DUTTON TO REVEAL NUCLEAR PLANS
Peter Dutton will lastly reveal his nuclear coverage in the present day. Information Corp newspapers have been briefed on among the particulars — together with plans to make nuclear reactors “Commonwealth-owned and operated below related schemes to these overseeing Snowy Hydro and the NBN”, per The Australian.
The story added that “the tightly held nuclear coverage to be introduced on Wednesday, which doesn’t incorporate wider local weather and emissions targets, was not totally briefed to shadow cupboard members on Tuesday evening to keep away from areas being leaked”.
Nevertheless, MPs whose electorates may host a nuclear reactor have been briefed by Dutton.
The Every day Telegraph had extra intel: Victoria’s Latrobe Valley is predicted to be dominated out as a website for a nuclear energy station after protests from Nationals MP Darren Chester, whereas Queensland may host two, at Callide and Tarong. The newspaper’s story stated the shadow cupboard had been briefed on particular retiring or former coal-fired energy station websites the place Dutton needs to construct reactors, whereas backbenchers can be briefed later final evening. A celebration room assembly at 8.30am will take into account the draft coverage.
NSW BUDGET ENVISIONS 30K NEW HOMES
The NSW authorities has delivered this yr’s funds and one of many headline gadgets is an funding of $5.1 billion to construct 8,400 new and refurbished social properties, the ABC stories. General, 30,000 new properties have been promised.
The Labor funds recorded a $3.6 billion deficit, partly brought on by a $11.9 billion hit from a loss in GST income, in keeping with Treasurer Daniel Mookhey. He described it as a funds of “must-have” insurance policies slightly than “nice-to-have” initiatives (that rhetoric actually flows off the tongue, doesn’t it?), naming housing, colleges, hospitals, crime prevention, the vitality transition and price of dwelling help as belonging to the previous class.
In the meantime, the state’s former Liberal treasurer Matt Kean has introduced he’s leaving politics, throwing a number of grenades at Mookhey as he dived for the door. “Daniel Mookhey has damaged the funds. He’s left us with a decade of deficits. He’s blamed everybody however himself. I imply, the following excuse we’re going to listen to is ‘The canine ate my surplus’,” Kean stated, in keeping with The Sydney Morning Herald.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE…
Thailand has legalised same-sex marriage, turning into solely the third territory in Asia and the primary nation in Southeast Asia to take action.
The laws handed the Thai Senate on Tuesday evening, and can take impact inside 120 days of being introduced within the Royal Gazette, the ABC’s Southeast Asia correspondent Lauren Day stories.
Meaning {couples} like Vorawan “Beaut” Ramwan and Anticha “An” Sangchai, who have been interviewed by Reuters forward of the vote, can quickly tie the knot.
“We’ve been ready for this for a very long time,” Sangchai stated.
In keeping with the Human Rights Marketing campaign, Thailand would be the thirty seventh nation to legalise same-sex marriages, with different current additions together with Greece on February 15, and Estonia, whose regulation was enacted on January 1.
The opposite nations in Asia which have marriage equality are Nepal and Taiwan (nonetheless, in keeping with Human Rights Watch, Nepalese same-sex {couples} nonetheless face near-impossible hurdles to marrying).
Say What?
If the polls are proper, a lot of the candidates gained’t be there for a management race — and I gained’t be there to vote for them both.
Nameless Tory candidate
The UK’s Conservative Celebration is bracing itself for a historic thumping within the July election, and a potential “civil battle” between factions within the get together. Tories have already begun gossiping about who may take over as chief if Prime Minister Rishi Sunak loses the election — however as one nameless candidate informed Politico, even those that take into account themselves seemingly contenders for the highest spot can’t be certain in the event that they’ll nonetheless be in Parliament when its time to resolve.
CRIKEY RECAP
‘Susan is in Cannes’: Anger at Tourism Australia after govt joined job cuts assembly from French Riviera
“On June 20 final yr, Tourism Australia workers tuned in to an all-hands Zoom assembly to be taught extra about impending job cuts impacting the company’s advertising group. Chief advertising officer Susan Coghill and two of her group members used a generic background once they joined the video name. Then, in keeping with sources with information of the assembly, managing director Phillipa Harrison let slip that ‘Susan is in Cannes’.
‘They tried to cover [that she was in France], and all of the workers nonetheless complain about it — and discovering out like that! To make it worse, she hid it from her group and so they discovered over Zoom,’ one supply stated.
One other stated: ‘[Harrison] didn’t learn the room in any respect. There have been fairly a number of upset individuals.’”
Labor’s capability to combat the local weather wars subsequent election has considerably weakened
Australia’s environmental legal guidelines are embarrassing us on the world stage — and are complicit within the destruction of our pure surroundings.
“The Albanese authorities was elected in 2022 on a promise to reform Australia’s damaged environmental legal guidelines. The groundbreaking Samuel evaluate of the Environmental Safety and Biodiversity Conservation Act in 2020 really helpful it endure an entire overhaul by 2022. And but, in April of this yr, Labor backflipped on its election promise, indefinitely deferring these reforms.
The previous week has seen Opposition Chief Peter Dutton promise to scrap the federal government’s 2030 local weather targets and Local weather 200 identify its battlegrounds for the 2025 election. These developments are setting the stage for a resurgence of the extensively dreaded ‘local weather wars’.
If the previous election is something to go by, the local weather debate is sort of able to costing Labor seats — seats it desperately should retain to maintain alive its dream of a majority authorities. However does Labor’s observe file in Parliament up to now prime it to combat off environmental challenges?”
‘Reverse of what she argued in my case’: Pauline Pantsdown says Hanson’s Irwin defamation response hypocritical
In 1998, Pauline Hanson efficiently sought an injunction to cease the ABC fromplaying a track parodying her.
“The person who sparked authorized motion from Pauline Hanson over his parody of her says the One Nation chief is ‘wanting it each methods’ after she was slapped with a considerations discover over her satirical cartoon of Robert Irwin.
Simon Hunt is a satirist higher often called his drag persona Pauline Pantsdown. As Pantsdown (which he legally modified his identify to at one level), he produced the songs ‘Backdoor Man’ and ‘I Don’t Like It’, each comedic parodies of Hanson that used samples of Hanson’s voice to parody and critique her insurance policies on immigration and welfare.”
READ ALL ABOUT IT
New Zealand prime minister hitches journey on business airplane after jet breaks down (CNN)
South Korean troopers fireplace warning photographs after North Korean troops cross border, apparently in error (Related Press)
Putin praises North Korea for Ukraine battle help forward of go to to Pyongyang (The Guardian)
‘I might be beheaded’: Islamist insurgency flares in Mozambique (BBC)
Emmanuel Macron urges New Caledonia residents to raise roadblocks after weeks of unrest (France24)
Six killed in Ecuador as heavy rains set off landslide (Al Jazeera)
THE COMMENTARIAT
If the RBA does its job, we’d all maintain on to ours – Millie Muroi (SMH) ($): “On the floor, Reserve Financial institution governor Michele Bullock is nailing her job. Holding rates of interest at a close to 13-year excessive isn’t successful her and the RBA board she heads many pals amongst mortgage holders. However at first look, she and her colleagues have managed to stroll the tightrope between taming inflation and tipping the financial system into recession.
Maybe most impressively, Bullock has helped maintain the headline unemployment price at, or under, 4.1% as of the newest information from Could. Look past the headline numbers although, and we begin to see some cracks. Financial development is narrowly holding up, rising simply 0.1% within the first three months of the yr and 1.1% within the 12 months to March. Excluding the COVID-19 period, that 1.1% is the slowest tempo of development since 1991.”
Neglect wine and pandas, it’s all about valuable rocks and minerals as China’s Premier Li Qiang heads west – Keane Bourke and Jon Daly (ABC): “Cute and cuddly pandas might need dominated the headlines when the Chinese language Premier visited South Australia, however the one different state Li Qiang is visiting has larger ambitions. ‘I’ll take economic-boosting direct flights between Shanghai and Perth any day over pandas,’ WA Premier Roger Cook dinner informed reporters with a chuckle on Monday.
Boosting the state’s financial system, and subsequently the nation’s, is the secret for Cook dinner.
But it surely’s not about flights or pandas and even lifting commerce impediments on rock lobster (a difficulty hinted at by that includes the crustacean at a neighborhood banquet). It’s about what was packed within the rows and rows of white luggage which greeted Premier Li within the industrial hub of Kwinana south of Perth — lithium, in addition to different important minerals.”
