Nationals making ready to vote for brand new social gathering chief and deputy
In Canberra, the Nationals are about to carry a management spill with Barnaby Joyce going through off a problem to retain the highest place. We’ll carry you the most recent because it comes.
*To the tune of George Baker Choice’s Little Inexperienced Bag*
Nationals should revisit key points resembling gender equality, Michelle Landry says
As we await updates on the management spill, Nationals MP Michelle Landry earlier instructed reporters the social gathering wanted to take a look at the election outcomes “very fastidiously” and revisit its place on “key areas of coverage” together with gender equality.
You’ll be able to’t have individuals working off with totally different agendas, all of us should be on the identical message, the identical web page.
Or for these taking part in alongside at dwelling, refreshing Twitter feeds.
Liberals edging forward in Deakin as postal vote counting continues
Deakin is wanting more and more tough for the Labor party to realize as postal votes come via in favour of Michael Sukkar. Which means they’d have to win both Macnamara or Gilmore to kind a majority authorities.
“Time for change?” Nationals MP Michael McCormack is requested as he enters the social gathering room.
Mike Cannon-Brookes has weighed in on AGL’s dumping of its demerger plan.
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Nationals making ready to vote for brand new social gathering chief and deputy
In Canberra, the Nationals are about to carry a management spill with Barnaby Joyce going through off a problem to retain the highest place. We’ll carry you the most recent because it comes.
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Linda Burney on the Uluru assertion, treaty and constructing consensus
Incoming Indigenous affairs minister Linda Burney has an extended listing of priorities when she is sworn on this week, however chief amongst them is to embark on the unfinished “nation-building mission” of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
No stress, then. Burney says the election adrenaline has worn off and now she feels as if she’s been “hit by a truck”. As the primary Aboriginal lady to carry a federal ministry and to take a seat within the cupboard, she says: “I really feel elated and daunted on the similar time. I even have a really lengthy historical past within the Aboriginal affairs area. So I really feel able to tackle the problem.”
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Adelaide police looking for stolen automobile with four-month-old baby inside
Police say a automobile holding a four-month-old baby has been stolen in Adelaide.
The mannequin automobile is being described as a 2009 white Honda Jazz, S619AXE. Police say it was stolen in Klemzig this morning after a person pulled up in a stolen Mazda utility.
Police described the person as in his mid-20s, Caucasian and with darkish hair.
Covid deaths on the rise in Australia
Covid-19 deaths are once more on the rise with Australia recording 88 fatalities over the weekend and 363 prior to now seven days, AAP reviews.
In contrast, every day toll reviews throughout April solely as soon as exceeded 50 and had been usually lower than 25.
Victoria recorded 16 deaths on Sunday, Western Australia seven, NSW 4, Queensland two and Tasmania one.
Australia’s lively virus caseload stays above 300,000 and there are greater than 2,700 sufferers recovering in hospitals across the nation.
Authorities have once more prolonged emergency powers in Tasmania, the place nearly one-third of the state has been identified with Covid-19 and there have been nearly 60 deaths this 12 months.
In the meantime, one in all Australia’s main charities says the impact of the pandemic on kids’s training is just not over.
A Smith Household survey has discovered one in two mother and father and carers really feel the pandemic continues to be making studying tough for his or her kids, whereas three-quarters fear about their future schoolwork and have struggled to assist them throughout the pandemic. Two-thirds say the virus has made it laborious to begin college this 12 months.