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NSW government ‘very sorry’ family violence funding package was not released earlier
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, is speaking to the media, outlining what is included in the state government’s $230m emergency family violence package.
We detailed this earlier in the blog, here and here. Speaking to the media, Minns said:
This is the first announcement of our government – major announcement – when it comes to domestic and family violence. There is a lot more to do in this space and the truth of the matter is this is only a first step …
We have heard loud and clear the call from the family members of those who have been killed at the hands of a violent partner and the message from my government today is: more needs to be done.
We are very sorry that this package was not released or announced earlier, but we are determined to learn from the mistakes that have been made by my government and previous governments over the past decades.
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The federal government’s plan to front a stipend for teaching, nursing, midwifery and social work placements has been rejected as a “slap in the face” to students, with the Greens urging Labor to make the payments universal and not limited by degrees.
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Students are required to complete hundreds of hours of unpaid placements in a number of courses including psychology, counselling and physiotherapy that are excluded from Labor’s announcement.
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Greens deputy leader and spokesperson for education, senator Mehreen Faruqi, said Labor was moving in the right direction but all students should be paid for their hours of work to at least the minimum wage. Labor has suggested the payment be benchmarked to the single Austudy rate of $319.50 a week from 2025.
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During this cost-of-living crisis, unpaid placements are forcing students to choose between putting fuel in the car to get to their placement or putting food on the table every day. Labor’s policy won’t even try to change that until 1 July 2025. It’s a slap in the face from the government to ignore the many students experiencing placement poverty right now.
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James Sherriff, spokesperson for Students Against Placement Poverty (SAPP), said without a living wage, students remained in placement poverty despite winning “an important concession” from the government.
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This change will do very little to alleviate placement poverty in the vast majority of cases, and [SAPP] urges that more drastic change is needed immediately.
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The sentencing of army whistleblower, David McBride, begins this morning almost five years after he was first charged for his role in leaking secret defence documents about Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan.
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The former military lawyer pleaded guilty in the ACT supreme court in December to three offences, including stealing commonwealth information and passing that on to journalists at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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This morning, supporters and advocates gathered at the ACT supreme court to rally against the federal government’s pursuit of McBride. McBride arrived shortly before 10am, briefly addressing the media and his supporters:
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I say to the federal government, stop talking about doing the right thing and actually do the right things.
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McBride said he disagreed with a recent ABC Four Corners episode, which questioned McBride’s framing as a “whistleblower”. Asked how he wanted the public to perceive him, McBride said:
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As someone that stood up for Australian values in the face of a government who has lost sight.
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The sentencing is scheduled to run until Tuesday.
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Hopefully we can identify a person by their heat signature in these cold waters.
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The search area was 18km outside Sydney Heads and covered a large area, spanning about 60 square nautical miles of water, he said.
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Authorities had some hope of retrieving the passenger alive given a life ring from the cruise ship was yet to be recovered.
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Human remains have been discovered at the edge of Canberra’s southern suburbs, but police are yet to identify the findings.
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Police found the remains a kilometre outside Gordon, near the Point Hut Crossing of the Murrumbidgee River, at about 3.45pm yesterday afternoon after a call from the member of the public.
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ACT police said they were still investigating the circumstances of the incident and would probably provide a further update later today.
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There are 14 long-term missing people from the ACT, including two missing overseas. Anyone with information was urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
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This is the first announcement of our government – major announcement – when it comes to domestic and family violence. There is a lot more to do in this space and the truth of the matter is this is only a first step …
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We have heard loud and clear the call from the family members of those who have been killed at the hands of a violent partner and the message from my government today is: more needs to be done.
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We are very sorry that this package was not released or announced earlier, but we are determined to learn from the mistakes that have been made by my government and previous governments over the past decades.
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The prime minister says now is the time to “back police” when asked about Western Australia police stopping short of labelling an alleged attack in Perth as terrorism yesterday.
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Responding to the question, Anthony Albanese said:
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It is the right time to back in the processes that [police] undertake. My first thoughts are with the victim of this incident, but also to applaud the very swift action of WA police in acting here.
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[I] also acknowledge the very important work that the Muslim community did to alert police to the messages that had [allegedly] been sent out by this young man …
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Westpac has recorded a sizeable jump in the number of mortgage customers falling more than 90 days behind on their repayments, as elevated interest rates and rising living costs put pressure on households.
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The major bank reported a jump in mortgage delinquencies to 1% in its half-year results released today, up 32 basis points from a year earlier. Delinquencies refer to households which are more than three months behind on their mortgages, representing those at higher risk of having homes repossessed.
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Westpac chief executive, Peter King, said that although there were signs of increased mortgage stress, the overall economy was proving resilient.
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While we’ve seen an uptick in stress in our loan books, this is to be expected given the large increase in interest rates, high inflation and taxation.
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Westpac reported a $3.34bn six-month profit to the end of March, down 16% from a year ago. Its chief gauge of profitability, net interest margins, eased slightly to 1.89%.
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King said the bank’s margins were helped by more subdued mortgage competition among lenders during the last six months.
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Australia’s major banks have been enjoying a period of share price strength and profitability, despite the recent pullback in profit margins.
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Westpac announced today it was increasing its share buyback program by $1bn, a measure used to return excess capital to investors, and that it would also pay a special 15 cent dividend to shareholders.
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Telstra has announced it will delay the closure of its 3G network by two months, from 30 June to 31 August, allowing people more time to update their devices.
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The telecommunications company has been working towards the change for nearly five years and described it as a significant step, leading to improved connectivity for Australia.
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Everyone using devices that rely on 3G for either data, voice or emergency calls need to prepare to stay connected when it switches off.
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Customers can check if their handset will be affected by the upcoming closure by texting “3” to 3498, Telstra says.
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We’re extremely pleased to have someone of his calibre to lead the next chapter at Optus. His experience in setting up the digital backbone of Australia will serve us well as we reinvigorate Optus as Australia’s leading challenger telecommunications brand.
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We expect Stephen’s operational and financial background to lift service standards significantly for the benefit of our customers.
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His appointment coincides with a new governance model where the Optus CEO and executives will report to the Optus board – with Rue joining the board and reporting to the chairman.
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Members of the Optus board include chair Paul O’Sullivan, Yuen Kuan Moon, John Arthur, Lim Cheng Cheng and Michael Venter.
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Until Rue begins his role as CEO, Venter will continue as interim CEO.
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Jodie Harrison was also asked about funding from the commonwealth to states like NSW to provide about 500 family violence frontline workers.
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Yesterday the minister for women, Katy Gallagher, said just 30 had been delivered nationwide so far:
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Asked about this on ABC News Breakfast, Harrison said “about five” of the state’s promised 148 have been employed so far. She said:
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We’ve been working with the federal government to make sure that we comply with what they have already committed to in local areas, and we’ve been doing a lot of work to analyse where gaps are so that we can make sure that the balance of those 148 workers are actually put into the areas that they are most needed.
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We’ve been consulting really heavily with people who work in the domestic and family violence space, and looking at the crime statistics as well, and we are in the process of procuring those workers right now.
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Is only five employed so far good enough? Harrison responded:
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Look, it would be really wonderful if we could have moved faster on this. Certainly, the domestic and family violence sector are saying and have been saying that they need additional resources. But we want to make sure we’re putting the workers into the areas where they’re most needed.
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Qantas will fork out $100m as a civil penalty and pay out $20m to customers in compensation, after striking a deal with the consumer watchdog over a landmark action for allegedly selling tickets to flights that had already been cancelled in its system.
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Qantas today announced it had come to an agreement with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to resolve the court proceedings lodged in August last year, alleging it had advertised and sold tickets for more than 8,000 flights that it had already cancelled in its internal system, revelations which precipitated the early retirement of former CEO Alan Joyce.
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In a statement, Qantas said it will “commence a projected $20 million remediation program for impacted passengers, with payments to customers ranging from $225 to $450, and subject to the approval of the Federal Court of Australia, will pay a $100 million civil penalty”.
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The ACCC and Qantas will shortly seek approval of the proposed penalty by the Federal Court. However, Qantas intends to commence the remediation program in advance of the Court approval process.
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ACCC chair, Gina Cass-Gottlieb, said that as part of the settlement, Qantas had admitted that it misled consumers:
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Qantas’ conduct was egregious and unacceptable. Many consumers will have made holiday, business and travel plans after booking on a phantom flight that had been cancelled.
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Qantas CEO, Vanessa Hudson, said: “Today represents another important step forward as we work towards restoring confidence in the national carrier … we have since updated our processes and are investing in new technology across the Qantas Group to ensure this doesn’t happen again.”
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Qantas will facilitate payments to 86,597 consumers who, between 21 May 2021 and 26 August 2023, booked or were re‑accommodated on a domestic or international flight scheduled to depart between 1 May 2022 until 10 May 2024 after Qantas had already decided to cancel it.
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Of customers affected, 94% were flying on domestic or trans-Tasman routes, with the remainder flying on the international network. The financial hit of the penalty and remediation program will be recognised as an expense in the group’s statutory income statement for the current financial year.
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A group of women and non-binary people from civil society have written to the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, seeking a “substantial increase” in jobseeker and youth allowance.
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It notes that this was the priority recommendation of the government’s own Economic Inclusions Advisory Committee, quoting chair Jenny Macklin who said: “Women escaping violence also need to know that there will be a decent social security net for them.”
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The letter said:
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The current social security safety net cannot be described as “decent” nor safe. The JobSeeker Payment is just $55 a day. Youth Allowance is even less at $45 a day. Around 500,000 women receive these payments. While the government’s restoration of Parenting Payment Single to 82,000 single parents whose youngest child is aged between 8 and 14 was most welcome, there remain large numbers of women of all ages in receipt of JobSeeker and other working-age payments that are simply not enough to cover basic costs.
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Fixing the adequacy of Jobseeker and Youth Allowance to deliver basic economic security for women cannot wait.
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Unlike last year’s letter coordinated by the Australian Council of Social Services, this does not appear to include current Labor MPs.
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The sentencing hearing for military whistleblower David McBride will take place today.
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McBride pleaded guilty to stealing commonwealth information and passing that on to journalists at the ABC, who used the material as the basis for an investigative series exposing war crimes in Afghanistan, titled The Afghan Files.
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In Australia we pride ourselves on transparent government and the right to a fair hearing in court.
Situations like David’s and Dan’s, where Australians are being used as political scapegoats, cannot stand. It’s time for the prime minister and politicians in Canberra to prove the value of Australian citizenship and our nation’s sovereignty.
I am horrified at this prosecution of both David and of my husband, Dan, and the damage it is doing to them and to their loved ones. We won’t give up, let’s stand together for justice.
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NSW police are leading a search in waters off Sydney after reports a person went overboard off a cruise ship early this morning.
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Police said emergency services received reports a person had gone overboard off a ship 10 nautical miles (around 19km) off Sydney Heads just after 4am.
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NSW police marine area command have deployed a number of resources to search for the person and are leading the coordination of the water search.
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The P&O Pacific Adventure was due to dock in Sydney Harbour at 6am this morning.
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P&O said in a statement that the ship – carrying 2,600 guests – was taking part in the search and rescue operation along with other nearby vessels, deployed to the area by AMSA’s joint rescue coordination centre.
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The family of this guest is being cared for by our onboard team while every effort is being made to find them. Pacific Adventure’s arrival into White Bay Terminal this morning has been delayed while the search continues.
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The NSW government has today committed to an emergency $230m package to support the victim-survivors of domestic, family and sexual violence.
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The new funding will cover four years of new programs and extensions of existing programs, and is informed by the lived experience of victim-survivors and leaders from the domestic family and sexual violence sector who met with the state cabinet last week.
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The premier, Chris Minns, said in a statement:
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Too many lives have been lost and too many families have been broken because of domestic and family violence. It is a blight in our communities, and it is a problem that deserves our government’s concerted attention and response.
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We are listening to leaders, organisations, victim-survivors, and communities from across NSW to drive solutions. Domestic, family, and sexual violence is preventable; we cannot accept the status quo.
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This funding announcement is an important step to doing better, to recognising that domestic violence supports need to be applied not just from a crisis response perspective, but with an eye to disrupting the cycle of domestic and family violence early and permanently.
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Making news overnight: The NSW government has announced the details of its emergency $230m package to support the victim-survivors of domestic, family and sexual violence. The new funding will cover four years of new programs and extensions of existing programs and follows a dedicated cabinet meeting last week. More on this soon from Daisy Dumas.
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A group of women and non-binary people from civil society have written to the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, seeking a “substantial increase” in jobseeker and youth allowance. The letter states jobseeker and other working-age payments “are simply not [earning] enough to cover basic costs”. Paul Karp will bring us more on this shortly.
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And Mexican authorities have said the bodies believed to be two missing Australian brothers show they may have been killed with gunshots. You can read the entire story below:
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Greens poised for historic upper house election win in Tasmania
The Greens are poised to win their first seat in Tasmania’s upper house, following the party’s improved showing at the recent state election, AAP reports.
Former party leader Cassy O’Connor has 37% of the primary vote in Hobart – one of three Legislative Council divisions that went to the polls on Saturday.
It comes after the Greens boosted their lower house representation from two to five MPs at the March 23 election. The party picked up a 1.5% swing, coinciding with the lower house increasing from 25 to 35 members.
Tasmania is widely acknowledged as being home to world’s first ‘green’ party, the United Tasmania Group, which ran candidates at the 1972 state election.
Counting in Hobart, as well as Elwick and Prosser, resumed today with final results potentially known in coming days.
O’Connor has a sizeable lead over independent candidate John Kelly (22%) and is expected to prevail. She resigned from the party leadership in July and left parliament for a tilt at the upper house.
Caitlin Cassidy
Education union backs placement payments as win to overcome placement poverty
The Australian Education Union (AEU) has backed the federal government’s Commonwealth Practice Payments as a win to overcome placement poverty, while calling on Labor to do more to prevent high dropout rates in critical degrees.
Its federal president, Correna Haythorpe, pointed to figures showing 20% of teaching graduates leave the profession in their first three years of entering the workforce, citing increased workload, class sizes and contact-hours.
With half of students not completing their teaching degree this measure will help to not only attract students but also financially support them to complete their studies to be a teacher. That will be life changing for many students.
We are very pleased to see this announcement by the Albanese government today as it is a first step towards building a strong teaching profession. However much more needs to be done, including addressing chronic workloads, fully funded professional development and mentoring programs to support teachers as they begin their profession.
Paul Karp
Continuing from our last post: The education minister Jason Clare didn’t rule out extending the payment to other types of students when speaking earlier, but said that those professions were identified by the Universities Accord as the priority.
This is what he said at an earlier press conference:
The accord said this is where we go first … They said look at teaching, early education, nursing, midwifery as well as social work, so that’s where we’re focused first.
Greens reject placement payments as ‘slap in the face’ to students
Caitlin Cassidy
The federal government’s plan to front a stipend for teaching, nursing, midwifery and social work placements has been rejected as a “slap in the face” to students, with the Greens urging Labor to make the payments universal and not limited by degrees.
Students are required to complete hundreds of hours of unpaid placements in a number of courses including psychology, counselling and physiotherapy that are excluded from Labor’s announcement.
Greens deputy leader and spokesperson for education, senator Mehreen Faruqi, said Labor was moving in the right direction but all students should be paid for their hours of work to at least the minimum wage. Labor has suggested the payment be benchmarked to the single Austudy rate of $319.50 a week from 2025.
During this cost-of-living crisis, unpaid placements are forcing students to choose between putting fuel in the car to get to their placement or putting food on the table every day. Labor’s policy won’t even try to change that until 1 July 2025. It’s a slap in the face from the government to ignore the many students experiencing placement poverty right now.
James Sherriff, spokesperson for Students Against Placement Poverty (SAPP), said without a living wage, students remained in placement poverty despite winning “an important concession” from the government.
This change will do very little to alleviate placement poverty in the vast majority of cases, and [SAPP] urges that more drastic change is needed immediately.
Benita Kolovos
Reports of students ranking female classmates ‘disgraceful and utterly unacceptable’, Allan says
Circling back to Jacinta Allan’s press conference, where the premier was asked about reports in the papers this morning that four students at a private school in Melbourne’s east have been suspended after rating their female classmates.
According to a report in the Age, the students at Yarra Valley grammar school in Ringwood shared a spreadsheet of photos of their female classmates and ranked them in categories. The girls were ranked from top to bottom as “wifeys”, “cuties”, “mid”, “object”, “get out” and then finally “unrapable”.
Allan said the reported behaviour was “misogynist[ic], it’s disgraceful, it’s disgusting, and it’s utterly unacceptable”.
We have been having, for months now, an ongoing community conversation about how four women every week are losing their lives at the hands of a man. Maybe a current or former partner, maybe a complete stranger. This pattern of violence against women – not only does the act of violence have to stop, but these displays of disrespecting women. Like it’s just disgraceful.
My thoughts today are with the young women and the young men who they go to school with, who are absolutely devastated by this news, [and] with the young women and their families. To think that you’re sitting in a classroom with classmates who may not just hold these views, but write them down and share them.
Allan continued, stating “this is no joke”.
Respect for women has to be at the forefront of every classroom, of every household, of every part of our community, because we are seeing what happens [at the] extreme end of what respect for women looks like with too many women subjected to violence, too many women losing their lives.
My thoughts today [are] with those young women and their families who must be just devastated. I was devastated, utterly devastated when I read those reports this morning.
Jordyn Beazley
DVNSW responds to NSW government’s emergency family violence package
The peak body for NSW’s domestic violence sector has said the Minn’s government’s emergency $230m family violence package is a “positive and substantial first step” that should be followed by more funding for housing and homelessness services.
Delia Donovan, chief executive of Domestic Violence NSW, said:
This is a comprehensive investment for the domestic and family violence sector. We’re glad to see the NSW government respond to our advocacy and recognise the critical need for investing in the sector to address the domestic and family violence emergency in our state.
DVNSW applauded the government’s expansion of the Staying Home Leaving Violence (SHLV) program, which helps victim-survivors remain in their home or another safe home of their choice. Through the funding, the SHLV program will be expanded from 91 locations in the state to 128 local government areas and will help an additional 4,200 women every year.
The organisation also welcomed the increased specialist support for children, which will go towards improving the wellbeing of children who are victim-survivors and help break the cycle of violence. Donovan said:
The recognition of children and young people as victim-survivors in their own right has been a key area of advocacy for us.
The peak body said it hoped to see more on housing in the upcoming budget, including an additional $52m for existing refuges to ensure no victim-survivors were turned away.
It also urged the government to build an additional 7,500 social and affordable homes each year over the next 20 years, and 750 more transitional homes to provide a pathway out of crisis refuges. Donovan said:
We are eager to continue to work with the NSW government to ensure that meaningful investment into the sector remains a priority and includes continued investment.
Benita Kolovos
Victorian premier urges RBA to consider pressures on households ahead of rates decision tomorrow
As the Victorian government hands down its budget tomorrow, the Reserve Bank will make a decision on interest rates.
Jacinta Allan said she won’t give them any advice but highlighted the pressure that families, businesses and governments are under:
Whether it’s our budget, household budgets, budgets of businesses, we are all already feeling the pressures of successive interest rate rises [and] ongoing inflationary impacts, and if you just look at the construction sector alone, construction costs have gone up by 22% since 2021 – that’s a massive jump in just a really short space of time. You add to that the workforce shortages and the pressures that puts on the ability to deliver projects and services, but also to again it has an inflationary impact on our overall settings.
And I would hope that the Reserve Bank considers these pressures as they are making their deliberations, because these are pressures that are having a real impact on families at their kitchen table, on businesses and on governments who around the cabinet table have been working very hard on making the sensible and disciplined decisions that we need to make to support Victorian families.
Benita Kolovos
Jacinta Allan speaks ahead of Victorian budget tomorrow
The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, is speaking in Docklands ahead of her first budget tomorrow. She’s yet to make any announcements ahead of time and has flagged it’ll be a tight one. She told reporters:
It’s been a budget that’s been challenging to put together – a budget in a domestic and global environment that faces many, many pressures.
Whether it’s the inflationary and interest rate pressures, the pressures of workforce shortages, and what that means for our project works and service delivery – also to the global unrest, the ongoing impact of the pandemic – these are challenges that we can’t ignore.
We simply can’t put our head in the sand and ignore these circumstances as we have been putting this budget together. It’s why the budget will be firmly focused on Victorian families, as Labor government budgets always are, but we’ll also make the sensible and disciplined decisions that respond to those challenges.
Asked if the government will be deferring any infrastructure spending, Allan said:
I appreciate there’s a keenness to see that detail. I’m not going to preempt any budget decisions today.
David McBride speaks ahead of sentencing hearing
Sarah Basford Canales
The sentencing of army whistleblower, David McBride, begins this morning almost five years after he was first charged for his role in leaking secret defence documents about Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan.
The former military lawyer pleaded guilty in the ACT supreme court in December to three offences, including stealing commonwealth information and passing that on to journalists at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
This morning, supporters and advocates gathered at the ACT supreme court to rally against the federal government’s pursuit of McBride. McBride arrived shortly before 10am, briefly addressing the media and his supporters:
I say to the federal government, stop talking about doing the right thing and actually do the right things.
McBride said he disagreed with a recent ABC Four Corners episode, which questioned McBride’s framing as a “whistleblower”. Asked how he wanted the public to perceive him, McBride said:
As someone that stood up for Australian values in the face of a government who has lost sight.
The sentencing is scheduled to run until Tuesday.
Rough seas hamper search for man overboard on cruise
Water police are battling rough seas as they undertake a frantic search for a man who went overboard from a P&O cruise before dawn as the vessel approached Sydney, AAP reports.
NSW police marine area command head Supt Joe McNulty said swells of up to 5 metres were forcing authorities to rely on heat-seeking technology to find the passenger. He told ABC radio:
Hopefully we can identify a person by their heat signature in these cold waters.
The search area was 18km outside Sydney Heads and covered a large area, spanning about 60 square nautical miles of water, he said.
Authorities had some hope of retrieving the passenger alive given a life ring from the cruise ship was yet to be recovered.
“There is a person out there hopefully close to a life ring or in that life ring,” McNulty said, adding that the search would continue through Monday.
The timeframes for survival is still within the limits.
Firefighters rescue family trapped in home smashed by falling tree
Firefighters have helped rescue a family of four after a large tree fell on their Sydney home and trapped them last night.
A 35-year-old man was putting an 11-month-old to bed just after 8.30pm last night when the tree crashed through the roof of their Avalon Beach home, on Sydney’s northern beaches.
Neighbours reported the family’s screams for help after the near miss, and a Fire and Rescue NSW crew quickly attended the scene, along with paramedics and SES personnel.
Firefighters told the family – who only sustained minor injuries – to stay inside until power company technicians were able to isolate “live” electrical cables, exposed during the incident.
The father and child were treated at the scene and transported to hospital for further assessment. A grandfather drove a second child, aged four, to hospital for a check-up.
The family is seeking alternative accommodation as the house is now uninhabitable.
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Shadow communications minister responds to Telstra’s delayed 3G shutdown
As we reported earlier, Telstra has delayed its closure of the 3G network by two months in an effort to give people more time to update their devices.
Shadow communication minister David Coleman said this move underscores Michelle Rowland’s “hapless handling” of the issue – with some 4G phones not able to work after the 3G shutdown.
Coleman said in a statement this morning:
The minister claimed that she was not aware of the issue until March. Strange, given that her office received information on this in June last year, and the peak industry body AMTA told the whole world when it published information on this exact topic in November.
The minister only set up her ‘Working Group’ in March. If the minister had acted professionally and expeditiously, there would have been ample time to deal with this issue prior to 3G shutdown.
Human remains discovered in Canberra’s southern suburbs
Luca Ittimani
Human remains have been discovered at the edge of Canberra’s southern suburbs, but police are yet to identify the findings.
Police found the remains a kilometre outside Gordon, near the Point Hut Crossing of the Murrumbidgee River, at about 3.45pm yesterday afternoon after a call from the member of the public.
ACT police said they were still investigating the circumstances of the incident and would probably provide a further update later today.
There are 14 long-term missing people from the ACT, including two missing overseas. Anyone with information was urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
Caitlin Cassidy
Five pro-Palestine encampments established at universities across Melbourne
Pro-Palestine encampments have spread to five universities in Melbourne with the establishment of permanent protests at RMIT, Deakin and La Trobe.
The groups are calling on universities to divest from Israel and for a permanent ceasefire. Representatives of Students for Palestine say the camps will be indefinite.
Amelia Christie, general representative of the RMIT student union, said students were “sick of watching a genocide play out” while the university maintained ties with weapons manufacturers.
We are calling our universities to cut all ties with weapons manufacturers, companies that are currently supplying the weapons used to carry out the horrors unfolding in Gaza.
Alicia Griffiths, La Trobe social justice officer, said students were “horrified” by the violent scenes occurring at protests in the United States.
We want to show solidarity with them. Encampments are spreading like wildfire across Australia because students are determined to disrupt the war machine.
NSW government ‘very sorry’ family violence funding package was not released earlier
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, is speaking to the media, outlining what is included in the state government’s $230m emergency family violence package.
We detailed this earlier in the blog, here and here. Speaking to the media, Minns said:
This is the first announcement of our government – major announcement – when it comes to domestic and family violence. There is a lot more to do in this space and the truth of the matter is this is only a first step …
We have heard loud and clear the call from the family members of those who have been killed at the hands of a violent partner and the message from my government today is: more needs to be done.
We are very sorry that this package was not released or announced earlier, but we are determined to learn from the mistakes that have been made by my government and previous governments over the past decades.
PM applauds ‘very swift action’ of police after WA teen shot dead amid alleged attack
The prime minister says now is the time to “back police” when asked about Western Australia police stopping short of labelling an alleged attack in Perth as terrorism yesterday.
You can read all details on this below:
Responding to the question, Anthony Albanese said:
It is the right time to back in the processes that [police] undertake. My first thoughts are with the victim of this incident, but also to applaud the very swift action of WA police in acting here.
[I] also acknowledge the very important work that the Muslim community did to alert police to the messages that had [allegedly] been sent out by this young man …
Police will go through their processes and that is important, that that be backed up. My job is to back up our security agencies and our police and the important work that they do.
Albanese responds to pro-Palestinian protests at university campuses
The prime minister was also asked about the pro-Palestine encampments taking place across Australian universities. Specifically, he was asked about the phrase “from the river to the sea” used by protesters, and responded:
It is a slogan that calls for opposition to a two-state solution. My position is very clear and the government’s position is clear and it has been a bipartisan position for a long period of time.
Anthony Albanese continued by saying “the Middle East is a complex issue” that required a “considered response”.
Government’s position is very clear, which is [that] the long-term solution in the Middle East requires a two-state solution – the right of Israel to continue to exist within secure borders but the right of Palestinians to have justice as well, to have self-determination and also to be able to live in security, peace and prosperity.
… And I think the slogan that you refer to dismisses that, which is not in the interests of Israelis, but it is not in the interests of Palestinians.
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