Nationals president says get together must embrace girls
The Nationals are holding a federal council assembly in Canberra right this moment, the primary since David Littleproud took over get together management and for the reason that coalition’s federal election loss. AAP has the story:
Nationals federal president Kay Hull says the get together must reset and embrace girls to stay the nation’s most various political organisation.
Within the first handle of the assembly, Hull spoke of the significance of girls in politics and the contribution they made to key regional industries, together with agriculture:
We must be resetting, guaranteeing we’re embracing notably the ladies of our nation.
They’re a part of our heartland … we stand as one of many few events which have such a proud observe document.
I feel there are a lot of areas that we have to embrace and additional reset.
Evaluation of the coalition’s election defeat confirmed girls abandoned the Liberal Celebration in droves, with plenty of girls – the teal independents – successful metropolis seats from the get together. They strongly campaigned on local weather change motion and integrity.
Littleproud is anticipated to speak about his priorities for the upcoming jobs summit and the evaluate into nuclear energy. He informed AAP:
We’re going to must withstand among the challenges we’ve bought.
We retained all of our seats on the election, however you solely have to take a look at the numbers to see that girls left us so we have now to exit and discuss to them.”
Littleproud, deputy chief Perin Davey and chief of the Nationals within the Senate Bridget McKenzie will give speeches at Saturday’s convention.
Littleproud was elected chief in Could, rising because the winner of a three-way contest with ousted chief Barnaby Joyce and former minister Darren Chester.
The get together’s federal director Jonathan Hawkes is stepping down after three years within the high administrative job.
Key occasions
That is a unprecedented and shifting story written by Noor M Ramazan, who fled Kabul together with his spouse, Masuma, and two kids a yr in the past and is now settled in Melbourne. He “needed to restart from zero for the third time in my life”. He writes:
I needed to undergo many different dead-end jobs in my childhood when Taliban took over my hometown Mazar-i-Sharif in 1998. I needed to shine footwear and promote water, cigarettes, chewing gum and cherry juice on the streets to assist my household have meals on the desk. OK. Let’s do it for the third time. At the very least that is Australia and I hope nobody will harass or bully me as they did on the streets once I was a baby …
We had been taught from childhood to like our nation. Nation is mom. We love our nation as a lot as our mom. You might be secure so long as you might be in your mom’s arms. You might be free and nothing dangerous can threaten you. As a result of mom takes care of you with all her may. But when one thing occur to this mom, you’ll develop into an orphan and nobody cares about you. Identical to us, the Afghan individuals, who’re like helpless kids whose mom has fallen to her knees attributable to numerous wounds …
If you’re very fortunate like me, one other form of mom comes and holds your hand and saves you from being trampled and crushed. She retains you in her arms and her huge coronary heart and adopts you as a baby. Like what Australia did to us. Australia saved us. We owe our lives to Australia. Australia accommodated us in its sky-sized arms and gave us freedom and safety.
It’s properly price your time as a Saturday morning lengthy learn. Truthful warning: deal with with tissues.
Pharmacists and GPs conflict on Covid antivirals
Medical doctors resisting requires Covid-19 antiviral remedies to be bought over-the-counter have accused pharmacists of making a false narrative for business causes, AAP studies.
The Australian Pharmacy Guild this week publicly petitioned the federal authorities for the appropriate to dispense the medicines with out a prescription, citing a nationwide scarcity of normal practitioners.
Whereas two oral antivirals can be found in Australia and early therapy is taken into account crucial to minimize the consequences of the virus, entry to them is restricted.
Individuals aged over 70 and people over 50 liable to extreme illness are eligible following session with a health care provider or nurse.
But the guild believes group pharmacists ought to be capable to provide the remedies over-the-counter to hurry up entry upon an infection.
The speedy response to the thought from the Royal Australian School of Normal Practitioners was round concern over affected person security.
The RACGP president, Dr Karen Value, stated bypassing the prescription course of could be “a recipe for catastrophe”. She stated the guild’s claims of wait-time blowouts when visiting docs, and their affect on the slender window to make use of antiviral medicines, had been unfounded and deceptive.
Value stated in a press release:
The Pharmacy Guild, which is the physique representing pharmacy enterprise house owners, must cease muddying the message on entry for sufferers.
Sufferers want to grasp the urgency of contacting their GP after they check optimistic for Covid-19 and never be distracted by the Pharmacy Guild’s efforts to push their very own agenda.
We now have telehealth infrastructure in place to ensure sufferers can entry these medicines whereas isolating, together with affected person rebates for longer phone consultations.
We’re additionally calling for these antivirals to be added to the physician’s bag within the occasion entry to a pharmacy is problematic in emergency conditions or for rural and distant areas.
Medical doctors had been greatest positioned to soundly prescribe remedies as a result of they knew their sufferers, their well being histories and what medicines they had been on, Value added.
The Pharmacy Guild president, Trent Twomey, stated on Thursday that GP wait occasions had been rising unacceptably. In NSW, that meant a mean of 4.17 days to see a household physician and in Victoria, 3.33 days.
On the similar time, antivirals wanted to begin inside 5 days of the onset of virus signs, Twomey stated.
Nationals president says get together must embrace girls
The Nationals are holding a federal council assembly in Canberra right this moment, the primary since David Littleproud took over get together management and for the reason that coalition’s federal election loss. AAP has the story:
Nationals federal president Kay Hull says the get together must reset and embrace girls to stay the nation’s most various political organisation.
Within the first handle of the assembly, Hull spoke of the significance of girls in politics and the contribution they made to key regional industries, together with agriculture:
We must be resetting, guaranteeing we’re embracing notably the ladies of our nation.
They’re a part of our heartland … we stand as one of many few events which have such a proud observe document.
I feel there are a lot of areas that we have to embrace and additional reset.
Evaluation of the coalition’s election defeat confirmed girls abandoned the Liberal Celebration in droves, with plenty of girls – the teal independents – successful metropolis seats from the get together. They strongly campaigned on local weather change motion and integrity.
Littleproud is anticipated to speak about his priorities for the upcoming jobs summit and the evaluate into nuclear energy. He informed AAP:
We’re going to must withstand among the challenges we’ve bought.
We retained all of our seats on the election, however you solely have to take a look at the numbers to see that girls left us so we have now to exit and discuss to them.”
Littleproud, deputy chief Perin Davey and chief of the Nationals within the Senate Bridget McKenzie will give speeches at Saturday’s convention.
Littleproud was elected chief in Could, rising because the winner of a three-way contest with ousted chief Barnaby Joyce and former minister Darren Chester.
The get together’s federal director Jonathan Hawkes is stepping down after three years within the high administrative job.
White whale calf seen off NSW coast
There’s one new child hogging all the eye off the NSW coast – a southern proper whale calf born whiter than standard, AAP studies:
The calf and its mom are resting up earlier than they head south to Antarctica.
Authorities conservationists are urging individuals to maintain their distance from the mum and new bub noticed off the state’s south coast.
Nationwide Parks and Wildlife Service’s Andrew Marshall stated it was uncommon to see a nearly white calf, although the parks workplace says it’s extra of a brindle color:
Southern proper whales are principally very darkish, though some have splashes of white referred to as a blaze.
Its white areas will darken to gray because it ages. It’s one among round one-in-30 southern proper whale calves born with brindle colouring.
The calf’s colouring is expounded to genetics. The mom exhibits pale gray areas indicating she has a recessive brindle gene.
A southern proper whale calf wants 300 litres of milk a day to get to the load wanted to make the 5,000km journey south.
It’s unlawful for a vessel to go inside 300 metres of a nursing whale mom and calf, that features individuals on surfboards, paddleboards and kayaks.
Drones have to remain 100 metres above the whales.
Indigenous points ‘can solely be improved if we take heed to a voice’, Mark Dreyfus says
Requested about considerations that the voice to parliament would lead to a “talk-fest with out tangible points”, Dreyfus responds:
I feel this may solely add to the vary of points we have to make to enhance Indigenous well being, housing, to take care of the social issues that [Country Liberal party] senator [Jacinta] Value is speaking about.
The voice is to raise to constitutional degree the opportunity of receiving representations, receiving ideas from our Indigenous individuals on measures we have to take which can be about them. We now have not had that previously.
I’m very a lot trying ahead to this referendum succeeding so there can be on the constitutional degree, a voice to parliament. I don’t assume in any sense the 2 issues are inconsistent. I settle for Senator Value’s considerations about what must be executed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders throughout Australia, however I feel the measures we have to take can solely be improved if we take heed to a voice of Indigenous individuals.
Mark Dreyfus says he’s happy with progress on Indigenous voice
Dreyfus is requested concerning the referendum about constitutional change to recognise Indigenous Australians with a voice to parliament. He says:
I feel in coming months you will note cautious constructing of the group consensus we might want to make this referendum profitable. I’ve been happy to listen to from the chief of the opposition, Peter Dutton, from the shadow lawyer normal, that they’re holding the door open. That’s acceptable.
I’m happy to listen to so many individuals making constructive contributions, to listen to plenty of constitutional attorneys placing to relaxation right this moment this incorrect notion that it may be veto or a that it may be a 3rd chamber.
We have to … construct the group consensus that we have to settle for that that is the best way by which we will recognise our Indigenous individuals in our structure.
Mark Dreyfus says attorneys normal wish to handle responses to sexual violence
Dreyfus stated the assembly that came about between the attorneys normal was the primary face-to-face assembly in two and a half years.
We can be assembly extra usually … we plan to get collectively 4 occasions a yr and this can be a essential merchandise on our agenda. We’ve additionally agreed to do extra work on felony justice system responses to sexual violence.
That is responding to one thing that Grace Tame raised with attorneys normal final yr and I’m very happy to see that large co-operation within the room yesterday, from Liberal and Labor attorneys normal agreeing to work collectively nationally to maintain girls and kids secure, to work on household violence, to work on measures in opposition to sexual violence.
Attorneys normal agree on some draft ideas to handle coercive management
Mark Dreyfus, the lawyer normal of Australia, is chatting with the ABC about coercive management. He says he and the attorneys normal of jurisdictions round Australia have agreed on some draft nationwide ideas to handle coercive management as a problem:
We’re going to be consulting … in coming months, attempting to get to some nationally agreed customary on tips on how to take care of this.
Coercive management is, in fact, a sample of behaviour – it may be not essentially involving violence – the place the perpetrators seeks to ascertain management over the sufferer.
Nick Kyrgios’s successful streak involves an finish
In sport, Nick Kyrgios’s North American successful streak has come to an finish with a defeat by Hubert Hurkacz within the quarter-finals of the Nationwide Financial institution Open in Montreal. The Australian had gained 15 of his final 16 matches.
The total story is right here:
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Victorian First Nations dispute over Phillip Island property donation
A property donated by the household of famend satirist and comic John Clarke has develop into embroiled in a long-running dispute between two First Nations teams in Victoria.
The land on Phillip Island, about 120km south-east of Melbourne, was donated by Clarke’s widow, Helen McDonald, to conservation group Belief for Nature after his demise in 2017.
Belief for Nature intends to switch the eight-hectare property to the Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Company. Nonetheless, a neighborhood conventional proprietor has demanded that be halted.
Whereas the Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Company is the registered native Aboriginal get together, the realm entails land on which members of the Boonwurrung individuals is searching for native title by way of the federal courtroom.
Learn extra right here:
The struggles of those that want Medicare most
Guardian Australia’s medical editor, Melissa Davey, and inequality reporter, Stephanie Convery, have been breaking very important tales this week about Medicare, bulk billing and the dire state of Australia’s main healthcare system.
At the moment, they characteristic the tales of people that have been compelled to restrict GP visits or journey lengthy distances for reasonably priced care.
You’ll be able to learn the complete story beneath, and extra from their Thoughts the hole: bulk billing in disaster collection here.
Third meningococcal case from Splendour
A baby from the NSW north coast will be the third particular person linked to the current Splendour In The Grass pageant to contract meningococcal illness, AAP studies.
It follows the demise on August 4 of a Sydney man in his 40s, who additionally developed meningococcal illness after attending the pageant.
NSW Health has urged anybody who attended Splendour In The Grass – which came about from July 21-24 on the North Byron Parklands – to be alert. Anybody displaying signs – which may embody a crimson or purple rash, fever, headache, stiffness, mild sensitivity, nausea, diarrhoea, drowsiness and confusion – is urged to contact a health care provider instantly.
The illness, which is attributable to Neisseria meningitidis micro organism, is rare however might be deadly. Authorities warn it might develop in a short time and kill inside hours.
Three individuals have died of meningococcal illness this yr: a Northern Territory man in his 30s died on Friday, whereas a two-year-old died in rural South Australia in July.
Well being authorities within the NT stated the person had undertaken no current interstate or worldwide journey.
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The Nationals will maintain their first main assembly right this moment for the reason that coalition’s federal election loss. The federal council assembly, in Canberra, may even be the primary since David Littleproud took over get together management.
The power ministers of New South Wales and Victoria have criticised gas companies for exporting Australian assets abroad, claiming their pursuit of income led to the current power disaster.
The monkeypox vaccine has arrived in Australia and the rollout has commenced in Victoria, with jabs being given to sure eligible teams whereas provides are restricted.
In New South Wales, transport officers will right this moment refuse to problem fines, a part of the Rail, Tram and Bus Union’s rolling strike motion in an try to safe essential security commitments.
The Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Concepts has dismissed the remaining members of its worldwide advisory council, months after 4 impartial administrators walked out en masse.
Abroad, the actor Anne Heche has died, per week after she was injured in a automotive crash, and the creator Salman Rushdie is in surgery after being stabbed onstage at an occasion in upstate New York.
