9 employees set to strike over pay from 11am at present
Amanda Meade
Journalists from the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Monetary Evaluate, the Brisbane Instances and WAtoday will down instruments at 11am at present after disaster talks yesterday did not cease a strike at 9 Leisure’s mastheads.
Rallies are deliberate exterior the newsrooms of 9 Leisure throughout the nation, the place union membership is as excessive as 90%.
The economic motion will embody the 20 journalists who travelled to Paris for the Olympic Video games and who will now have to take a seat out the opening ceremony and the opening weekend.
Administration insists its protection throughout all platforms will probably be unaffected. TV employees usually are not unionised so the broadcasting of the video games, for which 9 has the $100m broadcasting rights, shouldn’t be impacted.
The media union mentioned journalists had been taking a stand for moral journalism and wages that sustain with the price of residing.
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Home violence deaths spike however long-term development down
Violence towards girls has declined considerably up to now three many years, AAP studies, however consultants warn there may be nonetheless an extended method to go.
The newest report card from Our Watch, a number one nationwide organisation within the prevention of violence towards girls, confirmed there had been a 66% drop within the variety of girls killed by males up to now 30 years.
The variety of younger males supporting dangerous concepts of masculinity had fallen by 13% since 2018. However the tendencies got here towards the backdrop of a rise within the variety of girls killed by males this 12 months.
Whereas the findings had been welcome, extra work wanted to be performed, the organisation’s chief government, Patty Kinnersly, mentioned.
In a 12 months the place 42 girls have [allegedly] been killed by males’s violence, it’s tough to reconcile we’re making progress in ending this nationwide disaster.
However after we have a look at the longer-term image, we will see important reductions within the variety of girls killed by males’s violence, reductions in girls experiencing violence and enhancements in neighborhood attitudes that reject and problem this violence.
Linda Burney is requested when she realised the voice referendum wasn’t going to be a hit.
Burney mentioned she held on to hope till the final minute, however traditionally referendums had at all times relied on bipartisan assist – which was not reached – and “that made things much, much more difficult”.
I wouldn’t say it was cooked from the beginning … 6.5 million Australians voted sure, in Aboriginal communities they voted 80-90% sure, and essentially the most fabulous factor is that we’ve obtained a bunch of younger Aboriginal individuals who’ve had a fireplace lit of their stomach and they’ll take issues ahead.
Q: Will Malarndirri McCarthy, the assistant minister for Indigenous Australians, change you?
Linda Burney mentioned that was “way above [her] pay grade” however that McCarthy was a pricey good friend:
An important factor is for me to assist whoever it’s within the position and to offer them the area to have the ability to chart their very own path … Aboriginal affairs is each minister’s duty, not simply the minister for Indigenous Australians.
Burney displays on profession after resigning from politics
The outgoing minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, is now talking with ABC RN after asserting she would retire from politics.
She mentioned she would miss the camaraderie of her colleagues, the “fact you can affect lives and make the world a little bit better”, and the hundreds of First Nations folks she has met all through her profession.
Requested what she hoped her legacy will probably be, Burney replied she wished to be remembered for her “grace and integrity”.
Burney mentioned she didn’t need the voice referendum debate to show right into a “he said she said” and regardless of the result not being what she had hoped for, “we did move forward with the public discussion”.
The outgoing minister mentioned she can be “lying” if she mentioned a number of the public dialogue in the course of the debate wasn’t hurtful, however she selected to not have interaction with it as a result of the “broader objective” was extra vital.
Burney mentioned she had no regrets and noticed “such wonderful leadership in the Aboriginal community” and it was time “to give the new minister the space they need to chart their own way”.
My job is to assist that individual as a lot as I can.
MPs quizzed on ministerial reshuffle
Labor MPs are being questioned about Sunday’s ministerial reshuffle on breakfast tv this morning.
Because the prime minister introduced yesterday, he’ll unveil a reshuffled ministry on Sunday after Linda Burney and Brendan O’Connor introduced their retirement from politics:
NDIS minister Invoice Shorten made his common Friday look on the As we speak Present only a second in the past, and prompt he didn’t anticipate too many adjustments.
We are going to [have] to attend and see. I’m not anticipating loads, however having mentioned that, I assume we’ll wait and see. We are going to discover out quickly sufficient. Solely three extra sleeps.
Training minister Jason Clare was on Dawn and mentioned: “I haven’t heard anything.”
In the meantime, Liberal MP Sussan Ley, the shadow minister for abilities and coaching reverse O’Connor, wished each him and Burney effectively.
It’s completely the prime minister’s choice and when he makes it, all people finds out, together with the nation.
Highway security alert issued as fog coats Brisbane this morning
The Bureau of Meteorology has warned of fog throughout Brisbane this morning, lowering visibility and making highway circumstances harmful.
9 employees set to strike over pay from 11am at present
Amanda Meade
Journalists from the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Monetary Evaluate, the Brisbane Instances and WAtoday will down instruments at 11am at present after disaster talks yesterday did not cease a strike at 9 Leisure’s mastheads.
Rallies are deliberate exterior the newsrooms of 9 Leisure throughout the nation, the place union membership is as excessive as 90%.
The economic motion will embody the 20 journalists who travelled to Paris for the Olympic Video games and who will now have to take a seat out the opening ceremony and the opening weekend.
Administration insists its protection throughout all platforms will probably be unaffected. TV employees usually are not unionised so the broadcasting of the video games, for which 9 has the $100m broadcasting rights, shouldn’t be impacted.
The media union mentioned journalists had been taking a stand for moral journalism and wages that sustain with the price of residing.
Sarah Basford Canales
Extra on the decision to launch robodebt report’s ‘sealed’ chapter
Persevering with from our final put up: It means now the Nacc’s inquiry has ended, and not less than one AFP investigation has been finalised, the one remaining recognized investigations lie inside a particular public service taskforce investigating the actions of 16 bureaucrats.
In an replace at Senate estimates hearings in Could, the Australian public service commissioner, Gordon de Brouwer, mentioned one of many 16 folks “did not meet the threshold to issue a notice of suspected breach”. Seven closing determinations – which means a discovering – had been given and one other seven had been nonetheless underneath means.
The ultimate outcomes are anticipated to be made public within the coming months.
However the Greens’ social and authorities providers spokesperson, Penny Allman-Payne, mentioned it was now time for these pages to be revealed publicly:
The unlawful Robodebt scheme noticed hundreds of harmless folks pursued like criminals, but the members of parliament and senior division officers liable for this injustice have by no means been held accountable.
And whereas the victims of the scheme nonetheless await justice, a lot of those self same individuals are nonetheless trapped in a damaged and punitive social safety system the place aggressive debt restoration practices proceed and for-profit job suppliers can droop funds on a whim.
It’s been greater than 12 months for the reason that royal fee handed down its findings and we nonetheless don’t know who the commissioner referred for civil and prison prosecution, regardless of minister Shorten saying that preserving this info secret was “not sustainable”.
We will’t enable this to get swept underneath the carpet and misplaced to historical past. The chapter have to be unsealed and people liable for a lot demise, ache and loss should face the implications of their actions.
Sarah Basford Canales
Greens name for ‘sealed’ chapter of robodebt inquiry report back to be made public
A “sealed” chapter of the robodebt royal fee’s closing report, containing the names of people referred to integrity our bodies and the police “for civil action or criminal prosecution”, ought to be urgently made public, the Greens say.
It comes because the Australian federal police revealed on Wednesday it had finalised an investigation into allegations a witness gave false proof in a listening to. The AFP mentioned it didn’t discover “sufficient admissible evidence” that the alleged offender had meant to mislead.
The ultimate report, launched final July, concluded the robodebt scheme was “crude and cruel”, a “costly failure of public administration” and “neither fair nor legal”.
Upon the ultimate report’s launch, commissioner Catherine Holmes advisable an extra chapter “remain sealed and not be tabled with the rest of the report so as not to prejudice the conduct of any future civil action or criminal prosecution”.
On the time, the federal government providers minister, Invoice Shorten, mentioned it was not a “sustainable position” to maintain the chapter a secret without end. He added he didn’t consider Holmes’ instructions on the sealed chapter implied a “forever situation”.
In June, the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Fee (Nacc) introduced it was now not investigating the six people referred to the brand new physique, saying it was “unlikely it would obtain significant new evidence” due to a separate public service investigation concurrently underneath means.
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Emily Wind
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Berejiklian set to be taught if Icac findings ‘invalid’
Nino Bucci
The previous New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian is anticipated to be taught later this morning whether or not she has succeeded in her authorized problem to findings made towards her by the anti-corruption watchdog.
Berejiklian filed a summons for judicial evaluate within the NSW courtroom of attraction final September. She argued that Impartial Fee In opposition to Corruption (Icac) findings that she engaged in severe corrupt conduct had been invalid as a result of the assistant commissioner answerable for the investigation was now not on the fee when the findings had been finalised.
Andrew Bell, the NSW chief justice, is anticipated at hand down his judgment within the case at 10.15am. He’s solely anticipated to learn out transient orders, earlier than a written judgment is revealed afterward Friday.
Icac had initially been investigating former Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire, who was additionally discovered to have engaged in severe corrupt conduct. Maguire was alleged to have used his place to conduct a enterprise serving to property builders.
After Berejiklian was heard on cellphone faucets, she was known as to offer proof at Icac and admitted she had been in a “close personal relationship” with Maguire for a number of years, which she had not disclosed to colleagues or household.
Icac then investigated a variety of grants she had been concerned in approving for Wagga Wagga in addition to her state of data of Maguire’s enterprise dealings. Berejiklian has maintained she served the general public curiosity “at all times” whereas in workplace.
The courtroom heard in February that attorneys for Berejiklian argued that viewing a relationship as a “standing potential for impropriety” is a “black, depressing and utterly unrealistic view of human life”.
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Martin Farrer
Good morning and welcome to our rolling information protection. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be flagging a number of the greatest in a single day tales earlier than Emily Wind takes over.
Linda Burney has been praised for her “courage” and “dedication” after she resigned as minister for Indigenous Australians. She tells our Indigenous affairs editor, Lorena Allam, that her successor should “listen to people, allow people to get to know you and, most importantly, bring people with you”. In the meantime, our political editor, Karen Middleton, appears on the challenges for Anthony Albanese as he tries to discover a substitute for her and outgoing abilities minister Brendan O’Connor.
Journalists employed by 9 Leisure’s publishing division have voted overwhelmingly to strike over pay from Friday for 5 days, hampering the corporate’s protection of the Paris Olympic Video games because of formally start in a single day, Australian time. 9 is the official broadcaster of the 2024 video games, paying $100m for the printed rights for this 12 months alone. The cease work motion begins at 11am at present and consists of all newspaper employees masking the Video games in Paris, however not tv.
Gladys Berejiklian’s struggle to clear her identify of significant corruption findings will probably be determined in a courtroom of attraction ruling for her and the NSW integrity watchdog. Chief Justice Andrew Bell will ship his choice at present as the previous NSW premier fights findings she breached public belief by means of her covert romance with disgraced social gathering colleague Daryl Maguire. We’ll have all the small print as they unfold.
