Sydney’s ferries starting to renew after heavy fog
Transport NSW says Sydney’s ferries are starting to run once more after being sidelined as a result of heavy fog this morning. The company remains to be advising travellers to depart loads of additional time for his or her journey.
These images clarify a bit about why the ferries weren’t operating this morning.
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Pedestrian in Perth in crucial situation after collision with e-scooter
A 51-year-old man is in crucial situation after a collision with an e-scooter this weekend.
WA Police have charged a lady, 24, with harmful driving occasioning grievous bodily hurt, inebriated. She was handled by paramedics for minor accidents after the collision, however didn’t require hospitalisation. One other passenger on the scooter was additionally handled for non-life-threatening accidents on the hospital.
The girl is about to look in court docket later right now.
Jack Snape
Soccer Australia set to disclose new Matildas coach
Soccer Australia is about to finish 10 months of uncertainty by appointing broadly revered Melbourne-born girls’s soccer specialist Joe Montemurro to steer the Matildas in direction of subsequent 12 months’s dwelling Asian Cup.
FA has referred to as a press convention for Monday morning when the interim chief government, Heather Garriock, is anticipated to be joined by Montemurro.
The 55-year-old Montemurro has received trophies with Arsenal, Juventus and Lyon in a distinguished profession in Europe, having damaged by means of within the skilled teaching ranks with stints at Melbourne Victory and Melbourne Metropolis within the W-League greater than a decade in the past.
Queensland girl charged over daughter’s homicide dies in hospital
A mom accused of fatally stabbing her three-year-old daughter has died after being discovered unresponsive whereas in custody.
Lauren Ingrid Flanigan, 32, died in hospital on Sunday after being discovered unresponsive in her cell at Brisbane Girls’s correctional centre, Queensland police confirmed.
Flanigan suffered a medical emergency in her cell on Friday night time and was rushed to Princess Alexandra hospital in Brisbane.
A report can be ready for the coroner.
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Surf lifesavers nonetheless looking for potential lacking particular person at Port Kembla
Surf lifesavers will proceed to seek for a potential lacking particular person after listening to stories of an individual in misery within the water at Port Kembla on Sunday.
Surf Life Saving NSW helped reply to stories of an overturned vessel within the space and had been suggested an individual was face down within the water. A second particular person managed to flee the water on their very own, however officers had been unable to find the primary particular person.
Each had been sporting lifejackets, however the potential lacking particular person had theirs knocked off by the surf.
Officers warned of sturdy, harmful circumstances this weekend throughout the state and volunteers responded to a variety of incidents with individuals requiring help. SLSNSW’s CEO, Steve Pearce, mentioned in a press release:
I implore the general public to actually suppose earlier than heading to the shoreline in the mean time. We’re seeing some actually harmful circumstances and it’s making actions, notably rock fishing, unsafe.
Caitlin Cassidy
Impartial senator calls on Labor to alter timing of Assist/Hecs indexation
The impartial senator for Tasmania, Tammy Tyrrell, has urged Labor to alter the timing of indexation on Assist/Hecs money owed after they rose by 3.2% on Sunday.
The training minister, Jason Clare, mentioned yesterday that Labor’s coverage to scale back Hecs money owed by 20% could be backdated to earlier than indexation was utilized.
Wiping 20% off each pupil debt is the very first piece of laws Labor will introduce when parliament returns in July. To ship on our promise and be sure you get the complete good thing about this 20% lower, as soon as we cross this laws it’ll be backdated to this Sunday, 1 June, earlier than that indexation was utilized.
However Tyrrell took purpose at Labor’s unwillingness to structurally reform the rise of money owed earlier than annual repayments had been processed, as was advisable within the Universities Accord:
Banks scale back your mortgage earlier than charging curiosity. Credit score unions do too. Simply not the federal government, who fake somebody’s repayments don’t exist. It’s costing college students 1000’s of {dollars} all as a result of Labor is just too lazy to repair its accounting.
Labor’s Assist debt adjustments are one-off sugar hits. In the event that they’re real about making a distinction for college kids, they might repair this rigged system when parliament returns. Simply depend somebody’s funds earlier than curiosity is charged.
Sydney’s ferries starting to renew after heavy fog
Transport NSW says Sydney’s ferries are starting to run once more after being sidelined as a result of heavy fog this morning. The company remains to be advising travellers to depart loads of additional time for his or her journey.
These images clarify a bit about why the ferries weren’t operating this morning.
Extra on Australia’s housing costs
The median dwelling in Australia was price $831,288 in Might – a 0.5% leap on the month earlier than – knowledge launched by property analytics agency Cotality on Monday confirmed, AAP stories. Each capital metropolis, in addition to the mixed areas, exhibited progress of 0.4% or extra
Sydney stays the most costly market in Australia, with median dwelling values – which means items and homes mixed – hovering simply over $1.2m. Brisbane is available in second with median costs just under $918,000, adopted by Canberra ($855,663), Adelaide ($829,695) and Perth (813,210).
Cotality’s analysis director, Tim Lawless, informed AAP:
Undoubtedly, rates of interest have had a constructive circulate by means of to housing markets since February.
However I definitely wouldn’t name the speed of progress taking pictures the lights out. A 0.4% to 0.5% progress fee is way more sustainable than what we had been seeing, say, in early 2023 as much as mid-2024.
Bradfield margin now 12 votes in favour of Boele however 1000’s left to depend
Impartial Nicolette Boele’s margin within the race for the seat of Bradfield is now as much as 12 votes forward of Liberal Gisele Kapterian.
The depend will nonetheless take time to finalise, with election-watcher Kevin Bonham advising persistence this weekend as 1000’s of sales space votes probably nonetheless want checking.
Have a look contained in the Bradfield recount with the Guardian’s Ben Raue right here:
Extra on Hegseth’s name on Australian defence spending
The Pentagon mentioned this morning defence secretary Pete Hegseth has requested Australia to dramatically enhance its navy funding within the Indo-Pacific to higher align itself with America. The US defence division mentioned the plan would assist “maintain peace through strength” within the area, including:
On protection spending, Secretary Hegseth conveyed that Australia ought to enhance its protection spending to 3.5% of its GDP as quickly as potential.
Australia plans to develop its defence finances to greater than 2.3% of gross home product by 2033-34, with the Albanese authorities promising billions in new funding final 12 months.
Albanese responded to the calls this weekend, saying Australia would decide its personal defence coverage. The prime minister mentioned:
What we’ll do is proceed to put money into {our capability} but additionally {our relationships} within the area.
No Sydney ferries operating as a result of heavy fog
Transport NSW says no ferries are at present operating in Sydney as a result of heavy fog that blanketed town this morning.
No Sydney ferries are operating in any respect as a result of heavy fog. Make different journey preparations.
Tim Wilson says he appeared to ‘reverse engineer’ win in opposition to teal Zoe Daniel
Liberal Tim Wilson mentioned his uncommon flip of the Victorian seat of Goldstein throughout the election got here after a concerted marketing campaign to attraction to voters and promise an enormous imaginative and prescient for the longer term whereas attempting to “reverse engineer” the technique that propelled teals to victory in 2022. Wilson completed 175 votes forward of teal impartial Zoe Daniel. He informed RN Breakfast this morning:
I feel we had been chatting with individuals’s sense of hope and ambition … we weren’t enjoying small, we had been going massive. We talked very optimistically a couple of hopeful future.
Wilson added he believed his marketing campaign had “brought together a lot of people who wanted to have a shared vision for the community and the country”.
After the 2022 election, we appeared very intently at, properly, what do we have to do to alter and alter to struggle a brand new political risk? And what’s it that’s driving voters to help the teals? …
We labored on it for a really lengthy time frame.
You may learn extra about his victory right here:
Dash sensation Lachie Kennedy broke the 100m 10-second barrier this weekend
21-year-old Lachie Kennedy turned simply the second Australia in historical past to run the 100m in lower than 10 seconds this weekend. Kennedy received the occasion in opposition to a robust area in Nairobi on Saturday night time, ending with a time of 9.98 seconds, AAP reported. Kennedy mentioned:
I used to be there to win right now and convey it dwelling, and I’m super-stoked to get the win and the time. It’s so good. I can lastly say I’ve run 9.
The one different Australian to attain the celebrated feat was nationwide document holder Patrick Johnson, who ran a scorching 9.93 in Mito, Japan in 2003.
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Andrew Messenger
Queensland premier hopes to search out decision with nurses union
Queensland’s premier, David Crisafulli, says strike motion is the very last thing he needs because the state’s union for nurses prepares to take industrial motion this week.
The Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union’s secretary, Sarah Beaman, mentioned industrial motion is “likely” this week. The union is locked in negotiations with the state authorities for a brand new enterprise bargaining settlement.
Crisafulli mentioned he’s assured there can be an settlement this week, noting on Sunday:
I hope it’s the very last thing that the union needs as properly.
The minister has engaged in good religion and in response, so too have the nurses’ union. And I do suppose we will get a deal. I do suppose there’s been a reasonably good provide put ahead, and it honours the dedication we’ve made. Now it’s necessary that we negotiate in good religion with them, and we’ll do this.
The federal government promised earlier than final October’s election to ensure “nation-leading” wages and circumstances for nurses.
Beaman mentioned they are going to conduct solely comparatively non-disruptive industrial motion this week like sporting union pins and marketing campaign shirts. About 96% of union members who took half in a current strike poll voted to stroll off the job.
She described an up to date authorities provide as “subpar”. The well being minister, Tim Nicholls, mentioned the union had but to make a counteroffer, on Friday.
The QNMU’s 55,000 members haven’t been on strike since 2002.
Good morning
Blissful Monday, Nick Visser right here to take you thru this morning’s breaking information. First up right now:
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The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, has requested Australia to enhance its protection spending to three.5% of its gross home product throughout a gathering along with his Australian counterpart, Richard Marles. Anthony Albanese pushed again in opposition to these calls on the Shangri-La Dialogue this weekend, however we didn’t know simply how a lot Hegseth was asking for till this morning.
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Home costs have surged after the RBA’s fee lower in Might, with the median value throughout Australia sitting at $831,288 final month, AAP stories. Each capital metropolis noticed progress of 0.4% or extra, largely as a result of consumers feeling higher about their buying capability.
Keep on with us all through the morning for extra on these tales and no matter else the day brings.
