Coalition ‘will not stand in the best way’ of $150 vitality rebates
Dan Jervis-Bardy
The Coalition has instantly matched the $150 vitality invoice rebate to be included in Labor’s pre-election finances on Tuesday.
In an interview on Sky Information on Sunday, the shadow finance minister, Jane Hume, mentioned:
The Coalition won’t stand in the best way of much-needed vitality aid from these excessive electrical energy costs, excessive gasoline costs which can be attributable to Labor’s failed insurance policies.
The federal government on Sunday introduced the brand new cost-of-living aid, which extends vitality rebates for all households till the top of 2025 at a price of $1.8bn.
The $300 rebates introduced within the 2024 finances had been attributable to expire on June 30.
As we reported final week, Peter Dutton was dealing with inside stress to match any cost-of-living measures in subsequent week’s finances to neutralise doubtlessly damaging Labor assaults through the election marketing campaign.
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Emily Wind
Greens unveil plan to divert $4bn defence spending to home, ‘defensive’ missiles
The Greens have unveiled a plan to divert billions of defence spending on American expertise to the home manufacturing of “defensive” missiles and autos.
The occasion has outlined $4bn in financial savings to fund its plan, arguing the Australian Defence Power is at present designed to “work interoperably with the US military, not to defend Australia.”
Its defence spokesperson, David Shoebridge, mentioned the occasion would search to cancel Australia’s $368bn Aukus submarine cope with america and United Kingdom – which the occasion has lengthy been against. It could additionally cease the $2.4bn acquisition of M1A2 Abrams tanks and Black Hawk helicopters from the US.
They’re each provided by the US with little to no sovereign enter, are costly and outdated. Like Aukus, this tools is far more about signalling our loyalty to the US than defending Australia.
Beneath the Greens’ plan, the billions in funds would as an alternative go in the direction of manufacturing “capabilities of uncrewed naval and aerial vehicles as well as medium-range and intermediate-range missiles, for strictly defensive purposes only,” a press release mentioned.
The prime minister Anthony Albanese insisted Aukus’ future was protected in February after president Donald Trump appeared to not know what it meant. The opposition chief Peter Dutton additionally backed Aukus this week, saying the necessity for the settlement was larger than ever.
Krishani Dhanji
Greens suggest new ‘Climate Response Service’ to scale back reliance on ADF in pure disasters
The Greens have launched their pitch for a “Climate Response Service” to reply to pure disasters earlier than the ADF is known as in.
Parliamentary inquiries, opinions and a royal fee into the 2019-2020 black summer season bushfire response have all discovered counting on the ADF for pure disasters is “unsustainable”.
ADF help for the black summer season bushfires in 2019-2020 and the 2022 floods in NSW and Queensland price greater than $90m, in keeping with the Australian Nationwide Audit Workplace.
The occasion launched the plan yesterday within the NSW Northern Rivers area, which continues to be recovering from the 2022 floods.
It could commit $1bn a 12 months over three years to create a service managed by the Nationwide Emergency Administration Authority and work with native communities to organize for disasters and help with clear up, taking stress off the ADF.
Greens Chief Adam Bandt mentioned ending fossil gasoline subsidies would assist pay for the service.
A nationwide Local weather Response Service would assist coordinate the 1000’s of volunteers who already do that life-saving work throughout the nation, and we’ll make the coal and gasoline firms pay for it.
Catie McLeod
US cuts analysis funding from seven Australian universities
The training division has confirmed that the US has reduce analysis funding from seven Australian universities.
As we reported final week, the Trump administration advised Australian college researchers a push to advertise administration priorities and keep away from “DEI, woke gender ideology and the green new deal” was behind a “temporary pause” of funding.
Yesterday afternoon, our training division confirmed the funding cuts and named the affected universities: the Australian Nationwide College, Monash College, College of Expertise Sydney, College of New South Wales, Charles Darwin College, Macquarie College and College of Western Australia.
In a press release, the training minister, Jason Clare, mentioned:
Australia and United States analysis establishments have a protracted historical past of cooperation that has helped develop new applied sciences and options to world challenges.
Australian universities punch above their weight in analysis. Australia is just 0.3 per cent of the world’s inhabitants, however we do 3 per cent of the world’s analysis.
Worldwide companions need to work with our universities as a result of they’re the perfect.
In the end, the US will fund the analysis it needs to fund, however we are going to proceed to make the case to the US that collaborative analysis advantages each US and Australia’s pursuits.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
$150 vitality invoice rebates not ‘election bribe’, Chalmers says
Additionally showing on Sky Information, the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, dismissed ideas the $150 rebates had been an “election bribe” or an try and make up for its failure to ship a promised $275 reduce to energy payments.
Chalmers mentioned:
I might describe it as hip-pocket aid for households. I might describe it as a authorities responding to the pressures that individuals nonetheless really feel regardless of this progress that we’ve made on inflation.
PM calls Dutton ‘out of touch’ over make money working from home push
Again to the prime minister’s presser earlier this morning.
Requested about authorities evaluation within the Telegraph suggesting that employees might spend as much as $5,000 to start out going again into the workplace, Albanese condemned the Coalition’s push to finish make money working from home for public servants. He mentioned:
We all know that working from residence has had a spread of benefits. A kind of is much less time travelling, whether or not that be in a personal motorized vehicle or on public transport to and from residence. It’s additionally enabled folks to beat the tyranny of distance on this nice nation.
It has additionally meant for working households, the place each dad and mom are working … working from residence has enabled them to work full-time, and subsequently it has elevated workforce participation, notably for ladies.
Peter Dutton has mentioned that firstly, he has questioned working from residence … And he has mentioned that, oh, effectively, girls specifically can simply exit and job share. Effectively folks need to work full-time with a view to be sure they’ll take care of their households. This simply reveals how out of contact Peter Dutton is – flexibility in workplaces has introduced substantial advantages.
He’s additionally mentioned, I would like you to be at residence seven days every week, 24 hours a day, as a result of he’s going to sack 36,000 public servants. He couldn’t even rule out sacking individuals who work for the Nationwide Emergency Administration Company … The concept there are folks sitting round in Canberra doing nothing simply reveals how out of contact Peter Dutton is.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Coalition maintaining rebate as a result of authorities’s ‘lost control’ of energy payments, Littleproud says
The Nationals chief, David Littleproud, was slightly blunter when explaining why the Coalition couldn’t afford to oppose the $150 vitality rebates.
Littleproud advised 9’s Weekend In the present day:
Effectively, we’ll should again this, in any other case there’ll be Australian households that go broke. That is the final determined act of a authorities that has misplaced management of your energy invoice and your meals invoice, they’re intertwined.
Your grocery payments are increased as a result of your vitality payments are increased, and this all-renewables strategy has a consequence.
Coalition ‘will not stand in the best way’ of $150 vitality rebates
Dan Jervis-Bardy
The Coalition has instantly matched the $150 vitality invoice rebate to be included in Labor’s pre-election finances on Tuesday.
In an interview on Sky Information on Sunday, the shadow finance minister, Jane Hume, mentioned:
The Coalition won’t stand in the best way of much-needed vitality aid from these excessive electrical energy costs, excessive gasoline costs which can be attributable to Labor’s failed insurance policies.
The federal government on Sunday introduced the brand new cost-of-living aid, which extends vitality rebates for all households till the top of 2025 at a price of $1.8bn.
The $300 rebates introduced within the 2024 finances had been attributable to expire on June 30.
As we reported final week, Peter Dutton was dealing with inside stress to match any cost-of-living measures in subsequent week’s finances to neutralise doubtlessly damaging Labor assaults through the election marketing campaign.
PM says cost-of-living help will put downward stress on inflation
Prime minister Anthony Albanese spoke earlier this morning in regards to the extra $150 in vitality invoice aid introduced final evening.
“We wanted to make sure that this energy bill relief was extended through this calendar year to the end of 2025,” he mentioned.
The price-of-living help will put downward stress on inflation, Albanese mentioned when requested whether or not energy payments will begin to fall on their very own by 2026. He continued:
What we’ve seen is that in 2024 energy costs fell 25.2%. They’d have fallen simply 1.6% with out rebate. So that is vitality invoice aid, cost-of-living help that may even have an impact of placing downward stress on inflation.
From 1 July, each family and about 1 million small companies could have one other $150 in rebates “automatically applied to their electricity bills in quarterly instalments”, the federal government introduced on Saturday evening.
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In a single day, the Albanese authorities introduced one other $150 in vitality invoice aid earlier than Tuesday’s finances, which is tipped to incorporate extra price of dwelling help for households.
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Analysis discovered proposed nuclear energy crops in Queensland wouldn’t have entry to sufficient water to cease a nuclear meltdown and will pressure capability on ingesting water and irrigation provides even beneath regular operations.
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