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One lacking Australian in Turkey has been accounted for, Wong says

Wong was requested to present an replace concerning the Australian residents who had been in Turkey throughout Monday’s earthquake.

We’ve Turkish Australians who’re there.

I observe, I had beforehand talked about 4 who had been unaccounted for.

I’m happy I can say a kind of Australians within the area is accounted for and secure.

Two persons are unaccounted for.

One particular person has been reported as having died in these earthquakes.

We’re working to substantiate these studies, and I lengthen my condolences, and a consequence of these studies, I lengthen to all these ready for information my sympathy and expression of assist. Not simply private however on behalf of the federal government of Australia.

The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, is speaking in Karratha in Western Australia, announcing the government will nominate Murujuga for world heritage listing.

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If it is accepted by Unesco it will be the second site in Australia given World Heritage status for First Nations heritage.

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Plibersek:

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It is my pleasure to formally confirm that the Commonwealth Government has nominated the Murujuga cultural landscape for the inscription on the World Heritage list.

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I feel a little bit embarrassed, because this comes after thousands of continuous culture, care and custodianship of this land. Decades of activism from many of you here, years of hard work on the submission – four and a healf years of writing the submission. And I get to swoop in at the last minute and launch it. So welcome to politics.

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This has very obvious benefits for this landscape, for the people who are so connected to this land, for future generations who will grow up strong on this country, but it has real significance for the whole world. This place, the culture, the continuity, it has real significance for the whole world, and, in fact, that is why here today.

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There were 401 new cases in the weekly reporting period, and no people are in intensive care.

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There were 1,495 new cases in the weekly reporting period, and four people are in intensive care.

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Cases have risen from last week’s 1,286 as well as deaths have increased from 14 in the last reporting period.

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The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, is speaking in Logan south of Brisbane following the statement released by the Reserve Bank:

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This government’s energy plan is all about taking some of the sting out of the energy prices and some of the edge off inflation in our economy and the independent Reserve Bank says that they expect that it will.

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Inflation is the biggest challenge in our economy and it is the biggest focus of the Albanese government.

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We are not surprised but we are very pleased to see that the independent Reserve Bank has said today that our energy plan it will have exactly the consequences and the impact that we want it to, in taking the edge off some of this inflation in our economy.

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Our energy plan is all about making life a bit easier for families and pensioners, for small businesses and the independent Reserve Bank has said today that they leave that it will.

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Wong was asked to give an update about the Australian citizens who were in Turkey during Monday’s earthquake.

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We have Turkish Australians who are there.

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I note, I had previously talked about four who were unaccounted for.

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I am pleased I can say one of those Australians in the region is accounted for and safe.

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Two people are unaccounted for.

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One person has been reported as having died in these earthquakes.

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We are working to confirm those reports, and I extend my condolences, and a consequence of those reports, I extend to all those waiting for news my sympathy and expression of support. Not just personal but on behalf of the government of Australia.

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The Reserve Bank’s statement on monetary policy helps us understand a bit more of the reasons the central bank said on Tuesday that further interest rate rises are still to come.

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As seen in the revisions since its previous statement in November, the RBA is forecasting underlying inflation will be higher in 2023, albeit only marginally so.

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The so-called trimmed mean measure of inflation will be 6.25% by June and 4.25% by December. That compares with 5.5% and 3.75% that it had expected three months ago.

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Underlying inflation excludes some of the more volatile price movements to get to a truer view of price pressures than the headline (grabbing) consumer price index.

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For the December quarter, the media largely focussed on the 7.8:% CPI number for annual inflation, the highest in 32 years.

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The underlying rate of 6.9% got less attention but probably warranted more since it was a record high, more than the 6.5% forecast by the RBA, and more importantly is what the central bank most closely watches.

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When you hear the RBA has a 2%-3% target band for inflation the measure they want to see in that mix is that trimmed mean version.

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Anyway, the slightly more upbeat view today is that underlying gauge will fall back to 3% by the end of next year (earlier than tipped previously). The CPI version won’t drop to that level until mid-2025, according to the latest projections.

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Of course these are all model-based forecasts and include inputs such as the bank’s cash rate reaching “around 3.75% in the second half of 2023”. (We saw in the earlier post that investors are now betting it will top 4%, just.)

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Things might not turn out as expected, such as household spending could prove more resilient to the interest rate hikes than currently predicted. (Or it could decline faster.)

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And “inflation could turn out to be higher than expected if the high inflation environment leads to greater feedback between wages and prices than has been typical in the inflation targeting era” the RBA said.

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As it stands, though, the RBA is not forecasting much of an upswing in wages, with the wage price index continuing to lag inflation (and so real wages continue to sink). The RBA says other incentives, including promotions, will mask the full size of compensation for us toilers.

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Nothing too surprising so far. Stay tuned for more.

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The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, says she has asked her department to accelerate the replacement of Chinese surveillance cameras in the wake of media reporting this week.

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The Liberal party frontbencher James Paterson this week publicised figures breaking down the use of Hikvision and Dahua devices including CCTV equipment by government department. Figures published by the Australian said 28 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade sites used such equipment. Paterson called for an urgent plan “from the Albanese government to rip every one of these devices out of Australian government departments and agencies”.

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The government has accused the opposition of politicising the issue (given that the cameras have not suddenly been installed since the change of government, and some concerns were raised as far back as 2018).

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Wong told ABC Adelaide today:

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We are removing them. I’ve asked my department to accelerate the replacement of these cameras, the defence minister has asked Defence to make sure they’re removed and replaced. So I think this can be resolved. The advice to me is that they’re not connected to the internet, so there’s minimal security concerns, but obviously given what has happened in other countries, it’s probably a good idea to do it … Obviously there was a decision made to remove them, and I’ve asked that that be accelerated.

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Wong said it was important to “decide as a country where you’re going to source certain equipment from, where you’re going to source some of the things you use, and where there are, where it’s important to make sure you take a very cautious approach, that’s what we should be doing”.

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Late night a spokesperson for China’s foreign affairs ministry, Mao Ning, warned Australia against “erroneous practices of over-stretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to discriminate against and suppress Chinese companies”. Mao added:

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We hope the Australian side will provide a fair, just and non-discriminatory environment for the normal operation of Chinese companies and do more things that could contribute to mutual trust and cooperation between our two countries.

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Federal, state and territory treasurers are gathering (virtually) about now to discuss a range of economic matters, and the tone might not be entirely chummy.

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Ahead of the meeting, NSW treasurer and energy minister Matt Kean has been on the airwaves and in print calling for the Albanese government to pony up the support it promised to the states for energy assistance as part of its move to cap electricity and gas prices at the end of 2022.

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As Kean says:

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We’ve just committed to delivering an additional $250 in savings for NSW households, but there is more bill relief on the way from the commonwealth as part of our energy deal.

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In exchange for establishing coal caps in NSW and forgoing royalties, the commonwealth agreed to match our energy rebates to the people of NSW – it’s time to deliver.

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Those rebates are worth as much as $535 per low-income households and the NSW treasurer said he expects the commonwealth to “deliver that relief now” as promised.

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Such pleas, though, haven’t gone down well with Jim Chalmers, the federal treasurer, who dismissed the comments as part of political posturing ahead of the NSW state election on 25 March.

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Chalmers said:

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Matt’s part of a government which has been in office for 12 years and is asking for 16, desperate to distract from the mood for change in New South Wales.

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I think people will see through his confected outrage, especially when his own scheme doesn’t start until July.

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It’s a bit unusual of Matt to demand something from the commonwealth that even he admits he couldn’t deliver.

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Guardian Australia understands the NSW government’s beef is not that the payments were meant to start earlier than July 1 but rather it’s worried the federal government is pushing back until its May budget to sort out the payments.

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“They’re cutting it bloody fine,” was one insider’s view. They had hoped Canberra would have sorted out how the payments would be made a lot earlier, it seems.

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It may turn out to be a storm in a teacup but the spat is a reminder that energy prices remain a politically sensitive issue.

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Chalmers is planning a media conference at about 1.30pm AEDT to discuss today’s meeting.

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Hello again, just back to the Aston byelection for a moment. There are a few moving parts with this. In terms of candidates, I flagged earlier this morning that barrister Roshena Campbell is one potential candidate, according to Liberals. Other names in dispatches include barrister and reality TV contestant Sharn Coombs, who was a candidate in Dunkley in May, as well as the former state politician Cathrine Burnett-Wake.

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There is a strong internal view that the Aston candidate should be a woman. There is also an open question about how the preselection will be conducted. The Liberal party has grassroots preselections in Victoria, but there is also capacity for the state admin committee to parachute someone in. The method will ultimately depend on timing. If the byelection will be held soon, there will be a view that having a candidate is better than a lengthy process to select one.

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In December my colleague Amy Remeikis revealed that the Department of Home Affairs extended a contract for civil maritime surveillance for six years, just months after a critical report found it had paid for flight time when no planes were in the air.

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The auditor general in October 2021 found the department’s management of the contract with Surveillance Australia was “not effective” and “as a result, while surveillance services have been provided, the quantum and range of those services has fallen short of the contractual requirements”.

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That included not having actual planes in the air for billed surveillance flight times, which the audit office estimated cost taxpayers up to $87m.

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The contract was extended for another six years with very little variation just three months after the auditor general’s report. The contract, now worth $2.6bn to the company, has not been put to tender since it was first awarded in 2006.

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Today the department’s secretary, Michael Pezzullo, fronted the audit committee to discuss the issue, conceding that he does not think it is acceptable there had been no competitive tender in 20 years for the contract.

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Instead, there had been “market sweeps” to survey whether other providers could give the same capability before the contract was extended.

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Pezzullo said the “best practice” would be an investment approach in which the department had guaranteed funds for capital, allowing it sufficient certainty to run a full tender process.

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Pezzullo said the department is “faced with the devil’s choice” of losing operational capability or rolling over existing contracts.

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He said:

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When there’s no competitive process for 21 years we’re in a loop … there’s no competitive process because there’s no capital program.

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Pezzullo said without more capital investment, the government would be forced to deal with a “monopoly provider” of an “outsourced capability” or it would face the “darker” possibility of not flying surveillance aircraft.

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Surveillance Australia acted within the terms of its contract, and Guardian Australia is not suggesting it acted improperly.

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Pezzullo said the department does not “necessarily agree” with the ANAO’s conclusion, arguing the report’s criticism related mainly to 2008 to 2017 and procurement has improved since then.

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He said the report “ does not adequately consider the outcomes based nature of the contract, or the complex and dynamics, civil maritime security operating environment in which the contract itself operates”.

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Some acronyms catch on, but we’re guessing SoMP won’t be one of them. That’s the statement on monetary policy that the RBA releases every quarter.

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We’ll get today’s 80-plus page statement in about an hour. Economists will be parsing the language for clues as to why the central bank is so confident further rises in the cash rate are necessary.

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In case you’ve been paddling down a river lately (or otherwise out of the news cycle), the RBA raised its key interest rate for a ninth consecutive month (excluding their January summer break) on Tuesday and warned of more increases to come.

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Markets have adjusted their predictions of how high the RBA will go, and are now pencilling in a 4% peak rate, implying three more typical increases from the 3.35% level as of Tuesday.

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The statement will provide some updated projections on various economic numbers, with its inflation views likely to be looked at most closely.

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Also of interest (so to speak) will be the RBA’s views on China given that the previous statement in November could not have anticipated Beijing’s sudden U-turn on Covid policies. Going from rolling, severe lockdowns to the bulk of 1.4bn contracting the virus in a matter of weeks was no small reversal and it may take a while to understand the economic and social impacts of such a shock move.

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There were 6,440 new cases in the weekly reporting period, and 24 people are in intensive care.

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As in Victoria, the summer wave continues to ebb. This week’s figures are down from 6,567 cases and 88 deaths last week.

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The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has committed to campaigning in Aston to retain outgoing Liberal MP Alan Tudge’s seat.

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Dutton is not super popular in progressive Victoria, but he confirmed to Channel Nine he would join the campaign. He said:

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Yeah, of course, there’s no question about that. As I say, I mean byelections are always difficult and there are different issues, lots of local issues – the government’s ripped money out of road projects in Aston, they have, I think abandoned the area for a long period of time, and as I say, Alan is a popular local member and that always brings a vote with it, which won’t be present in the byelection. But we’ll preselect a great candidate, and that process has already started. You’ll be seeing lots of us down in Aston and you know, we regularly get to Melbourne.

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Dutton is already playing down expectations, describing what was until recently a safe Liberal seat as “a tough seat for us to hold”.

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Byelections usually see a swing against the government. In fact, no government has won a seat off the opposition at a byelection in more than 100 years. So it’s a little cute for Dutton to be playing underdog.

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There were 2,941 new cases in the weekly reporting period, and seven people are in intensive care.

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That’s down from 3,056 cases and 70 deaths last week.

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Jonathan How, a senior meteorologist at the bureau of meteorologist, is speaking to ABC News about Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle being upgraded to a severe category three system.

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That means the system is capable of producing wind gusts up to 224km/h. Because it is a bit offshore, we are not expecting that along the Queensland coast. It is going to produce hazardous surf conditions and galeforce winds along the coast.

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We have warnings current from the Capricornia down to the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast today and it will extend to the Hunter coast and Newcastle from tomorrow .

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How says Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle is moving towards the south-east and is expected to make “a direct hit at Norfolk Island”.

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We are seeing the strong easterly winds picking up and there is a warning current. That means we will see gales of more than 100km/h develop either tonight or early on Saturday morning and peaking on Saturday night and Sunday morning with gusts up to 140, even higher and large waves and heavy lashing rainfall for Norfolk Island.

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We might see the centre of the tropical cyclone pass directly over Norfolk Island. They will see a period of strong winds from one direction and then a deceptive lull in the middle and strong winds from the other direction. It hasn’t happened since 2017 that we have had almost a direct hit for for Norfolk Island. We could see the severe conditions last into Sunday afternoon for Norfolk Island.

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Ley is insisting that the Liberals are being part of the debate on the Indigenous voice to parliament but that it is the prime minister who is politicising the debate:

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Julian Leeser asked a perfectly sensible question in question time yesterday, which was about which part of the Calma-Langton report would you adopt? … It was a basic question about detail. The prime minister just didn’t even answer one single part of it.

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Karvelas:

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But you could be part of the process. The prime minister is saying be part of the process.

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Ley:

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We are part of the process … but if the prime minister can’t answer a simple question that wasn’t the least bit political, it was asked in a very flat, factual manner in parliament. And if he answered that in a political way, what that tells me [is] he’s politicising the controversy. However I agree, I don’t need to see this politicised.

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Ley goes on to say Labor is risking reconciliation by not offering the element on the Indigenous voice to parliament:

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We don’t actually have any guardrails round a remaining end result with element that lands precisely the place we would like it to, which is within the well being and welfare of Indigenous Australians. … the prime minister has tied that to the idea of the voice however he can’t clarify it. So till he offers the main points, I consider it’s truly the Labor social gathering that’s placing reconciliation in danger.

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Good morning. If you were watching events yesterday, you will know the Victorian Liberal Alan Tudge resigned from parliament, which will trigger a byelection in his seat of Aston in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. I gather from calls last night and this morning that the former treasurer Josh Frydenberg was sounded out by some local branch members yesterday after Tudge’s position became clear but he’s telling people he won’t run. There’s also a view in some quarters of the Victorian Liberals that Frydenberg, if he’s to return, has to focus on winning back Kooyong. The field in Aston is considered reasonably open. There’s some talk of Roshena Campbell, a commercial barrister, stepping up to be the candidate.

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Good morning! Natasha May reporting for blog duty.

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The Bureau of Meteorology has this morning categorised Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle as category three intensity, which means offshore wind gusts of up to 224kmh.

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As the cyclone heads towards Norfolk Island, a category two impact is expected for Saturday and Sunday.

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You can read more about Gabrielle here:

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Good morning and welcome to our rolling coverage of the Australian news day. I’m Martin Farrer, bringing you the main overnight breaking stories before my colleague Natasha May takes the reins.

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We have a cracking exclusive story this morning about how the former energy minister Angus Taylor asked his department to consider delaying telling voters about electricity price rises before the May election, then made the decision to do so anyway. He later claimed he didn’t know about the rises. And it turns out Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg were in on the plan as well.

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It comes on the day that rising power and gas bills and making housing more affordable will be on the agenda of a meeting of treasurers. The online meeting, hosted by federal treasurer Jim Chalmers, comes as the Reserve Bank releases its latest statement on monetary policy later this morning.

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We also have an excellent story from our medical editor, Mel Davey, about how researchers at the University of Sydney believe the key to Covid immunity might lie with the discovery of a receptor protein in lungs which “acts a bit like molecular velcro” and sticks to the spike of the virus. This means the virus is immobilised in people with lots of the protein, possibly explaining how some people don’t become infected and others become very ill.

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The US believe without doubt that the Chinese balloon that flew over North America for more than a week before being shot down over the Atlantic was “clearly for spying”. A US official made the claims overnight. Australian defence officials say they are not aware of any incidents of Chinese surveillance balloons travelling over Australian territory.

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With that, let’s get going for the day.

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Key occasions

The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, is speaking in Karratha in Western Australia, announcing the government will nominate Murujuga for world heritage listing.

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If it is accepted by Unesco it will be the second site in Australia given World Heritage status for First Nations heritage.

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Plibersek:

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It is my pleasure to formally confirm that the Commonwealth Government has nominated the Murujuga cultural landscape for the inscription on the World Heritage list.

n

I feel a little bit embarrassed, because this comes after thousands of continuous culture, care and custodianship of this land. Decades of activism from many of you here, years of hard work on the submission – four and a healf years of writing the submission. And I get to swoop in at the last minute and launch it. So welcome to politics.

n

This has very obvious benefits for this landscape, for the people who are so connected to this land, for future generations who will grow up strong on this country, but it has real significance for the whole world. This place, the culture, the continuity, it has real significance for the whole world, and, in fact, that is why here today.

n

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There were 401 new cases in the weekly reporting period, and no people are in intensive care.

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There were 1,495 new cases in the weekly reporting period, and four people are in intensive care.

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Cases have risen from last week’s 1,286 as well as deaths have increased from 14 in the last reporting period.

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The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, is speaking in Logan south of Brisbane following the statement released by the Reserve Bank:

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n

This government’s energy plan is all about taking some of the sting out of the energy prices and some of the edge off inflation in our economy and the independent Reserve Bank says that they expect that it will.

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Inflation is the biggest challenge in our economy and it is the biggest focus of the Albanese government.

n

We are not surprised but we are very pleased to see that the independent Reserve Bank has said today that our energy plan it will have exactly the consequences and the impact that we want it to, in taking the edge off some of this inflation in our economy.

n

Our energy plan is all about making life a bit easier for families and pensioners, for small businesses and the independent Reserve Bank has said today that they leave that it will.

n

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Wong was asked to give an update about the Australian citizens who were in Turkey during Monday’s earthquake.

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We have Turkish Australians who are there.

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I note, I had previously talked about four who were unaccounted for.

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I am pleased I can say one of those Australians in the region is accounted for and safe.

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Two people are unaccounted for.

n

One person has been reported as having died in these earthquakes.

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We are working to confirm those reports, and I extend my condolences, and a consequence of those reports, I extend to all those waiting for news my sympathy and expression of support. Not just personal but on behalf of the government of Australia.

n

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The Reserve Bank’s statement on monetary policy helps us understand a bit more of the reasons the central bank said on Tuesday that further interest rate rises are still to come.

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As seen in the revisions since its previous statement in November, the RBA is forecasting underlying inflation will be higher in 2023, albeit only marginally so.

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The so-called trimmed mean measure of inflation will be 6.25% by June and 4.25% by December. That compares with 5.5% and 3.75% that it had expected three months ago.

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Underlying inflation excludes some of the more volatile price movements to get to a truer view of price pressures than the headline (grabbing) consumer price index.

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For the December quarter, the media largely focussed on the 7.8:% CPI number for annual inflation, the highest in 32 years.

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The underlying rate of 6.9% got less attention but probably warranted more since it was a record high, more than the 6.5% forecast by the RBA, and more importantly is what the central bank most closely watches.

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When you hear the RBA has a 2%-3% target band for inflation the measure they want to see in that mix is that trimmed mean version.

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Anyway, the slightly more upbeat view today is that underlying gauge will fall back to 3% by the end of next year (earlier than tipped previously). The CPI version won’t drop to that level until mid-2025, according to the latest projections.

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Of course these are all model-based forecasts and include inputs such as the bank’s cash rate reaching “around 3.75% in the second half of 2023”. (We saw in the earlier post that investors are now betting it will top 4%, just.)

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Things might not turn out as expected, such as household spending could prove more resilient to the interest rate hikes than currently predicted. (Or it could decline faster.)

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And “inflation could turn out to be higher than expected if the high inflation environment leads to greater feedback between wages and prices than has been typical in the inflation targeting era” the RBA said.

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As it stands, though, the RBA is not forecasting much of an upswing in wages, with the wage price index continuing to lag inflation (and so real wages continue to sink). The RBA says other incentives, including promotions, will mask the full size of compensation for us toilers.

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Nothing too surprising so far. Stay tuned for more.

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The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, says she has asked her department to accelerate the replacement of Chinese surveillance cameras in the wake of media reporting this week.

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The Liberal party frontbencher James Paterson this week publicised figures breaking down the use of Hikvision and Dahua devices including CCTV equipment by government department. Figures published by the Australian said 28 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade sites used such equipment. Paterson called for an urgent plan “from the Albanese government to rip every one of these devices out of Australian government departments and agencies”.

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The government has accused the opposition of politicising the issue (given that the cameras have not suddenly been installed since the change of government, and some concerns were raised as far back as 2018).

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Wong told ABC Adelaide today:

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n

We are removing them. I’ve asked my department to accelerate the replacement of these cameras, the defence minister has asked Defence to make sure they’re removed and replaced. So I think this can be resolved. The advice to me is that they’re not connected to the internet, so there’s minimal security concerns, but obviously given what has happened in other countries, it’s probably a good idea to do it … Obviously there was a decision made to remove them, and I’ve asked that that be accelerated.

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Wong said it was important to “decide as a country where you’re going to source certain equipment from, where you’re going to source some of the things you use, and where there are, where it’s important to make sure you take a very cautious approach, that’s what we should be doing”.

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Late night a spokesperson for China’s foreign affairs ministry, Mao Ning, warned Australia against “erroneous practices of over-stretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to discriminate against and suppress Chinese companies”. Mao added:

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We hope the Australian side will provide a fair, just and non-discriminatory environment for the normal operation of Chinese companies and do more things that could contribute to mutual trust and cooperation between our two countries.

n

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Federal, state and territory treasurers are gathering (virtually) about now to discuss a range of economic matters, and the tone might not be entirely chummy.

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Ahead of the meeting, NSW treasurer and energy minister Matt Kean has been on the airwaves and in print calling for the Albanese government to pony up the support it promised to the states for energy assistance as part of its move to cap electricity and gas prices at the end of 2022.

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As Kean says:

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We’ve just committed to delivering an additional $250 in savings for NSW households, but there is more bill relief on the way from the commonwealth as part of our energy deal.

n

In exchange for establishing coal caps in NSW and forgoing royalties, the commonwealth agreed to match our energy rebates to the people of NSW – it’s time to deliver.

n

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Those rebates are worth as much as $535 per low-income households and the NSW treasurer said he expects the commonwealth to “deliver that relief now” as promised.

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Such pleas, though, haven’t gone down well with Jim Chalmers, the federal treasurer, who dismissed the comments as part of political posturing ahead of the NSW state election on 25 March.

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Chalmers said:

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n

Matt’s part of a government which has been in office for 12 years and is asking for 16, desperate to distract from the mood for change in New South Wales.

n

I think people will see through his confected outrage, especially when his own scheme doesn’t start until July.

n

It’s a bit unusual of Matt to demand something from the commonwealth that even he admits he couldn’t deliver.

n

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Guardian Australia understands the NSW government’s beef is not that the payments were meant to start earlier than July 1 but rather it’s worried the federal government is pushing back until its May budget to sort out the payments.

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“They’re cutting it bloody fine,” was one insider’s view. They had hoped Canberra would have sorted out how the payments would be made a lot earlier, it seems.

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It may turn out to be a storm in a teacup but the spat is a reminder that energy prices remain a politically sensitive issue.

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Chalmers is planning a media conference at about 1.30pm AEDT to discuss today’s meeting.

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Hello again, just back to the Aston byelection for a moment. There are a few moving parts with this. In terms of candidates, I flagged earlier this morning that barrister Roshena Campbell is one potential candidate, according to Liberals. Other names in dispatches include barrister and reality TV contestant Sharn Coombs, who was a candidate in Dunkley in May, as well as the former state politician Cathrine Burnett-Wake.

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There is a strong internal view that the Aston candidate should be a woman. There is also an open question about how the preselection will be conducted. The Liberal party has grassroots preselections in Victoria, but there is also capacity for the state admin committee to parachute someone in. The method will ultimately depend on timing. If the byelection will be held soon, there will be a view that having a candidate is better than a lengthy process to select one.

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In December my colleague Amy Remeikis revealed that the Department of Home Affairs extended a contract for civil maritime surveillance for six years, just months after a critical report found it had paid for flight time when no planes were in the air.

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The auditor general in October 2021 found the department’s management of the contract with Surveillance Australia was “not effective” and “as a result, while surveillance services have been provided, the quantum and range of those services has fallen short of the contractual requirements”.

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That included not having actual planes in the air for billed surveillance flight times, which the audit office estimated cost taxpayers up to $87m.

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The contract was extended for another six years with very little variation just three months after the auditor general’s report. The contract, now worth $2.6bn to the company, has not been put to tender since it was first awarded in 2006.

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Today the department’s secretary, Michael Pezzullo, fronted the audit committee to discuss the issue, conceding that he does not think it is acceptable there had been no competitive tender in 20 years for the contract.

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Instead, there had been “market sweeps” to survey whether other providers could give the same capability before the contract was extended.

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Pezzullo said the “best practice” would be an investment approach in which the department had guaranteed funds for capital, allowing it sufficient certainty to run a full tender process.

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Pezzullo said the department is “faced with the devil’s choice” of losing operational capability or rolling over existing contracts.

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He said:

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When there’s no competitive process for 21 years we’re in a loop … there’s no competitive process because there’s no capital program.

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Pezzullo said without more capital investment, the government would be forced to deal with a “monopoly provider” of an “outsourced capability” or it would face the “darker” possibility of not flying surveillance aircraft.

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Surveillance Australia acted within the terms of its contract, and Guardian Australia is not suggesting it acted improperly.

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Pezzullo said the department does not “necessarily agree” with the ANAO’s conclusion, arguing the report’s criticism related mainly to 2008 to 2017 and procurement has improved since then.

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He said the report “ does not adequately consider the outcomes based nature of the contract, or the complex and dynamics, civil maritime security operating environment in which the contract itself operates”.

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Some acronyms catch on, but we’re guessing SoMP won’t be one of them. That’s the statement on monetary policy that the RBA releases every quarter.

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We’ll get today’s 80-plus page statement in about an hour. Economists will be parsing the language for clues as to why the central bank is so confident further rises in the cash rate are necessary.

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In case you’ve been paddling down a river lately (or otherwise out of the news cycle), the RBA raised its key interest rate for a ninth consecutive month (excluding their January summer break) on Tuesday and warned of more increases to come.

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Markets have adjusted their predictions of how high the RBA will go, and are now pencilling in a 4% peak rate, implying three more typical increases from the 3.35% level as of Tuesday.

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The statement will provide some updated projections on various economic numbers, with its inflation views likely to be looked at most closely.

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Also of interest (so to speak) will be the RBA’s views on China given that the previous statement in November could not have anticipated Beijing’s sudden U-turn on Covid policies. Going from rolling, severe lockdowns to the bulk of 1.4bn contracting the virus in a matter of weeks was no small reversal and it may take a while to understand the economic and social impacts of such a shock move.

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There were 6,440 new cases in the weekly reporting period, and 24 people are in intensive care.

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As in Victoria, the summer wave continues to ebb. This week’s figures are down from 6,567 cases and 88 deaths last week.

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The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has committed to campaigning in Aston to retain outgoing Liberal MP Alan Tudge’s seat.

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Dutton is not super popular in progressive Victoria, but he confirmed to Channel Nine he would join the campaign. He said:

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Yeah, of course, there’s no question about that. As I say, I mean byelections are always difficult and there are different issues, lots of local issues – the government’s ripped money out of road projects in Aston, they have, I think abandoned the area for a long period of time, and as I say, Alan is a popular local member and that always brings a vote with it, which won’t be present in the byelection. But we’ll preselect a great candidate, and that process has already started. You’ll be seeing lots of us down in Aston and you know, we regularly get to Melbourne.

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Dutton is already playing down expectations, describing what was until recently a safe Liberal seat as “a tough seat for us to hold”.

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Byelections usually see a swing against the government. In fact, no government has won a seat off the opposition at a byelection in more than 100 years. So it’s a little cute for Dutton to be playing underdog.

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There were 2,941 new cases in the weekly reporting period, and seven people are in intensive care.

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That’s down from 3,056 cases and 70 deaths last week.

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Jonathan How, a senior meteorologist at the bureau of meteorologist, is speaking to ABC News about Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle being upgraded to a severe category three system.

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That means the system is capable of producing wind gusts up to 224km/h. Because it is a bit offshore, we are not expecting that along the Queensland coast. It is going to produce hazardous surf conditions and galeforce winds along the coast.

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We have warnings current from the Capricornia down to the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast today and it will extend to the Hunter coast and Newcastle from tomorrow .

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How says Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle is moving towards the south-east and is expected to make “a direct hit at Norfolk Island”.

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We are seeing the strong easterly winds picking up and there is a warning current. That means we will see gales of more than 100km/h develop either tonight or early on Saturday morning and peaking on Saturday night and Sunday morning with gusts up to 140, even higher and large waves and heavy lashing rainfall for Norfolk Island.

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We might see the centre of the tropical cyclone pass directly over Norfolk Island. They will see a period of strong winds from one direction and then a deceptive lull in the middle and strong winds from the other direction. It hasn’t happened since 2017 that we have had almost a direct hit for for Norfolk Island. We could see the severe conditions last into Sunday afternoon for Norfolk Island.

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Ley is insisting that the Liberals are being part of the debate on the Indigenous voice to parliament but that it is the prime minister who is politicising the debate:

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Julian Leeser asked a perfectly sensible question in question time yesterday, which was about which part of the Calma-Langton report would you adopt? … It was a basic question about detail. The prime minister just didn’t even answer one single part of it.

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Karvelas:

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But you could be part of the process. The prime minister is saying be part of the process.

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Ley:

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We are part of the process … but if the prime minister can’t answer a simple question that wasn’t the least bit political, it was asked in a very flat, factual manner in parliament. And if he answered that in a political way, what that tells me [is] he’s politicising the controversy. However I agree, I don’t need to see this politicised.

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Ley goes on to say Labor is risking reconciliation by not offering the element on the Indigenous voice to parliament:

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We don’t actually have any guardrails round a remaining end result with element that lands precisely the place we would like it to, which is within the well being and welfare of Indigenous Australians. … the prime minister has tied that to the idea of the voice however he can’t clarify it. So till he offers the main points, I consider it’s truly the Labor social gathering that’s placing reconciliation in danger.

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Good morning. If you were watching events yesterday, you will know the Victorian Liberal Alan Tudge resigned from parliament, which will trigger a byelection in his seat of Aston in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. I gather from calls last night and this morning that the former treasurer Josh Frydenberg was sounded out by some local branch members yesterday after Tudge’s position became clear but he’s telling people he won’t run. There’s also a view in some quarters of the Victorian Liberals that Frydenberg, if he’s to return, has to focus on winning back Kooyong. The field in Aston is considered reasonably open. There’s some talk of Roshena Campbell, a commercial barrister, stepping up to be the candidate.

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Good morning! Natasha May reporting for blog duty.

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The Bureau of Meteorology has this morning categorised Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle as category three intensity, which means offshore wind gusts of up to 224kmh.

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As the cyclone heads towards Norfolk Island, a category two impact is expected for Saturday and Sunday.

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You can read more about Gabrielle here:

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Good morning and welcome to our rolling coverage of the Australian news day. I’m Martin Farrer, bringing you the main overnight breaking stories before my colleague Natasha May takes the reins.

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We have a cracking exclusive story this morning about how the former energy minister Angus Taylor asked his department to consider delaying telling voters about electricity price rises before the May election, then made the decision to do so anyway. He later claimed he didn’t know about the rises. And it turns out Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg were in on the plan as well.

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It comes on the day that rising power and gas bills and making housing more affordable will be on the agenda of a meeting of treasurers. The online meeting, hosted by federal treasurer Jim Chalmers, comes as the Reserve Bank releases its latest statement on monetary policy later this morning.

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We also have an excellent story from our medical editor, Mel Davey, about how researchers at the University of Sydney believe the key to Covid immunity might lie with the discovery of a receptor protein in lungs which “acts a bit like molecular velcro” and sticks to the spike of the virus. This means the virus is immobilised in people with lots of the protein, possibly explaining how some people don’t become infected and others become very ill.

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The US believe without doubt that the Chinese balloon that flew over North America for more than a week before being shot down over the Atlantic was “clearly for spying”. A US official made the claims overnight. Australian defence officials say they are not aware of any incidents of Chinese surveillance balloons travelling over Australian territory.

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With that, let’s get going for the day.

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The Truthful Work Ombudsman has launched authorized motion in opposition to Victoria’s wealthiest college for the second time in six months over alleged underpayment of informal workers to a complete of $154,424 and claiming it supplied “false or deceptive” data.

The regulator alleges between February 2017 and December 2019, The College of Melbourne breached the Truthful Work Act when it did not pay 14 informal lecturers for work on the hourly charges required underneath its enterprise agreements.

As a substitute, the college allegedly paid the workers primarily based on “benchmarks”, which assorted relying on the school, and in some circumstances described cost for marking at a charge primarily based on “4,000 phrases per hour” and at one faculty on “one hour per scholar”.

It’s alleged complete underpayments of the workers amounted to $154,424, starting from from $927 to $30,140 for people.

The ombudsman alleges the breaches of its enterprise agreements amounted to “severe contraventions” underneath the Truthful Work Act which had been “expressly, tacitly or impliedly authorised … due to a company tradition involving using marking benchmarks”.

The Truthful Work Ombudsman alleges that the benchmarking practices continued regardless of the inadequacy of the system being raised with sure managers as early as April 2016 and as much as 2019.

If the allegations are confirmed the college faces penalties of as much as $630,000 per breach for severe contraventions – of which penalties are 10 occasions larger – and $63,000 for the opposite allegations.

Truthful Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker mentioned allegations of universities underpaying staff by systematically failing to comply with their very own enterprise agreements had been of “nice concern”.

Universities, like all employers, ought to have proactive measures in place to make sure they’re assembly office legal guidelines and paying staff accurately for all hours labored.

A spokesperson from the College of Melbourne mentioned the college had cooperated with the investigation and workers affected by the “historic situation” had already been again paid.

The college has publicly acknowledged and apologised to previous and present staff who had been paid lower than they had been due for work that they’d carried out.

Norfolk Island has been issued an “orange “warning” alert by the Bureau of Meteorology as Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle approaches.

Winds of as much as 140 km/h are anticipated by tomorrow afternoon.

Norfolk Island has simply been issued an orange cyclone alert – will possible go to purple tomorrow. Locals warned gale pressure winds may begin as early as 6am, strengthening from 2pm. The native corridor might be opening as an emergency evacuation centre from 9am @9NewsQueensland pic.twitter.com/1R8lZDvaK3

— Anna Rawlings (@AnnaRawlings_) February 10, 2023

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Norfolk Island has simply been issued an orange cyclone alert – will possible go to purple tomorrow. Locals warned gale pressure winds may begin as early as 6am, strengthening from 2pm. The native corridor might be opening as an emergency evacuation centre from 9am @9NewsQueensland pic.twitter.com/1R8lZDvaK3

— Anna Rawlings (@AnnaRawlings_) February 10, 2023

The Bureau is forecasting gales inside 24 hours, with the group urged to safe boats and properties:

Gales with gusts to 120 km/h are anticipated to develop at Norfolk Island in a single day tonight, step by step rising throughout Saturday morning and turning into damaging with gusts to 140 km/h by Saturday afternoon.

Because the cyclone centre passes, damaging winds could ease for brief time frame, because of the eye of the system, earlier than it abruptly picks up once more, blowing from the wrong way.

Abnormally excessive tides are anticipated about Norfolk Island, however the sea degree shouldn’t exceed the very best tide of the yr. Very heavy surf that will result in localised injury and coastal erosion is feasible.

Heavy rain can be more likely to develop about Norfolk Island throughout Saturday, earlier than easing on Sunday.

Daniel Hurst

Daniel Hurst

Australian and Indonesia to share defence coaching areas

Australia and Indonesia have pledged to signal a brand new binding defence settlement to cowl entry to one another’s coaching areas.

The defence minister, Richard Marles, and his Indonesian counterpart, Prabowo Subianto, made the announcement after a gathering in Canberra this afternoon.

They mentioned the plan to raise defence ties confirmed their shared dedication to an Indo-Pacific area “the place sovereignty is revered”.

Right here is the important thing a part of the joint assertion issued moments in the past:

We acknowledged the significance of the prevailing Defence Cooperation Association (2021) in guiding our defence cooperation and confirmed our intent to raise this to an settlement that’s binding underneath worldwide legislation.

We intend for the brand new settlement to bolster our sturdy defence cooperation by supporting elevated dialogue, strengthening interoperability, and enhancing sensible preparations. Negotiations will embody consideration of points corresponding to reciprocal entry to coaching ranges and streamlined entry and exit processes for joint actions.

Collectively, Australia and Indonesia make an necessary contribution to regional safety. Elevating our present association sends an necessary message of our shared dedication to a area that embraces Asean [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] centrality and the goals and ideas of the Asean Outlook on the Indo-Pacific, the place sovereignty is revered.

We’ve requested officers to undertake negotiations expeditiously, and report back to us recurrently on progress.

NRL star cleared over 2020 avenue struggle on Central Coast

Canberra Raiders hooker Tom Starling has been cleared over a violent avenue struggle as a result of a court docket discovered police weren’t appearing of their obligation after they punched him within the face a number of occasions, AAP studies.

The 25-year-old NRL star and his brothers – Jackson, 26, and Josh, 21 – brawled with NSW law enforcement officials at a Central Coast pub in December 2020.

Starling and Jackson had been charged with hindering police whereas the youngest brother had been charged with frequent assault of a safety guard, assault of two officers and resisting police.

The costs have been dropped after Justice of the Peace Daniel Covington discovered the police weren’t appearing inside their obligation.

Police had been seen in CCTV footage repeatedly placing Starling within the head, a scene that Covington described as a “free for all”:

One that’s extra sometimes seen in a avenue struggle versus officers of their obligation. Clearly what occurred was nothing aside from Tom being assaulted himself.

Snr const Daniel Drew additionally admitted to the court docket that he had “no cause to punch” Starling, the decide mentioned.

Covington acknowledged Josh was appearing in self-defence of his brother.

Josh, who was handcuffed, allegedly kicked and punched law enforcement officials whereas Jackson was held again by one other police officer, having tried to intervene. Starling was held again and couldn’t defend himself, in line with Covington.

The brothers had been celebrating a pal’s twenty first birthday that evening.

Covington discovered the youngest Starling responsible of frequent assault in opposition to Morris and resisting police. Josh Starling was sentenced to an 18-month conditional launch order with out conviction.

Large because of Natasha Could for guiding us by way of one other day of reports. I’ll be with you for the remainder of this wonderful afternoon.

Natasha May

Natasha Could

That is the place I go away you within the glorious arms of Caitlin Cassidy. Have an incredible weekend!

Extra on Murujuga nomination

The nomination was ready by the Murujuga Aboriginal Company in partnership with the Western Australian authorities, with assist and recommendation from the federal authorities and technical specialists.

The Murujuga Cultural Panorama accommodates proof of steady conventional tradition and apply of the world for a minimum of 50,000 years.

It has an estimated 1m to 2m photos of an space of greater than 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres), throughout land and sea nation, which is the densest identified focus of hunter-gatherer petroglyphs anyplace on the earth.

The Board of the Murujuga Aboriginal Company mentioned in a press release:

This nomination is a chance to take you on a journey by way of the traditional, deeply storied and vital place referred to as Murujuga. This can be a journey by way of time and throughout huge and altering tracts of Land and Sea nation. The story of this Ngurra in one which begins on the very daybreak of Creation and paperwork the travels of Ancestral Spirits from when the earth was delicate, hundreds of generations of Ngarda-Ngarli residing and caring for this nation, and the power and survival of our Regulation and tradition in periods of outstanding change.

You’ll be able to learn extra on this nomination from my colleague Graham Readfern, and a number of the issues from some First Nations teams who say it involves late:

Authorities nominates Murujuga for world heritage standing

The surroundings minister, Tanya Plibersek, is talking in Karratha in Western Australia, asserting the federal government will nominate Murujuga for world heritage itemizing.

Whether it is accepted by Unesco will probably be the second web site in Australia given World Heritage standing for First Nations heritage.

Plibersek:

It’s my pleasure to formally verify that the Commonwealth Authorities has nominated the Murujuga cultural panorama for the inscription on the World Heritage record.

I really feel a bit bit embarrassed, as a result of this comes after hundreds of steady tradition, care and custodianship of this land. Many years of activism from lots of you right here, years of arduous work on the submission – 4 and a healf years of writing the submission. And I get to swoop in on the final minute and launch it. So welcome to politics.

This has very apparent advantages for this panorama, for the people who find themselves so linked to this land, for future generations who will develop up sturdy on this nation, nevertheless it has actual significance for the entire world. This place, the tradition, the continuity, it has actual significance for the entire world, and, actually, that’s the reason right here at the moment.

ACT data no Covid deaths and 6 folks in hospital

There have been 401 new circumstances within the weekly reporting interval, and no persons are in intensive care.

Weekly ACT COVID-19 Replace – 10 February 2023

COVID-19 case numbers
New circumstances this week: 401 (77 PCR and 324 RAT)
Whole circumstances since March 2020: 231,041

Extra info on our web page https://t.co/qRDoepyJkh pic.twitter.com/5iFdtoYBNn

— ACT Well being (@ACTHealth) February 10, 2023

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South Australia data 94 Covid deaths and 52 folks in hospital

There have been 1,495 new circumstances within the weekly reporting interval, and 4 persons are in intensive care.

Circumstances have risen from final week’s 1,286 in addition to deaths have elevated from 14 within the final reporting interval.

South Australian weekly COVID-19 replace 10/02/23.

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— SA Well being (@SAHealth) February 10, 2023

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Man in custody after escaping correctional facility

A person who escaped a north Queensland correctional facility and spent three days on the run has been positioned and returned to custody by police, AAP studies.

Henry Peters, 28, is serving a two-year sentence for breaking and getting into a dwelling with violence or threats, and absconded from the Lotus Glen correctional centre on Tuesday.

He escaped from the farm part of the centre, roughly an hour west of Cairns.

The jail homes each high-security and low-security prisoners, and contains a big farm space utilized by the latter.

Queensland Corrective Providers issued a press release on Friday confirming Peters had been discovered and returned to custody.

Caitlin Cassidy

Caitlin Cassidy

Greens name for stronger authorized protections for college students residing on campus

The Greens schooling spokesperson, senator Mehreen Faruqi, mentioned it was an “insupportable state of affairs” for college students in campus lodging to face housing battles whereas not being coated by present tenancy legal guidelines.

Authorized protections have to be strengthened and enforced.

College students must be handled “pretty and decently”, Faruqi mentioned.

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