HUNDREDS KILLED IN LEBANON
Lebanon’s well being ministry says greater than 490 folks have been killed following Israeli air strikes on Monday. The Related Press studies the dying toll contains no less than 24 kids and over 1,200 folks had been injured, with the strikes representing the deadliest assault for the reason that 2006 Israel-Hezbollah battle.
In a televised tackle, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advised the folks of Lebanon that his nation was not at battle with them, however with the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and advised residents to “get out of hurt’s means”, CNN studies. Folks in southern Lebanon had been receiving cellphone messages on Monday morning warning them to steer clear of “residential buildings which are being utilized by Hezbollah for hiding weapons”, the BBC stated.
Reuters studies after virtually a 12 months of battle towards Hamas within the Gaza Strip, Israel is shifting its focus to its northern frontier the place Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel in assist of Hamas.
“I promised that we’d change the safety steadiness, the steadiness of energy within the north — that’s precisely what we’re doing,” Netanyahu stated. Reuters additionally quotes Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant as claiming: “On this present day we now have taken out of order tens of hundreds of rockets and exact munition. What Hezbollah has constructed over a interval of 20 years for the reason that second Lebanon Battle, is in actual fact being destroyed by the IDF [Israel Defense Forces].”
Lebanon’s Public Well being Minister Dr Firass Abiad advised the BBC tens of hundreds of individuals within the south of the nation had been pressured to flee their houses.
“The primary goal of those assaults was to instigate this exodus of civilians from the goal areas,” he stated. “It’s clear the Israeli authorities’s intention is to escalate and provoke. We’re in a brand new stage of battle, initially it was focused assaults however now it’s indiscriminate.” Final week pagers and walkie-talkies utilized by Hezbollah have been detonated, killing dozens.
As fears develop over an all-out battle, the Pentagon has stated it’s sending a “small variety of extra troops” to the area and US President Joe Biden has advised United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan that his group was “working to de-escalate” the scenario, AP added. CNN stated US officers have been additionally involved over potential feedback at this week’s United Nations Basic Meeting which could enhance tensions within the Center East.
RATE DECISION DUE
The Reserve Financial institution of Australia is predicted to maintain rates of interest the place they’re later right now, with the AAP reporting a “substantial variety of specialists” have forecast the money charge will stay at 4.35%.
A ballot of 45 economists by Reuters discovered each single certainly one of them anticipated the speed to stay unchanged following the tip of the RBA’s two-day assembly. Forty of these additionally stated they believed charges would stay unchanged this 12 months. The newswire stated ANZ, NAB, and Westpac all imagine charges will keep unchanged this 12 months, whereas Commonwealth Financial institution expects there to be one charge reduce earlier than 2024 ends.
The Australian highlights the discharge of month-to-month inflation knowledge tomorrow which is predicted to indicate the headline inflation charge dropping to 2.7% within the 12 months to August, down from 3.5% in July. That might put it throughout the RBA’s 2%-3% goal for the primary time in almost three years, the paper added.
Nonetheless, Guardian Australia recollects how RBA Governor Michele Bullock has stated the central financial institution’s most popular inflation measure is “the extra complete quarterly set of numbers, together with the trimmed imply gauge that strips out risky movers”. These aren’t due till the tip of subsequent month.
With the US Federal Reserve slicing charges by half a share level final week, the strain on the RBA to chop charges will proceed. The Australian quotes Barrenjoey chief economist Jo Masters as saying: “It’s getting tougher, not simpler — you’ve clearly had this reduce from the US Fed, and so lots of comparisons are being made that if everybody else is slicing, why aren’t we? The assertion and the press convention afterwards with the governor will proceed to sound fairly hawkish … they may repeat that if we don’t make additional progress on inflation, we’ll do what’s essential, and that may require increased charges.”
Speaking about the price of issues, Opposition Chief Peter Dutton’s refusal as soon as once more to disclose how a lot his plans for nuclear vitality will value has generated the anticipated quantity of consideration. The AFR says Dutton additionally conceded on Monday the plan depends on most of the nation’s ageing coal-fired energy stations operating for no less than one other 12 years. The paper says most specialists imagine that timeline won’t be attainable as most of the vegetation may have been shut down.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE…
The Melbourne Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece has provoked important on-line response after customers on X began noticing points with pictures he posted about deliberate new parks, Guardian Australia studies.
On the weekend Reece uploaded 4 pictures as a part of his pledge to construct 28 new parks within the metropolis if he’s reelected as mayor. The issue was customers then began noticing the photographs, which gave the impression to be AI-generated, contained issues like floating footwear, folks with additional limbs and lifeless distorted our bodies, the positioning stated.
Guardian Australia quoted customers on X as responding with quips like: “Is that this after the nukes hit Melbourne, nature takes it again, and solely the mutants survive?” and “Sir, why is there a lifeless physique in your photos”. The location reached out to architects referenced in a Herald Solar article in regards to the announcement that used the identical imagery.
Reece gave the impression to be seeing the humorous aspect of issues, posting on Monday one of many pictures with additions reminiscent of a large robotic and flying automotive. “I see there’s a little bit of commentary in regards to the renders for the 28 new parks I’ll get constructed if I’m reelected Mayor. You guys ought to’ve seen the originals!” he stated.
Say What?
We’ll have extra details about the price of nuclear … in good time.
Peter Dutton
The Coalition chief stated on Monday he nonetheless isn’t prepared to inform the nation how a lot his plans to construct nuclear reactors at seven websites round Australia will value.
CRIKEY RECAP
Albanese authorities had ‘no objection’ to Ben Roberts-Smith award from King Charles, FOI reveals
The Albanese authorities handed up a chance to object to King Charles III awarding Ben Roberts-Smith a coronation medal regardless of a civil courtroom having discovered he was a battle prison, inside paperwork reveal.
However a outstanding historian has argued that rejecting a request from Buckingham Palace to bestow its personal honour can be “unthinkable, politically and protocol-wise”, even when it was attainable.
In June this 12 months, Roberts-Smith accepted a coronation medal bestowed by King Charles on all residing Australian Victoria Cross recipients and attended a operate held in Western Australia’s Authorities Home.
The choice was controversial within the wake of a judgment made in defamation proceedings by Justice Anthony Besanko that discovered, to a civil normal, Roberts-Smith had kicked a prisoner off a cliff, ordered an execution and was implicated in three different prisoners’ executions. Roberts-Smith denies all claims and is within the means of interesting the choice.
Ladies are dying with out secure and authorized abortion within the US. However will this shift votes?
“Promise me you’ll care for my son.”
These have been Amber Nicole Thurman’s final phrases to her personal mom. The 28-year-old lady in Georgia died of sepsis after she waited 20 hours at an Atlanta hospital for medical care, as medical doctors delayed performing a routine process she badly wanted following an incomplete treatment abortion. A report obtained by ProPublica confirmed the dying was preventable.
Anti-choice rhetoric hardly ever makes area for actuality. For medical professionals, the specter of prosecution can rapidly eclipse a affected person’s want for secure, well timed and applicable remedy. Loss of life was an inevitable end result of America’s regular repeal of reproductive rights, as was the lowered availability of secure birthing companies, sexual well being care and miscarriage administration, with the vast majority of obstetrician-gynaecologists reporting that maternal mortality has elevated and racial and ethnic inequities have worsened since Roe v Wade was overturned.
Pissweak “exceptions” about defending the “lifetime of the mom” is likely to be handy speaking factors for Republican lawmakers who’re denying folks healthcare, however they’re meaningless in an emergency ward the place medical doctors delay and deny care below the shadow of prison retribution.
Rex Patrick and Jacqui Lambie inform us their plan in a single brief automotive experience
Former senator turned freelance “transparency warrior” Rex Patrick desires to get again into the purple chamber once more — this time as a member of the Jacqui Lambie Community (JLN). Crikey caught the South Australian on the cellphone on Friday, and acquired a bonus chat with Lambie herself.
“I’m driving and I’ve acquired Jacqui right here within the automotive with me,” Patrick stated. “We’re simply turning as much as the place we’re doing a presser. We’re simply having fun with the views of the Adelaide parklands.”
Crikey tried to run each Patrick and Lambie by a sequence of rapid-fire questions on among the huge points forward of the subsequent election. However as regular with politicians and political candidates, giving brief solutions turned out to be an inconceivable job, so the replies are edited for brevity.
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THE COMMENTARIAT
Dutton’s truth-sounding nuclear energy arguments are for producing impressions, not data — Karen Middleton (Guardian Australia): It was nothing if not audacious.
In a speech that prevented answering one of many greatest questions hanging over his coverage to construct nuclear reactors at seven websites round Australia, Peter Dutton posed a really comparable one about his opponents and their plans to part out fossil fuels.
“Who will bear the prices of this transition?” Dutton requested in an tackle to the Committee for Financial Growth of Australia on Monday, earlier than answering it himself. “Australian households will — of their energy payments.”
Dutton’s speech to a lunchtime occasion titled “A nuclear-powered Australia — may it work?” contained no new details about his nuclear plan and was as a substitute an train in relativism through admission. To paraphrase: my vitality coverage may cost a little lots, however theirs will value extra and mine is extra dependable.
Misleading reductions: Supermarkets going ‘Down Down’ for deceptive clients — Elizabeth Knight (The Sydney Morning Herald): The implications of this ACCC motion for the grocery store giants can’t be overstated, the place the federal government inquiries have thus far smacked of politics, the regulator’s motion alleging Woolworths and Coles misled buyers with the imposition of illusionary reductions on some merchandise is predicated on intensive analysis and contains particular examples of the alleged breaches.
The purported breach of buyer belief, as outlined by the ACCC, provides contemporary gas to the rising public discontent. With the typical grocery invoice taking chunks out of the family price range, Woolworths and Coles have been often assuring their clients they’re serving to them combat value of residing pressures.
Good luck convincing them of that now.
