‘I welcome the competition of concepts’: Ley
Whereas the opposition is attempting to show up the warmth on the federal government, it’s nonetheless dealing with loads of volcanic motion internally with private and non-private frustrations aired, and naturally the very public quitting of Andrew Hastie from the frontbench.
Ley isn’t eager to get into the nitty gritty, after it was revealed yesterday MP Mary Aldred spoke up in opposition to the infighting throughout a Liberal partyroom assembly.
Requested concerning the feedback, she says she “won’t replicate conversations inside our partyroom”.
I welcome the competition of concepts.
We did undergo a big defeat on the final election and persons are having their say and I welcome that.
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Ayres defends authorities bailout of copper smelter
Again in Canberra after a fast go to as much as far north Queensland, Tim Ayres says yesterday’s $600m announcement to present the Glencore copper mine a lifeline was to guard a “actually vital strategic nationwide business” for Australia.
Talking to ABC RN Breakfast, Ayres says the Australian business has confronted a tricky world market and unfair commerce practices.
This can be a crucial industrial functionality for Australia. Now we have huge reserves of copper ore, and there may be world commerce imbalances, subsidies in some markets, volatility that’s making it an unfair enjoying subject for Australian copper producers in world markets. We have to see that.
Requested particularly whether or not he’s referring to China, Ayres says “it’s definitely not the one market the place there may be subsidies”.
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‘I welcome the competition of concepts’: Ley
Whereas the opposition is attempting to show up the warmth on the federal government, it’s nonetheless dealing with loads of volcanic motion internally with private and non-private frustrations aired, and naturally the very public quitting of Andrew Hastie from the frontbench.
Ley isn’t eager to get into the nitty gritty, after it was revealed yesterday MP Mary Aldred spoke up in opposition to the infighting throughout a Liberal partyroom assembly.
Requested concerning the feedback, she says she “won’t replicate conversations inside our partyroom”.
I welcome the competition of concepts.
We did undergo a big defeat on the final election and persons are having their say and I welcome that.
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Opposition questions authorities’s help for Australians who return from Syrian detention camp
Sussan Ley is on the media rounds this morning, and in addition urgent the federal government over its involvement within the return of the six Australians.
There’s a few key areas the opposition is pushing this week, that is one and the opposite large one has been Optus.
Ley tells Dawn “one thing seems to have been achieved” by the federal government to help the repatriation of those ladies and youngsters, as Labor has repeated traces that no assist was supplied.
In June we have been informed by the prime minister and his ministers that they didn’t know something about this they usually had no information. Passports and citizenship papers they don’t create themselves. One thing seems to have been achieved to help the repatriation of those people who willingly left our shores to hitch a dying cult… They [Anthony Albanese and Tony Burke] will not be confessing to what they knew and what help they’ve supplied.
When host Nat Barr factors out that the federal government additionally repatriated ladies and youngsters from the Syrian detention camps, Ley says “we repatriated orphans, that is very completely different”.
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Labor below stress over Australian repatriates from Syrian detention camp
The federal government continues to be dealing with warmth over the return of six Australians from a Syrian detention camp.
The opposition went laborious on it at estimates final night time, with safety businesses revealing residence affairs minister Tony Burke’s workplace was briefed about their intention to return in June.
This morning, the cupboard minister Tim Ayres – who’s additionally doing the media rounds after asserting a joint state and federal bail out of the Glencore copper smelter in Mt Isa – is dealing with loads of questions on it.
On the At this time present, he was at pains to say the federal government didn’t present them any help to return.
Now we have taken the method as a authorities to not present help and the job of our safety businesses in relation to those folks, but in addition different individuals who they make an evaluation about themselves, is to ensure that we preserve Australians secure.
Ayres was on a panel with Unbiased MP Dai Le, who yesterday requested for assurances throughout query time that the six wouldn’t be resettled in her seat of Fowler in western Sydney, the place she represents a big multicultural inhabitants.
I don’t purchase the road that there’s no help.
I [have] probably the most multicultural voters within the nation that has massive inhabitants of Assyrian communities … these communities fled the ISIS regime.
And so subsequently, if there’s no transparency about the place being resettled and I requested [for] ensures yesterday that they’re not going to be resettled in my space of Fowler …
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Krishani Dhanji
Good morning,
Krishani Dhanji right here with you, for an additional day of parliamentary shenanigans, and we’ve received loads to look ahead to. Because of Martin Farrer for getting us began.
Estimates (which went a bit wild yesterday with new revelations across the Optus outage) continues so we’ll have eyes on that, however earlier than then Sussan Ley is doing the media rounds this morning attempting to push a invoice for necessary minimal sentencing for youngster sexual offences.
The legal professional normal, Michelle Rowland, when requested about it yesterday stated the federal government was “open” to concepts to fight youngster abuse. However necessary minimal sentencing goes in opposition to Labor’s platform (regardless of them voting for necessary minimal sentencing for terror offences earlier this yr).
Follow us, it’s going to be a busy one!
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Man killed in capturing in Sydney’s north-west
In some non-politics information: a person has been shot useless in Sydney’s north-west within the newest capturing to hit the town, Australian Related Press stories.
Emergency providers have been known as to Riverstone at 6pm final night time following stories of a capturing.
A person was discovered with gunshot wounds and died on the scene regardless of the efforts of paramedics. He’s but to be recognized.
A automotive was discovered on fireplace just some hundred metres away, elevating suspicions that the capturing was a gang-related hit.
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Nearly half of whole capital positive factors tax low cost went to these incomes over $1m in 2022-23
Almost 50% of the capital positive factors tax low cost went to simply 24,000 individuals who earned over $1m in 2022–23, in keeping with an Oxfam Australia report.
On common, every of those people gained a staggering $271,000 from the capital positive factors tax low cost on income from the sale of property and investments – virtually 1,500 instances the profit acquired by a mean employee.
If the federal government scrapped the capital positive factors low cost, it may restore round $22.7bn to the funds per yr, the evaluation discovered.
Oxfam Australia’s performing chief government, Chrisanta Muli, stated:
Our tax system is deepening inequality as a result of it fails to tax wealth. For many years, Australia has been turning into a nation for the rich, not employees.
At this time, billions of {dollars} in funds income is given away to the wealthiest within the type of tax reductions and since our tax system doesn’t successfully tax the super-rich.
As a substitute, it permits them to amass wealth and fund lavish life by way of untaxed progress in property and investments. It’s time we tax revenue from wealth like wages, and that begins by scrapping the 50% capital positive factors low cost on income from gross sales of investments.
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Judges to rule on Sydney Palestine protest
Hundreds of protesters will uncover whether or not they can rally at Sydney Opera Home as a trio of judges rule on the legality of a pro-Palestine demonstration, Australian Related Press stories.
Police challenged the Palestine Motion Group’s proposed protest within the NSW court docket of attraction.
Organisers imagine Sunday’s march, if authorized, will see about 40,000 folks wind by way of Sydney’s metropolis centre to the forecourt of the Sydney Opera Home. However police imagine the quantity may very well be better and would trigger a security danger.
The judges, who’re because of ship a call right this moment, additionally raised issues over crowd security throughout earlier hearings.
Evaluating the protest to an enormous August rally on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the place between 90,000 and 300,000 marched within the rain, the chief justice, Andrew Bell, stated much more may attend Sunday’s occasion.
He additionally famous Macquarie Avenue may develop into a “slim funnel” that pushes protesters into a good house.
However the organiser’s barrister, Felicity Graham, stated earlier unticketed occasions on the Opera Home, like the favored gentle present Vivid, have been managed capably. Learn extra right here:
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Good morning and welcome to our stay politics weblog. I’m Martin Farrer with the highest in a single day tales after which Krishani Dhanji will probably be your information.
A ruling is anticipated on the NSW attraction court docket this morning over whether or not or not a pro-Palestine march can happen in Sydney this weekend. Police have requested for the rally to be banned on public security grounds. Extra shortly.
And a brand new examine by Oxfam has proven that the advantages of the capital positive factors tax low cost are overwhelmingly loved by the nation’s best-off.
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