Watt addresses BoM web site backlash
Josh Butler
The brand new Bureau of Meteorology web site is “not assembly many customers’ expectations”, surroundings minister Murray Watt admits, saying he’d hauled within the BoM’s chief to make some modifications.
A refresh of the climate web site has many customers aggravated, with numerous complaints about its accessibility and usefulness. Watt mentioned he’d met with the appearing chief govt, Peter Stone, “to debate the general public’s issues with its up to date web site”.
In a press release, Watt mentioned:
It’s clear that the brand new BOM web site shouldn’t be assembly many customers’ expectations, with a major vary of suggestions offered to the Bureau in latest days.
Within the assembly, I made clear my expectations that the BOM wanted to contemplate this suggestions and, the place applicable, regulate the web site’s settings as quickly as potential. This consists of pressing consideration of enhancements to the web site’s performance and useability.
Watt mentioned Stone had taken the suggestions on, and mentioned his ministerial workplace would keep on the case if customers remained sad.
Australians should trust in these vital companies … I strongly encourage Australians to proceed to offer suggestions to the BOM, to make sure modifications will be made the place wanted.
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We’ve obtained one other busy legislative day forward of us, so let’s get straight into it!
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In the meantime, Emma Vulin, the MP for Pakenham, introduced her colleagues to tears throughout her contribution to the talk. Talking by new text-to-speech know-how, the Labor MP shared her expertise dwelling with motor neurone illness and mentioned she might sooner or later select to make use of the state’s VAD legal guidelines:
“I have no idea how my journey with MND will finish, however I do know this, the information that I’ll have voluntary assisted dying as an choice offers me energy. It permits me to stay with extra peace, to deal with the moments that matter, and to spare my family members from witnessing my extended struggling that serves no objective.
A number of Liberal MPs additionally spoke within the debate, with some reversing the place they took when Victoria’s VAD legal guidelines handed in 2017.
Opposition chief Brad Battin mentioned the deaths of two shut buddies had led him to rethink his stance and again the amendments. Former chief John Pesutto additionally confirmed he had modified his view, whereas newer MPs – Brighton’s James Newbury and Kew’s Jess Wilson – additionally confirmed their assist.
Right here’s extra concerning the amendments:
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Victoria’s assisted dying debate runs till 2am
Benita Kolovos
Labor MPs are anticipated to train their conscience vote to oppose a invoice put ahead by their very own celebration to amend the state’s voluntary assisted dying scheme.
The decrease home debated the proposed VAD modifications effectively into the early hours of Wednesday morning earlier than adjourning about 2am. It would resume this morning.
With MPs from each Labor and the Coalition granted a conscience vote, the result will minimize throughout celebration traces – because it did in the course of the debate.
Labor MP for Greenvale, Iwan Walters, who’s aligned with the SDA faction, moved an modification on Tuesday afternoon to forestall the invoice from being learn a second time to permit for additional session.
Walters informed parliament the invoice had “come to this place in haste, with out due consideration of the anticipated and unintended penalties and with little strong session past a choose group of advocates.”
He went on:
If enacted, these measures would considerably weaken the safeguards within the 2017 VAD act, with profound penalties for the protection of susceptible folks in our neighborhood.
The movement was defeated 66 votes to 17 however Labor MPs Anthony Carbines, Natalie Suleyman, Anthony Cianflone, Kathleen Matthews-Ward, Nathan Lambert and Daniela De Martino supported it.
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WA governor apologises for 1834 bloodbath
Chris Dawson has apologised to Noongar folks for the Pinjarra bloodbath.
At a Tuesday memorial service south of Perth to mark the 191st anniversary of the Pinjarra bloodbath, the state’s governor apologised to the Binjareb Noongar folks for governor James Stirling’s “dreadful wrongs”.
“I express regret to the Bindjareb folks, who nonetheless really feel the trauma of the punishment inflicted on their ancestors that day, when so many harmless lives had been taken.”
In 1834, Stirling led 25 armed males within the Pinjarra bloodbath, firing at Bindjareb Noongar males, ladies and kids for an hour. A lot of landmarks in WA are named after the person behind the bloody bloodbath, together with the Stirling Ranges.
A push by native Noongar folks to rename Perth’s Stirling council was rejected in 2021.
Describing it as a “skirmish”, Stirling’s information say about 15 folks had been killed that day. Oral histories place the quantity a lot greater, however Mr Dawson mentioned it was unattainable to know the precise toll.
Dawson mentioned conventional house owners had been ready to listen to the reality of the bloodbath for greater than 190 years. He mentioned this motion, and the apology, could be a step towards significant reconciliation.
“My name to all Western Australians, is that we communicate the reality,” he mentioned.
Learn extra concerning the bloodbath right here:
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One in 10 Australians couldn’t afford the medical care they wanted final yr, client survey finds
Natasha Might
Just one in three folks really feel assured they might afford crucial care in the event that they grew to become critically unwell, in keeping with new nationwide analysis launched in the present day by the Shoppers Well being Discussion board of Australia (CHF).
The group’s nationwide client sentiment survey launched in the present day additionally discovered that one in 10 Australians couldn’t afford the medical care they wanted final yr.
The report was based mostly on a survey of 5,000 Australians for his or her ideas on the healthcare system throughout a spread of areas in late 2024.
It additionally discovered practically half (49%) of customers reported not less than one event over the past 12 months after they hadn’t accessed the healthcare they wanted, and simply over half (51%) had been very assured they might get the care they wanted in the event that they had been critically unwell.
Dr Elizabeth Deveny, chief govt of the Shoppers Well being Discussion board, mentioned:
Shoppers have informed us that Australian well being stays deeply unequal, significantly for younger adults, folks with power illnesses and other people struggling to make ends meet.
The survey is telling us that persons are delaying or skipping care altogether due to price and different entry limitations. In 2025 the neighborhood expects that individuals can get healthcare when and the place they want it.
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Surroundings minister charts path to go EPBC legal guidelines earlier than Christmas
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Watt will introduce Labor’s new nature legal guidelines to parliament tomorrow and stays adamant the reforms can go earlier than Christmas regardless of resistance from the Coalition and the Greens.
The Albanese authorities will instantly push for a 25-day parliamentary inquiry into its deliberate rewrite of the Surroundings Safety and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC Act), which might report again simply in time for the laws to clear the Senate earlier than parliament rises on 27 November.
However the authorities should first strike a cope with both the Coalition or the Greens – neither of whom are ready to assist the invoice with out main concessions.
Watt challenged the 2 events to assist the laws, saying that 5 years on from Graeme Samuel’s overview of the EPBC, it was “effectively previous time to get this completed”.
Day-after-day of delay on these reforms is hurting the environment and costing enterprise money and time. The Coalition and the Greens should determine whether or not or not they are going to again these vital reforms or workforce as much as delay them but once more. Will they put their very own political achieve forward of the surroundings and enterprise, or will they assist our vital legal guidelines.
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Watt addresses BoM web site backlash
Josh Butler
The brand new Bureau of Meteorology web site is “not assembly many customers’ expectations”, surroundings minister Murray Watt admits, saying he’d hauled within the BoM’s chief to make some modifications.
A refresh of the climate web site has many customers aggravated, with numerous complaints about its accessibility and usefulness. Watt mentioned he’d met with the appearing chief govt, Peter Stone, “to debate the general public’s issues with its up to date web site”.
In a press release, Watt mentioned:
It’s clear that the brand new BOM web site shouldn’t be assembly many customers’ expectations, with a major vary of suggestions offered to the Bureau in latest days.
Within the assembly, I made clear my expectations that the BOM wanted to contemplate this suggestions and, the place applicable, regulate the web site’s settings as quickly as potential. This consists of pressing consideration of enhancements to the web site’s performance and useability.
Watt mentioned Stone had taken the suggestions on, and mentioned his ministerial workplace would keep on the case if customers remained sad.
Australians should trust in these vital companies … I strongly encourage Australians to proceed to offer suggestions to the BOM, to make sure modifications will be made the place wanted.
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Good morning and welcome to our stay information weblog. I’m Martin Farrer with the morning’s high tales earlier than Krishani Dhanji takes the reins.
The surroundings minister, Murray Watt, has hauled the boss of the Bureau of Meteorology into his workplace and informed him that its new web site is “not assembly many customers’ expectations”. Watt mentioned he had requested Peter Stone to contemplate suggestions from the general public and make modifications to the positioning.
A brand new survey exhibits that just one in three folks really feel assured that they might afford crucial care in the event that they grew to become critically unwell, and that one in 10 say they might not afford therapy they wanted final yr. Natasha Might has extra particulars in a second concerning the new analysis launched in the present day by the Shoppers Well being Discussion board of Australia.
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