Rex Patrick takes info commissioner’s workplace to courtroom over FOI delays
Christopher Knaus
Former senator Rex Patrick will use the federal courtroom to demand Australia’s info commissioner clarify the lawfulness of her workplace’s delays in reviewing freedom of knowledge choices.
Patrick has taken the Workplace of the Australian Info Commissioner (OAIC) to the federal courtroom over large delays in its dealing with of FOI opinions, a vital a part of the general FOI system.
The previous senator says some opinions are unresolved greater than 1,000 days after referral to the OAIC, delays which he says are unreasonable.
The listening to was on account of happen subsequent week.
However at an interlocutory listening to on Monday morning, the case was delayed by greater than a month. The listening to will now happen in November.
The delay occurred after the OAIC’s attorneys made a late utility to amend its argument. Patrick’s staff may also be allowed to make further arguments as a part of its case.
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Priya Nadesalingam, the mom of the Tamil asylum seeker household on the centre of a four-year authorized battle to remain in Australia, is writing a memoir of her household’s expertise of being held inside Australia’s immigration detention system.
Not going to get any hotter for fairly a couple of of us this week.
Australia condemns cyber assaults towards Albania
The overseas affairs division has launched a press release condemning the cyber assaults directed at Albania in the intervening time.
The assertion says:
Australia condemns the latest cyber assaults on essential infrastructure in Albania.
Australia is dedicated to upholding the rules-based order on-line, simply as we do offline. We name on all nations to behave in a accountable method in our on-line world with a purpose to construct belief and cooperation, in pursuit of our mutual curiosity in a peaceable and steady on-line surroundings.
The assaults on authorities businesses have been attributed to Iran by the Albanian authorities, a declare Iran denies.
Reasonable flood warning issued for Lodden River in Victoria
Ben Butler
Banks to shut for Thursday public vacation
Australian financial institution branches will likely be shut on Thursday because of the nationwide day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II.
The day is a public vacation throughout the nation – in Victoria, it kicks off a four-day weekend as the next day can be a public vacation to have a good time the AFL grand last on Saturday.
“For banks with branches and different monetary establishments, Thursday will likely be a ‘financial institution shut day’ with branches closed,” the Australian Banking Affiliation mentioned in a press release.
“In consequence, there will likely be delays to some funds, as is the case with different public holidays.
“Banks will nonetheless be contactable, albeit in a decreased capability, and prospects are inspired to contact their particular person financial institution for additional info.”
The ASX may also be closed on Thursday.
Adeshola Ore
Daniel Andrews defends plan to alter title of Maroondah hospital
Victoria’s First Peoples’ Meeting has accused the Andrews authorities of constructing a hospital in Melbourne’s east “culturally unsafe” for Indigenous Australians after it vowed to rename the location in honour of Queen Elizabeth II, dumping its Indigenous title.
Redmayne wiggles into World Cup warm-ups
Australian goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne is taking Peru’s inventive response to his trademark World Cup qualifying heroics in his stride, AAP reviews.
The Socceroos goalkeeper broke the hearts of the South American nation in June.
Substituted on for a penalty shootout, his eye-catching dancing actions on the road and a few crafty gamesmanship in between photographs helped Australia to an upset victory that sealed passage to Qatar later this 12 months.
Redmayne, who wore a gray jersey that night time in Qatar, was formally inducted because the Gray Wiggle after showing alongside the entertainers final week in a TV episode he says has since been enjoying continuous for his youngster and spouse at residence.
And it’s been extra surreal for the Sydney FC keeper watching the response in Peru, the place circus performers and even a rodeo clown in a bull ring have donned his gray apparel.
In Brisbane immediately, forward of a World Cup warm-up sport towards New Zealand on Thursday, Redmayne mentioned:
They’ve been fairly ingenious.
I don’t know the way they’ve taken it, type of tongue in cheek and good enjoyable however [Peru] is nicely and really off the bucket record I feel.
[I take it] in my stride, having fun with it and it’s generally a welcome distraction for soccer however something to assist the game’s profile in Australia.
Thanks on your consideration this Monday, I hope the beginning of the week has been sort to you. The inimitable Josh Taylor will now take you thru the remainder of immediately’s information.
Giant water important ruptured in western Sydney
SA to drop masks mandate for public transport tomorrow
South Australia will drop Covid-19 masks mandates for public transport after the newest recommendation from well being officers, AAP reviews.
The brand new provisions will take impact from Tuesday, bringing SA into line with most different jurisdictions.
The premier, Peter Malinauskas, mentioned:
That is one other step ahead when it comes to the administration of the pandemic.
We’re very decided to calm down restrictions as quickly as it’s protected to take action.
We predict that is one other sensible step going ahead.
As of Friday, QR check-ins for incapacity, well being and aged care settings may also be eliminated together with Covid-19 vaccine mandates for guests to aged care centres.
Masks mandates for aged care and different well being settings, together with pharmacies and hospitals, will stay.
The modifications come after SA recorded 3,631 new virus infections final week, within the first change from day by day to weekly reporting.
SA Well being additionally reported 58 extra deaths, taking the toll within the state for the reason that begin of the pandemic to 860.
Lacking pilot discovered useless in Victorian excessive nation
We introduced you the information earlier that there was concern for a pilot of a leisure plane lacking on a flight in north-east Victoria since Sunday.
The airplane has since been situated, however the pilot was deceased.
The Australian Maritime Security Authority (AMSA) mentioned:
At about 10am on Monday, after a search of the realm involving a number of plane and floor crews, a Victorian police helicopter situated the crash website about 30km east of Tallangatta within the north-east Victorian excessive nation.
Victoria police have confirmed the pilot of the plane was discovered deceased on the scene.
AMSA acknowledge it is a troublesome time for household and buddies of the pilot and want to thank all those that assisted with the search.
New meningococcal case in South Australia
A case of invasive meningococcal has been detected in a 21-year-old in Adelaide.
It’s the the eleventh case of meningococcal reported in South Australia this 12 months, in contrast with a number of reported the identical time final 12 months.
Covid guidelines wanted into 2023, well being minister says
Josh Butler
The well being minister, Mark Butler, has confirmed some Covid measures will proceed nicely into 2023, whilst some in politics and the media stress the federal authorities to drop pandemic guidelines.
Butler was talking in Adelaide to verify $1.4bn in new Covid federal funding for speedy assessments, aged care staffing and Medicare subsidies. Requested by a journalist at his press convention when he anticipated “the shackles will likely be lifted off” (their phrases, not ours), Butler mentioned it could be some time but.
The well being minister mentioned:
There will likely be a have to retain some measures over the course of 2023, I’m very certain. And so over the course of the remainder of this 12 months, we will likely be contemplating the necessity for measures to be prolonged past the top of calendar 2022. And we’ll have extra to say about that later within the 12 months.
Butler didn’t say precisely which measures would stay via 2023, however confirmed that authorities backing for pathology and Covid testing can be one a part of the continued response.
The minister additionally spoke of his concern about lengthy Covid, or critical power signs lingering months after an infection. Butler mentioned Australia wanted to have “a nationwide concentrate on lengthy Covid”, saying there had been greater than 200 totally different signs related, and that extra analysis and knowledge was wanted.
Butler mentioned:
We don’t know but actually what the true prevalence and scale of lengthy Covid is right here … However there’s no query it will be a really substantial stress on our neighborhood, on people and on our well being system.
Even well being professionals are nonetheless coming to grips with the size of this when it comes to numbers, but in addition the variety of signs that sufferers are presenting with.
Butler mentioned the nationwide technique on lengthy Covid would develop over the approaching months.
Rex Patrick takes info commissioner’s workplace to courtroom over FOI delays
Christopher Knaus
Former senator Rex Patrick will use the federal courtroom to demand Australia’s info commissioner clarify the lawfulness of her workplace’s delays in reviewing freedom of knowledge choices.
Patrick has taken the Workplace of the Australian Info Commissioner (OAIC) to the federal courtroom over large delays in its dealing with of FOI opinions, a vital a part of the general FOI system.
The previous senator says some opinions are unresolved greater than 1,000 days after referral to the OAIC, delays which he says are unreasonable.
The listening to was on account of happen subsequent week.
However at an interlocutory listening to on Monday morning, the case was delayed by greater than a month. The listening to will now happen in November.
The delay occurred after the OAIC’s attorneys made a late utility to amend its argument. Patrick’s staff may also be allowed to make further arguments as a part of its case.
