Homosexual conversion practices may quickly be banned throughout NSW
Tamsin Rose
Homosexual conversion practices may quickly be banned throughout New South Wales after the state authorities introduced it could introduce landmark laws to ban the “harmful and damaging” customs into the state parliament this week.
The laws would make LGBTQ+ conversion practices unlawful and is anticipated to be extensively supported throughout the parliament following commitments from both major parties and a number of cross bench members forward of the 2023 state election.
Campaigners together with impartial MP Alex Greenwich and main homosexual rights organisations welcomed the federal government’s plan.
NSW premier Chris Minns stated he had met with survivors of conversion practices and understood why the ban was necessary:
Each individual in NSW deserves to be revered for who they’re and that’s precisely what these new legal guidelines will do.
It’s insupportable that now we have a state of affairs in NSW the place youngsters may be instructed one thing is fallacious with them and that they must be fastened.
The laws would criminalise conversion practices that try to vary or suppress somebody’s sexual orientation or gender id, inflicting severe psychological or bodily hurt.
Conversion practices, that are already outlawed in a number of states, intention to suppress or change an LGBTQI individual’s sexuality primarily based on the notion that they require remedy.
New South Wales lawyer basic, Michael Daley, assured spiritual teams that the federal government did “not intend to ban the teachings of a spiritual chief or expression of a spiritual perception by sermon”.
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Western Australia police have been unable to deploy any air property within the seek for seven lacking folks at present as a result of extreme climate situation.
Police are looking for seven folks, together with 4 youngsters, who had been travelling from Boulder space to the Tjuntjuntjara Aboriginal Neighborhood.
WA police stated as quickly because the climate improvs, an air asset shall be deployed:
Right now highway circumstances are harmful, notably in relation to the route we consider the folks have taken.
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CBA restores service, apologises after in a single day outage
Commonwealth Financial institution says it has restored providers after an outage in a single day stopped clients from making funds, viewing balances, withdrawing money or utilizing its Netbank web site, AAP reviews.
Points for patrons utilizing the app started quickly after 8pm yesterday. In some cases clients couldn’t view their obtainable balances or withdraw money.
The outage was first reported on CBA’s X account at 11.21pm AEDT yesterday and all providers had been restored by 7am at present, based on CBA’s help net web page.
Debit and bank cards continued to work however funds to clients at different monetary establishments had been delayed, CBA stated in an X submit.
Australia’s largest financial institution apologised to clients for the outage in a social media submit. AAP has contacted the financial institution for remark.
Tamsin Rose
‘Historical past will keep in mind’: advocate group chief on homosexual conversion ban
The legislative change to ban homosexual conversion practices in NSW was welcomed by survivors and Equality Australia’s chief government, Anna Brown.
We stand with survivors in welcoming this invoice and we urge all MPs to grab this chance to finish these archaic and dangerous practices which have already prompted untold hurt and don’t have any place in trendy Australia.
Years from now historical past will keep in mind those that voted to place an finish to those damaging practices, saving numerous folks from a lifetime of ache and in some instances saving lives.
Conversion apply survivor and co-founder of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Id Change Efforts survivors group, Chris Csabs stated it was a “good and necessary step”.
I went by conversion practices in Sydney beginning once I was solely 16 years previous. Now we flip our consideration to advocating for the laws to be according to the survivor-led gold normal.
Tamsin Rose
‘We aren’t damaged, we don’t must be fastened’: MP Alex Greenwich on homosexual conversion ban
The invoice to ban homosexual conversion practices shall be supported by Sydney MP Alex Greenwich, who final yr launched laws that additionally would have banned the apply. He stated:
This invoice will make NSW safer for LGBTQA folks, by making it clear that we’re not damaged, we don’t must be fastened, and people who try to trigger hurt by these harmful practices are breaking the legislation.
He requested colleagues and members of the general public participating on the problem to be “conscious” of the hurt and trauma brought on by the practices.
The laws has protections for church buildings and fogeys, however most significantly protects LGBTQA+ folks from the injury that comes from attempting to vary or suppress sexuality or gender id.
Homosexual conversion practices may quickly be banned throughout NSW
Tamsin Rose
Homosexual conversion practices may quickly be banned throughout New South Wales after the state authorities introduced it could introduce landmark laws to ban the “harmful and damaging” customs into the state parliament this week.
The laws would make LGBTQ+ conversion practices unlawful and is anticipated to be extensively supported throughout the parliament following commitments from both major parties and a number of cross bench members forward of the 2023 state election.
Campaigners together with impartial MP Alex Greenwich and main homosexual rights organisations welcomed the federal government’s plan.
NSW premier Chris Minns stated he had met with survivors of conversion practices and understood why the ban was necessary:
Each individual in NSW deserves to be revered for who they’re and that’s precisely what these new legal guidelines will do.
It’s insupportable that now we have a state of affairs in NSW the place youngsters may be instructed one thing is fallacious with them and that they must be fastened.
The laws would criminalise conversion practices that try to vary or suppress somebody’s sexual orientation or gender id, inflicting severe psychological or bodily hurt.
Conversion practices, that are already outlawed in a number of states, intention to suppress or change an LGBTQI individual’s sexuality primarily based on the notion that they require remedy.
New South Wales lawyer basic, Michael Daley, assured spiritual teams that the federal government did “not intend to ban the teachings of a spiritual chief or expression of a spiritual perception by sermon”.
Caitlin Cassidy
‘Solely 42% of the eligible inhabitants within the NT accomplished 12 months 12’: Clare
Circling again to the press convention in Darwin simply earlier, asserting funding for NT faculties:
The schooling minister, Jason Clare, rightly pointed to the continuing drawback going through communities within the Northern Territory, with its public faculties among the many most underfunded within the nation:
If we’re severe about closing the hole … then that is what it’s about. It’s about investing in schooling … and we tie this funding to the form of issues which are going to assist youngsters who fall behind at college to catch up and sustain and have extra youngsters end highschool after which go on to Tafe or college.
Negotiations for bilateral college funding agreements come similtaneously a serious evaluation into increased schooling – the Universities Accord – which desires to boost the proportion of younger folks with tertiary levels to 80% by 2050.
To take action, lagging retention charges in highschool will must be addressed, and the image isn’t the identical throughout the board. Solely 42% of the eligible inhabitants within the Northern Territory accomplished 12 months 12 in 2022 and solely 53% in Tasmania, in contrast with 71% in NSW, 83% in Victoria and 89% in South Australia.
The 80% goal would require about 95% of scholars to finish highschool, Save our Faculties tasks. That begins with full funding.
Henry Belot
US Coast Guard base in Hobart an ‘rising prospect’: Tasmanian authorities
The Tasmanian authorities has acknowledged the “rising prospect” of the US Coast Guard basing a vessel in Hobart.
Hobart has marketed itself internationally as a gateway to Antarctica and a US Coast Guard icebreaking vessel docked on the port for 4 days in December.
A doc ready by the Tasmanian division of state progress, obtained below freedom of data and first reported by the ABC, raises the prospect of a everlasting US presence whereas making the case for a gasoline barge.
The doc additionally acknowledges different nations are unlikely to launch their Antarctic operations from Hobart till additional funding within the port and refuelling amenities are made:
Consideration of the necessity for a gasoline barge to service the maritime trade in Hobart has as soon as once more come into focus with the arrival of the brand new Australian icebreaker, RSV Nuyina, latest curiosity from the Antarctic cruise trade, bunkering alternatives for naval vessels and the rising prospect of Hobart as a house port for the US Coastguard.
Added to this, the premier just lately led a commerce mission to South Korea and Japan, the place he heard first-hand that having a gasoline barge with the required fuels was a minimal requirement for them earlier than they’d think about using Hobart as a port for his or her Antarctic vessels.
Paul Karp
Peter Dutton says fees towards former immigration detention detainees ‘received’t maintain’
The opposition chief, Peter Dutton, has spoken to reporters in Kirrawee, within the Liberal-held seat of Hughes.
Dutton stated that because of invalid visas being issued to the folks launched from immigration detention as a result of excessive courtroom determination on indefinite detention, fees towards 10 of them for breach of circumstances “received’t maintain”.
Dutton stated:
So this can be a authorities that goes from practice wreck to coach wreck … Minister [Andrew] Giles and others shouldn’t be of their jobs. How the prime minister can hold Mr Giles in his job when he’s launched 149 hardcore criminals into the neighborhood on the fallacious visas is past the common Australian’s comprehension.
The 149 folks had been launched as a result of excessive courtroom’s determination that indefinite immigration detention is illegal the place it isn’t sensible to deport the non-citizen. All of them had served their prison sentences earlier than they had been taken into immigration detention.
As we introduced you simply earlier, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has stated:
There was a technical situation, that technical situation has been resolved. The entire visas have been issued in an acceptable means. It is a technical situation that goes again to 2013.
Earlier, Dutton had rejected this – noting that the Bridging Visa Rs had been granted below the Albanese authorities.
Albanese stated “the excessive courtroom decided – not my authorities”. He stated the Coalition accepted in moments of candour that “no authorities is above the legislation”.
‘Now we have an settlement’: PM on Aukus submarine take care of US
Taking questions from reporters, Anthony Albanese is requested whether or not Australia’s place on nuclear submarines has modified, after the USA has scaled down its manufacturing of Virginia-class vessels from two to at least one.
Albanese responded: “No. Our plans are very clear going ahead.”
Now we have an settlement that was reached with the USA and the UK. That laws went by the US Congress final yr. That was a product of a variety of exhausting work.
Right here is extra on this situation from Amy Remeikis:
Caitlin Cassidy
‘I need this cash to glow at the hours of darkness’: Jason Clare on NT faculties funding
The schooling minister is below growing strain to ditch a Morrison-era loophole that enables states and territories to artificially inflate about 4% of their college funding share on non-school expenditures like capital depreciation, transport and childcare.
Trevor Cobbold, the convener of Save our Faculties, instructed Guardian Australia this morning that retaining the 4% in bilateral agreements could be “disastrous” for public faculties and deprived college students. The commonwealth was opaque over the way forward for the clause in its NT and WA agreements.
Quizzed on whether or not Territorians may anticipate the clause to be eliminated throughout a press convention simply now, Jason Clare replied:
That’s not a part of this settlement. I’ve stated we’ll have a look at that with all of the states and territories as a part of negotiating the following Nationwide Faculty Reform Settlement (NSRA), as a part of ensuring we construct a greater and fairer schooling system …
I need this cash to glow at the hours of darkness. I need mother and father and lecturers to have the ability to hint this cash and see it go into the colleges to verify it has the utmost affect.
Learn extra concerning the loophole right here:
‘The excessive courtroom decided, not my authorities’: PM on immigration detainees
Responding to a separate query on whether or not the federal government has “bungled” its dealing with of the NZYQ immigration detainees, Anthony Albanese stated:
Let’s be clear – the excessive courtroom decided. The excessive courtroom decided, not my authorities, and because the opposition have stated in moments of candour in between their moments of attempting to unfold concern, they’ve acknowledged that no authorities is above the legislation. My authorities isn’t and no authorities is.
Reporter: Simply on the immigration situation at present, how can Australians trust in immigration minister Andrew Giles after the newest fumble on reissuing visas?
Prime minister Anthony Albanese:
There was a technical situation [and] that technical situation has been resolved. The entire visas have been issued in an acceptable means. It is a technical situation that goes again to 2013.
Here’s what this query is in relation to:
‘We stay in a world now the place it’s worthwhile to end college’: Jason Clare
Talking concerning the schooling funding, Jason Clare stated he desires it to “glow at the hours of darkness” – in different phrases, for folks to have the ability to see straight the place it’s going and what it’s doing.
He flagged catch-up tutoring as a precedence space for funding:
I need this cash to glow at the hours of darkness. I need mother and father and lecturers to have the ability to hint this cash and see it go into the colleges to verify it has the utmost affect.
[Chief minister Eva Lawler] talked a second in the past about catch-up tutoring. This is without doubt one of the issues we need to make investments this cash in. We all know that if little youngsters fall behind once they’re in first-class, second class, third class, just one in 5 of them catch up by 12 months 9. In the event you’re an Indigenous child, it’s about 1 in 17. So catch-up tutoring is without doubt one of the issues that we all know works, that in the event you get a baby out of a category room of 30 into a category of about 3, they will study as a lot in six months as you’d study in 12, in order that they catch up and it helps them to maintain up and end college.
We stay in a world now the place it’s worthwhile to end college as a result of many of the jobs require to complete college after which go to TAFE or uni. They’re the form of issues we need to tie this cash to.
‘We don’t need to depart any little one behind’: PM on NT faculties funding
We’ll go now to Darwin, the place the schooling minister, Jason Clare, has been talking concerning the schooling deal struck for the Northern Territory:
Chatting with the media, Clare stated:
If we’re severe about closing the hole in alternative between black Australians and white Australians, if we’re severe about closing the hole between youngsters from poor households and rich households, then that is what it’s about. It’s about investing in schooling, giving the chance to youngsters wherever they develop up, whoever their mother and father are, regardless of the color of their pores and skin, the identical alternative in life. And that’s what this deal at its core is all about.
Chief minister of the NT, Eva Lawler, stated she had labored in schooling for greater than 40 years and this can be a “historic day”, affecting youngsters “means into the longer term”.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, stated when one little one will get left behind on this nation, “that may be a drag on them and their life but it surely is also a drag on our nation”.
Which is why we don’t need to depart any little one behind.
Albanese stated knowledge reveals primarily one in 5 Northern Territory youngsters had been being left behind on account of underfunding, which is what this settlement goals to deal with.
Inquiry hears Australia’s meals manufacturing in danger
Jonathan Barrett
Australia is susceptible to turning into a internet importer of recent meals as youthful farmers exit the trade due partly to pricing pressures utilized by the main supermarkets, a Senate inquiry heard this morning.
Invoice Bulmer, a farmer with 50 years of expertise and chair of the Ausveg trade affiliation, instructed the inquiry into grocery store practices that the trade was at a “low level of despair” amid floods, fires and low produce pricing.
I’d hate to see in a decade’s time {that a} nation that produces a lot meals turned a internet importer of recent meals.
If we hold happening the trail that we’re going we’re not going to carry or entice any younger farmers on this trade.
The Senate inquiry is designed to research how huge supermarkets set costs and use their market energy when coping with suppliers, with the horticultural sector closely represented within the preliminary hearings.
Fruit and vegetable farmers have persistently instructed the inquiry that they’re at a drawback when negotiating costs with main retailers Coles and Woolworths due to the perishable nature of their produce.
Ausveg’s Lucy Gregg instructed the inquiry:
We not solely have a really quick shelf life, however we even have a really quick harvest life. Child spinach is just child spinach for a day or two. In the event you don’t take the value, what do you do together with your product?
The inquiry is contemplating mechanisms that may very well be launched to create a extra level-playing subject in negotiations.
The most important retailers have defended their enterprise practices in submissions to the inquiry, arguing that the negotiations course of enable for farmers and supermarkets to shortly reply to the extremely variable nature of fruit and vegetable volumes.
The design for Clive Palmer’s Titanic II comes greater than a decade after he first introduced the undertaking in April 2012.
In 2018 Palmer reignited plans for the undertaking – six years after first asserting the duplicate, and three years after having to droop work on account of cash troubles.
Kate Lyons had the story on the time, for some background on how we bought right here:
Clive Palmer unveils design of his Titanic recreation undertaking
Catie McLeod
Mining magnate Clive Palmer is unveiling the design of his Titanic II undertaking and vowing to construct a vessel “far, far superior than the unique Titanic” at a media occasion at Sydney’s Opera Home.
Palmer is asserting his imaginative and prescient to construct a to-scale duplicate of the doomed ocean liner will lastly come to life after years of planning setbacks.
In a media launch handed out to journalists earlier than the occasion, Palmer says he’s bringing in a few of “the most effective designers on the planet for cruise transport” and that the Titanic II shall be “the ship of affection and the final word in type and luxurious”.
Whereas there’s no actual ship in sight, journalists watched a five-minute video on the TV screens arrange within the room displaying detailed artist impressions of what each ground of the Titanic II will appear to be.
Set to classical music and that includes CGI animations of individuals wearing interval apparel from the early 1900s, the video detailed the technical specs of the ship and defined its options, which embrace a “Lifeboat Overview”.
Palmer says development will begin early subsequent yr and with the ship’s maiden voyage over the long-lasting transatlantic crossing from Southampton to New York scheduled for June 2027.
Addressing journalists, Palmer stated:
The love story of Rose and Jack is one which touches the hearts of all people.
The Titanic we hope can act as a catalyst to reinvigorate a few of these values that we’ve bought, which is able to hopefully result in peace.