Liberal senator Bragg can’t see Australia leaving Paris settlement
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Andrew Bragg is repeatedly pushed on Insiders on what a call to dump internet zero and leaving the Paris settlement would imply for his personal future on the shadow frontbench.
He doesn’t assume issues will get to that time as a result of he can’t think about Australia goes to permit itself to be lumped with Azerbaijan, Iran and Syria in sitting exterior the Paris pact.
Effectively, I simply don’t imagine that that’s going to occur. I don’t assume it’s throughout the realm of the potential.
Liberal senator Andrew Bragg. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
Host David Speers asks once more if Bragg would stop the frontbench if the social gathering dumped internet zero and deserted Paris.
Effectively, positive, however I don’t think about we’ll ever go away Paris. We’re not fringe dwellers. Most Australians need us to play our honest position when it comes to discount, so I simply don’t assume we’re going to be leaving the Paris settlement.
(A fast level of clarification right here: There isn’t any severe speak {that a} future Coalition authorities would pull Australia out of the Paris settlement, the worldwide treaty that goals to restrict international warming to 1.5C. Even the Nationals – who’re dumping internet zero – say they’re dedicated to Paris.)
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Gastro circumstances spike in October in NSW
NSW Well being has raised concern about an above-average fee of gastroenteritis outbreaks in establishments within the state over the past month.
The division mentioned that whereas viral gastroenteritis – brought on by many alternative viruses, resembling norovirus or rotavirus – is widespread, there’s normally a rise in gastroenteritis circumstances in September and October every year.
There have been 200 outbreaks of gastroenteritis reported from institutional settings – together with faculties, childcare centres, aged care services or detention services – in NSW in October 2025, which is increased than the October common of 149 from 2020 to 2024.
Each rotavirus and norovirus have been detected in these outbreaks.
NSW Well being warned that rotavirus could be significantly extreme in younger youngsters.
A spokesperson for the division mentioned:
The primary remedy for viral gastroenteritis is to relaxation and drink loads of fluids. Most individuals get well with out issues, however extra pressing care could should be looked for infants, individuals with suppressed immune techniques, and the aged, who could expertise extra severe sickness.
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NSW to part out plastic bread tags and ban helium balloon releases
The NSW authorities has introduced the subsequent stage in its plastics plan, with motion to part out single-use and problematic plastics.
The following part of the NSW Plastics Plan 2.0 consists of:
phasing out plastic bread tags and pizza savers from late 2027
phasing out non-compostable plastic fruit and vegetable stickers by 2030
introducing tethered lids (that means the cap or lid on a plastic bottle should stay connected to the bottle itself, even after it’s opened) for plastic bottles by 2030
requiring takeaway meals service companies to simply accept reusable cups by 2028 and huge meals service companies to offer reusable cup choices by 2030
phasing out small condiment containers resembling soy sauce fish bottles by 2030 that can not be recycled
requiring the redesign of takeaway meals containers to make sure they are often recycled safely
regulating dangerous chemical components in plastic meals and beverage packaging to forestall toxins getting into soil, water and the meals chain
banning helium balloon releases
The announcement expands on earlier motion by the NSW authorities, together with bans of light-weight plastic luggage, straws, stirrers and single-use cutlery, with the federal government saying the strikes intention to deal with NSW’s “waste disaster” and deal with one of many states “largest environmental challenges”.
Hellium balloon releases are to be banned in NSW. {Photograph}: EyeEm/AlamyShare
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Police commissioner admits ‘communication error’ over Sydney neo-Nazi rally
Again to the neo-Nazi rally concentrating on Jewish individuals exterior NSW parliament in Sydney on Saturday, my colleague Ben Doherty had this replace yesterday.
The NSW premier has mentioned in response to that he would contemplate giving police extra powers to close down racist and hateful demonstrations.
“It’s probably the case that we have to give police extra legislated powers to cease this type of bare racism and hatred on Sydney streets,” Chris Minns mentioned after the rally.
The NSW police commissioner, Mal Lanyon, has mentioned there shall be a assessment of the method by which the rally was allowed to go forward.
Lanyon mentioned whereas police had allowed the protest, neither he nor the premier knew it was going down.
“The federal government had not been briefed on this course of. I take it very personally. There was a communication error within the police pressure for which I didn’t personally know that at this time’s protest was going down,” Lanyon mentioned.
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Tehan: Coalition to work with states to increase coal-fired energy stations
The shadow power and emissions discount minister, Dan Tehan, has signalled the federal opposition will decide to work with state governments to increase the lifetime of coal-fired energy stations as a part of an power agenda to be thrashed out this week.
After months of bitter public debate, the Liberal social gathering will maintain conferences in Canberra on Wednesday and Thursday in an try and agree on the pillars of its local weather and power platform – together with whether or not to dump a internet zero emissions goal.
An agreed place with the Nationals – who’ve already dumped the online zero goal – can be put to the Coalition social gathering room for endorsement on Sunday 16 November.
The Callide coal-fired energy station in Queensland. {Photograph}: Joe Hinchliffe/The Guardian
Sussan Ley is underneath strain from senior Liberals to not simply dump the 2050 aim set underneath Scott Morrison however to junk the online zero emissions coverage fully.
Moderates need internet zero to be retained in some kind, fearful the social gathering might lose extra floor in metropolis seats if it abandons the local weather goal.
Showing on Sky Information agenda on Sunday morning, Tehan wouldn’t preempt the end result of this week’s conferences.
I’m not going to announce this morning what it is going to be, what I’ll be taking ahead as a result of that’s not being respectful to my colleagues. I need to be sure that with this that I interact with them in a method that they know that I’m extremely severe about getting the correct coverage.
Tehan mentioned one of the simplest ways to attain decrease power costs was by way of “power abundance”, which he claimed required preserving coal and fuel within the system for longer.
He didn’t rule out taxpayer subsidies for fossil-fuel energy technology.
Now what I’m saying is we have to make it possible for we’re sweating these coal property, proceed to sweat these coal property, and in addition that we will get extra fuel into the system far more shortly.
The Queensland LNP authorities’s new power roadmap, launched final month, proposed preserving its state-owned coal vegetation operating for as much as a decade longer than beforehand deliberate, that means some can be open till a minimum of 2046.
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Dumping the phrases ‘internet zero’ is ‘completely ridiculous’ – Bragg
The web zero debate has become a management check for Sussan Ley, who’s underneath strain for her foremost rivals Angus Taylor and Andrew Hastie to dump the goal.
However she’s additionally underneath strain from moderates resembling Bragg to not merely fall in line behind the Nationals, who’ve already deserted the goal.
Requested if Ley’s management was completed if she caved to the Nationals, Bragg mentioned:
I don’t imagine that we’ll be leaving the Paris settlement. We’re not a fringe social gathering.
Requested once more if Ley can survive if the Liberals undertake the Nationals’ coverage, Bragg mentioned:
I don’t assume you’ll be able to have a fatwa on two phrases. I feel that’s too foolish for phrases, frankly. And I feel on the finish of the day, that is the worldwide normal on decarbonisation. So Australia can’t sit out of its personal worldwide normal.
Speers retains pushing Bragg on what it means if the phrases “internet zero” are dropped from the coverage fully.
You may’t have a fatwa on two phrases. I imply, it’s ridiculous. That is the worldwide normal. I imply, attempting to faux you’re not going to say two phrases is completely ridiculous.
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Liberal senator Bragg can’t see Australia leaving Paris settlement
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Andrew Bragg is repeatedly pushed on Insiders on what a call to dump internet zero and leaving the Paris settlement would imply for his personal future on the shadow frontbench.
He doesn’t assume issues will get to that time as a result of he can’t think about Australia goes to permit itself to be lumped with Azerbaijan, Iran and Syria in sitting exterior the Paris pact.
Effectively, I simply don’t imagine that that’s going to occur. I don’t assume it’s throughout the realm of the potential.
Liberal senator Andrew Bragg. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
Host David Speers asks once more if Bragg would stop the frontbench if the social gathering dumped internet zero and deserted Paris.
Effectively, positive, however I don’t think about we’ll ever go away Paris. We’re not fringe dwellers. Most Australians need us to play our honest position when it comes to discount, so I simply don’t assume we’re going to be leaving the Paris settlement.
(A fast level of clarification right here: There isn’t any severe speak {that a} future Coalition authorities would pull Australia out of the Paris settlement, the worldwide treaty that goals to restrict international warming to 1.5C. Even the Nationals – who’re dumping internet zero – say they’re dedicated to Paris.)
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Liberals should ‘preserve a dedication to do a greater job on internet zero’ – Bragg
The Liberal senator Andrew Bragg is up on ABC Insiders forward of a crunch week of conferences to find out the Coalition’s place on internet zero emissions.
The shadow housing minister is amongst a gaggle of reasonable Liberals preventing to salvage the social gathering’s dedication to the local weather goal, as conservatives push Sussan Ley to dump the coverage fully.
Bragg is requested to answer his colleague Sarah Henderson’s insistence that the social gathering ought to abandon internet zero fully.
Unsurprisingly, he disagrees:
The Australian individuals are frightened about local weather change and so are we, and that’s why I’d have thought that essentially the most cheap place right here can be to remain in [the] Paris [agreement], preserve a dedication to do a greater job on internet zero and preserve a aim, as a result of I feel if in case you have something lower than that, then you’re giving up on the concept that you’ll try to scale back emissions for future generations and in any case, we’re the trustees for future generations.
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Greens condemn Sydney neo-Nazi rally
The NSW Greens have known as for a brand new strategy from NSW police and the premier, Chris Minns, after a neo-Nazi rally overtly concentrating on Jewish individuals was allowed to go forward in Sydney on Saturday morning.
Greens MP Sue Higginson mentioned on Saturday:
The Greens abhor antisemitism and racism and I used to be sickened to see neo-Nazis exterior the NSW parliament at this time. The Greens condemn the actions and the rhetoric of those wicked racists. The Jewish group and folks of color in our state shouldn’t be subjected to this on our streets or information feeds.
NSW Greens MP Sue Higginson. {Photograph}: Dan Himbrechts/AAP
Higginson mentioned harder legal guidelines on protests wouldn’t work this time, and that Minns “must cope with the precise subject”.
It’s time to arrange a taskforce to work with the NSW police engagement and hate crime unit and the counter-terrorism command, and cope with the rise of the far proper and racism on this state head on.
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Good morning and welcome to our reside protection of the goings-on this Sunday 9 November.
Princess Anne, sister to King Charles, touched down in Australia on Saturday for a royal go to.
Anne arrived in Sydney and laid a wreath at a memorial service. She is predicted to attend Remembrance Day companies and centenary occasions in Sydney and Brisbane.
Her go to comes lower than a fortnight after the king stripped their brother Andrew of his title of prince.
The NSW Greens have condemned a neo-Nazi rally concentrating on Jewish individuals held in Sydney yesterday, which was allowed to go forward exterior NSW parliament.
The Greens have known as for a brand new strategy from NSW police and the premier within the wake of the occasion.
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