Australia politics stay: Dutton says he’ll ‘cut green tape’ and be ‘best friend’ to miners; king reveals go to plans

The Queensland Greens have introduced they need to arrange a mining firm.

The celebration will launch the coverage at present at state parliament.

Queensland Minerals would exploit a few of the estimated half-a-billion {dollars} value of vital minerals within the North West Minerals Province, close to Mt Isa.

The corporate would mine minerals like zinc, cobalt, copper, lead and gold, all of them mandatory for renewable power improvement.

Greens MP Michael Berkman stated about 86% of the income of the prevailing mining sector goes offshore, as a result of it’s owned by “big multinational corporations”.

As an alternative of squandering the subsequent mining growth sending income abroad, the Greens need to preserve them proper right here in Queensland,” he stated.

100% of income from Queensland Minerals would return to the individuals of Queensland, with an additional $14 billion to spend on issues like hospitals, faculties and housing.

One of the best job for a coal miner is one other mining job, which is why we’d give former coal and gasoline staff precedence for jobs at Queensland Minerals.”

The governments of a number of nations, like Norway’s and Chile’s, personal their very own mining corporations. A out a 3rd of the world’s useful resource manufacturing is carried out by state-owned corporations.

There’s a very huge battle between Labor and the Coalition for the state of Western Australia occurring for the time being.

The Liberals see Tagney and the independent-held Curtin as beneficial properties, whereas the WA Nationals are making a play for the brand new seat of Bulwinkle (which might be a bit historic in its personal proper, given the Nats haven’t had a federal member since Tony Criminal held O’Connor between 2010-2013. The WA Nationals aren’t in alliance with the WA Liberals)

WA helped Labor to majority authorities on the final election and is essential to the plans of each main events on the subsequent ballot. And mining has as soon as once more change into a hot-button concern, with each the key celebration leaders claiming they’re the best pal to WA in Canberra (Peter Dutton shall be very specific about that in his coming speech to the minerals’ council at present)

The assistant minister to the prime minister, Patrick Gorman, has written an op-ed within the West Australian newspaper forward of Dutton’s speech the place he takes intention…. on the Greens.

The Greens Get together is eroding democracy greater than you realize. The mixture of their “block everything” method and their dishonest slogans is undermining democracy.

Gone are the environmental campaigners of the Nineteen Nineties that I bear in mind from rising up in Fremantle. Changing them is a advertising and marketing machine that, like a pyramid scheme, solely cares about its personal survival. And it’s the individuals who vote for them who get harm essentially the most.

I’ve sat in parliament gobsmacked on the Greens’ damaging method that has outlined them this time period. They tried to destroy the Housing Australia Future Fund. The Greens led the safety racket for the corruption within the CFMEU. Now the Greens say they’ll vote to oppose environmental safety australia [legislation].

I’m a progressive. Sadly the Greens at the moment are simply aggressive

Anthony Albanese is beginning the day in Sydney, the place he’ll greet Australia’s Paralympians who’re returning house from Paris.

The official welcome begins at 8.30

Dan Tehan outraged over tattered flag after devastating winds

Liberal frontbencher Dan Tehan is constant to moonlight as Australia’s flag corridor monitor.

Canberra, like quite a lot of NSW and Victoria, was hit by very robust winds lately – robust sufficient to carry down bushes – and the flag above parliament home, which flies 24 hours a day (with a particular dispensation to fly at night time – it’s a complete protocol factor) didn’t achieve this properly.

The employees who take care of it solely go up when its secure to take action. However Tehan is OUTRAGED (as soon as once more – it is a operating theme with Tehan) that the flag will not be trying pristine.

It’s not the federal government’s job to take care of the flag – it’s the job of apolitical parliament employees. Tehan is aware of that, however right here we’re.

Home values spiral amid rate of interest and price of dwelling pressures, knowledge exhibits

Nino Bucci

Home values dropped in virtually 80% of Melbourne suburbs up to now three months, property knowledge exhibits, with falls additionally recorded throughout 30% of suburbs analysed nationally.

The info from CoreLogic analysed values in 3,655 suburbs over the three months till August. The ABS says there are 15,353 suburbs and localities throughout the nation.

In a press release, CoreLogic stated it discovered Melbourne (79.1%) and regional Victorian suburbs (73.8%) made up the vast majority of falls over the quarter. Greater than half of the suburbs in Hobart (54.3%), Darwin (51.2%), and Canberra (51.6%) additionally skilled declining values, whereas all suburbs analysed in Perth noticed values enhance.

Kaytlin Ezzy, an economist at CoreLogic, stated quarterly worth declines had been turning into extra widespread as excessive rates of interest and price of dwelling challenges continued to chunk:

Whereas values are nonetheless rising on the nationwide stage, albeit at a slowing tempo, beneath the headline determine, we’re beginning to see some weak point, notably in Victoria.

Ezzy stated declines in Melbourne had been concentrated in additional prosperous areas.

The proportion of suburbs in quarterly decline nationally was 29.2% in August, up from 17.2% a yr in the past.

After Melbourne, Sydney was the Australian metropolis with the biggest enhance within the proportion of suburbs in decline over the previous yr, from 3.8% to 25.9%.

Good morning

Amy Remeikis

A really huge thanks to Martin for beginning us off on what will be a jam packed day – and that’s not even counting the US presidential candidate debate.

You might have Amy Remeikis with you for a lot of the day – prepared? Let’s get into it.

Specialists name for vaping enforcement in wake of uptake research

Extra on that vaping research we talked about earlier: Public well being specialists say the analysis highlights why the federal government’s vaping reforms launched this yr now have to be strongly enforced.

Prof Becky Freeman, the research’s supervisor from the College of Sydney, stated “when it comes to teenage smoking, up until recently Australia was an international success story. Our Australian teenage ever-smoking rates dropped from 58% in 1996, to 14% in 2023. But recent data has suggested a possible increase in teenage smoking over the same time period that vape use has exploded.”

“Public health experts have warned that teenage vaping uptake has the potential to undo the positive progress Australia has made in reducing smoking. This latest study shows how real that threat is.”

Adjunct Prof Terry Slevin, chief government of the Public Well being Affiliation of Australia, says that whereas public well being specialists have welcomed the reforms constructive change received’t occur in a single day.

“We need to make sure that state and territory governments are harmonising their local legislation and enforcement with the federal reforms. All levels of government will need to work together to protect young people.”

Caitlin Cassidy has been studying by means of the speech to be made by Universities Australia chair Prof David Lloyd on the Nationwide Press Membership at present.

In it, he’ll accuse either side of parliament of utilizing the tertiary schooling sector as a “political plaything” in a scathing critique of Labor’s proposed worldwide scholar cap. Right here’s her full story:

Youngsters who vape are 5 instances extra more likely to strive smoking, research finds

Natasha Could

Youngsters who vape are not less than 5 instances extra more likely to go on to strive smoking than those that have by no means vaped, new analysis has discovered.

The research revealed at present within the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Well being discovered an “alarming trend”: the youthful an individual begins vaping, the upper their threat that they’ll subsequently strive smoking.

The researchers calculated 12-year-olds who had vaped had been 29 instances extra more likely to go on to strive smoking than those that had by no means vaped, 13 yr olds had been over 11 instances extra probably, and 14 yr olds six instances extra probably. By comparability, 17 yr olds had been twice as more likely to have tried smoking if that they had vaped.

The research analysed the solutions of 5,114 youngsters aged 14 to 17 who took half within the Era Vape survey in 2023, recalling data going again to once they had been 12 years of age. Utilizing the responses to questions on their age and the order of beginning smoking/vaping, the researchers constructed retrospective timelines of initiation occasions.

“While e-cigarettes may have been initially claimed as a smoking cessation aid for adult smokers, the stark disparities in [rates] for younger adolescents are a sobering reminder of the broader public health consequences of a market that has failed to contain vaping product marketing and access,” the researchers wrote.

In addition they discovered the initiation of vaping appeared simply as more likely to result in smoking past non-experimental ranges as to mere initiation of some puffs.

Lead writer Sam Egger from the Daffodil Centre stated: “It’s the first Australian study to look at the relationship between teenage vape use and smoking over time, and across different ages.”

Royal go to to incorporate fleet overview, most cancers analysis and assembly with First Nations teams

The Sydney schedule for the king and queen’s go to doesn’t but embody the King Charles III Stakes horse race, scheduled to run at Randwick on the primary full day of his go to. The king’s mom was famed for her love of horse racing however her son reportedly didn’t share the identical fervour.

However it’ll embody each royals conducting a fleet overview of the Royal Australian Navy and an look at a “community BBQ celebrating Australia’s cultural diversity and showcasing quality produce from across New South Wales”.

Charles will meet the Australians of the 12 months, Prof Georgina Lengthy and Prof Richard Scolyer, who will transient him on most cancers analysis. His schedule in Sydney additionally features a assembly with First Nations representatives and teams. The precise dates for every of those commitments are but to be confirmed.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, stated in a press release:

The royal go to is a chance to showcase one of the best of Australia – our wealthy tradition, our sense of neighborhood, and contributions to science, analysis and international progress.

His Majesty first visited Australia in 1966, and has a robust private affection for our nation. We’re delighted that His Majesty is recovering properly and has made visiting Australia as soon as once more a precedence.

Australians sit up for welcoming the King and Queen again to Australia in October, and highlighting one of the best of the Australian spirit.

Royal go to particulars introduced

King Charles and Queen Camilla will hear in regards to the international impacts of the local weather disaster, meet political and neighborhood leaders and examine naval ships throughout their go to to Australia subsequent month.

Buckingham Palace and the Australian authorities have launched particulars in regards to the royal go to scheduled to run from 18 October to 23 October, with stops in Canberra and Sydney.

Charles and Camilla are anticipated to be welcomed to Parliament Home and attend a reception for political and neighborhood leaders. They’re additionally anticipated to satisfy Australians who’ve excelled within the fields of well being, arts, tradition and sport.

The king and queen are anticipated to attend the Australian Conflict Memorial and go to the Australian Nationwide Botanic Gardens in Canberra, the place they’ll “meet with staff and volunteers to discuss the global impacts of climate change”, in keeping with a abstract of the schedule.

Charles may also hear from CSIRO scientists on their work to take care of the influence of bushfires in Australia, whereas Camila will be a part of a dialogue on household and home violence.

Dutton to slash environmental activist powers if elected

Peter Dutton says he’ll slash the ability and affect of environmental teams to problem mining proposals if he wins authorities, Australian Related Press stories.

“A government that I lead will not allow activists to dictate economic policy and to pull the handbrake on our prosperity,” Dutton is predicted to say in an tackle to the Minerals Council of Australia on Wednesday, in keeping with notes distributed to the media upfront.

Dutton will decide to defunding the Environmental Defenders Workplace and limiting the power for third events to problem selections beneath the Surroundings Safety and Biodiversity Conservation Act if he turns into prime minister.

“And we will cut green tape while striking the right balance between our responsibilities to the environment and the economy,” the notes learn.

The Environmental Defenders Workplace, the nationwide physique devoted to defending local weather and communities by means of operating litigation and advocating for legislation reform, had thousands and thousands of {dollars} of federal funding restored by Labor after it was minimize in 2013.

Dutton will promise to “turbocharge” the mining sector to assist steer the nation by means of the financial droop and into one other growth. “A Dutton coalition government will be the best friend that the mining and resources sector in Australia will ever have,” he’ll say.

“I want to see more excavators digging, more gas flowing, and more trucks moving.

Good morning and welcome to our live politics blog following all the news and developments from Canberra – but also around the country. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ve got some of the early headlines before Amy Remeikis takes you through the main action.

Our top story this morning highlights the plight of asylum seekers detained on Manus and now stranded in Papua New Guinea who face being made homeless this week because they can’t afford to pay their rent. Asylum seekers have been threatened with eviction if an alleged $110,000 rental arrears debt is not paid, leading to urgent calls for the Australian government to intervene to prevent them becoming “homeless”.

The chair of Universities Australia will accuse either side of parliament of utilizing the tertiary schooling sector as a “political plaything” in a scathing critique of Labor’s proposed worldwide scholar cap. Talking on the Nationwide Press Membership at present, Prof David Lloyd will name the choice to cap worldwide scholar enrolments at a most of 270,000 essentially the most “extraordinary intervention” by a authorities into universities because the Morrison authorities vetoed six Australian Analysis Council grants in 2021.

Youngsters who vape are not less than 5 instances extra more likely to go on to strive smoking than those that have by no means vaped, new analysis has discovered – extra on that developing.

A number of the itinerary for the king and queen’s go to to Sydney and Canberra subsequent month has been revealed; we’ll pop the small print on this weblog for you.

And Peter Dutton is to present a speech at present at Minerals Week by which he’ll promise to be a “best friend” to the mining trade, do away with regulation and scale back the power of environmental teams to problem tasks. He needs “more gas flowing and more trucks moving”.