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US and UK each dedicated to serving to purchase nuclear submarines, Marles says
Returning to the deputy prime minister and defence minister Richard Marles’ interview with ABC Radio. He’s requested concerning the replacements for the ageing Collins Class submarine fleet.
He’s in London in the meanwhile the place discussions are going down with the UK, France and Germany. He’s requested if he has been taking a look at submarine choices in Europe. Marles responded that it’s a 3 approach course of the place “there’s one dialogue with the three nations.”
He mentioned each the US and UK dedicated to serving to Australia purchase nuclear powered submarine.
We’re working via the method.. with each the US and UK.
He mentioned Australia “have to be signing choices sooner slightly than later.”
“The teachings of the 80s have been misplaced on… President Putin”: Dutton responds to information of Gorbachev’s dying
Talking of leaders’ reactions to the information of Mikhail Gorbachev’s dying, opposition chief Peter Dutton was talking with ABC information breakfast when the information broke. His rapid response:
It casts your thoughts again to his interval and the interplay with the West. Clearly, what we’re seeing at the moment is a really totally different management fashion and function. I believe the carnage that we’re seeing within the Ukraine is horrific and while folks will mourn of loss, understandably, the main target in the meanwhile is on the harm that the present Russian chief is doing.
While it’s slipped from the headlines we must always remind ourselves day-after-day that these assaults are nonetheless going down on ladies and youngsters, on locations of purchasing centres, residential buildings and many others. And sadly, the teachings of the 80s have been misplaced on the likes of President Putin. I hope that we will return it a extra smart age. That doesn’t appear potential in the meanwhile, which is a tragedy.
Deputy prime minister pays tribute to Gorbachev’s legacy
Deputy prime minister and defence minister Richard Marles is talking with ABC Radio from London, the place he’s strengthening ties with France, Germany and the UK.
ABC Radio asks Marles about breaking information this morning – Mikhail Gorbachev’s death. Marles calls him one of many key architects in ending the chilly struggle.
The world is a a lot safer place because of this.
NSW trains and inner-west buses disrupted
NSW practice commuters are once more suggested to hunt options as a ultimate day of business motion disrupts providers yet another time, AAP studies.
Most timetables might be decreased to a 30-minute frequency on Wednesday, whereas providers are suspended on the T5 Cumberland and T7 Olympic Park line.
Compounding the disruption, bus drivers might be off the job in Sydney’s inside west as a part of a separate dispute with Transit Programs, the non-public firm contracted to run providers within the space.
It would have an effect on providers in Area 6, which incorporates the inside west, a few of the CBD, Olympic Park, Strathfield and Rockdale.
In the meantime, rail staff are refusing to function foreign-built trains, which make up about 70% of the fleet, as a part of a month of business motion that has additionally included area-based strikes.
A number of unions are trying to safe a brand new enterprise settlement to exchange one which expired in Could 2021, whereas the Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) has been demanding modifications to a fleet of Korean-built intercity trains it says will not be protected to function in NSW but.
Not one of the varied authorities ministers concerned within the disputes, nor premier Dominic Perrottet, assume the trains want modifying.
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Most girls of their 20s have skilled sexual violence, knowledge reveals
“Stunning” proof reveals most ladies of their 20s have skilled sexual violence, based on Australia’s Nationwide Analysis Organisation for Ladies’s Security (Anrows).
Sexual violence is outlined as “sexual actions with out consent, which can embrace coercion, bodily pressure, rape, sexual assault with implements, being compelled to observe or have interaction in pornography, enforced prostitution or being made to have intercourse with different folks”.
Anrows used knowledge from the Australian longitudinal research on ladies’s well being (ALSWH) to determine new prevalence charges for ladies. The ALSWH is an ongoing venture gathering sexual violence knowledge, which began in 1996.
The research consists of knowledge from greater than 57,000 ladies throughout a number of age cohorts.
It discovered 51% of girls of their 20s and 34% of girls of their 40s had skilled sexual violence of their lifetimes, and 26% of girls aged 68 to 73 had skilled sexual violence.
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The nationwide cupboard will meet later at the moment in Sydney to debate reducing the Covid-19 isolation period from seven to five days, following the push from NSW premier Dominic Perrottet.
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews says he’s open to the shift if it’s supported by the well being recommendation, however the Australian Capital Territory chief minister, Andrew Barr, says any reforms won’t come till subsequent month’s assembly.
The complete invite checklist is out for the federal government’s jobs and abilities summit to be held tomorrow together with mining magnate Andrew Forrest, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, the heads of Coles and Woolworths in addition to BHP and Rio Tinto.
General there might be virtually 150 representatives from unions, universities, all ranges of governments and enterprise leaders.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers informed ABC Radio’s Sabra Lane this morning the federal government tried to strike the correct stability in its invites in relation to all points from gender to union illustration. He mentioned:
We’ve obtained a great drawback right here … individuals are completely clamouring to be concerned.
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