Authorities received’t be ‘bullied’ by YouTube on social media ban, Plibersek says
Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek says Labor will “do no matter we now have to” to ensure Australian youngsters are secure, as the federal government considers the parameters of a social media ban for beneath 16s.
Google has threatened authorized motion if YouTube is included within the social media ban.
It’s at present not included, however the eSafety commissioner has suggested the federal government to incorporate it.
Plibersek informed Dawn this morning the federal government will do what’s within the “finest pursuits” of kids.
Loads of children, they’re actually genuinely harmed by what they’re being uncovered to on social media …
We’re not going to be bullied out of taking motion by any social media big.
The federal minister for social companies, Tanya Plibersek. {Photograph}: Bianca de Marchi/AAPShare
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Penny Wong shares images aboard the UK’s largest naval vessel
International minister Penny Wong simply shared images aboard the HMS Prince of Wales, the UK’s largest naval vessel, which has been in Australian waters as a part of Train Talisman Sabre, the biggest train performed within the Australia. Wong wrote on X:
Australia and the UK are working collectively to make sure a peaceable, secure and affluent Indo-Pacific …
Talisman Sabre 2025 is Australia’s largest and most subtle bilateral army train, bringing collectively over 40,000 personnel from 19 nations. {Our capability} and coordination highlights the energy of our defence partnerships and our work to maintain Australians secure.
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Weekly Sydney pro-Palestine protest to march throughout the Harbour Bridge
The weekly pro-Palestine rally is planning to march throughout the Sydney Harbour Bridge this Sunday and to the US consulate, veering from its traditional course by the CBD.
In a put up to social media, the rally’s organisers, the Palestine Motion Group, stated:
At the very least 127 individuals, together with 85 youngsters, have up to now died from hunger in Gaza, together with over a thousand who’ve been shot and killed whereas queueing for help in current weeks.
It is a genocide. Even when, beneath international stress, Israel briefly permits some meals into Gaza, it won’t imply the top of Israel’s aim of ethnically cleaning the strip, known as by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu “the Trump Plan”.
This extraordinary scenario has led the Palestine Motion Group to name for a March for Humanity over the Sydney Harbour Bridge subsequent Sunday, 3 August, to save lots of Gaza.
The group has submitted what is named a “kind one” to police however it’s but to be accepted.
The shape is a notification to carry a public meeting that, if accepted by police, would defend attendees from being doubtlessly charged beneath anti-protest legal guidelines.
The group known as on the police and the federal government to facilitate the march. They wrote:
In 2023 the Harbour Bridge was closed for a particular march to mark World Delight, which PM Anthony Albanese participated in. That very same yr noticed the Bridge closed for a number of hours to shoot a scene for a Ryan Gosling movie. It may actually be closed to cease a genocide.
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Non-public members’ payments to sort out AI deepfakes and youngster abuse content material to be put ahead immediately
There are a couple of personal members’ payments being launched into the home this morning.
Following Joyce’s repeal internet zero invoice, unbiased MP Kate Chaney is introducing her invoice to cease AI know-how that trains or facilitates the manufacturing of kid sexual abuse materials.
You may learn a bit extra about that invoice right here.
Following Chaney, fellow unbiased Zali Steggall is introducing a fact in political promoting invoice that may sort out “deceptive or misleading political promoting, together with the rising dangers posed by AI content material and deepfakes.”
The federal government launched its personal laws on misinformation and disinformation in political promoting close to the top of the final time period, however didn’t carry ahead a vote on it.
Impartial senator David Pocock and unbiased MPs Zali Steggall and Kate Chaney (L-R) will introduce personal members’ payments into the higher and decrease homes immediately. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
Steggall is introducing a invoice that’s the identical as the federal government’s, however can be calling on Labor to reintroduce its personal invoice. Over within the Senate, David Pocock will give discover to introduce the identical invoice within the higher home.
Steggall says:
We all know there’s a enormous downside, the query is, is there a political will to repair it?
There is no such thing as a doubt there’s a consensus for this. We all know deepfake movies are extremely damaging they usually unfold like wildfire, except guard rails are put in place, we’re going to see a continuing erosion of belief in politics and the outcomes of elections.
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Barnaby Joyce introduces internet zero repeal invoice to parliament
Parliament has begun sitting for the week, and Barnaby Joyce is introducing his internet zero invoice to the Home of Representatives.
Joyce says:
Web zero goes to have completely no impact on the local weather in anyway.
He says China, India, the US, components of south-east Asia and Africa aren’t abiding by the coverage, and says it’s making households in Australia poorer.
Sitting on the benches round Joyce are WA Liberal Ben Small and Nationals MPs Michael McCormack, David Batt, Llew O’Brien, Colin Boyce and Jamie Chaffey.
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Palestinian help employee enters day 6 of starvation strike outdoors Parliament Home
Nahed Elrays, a Palestinian author and improvement supervisor at Unrwa within the US has been outdoors Parliament Home in Canberra, taking part in a starvation strike and calling for an arms embargo on Israel.
Elrays started the strike six days in the past, restricted to only water and nutritional vitamins. He now says he’s following the weight-reduction plan of his relations and buddies in Gaza, solely consuming one piece of flatbread, or small rice bowl, 3 tablespoons of legumes, and saltwater. He says beneath the solidarity quick he received’t eat greater than 400 energy a day.
On social media he writes, “the one phrases Australians will settle for are ‘arms embargo’ – and we wish to hear them now”.
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‘We might get to the identical place’: Nationals chief on Joyce’s anti-net zero invoice
David Littleproud says he “respects” Barnaby Joyce’s resolution to not look forward to the Coalition’s evaluation of internet zero coverage by introducing his anti-net zero invoice.
Requested whether or not Joyce is undermining the evaluation course of, Littleproud tells Sky Information it’s a “dedication for Barnaby”, and doesn’t consider it makes the coverage course of harder.
Barnaby didn’t wish to wait, I respect that. He didn’t wish to look forward to the remainder of the occasion room. However we might get to the identical place, I don’t wish to pre-empt it.
So what about the way forward for the Coalition if the Nationals determine to scrap internet zero and the Liberals wish to hold the coverage? Reasonable Liberals have voiced issues that abandoning internet zero would destroy the Liberals’ credibility with mainstream voters.
Littleproud says the Nationals’ place can feed into the broader Coalition course of on vitality.
The political actuality is we now have to win our seats. We received all of them on the final election, however we will’t flip our again on, on what’s been occurring in our communities …
If we now have an knowledgeable coverage resolution, we will then, as we did with the voice [referendum], be capable of say and feed into the method the Liberal occasion and the Coalition desires to run extra broadly.
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Coalition’s vitality precedence is fuel, says Liberal main vitality evaluation
Dan Tehan says the group reviewing the Coalition’s vitality coverage had a “superb dialogue” at their first assembly final week, and can concentrate on fuel coverage.
Tehan was tasked by chief Sussan Ley to evaluation all the Coalition’s vitality insurance policies, to assist decide the best way ahead. On all insurance policies, together with internet zero, the occasion goes again to the drawing desk.
Requested on Sky Information, whether or not Barnaby Joyce’s invoice to finish internet zero is making his job harder, Tehan says:
I’ve at all times had troublesome jobs when it’s come to my function, whether or not it’s in shadow ministry or in ministry. And I really like the problem of these of that job. I look ahead to seeing what Barnaby has to say in his invoice. Like everybody who’s a member of the coalition, he has a proper to specific these views.
Tehan was additionally requested about barbs traded final week between him and Joyce, the place Tehan referred to Joyce and McCormack as “steers preventing”. That prompted a swipe from Joyce who stated, “The individuals say they’re from the nation, get it proper. Steers don’t battle”.
Tehan stated jokingly:
I believe there may need been some surgical precision to the usage of my language, however we had a joke about that. And we’ll, we’ll, we’ll proceed to smile about it and and have fun.
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Joyce says ‘billionaires’ benefiting from internet zero insurance policies
Barnaby Joyce is outdoors parliament talking on his invoice to reverse internet zero by 2050.
With him are Nationals MPs Matt Canavan, Michael McCormack and Colin Boyce – all of whom have publicly known as to finish the coverage.
Additionally with Joyce is Liberal MP Garth Hamilton, a conservative backbencher from Queensland who’s changing into more and more outspoken.
Joyce says it’s “billionaires” who’re benefiting from applications just like the capability funding scheme, designed to spice up main renewable vitality initiatives.
Coalition MPs (from left) Llew O’Brien, Colin Boyce, Garth Hamilton, Barnaby Joyce, Matt Canavan and Michael McCormack outdoors Parliament Home on Monday morning. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAPShare
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Coalition ought to take into account modification to cap Hecs indexation, Jane Hume says
Former Liberal frontbencher Jane Hume says an concept from her colleague Sarah Henderson to cap Hecs indexation at 3% has “advantage” and must be thought-about by the occasion room.
Hume and Henderson had been each booted from the frontbench after the three Could election.
The Coalition has stated Labor’s Hecs invoice, to chop 20% of money owed and improve the earnings threshold to start paying the debt again, will go by parliament.
Henderson introduced her modification, to cap indexation, within the Australian newspaper this morning.
Requested on Sky Information whether or not the coverage ought to have been canvassed first internally, reasonably than aired to the media, Hume stated it shouldn’t be a “shock” that backbenchers carry coverage like this ahead.
What Sarah’s proposing is that, basically, if governments can’t management inflation, properly, college students shouldn’t need to pay the value that there’s a cap on what it’s that they need to need to pay. I believe that’s one thing that has advantage and must be thought-about. So I look ahead to Sarah taking that to our occasion room for additional dialogue.
Liberal backbenchers Jane Hume (left) and Sarah Henderson. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
Dan Tehan, in a separate interview on Sky, stated Ley has arrange inside processes to incorporate backbenchers in coverage creation.
When [anyone’s] obtained their coverage concepts, they need to be capable of carry them ahead, and that’s what that’s what we’re seeing. Then we’ve obtained to have the interior debate. We resolve our method ahead, after which in unity, we put that case to the Australian public.
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Kate Chaney says ‘the time might be proper’ for Israel sanctions
Impartial MP Kate Chaney says recognition of a Palestinian state will occur in “good time” however now may very well be the correct time for sanctions in opposition to Israel.
Chatting with ABC Information Breakfast a bit earlier, Chaney stated the fast precedence is to cease youngsters from ravenous, and getting humanitarian help into Gaza.
She provides, Hamas ought to have “no function” in establishing a Palestinian state.
I believe the fast precedence is stopping youngsters from ravenous and ensuring they’re not being shot when persons are making an attempt to entry meals. So my focus actually is on how we get the humanitarian help organisations in there, doing what they do finest, and ensuring that hunger isn’t getting used as a device of battle. Recognition will occur in good time …
Given it appears to be like very doubtless that Israel is breaching worldwide legislation, and it’s actually necessary that Australia performs its half in upholding worldwide legislation, and the time might be proper for sanctions at this level.
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