FAKE NEWS
Tesla has accused the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) of constructing knowingly “false claims” that Labor’s gas emissions requirements would improve the worth of automobiles, Guardian Australia studies. Tesla, which has a board seat at and is an lively member of the foyer group, stated Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz are all at odds with the FCAI method, which included a declare the usual would make utes $13,000 costlier. The SMH notes the Coalition can be bleating a few worth hike, however modelling reveals it is going to quantity to $1%, or $500. The requirements, beginning subsequent 12 months, principally cap producers’ new automotive emissions, incentivising them to launch extra hybrid and EV fashions. With out the requirements in the course of the Coalition’s practically decade-long reign, Australia turned a dumping floor for the world’s most polluting clunkers as ABC reported, as a result of we had been the final to introduce them out of everybody within the OECD (bar Russia).
Talking of false claims, Opposition Chief Peter Dutton is droning on about nuclear once more as a “transitioning” energy supply, although nuclear vegetation take 9.4 years to construct and are unlawful in each state and territory. He stated Australia was an “outlier” for not adopting it — why would we? We’re the sunniest and among the many windiest locations on earth with sufficient renewable power to energy our nation 500 occasions over (!). The enterprise case has by no means stacked up both — inquiries in Victoria, South Australia and federally have discovered nuclear vegetation to be a useless finish. WA Premier Roger Cook dinner dismissed nuclear energy as “ridiculous” and unviable, WA At present says, whereas The West ($) studies Nationals chief David Littleproud instructed we should always scrap the nuclear ban and “discover out by way of {the marketplace}”. That an individual who would say such a factor might in the future be our performing PM…
HOME MOVERS
In December 1983, a landlord might get 8% of a home’s worth in lease every year ($110 per week on your median home costing $69,569). At present, landlords get simply 2.7% ($574 on your median home costing $1,091,938). It’s in response to Actual Property Institute of Australia information, the SMH studies, which discovered homes in Sydney, Adelaide, and Canberra are overvalued by greater than a 3rd. Certainly a Sydney home would wish to fall by $458,000 to be thought of honest. What occurs after we overvalue properties? Effectively, a extreme recession or an enormous lower in immigration would see costs tumble, one professional stated. Nonetheless, rates of interest are as a consequence of begin declining in September, 9News studies, so most likely home costs will improve as a substitute. It comes because the Greens need a government-run property developer to construct 610,000 low-cost properties for renters and first-home patrons within the subsequent decade.
Housing can be shaping as much as be a high precedence of the Coalition — Opposition Chief Peter Dutton added the brand new “residence possession” portfolio and Senator Andrew Bragg is shadow assistant spokesperson, The West ($) says. Extra adjustments within the Coalition’s shadow ministry per Sky Information Australia: shadow spokesperson for residence affairs and cyber safety James Paterson is now shadow cupboard secretary too, MP Melissa McIntosh is shadow spokesperson for power affordability and Western Sydney, and MP Luke Howarth is shadow assistant treasurer and spokesperson for monetary companies. Sky Information Australia reporter Adriana Mageros stated there’d been no adjustments to the Labor frontbench in “greater than two years in authorities” which is mistaken, contemplating the get together was elected in Could 2022.
WAIT AND SEE
The Division of Social Providers says individuals claiming the incapacity help pension (DSP) in Western Australia’s Yalgoo, Wyalkatchem, and Kent waited on common greater than 200 days between final September and December, Guardian Australia studies. Countrywide it was greater than 80 days, which is almost double the 46 days it took in 2022-23. Social Providers Minister Invoice Shorten blamed workers shortages and vowed to “blitz” the backlog. The Australian Unemployed Staff’ Union stated it wouldn’t be so “life and loss of life” if Jobseeker, which many apply for whereas ready for the DSP, was equal to a dwelling wage. SBS studies it’s about to go up barely due to indexation — single individuals with no children will get an additional $13.50 per fortnight.
In the meantime, we’re paying 38% extra for personal medical companies previously three years, from $185 in 2020 to $256 final 12 months in response to Australian Prudential Regulation Authority information The Australian ($) checked out. One professional blamed the medical gadget trade overcharging and better hole prices for profit-hungry specialists and insurers. Not solely that, our medical insurance premiums have risen 45% within the final 10 years. It comes after the federal government introduced a 3.03% hike on your common healthcare coverage, which is up from 2.90% final 12 months, and a pair of.70% in 2022. However NIB stated its costs would rise 4.1% whereas Medibank’s went up 3.31%. By no means hurts to buy round of us.
ON A LIGHTER NOTE
The haunting sands and husky voices of Dune have returned to the massive display screen this month within the long-awaited second a part of the book-turned-epic movie franchise, with varied lengthy photographs of a number of pink suns setting over the horizon interspersing the motion. It’s directed, co-written, and co-produced by Denis Villeneuve, a Quebecois filmmaker, who acquired a name from a lady named Josée Gagnon some months again as CBC tells it. She runs L’Avant, an organisation the place end-of-life doulas sit by the dying of their closing days. Gagnon had posted on Fb that her shopper wished to see Dune: Half Two earlier than his loss of life, and a mutual good friend had related her to Villeneuve.
Certain, the filmmaker responded, moved by the dying man’s want. Let’s organise a flight right down to Los Angeles ASAP for the man. However Gagnon instructed Villeneuve he didn’t perceive. We will’t transfer him, she stated, certainly we don’t even know if he’ll dwell to see subsequent weekend. Villeneuve thought exhausting concerning the man’s closing request, and figured there was nothing else to do however ship his personal laptop computer containing the then-unreleased model of the sequel to the hospital. His assistant couriered it as much as the Canadian province and had workers and the person signal non-disclosure agreements earlier than establishing the screening. He later handed whereas watching the three-hour epic. Whereas some expressed disappointment he didn’t get to see the movie’s finish, Gagnon stated it was regardless of. “It was all there for him,” she stated merely.
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SAY WHAT?
[Our] businesses negotiated an association along with her to return to Singapore and carry out and to make Singapore her solely cease in south-east Asia. It has turned out to be a really profitable association. I don’t see that as being unfriendly.
Lee Hsien Loong
The Singapore prime minister defended a take care of mega-pop star Taylor Swift that noticed her skip different Southeast Asian nations to do six reveals in Singapore as a substitute. Swift was supplied with “sure incentives” from a authorities fund established to rebuild tourism post-COVID, which Thailand’s PM claimed totalled between $3m-$4.6m.
CRIKEY RECAP
Meta faces down a media extra obsessive about peddling affect than public curiosity
“Like many Australian corporations, Information Corp, Seven and 9 commit as a lot effort to attempting to affect regulatory outcomes of their favour as they do to offering items and companies to customers and different enterprise.
“From streaming content material laws, to cross-media guidelines, to the near-abolition of licence charges, to their resistance to playing promoting regulation and — within the case of Seven and 9 — anti-siphoning, the massive media corporations are assiduous in lobbying, threatening, cajoling and in any other case encouraging main get together politicians to take care of them, nearly all the time efficiently.”
It’s a billionaire’s world in Australian media, the place crony capitalism reigns supreme
“We’re so inured although to previous billionaire possession of our media — the US-based Murdochs and Redstones, the much-mourned (in some quarters, not less than) Fairfaxes and Packers — that we’re lacking what the brand new caste of billionaires is doing to each world and Australia’s conventional media.
“It’s half an ideological challenge, half a vital software within the government-reliant crony capitalism that’s changing the market-driven neo-capitalism that collapsed within the 2007-08 world monetary disaster. By way of possession of media, billionaire activists have found they will pair the ideology of a ‘free media’ with their company, cultural and political pursuits.”
Which Australian politicians have tried to sue for defamation over the previous decade?
“In 2018, then BuzzFeed Information journalist Alice Workman printed a narrative about former Lindsay MP Emma Husar which Husar claimed portrayed her as a ‘slut’ and ‘sexually perverted’. The Labor politician stated the article claimed she had uncovered herself to a colleague in a fashion that referenced the well-known Sharon Stone scene within the 1992 movie Fundamental Intuition.
“She additionally stated the articles claimed she was a ‘bully’ who ‘[misused] work bills’. Husar vehemently denied the allegations, telling Parliament in December 2018: ‘I’m not a bully, I’m not Sharon Stone, I’m not a thief and I didn’t intentionally misuse my work bills’. The events reached an out-of-court settlement in 2019 …”
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THE COMMENTARIAT
Regional neighbours depend on us to talk out towards China — Greg Sheridan (The Australian) ($): “Australia’s place with ASEAN over China, pre the Albanese authorities, was completely effective. It nonetheless is, except Canberra decides to resolve an issue that doesn’t exist and thereby creates a brand new one. Let me clarify. Right here’s a sizzling scoop. The ten member nations of the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations have already been tipped off to the information that Australia is a longstanding strategic and navy ally of the US, and that we’ve got numerous issues with Beijing’s regional behaviour. Usually, ASEAN needs Australia to take care of its strategic identification, although not all of them can all the time say so publicly. First, let’s pause to pay tribute to [Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Philippine President Bongbong Marcos].
“They each symbolize actual democracy. Marcos overcame the once-negative legacy of his household identify to resoundingly win a democratic election. He’s a a lot better president than Rodrigo Duterte was and he has restored strategic stability to Manila. Anwar is likely one of the most decided and brave figures in Southeast Asia. He spent years in jail on trumped-up prices of sodomy. His life is a triumph of democratic activism. That’s to not say that each males haven’t stated and achieved issues over their careers that Australians would discover troublesome. However let’s be frank, ASEAN is various and internally divided. Recognition of that is its nice power, its monumental achievement, by way of relentless and exhausting diplomatic processes, has been to render inside state-on-state navy battle inside Southeast Asia nearly unthinkable.”
‘Say it ain’t so’: Sam Kerr cost comes as a shock — Greg Baum (The SMH): “That six-week lag between studying of the costs and informing FA most likely constitutes a code-of-conduct violation in itself and could also be grave sufficient to jeopardise Kerr’s captaincy of the Matildas whatever the trial’s final result. If it was Pat Cummins, say, you’d suppose he can be out of the job already. That is the narrative as we all know it, and at one stage it’s all too sordidly acquainted. Nevertheless it’s the meta-narrative that’s so transfixing. Between the day of Kerr’s alleged legal insult and now, the Matildas have grown into arguably Australia’s best-loved nationwide workforce, filling stadiums wherever they go, inspiring ladies, changing males and re-defining our nationwide vocation for sport, and Kerr — regardless of a wretched run with harm — has been the face and figurehead of a phenomenon.
“It’s incomprehensible now to understand that as Kerr scored that surprise purpose towards England in a World Cup semi-final in Brisbane final 12 months, this case and all its doable ramifications may need been lurking someplace within the deepest recesses of her consciousness. There was — and is — a wholesomeness about the best way Kerr and the Matildas went about their enterprise that made Australia universally and unreservedly proud. She was on a pedestal. It was not of her making, and maybe was impossibly lofty anyway, larger in its saintliness than any males’s plinth. We’re vulnerable to ascribing to our sporting heroes all that we need to be, and we invested a full GDP’s value in Kerr. It’s our halo she was sporting.”
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