Information stay: Coalition didn’t ask Geoscience Australia to evaluate proposed nuclear reactor websites for hazards, inquiry informed

Constructing on that, Chalmers says there have been a few takeaways from the lead to Queensland:

Initially, the end result on Saturday night time was decisive. Nevertheless it wasn’t surprising. And there are classes for us, however there are additionally variations.

Theirs was a authorities, as Cameron Dick stated on TV yesterday, that had been there for nearly a decade. Ours is a authorities in its first time period. So there are apparent variations. However I don’t need to fake that there aren’t classes for us as nicely. In fact there are. There are all the time classes in elections like this one. There are all the time issues that we will be taught. There are all the time issues that we will do higher.

And we’ll undergo the outcomes with that in thoughts. We have now all the time believed, and we’ve got all the time acted in relation to this perception – governments are all the time greatest once they go in for the entire place. The areas, the suburbs, and the cities. After they govern for the entire place. And that’s what Anthony Albanese does as prime minister.

Many people take to that job a suburban outlook. You talked about the outer suburbs that I characterize. You have been there not that way back. One of many heartening issues – regardless of some huge swings in areas like mine – I’ve received six state seats in my federal voters. We’re trying like holding at the very least 5, however in all probability six of these.

So what that tells us – we’ve received these great state members in my a part of Queensland – what that tells us, should you make the correct selections for the correct causes and also you’re a very good native consultant, then you possibly can grasp on even when issues are turning in opposition to the federal government. So, good native illustration, good, accountable selections.

Queenslanders are pragmatic and sensible individuals. And the Albanese authorities is a realistic and sensible authorities. However we’ll undergo the teachings from Saturday night time. We gained’t telegraph these classes to our opponents by working by them intimately for you at a press convention. However we gained’t be ignoring the teachings of Saturday. We perceive that individuals are doing it powerful. We perceive that individuals typically specific that on the poll field, which is their proper. And so we’ll undergo the teachings of Saturday with that in thoughts.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is talking to reporters, the place he congratulated David Crisafulli and the LNP for his or her victory within the Queensland election.

He stated he supposed to work with Crisafulli and the brand new Queensland authorities:

I provide them my warmest congratulations and we’ll work with the brand new LNP authorities in Queensland in the identical constructive method that we labored with the previous Labor authorities in Queensland. I’ve been in a position to relay my congratulations to incoming Treasurer Jenetsky already. We have now agreed to catch up this week, almost definitely on Thursday, topic to the timing of the brand new authorities’s swearing-in. However we’ve had a really heat alternate, and I look ahead to speaking with him later within the week and dealing with him on behalf of the individuals of Queensland as nicely.

Chalmers went on to say that the outcome wouldn’t change how Labor will put together for the following federal election.

I need to reassure individuals that we are going to proceed to place accountable financial administration because the defining characteristic of this Albanese Labor authorities. This election was by no means going to be, from our aspect, a free-for-all of public spending. It wasn’t going to be earlier than Saturday’s final result, and it’s not going to be after Saturday’s final result.

Coalition didn’t ask Geoscience Australia about its nuclear websites, inquiry hears

Graham Readfearn

The Coalition has not approached Geoscience Australia to ask concerning the suitability of any of the seven websites the place it desires to place nuclear reactors, together with for dangers from earthquakes, a parliamentary listening to has simply heard.

The federal government’s parliamentary inquiry into nuclear power has its second listening to as we speak and officers from Geoscience Australia are giving proof.

The officers confirmed the Coalition had not requested for its view on the suitability of any of the websites it’s proposing, and stated it might possible take two years to ship a full evaluation of the dangers from a spread of hazards, together with earthquakes, tsunamis and the situation of the earth beneath every web site.

Ted O’Brien, the opposition’s power spokesman, stated this two-year timeframe was in step with the Coalition’s coverage.

O’Brien revealed the Coalition had been taking recommendation from Prof Andrew Whittaker, a US-based knowledgeable on seismic occasions in relation to nuclear power.

O’Brien stated Whittaker has informed him that current earthquakes within the Hunter valley, close to the Liddell energy station – a web site earmarked for a reactor by the Coalition – and these can be “entirely inconsequential” to the operation of a nuclear energy plant.

However John Dawson, a department head of neighborhood security at Geoscience Australia, stated any evaluation of a web site would require “detailed investigation” earlier than “anyone can say definitively if these sites are suitable.”

Bandt on his Qantas chairman’s lounge membership: ‘We have always declared this and let people make their own judgments’

I wished to simply return to Bandt’s look on RN Breakfast earlier, the place he was additionally questioned about his membership of the Qantas chairman’s lounge.

However Bandt stated he had declared his membership:

We’ve been calling for at occasions, when Qantas has include its cap in hand and stated that they want help, we’ve stated, nicely possibly we must always take a look at authorities proudly owning a stake on this important service, in our transport but once more.

The Greens don’t take donations from huge companies.

Look, I’ll let individuals make their very own selections. We declare it for the reason that starting. We have now all the time declared this and let individuals make their very own judgments after which individually take a look on the insurance policies that we’re advancing.

Watt requested about Australia’s resolution to dam Qatar from rising flights

Watt continued discussing the prime minister’s relationship with Qantas on RN Breakfast earlier, the place he stated accusations of favouritism are “hypocritical”.

All of it comes from a guide by former Australian Monetary Overview columnist Joe Aston which works into the current tumultous years at Qantas.

Aston stated the choice to dam Qatar Airways from rising flights to Australia was “impossible to justify” earlier on RN Breakfast, however Watt questioned why those self same criticisms aren’t made from earlier Coalition governments who made the identical name.

Watt particularly pointed to former Coalition transport minister Michael McCormack, who he stated made the identical resolution.

“McCormack has said that he made that decision to knock back Qatar based on the national interest at the time, and that was the basis for our decision as well.

“[Transport minister] Catherine King has approved, since the Qatar decision, extra flights for Turkish Airways, so it’s not as if we have some sort of blanket ban against airlines flying into Australia to protect Qantas.”

Watt stated the choice was made “on its merits” like every software of its form.

Employment minister Murray Watt has refused to touch upon studies Anthony Albanese used his membership in Qantas’s chairman’s lounge to solicit flight upgrades when he was transport minister and opposition chief.

Watt was on RN Breakfast, the place he refused to be drawn on what he known as “unsourced claim by a journalist” that Albanese would attain out on to former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce straight about his journey.

Watt additionally took the chance to preemptively criticise any opposition concentrate on the problem:

If in case you have a have a look at Peter Dutton behaviour, for instance, a number of upgrades from the Qantas and different airways, he’s had free flights paid for by Gina Rinehart.

I actually would ponder whether it’s clever for the opposition to begin calling this type of stuff into query.

Requested about his personal membership of the lounge, Watt stated “pretty much everyone” can also be a member:

We clearly spend an unlimited period of time at airports. I feel this week, I’m going to be in about three or 4 totally different cities, flying from place to put. And it’s useful once in a while, to have the ability to have non-public conferences or non-public environments, to have the ability to have groups conferences together with your workplace, which I do each time I fly.

The prime minister was adamant yesterday he had declared all earlier free upgrades to Qantas flights he had acquired as “appropriate”, including that these reported within the 9 papers over the weekend “go back a long, a long period of time”.

He stated that “from time to time, members of parliament receive upgrades”.

“What’s important is that they are declared. All of mine have been declared.”

‘We are up for negotiation’: Adam Bandt to Labor

Bandt continues, saying the Greens gained’t be altering their strategy federally regardless of the Queensland ballot outcome.

He stated the Greens need to negotiate with Labor on their insurance policies:

We wish Labor to barter like we did within the earlier housing laws, the place we not solely improved and handed Labour’s housing laws, however we received $3bn to begin constructing public and neighborhood housing.

I feel that is a part of the message that we’re making an attempt to provide to the federal government. We’re up for negotiation.

The Greens chief Adam Bandt has blamed Labor for his social gathering’s poor exhibiting within the Queensland election.

Bandt was on RN Breakfast earlier, and stated Labor had adopted Greens insurance policies like low cost public transport and free faculty lunches to undermine them:

We could find yourself with the 2 seats that we went in with. The postal votes are nonetheless being counted, however look, these are seats that, sure, we have been hoping to win.

And I assume these are the seats that I’m speaking about the place Labor gave up on the suburbs, gave up on the areas, and as a substitute centered their attentions in these seats.

That is, that is a part of the explanation that we that we’re pushing these insurance policies, is that individuals need assistance, proper? There’s a there’s an enormous price of residing disaster. Individuals are in dire straits.

It was the adoption of insurance policies and folks seeing them in follow that’s largely liable for Labor, I assume, sandbagging and holding on to a few of these seats.

Josh Butler

Labor to launch grants to assist girls get into ‘male dominated’ industries

The federal government will quickly open functions for a brand new grants program to assist girls into “traditionally male dominated” industries like development and manufacturing, as a part of a $60m coaching and office initiative.

The ‘Building Women’s Careers Program’ partnership is geared toward initiatives like altering office cultures and behaviours, extra versatile rostering approaches to help women and men with caring tasks, and boosting current initiatives which have already elevated recruitment charges.

“Projects will address the barriers for women entering, remaining and advancing in the traditionally male-dominated industries of construction, clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and digital and technology,” minister for ladies Katy Gallagher and expertise minister Andrew Giles stated in an announcement.

The grants will likely be out there for business and neighborhood initiatives, with functions open from 14 November.

Josh Butler

Albanese defends his authorities’s industrial relations reforms

Anthony Albanese has backed in his authorities’s Identical Job Identical Pay legal guidelines for labour rent loopholes, saying they’re securing huge pay rises for blue-collar employees nationwide.

The prime minister’s newest full-throated defence of the Labor authorities’s industrial relations adjustments comes forward of what’s anticipated to be a heated debate on office legal guidelines on the coming election, with criticism from the Coalition and large enterprise teams desirous to roll again the reforms.

In a speech to the Mining and Power Union’s nationwide conference in Brisbane on Monday, Albanese may even accuse opposition chief Peter Dutton of searching for to “wreck every bit of progress” Labor had made in authorities.

Within the speech, Albanese will say critics of the legal guidelines had made “bizarre comparisons and baseless claims”.

“We were not deterred – and Australians weren’t fooled,” he’ll say, prematurely speech notes shared by his workplace.

The PM claims one employee will get a $33,000 pay rise underneath the adjustments, and that “thousands of mining workers” are in line for giant pay bumps too.

“I’m proud we’ve worked together to deliver this change – now we have to stand together and defend it,” he’ll say.

Albanese will inform the conference that “there is a lot that Peter Dutton is not telling the Australian people about his agenda”, citing the Coalition’s nuclear energy plan, and elevating doubt over potential cuts to Medicare, pensions, hire help and power invoice reduction.

“But he is crystal clear about one thing. He wants to rip up every new right workers have negotiated. He wants to wreck every bit of progress we have made. And wants to cut every pay rise your members have earned,” Albanese will say.

Reactions to the Queensland election outcome are persevering with this morning, with surroundings minister Tanya Plibersek specializing in the Greens’ disappointing one-seat haul.

Talking on Channel 7’s Dawn, she stated the Greens’ blocking of laws within the Senate and MP Max Chandler-Mather’s help for the CFMEU have been responsible:

Individuals have been saying they have been shocked [by] Max Chandler-Mather standing up and defending the… prison parts of the CFMEU on the again of a truck with a megaphone, as a substitute of voting for housing, cheaper housing and extra of it to be constructed.

They’re holding up housing reform. In my space, holding up environmental legislation reform, the institution of an surroundings safety company is one thing environmentalists have been calling on for many years and it’s the Greens which are blocking it.

Individuals have a look at that and go ‘these people aren’t severe about making progress. They’re solely about opposition. They’re solely about making some extent’.

‘Stronger laws do act as a deterrent’

Lastly, the incoming Queensland premier is requested about his “adult time for adult crimes” coverage, and particularly if it would result in an unsustainable growth in jail inhabitants.

However Crisafulli dismissed issues:

For the time being, you’ve received youngsters in watch homes as a result of the federal government hasn’t deliberate and delivered these issues. We’ll. I do consider we do want corrective services. However we additionally want different alternates. I’ve spoken about circuit-breaker sentencing the place we will ship youngsters to distant areas that aren’t a jail however give the schooling, construction and self-discipline to show their life round. I’ve spoken about early intervention expertise.

We’ll ship these early in Queensland. The query is a really related one, however the reply needs to be in two elements. Stronger legal guidelines do act as a deterrent. Stronger legal guidelines do be certain there are penalties for unhealthy behaviour. When you aren’t doing early intervention and rehabilitation, it means nothing. For the time being, what’s occurring in Queensland is there’s a 72-hour plan when a baby leaves youth detention, and half the youngsters aren’t even getting that … 72 hours isn’t sufficient. We want a 12-month plan, six months intensive, to provide each particular person the power to show their life round. The 91% reoffending price is damaged. You’ve received to try to do higher than that.

Crisafuli on nuclear: ‘It was no before the election, and it’s no after’

Crisafulli is subsequent requested about nuclear energy, and if he would implement a possible Dutton authorities’s plan after the following federal election.

And his reply was clear:

It was no earlier than the election, and it’s no after. I feel that’s what individuals need to see from me.

I need to reset the connection with Canberra to considered one of respect but additionally being forceful and placing ahead our viewpoint. I’ll try this whether or not or not Mr Albanese or Mr Dutton is there. I’ve received a very good relationship with Peter. We’ve been pals for a very long time. I even have a very good relationship with the prime minister. I spoke with him yesterday.

I don’t help the discount in 80/20 for funding for the Bruce Freeway. I used to be up-front about that. That will likely be achieved respectfully. So too, if Peter was to turn into prime minister. I’ve seen in current occasions the general public lose religion notably with what I noticed in Queensland when authorities modified in Canberra. It was a very totally different strategy. I’ve received to be on the Maroon crew and I’ve received to place ahead our case to get our justifiable share of funding – and in return, I say to Canberra, we’ll do issues on time and on finances, which hasn’t occurred.

The incoming Queensland premier David Crisafulli has stated that his authorities will likely be pulling collectively a plan for the Olympics inside its first 100 days.

Requested on ABC Information if he was personally leaning in the direction of a refurbishment of the Gabba, Crisafulli stated individuals see these Olympics as “an opportunity for generational infrastructure.”:

What I’m speaking about is strictly the mannequin that’s been used efficiently earlier than. The issue is when you may have issues as knee-jerk reactions the place politicians say this has to occur and also you get the mess that we’ve seen. I don’t need that to occur. I would like the perfect and brightest to be across the room. Inside 100 days, you’ll get a plan that Queenslanders can purchase into. I feel, overwhelmingly, that’s what the state desires to see.

… Inside days, we will repair what we haven’t seen in 1,200 days.

I feel, overwhelmingly, individuals will see a possibility for generational infrastructure. That’s what internet hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Video games has all the time been about.

Good morning. Mostafa Rachwani with you as we speak to take you thru the day’s information.

We begin with 3G as Telstra and Optus start the method of switching off the community as we speak. The communications minister, Michelle Rowland, has urged all Australians to examine if they are going to be affected and to improve their tech if wanted.

Over to Queensland, the place incoming premier David Crisafulli is because of be sworn in because the Liberal Nationwide social gathering is on observe to type a majority authorities. Crisafulli and his deputy Jarrod Bleijie will likely be sworn into interim management roles once they meet with governor Jeannette Younger later as we speak, and they’ll stay interim till counting is finalised.

We’re carry you the newest developments there and throughout the nation as they arrive.