Australia information stay: Trump-Zelenskyy confrontation ‘colourful’ however what issues is ‘substance’ of assembly, shadow overseas minister says; north-east coast braces for Cyclone Alfred

Coleman requested about prospect of Australian troops in Ukraine, 5 Eyes intelligence sharing

Requested if Australia ought to have boots on the bottom in Ukraine to assist with a safety assure, David Coleman mentioned Australia’s help was greatest supplied by way of “defence, material and humanitarian aid and other forms of support”.

There isn’t a request for Australia to offer help past that, and I might suppose that the type of help that we’ve supplied to this point will proceed to be the appropriate type of help.

He was additionally requested if Australia ought to rethink its intelligence sharing with 5 Eyes companions, given its help of Ukraine and the US’ transfer to “essentially [align] itself with the views and demands of Russia on this issue?”

However Coleman responded, “absolutely not.”

The 5 Eyes intelligence partnership is extraordinarily essential to Australia and has helped to underpin our safety for a really lengthy time period.

He cautioned towards “jumping to conclusions based on a press conference” and once more said that “what matters here is the substance.”

Coleman says it’s ‘premature’ to take a position on US’ involvement in Ukraine’s future as negotiations ongoing

Requested if he regards the US as a dependable ally, David Coleman mentioned it’s “our most important ally” and “has been for many decades and will continue to be.”

That’s, in fact, been underpinned by Anzus for about 70 years, and now by Aukus, which takes our relationship to the following degree. So completely I believe the US, in fact, is our most vital ally and can proceed to be.

How does the US saying it gained’t present additional weapon help to Ukraine present its reliability? The shadow minister mentioned it was “premature to ascribe a particular outcome to negotiations that are ongoing.”

America has supplied huge help to Ukraine and has supplied a few of its most superior weapons techniques to Ukraine – with out which Ukraine wouldn’t have been in a position to do such an amazing job because it has in preventing again towards Russia.

We’ve to give attention to the precise end result, not on the the steps alongside the best way, so to talk. And I believe that we clearly wish to see the US concerned in that end result, we wish to see the US with a robust function in the way forward for Ukraine – but it surely’s untimely to take a position on that, as additional negotiations proceed.

Shadow overseas minister says Trump-Zelenskyy presser ‘colourful’ however what issues is ‘substance’ of assembly

The shadow overseas minister, David Coleman, has additionally weighed in on that explosive conflict between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Talking to ABC RN earlier, he described the press convention as “colourful” however mentioned what issues is the “substance” – and guaranteeing any peace settlement in Ukraine “respects sovereignty, respects its security, and frankly, honours the sacrifices that the people of Ukraine have made.”

They’ve fought courageously towards a murderous dictator in Putin, and it’s essential that any peace respects them, respects their sovereignty. And in that context, it was pleasing to see the bulletins popping out of London this morning, when it comes to European help for Ukraine …

There’ll at all times be completely different ups and downs in negotiations and completely different discussions, however what issues is the end result.

He was requested, so it doesn’t matter how Zelenskyy was handled? Coleman reiterated that “what really matters is securing a peace that both ends the killing of innocent Ukrainians and respects the sovereignty of Ukraine in the future.”

Butler on authorities pledge to fund 50 extra pressing care clinincs

Mark Butler was additionally requested concerning the authorities’s dedication to fund 50 extra pressing care clinics, and whether or not these will truly take the strain off hospitals, and mentioned:

We all know from the 87 already working, they’re working in two actually essential methods.

This was by “giving patients access to high-quality urgent care in their own community when they need it, seven days a week, [at] extended hours and completely free of charge.” But in addition by relieving strain on the hospital from non-urgent shows, which “account for about half of all emergency department presentations.”

Stepping into the nitty-gritty of the coverage whereas talking on ABC RN, Butler was additionally requested if he’s assured the clinics are within the locations of best want, reasonably than best political want? He responded, “absolutely.”

These are topic to an analysis that I promised on the final election, that’s ongoing and can ship a report back to authorities in 2026. I’m very assured about these places, those which are working already are delivering an unbelievable service.

And on the Right this moment Present, Butler mentioned the federal government could be rolling the clinics out “over the course of the next financial year if we’re elected.”

Butler backs Ukraine and says Australia offering ‘whatever assistance we can’

The well being minister, Mark Butler, has been making the rounds on breakfast tv this morning.

Requested concerning the Russia-Ukraine battle, and whether or not Australia would play any function with European nations in placing ahead a ceasefire proposal to the US, he advised ABC Information Breakfast:

Australia, proper by way of this terrible conflict, and the greater than three years since Russia’s unlawful and immoral invasion, has been working very intently with allies in Europe and dealing instantly with the federal government in Ukraine to make sure that no matter help we will present to the Ukrainian individuals, we’re offering it.

We’ve supplied an infinite quantity by comparability to different nations not within the European area. And the prime minister mentioned once more yesterday we’re forthrightly alongside the Ukrainian individuals’s very brave resistance towards this terrible invasion.

Queensland premier says authorities doing ‘everything we can’ to arrange for Tropical Cyclone Alfred

The Queensland premier David Crisafulli has spoken with the Right this moment Present amid Tropical Cyclone Alfred (see our earlier submit). He mentioned it had intensified in a single day, with the warning space a “heavily populated area.”

I believe it’s simply essential that we let Queenslanders know that we’re doing all the pieces we will to arrange … We’re doing issues like pre-positioning mills on a few of these island communities, we’re speaking with the telco suppliers to be sure that there’s bandwidth there … However we want people to do the identical, and we want individuals to take precautions round your own home.

Sarah Scully, a meteorologist with the Bureau of Meteorology, supplied an replace on the tropical cyclone to ABC Information Breakfast earlier.

At this stage, our most probably observe or situation is for a coastal crossing someplace between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast in a single day Thursday into Friday morning as both a class one or a class two system.

She mentioned that whatever the class on the time of crossing, “there’s going to be big impacts.”

There’s the potential for 300-400mm every day with the passage of the system, and even into the weekend – however we will’t rule out each day rainfall totals of 600mm.

Australia’s short-lived housing downturn is already over, AAP experiences, with the shallow three-month dip nearly worn out by a single month of progress.

Property values rose 0.3% throughout the nation in February, bringing costs again close to document highs following a 0.4% drop over the earlier three months, CoreLogic’s month-to-month House Worth Index has proven.

CoreLogic analysis director Tim Lawless mentioned he wasn’t anticipating costs to choose up once more so quickly, with rates of interest nonetheless properly above historic averages and price-to-income ratios close to document highs.

He reckons the market is unlikely to return to the identical astronomical ranges of progress seen in the previous few years, with economists predicting rates of interest to stay elevated for some time but.

A 0.6% pickup in rents was down from the 0.9% rise the 12 months beforehand, with the broader pattern displaying the rental market continued to ease.

Lawless mentioned affordability challenges would persist so long as provide remained constrained and neither main occasion’s election guarantees seemed prone to make a lot of a distinction.

No matter any form of initiatives aimed toward getting extra provide into {the marketplace}, it’s going to be a sluggish burn. One of many greatest challenges of getting extra provide into the market comes again to availability of trades.

That may’t be fastened anytime quickly, particularly with the competitors towards large infrastructure. You then’ve additionally obtained the continuing feasibility challenges of getting provide into {the marketplace}, particularly medium-to-high density provide.

As we flagged earlier, this 12 months’s Oscars will kick off in a couple of hours. There are a couple of Australian nominations to maintain a watch out for, together with:

• Man Pearce, The Brutalist (greatest supporting actor)

• Adam Elliot, Memoir of a Snail (greatest animated function)

• Greig Fraser, Dune: Half Two (greatest cinematography)

• Rodney Burke, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (greatest visible results)

• Maya Gnyp, I Am Prepared, Warden (greatest documentary brief)

Talking forward of the awards, Pearce mentioned he believes American actor Kieran Culkin will win:

And you may learn the Guardian evaluation for Memoir of a Snail beneath:

To look at the Oscars in Australia, 7Bravo is carrying E!’s purple carpet protection from 8am AEDT, Channel 7 is choosing up Crimson Carpet Reside at 09.30am, and the ceremony present will get beneath approach at 10am.

Brittany Higgins has given start to a child boy, AAP experiences, asserting the information on Instagram final evening.

Within the picture Higgins shared, the infant is wrapped in a blanket and a love coronary heart emoji sticker has been added to obscure his face. She wrote:

Final evening we welcomed our little boy into the world. We’re each wanting ahead to attending to dote on the latest member of the household.

Higgins and her husband, David Sharaz, didn’t share their son’s title or different particulars of the start.

Lambie requested whether or not Albanese or Dutton higher suited to have interaction with Trump

Jacqui Lambie took a remaining query on who is best at coping with Donald Trump – Anthony Albanese or Peter Dutton – however instructed this line of questioning was unhelpful:

Look, I don’t suppose you’ll be able to – we will run this line [of] ‘who’s going to cope with Trump higher’ … I don’t suppose that placing these males up towards one another on who’s going to deal higher with Trump is definitely useful this morning.

And fairly frankly, each of them are going to try to cope with him as greatest they’ll, and that’s all that they’ll do. They know that. However placing them up towards one another over that is simply actually un-Australian.

He’s actually tough to cope with … [and] they’re going to attempt to cope with Trump the easiest way that they’ll, and that’s all you are able to do on the subject of individuals like Trump.

Sharma says Trump-Zelenskyy conflict exhibits Australia must do extra to take care of its personal defence and safety wants

NSW senator Dave Sharma spoke alongside Lambie on the Right this moment Present, the place he too weighed in on that Trump-Zelenskyy conflict and mentioned:

Like Barnaby Joyce earlier, he described the interplay as “incredibly unusual”.

Typically you’ll have robust, intense conversations behind closed doorways. However as soon as the cameras are in, you’ll are inclined to current a united entrance and give attention to the areas of disagreement.

Sharma mentioned he doesn’t suppose the US-Ukraine relationship is “irreparable” and that the “US is going to necessarily cease supporting Ukraine altogether”.

There’s a threat of that, and that’s why the remainder of the world wants to return collectively. However it’s definitely harmful occasions for Ukraine, but in addition extra broadly for any nation that depends on a US safety assure.

Requested whether or not the US’s 80-year historical past of navy help for Europe is hanging within the steadiness, Sharma mentioned this has been the case since Trump was re-elected, together with his “America first” coverage. However the place does this depart Australia? He responded:

It leaves us ready the place we have to do much more to take care of our personal defence and safety wants.

Lambie lashes Trump as ‘unstable’ and ‘not good for world order’

Senator Jacqui Lambie has additionally weighed in on the explosive conflict between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and mentioned the Ukrainian president “has the backing of the western world”.

Talking on the Right this moment Present, she mentioned:

There’s little question about that. If Trump desires to proceed together with his tantrums and alter his thoughts each hour, then you must depart him out of the equation as a result of he’s extraordinarily unstable and that isn’t good for world order. Full cease.

She mentioned Australia must again Zelenskyy and Ukraine as a result of “if we let Russia take over … Ukraine, where’s it going next?”

We’re actually frightened about this. And what Trump is doing, and simply the instability popping out of that man, is completely blind.

Lambie mentioned that Zelenskyy shouldn’t have interrupted Trump as a result of “if he hadn’t have interrupted him, just let him keep going and going and going, I think you would have seen the full nature of this man, and he is a problem”:

What [Trump and JD Vance] have finished, they should go and research historical past as a result of oh my goodness, they’re utterly out of order. The each of them … However we have to stand behind Ukraine.

Residents in two states within the firing line of Tropical Cyclone Alfred have been advised to have tinned meals prepared and put together their properties earlier than it makes landfall in coming days.

As AAP experiences, the tropical cyclone is predicted to cross anyplace from Bundaberg in Queensland and northern NSW on Thursday as a class two system, bringing as much as 600mm of rain a day.

Authorities urged residents to remain vigilant, take note of warnings and put together for a uncommon cyclone in that a part of Australia. Flood watches and erosion warnings have been issued for coastal areas, with document excessive 14-metre waves recorded off Large Bay in Queensland yesterday.

The Queensland premier, David Crisafulli, mentioned residents ought to do “everything they can” together with having tinned meals, making an emergency package, gathering up passports and clearing particles from properties.

The state authorities has requested telecommunication corporations to extend community capability to deal with an anticipated leap in web utilization and thousands and thousands of messages all through the emergency.

SES NSW urged residents to arrange for damaging winds, massive surf and heavy rainfall with main riverine and flash flooding anticipated from Wednesday.

The cyclone is a whole lot of kilometres off Rockhampton and is predicted to journey southeast till tomorrow, when it’s going to swing west.

The Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce, who was additionally on Dawn, labelled the explosive conflict between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy as proof “the way the world of politics works is a tough game”.

I believe what we noticed was of one thing taking place on stay tv which occurs in a again room … This concept of all the pieces will probably be high-quality as a result of you’ll be able to simply flip up [to the] United States and they’ll open the chequebook … from what we will see clearly [during] the dialog, he was saying Europeans need to do their bit.

Joyce argued individuals have to “start reading the tea leaves and have to become very resilient in their own right”.

Which implies you must be ruthless in the way you cope with your personal home politics and your different points floating round, comparable to intermittent energy, and say what issues is our capability to defend our nation.

Requested if that is how Australian politicians speak with world leaders behind closed doorways, Joyce responded, “No, that is unusual”.

However you’re speaking concerning the chief of the free world … Some individuals on this euphemistic place don’t fear as a result of America will simply come and choose one thing up …

Don’t have this concept that … they may do what we would like, as a result of [as] Mr Zelenskyy is seeing proper now, that that isn’t essentially the case.

Talking on Dawn earlier this morning, the atmosphere minister, Tanya Plibersek, has restated Australia’s place that it “absolutely stands with Ukraine”. She mentioned:

We completely reject the concept that Russia was not the aggressor right here. It is rather plain that the Russian invasion was unlawful and immoral … We proceed to face with Ukraine. I’m happy to see European leaders reiterate that on the weekend.

She additionally described the Australia-US relationship as “very close”:

The prime minister has had a number of very heat conversations with the US president. It’s a actually sturdy indication of the closeness of the connection that our overseas minister was one of many few invited to the inauguration of the president …

The connection is lengthy and robust and deep. It is rather good.

Funding to spice up feminine commerce workforce

Krishani Dhanji

The federal government has introduced 10 tasks that may obtain a share of $45m to extend the feminine workforce in commerce industries.

The funding, by way of the Constructing Girls’s Careers Program, will go to tasks together with the “Give her a Chance” program run by Grasp Builders Australia, to deal with bias in development by way of schooling campaigns, mentoring and networking.

Labor says ladies make up lower than 8% of all commerce apprentices in male-dominated trades, and fewer than 5% in development.

The talents minister, Andrew Giles, mentioned boosting feminine participation would additionally assist deal with abilities shortages within the sector:

We’re taking the essential first steps to introduce new pathways for ladies to enter historically male-dominated industries and make business workplaces safer and extra equitable.

These tasks are tackling the structural and cultural boundaries that always cease ladies from contemplating careers in these industries head on.

This system was introduced within the 2024 funds as a part of the federal government’s $22bn Future Made in Australia bundle.

Welcome

Emily Wind

Good morning, and pleased Monday – welcome again to a brand new week on the Australia information stay weblog. I’m Emily Wind, and I’ll be taking you thru our rolling protection for many of right this moment.

A navy ship is on a rescue mission for a stranded Lithuanian rower off Australia’s east coast, after a two-day wait. Rower Aurimas Mockus bumped into hassle about 740km east of Mackay whereas trying a 12,000km Pacific Ocean crossing from San Diego to Brisbane in his solo rowing boat.

A rescue ship is predicted to reach within the Coral Sea shortly. You’ll be able to learn the total particulars on this from AAP beneath:

In the meantime, the federal authorities has introduced ten tasks to obtain a share of $45m to spice up the feminine workforce in commerce industries.

The funding will go to tasks together with the “Give her a Chance” program run by Grasp Builders Australia to deal with bias in development by way of schooling campaigns, mentoring and networking. Krishani Dhanji will convey us extra on this quickly.

And this 12 months’s Oscars kick off in a couple of hours – we’ll have rolling protection, so preserve your eyes peeled.

As at all times, you’ll be able to attain out with any ideas, suggestions or questions through electronic mail: emily.wind@theguardian.com. Let’s get began.