of value improve has steadied at 1.8%, after rising in early 2025 on the again of decrease rates of interest and booming borrowing capability. Tim Lawless, Cotality Australia’s analysis director, says additional improve is unlikely:
What’s extra seemingly is that house values will rise at a extra sustainable tempo, with demand dampened by affordability constraints, extra regular charges of inhabitants progress and cautious lending coverage.
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Senate to debate social cohesion at 1pm at present
The Greens didn’t have to maneuver to droop standing orders. After a vote on McKenzie’s movement on cross-portfolio estimates failed (see earlier within the weblog), Katy Gallagher moved a movement to debate Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi’s movement on social cohesion later at present.
The Greens and Coalition stood up on the identical time this morning to droop standing orders (however for fairly completely different causes), however Michaelia Money received the primary name.
It means there’ll be a dialogue on social cohesion and the protests on Sunday at 1pm at present. We’ll be staying tuned for that.
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Queensland cancels fourth stage of Gold Coast mild rail hyperlink
Andrew Messenger
The Queensland authorities has cancelled the fourth stage of Gold Coast Gentle Rail, after years of Nimby opposition to the venture.
The only-line service, often known as the G:Hyperlink, has been progressively inbuilt phases since 2009. It at the moment operates between the heavy rail line at Helensvale and Broadbeach South.
A 3rd stage at the moment beneath building will lengthen it to Burleigh Heads.
Stage 4 would have taken it by way of the rich suburbs of the southern Gold Coast, added stops on the airport, and terminated at Coolangatta.
Many residents of the realm oppose the venture on the premise that it will permit poorer residents from the north into the south, bringing crime, and likewise allow new growth within the unique space.
The deputy premier, Jarrod Bleijie, introduced the choice on Monday morning. He stated residents needed infrastructure that might not disrupt “the distinctive character of their neighborhood,” and needed to”shield what they worth most of their neighborhood and their life-style.” The federal government as an alternative plans to offer a bus service.
The sunshine rail was designed to scale back the Gold Coast’s long-standing automotive dependency; public transport consumer share has dramatically elevated for the reason that first stage opened in 2014.
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Hanson accuses Indigenous activists of resurrecting the voice to parliament
Tom McIlroy
Pauline Hanson has accused Indigenous activists of making an attempt to resurrect the failed voice to parliament proposal, hitting out at racial division and claims of an “Aboriginal trade” in federal politics.
The Senate is that this morning debating scheduling for estimates hearings on Indigenous affairs, after the Albanese authorities axed a conventional standalone day of questioning on the subject.
Pauline Hanson, who says Indigenous activists are inflicting racial division, spoke at an anti-immigration rally on Sunday. {Photograph}: Dominic Giannini/AAP
Labor final week received help for a condensed schedule for October’s rounds of estimates, which entails folding Indigenous affairs into the opposite packed days of hearings. Labor has agreed to a few further days of estimates hearings later within the yr as a part of the modifications.
The One Nation chief has used the talk to subject a broadside in opposition to Indigenous affairs spending this morning, saying there’s corruption and an absence of accountability.
Closing the hole has been an enormous huge subject… What have they completed now? Closed the hole on solely 4 out of 19 points.
We continuously hear concerning the incarceration. We hear about individuals who don’t attend education. We hear concerning the home violence. We hear concerning the sexual abuse of youngsters … I’ve been talking about it for the final 30 years, however nothing’s modified.
Hanson has accused Labor of not listening to Indigenous folks across the nation, however as an alternative taking recommendation solely from “the elites”:
These folks wanna declare that they’re Indigenous. Actually? Are they honestly Indigenous? Are they honestly representing the true Indigenous folks on the market.
The federal government’s Senate chief, Penny Wong, informed the chamber she needed to disassociate Labor with Hanson’s feedback.
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Opposition movement to droop standing orders in Senate fails
Michaelia Money’s movement within the Senate to droop standing orders to maneuver a movement on the federal government dropping cross-portfolio estimates has failed. The cross-portfolio estimates embody hearings on Indigenous affairs issues, in addition to the Murray-Darling Basin plan.
Senator Bridget McKenzie now has one other go to droop standing orders with an virtually an identical movement – this time concerning the Murray-Darling Basin plan.
Katy Gallagher strikes rapidly to get a vote on McKenzie’s movement. Like Money’s, it’s unlikely to cross.
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Natasha Might
Extra data on the Northern Seashores hospital transition again into public operation
Right here’s some extra data following on from that earlier publish on the NSW Well being group who will likely be on the bottom at Northern Seashores hospital from at present.
It’ll embody as much as 15 senior leaders from IT, affected person security and tradition, scientific operations, workforce, finance and company companies, in keeping with a joint assertion from the NSW treasurer and well being minister.
Precedence areas will embody the IT programs and scientific functions utilized by Healthscope however not in use by NSW Well being. The group will even establish different key areas the place coverage, process or follow gaps exist between how the hospital at the moment operates and the way it will function as a part of the NSW Well being system.
The state treasurer, Daniel Mookhey, stated of this new group: “It is a crucial subsequent step as we progress in the direction of ending the Liberals’ failed privatisation experiment on the Northern Seashores hospital.”
Of their joint assertion, the ministers stated that:
It stays the choice of the NSW authorities {that a} negotiated settlement on the longer term management and operation of the Northern Seashores hospital may be achieved, however within the absence of settlement, the federal government has handed laws to offer it the authority to intervene and keep away from a chronic dispute for members of the neighborhood, hospital employees and NSW taxpayers.
McGrathNicol companion and appointed receiver Jason Eire and Healthscope’s CEO. Tino La Spina, stated:
McGrathNicol and Healthscope proceed to interact constructively with the NSW authorities in negotiations for the longer term possession and operation of the Northern Seashores hospital. We welcome this essential step within the course of.
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McCormack claims wind towers ‘taller than’ Barangaroo are ‘coming to a valley close to you’
Labor is making an attempt to exploit this anti-net zero invoice debate for all it’s price. Backbencher Alison Byrnes stands as much as say her piece in response to Boyce:
I’m more than happy to talk on this at present, to assist present the farce that everyone knows it’s.
Byrnes, who represents a coastal seat within the Illawarra space – which has been declared an offshore wind zone – says the clear vitality transition means new jobs throughout the nation.
Michael McCormack stands up subsequent from the opposition benches – he’s with Barnaby Joyce, Llew O’Brien and Boyce who spoke earlier.
These wind towers, taller than, or as tall as Barangaroo, are coming to a valley close to you.
McCormack accuses renewable vitality firms of pitting farming households in opposition to one another, and coming to rural areas with “luggage of money” to purchase agricultural land
These firms… they ship out these shysters and they’re shopping for one farmer off and never the farmer’s neighbour – they’re making people who find themselves generational mates [into] mates now not.
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Barnaby Joyce’s repeal internet zero invoice being debated in Home
The drama continues in Parliament Home … and we now transfer to the Home of Representatives, the place Barnaby Joyce’s repeal internet zero invoice is being debated.
Nationals MP Colin Boyce begins, saying he desires to “put to mattress” the hyperlink between desirous to repeal internet zero and desirous to drop the web zero goal:
This debate just isn’t whether or not you imagine in local weather change.
The truth that we’re nonetheless speaking about whether or not or not you imagine in local weather change in 2025 is … one thing.
Boyce says he’s making an attempt to border it in an financial sense, and says his citizens of Flynn – with its coal, heavy equipment and agricultural sectors – will likely be closely impacted by the transition.
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The success of Victoria is the ‘secret sauce’ of migration, deputy premier says
Benita Kolovos
Victoria’s deputy premier, Ben Carroll, was additionally requested about yesterday’s rally at a press convention this morning in Flemington. He stated immigration is Victoria’s “secret sauce”:
Our migrants ought to be celebrated. They shouldn’t be, in any approach, frowned upon.
The success of Victoria is certainly the key sauce of migration. We all know our migrants are formidable, that our migrants create jobs, that they’re innovators. We’ll at all times have fun them. We all know that our range is our biggest energy, and we’ll get up and ensure we communicate [out] loud and happy with anybody that tries to destroy Victoria’s range.
Carroll stated he was “appalled” by the assault on Camp Sovereignty and to see the Aboriginal flag burned. He went on:
It simply goes to indicate the extent of ignorance that we’re coping with that folks that attend a march in opposition to immigration would then go and assault a camp and destroy a flag of the primary inhabitants of our nation.
These persons are our Indigenous folks… Our Aboriginal folks have been right here for 65,000 years. We’re all immigrants. This was their land, and we have to respect that … It was appalling to see what occurred yesterday on the streets of Melbourne, an appalling assault on the First Nations folks of our state.
Requested about issues from police on the bottom that there weren’t sufficient sources to sort out the rally and counter protests, Carroll says officers did an “glorious job”:
There have been six arrests. Anybody watching that footage would have thought that was a small quantity of arrests. Nonetheless, having stated that, there’s a variety of footage. I witnessed a woman being thrown to the bottom. I witnessed different folks with blood throughout their faces. I witnessed somebody simply making an attempt to calm the state of affairs then set upon. So there’s plenty of footage, and I hope these perpetrators are delivered to account.
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Tens of millions of Australians are persevering with to desert the Coalition: report
Tens of millions of Australians are abandoning the Coalition because the Liberals proceed to evaluation their election drubbing and rebuild a fractured occasion, AAP studies.
Greater than half of voters who beforehand voted for the Coalition, roughly 5 million folks, wouldn’t think about voting for them if a federal election have been held now, in keeping with the Blueprint Institute, an impartial thinktank.
Greater than two-thirds of individuals stated they wouldn’t think about giving their first choice to the Coalition, which included 44% of former Coalition voters, in keeping with the commissioned YouGov ballot of 5,000 folks in July.
The Blueprint Institute’s report, Successful Again the Coalition’s Lacking Center, discovered:
If the Coalition is to regain authorities by way of an enchancment within the major vote, it might want to do greater than enchantment to its base or persuade undecided voters. It should broaden the variety of people who find themselves keen to contemplate its candidates as an possibility.
Half of those that had voted for the Coalition – however not on the 2025 election – have been crucial of local weather change, renewable vitality and housing affordability coverage choices.
Solely 16% of former supporters believed the conservative alliance was severe about addressing local weather change.
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Opposition transfer to droop standing orders within the Senate
It’s simply previous 10am and there’s already slightly little bit of drama effervescent away within the Senate.
Senator Michaelia Money is making an attempt to reinstate cross-portfolio Indigenous issues.
The opposition final week accused the Albanese authorities of avoiding scrutiny of its Indigenous affairs agenda after axing a conventional standalone estimates listening to on the subject.
Michaelia Money in July. {Photograph}: Dominic Giannini/AAP
Money has moved to droop standing orders, and says that on the subject of “actual accountability” the federal government received’t entrance as much as scrutiny:
Relating to dealing with arduous questions concerning the failures of indigenous service supply, concerning the outcomes on the bottom for youngsters, for communities, instantly Senator [Penny] Wong and her counterparts fall silent … they really vote to take away the flexibility of the Australian Senate and the opposition to ask inquiries to this portfolio.
Whereas Money is attacking the federal government, I’ve been informed the Greens are attempting to additionally droop standing orders – however to speak concerning the anti-immigration rallies over the weekend.
The finance minister, Katy Gallagher, says the federal government has put an additional three days on the Senate estimates calendar for December and says the Coalition ought to pursue progress on Closing the Hole by way of all Senate estimates hearings over these three days.
Flip up and ask the questions over your entire allocation of estimates.
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Natasha Might
NSW Well being group begins work to transition Northern Seashores hospital to public facility
From at present a specialist NSW Well being group will likely be on web site on the Northern Seashores hospital to arrange for the hospital’s eventual transition out of a public personal partnership.
Northern Seashores is the one hospital within the state the place public companies are offered by a non-public firm, Healthscope, beneath a fancy contract.
A basic view of Northern Seashores hospital in Sydney. {Photograph}: Dan Himbrechts/AAP
After years of mounting debt and a string of complaints about care requirements – together with the dying of two-year-old Joe Massa, a lady whose child died in childbirth as a result of an emergency caesarean was provided too late and a lady whose child was born at 25 weeks by way of emergency caesarean after she says the hospital didn’t diagnose her appendicitis – the hospital went into receivership in Might. The NSW authorities is making an attempt to purchase it.
A transition evaluation and planning group from the Northern Sydney Native Well being District (NSLHD) will likely be working alongside employees at Northern Seashores hospital because the negotiations between the federal government and personal operator Healthscope proceed.
The well being minister, Ryan Park, made the announcement on 2GB this morning:
One of many issues we have to do is ship in a transition group of round 15 employees that may get to know the hospital higher, how its IT programs run, how its staffing runs. What’s the scientific security round what occurs out of that hospital? What are the problems in relation to tools? Issues like that which are very clinically centered, which are very operationally centered.
They received’t be nurses and docs performing precise procedures, however they are going to be behind the scenes attending to understand how that hospital runs because it begins to arrange for the transition out of that PPP association.
Park confirmed negotiations proceed, led by the treasurer, and “we hope to get a negotiated final result.”
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Josh Butler
Age-assurance exams will supply ‘enchantment rights’ if automated choices will get it flawed, Wells says
Older Australians may have “enchantment rights” on-line if they’re inadvertently locked out of social media beneath the Albanese authorities’s under-16s social media ban, with concern that a number of the age assurance know-how can get it flawed.
A serious report into the government-run age assurance trial has discovered that whereas there are efficient choices, errors are inevitable with the instruments on supply and really useful that firms present a number of “fallback choices” – comparable to ID checks.
There was a variety of give attention to the potential for under-16s to evade the ban and get on-line, however much less public and media give attention to the potential for folks above 16 to be wrongly assessed as being beneath 16.
The report discovered accuracy points for older adults, non-Caucasian customers and female-presenting folks close to the age ranges examined, in addition to underrepresentation of Indigenous folks within the coaching information.
Anika Wells, the communications minister, stated this morning the federal government was aware of that subject. She stated platforms would seemingly use a “decide and blend” mixture of varied applied sciences – together with biometric scanning, and “age inference” from the content material that somebody interacts with. At a doorstop press convention, she stated:
It implies that children who’re in that 13 to 16 bracket would possibly want a extra layered strategy from platforms, however it additionally implies that for older Australians, there must be enchantment rights.
Now we have put within the guidelines that there must be a approach, if there’s a social media resolution that you simply disagree with, you may enchantment it. And the onus could be that that occurs rapidly …
It’s in these social media platforms’ curiosity to maintain as many individuals on-line as doable, they usually’ll be doing their finest to maintain granny on-line.
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Benita Kolovos
Victorian police minister says Dezi Freeman indicators reveals ‘abhorrent nature’ of some protesters at anti-immigration rallies
Persevering with from our final publish …
Carbines was additionally requested by co-host Sharnelle Vella about protesters displaying indicators with photos of Dezi Freeman on them. Have they damaged any legal guidelines? He replied:
I did see that in studies over in South Australia, and if there have been such signage there [in Melbourne] yesterday, if there’s any motion police can take and be assured that they’ll.
However I feel it simply goes to the abhorrent nature of the kinds of people that need to affiliate collectively at rallies when police, at the moment, are searching down an alleged double assassin who’s nonetheless at massive in regional Victoria, they usually’ve needed to babysit some folks in the neighborhood who need to trigger violence and intimidate folks [through] a variety of racist gripes that aren’t shared by nearly all of Victorians.
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Benita Kolovos
Victorian police minister condemns March for Australia rally
The Victorian minister for police, Anthony Carbines, was on ABC Radio Melbourne’s breakfast program earlier. He was requested what he manufactured from the March for Australia protests and he responded that they have been “disgraceful”.
Carbines went on:
Individuals who select to attend such rallies – addressed by convicted criminals and members of neo Nazi teams, as we noticed yesterday – must be known as out and condemned for his or her associations at these rallies. Victorians must proceed to name it out, Victorians must proceed to have a optimistic angle, to have fun our range and wrap their arms round folks in the neighborhood who really feel that they’re being blamed for the kind of petty whingers and gripes and the discrimination and racism of a fringe component.
Carbines stated most rallies in Melbourne’s CBD, together with pro-Palestine rallies which have been held each Sunday for nearly two years, have been “largely peaceable”. However yesterday “introduced violence to the streets of Melbourne”, together with Camp Sovereignty at King’s Area. He stated:
Police will likely be investigating these issues, they’ll additionally keep up a correspondence with members of Camp Sovereignty and a variety of our First Nations, people who find themselves deeply distressed and upset with that exercise yesterday, and that is what occurs, isn’t it, when you may have bullies in the neighborhood who roam in packs to intimidate others, it’s gutless, and it must be known as out, and we’ll maintain these folks to account.
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Automobile crashes into Russian consulate constructing’s gates in Sydney
Caitlin Cassidy
A person is in custody after a automotive crashed into Sydney’s Russian consulate constructing this morning.
In an announcement, NSW police stated about 8am on Monday, officers have been known as to the constructing on Fullerton Road in Woollahra following studies of an unauthorised automotive parked within the driveway.
They stated when police arrived and tried to talk to a person, 39, who was behind the wheel, he allegedly drove into the consulate’s entrance gate.
The person was arrested and brought to Surry Hills police station the place he was aiding police with inquiries.
A 24-year-old constable injured his hand within the incident and was handled by paramedics on the scene. There have been no different studies of accidents, police stated.
“Inquiries are persevering with,” police stated.
A spokesperson for NSW Ambulance confirmed they acquired a name to attend the handle simply after 8am. The person was handled on the scene for a reduce to his hand and didn’t require hospitalisation, they stated.
A Google Maps road view of the consulate basic of the Russian Federation in Woollahra, Sydney. Composite: Google MapsShare
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Lambie criticises ‘thugs’ at anti-immigration protests however takes purpose at ‘double requirements’ on migrant values
Jacqui Lambie says individuals who turned as much as protest the anti-immigration rallies ought to have “keep[ed] house with their family members”, and alleviated a number of the stress on police.
She informed Sky Information slightly earlier that police have been used as “meat in the course of the sandwich”, and that we must always have let the “thugs go on the market and make idiots for themselves”.
You must ask what kind of persons are standing up with these Neo Nazis and the thuggery that is occurring? Since you’re embarrassing the nation and also you’re embarrassing yourselves. And fairly frankly, I feel most Australians have had a intestine filled with it.
Like different politicians, Lambie stated there must be extra debate on immigration. However she additionally criticised face coverings, and stated some migrants have been coming to Australia with out Australian values.
When you may have your full face protecting, if it’s not for creative and security functions, we now have to ask why you’re allowed to do this. You possibly can’t go right into a financial institution with a bike helmet on. So it’s the double requirements which are actually beginning to grind the gears of regular Australians on the market.
Jacqui Lambie in March. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAPShare
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Hume requires Coalition to ‘get behind’ the Cop31 local weather summit
Jane Hume has known as on the Coalition to again Labor’s bid to host the Cop31 local weather summit in 2026.
The Liberal senator, who was demoted to the backbench post-election, says it’s “low-hanging fruit” and calls it a “large commerce honest”.
Australia has been locked in a standoff with Turkiye for the bid.
Hume informed ABC Information Breakfast slightly earlier that the summit could be “essential economically” for Australia:
I feel that is low-hanging fruit. Let’s face it – Cop, whereas it does bringing in world leaders to make some fairly severe selections a couple of low-emissions future – most significantly, it’s a large commerce honest. It’s a commerce honest that pulls financiers, tech firms, vitality firms from proper world wide.
It is a nice alternative for Australia. It’s one thing that we ought to be wholeheartedly embracing. As a result of, let’s face it – the world has moved on. They need a low-emissions future. It’s time that the Liberal occasion will get behind Cop in order that we are able to discuss it in a smart approach.
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Pocock joins condemnation of anti-immigration rallys however says Australia will need to have ‘smart debate’ on migration
The anti-immigration rallies have dominated the morning interviews, with all politicians from throughout the divide (minus the few that attended the rallies) on a unity ticket to sentence them.
The impartial senator David Pocock informed ABC Information Breakfast earlier this morning that a number of the behaviour on the rallies was “completely unacceptable”.
However he additionally stated Australia must have a smart debate about migration:
I feel that is actually damaging on the subject of the message it’s sending to migrants throughout the nation. And a number of the slogans and behavior we noticed are completely unacceptable…
On the broader level, considered one of my frustrations has been that there’s a actual lack of urge for food from the parliament to truly have a debate about this in a smart approach after which give you a plan on the subject of migration and inhabitants that truly wards off a number of the … emotions of ‘Properly, there isn’t a plan’.
It’s a degree that the shadow immigration minister, Paul Scarr, made a bit earlier too – when there isn’t a smart dialogue, the perimeter extremists achieve management of the talk.
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