18:36
The brand new submarine deal appears common with the UK’s Conservative get together.
Tom Tugendhat
(@TomTugendhat)With the vary and risk they’re coping with @Australian_Navy occupied with a nuclear-powered fleet is a welcome addition to the defence of democracy.
18:21
Enterprise homeowners vowing to disregard the NSW authorities’s push to require folks to be totally vaccinated to enter outlets, bars or eating places are unlikely to seek out the legislation on their aspect, an skilled says.
The premier mentioned the federal government would “want to hunt authorized recommendation”, saying it was in “uncharted territory”.
However specialists have mentioned the federal government can be on stable floor in its makes an attempt to mandate vaccinations for sure freedoms.
Whereas the NSW authorities is facing legal challenges to some of its public health orders, together with guidelines requiring law enforcement officials and healthcare employees to be vaccinated, Dr Ron Levy, an affiliate professor on the Australian Nationwide College’s school of legislation, mentioned the authorized prospects for folks against vaccine mandates was “fairly poor”.
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18:16
Naval Group – previously DCNS, the French shipbuilder beforehand awarded submarine contract – is but to touch upon the brand new alliance and Australia’s ditching of the $50bn settlement.
However an unnamed senior official from France’s ministry of armed forces has weighed in on the “unofficial purpose” – “American entryism”. Speaking to Le Parisien right this moment, the official denounced the Biden administration for “making life troublesome” (or “soaping the plank”, should you want a literal translation), and strong-arming the contract away from the French.
The French diplomat and former US ambassador Géraud Araud had this so as to add:
Gérard Araud
(@GerardAraud)The world is a jungle. France has simply been reminded this bitter reality by the best way the US and the UK have stabbed her within the again in Australia. C’est la vie.
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18:14
A rich Pentecostal church was handed $660,000 in jobkeeper funds and later posted a 3,620% improve in revenue and a $1.2m improve in income.
Hope Limitless church, a world church that started on the New South Wales Central Coast, revealed in filings to the charity regulator that it posted a $1.6m revenue final yr whereas receiving $660,000 in jobkeeper funds.
The outcome was an enormous improve to the $43,355 revenue it posted in 2019.
Revenues for the church additionally grew all through the pandemic’s first yr, rising from $2.8m in 2019 to $4m in 2020.
The church is led by Mark and Darlene Zschech, a well known Christian singer, who spent 25 years alongside Brian and Bobbie Houston at Hillsong, earlier than breaking away to kind a brand new church.
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