Albanese says jobs and abilities summit to be held 1 and a couple of September
Prime minister Anthony Albanese has begun the press convention, asserting extra particulars in regards to the jobs and abilities summit:
Australia throughout Covid-19 confronted a as soon as in a technology problem. However it opens up as properly a as soon as in a technology alternative for a way we develop again stronger from the Covid pandemic.
We additionally spoke through the marketing campaign about bringing Australians collectively as a way to safe that higher future. And I foreshadowed on the Nationwide Press Membership a while in the past that we might maintain a jobs and abilities summit.
At this time I introduced that that jobs and abilities summit can be held right here at Parliament Home in Canberra on September 1 and a couple of.
We intend to carry collectively enterprise, unions, civil society teams, different ranges of presidency, to debate how, as we transfer ahead, we are able to maximise, not simply the profit for the economic system that comes with new industries, that comes with good jobs, [but] how we ensure that Australians can fulfil these jobs of the long run.
Key occasions:
Victoria commits $13.7m to regional psychological well being program
The Victorian state authorities has dedicated $13.7m to enhance regional psychological well being, with grants out there to handle service gaps in distant areas.
The minister for psychological well being, Gabrielle Williams, stated this system would purpose to draw and retain employees in state-funded psychological well being and alcohol and different drug (AOD) providers throughout rural and regional Victoria.
Regional psychological well being workforce incentive grants will present as much as $20,000 with the purpose of attracting metropolitan Melburnian, interstate and abroad employees to the areas, protecting prices together with lodging, relocation, childcare, faculty charges and car prices.
This system is available in response to the Royal Fee into Victoria’s Psychological Health System, which beneficial addressing vital workforce gaps in regional and rural areas.
With that, I’ll cross you again to the beautiful Natasha Might. See you this afternoon!
Stamp of approval for Socceroos
At this time is an effective day to be a duel fan of stamps and soccer.
Socceroos head coach Graham Arnold has unveiled new stamps to commemorate 100 years of the lads’s nationwide soccer workforce, identified for the reason that Nineteen Seventies because the Socceroos.
In that point, Australia has certified for the World Cup finals on six events: 1974, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and this 12 months – 2022.
Australia’s first nationwide workforce fashioned following a tour invitation from New Zealand.
The primary stamp {photograph} has been colourised with the unique uniform and pocket emblem, whereas the second reveals the present soccer workforce in motion in Kuwait.
Let’s go!
NSW flood clean-up continues
The clean-up is continuous in New South Wales as residents return to flooded houses in components of western Sydney and the Hunter valley.
Whereas the wild climate has largely receded, there are nonetheless 9 mild-to-moderate flood warnings in place throughout the state, and a hazardous surf warning stays lively for big components of the coast.
Our #NSWRFS crews are out at present aiding @ResilienceNSW and @NSWSES with the huge clean-up effort. We at present have greater than 620 personnel deployed, with native and out-of-area strike groups working onerous to revive normality to flood-affected communities all through NSW. pic.twitter.com/SD9L9NzihY
— NSW RFS (@NSWRFS) July 11, 2022
The state opposition chief, Chris Minns, has been touring the flood wreckage in Maitland.
Alongside the Wollombi Brook, minor flooding continues at close by Bulga, the place the river stage peaked final Wednesday properly above the March 2022 flood and a metre greater than the 1952 flood.
River ranges are falling alongside the decrease Hunter River at Maitland with minor flooding.
Elsewhere, communities are nonetheless struggling to get well from the March flooding occasions that engulfed Lismore and components of Queensland.
Emergency declaration in Molendinar on Gold Coast
Queensland Police have issued an emergency declaration in Molendinar following a big hearth and “loud explosions” at a scrap yard.
The declaration, issued below the Public Security Preservation Act, was referred to as at round 11.45am as a result of “smoke and potential hazards”, with an exclusion zone protecting Precision Drive, Export Drive, Exercise Crescent, Manufacturing Avenue and a close-by part of Smith Road.
Members of the general public have been suggested to keep away from the world and stay indoors if inside the zone with home windows closed.
Luke Henriques-Gomes
Extra on the incapacity royal fee
The fee at present begins a five-day set of hearings in Alice Springs, centered on the expertise of the NDIS for First Nations folks with incapacity in distant communities.
After a smoking ceremony, the hearings this morning commenced with counsel aiding the fee, Patrick Griffin, outlining the proof that can be listening to throughout this week’s hearings.
The hearings will cowl the boundaries First Nations folks face in getting onto the NDIS, after which, when they’re accredited for a bundle, getting the help they want.
The problem of “skinny markets” – a scarcity of providers particularly components of the nation – is likely one of the longstanding points that impacts First Nations NDIS individuals in distant communities.
Griffin stated a significant space of focus can be the “restricted availability of NDIS
suppliers in distant communities and the expertise of First Nations folks with incapacity who’ve to maneuver away from their dwelling nation to obtain NDIS providers and helps”.
Except for “skinny markets”, the hearings may even take a look at the NDIA’s cultural competence and whether or not the company has been efficient in decreasing boundaries to help for First Nations folks with incapacity.
Griffin stated solely 66% of First Nations candidates are accepted as being eligible for the NDIS, whereas 72% of non-First Nations candidates are deemed eligible.
Authorities knowledge signifies that as of 31 March 2022 there have been 37,313 NDIS individuals who have been First Nations folks with incapacity and about 10% of these dwell in distant places.
I’m handing you over to my fantastic colleague Caitlin Cassidy!
Incapacity royal fee hears about First Nations individuals who have to go away communities to entry NDIS
At this time is the primary day of hearings held by the incapacity royal fee in Alice Springs to look at the operation of the NDIS for First Nations folks with incapacity in distant communities.
Mick Fallon, the Northern Territory manger for the Nationwide Incapacity Providers, is chatting with the ABC in regards to the hearings:
The entry to the NDIS is fraught in some distant places by advantage of scarcity of workforce and certified and expert folks to help folks with disabilities. Plus the alternatives to help folks’s complicated wants in distant places.
Fallon says some recipients have needed to go away their distant communities completely to entry providers as a result of they’re merely not out there the place they’re, which may have a devastating impact on First Nations folks shedding entry to their households and tradition:
On a lot of events folks can’t return dwelling, even for brief visits, to reconnect with their household and tradition and nation. It’s a very scary state of affairs the place folks can turn into disabled or faraway from their communities and generally are by no means capable of return.
So for these individuals who aren’t capable of reconnect again with their tradition and their group, they turn into actually remoted. And must dwell full-time in a city that’s not their very own city, in the way in which they don’t wish to dwell.
So, there’s a lot of folks dwelling in Darwin and Alice Springs, for instance, that merely don’t wish to be there, they’ve a burning need to be dwelling. Their households have a burning need for them to be dwelling however they’re not capable of be supported adequately and safely.
It’s a problem Guardian’s rural community has beforehand coated:
Harmful surf circumstances on NSW coast
Extra on the Covid outbreak on the cruise ship in Brisbane
The outbreak among the many crew and a few passengers on the Coral Princess in Brisbane on Sunday led to Princess Cruises providing refunds to these booked on its subsequent 12-day cruise, AAP experiences.
Queensland’s well being minister, Yvette D’Ath, stated on Monday that Covid protocols have been in place on the ship earlier than the outbreak.
She stated some passengers have been now isolating at dwelling or in different lodging, whereas authorities have been serving to the corporate handle contaminated workers on board.
Nationwide Covid-19 replace
Listed here are the most recent coronavirus numbers from round Australia at present, because the nation information not less than 13 deaths from Covid-19:
ACT
- Deaths: 2
- Circumstances: 1,143
- In hospital: 136 (with 5 folks in ICU)
NSW
- Deaths: 8
- Circumstances: 7,586
- In hospital: 2,002 (with 63 folks in ICU)
Northern Territory
- Deaths: 0
- Circumstances: 323
- In hospital: 25 (with 1 folks in ICU)
Queensland
- Deaths: 0
- Circumstances: 4,804
- In hospital: 782 (with 10 folks in ICU)
South Australia
- Deaths: 1
- Circumstances: 3,300
- In hospital: 284 (with 9 folks in ICU)
Tasmania
- Deaths: 0
- Circumstances: 1,439
- In hospital: 28 (with 4 folks in ICU)
Victoria
- Deaths: 0
- Circumstances: 8,689
- In hospital: 717 (with 30 folks in ICU)
Western Australia
- Deaths: 2
- Circumstances: 4,882
- In hospital: 282 (with 9 folks in ICU)
