Clare says Dutton’s push to legislate 26 January as Australia Day ‘same fake fight we have every year’
Circling again to the training minister, Jason Clare, who had been talking on Dawn earlier.
He was requested about Peter Dutton’s key proposal to maintain Australia Day on 26 January, and if Labor would comply with swimsuit. However Clare stated “the date’s not changing” and “we have the same fake fight every year”.
That is simply one other distraction from Dutton to hide this stinker of a coverage. There’s a smelly flower in Sydney right now, [but] the true stinker right here is this concept that taxpayers ought to pay for his or her boss’s lunch, and [he] nonetheless received’t inform us how a lot it’s going to value.
The host stated that Dutton needed to place 26 January as Australia Day into regulation – would Labor? Clare stated it was already in employment regulation:
That’s what I’m saying. It’s a pretend struggle to distract from the mess of Peter Dutton’s loopy insurance policies.
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Airline disruptions flagged as one thousand floor staff stroll off the job
The Transport Staff Union is flagging airport disruptions as floor staff employed by aviation companies firm Dnata put together to stroll off the job.
The nationwide secretary of the Transport Staff Union, Michael Kaine, instructed the At this time Present “there will be disruptions”.
Industrial motion is at all times a final resort. You don’t get 1000 staff taking industrial motion except one thing is significantly flawed, and there’s one thing significantly flawed at Dnata.
It’s a yr now since these staff have been negotiating for his or her settlement. They’re owed enhancements of their pay and circumstances from June final yr, and so they’ve stated sufficient is sufficient …
There’ll be disruptions at Sydney Airport, at Melbourne Airport, at Brisbane Airport and there’ll be flight delays.
We’ll regulate this all through the day and produce you the newest updates right here on the weblog.
Individuals queue to see corpse flower ‘Putricia’ from 5am
As we talked about earlier, Sydney Botanic Backyard’s will reopen from 8am this morning for individuals to catch a glimpse of corpse flower “Putricia”, who started blooming yesterday afternoon.
Nevertheless it appears her followers started lining up a lot (a lot) earlier this morning. The At this time Present spoke with two girls, Caitlin and Paige, who had been turned away final evening and determined to line up once more this morning at 5am:
We received right here round 8.30[pm] and we had been turned away. In order that’s why we’re right here vibrant and early to attempt to see this flower.
The 2 ladies first met as they had been being turned away from final evening’s queue, and coincidentally bumped into one another in line this morning. Paige stated:
For me it was truly my birthday yesterday, and for it to bloom on my birthday simply feels prefer it’s a bit particular. And it’s meant to be symbolic of rebirth. So I believed I’d simply come and absorb among the flower’s vitality, I suppose.
Clare says Dutton’s push to legislate 26 January as Australia Day ‘same fake fight we have every year’
Circling again to the training minister, Jason Clare, who had been talking on Dawn earlier.
He was requested about Peter Dutton’s key proposal to maintain Australia Day on 26 January, and if Labor would comply with swimsuit. However Clare stated “the date’s not changing” and “we have the same fake fight every year”.
That is simply one other distraction from Dutton to hide this stinker of a coverage. There’s a smelly flower in Sydney right now, [but] the true stinker right here is this concept that taxpayers ought to pay for his or her boss’s lunch, and [he] nonetheless received’t inform us how a lot it’s going to value.
The host stated that Dutton needed to place 26 January as Australia Day into regulation – would Labor? Clare stated it was already in employment regulation:
That’s what I’m saying. It’s a pretend struggle to distract from the mess of Peter Dutton’s loopy insurance policies.
Lock the Gate launches authorized problem to NT authorities gasoline approval
Lisa Cox
The anti-fracking group Lock the Gate Alliance has launched a authorized problem to a Northern Territory authorities resolution to approve one other gasoline exploration undertaking within the Beetaloo basin.
The case within the territory’s civil and administrative tribunal is difficult the deserves of the federal government’s approval of the surroundings administration plan for Empire Vitality’s “Larrimah” exploration undertaking.
The alliance, represented by Johnson Authorized, will argue the undertaking would pose a serious threat to floor and floor water.
The undertaking, positioned west of Larrimah, would contain the drilling of as much as six exploratory wells. Larrimah is positioned about 80km from the famend Bitter Springs thermal swimming pools close to Mataranka.
Lock the Gate Darwin spokesperson Pete Callender stated they consider “the impacts and risks of the project to water resources are likely to be far greater than predicted by the NT Government.”
The case is scheduled for a instructions listening to in Darwin right now. A CLP authorities spokesperson stated:
Our strong regulation of the onshore petroleum trade is knowledgeable by one of the best obtainable science. Because the undertaking is earlier than the NT Civil and Administrative Tribunal, it might be untimely to make any additional touch upon the matter.
Caitlin Cassidy
NTEU backs Labor’s transfer to hunt parliamentary inquiry into college governance
The Nationwide Tertiary Training Union has strongly backed Labor senator Tony Sheldon’s announcement right now to hunt a parliamentary inquiry into college governance.
Sheldon, chair of the Senate Training and Employment Committee, stated the probe would cowl wage theft, insecure work, transparency and excessive vice-chancellor salaries.
The NTEU has been campaigning for a federal parliamentary inquiry after rising concern over ongoing wage theft within the sector, which it estimates at $265m nationally, and advisor charges totalling $734m. Nationwide president Dr Alison Barnes stated:
For too lengthy, vice-chancellors and senior executives have escaped any actual accountability for among the horrible selections which have broken our public universities. An inquiry can be a golden alternative to unravel what’s permitting the wage theft epidemic, rampant casualisation and a raft of different critical issues to flourish in our sector.
That is the trail to lasting reform that can guarantee workers can ship the world-class educating and analysis our college students and neighborhood deserve.
Clare touts apprentice coverage as Ley flags potential Coalition assist
The training minister, Jason Clare, spoke with Dawn earlier to tout Labor’s plan to apprenticeship funds, and stated:
If they’re dwelling away from dwelling, there’s extra cash to assist pay the lease. It’s coverage. Examine to that loopy coverage that Peter Dutton introduced to make taxpayers pay for boss’s lunches. Insane.
Deputy opposition chief, Sussan Ley, was additionally on this system and stated the Coalition would have a look at the coverage – however she thinks “we can support it because Labor’s cost-of-living crisis has hit tradies and apprentices particularly hard”.
It’s so robust to be an apprentice now. You simply can’t afford your fundamental value of dwelling. However simply bear in mind within the time it’s taken Labor to announce this coverage, we’ve misplaced over 80,000 apprentices and trainees from the abilities and coaching pipeline. The variety of girls beginning in trades and coaching has halved. We’ve misplaced 26% of our development commerce apprentices … So, [it] is absolutely robust on the market proper now.
After some backwards and forwards, Ley was requested to make clear the Coalition’s place and whether or not it might assist the coverage, and stated:
We’re prone to.
Grasp Builders Affiliation responds to Labor money increase plan for apprentice tradies
As Josh Butler reported earlier, apprentice tradies stand to get an additional $10,000 from a re-elected Labor authorities as Anthony Albanese tries to encourage extra younger individuals into development to assist construct the 1.2m properties he promised by 2030.
The Grasp Builders Affiliation has responded to the information, with CEO Denita Wawn saying the revised staggering of funds is one thing it “has long called for, so there is a financial incentive for apprentices to complete their training”:
Round 50% of all apprentices don’t full their coaching – the brand new staged funds method will hopefully see the speed of completions improve.
Builders wish to see this fee expanded to different areas of the constructing and development trade which are additionally dealing with power shortages and crying out for extra apprentices. With out roads, rail, sewerage and water we will’t construct extra properties for Aussies.
Wawn stated she was “disappointed” the excessive prices of hiring and coaching apprentices “has not been recognised as yet”, including:
Grasp Builders continues to name for a strong incentive system that helps employers and minimises the danger with taking over an apprentice who could or could not full their coaching.
Hundreds queue to catch glimpse of Sydney’s resident corpse flower ‘Putricia’
Sydney’s Botanic Backyard’s remained open till midnight final evening, as hundreds queued to catch a glimpse (and a whiff) of corpse flower “Putricia”, as she started blooming.
However the crowd was so huge, the backyard’s needed to reduce individuals off at 8.15pm – with a three-and-a-half hour-long wait, and people on the finish not anticipated to make it to the entrance of the queue till midnight.
Amongst these within the queue was singer Gillian Welch, who went to see Putricia earlier than her first Opera Home gig.
Putricia started blooming early afternoon yesterday, with corpse flowers solely anticipated to bloom for 24-48 hours. You’ll be able to already see, on the livestream under, that her tip has began to droop within the final 20 minutes:
The gardens will probably be reopening from 8am this morning, for these nonetheless hoping to catch a glimpse of this Sydney superstar.
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Emily Wind
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Warning of waterfall risks after teen deaths
The tragic deaths of two youngsters at a well-liked waterfall present the hazards of the slippery rocks and turbulent water, consultants have instructed AAP.
Honor Ward, 17, fell off a waterfall and didn’t resurface at Wappa Falls on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast on Sunday afternoon. Her pal Beau Liddell, 17, jumped into the water to save lots of her but additionally didn’t resurface.
Because the neighborhood mourns the deaths, James Cook dinner College professor of public well being Richard Franklin says the tragic deaths serve to warn others of the hidden risks of waterfalls.
Figures by Royal Life Saving Australia from 2022-23 reveal there have been 76 deaths at rivers or waterfalls versus 75 at seashores throughout Australia. The company additionally estimates that about 5% of drownings in inland water sources came about at waterfalls or swimming holes over the ten years to 2021.
Prof Franklin stated fashionable swimming places usually include probably deadly hazards from slippery rocks, surprising currents and turbulent water.
Waterfalls will be notably harmful when water cascades to carve out a deep pool, often called a plunge pool, which might have turbulence and currents that pull in and lure swimmers, he stated.
He urged waterfall swimmers to test for risks earlier than taking the plunge.
Restrictions lifted as avian flu outbreak eradicated
All restrictions on poultry and egg producers have been lifted as authorities declare a regional avian influenza outbreak eradicated, AAP experiences.
The Hawkesbury outbreak was one probably the most important in NSW with greater than 320,000 animals destroyed since June 2024 to curb the unfold of the doubtless devastating illness.
The pressure was discovered at two business poultry farms and 4 different premises however no new instances have been discovered since July 2024.
From right now, restrictions on the motion of birds, objects and different gear will finish and designated emergency zones will probably be scrapped.
It was not linked to an earlier outbreak in Victoria, which led to about 1m birds being destroyed.
Instances detected in Australia are totally different to the H5N1 pressure that has devastated animal populations abroad.
Labor senator to hunt inquiry into college governance
Caitlin Cassidy
The Labor senator Tony Sheldon will search the assist of a Senate committee to determine an inquiry into college governance right now. He stated it ought to “urgently examine” points within the embattled sector together with wage theft, widespread casualisation and the hefty pay packets of vice-chancellors.
Sheldon, who chairs the Senate training and employment committee, stated the transfer got here in mild of “continued governance scandals in the higher education sector”.
An impartial inquiry has been constantly lobbied for by the Nationwide Tertiary Training Union, and enhances the institution of an impartial skilled council to advise training ministers on governance issues.
Sheldon stated the inquiry would deal with a wage theft determine approaching $400m, noncompliance with office legal guidelines, expenditure on exterior consultants and concern round vice-chancellor renumeration and conflicts of curiosity.
He’ll search to determine the inquiry previous to the upcoming parliamentary sitting fortnight, with a view to holding public hearings with vice-chancellors and different key stakeholders shortly after the parliament rises.
College vice-chancellors have inquiries to reply concerning the extraordinary vary of governance points which have arisen on their watch.
There’s no different job in Australia the place you will be paid so exorbitantly whereas performing so badly, with seemingly no penalties or accountability for the affect on college workers and college students. It’s clear the Liberals’ and Nationals’ governance framework is failing, which is why the Albanese authorities is taking swift motion to rein in [the] sector.
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Martin Farrer
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Anthony Albanese will probably be hoping to get on the entrance foot policy-wise once more right now when he publicizes a brand new initiative to bolster the development trade on the Nationwide Press Membership in Canberra. The prime minister’s plan is to provide apprentice tradies an additional $10,000 from a re-elected Labor authorities so as to encourage extra younger individuals to enter the constructing trade and due to this fact assist meet his home-building targets of 1.2m properties by 2030. We’ll have extra of his speech when he makes it at 12.30pm.
New South Wales well being officers are braced for extra psychiatrists to resign right now because the medical doctors’ pay dispute continues. The well being minister, Rose Jackson, stated yesterday that 43 psychiatrists had stop thus far and extra had been anticipated within the “coming days”, whereas 99 medical doctors had delayed their resignations. Greater than 60 psychological well being beds in public hospitals are quickly closing in New South Wales as some hospitals are being given directives to restrict psychiatric assessments due to the mass resignations. Extra arising.
College executives have been placed on discover over wage theft, spending and conflict-of-interest considerations because the federal authorities makes an attempt to launch a probe. Labor senator Tony Sheldon is looking for the assist of a Senate committee to determine an inquiry into college governance after a spate of scandals throughout the sector. Extra particulars arising.
