Protest at Mardi Gras ‘most likely fairly customary’, NSW premier says
Chris Minns, mentioned it’s “a bit unusual” that he was the primary NSW premier to march within the Mardi Gras parade on the weekend, “provided that it [has been] a fixture on the calendar for many years”.
Talking to ABC Information Breakfast, Minns mentioned a pro-Palestine protest that passed off throughout the march on Saturday “wasn’t an excessive amount of of a giant deal on the night time”.
He mentioned:
Look, lots has been manufactured from it, however to be sincere, it wasn’t an excessive amount of of a giant deal on the night time. I imply, there was some colored flares that went off, and I mentioned yesterday, I assumed that that was truly a part of Mardi Gras. So I don’t suppose that it disrupted me or the march an excessive amount of. Just a little little bit of protest at Mardi Gras might be fairly customary, so not the tip of the world.
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Push to take away children from emergency lodge care in New South Wales
The variety of foster youngsters residing in emergency lodging in NSW has fallen because the state authorities works to deliver a “spiralling” safety system below management, AAP studies.
The NSW Division of Communities and Justice created a specialist staff in November 2023 to assist shift youngsters from emergency lodging – equivalent to accommodations and motels – to extra everlasting preparations.
In November, there have been 506 youngsters in emergency preparations however as of February the determine had dropped to 435.
The division can be working to cut back reliance on various care preparations, the place for-profit labour rent corporations present workers to oversee youngsters. The usage of these personal suppliers has dropped 42%, from 139 youngsters in various care in November to 80 in February.
State households minister Kate Washington mentioned she had made it clear to the division and child-protection sector that emergency preparations weren’t acceptable for long-term care:
We need to see youngsters in secure and loving properties with individuals who care about them, not in a lodge or motel with rotating shift staff who may by no means see the kid once more.
King Charles ought to attend NRL grand remaining, NSW premier suggests
Chris Minns is already making the case for King Charles to go to Sydney, if he visits Australia later this yr.
In a single day, Anthony Albanese mentioned his authorities was in talks with the states and territories “on choices for a attainable royal go to” later this yr. You’ll be able to learn extra from Daniel Hurst earlier within the weblog right here.
Talking to ABC Information Breakfast, Minns mentioned:
I believe he can be warmly welcomed in New South Wales and Sydney and it’s the most lovely metropolis on earth. I’d let the attractive city do the speaking for me. Additionally we have now the grand remaining coming in October, so perhaps he might flip as much as the rugby league grand remaining – I doubt he has been to a sport in New South Wales. That might be a giant alternative for us as nicely.
Minns additionally instructed Dawn: “I imply, this is among the biggest cities on earth and in case you don’t come to Sydney then nobody will imagine that you just got here to Australia.”
And thus, the state spruiking begins.
‘Change must be made’ on NSW police insurance policies and procedures, Minns says
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, has been making the breakfast TV rounds this morning and commented on the unbiased inquiry into NSW police insurance policies and procedures, following the killing of Luke Davies and Jesse Baird allegedly by a serving police officer.
He instructed 9’s Immediately Present:
… we all know change must be made. I really feel so desperately sorry for the household and mates of Luke and Jesse.
Requested if he would again requires police-issued weapons to be put in with GPS trackers, Minns mentioned he would take into account all suggestions from the evaluation.
He instructed Seven’s Dawn:
I’ve to look at how ubiquitous these GPS trackers are on police tools, whether or not they’re obtainable in each police automotive or on each police officer.
We are going to have a look at [the recommendations] actually intently.
– with AAP
Folks on low incomes turning into severely unwell on account of heatwaves, new survey finds
80% of individuals on low incomes report turning into severely unwell due to heatwaves, together with greater than 90% of First Nations communities, in keeping with new analysis from the Australian Council of Social Service.
Acoss CEO Cassandra Goldie instructed ABC Information Breakfast round 15% of these individuals are in search of medical consideration and coping with extreme well being impacts.
General, heatwaves are literally 80% of utmost climate hospitalisations, not floods … It’s very severe, and it’s significantly affecting individuals on decrease incomes.
Many individuals on decrease incomes reside in areas which are hotter already – generally as much as 2% hotter than extra rich areas the place you reside – after which in case you’re a renter, you don’t have the identical management over your property, and so we actually want now these minimal vitality effectivity requirements introduced in throughout rental properties, in order that they’re of fine customary and the low-cost financing for landlords to do the retrofitting – that vitality effectivity, photo voltaic panels, and electrification.
We’re nowhere close to the place we needs to be right now.
The analysis concerned a survey of 1,007 individuals throughout Australia, carried out by Acoss in partnership with First Nations Clear Vitality Community.
Australia should reinstate funding to UNRWA as ‘naked minimal’, Save the Kids says
Save the Kids Australia is asking on the federal authorities to right away reinstate suspended funding to UNRWA, or it will “danger permitting the collapse of a crucial lifeline to greater than 1,000,000 youngsters in Gaza who’re deeply traumatised and at imminent danger of hunger”.
In an announcement, Save the Kids mentioned it and different NGOs are doing “every thing they will to assist youngsters and households in Gaza” however “it will be inconceivable for some other organisation or UN company to switch UNRWA”.
Save the Kids Australia’s CEO, Mat Tinkler, mentioned that by persevering with to withhold funding from UNRWA, Australia and different donors “have successfully eliminated the crumbs that Gaza’s youngsters are surviving on”.
Permitting the collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza by refusing to revive funding to UNRWA throughout one of many worst humanitarian crises in fashionable historical past dangers the deaths of many extra youngsters on this horrific struggle.
The International Minister [Penny Wong] has publicly acknowledged that the one approach to cease youngsters from ravenous to loss of life in Gaza is to renew funding to UNRWA. But the Australian Authorities has not articulated a transparent pathway ahead that may enable funding to be restored, regardless of UNRWA warning it can quickly should stop its lifesaving work.
Reinstating the suspended funding is the naked minimal Australia needs to be doing. The magnitude of this disaster requires Australia to take pressing motion to assist stop additional widespread struggling and loss of life, by rising its funding to organisations working in Gaza to avoid wasting lives, together with UNRWA and Worldwide NGOs. The clock is ticking, and quick.
Marles assured Aukus will ‘benefit from the assist of any future American authorities’
Transferring to worldwide issues, Richard Marles was requested whether or not Aukus remains to be attainable if Donald Trump wins the subsequent US election.
He answered with a transparent “sure” and mentioned:
And the rationale I say that’s as a result of while you have a look at the assist throughout the political spectrum in the US, for Australia [and for Aukus specifically], it’s there and we noticed that on show on the finish of final yr when laws handed by means of the US Congress with the assist of the complete spectrum of American politics.
Host Sally Sara famous there was some pushback. Marles continued:
I truly suppose while you sit again and take a look at it, it was fulsome assist throughout the political spectrum … when it got here to the crunch, there was assist for Australia however assist for the Aukus preparations throughout the spectrum, and that does give us a way of confidence that it doesn’t matter what the result’s within the presidential election on the finish of this yr, Aukus goes to benefit from the assist of any future American authorities.
Authorities’s value of residing insurance policies ‘obtained nicely’ in Dunkley, Marles says
Making the rounds this morning, the deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, additionally spoke to ABC RN and commented on the Dunkley byelection consequence.
The Liberal candidate, Nathan Conroy, obtained a swing of greater than 3% however fell wanting the 6.3% required, leaving the Labor candidate, Jodie Belyea, as the latest federal MP.
Requested what classes the federal government wanted to take from Dunkley, Marles mentioned:
We’ll undergo these leads to quite a lot of element to essentially perceive what’s being mentioned right here, and we need to study every thing we will from this consequence.
I imply, it’s a matter of historic indisputable fact that there tends to be swings towards governments in byelections, however that mentioned, we do need to perceive precisely all that’s occurred right here. In the identical breath, the truth that our major vote held up given how well-liked Peta Murphy had been as an area member, I believe says lots concerning the marketing campaign Jodie Belyea ran …
It’s clear the insurance policies we put in place round value of residing, significantly Labor’s tax cuts, have been nicely obtained, however we’ll proceed to work arduous on our value of residing points proper by means of till the subsequent election.
‘Context has modified’ since NSW lit up Opera Home to assist Israel, Minns says
ABC Information Breakfast host Michael Rowland:
You ordered the lighting up of the Sydney Opera Home sails in assist of Israel after 1,200 Israelis have been murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7. Since then, 30,000 Palestinians have died. Will you take into account lighting up the Sydney Opera Home in assist of Palestine?
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, mentioned “the context has modified”.
That is a global battle now and I don’t need to additional exacerbate or pull aside Sydney’s already fairly risky combine. I’d make the purpose that a lot of what’s going to be mentioned in New South Wales will [not] have an effect on the peace state of affairs within the Center East, however quite a lot of what might be mentioned can have an effect on peace proper right here on this state. So we should be cautious with our commentary, we have to give attention to not exacerbating neighborhood tensions or divisions, and that’s going to be the NSW authorities’s method over the approaching months.
‘Troublesome to deliver the neighborhood collectively proper now’ after iftar cancellation, Minns says
Chris Minns mentioned he can perceive the issues of Muslim and Arab communities in New South Wales about what’s taking place in Gaza.
This comes as Muslim teams determined to boycott the state iftar dinner, earlier than it was finally cancelled:
Talking to ABC Information Breakfast Minns mentioned:
I don’t fake … that there’s full unanimity on these issues. It is a very sophisticated worldwide [matter] within the Center East. We’ve received massive expat communities on both facet of that battle in New South Wales. It’s very tough to deliver the neighborhood collectively proper now. What I’d say is that my focus has received to be peace and safety on the streets of Sydney specifically, and we’ll do our greatest to advertise concord in NSW however that’s going to take a little bit of time.
Protest at Mardi Gras ‘most likely fairly customary’, NSW premier says
Chris Minns, mentioned it’s “a bit unusual” that he was the primary NSW premier to march within the Mardi Gras parade on the weekend, “provided that it [has been] a fixture on the calendar for many years”.
Talking to ABC Information Breakfast, Minns mentioned a pro-Palestine protest that passed off throughout the march on Saturday “wasn’t an excessive amount of of a giant deal on the night time”.
He mentioned:
Look, lots has been manufactured from it, however to be sincere, it wasn’t an excessive amount of of a giant deal on the night time. I imply, there was some colored flares that went off, and I mentioned yesterday, I assumed that that was truly a part of Mardi Gras. So I don’t suppose that it disrupted me or the march an excessive amount of. Just a little little bit of protest at Mardi Gras might be fairly customary, so not the tip of the world.
No tsunami menace after 6.8 magnitude earthquake off Macquarie Island
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit close to Macquarie Island in a single day. The Bureau of Meteorology mentioned there is no such thing as a tsunami menace to Australia:
Macquarie Island is uninhabited, positioned round 1,500km south-east of Tasmania.
Royal go to this yr can be ‘actually great and well-liked occasion’: Marles
Richard Marles was additionally requested a couple of potential go to from King Charles, following information the prime minister Anthony Albanese goes forward with plans for a possible go to later this yr.
Q: Do you reckon individuals care? Will there be that a lot pleasure a couple of go to if it occurs in a while this yr?
Marles instructed ABC Information Breakfast:
I believe individuals care. And also you’re proper – we’re very a lot interested by King Charles in the meanwhile when it comes to his battle with most cancers. However King Charles has an extended reference to this nation. Clearly, he went to highschool in his youth right here in Australia, and this is able to be his first go to to Australia because the King …
I believe {that a} royal go to by King Charles and Queen Camilla later within the yr can be a extremely, actually great and well-liked occasion, and I do suppose that Australians would very a lot welcome seeing King Charles in our nation later this yr.
Asean ‘fully central’ for Australia’s financial and safety future, defence minister says
The defence minister, Richard Marles, says apart from Myanmar, each Asean chief is in Melbourne prepared for the summit kicking off as we speak.
Talking to ABC Information Breakfast simply earlier, Marles was requested how a lot the rise of China can be entrance and centre of dialogue amongst leaders there.
He mentioned leaders would focus on China “within the sense that they’re a part of the worldwide panorama” however the assembly itself shouldn’t be about China.
Marles, who can be deputy prime minister, mentioned Asean shouldn’t be solely “fully central” when it comes to Australia’s financial future, but additionally central when it comes to Australia’s safety future.
The defence of Australia doesn’t imply that a lot except we have now a steady and peaceable and safe south-east Asia. And so, we really feel deeply linked each in an financial and a safety sense with Asean, and I believe that these nations really feel the identical in relation to Australia, which is why there may be such a major turnout of Asean.
The host famous that diaspora communities from nations like Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos are urging the federal government to boost human rights issues in these nations. Marles mentioned he wouldn’t “go into the small print of what’s going to be mentioned in each assembly”, however mentioned:
Australia is at all times an advocate of human rights and we do this within the conferences that we have now around the globe. And so, you might be assured that we’ll carve out our enterprise in the best way that we usually would in the middle of these conferences.
Firefighters battle blazes in Tasmania and Western Australia in a single day
A caravan park has been evacuated and residents warned to depart as a bushfire rages in Tasmania’s north-west, AAP studies.
Hearth crews have been actively responding to the blaze at Port Latta on Sunday, with authorities evacuating the Crayfish Creek caravan park and establishing an evacuee centre on the Rocky Cape neighborhood corridor.
The fireplace was inside containment strains on Sunday night time however crews would stay on website in a single day because of the danger of spot fires, Tasmania Hearth Service mentioned in an announcement.
In the meantime, lives and houses have been threatened after a bushfire in mid-west Western Australia jumped containment strains.
A bushfire emergency warning was issued on Sunday for individuals in an space bounded by Model Freeway to the west, Skipper Street to the south and Correy Street to the east in elements of Arrowsmith and Arrowsmith East in WA’s Irwin and Three Springs shires.
The alert stage was downgraded to look at and act final night time after a change in wind route.
Emergency WA mentioned the blaze had been sparked by lightning.
Three-day Asean summit kicks off as we speak
Daniel Hurst
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is because of meet the Malaysian prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, in Melbourne as we speak on the primary day of a three-day particular Asean summit.
Australia shouldn’t be a member of Asean – the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations – however the particular summit marks 50 years since Australia turned the regional grouping’s first dialogue associate. Timor-Leste, which needs to change into an Asean member, may even attend the summit.
There are a number of bilateral conferences deliberate whereas leaders are in Australia. Albanese has beforehand mentioned Anwar can be honoured as a visitor of presidency as we speak.
Albanese mentioned in an announcement issued prematurely of the three-day summit:
Australia sees Asean on the centre of a steady, peaceable, and affluent area. Strengthening our relationship ensures our shared future prosperity and safety.
Australia nonetheless planning for King Charles go to later this yr
Daniel Hurst
The Australian authorities is urgent forward with planning for a attainable go to by King Charles later this yr.
The thought doesn’t come out of the blue: it was beforehand reported that King Charles may go to Australia and New Zealand in October 2024. However these plans have been positioned unsure final month when Buckingham Palace revealed Charles had begun common therapy for most cancers.
In an announcement issued in a single day, Anthony Albanese mentioned his authorities was in talks with the states and territories “on choices for a attainable royal go to”. The prime minister mentioned:
Australia is getting ready for a attainable go to from His Majesty The King to Australia later this yr.
The King has proven his compassion for Australians affected by current pure disasters, simply as Australians have proven compassion and assist for the King following his most cancers analysis.
The King, Queen and members of the Royal Household are at all times welcome in Australia.
Charles final visited Australia in 2018, when he was the Prince of Wales, to open the Gold Coast Commonwealth Video games.
Good morning
Emily Wind
And blissful Monday – welcome to a brand new week on the Australia information liveblog. I’m Emily Wind, and I’ll be taking you thru our rolling protection as we speak.
However first, listed below are a number of the largest tales from in a single day: the Australian authorities is shifting forward with plans for a possible go to by King Charles later this yr, regardless of the King’s most cancers analysis. The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, mentioned his authorities was in talks with the states and territories “on choices for a attainable royal go to”.
In the meantime, Albanese is because of meet the Malaysian prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, in Melbourne as we speak on the primary day of a three-day particular Asean summit. We may have extra on each these tales from Daniel Hurst in a second.
Firefighters are battling two separate blazes – one at Port Latta in Tasmania’s north-west, and one at Arrowsmith in midwest Western Australia. The fireplace at Port Latta was inside containment strains however crews remained on website in a single day because of the danger of spot fires, and in WA, an emergency warning was downgraded to a watch and act final night time after a change in wind route. Extra on these from AAP shortly.
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