Australia information dwell: O’Neil says authorities ‘doing what it can’ to assist 15,000 Australians in Lebanon as evacuation flights start

Murray Watt stated the Australian authorities needs to see the “immediate de-escalation of the conflict in and around Lebanon” and for this to be “resolved diplomatically”.

We now have already seen far too many civilians killed within the battle round Gaza. We’re deeply involved in regards to the threat of extra civilian deaths in and round Lebanon, and this wants an effort from the worldwide neighborhood to carry this to an finish, to have a right away ceasefire, and Australia could be very keen to play our half in attending to that time.

Patricia Karvelas requested if Israel has a proper to reply to the assault in a single day? Watt stated “we certainly acknowledge that there have been hostilities inflicted on Israel for some time now”, and continued:

That is it is a scenario [where] we wish to work with Israel and neighbouring international locations to carry to an finish – It’s not in anybody’s curiosity, whether or not it’s Israel or its neighbouring international locations, for this battle to go on, to proceed to see civilian deaths on each side of the border, and we’re decided to work with the worldwide neighborhood to carry that to an finish.

The minister for employment and office relations, Murray Watt, has been chatting with ABC RN in regards to the Iranian missile assault on Israel in a single day.

The host, Patricia Karvelas, stated that Australia is looking for a ceasefire however america has been offering Israel assist – and requested the place the Australian authorities stands? Watt stated that he “wouldn’t put it that way”.

That is clearly an especially harmful escalation that we’ve seen in a single day, and Australia unreservedly condemns Iran’s actions in what it’s accomplished in a single day. However I feel what we’ve seen in latest days is that not simply Australia, however the world neighborhood typically, has been very clear in our requires de-escalation within the area.

You’ll have seen just a few days in the past, 21 international locations from all over the world – together with Australia, the US, the UK, the EU and plenty of different international locations – referred to as for a right away ceasefire in and round Lebanon.

So our place, I feel, is definitely per these of like-minded international locations in lots of elements of the world.

Heatwave persevering with in Prime Finish of NT

In additional climate information, the heatwave is continuous within the Prime Finish, with scorching days and heat, humid nights.

Warmth within the Daly district peaked yesterday and is anticipated to peak once more right this moment, reaching excessive heatwave circumstances.

The heatwave is anticipated to proceed via the weekend.

Extreme climate warning for south-west WA

A extreme climate warning has been issued for giant elements of southwest Western Australia.

Damaging wind gusts as much as 100km/h are forecast as a chilly entrance strikes via, and regionally harmful gusts as much as 125km/h are attainable in regards to the coast later this night.

Australian Jewry chief says deliberate 7 October rallies are ‘callous’ and ‘shameful’

Alex Ryvchin, the co-chief govt officer of the Government Council of Australian Jewry, has spoken with ABC Information Breakfast after the Iranian missile assault on Israel in a single day.

He was requested about deliberate protests on 6 and seven October this weekend (7 October is a public vacation in NSW), and whether or not folks be capable to peacefully rally and maintain vigils to mark the anniversary?

Ryvchin stated “we have never opposed the right of anyone to gather peacefully” however “we’re talking about October 7”.

So for the pro-Palestinian folks to wish to collect on that day, which is a few week earlier than Israel’s response even started, it’s callous, it’s heartless and it’s shameful. And I ask these folks – present some concern for peace-loving Australians who simply wish to collect on October 7 and mourn and keep in mind those that had been needlessly massacred.

Amal Naser, spokesperson for the Palestine Motion Group, stated yesterday: “We intend on defending our right to protest and are determined to continue standing for justice for Palestine and Lebanon.”

About 1,200 folks, principally civilians, died on 7 October when Hamas attacked Israel. Greater than 41,000 folks have been killed in Gaza, principally civilians, one in 55 of the pre-war inhabitants. Greater than 700 folks have died in Lebanon within the latest wave of Israeli assaults.

The origins of a human bone positioned at a Western Australian seashore is being investigated by police.

A member of the general public positioned the bone at Cottesloe Seashore in Perth on Saturday. It has since undergone evaluation by a pathologist who decided it to be human.

Western Australia police stated in an announcement that additional forensic testing will happen to “match the bone to any outstanding missing persons”.

The kids’s commissioner stated that in relation to the position of the media on this concern, what she has noticed is “a lack of interest in the solutions to the problem”.

Anne Hollonds informed ABC RN:

There’s loads of reporting of obvious youth crime, you understand, numerous headlines like ‘teenage dirt bags’ and ‘kindergarten crims’. We all know crime sells… However there’s not loads of digging in and asking, ‘well, why are these children offending, and what can we do to prevent that?’ …

The media, in simply reporting it time and again, in displaying all of the footage that we get from CCTV and dashcam and physique cam and iPhones now, that’s type of creating increasingly more concern – which actually is simply escalating the stress on the politicians to be robust.

Many police and frontline workers aren’t educated to care for kids, Hollonds says

Anne Hollonds was requested about her proposal to construct a succesful and child-specialised workforce – and the way this might occur amid broader workforce points?

She stated it was the “failures of support and training” for frontline personnel that “came up again and again” in submissions and roundtables and interviews whereas compiling the report.

We see it within the police watch homes, for instance … These police don’t have any coaching to look after any youngsters, not to mention youngsters with severe disabilities and psychological well being points, and who’re traumatised.

So it’s not truthful on these frontline workers, by the way in which – it’s not truthful on them to place them in these positions, however principally I’m fearful in regards to the youngsters, as a result of it’s not truthful on them. We are able to’t anticipate them to get the care they want if we don’t assist the workers.

Q: Is there any urge for food from the federal authorities to coordinate such an method with the states to youth justice?

Anne Hollonds stated “so far, I haven’t had that indication”, however she has had indication from the state’s they’d be keen to work collectively on this:

I’m hoping that we could have reached a tipping level whereby the horrendous failures in these programs that we’ve seen – similar to the 2 tragic suicides of kids in youth detention just lately, inside lower than a 12 months, and different horrific tales – I’m hoping that there’s an urge for food for pondering ‘well, we need to take a different approach’. We have to pivot in direction of the options that can deal with addressing the underlying causes, as a result of simply locking up these youngsters just isn’t a profitable technique in any respect for anyone.

Youngsters’s commissioner to handle Nationwide Press Membership right this moment on youth justice

The kids’s commissioner, Anne Hollonds, is because of deal with the Nationwide Press Membership right this moment on a brand new report calling for an overhaul of Australia’s method to baby justice.

The report has been developed over 12 months and comprises 24 suggestions, specializing in elevating baby wellbeing to a nationwide precedence, coordinating motion on baby justice reform throughout Australia’s federation, and guaranteeing reform is predicated on proof and human rights.

She spoke with ABC RN earlier this morning forward of the speech, and was requested a few marketing campaign slogan from the Queensland opposition – “adult crime, adult time” – on the centre of the Liberal Nationwide occasion’s youth justice marketing campaign.

Is her method on the polar reverse of that? Hollonds responded:

That type of slogan actually is making an attempt to point out that ‘we’re actually robust up right here, we’re going to be robust on crime’. And what our report exhibits is that that method, that conventional method on this nation, hasn’t labored and and that principally it’s evident that we’ve misunderstood the character of the issue we’re making an attempt to resolve. We all know that toughening up the justice system doesn’t truly stop crime by youngsters.

Hollonds argued there may be at present “no accountability and no national coordination” on how the wellbeing of kids is sorted within the nation.

The concept that the states and territories may repair this on their very own has been misguided, we have to work collectively on it.

‘Absolutely shocking allegations there’: O’Neil on ABC racism evaluate

Claire O’Neil was additionally requested a few report commissioned and launched by the ABC, which spoke to 120 present and former workers – and all however one stated they’d personally skilled racism on the nationwide broadcaster.

The ABC’s managing director, David Anderson, has apologised to ABC workers who skilled racism on the public broadcaster:

O’Neil informed Dawn:

I used to be actually shocked by this. I used to be actually shocked. We now have actually excessive requirements for our nationwide broadcaster and that’s applicable … [The ABC] is supposed to symbolize all Australians and to listen to this I used to be genuinely shocked.

I’m glad that they’ve made this report public and the CEO has made that public [apology] to all workers. A few of these issues in that report was horrendous studying and never a lot enjoyable for folks on the finish of that conduct. Nice that it’s public, however completely stunning allegations there.

Hume requested about deliberate pro-Palestine protests

As Mostafa Rachwani reported yesterday, the organisers behind the weekly pro-Palestine protests have criticised New South Wales police for his or her determination to use to the state’s supreme court docket to stop two rallies from going forward on 6 and seven October.

Amal Naser, spokesperson for the Palestine Motion Group, stated the group “unequivocally opposes this attempt to silence protests” and that the applying was an “attack on fundamental democratic rights”.

The shadow finance minister, Jane Hume, was additionally up on Dawn this morning and commented on these protests deliberate for the weekend:

My largest concern for Monday for protest – that may be a essential day for many individuals in Australia, notably the Jewish neighborhood who shall be acknowledging the anniversary of the biggest lack of Jewish folks… We might anticipate police shall be doing the whole lot that they’ll to be sure that their [is] peace on our streets…

The housing minister, Clare O’Neil, spoke with Dawn simply earlier in regards to the Iranian missile assault on Israel – which she described as a “hugely concerning development” that the Australian authorities “utterly condemn[s]”.

Requested what number of Australians had been nonetheless within the area, O’Neil stated:

There [are] roughly 15,000 [Australian’s] nonetheless in Lebanon and the Australian authorities is doing what it might probably to help these folks. Clearly to these folks in Lebanon it isn’t a protected place so that you can be. Please get on industrial flights in case you have these openings accessible.

O’Neil stated there was a flight final night time organised by the federal government to assist Australians leaving the area, and there could be one other one tonight.

Emily Wind right here, signing on for running a blog duties. Because of Martin for kicking issues off for us. I’ll be with you for a lot of the day, as we carry you our rolling protection this Wednesday.

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Customers nonetheless annoyed regardless of falling telco complaints

Complaints about telcos are slowly falling, however fed-up prospects nonetheless deserve higher service and quicker fixes, the business watchdog says.

As AAP studies, the Telecommunications Trade Ombudsman reported a near-15% drop in complaints in 2023/24 in comparison with the earlier 12 months, with extra points needing escalation settled in a well timed method.

Energy gamers Telstra and Optus accounted for round two-thirds of all complaints, though Optus recorded the biggest lower of any of the ten largest suppliers.

Optus’s decline in complaints got here regardless of its monstrous service outage in November 2023 that affected round 10 million folks, with prospects looking for cures starting from reconnection to a private apology.

Ombudsman Cynthia Gebert stated the character of the complaints nonetheless being acquired confirmed an unhappy buyer base that ought to anticipate higher.

A supplier both delaying or failing to take motion featured in 63% of all complaints, whereas disputes about service and tools charges had been concerned in one-third. Gebert:

The info exhibits shoppers stay annoyed by the identical points: poor customer support, delays in fixing issues, and repair and tools charges.

Can (and will) authorities take motion in opposition to protesters who wave the Hezbollah flag?

Peter Dutton needs parliament urgently recalled to debate new anti-terror legal guidelines within the mild of the Hezbollah flag-waving controversy on the weekend.

However is he fanning the flames of division as Labor says?

Stand up to hurry with our explainer:

The Australian Competitors and Client Fee is suing Coles and Woolworths over allegations they misled customers by providing “illusory” reductions on a whole bunch of merchandise. It’s a follow that helps them make large income in an already overheated economic system.

Guardian Australia columnist Greg Jericho tells Matilda Boseley why he thinks firms, not shoppers, ought to be made to pay for the cost-of-living disaster.

Stronger client spending shouldn’t be an excuse for the Reserve Financial institution to probably elevate rates of interest forward of Christmas, retail our bodies have warned.

AAP studies that Australian Retailers Affiliation chief govt Paul Zahra stated the Reserve Financial institution wants to supply a price lower when it meets to debate rates of interest on 5 November.

While there may be nice resilience inside retail, we all know there are a lot of companies within the sector which are doing it robust, particularly small companies. This stays certainly one of retail’s most tough years – with a continued slowdown in discretionary spend, excessive enterprise prices together with ongoing challenges.

Retail commerce figures for August revealed a 0.7% enhance for the month and three.1% for the 12 months, with hotter climate driving discretionary spending on out of doors objects in addition to eating out. The spike adopted a sluggish 0.1% rise in July.

The Nationwide Retail Affiliation interim chief govt, Lindsay Carroll, stated whereas August’s figures had been trending in the precise path, the retail sector was nonetheless struggling.

The business is on the mercy of client sentiment, that’s simply the character of retail. Enterprise house owners want each win they’ll get within the lead-up to Christmas. We’re asking our policymakers to present retailers some respiratory room to recuperate throughout this 12 months’s vacation sale season.

Good morning and welcome to our rolling information protection. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be operating via the highest in a single day tales earlier than Emily Wind takes the reins.

The organisers behind weekly pro-Palestine protests in Sydney have criticised NSW police for his or her determination to use to the state’s supreme court docket to stop two rallies from going forward this weekend. The Palestine Motion Group has submitted the required paperwork for rallies on Sunday and Monday (a public vacation in NSW). However the police say they may search to ban the marches to protect public security.

The Albanese authorities made a last-minute rejection to proposed questions on sexuality and gender variety within the upcoming 2026 census, sending bureaucrats right into a weekend scramble, new paperwork obtained by Guardian Australia beneath freedom of knowledge present. Late on Friday 23 August and into the subsequent day officers on the Australian Bureau of Statistics agreed to cancel a scheduled media briefing on Monday 26 August and the rollout of its “large-scale” check census to 50,000 households from Tuesday 27 August because of the Eleventh-hour determination.

The retailers’ peak physique has pleaded right this moment with the Reserve Financial institution to not increase charges earlier than Christmas – and think about decreasing them as a substitute – regardless of stronger-than-expected client spending. We now have extra arising on this, plus why grocery store superprofits might be fuelling inflation.