Australia information reside: Howard says Trump ‘not compatible with democracy’; Commonwealth Financial institution pushes again price lower forecast

Labor MP Invoice Shorten has additionally been talking with ABC RN, and has been scathing of the Greens – following a bitter housing standoff this week. Josh Butler had the total explainer on this under:

Shorten described the Greens as a “formidable and destructive political part of Australian life” and stated:

Labor and the Liberals, no matter you consider us or the Liberals, we search to type governments in Australia, and whenever you type a authorities, which means you’ve really obtained to get issues accomplished. The Greens are enjoying a form of competitors … a celebration in protest or an outrage manufacturing facility to allow them to reveal issues to all folks, as a result of they solely must implement their insurance policies.

So that they play by totally different algorithm, and what they do is that they create nervousness. They create nervousness for individuals who would possibly wish to purchase their first residence. They create nervousness for our NDIS reforms…

They suppose that their ethical is superior to individuals who disagree with them, and I discovered in political life, [just] as a result of somebody disagrees with you doesn’t make them morally inferior, they only have a distinct proposition or set of values.

Dutton responds to newest modelling displaying energy payments might rise below nuclear plan

Peter Dutton was questioned on new modelling displaying energy payments might rise by round $665 a yr below the Coalition plan to construct nuclear crops across the nation.

He responded by arguing energy payments had gone up below Labor, and decrying a lack of baseload energy below renewables.

Nevertheless, Ameo final month stated that Australia’s predominant energy grid would stay dependable because it shifts from coal domination to operating overwhelmingly on renewable vitality – however provided that investments in new era are delivered “on time and in full”. Adam Morton had the total story:

Shorten and Dutton reply to newest job figures

The outgoing NDIS minister Invoice Shorten and opposition chief Peter Dutton made their common Friday morning look on the At present present simply earlier.

Shorten was requested in regards to the newest job figures, launched yesterday, which dampened hopes of an rate of interest lower. He asid:

Like everybody I hope to see downward stress on rates of interest, though I believe it’s good that we’re seeing such sturdy job numbers (with 47,500 jobs added final month).

I imply, whenever you see that below this authorities practically one million new jobs are being created, that’s obtained to be excellent news. The vast majority of them are full time jobs, and most of them are going to girls.

Dutton responded that that persons are selecting up second and third jobs, and dealing extra hours, so “businesses are more reluctant to put people on full time, which is why we see full time numbers come back under this latest announcement.”

AMA urging cease to ‘coercive and deceptive’ advertising and marketing of business meals for infants

The Australian Medical Affiliation is asking on the federal government to implement greatest observe requirements for vitamin in industrial meals for infants and younger kids.

As a part of its submission to the Division of Well being and Aged Care’s public session, the AMA is urging the federal government to place a cease to what it says is coercive and misleading advertising and marketing of merchandise.

This comes as a examine discovered not a single toddler or toddler meals product stocked in Australian supermarkets meets requirements set by the World Well being Group. Natasha Might had the total story final month:

President Professor Steve Robson stated mother and father and guardians ought to be capable of depend on the federal government to make sure industrial meals are labelled and marketed responsibly:

Many industrial meals for infants and younger kids fail to help optimum well being, development and growth. The dietary content material of many of those merchandise is insufficient they usually fall in need of worldwide requirements for labelling and promotion.

Dad and mom and guardians are being bombarded by coercive advertising and marketing however do not need sufficient details about the dietary high quality of the industrial meals being offered to them to have the ability to make knowledgeable decisions.

To guard our youngest Australians, complete adjustments to the composition, texture, and labelling of business meals for infants and younger kids are crucial.

The AMA says the adjustments have to be necessary, and compliance have to be strictly monitored and enforced.

Australia’s ‘sex report card’ launched

The newest Australian Research of Well being and Relationships was revealed at a convention in Sydney this week held by the Worldwide Union Towards Sexually Transmitted Infections.

It doesn’t sound a lot enjoyable however the outcomes are mainly our intercourse report card and make for fascinating studying.

They present, for instance, that one third of Australians have looked for a accomplice on-line. Natasha Might has the total story right here:

Cait Kelly

Welfare advocates warn lease help rise will do little amid housing disaster

The Albanese authorities’s promised 10% improve to commonwealth lease help begins at this time, however welfare advocates warn it’s going to do little to assist.

The adjustments will come according to indexation, which varies primarily based on the cost. Single recipients receiving the utmost price of lease help will get an additional $23 per fortnight If they’re renting on their very own. Households with one or two kids get an additional $27.02. However welfare advocates stated it’s going to do little assist in the midst of a housing disaster.

Antipoverty Centre spokesperson Kristin O’Connell stated:

Lease help went up by $25 and … common rents have gone up by greater than $100. What would possibly seem like an enormous proportion improve is, frankly, fuck all, and that’s one of many causes that that is so upsetting.

The newest Quarterly Rental Assessment Report confirmed the median weekly lease worth throughout all Australian dwellings hit a contemporary file excessive of $627 per week, and rental prices vary from $770 per week in Sydney, to $547 in Hobart.

A serious situation with lease help is that round 300,000 individuals who obtain it really lose cash each six months when it’s listed, O’Connell stated:

When CRA is listed, the quantity of lease that you need to pay earlier than you get any lease help will increase. So the proportion of your lease, the place you qualify for it, reduces should you aren’t receiving the utmost cost.

Victoria’s housing disaster worsening on practically each key indicator, index reveals

Cait Kelly

Victoria’s housing disaster has worsened on practically each key indicator one yr because the state authorities’s housing assertion, which set to deal with affordability by constructing 800,000 new houses and rising renters rights.

The Council to Homeless Individuals’ new Housing Insecurity Index reveals:

• Annual rents rose 13.3% throughout the state, with a 14.6% improve in Melbourne, and 5.3% in regional areas.

• The general public housing ready record is now at 61,587.

• The quantity of people that obtained help from specialist homelessness providers in Victoria elevated from 30,510 in July 2017 to 32,496 in June 2024.

• The variety of folks accessing specialist homelessness providers due to housing stress has been above 10,000 for each month since January 2023.

• Proportion of social housing in Victoria’s whole housing inventory is simply 2.8% – the bottom in Australia.

CHP chief govt Deborah Di Natale says the index reveals the state authorities should present extra ambition:

Issues have really gotten worse for Victorians on the brink of homelessness because the authorities unveiled its Housing Assertion final yr.

She referred to as on the federal government to decide to constructing not less than 6000 new public and group houses every year for a decade.

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The Albanese authorities has introduced a variety of measures to fight price of dwelling pressures, together with what it claims is the the primary back-to-back improve to commonwealth lease help ever and the indexation of pensions and funds.

In a joint assertion at this time, treasurer Jim Chalmers and minister for social providers Amanda Rishworth stated “we recognise that people are under the pump and we’re doing something about it”.

We’re already rolling out tax cuts and vitality rebates and from at this time we’ll give folks extra assist to pay the lease and ship a rise to pensions and funds together with the age pension.

A few of the measures embody:

• Rising lease help by 10% plus indexation, which they declare will profit practically one million households across the nation.

• The newest spherical of cost indexation together with for the age pension, incapacity help pension, jobseeker, carer cost and parenting cost, set to learn greater than 5 million households.

• Jobseeker recipients with an assessed partial capability to work of lower than 15 hours per week will transfer to the upper price, receiving a rise of $71.20 a fortnight mixed with indexation.

• Earnings limits for the commonwealth seniors well being card can even improve to $99,025 for singles and $158,440 for {couples} (mixed).

Mortgage holders could have to attend longer for an rate of interest reprieve, following stronger than anticipated jobs figures, studies AAP.

The Commonwealth Financial institution has shifted its forecast for when the Reserve Financial institution will decrease the official money price, now saying a 0.25 proportion level discount will occur in December, versus earlier predictions of a November price lower.

The revised forecast adopted the unemployment price staying at 4.2% for August, with the variety of jobs added to the market virtually double what economists had predicted.

Commonwealth Financial institution’s head of Australian economics Gareth Aird stated:

The latest energy in employment development coupled with nonetheless comparatively hawkish rhetoric from the RBA governor means we now see December because the extra possible month for the beginning of normalising the money price.

We anticipate the RBA will begin an easing cycle earlier than it declares we’ve hit full employment given coverage is at the moment restrictive.

Not all of the geese have lined up for a November price lower.

The Reserve Financial institution will meet on Tuesday to find out whether or not to chop the official money price of 4.35% or depart it on maintain.

Lambie says Rex Patrick will lead her federal Senate ticket in SA

Sarah Basford Canales

Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie has introduced her former higher home colleague Rex Patrick will lead the minor occasion’s ticket in South Australia within the upcoming federal election.

In a press release on Friday morning, Lambie stated she shared the identical values as Patrick, who was a senator between 2017 and 2022, and Australia wanted him again in Canberra. Lambie stated:

Rex is called the ‘Transparency Warrior’ for good motive, he works laborious to carry the federal government accountable. He needs to be within the Senate the place he can proceed to characterize the pursuits of on a regular basis Australians.

Rex’s departure from the Senate was a loss for all of us, however notably South Australia. We have to get Rex again into the Senate so SA as soon as once more has a wise voice representing them in Canberra.

Since leaving the federal parliament on the final election, Patrick has ruffled feathers in Canberra for his work as an avid freedom of knowledge campaigner.

One in all his most up-to-date fights within the Administrative Appeals Tribunal is to forestall a standard observe of shredding paperwork as soon as a minister leaves workplace. The act prevents makes an attempt at efficiently attaining paperwork via FoI requests.

Howard says US political system ‘far inferior’ to Australia’s

In his interview with 9, John Howard stated political occasions seen within the US confirmed its system had main deficiencies in comparison with Australia’s.

Every part we’re witnessing in America tells us is that their political system is way inferior to ours.

In a parliamentary system, Donald Trump would by no means have gotten to the management of the Republicans, and I don’t suppose Kamala Harris would ever have gotten to the management of the Democrats.

We wouldn’t have gone via the agony the Democrats went via relating to Joe Biden.

They’ve a distinct system. And my take, my very sturdy view, is {that a} parliamentary system is a lot better than a presidential system.

Former Liberal prime minister John Howard has taken intention at Donald Trump, describing him as “not compatible with democracy”.

Howard, who took Australia into Afghanistan and the Iraq warfare alongside the US throughout his time in workplace, stated the Republican candidate’s refusal to simply accept the results of the 2020 election meant he wouldn’t need Trump to win this time.

Howard stated in an interview with 9 Information:

In regular circumstances, I’d unhesitatingly favour a Republican victory, however there are causes that forestall me doing that on this event.

In different phrases, I believe his refusal to simply accept the results of the final election and varied makes an attempt to overturn that outcome not appropriate with democracy.

If you play the democratic sport, you’ve obtained to simply accept the democratic outcome… The selection the American folks should make is a troublesome selection – I’m glad I don’t have a vote there, as a result of I believe it could be very laborious.

I’m not impressed with Kamala Harris. I don’t suppose she’s obtained an excellent concept of learn how to run the American financial system.

I fear that she would possibly lead an administration that can spend far an excessive amount of, and a few of that expenditure shall be irresponsible … she leads a celebration that, typically talking, favours far an excessive amount of authorities intervention for my liking.

Good morning and welcome to our Friday rolling information weblog. Emily Wind shall be alongside quickly to deliver you all of the breaking tales of the day however earlier than that that is Martin Farrer with one of the best of the in a single day tales.

After every week wherein a Guardian Australia investigation has revealed the massive earnings being made by on-line actual property portals from charging sellers, the previous chair of Australia’s competitors legislation enforcer says he believes the regulator ought to think about investigating the behaviour of the market’s main portal, realestate.com.au, for potential anti-competitive behaviour. Rod Sims instructed us the behaviour of realestate.com.au was “well worth considering under section 45 of the Competition and Consumer Act”.

Former Liberal prime minister John Howard has taken intention at Donald Trump, describing him as “not compatible with democracy”. Howard, who took Australia into Afghanistan and the Iraq warfare alongside the US throughout his time in workplace, stated the Republican candidate’s refusal to simply accept the results of the 2020 election meant he wouldn’t need Trump to win this time. Extra on this quickly.

The Albanese authorities has introduced a variety of measures to fight price of dwelling pressures, together with what it claims is the the primary back-to-back improve to Commonwealth lease help ever and the indexation of pensions and funds.

In much less excellent news for households, the Commonwealth Financial institution has pushed again its forecast for when the Reserve Financial institution will decrease the official money price, now saying a 0.25 proportion level discount will occur in December, versus earlier predictions of a November price lower. Extra developing.