ALBO IN BIDEN’S HOMETOWN
US President Joe Biden has invited Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, later this month. The AAP reviews Biden will host a Quad summit involving Albanese, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 21.
“This will probably be President Biden’s first time internet hosting international leaders in Wilmington as president — a mirrored image of his deep private relationships with every of the Quad leaders, and the significance of the Quad to all of our international locations,” White Home spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned. The summit would be the fourth in-person assembly of Quad leaders.
The announcement in a single day follows the Albanese authorities placing a take care of the Coalition to reform aged care. Most publications led on Thursday night with constructive responses to the long-awaited reforms. The Australian quotes Patricia Sparrow, chief government of the Council on the Ageing, as saying the federal government’s concentrate on house care help is “very welcomed”, whereas Aged and Group Care Suppliers Affiliation chief government Tom Symondson acknowledged each events had “put older Australians and the way forward for aged care above celebration politics”.
Older Individuals Advocacy Community CEO Craig Gear is quoted by the ABC as saying the reforms had the potential to “create a financially sustainable aged care system for future generations”. In the meantime, the AAP carries quotes from him expressing his disappointment that prison penalties for critical hurt and neglect weren’t included within the last laws.
The Australian mentioned the Coalition had given its in-principle help after an emergency partyroom assembly yesterday that included “one of many longest talking lists” many MPs had seen.
Recent off negotiations with the opposition over the aged care reforms, Albanese can also be making headlines this morning for his reported desire to strike a take care of the Coalition somewhat than the Greens on the federal government’s stalled environmental agenda, Guardian Australia reviews.
As Setting Minister Tanya Plibersek continues talks with the Greens, crossbenchers and the opposition over plans to create an Setting Safety Authority, the PM has apparently “indicated to varied events within the negotiations that he needs a deal struck with the Coalition”. The location mentioned Albanese seems ready to attend and has prioritised different laws.
LABOR SEAT DISAGREEMENT
As Albanese enjoys the preliminary protection of the aged care reforms and plans his journey to America subsequent week, Guardian Australia additionally reviews the PM could should intervene and determine who will run within the protected Labor seat of Gorton following a disagreement between Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles and the Australian Employees’ Union.
Marles is backing Alice Jordan-Baird, a local weather change and water coverage skilled, whereas the AWU (Invoice Shorten’s previous union) is backing Brimbank mayor Ranka Rasic in Brendan O’Connor’s previous seat.
Guardian Australia mentioned nominations for Labor’s Victorian seats closed yesterday forward of a nationwide government assembly right this moment, and neither candidate had supposed to withdraw. Shorten’s seat of Maribyrnong will probably be contested by the Left’s Jo Briskey, the location provides.
Elsewhere in Victoria, the Land Forces weapons expo is ready to conclude in Melbourne right this moment with “vital protest exercise” anticipated, the AAP reviews.
“There will probably be renewed vigour to protest as a result of it’s the final day,” rally organiser Caroline Da Silva is quoted as saying. “It’s our final likelihood to indicate these weapons firms that they’re not welcome right here.”
On Wednesday, the opening day of the expo, 42 individuals had been arrested following “violence and chaos”, the AAP mentioned, as police clashed with demonstrators.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE…
“Again at house, all of us have a whole lot of work to do. However from right here, Earth positive seems to be like an ideal world,” tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman remarked as he stepped out for the primary personal spacewalk on Thursday.
The billionaire, who financed the five-day area flight with Elon Musk’s SpaceX firm, has change into the primary non-professional astronaut to stroll in area, the BBC reviews. He was adopted by mission specialist Sarah Gillis. Each spent round quarter-hour exterior the spacecraft.
The Press Affiliation mentioned the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, “erupted in cheers and applause” when Isaacman first left the Polaris Daybreak spacecraft for his spacewalk.
All 4 members of the Polaris Daybreak had been carrying and testing SpaceX’s new spacewalking fits on the mission.
Pilot Scott “Kidd” Poteet and mission specialist and medical officer Anna Menon missed out on the enjoyable and stayed inside in the course of the spacewalks to watch the help techniques, PA mentioned.
Say What?
A hug? Why not!
King Charles III
New Zealand’s ladies’s rugby union crew managed to get a bunch hug with the British monarch on Wednesday. The Black Ferns had been at a Buckingham Palace reception when winger Ayesha Leti-I’iga requested for a hug and, upon getting the inexperienced mild, was joined by her teammates. King Charles later mentioned “it was like being flattened by a scrum”. The 75-year-old and Queen Camilla are set to go to Australia subsequent month.
CRIKEY RECAP
Fox Sports activities exec secretly attacked Australian cricket crew. Foxtel, Cricket Australia knew
Fox Sports activities’ cricket boss Matthew Weiss viciously attacked the Australian males’s cricket crew, Cricket Australia and members of the media — together with one journalist who had beforehand filed bullying complaints towards Weiss’ shut Foxtel colleague — in newly unearthed posts on X, previously Twitter.
Final month, Crikey revealed an investigation revealing that Fox Cricket’s normal supervisor had secretly run an abusive account, @RealRagingBull, for six years that abused colleagues, rivals and different high-profile people, whereas additionally posting inappropriate content material.
Whereas Weiss has since instructed individuals he was hacked, posts comprised of his nameless account and one other account utilizing his actual title present a sample of behaviour over time in direction of colleagues and stakeholders that was identified at Foxtel and Cricket Australia.
Individuals assume Max Chandler-Mather is annoying. Does he care?
It’s clear he irks the prime minister, to whom he’s typically in contrast. Headlines describe him as “getting underneath Anthony Albanese’s pores and skin” or “troubling Albanese to the Max”, whereas Albo has been reported as “shedding his cool” throughout their common query time clashes.
He rankles sections of the media, who typically describe him as an “upstart”. His speech finally month’s CFMEU protests noticed one correspondent label him an “assault pet”, versus the extra respectable “assault canine”.
He even annoys some who agree with him, together with his bolshie type coming off as obnoxious.
After I ask him why individuals discover him so annoying, Chandler-Mather, who stop the Labor Get together when he was 21, has a prepared reply.
‘Can’t say I’ll miss him’: Editorial employees react to 9 CEO Mike Sneesby’s departure
Sneesby will end up on September 30. 9’s chief finance and technique officer Matt Stanton will step in as appearing CEO the next day, whereas the corporate begins recruitment to fill the function.
9 staffers, chatting with Crikey, mentioned editorial employees had been relieved about Sneesby’s resignation.
“Can’t say I’ll miss him,” one staffer mentioned, including that the manager had stayed in “palatial lodging” for the Paris Olympics “whereas his staff went on strike for fundamental pay will increase and had been made redundant”.
One other described it as a “nice morning”.
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THE COMMENTARIAT
Labor wasn’t having an excellent week — till Albanese stepped into his courtyard like a person who remembered he had choices — Brett Worthington (ABC): Because the week dragged on, it was beginning to look as if passing Labor’s legislative agenda by means of Parliament was all changing into too onerous.
Till Albanese popped out into his courtyard this afternoon, flanked by Aged Care Minister Anika Wells and Treasurer Jim Chalmers, to announce Labor had landed a long-anticipated take care of the Coalition that may see older Australians pay extra for his or her residential care.
The adjustments will save authorities coffers billions, as individuals coming into care pay bigger means-tested contributions, in return for higher at-home take care of others.
The deal supplied a parliamentary week-ending sweetener for a authorities having to reassess the fights it’s keen to select with an election now firmly inside sights.
Chalmers, having lambasted the Coalition on the collapse of talks to make adjustments to the RBA, ended the week following by means of on his risk to barter with the Greens, a crossbench celebration that has repeatedly mentioned its door remained open.
Lastly, politicians attain a reform deal worthy of the title — Phillip Coorey (AFR): As Chalmers mentioned, aged care will stay a high 5 impost on the finances, together with the NDIS, defence, well being and curiosity funds on debt.
However the development price will sluggish from 5.7% to five.2% over the following decade and, as a share of GDP, aged care will reasonable from 1.5% to 1.4%, “even with extra individuals within the system and a better commonplace of care on the identical time”.
Reform is a phrase too simply bandied about as of late, however that is worthy of the moniker, even when it required boomers getting used because the Trojan Horse.
