Tony Burke: “too late” to scrap modifications to unemployment advantages
Employment minister says it’s too late to vary jobseeker factors system
I simply wished to return to Tony Burke’s feedback to Sky Information this morning, the place he additionally stated it was “too late” to scrap modifications to unemployment advantages as a result of be launched subsequent month.
The employment minister stated as an alternative the federal government can be seeking to alter the scheme, which is able to change from the JobActive scheme to a brand new program referred to as Workforce Australia, which would require job-seekers to earn 100 factors a month by means of making use of for jobs, sitting interviews and present process coaching.
The controversial modifications have been launched by the Morrison authorities, and have been criticised by advocates for being complicated and doubtlessly tougher to work with.
Burke admitted the scheme was flawed, however stated there was not sufficient time to forestall it rolling out:
It’s truly too late to not have a factors system in any respect.
It’s about getting inside it and making it logical, and ensuring that when all these contracts take impact in a few weeks’ time, we’ve truly bought a system that helps long-term unemployed folks.
What the federal government has designed, a few of it’s extra punitive than truly getting the job performed.
We need to be sure that — and I’ll be altering it over the course of the following week — to ensure that we will have a system that’s designed to get folks into work, relatively than some media stunt to punish folks.
That’s the place we’ll depart our protection for at the moment. Thanks a lot for sticking with me. Don’t neglect, the Logies ceremony remains to be to come back tonight.
The ceremony is being held on the Gold Coast and stars have simply begun arriving on the pink carpet.
Seven nominees are up for the Gold Logie, together with Hamish Blake, Julia Morris, Karl Stefanovic, Melissa Leong, Ray Meagher, Sonia Kruger, and Tom Gleeson.
Tony Armstrong, of the ABC, is getting numerous help for his first Logie. He’s up for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Well-liked New Expertise.
Police raids on local weather protesters, help for Assange and new housing scheme
It’s been a busy Sunday. Let’s recap the day’s occasions:
- Police carried out a huge operation towards local weather protesters in Colo, in Sydney’s north-west on Sunday morning. Local weather protesters Blockade Australia stated they have been surrounded by police and described the police actions as “repressive”. Police say they have been investigating the group’s actions in an unmarked automotive, when their officers have been subjected to “violence”. An enormous police response started after the protesters both slashed or let down the tyre of a police automotive, police stated. Police stated the protesters have been planning extra disruptive protest exercise throughout the state, following an earlier blockade of Port Botany in March.
- The New South Wales authorities introduced a $780m shared fairness scheme to assist susceptible and low-income Australians purchase a house. The shared fairness scheme will profit single mother and father, older singles, nurses, police and lecturers, permitting consumers to enter the market with a deposit as little as 2% of the sale worth. It’ll see the authorities contribute an fairness share of 40% for a brand new house or 30% for an present dwelling.
- Supporters of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange are urging the Australian authorities to do extra to forestall his extradition to america, following the UK house workplace’s determination late Friday. However the Albanese authorities insists it won’t conduct “diplomacy by megaphone”, whereas repeating its view that the case has gone on for too lengthy.
- The NSW authorities has additionally introduced it is going to spend $25m to put in the Aboriginal flag on a everlasting spot on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The Aboriginal flag will fly alongside the Australian and NSW state flags.
- The employment minister, Tony Burke, stated it was too late to scrap a controversial points-based mutual obligation system for jobseekers, insisting the idea is “proper”, however wants tweaking.
- The fireplace on the Dapto substation has been contained by firefighters in New South Wales.
Assange case has gone on too lengthy, says Tony Burke
The Albanese authorities insists it won’t conduct “diplomacy by megaphone” because it faces calls to do extra to forestall the extradition of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange to the US.
The minister for employment and office relations, Tony Burke, stated the federal government’s view was that the case had gone on too lengthy and that conversations have been taking place.
We’re not going to conduct diplomacy by megaphone. This case has gone on for a lot too lengthy. We stated that in opposition, we’ve repeated that in authorities.
The difficulty must be dropped at an in depth. Australia will not be a celebration to the prosecution that’s taking place right here [and] every nation has its personal authorized system.
The times of diplomacy being carried out and conversations with authorities being carried out by megaphone, textual content messages being uncovered – that was the best way the earlier authorities behaved. We’ve been constructing constructive relationships once more with our allies and so they’re conversations that occur authorities to authorities.
Australian donations to Ukraine at greater than $5m to date
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that about 10,000 Australians have now donated a complete of greater than $5m to the disaster enchantment for Ukraine within the 4 months because the Russian invasion.
The donations have been made to the Ukraine Disaster Enchantment, a charity arrange in 2015 by the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations, with Rotary Australia and Caritas Ukraine.
Whistleblower advocate group requires lobbying of PM over Assange case
The Alliance Towards Political Prosecutions is urging its supporters to inundate prime minister, Anthony Albanese, with messages in help of Julian Assange. The house workplace introduced late Friday to order the extradition of Assange to america over the leaking and publication of the WikiLeaks cables a decade in the past.
AAPP, a gaggle which helps persecuted whistleblowers, is planning protests this week in help of Assange. In a press release to supporters on Sunday, it stated:
[Assange] has not seen freedom now for 10 years.
Assange has dedicated no crime. What he did was publish details about US battle crimes in Iraq and different data on Afghanistan and different issues. He has been charged beneath the Espionage Act, however he didn’t receive the data, US intelligence officer, Chelsea Manning, did. She was subsequently pardoned by President Obama. How can it’s that Assange remains to be in jail when the whistleblower is now free, and no different media outlet which printed the data has suffered any penalties?
These proceedings towards Julian Assange are clearly an try and intimidate journalists all over the place. They’re a travesty of justice and a menace to press freedom and have to be ended.
100 Covid deaths this weekend, with 212,000 lively circumstances
AAP experiences that greater than 100 Covid deaths have been recorded to date this weekend.
Australia’s coronavirus-related dying toll continues to rise, with greater than 100 fatalities introduced over the weekend together with 48 in Victoria.
Greater than 47,000 new infections have additionally been recorded since Thursday.
There are presently greater than 212,000 lively Covid-19 circumstances throughout the nation, with practically 2900 sufferers in hospital care.
Reporting of the most recent pandemic knowledge follows the federal authorities signing off on an additional $760m to assist states and territories battle the virus.
The prevailing commonwealth-states funding deal was set to run out in September however was prolonged on Friday by three months.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese says the pandemic “clearly isn’t over but and it might be very courageous to recommend you can make that projection”.
Victorian Covid replace
The Victorian authorities has issued its newest replace on Covid-19 hospitalisations, deaths and vaccinations. The state recorded 5,472 new circumstances and was notified of 19 deaths yesterday.
Right here’s their assertion in full:
There are 422 Covid-19 circumstances in hospital in Victoria – with 21 lively circumstances in ICU, together with 9 on a ventilator, and an extra six cleared circumstances in ICU.
6,271,134 vaccine doses have been administered by Victoria’s state-commissioned providers, with 836 doses administered yesterday at state-run centres.
68% of Victorians aged 16 and over have had three doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. 94% per cent of Victorians aged 12 and over have had two doses.
5,472 new circumstances of Covid-19 have been recorded yesterday. This consists of 3,689 who examined constructive on a Fast Antigen Check and 1,783 who returned a constructive outcome on a PCR check.
Sadly, the division was notified of 19 deaths yesterday in folks aged of their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. This brings the overall variety of deaths in Victoria because the pandemic started to three,750.
There are 41,195 lively circumstances in Victoria.
11,612 PCR checks have been processed yesterday. The whole variety of PCR checks carried out in Victoria because the pandemic started is 21,294,656.
NSW local weather activists reply to police raid
Blockade Australia launched a press release slightly earlier at the moment concerning the police raid on the Colo property. It stated:
Police are raiding our stunning camp. Teams of cops in cammo (sic) gear with weapons surrounded our camp this morning. Canine squad, riot police, helicopters and absolutely militarised police are throughout us. In fact, they are going to take all our technique of communication first, so sorry, no livestreams are possible. That is how an extractivist state responds to the problem of saving our life help programs. That is how a system primarily based on local weather destruction responds to a motion of nonviolent local weather defenders. Repression +++
NSW police ‘feared’ for his or her lives throughout raid on protesters, assistant commissioner says
Police say they’re anticipating to cost extra protesters after at the moment’s raid on a gaggle of local weather protesters in Colo.
He stated they have been “within the space” investigating the group, which has been linked with earlier disruptive protests.
Assistant commissioner, Paul Dunstan, stated police “feared for his or her lives”.
These police that have been attacked by that group this morning feared for his or her lives. They referred to as for pressing help and police from everywhere in the Sydney metropolitan space responded to help and supply assist to these cops.
He stated a search warrant is at present being executed on the space.
We imagine that group was partaking in behaviour, planning and getting ready to conduct the acute types of protest this group has carried out beforehand.
Dunstan was requested what particularly the group have been alleged to have been planning.
Training rehearsing and establishing objects to conduct related strategies of protest that they carried out throughout the March protest exercise, the place you noticed elaborate objects being shaped and put in the course of the roadways to in the end disrupt automobile exercise and trains across the Sydney space.
Police raid local weather protesters, allege officers have been subjected to ‘violence’
New South Wales police are talking a few raid on a gaggle of local weather protests on a property at Blue Mountains. Considerations have been raised concerning the heavy-handedness of police actions.
Police say the group, Blockade Australia, was “planning and getting ready” for “excessive types of protest”.
They alleged that officers have been “attacked” with one police automotive tyre’s slashed or let down.
The officers referred to as for help and a extra substantial police response arrived. Performing commissioner Paul Dunstan stated:
On this event there was actually violence towards police.
Two folks have been arrested.
And with that, I’ll hand the weblog over to the always-ready Christopher Knaus. Thanks for studying.
And when you’ve missed it, I extremely advocate this piece from Caitlin Cassidy on embedded energy networks and the way they have an effect on renters:
Queensland Labor aiming to halt lack of votes to Greens occasion
Queensland Labor state president, John Battams, has stated his occasion wants to enhance its communication on its environmental credentials, or face a “Greenslide”
Chatting with The Courier-Mail, Battams stated he wished to redirect the occasion to raised talk their efforts on combating the local weather disaster, significantly in areas the place “our vote will not be what it needs to be.”
I feel that if we will present the worth of getting a Labor authorities in Queensland and a Labor consultant domestically, and when you analyse the achievements of a Inexperienced consultant within the Parliament, I feel folks could come round to the view that voting Labor is an excellent factor to do,” he stated.
And … we have to higher talk our environmental success to folks, significantly youthful folks.
Perrottet says he desires to be referred to as “the training premier”
NSW premier, Dominic Perrotet, spoke to the Solar-Herald this morning, saying he desires to proceed engaged on training reforms, aiming to “modernise the training system and reform it.”
In an fascinating interview, the premier stated he wished to slash lecturers’ administration burden to allow them to spend extra time instructing, and to enhance entry to vocational courses for college kids.
He additionally says he wished to enhance lecturers pay, and to “reward excellence”:
[Teacher pay] is an space that has not reformed for a protracted time period as a result of there are a lot of vested pursuits.
That doesn’t imply we will’t do it. I need to work with the Lecturers Federation. However they will’t be the everlasting custodians of the established order.
We have now to work in ways in which modernise the instructing occupation, reward excellence and immediate excellence to encourage others like some other workforce.
We have to have a look at having extra admin employees in faculties.
It’s taking them away from what they’re truly certified to do. I’m on it, and it’s not going to be tinkering across the edges.”
Tony Burke: “too late” to scrap modifications to unemployment advantages
Employment minister says it’s too late to vary jobseeker factors system
I simply wished to return to Tony Burke’s feedback to Sky Information this morning, the place he additionally stated it was “too late” to scrap modifications to unemployment advantages as a result of be launched subsequent month.
The employment minister stated as an alternative the federal government can be seeking to alter the scheme, which is able to change from the JobActive scheme to a brand new program referred to as Workforce Australia, which would require job-seekers to earn 100 factors a month by means of making use of for jobs, sitting interviews and present process coaching.
The controversial modifications have been launched by the Morrison authorities, and have been criticised by advocates for being complicated and doubtlessly tougher to work with.
Burke admitted the scheme was flawed, however stated there was not sufficient time to forestall it rolling out:
It’s truly too late to not have a factors system in any respect.
It’s about getting inside it and making it logical, and ensuring that when all these contracts take impact in a few weeks’ time, we’ve truly bought a system that helps long-term unemployed folks.
What the federal government has designed, a few of it’s extra punitive than truly getting the job performed.
We need to be sure that — and I’ll be altering it over the course of the following week — to ensure that we will have a system that’s designed to get folks into work, relatively than some media stunt to punish folks.
The AAP is reporting well being ministers from the world’s 20 largest economies will thrash out methods to arrange and reply to future illness threats, trying past the remaining challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Below Indonesia’s G20 presidency, its well being minister, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, will convene a gathering on Monday to debate methods to strengthen world well being programs.
Australia’s Well being Minister, Mark Butler, will attend the gathering nearly.
“Australia welcomes Indonesia’s G20 well being priorities and appears ahead to working with different nations to make sure the world is best ready for future illness dangers,” Butler stated on Sunday.
Everybody, irrespective of the place they reside and what their circumstances, ought to have entry to high quality, reasonably priced and secure well being care and as a member of the worldwide neighborhood Australia stands prepared to assist communities in our area and past.
The assembly goals to handle issues and construct on the success tales that emerged throughout the pandemic.
Ministers will take into account methods to cut back impediments for travellers as they cross borders, with a pilot venture to look at how nations can recognise vaccine certificates utilized by completely different jurisdictions, serving to get commerce and journey again to regular.
The assembly may also focus on constructing on a few of the frameworks which were so necessary globally throughout the pandemic.
Butler says Australia is investing in its personal vaccine manufacturing capability and establishing an Australian Centre for Illness Management, serving to guarantee it’s higher ready for future pandemics.
He says the federal government can be dedicated to working with the Indo-Pacific area to strengthen well being safety and reply to the pandemic.
Australia has already shared greater than 40m vaccine doses and can proceed to work with its Quad Vaccine Companions – India, Japan and the US – to distribute them the place and when they’re wanted.
Ministers may also focus on a variety of different well being priorities together with tuberculosis, recognising that whereas the pandemic has demanded consideration, continued efforts are wanted to keep away from dropping progress elsewhere.
Nationwide Covid abstract
Listed here are the most recent coronavirus numbers from round Australia at the moment to date. We’ll proceed to replace this put up as case numbers are available:
ACT
- Deaths: 0
- Instances: 809
- In hospital: 90 (with 2 folks in ICU)
NSW
- Deaths: 7
- Instances: 6,348
- In hospital: 1,406 (with 50 folks in ICU)
Northern Territory
- Deaths: 0
- Instances: 181
- In hospital: 17 (with 2 folks in ICU)
Queensland
- Deaths: 0
- Instances: 2,959
- In hospital: 444 (with 7 folks in ICU)
South Australia
- Deaths: 2
- Instances: 1,910
- In hospital: 217 (with 10 folks in ICU)
Tasmania
- Deaths: 0
- Instances: 609
- In hospital: 29 (with 1 individual in ICU)
Victoria
- Deaths: 19
- Instances: 5,472
- In hospital: 422 (with 27 folks in ICU)
Western Australia
- Deaths: 14
- Instances: 3,896
- In hospital: 280 (with 14 folks in ICU)
Australia’s ski resorts are having fun with bluebird days this weekend after file dumps throughout the Victorian and New South Wales alps.
The climate continues to offer welcome aid to ski resorts, which have been battered by pandemic restrictions throughout the previous two snow seasons, severely limiting attendance and forcing some closures.
The proper situations will proceed over the following week, with extra snowfall predicted.
At Perisher and Thredbo, extra snow is forecast for Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Mt Buller and Mt Hotham are forecast for snowfall on daily basis from Tuesday to Sunday.
Dapto substation fireplace contained
It’s Christopher Knaus right here, taking up the weblog for the following half an hour.
Excellent news out of the Illawarra. Emergency providers have declared the fireplace on the Yallah substation, close to Dapto, to be contained.
Hearth and Rescue NSW stated the fireplace was brought on by a “mechanical failure of a redundant transformer”.
Roughly 100,000 litres of oil was concerned within the incident, which has since been confined to a bunded space, and poses no menace to the atmosphere.
Specialist hazardous supplies firefighters stay on scene monitoring the smoke plume and the temperature of the impacted transformer and oil tanks.
The fireplace has considerably diminished in depth. Nevertheless, it’s anticipated it is going to burn for quite a few days. Though there may be minimal smoke within the space, residents are inspired to watch the scenario and keep indoors and hold their doorways and home windows closed as required.
Shellharbour airport has additionally resumed regular operations.
FRNSW continues to work with Transgrid and the NSW Surroundings Safety Authority to watch the scenario to make sure the security of residents and the atmosphere.
