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Australian aluminium not flooding the US market: Farrell
Commerce Minister Don Farrell says he doesn’t imagine Australia is “flooding” the US market with our aluminium, as recommended by Donald Trump’s senior commerce advisor Peter Navarro.
He’s informed ABC RN Breakfast:
I don’t imagine we’re, we’ve completed at any stage, something that has not been agreed to by the American authorities.
I’m positive that we adjust to the entire obligations that America imposes on these firms which can be supplying into the US, and that wouldn’t matter whether or not it was beef or lamb or grain or metal or aluminum, I might be completely sure Australian firms adjust to all of their obligations when it comes to reporting into the US.
Sally Sara asks whether or not the division of international affairs has been reporting the exports Australia has been exporting to the US division of commerce, however Farrell says he doesn’t know “exactly how that information is collected by the Americans”
He reiterates the purpose – which Trump additionally talked about this week – that the US has a commerce surplus with Australia.
Goverment says nuclear energy would require an additional Sydney Harbour’s price of water a 12 months
Tanya Plibersek can also be requested about this story that my colleague Dan Jervis-Bardy has this morning.
Authorities evaluation equipped to Guardian Australia suggests the Coalition’s plan to switch retired coal-fired energy stations with nuclear energy crops would require an extra 508,000 megalitres annually.
How a lot is that? Plibersek, the setting minister, says it’s quite a bit:
It’s about an additional Sydney Harbour’s price of water that we must discover yearly and we’ve seen already abroad in Europe, for instance, in scorching, dry years, nuclear reactors having to be shut down or scale back their manufacturing capability as a result of the water isn’t there, and when the water is utilized in these nuclear reactors, it’s launched into the setting and hotter than it usually can be, and that clearly has environmental impacts all of its personal.
Dan’s gone by means of all of the numbers and you may see the total story right here:
Are the electoral reforms a ‘stitch up’ because the independents say?
Cupboard minister Tanya Plibersek informed ABC Information Breakfast earlier the reforms handed final evening with the help of the Coalition assist preserve out huge cash and massive donors like Clive Palmer (who additionally yesterday misplaced his excessive courtroom bid to re-register his get together, the United Australia Celebration).
The principles apply equally to any candidate, and so they say that we don’t need billionaires operating our electoral system. The reforms have come after a substantial amount of session, many parliamentary studies, neighborhood session and work with different events and the crossbench.
The argument from the independents is that for brand spanking new challengers, they’ve bought $800,000 whereas a celebration has as much as $90m which they will use for nationwide advert campaigns.
Both method, these reforms gained’t be in place this election, they’ll come into impact for the next one round 2028.
Good morning,
Krishani Dhanji right here with you on the final sitting day of the fortnight, we’ve made it.
This is likely one of the final, or probably the final sitting day earlier than the election. Final evening’s deal between the Coalition and Labor on electoral reform was one of many key insurance policies the federal government hoped to safe earlier than we head to the polls, after passing a invoice to laws manufacturing tax credit earlier this week.
As we’ve been reporting this morning, the prime minister will quickly ship a speech in parliament at a breakfast, marking 17 years since Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations.
And little doubt Donald Trump’s tariffs will proceed dominating the agenda – right here and overseas.
It’s going to be an enormous one!
Proper to disconnect legal guidelines discovered to have diminished unpaid time beyond regulation by a 3rd
Staff are doing much less unpaid work since proper to disconnect legal guidelines kicked in, Australian Related Press studies.
However unions warn that scrapping the measure would add 100 minutes of time beyond regulation every week for which staff aren’t compensated.
Below the legal guidelines, which got here into impact for many staff in August 2024, staff are allowed to fairly refuse to reply throughout out of labor hours.
Evaluation by the Centre for Future Work discovered for the reason that legal guidelines have been launched, the quantity of unpaid time beyond regulation fell from 5.4 to three.6 hours per week – a 33% discount.
Earlier than the correct to disconnect was launched, common wage earners in Australia accomplished about 3.3bn hours of unpaid work, with that determine dropping right down to 2.2bn.
Younger Australians aged 18 to 29 skilled the best decline in unpaid work.
The opposition chief, Peter Dutton, has pledged to wind again the legal guidelines. The ACTU secretary, Sally McManus, mentioned this was “astounding”.
Josh Butler
Extra on the PM’s upcoming speech at this time:
Rudd’s apology on 13 February 2008 “could not have happened without your courage”, Albanese will inform survivors.
“Nor would we have had the annual report card that is Closing the Gap. Yet like the Freedom Ride, it was the target of controversy and hostile opposition. The power of hindsight only serves to render that opposition even more baffling,” he’ll say.
The prime minister’s remarks don’t point out opposition chief Peter Dutton by title, however Albanese and Labor have recurrently criticised him for his determination to stroll out of the apology in parliament in 2008.
“Those, like John Howard, who argued it would divide were wrong. Australians were united in a moment of fundamental decency,” Albanese will say of the apology.
He will even announce the federal authorities will lengthen the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme to 30 June 2028 – which he mentioned “means we will be able to continue to accept applications from Stolen Generations survivors for an additional 18 months, bringing it more into line with state redress schemes in place”.
Josh Butler
Albanese to provide speech marking anniversary of apology to Stolen Generations
Prime minister Anthony Albanese will this morning reward survivors of the Stolen Generations in a speech at an anniversary occasion in Canberra.
Albanese will inform the breakfast at Parliament Home, marking 17 years since Kevin Rudd’s apology to Indigenous individuals faraway from their households, that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals should “have the same choices as non-Indigenous Australians”.
“An Australia in which the government works carefully with you towards a future in which Indigenous Australians have the economic security of a job and a home,” Albanese will say, based on an advance copy of his remarks.
“What guides my government every day is the instinct to ensure all Australians get the same chance in life. To work towards the reality in which all Australians have power over their destiny. And this all began when you – and all survivors – through patience, persistence and grace at last found your nation was ready to hear your hard truths.”
Welcome
Good morning and welcome to our stay information weblog. I’m Martin Farrer with a few of our greatest in a single day tales earlier than Krishani Dhanji takes over.
The share of wealth held by Australia’s backside 40% has fallen considerably in 20 years whereas 3.3 million individuals stay under the poverty line, based on a damning report by researchers at Monash College that discovered inequalities throughout wealth, housing, well being and training have been worsening. Australia now has proportionately extra individuals under the poverty line than Canada and the UK, and training outcomes have been widening between richer and poorer youngsters.
The prime minister is because of say this morning that the nationwide apology to the Stolen Generations made by Kevin Rudd in 2008 was a day “that mattered in the life of our nation”. At a breakfast in Canberra, Anthony Albanese will say: “Of all my days in parliament on which I look on with great pride, it remains the day of which I remain proudest.” Extra arising.
The Australian, UK-based human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson has referred to as for an investigation into the English prosecution service determination to cost Sam Kerr, calling it an “attack on free speech”. Robertson mentioned “no one in their right mind” believed that Kerr’s actions may have justified a jail sentence but the case nonetheless reached crown courtroom in a prison justice system “in chaos” due to years of underfunding.
And the ACTU have fired up in defence of the correct to disconnect legal guidelines, which the Coalition say they may scrap, however which the unions say have saved Australians from working a billion hours of unpaid work. Extra on that quickly.
