Suspicious fireplace at Melbourne synagogue
Victoria police are investigating a suspicious fireplace at a synagogue on Glen Eira Avenue in Ripponlea.
It’s understood the blaze began about 4.10am this morning. Nobody was injured however the synagogue sustained vital harm, police stated.
A criminal offense scene has been established and an investigation is beneath method.
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PM to announce $21m for WA essential minerals tasks
Josh Butler
Anthony Albanese will use his newest journey to Western Australia to announce $21 million in funding for essential minerals tasks, simply days after WA’s authorities helped sink the federal nature constructive legal guidelines over concern about its influence on mining and trade.
The prime minister can be in Perth for a three-day go to, with the primary day being led with a brand new pledge beneath the federal government’s signature Future Made In Australia coverage. The money, for 5 essential minerals tasks, will create as much as 400 new jobs, authorities sources claimed.
The funded tasks embody $3.8 million for a vanadium venture in Brisbane, $3 million for a graphite refinery in Townsville, $7.4 million for a feasibility examine right into a venture in Perth, and $5 million for a plant in South Australia.
“A strong resources sector means a healthy economy and good, well paid local jobs,” Albanese stated, forward of the announcement.
My Authorities is dedicated to supporting the rising essential minerals and uncommon earths trade.
WA is seen as a vital state for Labor’s bid to retain majority authorities on the coming federal election. Albanese typically boasts of how typically he has flown west to go to Perth and mining areas.
Guardian Australia understands Albanese intervened to veto a deal on the character constructive laws, which might have arrange a federal environmental safety company, after lobbying from WA premier Roger Prepare dinner and miners.
Burke says authorities dashing up humanitarian visas for Palestinians
Mostafa Rachwani
Immigration minister Tony Burke has confirmed that “a bit less than half” the Palestinians who arrived in Australia on vacationer visas have been transferred over to humanitarian visas.
Burke was on SBS Arabic final night time, the place he stated the cohort have been moved from the 12 month vacationer visa they arrived on to the 786 Short-term (Humanitarian Concern) visa, which is legitimate for 3 years.
And may I say they’ve been among the happiest conferences I’ve ever had.
The announcement represents a shift within the authorities’s method to the cohort of Palestinian refugees who arrived in Australia following the October 7 Hamas assault, and Israels subsequent bombardment of Gaza.
Till October, the federal government had solely reportedly granted humanitarian visas to only twelve households.
Burke stated the federal government had begun to hurry up its processing occasions for the arrivals, however topic to the “normal security checks.”
Persons are continually apprehensive about their 12 month visas, what occurs when it runs out. Ultimately I’m transferring everybody from the safety pathway to the humanitarian pathway, topic to the conventional safety checks.
Now we have acquired by means of a bit lower than half the caseload in the intervening time and we at the moment are beginning to pace that up.
Everybody goes by means of all of the ASIO checks, and the checks you’d need individuals to undergo.
We need to provide you with some safety, we need to put you on the identical visa the Ukrainians have been on, with an understanding that throughout the lifetime of that visa, we’ll decide about resolving your standing.
Suspicious fireplace at Melbourne synagogue
Victoria police are investigating a suspicious fireplace at a synagogue on Glen Eira Avenue in Ripponlea.
It’s understood the blaze began about 4.10am this morning. Nobody was injured however the synagogue sustained vital harm, police stated.
A criminal offense scene has been established and an investigation is beneath method.
Good morning
Rafqa Touma
And welcome to the dwell weblog.
Final night time immigration minister Tony Burke instructed SBS Arabic that Palestinians who arrived in Australia on the 12-month vacationer visas have been transferred over to three-year humanitarian visas. Burke stated the federal government had begun to hurry up its processing occasions for the arrivals, topic to regular safety checks.
In the meantime, the consultancy agency McKinsey was paid $1.6m over 11 weeks to “inform” and “guide” Australian vitality and local weather coverage, regardless of its work for the world’s greatest fossil gas firms.
And prime minister Anthony Albanese is en path to Western Australia, the place he’ll announce $21m in funding for essential minerals tasks, simply days after WA’s authorities helped sink the federal nature constructive legal guidelines over concern about their influence on mining and trade.
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