Tony Burke: “too late” to scrap modifications to unemployment advantages
Employment minister says it’s too late to alter jobseeker factors system
I simply needed 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 resulting from be launched subsequent month.
The employment minister stated as an alternative the federal government will likely be seeking to alter the scheme, which is able to change from the JobActive scheme to a brand new program known 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 probably harder 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 achieved.
We wish to be sure — and I’ll be altering it over the course of the subsequent week — to be sure that we will have a system that’s designed to get folks into work, somewhat than some media stunt to punish folks.
That’s the place we’ll go away our protection for in the present day. Thanks a lot for sticking with me. Don’t overlook, the Logies ceremony remains to be to return tonight.
The ceremony is being held on the Gold Coast and stars have simply begun arriving on the crimson 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 assist for his first Logie. He’s up for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most In style New Expertise.
Police raids on local weather protesters, assist 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 in opposition to 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 automobile, when their officers have been subjected to “violence”. A large police response started after the protesters both slashed or let down the tyre of a police automobile, 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 academics, permitting consumers to enter the market with a deposit as little as 2% of the sale value. It would see the authorities contribute an fairness share of 40% for a brand new residence or 30% for an current dwelling.
- Supporters of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange are urging the Australian authorities to do extra to stop his extradition to the US, following the UK residence workplace’s resolution 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 can 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 hearth 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 occurring.
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 problem must be dropped at an in depth. Australia just isn’t a celebration to the prosecution that’s occurring 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 Crisis Appeal, 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 In opposition to Political Prosecutions is urging its supporters to inundate prime minister, Anthony Albanese, with messages in assist of Julian Assange. The house workplace introduced late Friday to order the extradition of Assange to the US over the leaking and publication of the WikiLeaks cables a decade in the past.
AAPP, a bunch which helps persecuted whistleblowers, is planning protests this week in assist of Assange. In an announcement 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 struggle crimes in Iraq and different data on Afghanistan and different issues. He has been charged below the Espionage Act, however he didn’t receive the knowledge, 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 revealed the knowledge has suffered any penalties?
These proceedings in opposition to Julian Assange are clearly an try to intimidate journalists in all places. 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 instances
AAP stories that greater than 100 Covid deaths have been recorded to date this weekend.
Australia’s coronavirus-related loss of life 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 instances throughout the nation, with almost 2900 sufferers in hospital care.
Reporting of the newest pandemic knowledge follows the federal authorities signing off on an additional $760m to assist states and territories combat the virus.
The present 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 counsel that you would be able to 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 instances and was notified of 19 deaths yesterday.
Right here’s their assertion in full:
There are 422 Covid-19 instances in hospital in Victoria – with 21 lively instances in ICU, together with 9 on a ventilator, and an extra six cleared instances 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 instances of Covid-19 have been recorded yesterday. This contains 3,689 who examined optimistic on a Fast Antigen Check and 1,783 who returned a optimistic 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 whole variety of deaths in Victoria because the pandemic started to three,750.
There are 41,195 lively instances in Victoria.
11,612 PCR assessments have been processed yesterday. The full variety of PCR assessments carried out in Victoria because the pandemic started is 21,294,656.
NSW local weather activists reply to police raid
Blockade Australia launched an announcement somewhat earlier in the present day concerning the police raid on the Colo property. It stated:
Police are raiding our lovely 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. After all, they may 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 assist techniques. 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 in the present day’s raid on a bunch 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 known as for pressing help and police from all around the Sydney metropolitan space responded to help and supply assist to these cops.
He stated a search warrant is presently being executed on the space.
We consider that group was participating 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 through the March protest exercise, the place you noticed elaborate objects being shaped and put in the midst of the roadways to finally 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 bunch 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 automobile tyre’s slashed or let down.
The officers known as for help and a extra substantial police response arrived. Appearing commissioner Paul Dunstan stated:
On this event there was actually violence in opposition to 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 for those who’ve missed it, I extremely suggest 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 celebration
Queensland Labor state president, John Battams, has stated his celebration wants to enhance its communication on its environmental credentials, or face a “Greenslide”
Talking to The Courier-Mail, Battams stated he needed to redirect the celebration to raised talk their efforts on combating the local weather disaster, notably in areas the place “our vote just isn’t what it ought to be.”
I believe that if we will present the worth of getting a Labor authorities in Queensland and a Labor consultant regionally, and for those who analyse the achievements of a Inexperienced consultant within the Parliament, I believe 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, notably youthful folks.
Perrottet says he needs to be generally known as “the schooling premier”
NSW premier, Dominic Perrotet, spoke to the Sun-Herald this morning, saying he needs to proceed engaged on schooling reforms, aiming to “modernise the schooling system and reform it.”
In an fascinating interview, the premier stated he needed to slash academics’ administration burden to allow them to spend extra time instructing, and to enhance entry to vocational courses for college kids.
He additionally says he needed to enhance academics pay, and to “reward excellence”:
[Teacher pay] is an space that has not reformed for an extended time frame as a result of there are lots of vested pursuits.
That doesn’t imply we will’t do it. I wish to work with the Lecturers Federation. However they’ll’t be the everlasting custodians of the established order.
We’ve got to work in ways in which modernise the instructing occupation, reward excellence and immediate excellence to encourage others like every other workforce.
We have to have a look at having extra admin workers in colleges.
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 alter jobseeker factors system
I simply needed 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 resulting from be launched subsequent month.
The employment minister stated as an alternative the federal government will likely be seeking to alter the scheme, which is able to change from the JobActive scheme to a brand new program known 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 probably harder 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 achieved.
We wish to be sure — and I’ll be altering it over the course of the subsequent week — to be sure that we will have a system that’s designed to get folks into work, somewhat 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.
Beneath 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 techniques.
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, regardless of the place they stay and what their circumstances, ought to have entry to high quality, reasonably priced and protected 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 deal with considerations and construct on the success tales that emerged through the pandemic.
Ministers will contemplate methods to cut back impediments for travellers as they cross borders, with a pilot mission 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 even talk about constructing on a few of the frameworks which have been so vital globally through 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 even talk about 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 newest coronavirus numbers from round Australia in the present day to date. We are going to proceed to replace this publish as case numbers are available in:
ACT
- Deaths: 0
- Circumstances: 809
- In hospital: 90 (with 2 folks in ICU)
NSW
- Deaths: 7
- Circumstances: 6,348
- In hospital: 1,406 (with 50 folks in ICU)
Northern Territory
- Deaths: 0
- Circumstances: 181
- In hospital: 17 (with 2 folks in ICU)
Queensland
- Deaths: 0
- Circumstances: 2,959
- In hospital: 444 (with 7 folks in ICU)
South Australia
- Deaths: 2
- Circumstances: 1,910
- In hospital: 217 (with 10 folks in ICU)
Tasmania
- Deaths: 0
- Circumstances: 609
- In hospital: 29 (with 1 particular person in ICU)
Victoria
- Deaths: 19
- Circumstances: 5,472
- In hospital: 422 (with 27 folks in ICU)
Western Australia
- Deaths: 14
- Circumstances: 3,896
- In hospital: 280 (with 14 folks in ICU)
Australia’s ski resorts are having fun with bluebird days this weekend after document dumps throughout the Victorian and New South Wales alps.
The climate continues to offer welcome reduction 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 subsequent 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 each day from Tuesday to Sunday.
Dapto substation hearth contained
It’s Christopher Knaus right here, taking on the weblog for the subsequent 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 hearth has considerably lowered in depth. Nevertheless, it’s anticipated it can burn for plenty of days. Though there may be minimal smoke within the space, residents are inspired to observe the state of affairs and keep indoors and preserve their doorways and home windows closed as required.
Shellharbour airport has additionally resumed regular operations.
FRNSW continues to work with Transgrid and the NSW Setting Safety Authority to observe the state of affairs to make sure the protection of residents and the atmosphere.
