Clare says Dutton’s push to legislate 26 January as Australia Day ‘same fake fight we have every year’
Circling back to the education minister, Jason Clare, who had been speaking on Sunrise earlier.
He was asked about Peter Dutton’s key proposal to keep Australia Day on 26 January, and if Labor would follow suit. But Clare said “the date’s not changing” and “we have the same fake fight every year”.
This is just another distraction from Dutton to conceal this stinker of a policy. There is a smelly flower in Sydney today, [but] the real stinker here is this idea that taxpayers should pay for their boss’s lunch, and [he] still won’t tell us how much it’s going to cost.
The host said that Dutton wanted to put 26 January as Australia Day into law – would Labor? Clare said it was already in employment law:
That’s what I’m saying. It is a fake fight to distract from the mess of Peter Dutton’s crazy policies.
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He was asked about Peter Dutton’s key proposal to keep Australia Day on 26 January, and if Labor would follow suit. But Clare said “the date’s not changing” and “we have the same fake fight every year”.
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This is just another distraction from Dutton to conceal this stinker of a policy. There is a smelly flower in Sydney today, [but] the real stinker here is this idea that taxpayers should pay for their boss’s lunch, and [he] still won’t tell us how much it’s going to cost.
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The host said that Dutton wanted to put 26 January as Australia Day into law – would Labor? Clare said it was already in employment law:
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That’s what I’m saying. It is a fake fight to distract from the mess of Peter Dutton’s crazy policies.
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The anti-fracking group Lock the Gate Alliance has launched a legal challenge to a Northern Territory government decision to approve another gas exploration project in the Beetaloo basin.
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The case in the territory’s civil and administrative tribunal is challenging the merits of the government’s approval of the environment management plan for Empire Energy’s “Larrimah” exploration project.
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The alliance, represented by Johnson Legal, will argue the project would pose a major risk to ground and surface water.
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The project, located west of Larrimah, would involve the drilling of up to six exploratory wells. Larrimah is located about 80km from the renowned Bitter Springs thermal pools near Mataranka.
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Lock the Gate Darwin spokesperson Pete Callender said they believe “the impacts and risks of the project to water resources are likely to be far greater than predicted by the NT government”.
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The case is scheduled for a directions hearing in Darwin today. A CLP government spokesperson said:
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Our robust regulation of the onshore petroleum industry is informed by the best available science. As the project is before the NT Civil and Administrative Tribunal, it would be premature to make any further comment on the matter.
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Sydney’s Botanic Garden’s remained open until midnight last night, as thousands queued to catch a glimpse (and a whiff) of corpse flower “Putricia”, as she began blooming.
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But the crowd was so big, the garden’s had to cut people off at 8.15pm – with a three-and-a-half hour-long wait, and those at the end not expected to make it to the front of the queue until midnight.
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Among those in the queue was singer Gillian Welch, who went to see Putricia before her first Opera House gig.
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Putricia began blooming early afternoon yesterday, with corpse flowers only expected to bloom for 24-48 hours. You can already see, on the livestream below, that her tip has started to droop in the last 20 minutes:
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The gardens will be reopening from 8am this morning, for those still hoping to catch a glimpse of this Sydney celebrity.
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And happy Friday – Emily Wind here, signing on for blogging duties. Thanks, as always, to Martin for kicking things off for us. I’ll be taking you through our live coverage for most of today.
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You can reach out with any tips, feedback or questions via email: emily.wind@theguardian.com. Let’s go.
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The Labor senator Tony Sheldon will seek the support of a Senate committee to establish an inquiry into university governance today. He said it should “urgently examine” issues in the embattled sector including wage theft, widespread casualisation and the hefty pay packets of vice-chancellors.
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Sheldon, who chairs the Senate education and employment committee, said the move came in light of “continued governance scandals in the higher education sector”.
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An independent inquiry has been consistently lobbied for by the National Tertiary Education Union, and complements the establishment of an independent expert council to advise education ministers on governance matters.
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Sheldon said the inquiry would tackle a wage theft figure approaching $400m, noncompliance with workplace laws, expenditure on external consultants and concern around vice-chancellor renumeration and conflicts of interest.
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He will seek to establish the inquiry prior to the upcoming parliamentary sitting fortnight, with a view to holding public hearings with vice-chancellors and other key stakeholders shortly after the parliament rises.
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University vice-chancellors have questions to answer about the extraordinary range of governance issues that have arisen on their watch.
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There’s no other job in Australia where you can be paid so exorbitantly while performing so badly, with seemingly no consequences or accountability for the impact on university staff and students. It’s clear the Liberals’ and Nationals’ governance framework is failing, which is why the Albanese government is taking swift action to rein in [the] sector.
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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it’ll be Emily Wind to guide you through to the long weekend.
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Anthony Albanese will be hoping to get on the front foot policy-wise again today when he announces a new initiative to bolster the construction industry at the National Press Club in Canberra. The prime minister’s plan is to give apprentice tradies an extra $10,000 from a re-elected Labor government in order to encourage more young people to go into the building industry and therefore help meet his home-building targets of 1.2m homes by 2030. We’ll have more of his speech when he makes it at 12.30pm.
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New South Wales health officials are braced for more psychiatrists to resign today as the doctors’ pay dispute continues. The health minister, Rose Jackson, said yesterday that 43 psychiatrists had quit so far and more were expected in the “coming days”, while 99 doctors had delayed their resignations. More than 60 mental health beds in public hospitals are temporarily closing in New South Wales as some hospitals are being given directives to limit psychiatric assessments because of the mass resignations. More coming up.
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University executives have been put on notice over wage theft, spending and conflict-of-interest concerns as the federal government attempts to launch a probe. Labor senator Tony Sheldon is seeking the support of a Senate committee to establish an inquiry into university governance after a spate of scandals within the sector. More details coming up.
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Marles weighs in on US defence lead pick
The deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, spoke with ABC News Breakfast earlier where he discussed the latest on the Aukus deal.
Specifically, US president Donald Trump’s pick to appoint former Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defence lead. Is he is the right person for the job, and to work with Australia on the Aukus deal?
Marles said he looks forward to meeting Hegseth and “obviously, we’re waiting for the processes in America to play out.”
But I fully expect that Pete Hegseth will be endorsed and dominated as the secretary of defence. And when that occurs, we will look forward to having an early engagement with Pete Hegseth.
We are very keen to be working with the Trump administration on all the issues that occur within the alliance. Defence is a key part of that. And as you said, Aukus is very central to all of that …
I look forward to being able to talk that over at the earliest opportunity with Pete Hegseth.
Airline disruptions flagged as one thousand ground workers walk off the job
The Transport Workers Union is flagging airport disruptions as ground workers hired by aviation services company Dnata prepare to walk off the job.
The national secretary of the Transport Workers Union, Michael Kaine, told the Today Show “there will be disruptions”.
Industrial action is always a last resort. You don’t get 1000 workers taking industrial action unless something is seriously wrong, and there’s something seriously wrong at Dnata.
It’s a year now since these workers have been negotiating for their agreement. They are owed improvements in their pay and conditions from June last year, and they’ve said enough is enough …
There’ll be disruptions at Sydney Airport, at Melbourne Airport, at Brisbane Airport and there’ll be flight delays.
We’ll keep an eye on this throughout the day and bring you the latest updates here on the blog.
People queue to see corpse flower ‘Putricia’ from 5am
As we mentioned earlier, Sydney Botanic Garden’s will reopen from 8am this morning for people to catch a glimpse of corpse flower “Putricia”, who began blooming yesterday afternoon.
But it seems her fans began lining up much (much) earlier this morning. The Today Show spoke with two women, Caitlin and Paige, who had been turned away last night and decided to line up again this morning at 5am:
We got here around 8.30[pm] and we were turned away. So that’s why we’re here bright and early to try and see this flower.
The two girls first met as they were being turned away from last night’s queue, and coincidentally ran into each other in line this morning. Paige said:
For me it was actually my birthday yesterday, and for it to bloom on my birthday just feels like it’s a bit special. And it’s meant to be symbolic of rebirth. So I thought I’d just come and soak up some of the flower’s energy, I guess.
Clare says Dutton’s push to legislate 26 January as Australia Day ‘same fake fight we have every year’
Circling back to the education minister, Jason Clare, who had been speaking on Sunrise earlier.
He was asked about Peter Dutton’s key proposal to keep Australia Day on 26 January, and if Labor would follow suit. But Clare said “the date’s not changing” and “we have the same fake fight every year”.
This is just another distraction from Dutton to conceal this stinker of a policy. There is a smelly flower in Sydney today, [but] the real stinker here is this idea that taxpayers should pay for their boss’s lunch, and [he] still won’t tell us how much it’s going to cost.
The host said that Dutton wanted to put 26 January as Australia Day into law – would Labor? Clare said it was already in employment law:
That’s what I’m saying. It is a fake fight to distract from the mess of Peter Dutton’s crazy policies.
Lock the Gate launches legal challenge to NT government gas approval
Lisa Cox
The anti-fracking group Lock the Gate Alliance has launched a legal challenge to a Northern Territory government decision to approve another gas exploration project in the Beetaloo basin.
The case in the territory’s civil and administrative tribunal is challenging the merits of the government’s approval of the environment management plan for Empire Energy’s “Larrimah” exploration project.
The alliance, represented by Johnson Legal, will argue the project would pose a major risk to ground and surface water.
The project, located west of Larrimah, would involve the drilling of up to six exploratory wells. Larrimah is located about 80km from the renowned Bitter Springs thermal pools near Mataranka.
Lock the Gate Darwin spokesperson Pete Callender said they believe “the impacts and risks of the project to water resources are likely to be far greater than predicted by the NT government”.
The case is scheduled for a directions hearing in Darwin today. A CLP government spokesperson said:
Our robust regulation of the onshore petroleum industry is informed by the best available science. As the project is before the NT Civil and Administrative Tribunal, it would be premature to make any further comment on the matter.
Caitlin Cassidy
NTEU backs Labor’s move to seek parliamentary inquiry into university governance
The National Tertiary Education Union has strongly backed Labor senator Tony Sheldon’s announcement today to seek a parliamentary inquiry into university governance.
Sheldon, chair of the Senate Education and Employment Committee, said the probe would cover wage theft, insecure work, transparency and high vice-chancellor salaries.
The NTEU has been campaigning for a federal parliamentary inquiry after growing concern over ongoing wage theft in the sector, which it estimates at $265m nationally, and consultant fees totalling $734m. National president Dr Alison Barnes said:
For too long, vice-chancellors and senior executives have escaped any real accountability for some of the terrible decisions that have damaged our public universities. An inquiry would be a golden opportunity to get to the bottom of what’s allowing the wage theft epidemic, rampant casualisation and a raft of other serious problems to flourish in our sector.
This is the path to lasting reform that will ensure staff can deliver the world-class teaching and research our students and community deserve.
Clare touts apprentice policy as Ley flags potential Coalition support
The education minister, Jason Clare, spoke with Sunrise earlier to tout Labor’s plan to apprenticeship payments, and said:
If they are living away from home, there is extra money to help pay the rent. It’s a good policy. Compare to that crazy policy that Peter Dutton announced to make taxpayers pay for boss’s lunches. Insane.
Deputy opposition leader, Sussan Ley, was also on the program and said the Coalition would look at the policy – but she thinks “we can support it because Labor’s cost-of-living crisis has hit tradies and apprentices particularly hard”.
It’s so tough to be an apprentice now. You just can’t afford your basic cost of living. But just remember in the time it’s taken Labor to announce this policy, we’ve lost over 80,000 apprentices and trainees from the skills and training pipeline. The number of women starting in trades and training has halved. We’ve lost 26% of our construction trade apprentices … So, [it] is really tough out there right now.
After some back and forth, Ley was asked to clarify the Coalition’s position and whether it would support the policy, and said:
We are likely to.
Master Builders Association responds to Labor cash boost plan for apprentice tradies
As Josh Butler reported earlier, apprentice tradies stand to get an extra $10,000 from a re-elected Labor government as Anthony Albanese tries to encourage more young people into construction to help build the 1.2m homes he promised by 2030.
The Master Builders Association has responded to the news, with CEO Denita Wawn saying the revised staggering of payments is something it “has long called for, so there is a financial incentive for apprentices to complete their training”:
Around 50% of all apprentices do not complete their training – the new staged payments approach will hopefully see the rate of completions increase.
Builders would like to see this payment expanded to other areas of the building and construction industry that are also facing chronic shortages and crying out for more apprentices. Without roads, rail, sewerage and water we can’t build more homes for Aussies.
Wawn said she was “disappointed” the high costs of hiring and training apprentices “has not been recognised as yet”, adding:
Master Builders continues to call for a robust incentive system that supports employers and minimises the risk with taking on an apprentice who may or may not complete their training.
Thousands queue to catch glimpse of Sydney’s resident corpse flower ‘Putricia’
Sydney’s Botanic Garden’s remained open until midnight last night, as thousands queued to catch a glimpse (and a whiff) of corpse flower “Putricia”, as she began blooming.
But the crowd was so big, the garden’s had to cut people off at 8.15pm – with a three-and-a-half hour-long wait, and those at the end not expected to make it to the front of the queue until midnight.
Among those in the queue was singer Gillian Welch, who went to see Putricia before her first Opera House gig.
Putricia began blooming early afternoon yesterday, with corpse flowers only expected to bloom for 24-48 hours. You can already see, on the livestream below, that her tip has started to droop in the last 20 minutes:
The gardens will be reopening from 8am this morning, for those still hoping to catch a glimpse of this Sydney celebrity.
Good morning
Emily Wind
And happy Friday – Emily Wind here, signing on for blogging duties. Thanks, as always, to Martin for kicking things off for us. I’ll be taking you through our live coverage for most of today.
You can reach out with any tips, feedback or questions via email: emily.wind@theguardian.com. Let’s go.
Warning of waterfall dangers after teen deaths
The tragic deaths of two teenagers at a popular waterfall show the dangers of the slippery rocks and turbulent water, experts have told AAP.
Honor Ward, 17, fell off a waterfall and failed to resurface at Wappa Falls on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast on Sunday afternoon. Her friend Beau Liddell, 17, jumped into the water to save her but also failed to resurface.
As the community mourns the deaths, James Cook University professor of public health Richard Franklin says the tragic deaths serve to warn others of the hidden dangers of waterfalls.
Figures by Royal Life Saving Australia from 2022-23 reveal there were 76 deaths at rivers or waterfalls versus 75 at beaches across Australia. The agency also estimates that about 5% of drownings in inland water sources took place at waterfalls or swimming holes over the ten years to 2021.
Prof Franklin said popular swimming locations often come with potentially fatal hazards from slippery rocks, unexpected currents and turbulent water.
Waterfalls can be particularly dangerous when water cascades to carve out a deep pool, known as a plunge pool, which can have turbulence and currents that pull in and trap swimmers, he said.
He urged waterfall swimmers to check for dangers before taking the plunge.
Restrictions lifted as avian flu outbreak eradicated
All restrictions on poultry and egg producers have been lifted as authorities declare a regional avian influenza outbreak eradicated, AAP reports.
The Hawkesbury outbreak was one the most significant in NSW with more than 320,000 animals destroyed since June 2024 to curb the spread of the potentially devastating disease.
The strain was found at two commercial poultry farms and four other premises but no new cases have been found since July 2024.
From today, restrictions on the movement of birds, objects and other equipment will end and designated emergency zones will be scrapped.
It was not connected to an earlier outbreak in Victoria, which led to about 1m birds being destroyed.
Cases detected in Australia are different to the H5N1 strain that has devastated animal populations overseas.
Labor senator to seek inquiry into university governance
Caitlin Cassidy
The Labor senator Tony Sheldon will seek the support of a Senate committee to establish an inquiry into university governance today. He said it should “urgently examine” issues in the embattled sector including wage theft, widespread casualisation and the hefty pay packets of vice-chancellors.
Sheldon, who chairs the Senate education and employment committee, said the move came in light of “continued governance scandals in the higher education sector”.
An independent inquiry has been consistently lobbied for by the National Tertiary Education Union, and complements the establishment of an independent expert council to advise education ministers on governance matters.
Sheldon said the inquiry would tackle a wage theft figure approaching $400m, noncompliance with workplace laws, expenditure on external consultants and concern around vice-chancellor renumeration and conflicts of interest.
He will seek to establish the inquiry prior to the upcoming parliamentary sitting fortnight, with a view to holding public hearings with vice-chancellors and other key stakeholders shortly after the parliament rises.
University vice-chancellors have questions to answer about the extraordinary range of governance issues that have arisen on their watch.
There’s no other job in Australia where you can be paid so exorbitantly while performing so badly, with seemingly no consequences or accountability for the impact on university staff and students. It’s clear the Liberals’ and Nationals’ governance framework is failing, which is why the Albanese government is taking swift action to rein in [the] sector.
Welcome
Martin Farrer
Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it’ll be Emily Wind to guide you through to the long weekend.
Anthony Albanese will be hoping to get on the front foot policy-wise again today when he announces a new initiative to bolster the construction industry at the National Press Club in Canberra. The prime minister’s plan is to give apprentice tradies an extra $10,000 from a re-elected Labor government in order to encourage more young people to go into the building industry and therefore help meet his home-building targets of 1.2m homes by 2030. We’ll have more of his speech when he makes it at 12.30pm.
New South Wales health officials are braced for more psychiatrists to resign today as the doctors’ pay dispute continues. The health minister, Rose Jackson, said yesterday that 43 psychiatrists had quit so far and more were expected in the “coming days”, while 99 doctors had delayed their resignations. More than 60 mental health beds in public hospitals are temporarily closing in New South Wales as some hospitals are being given directives to limit psychiatric assessments because of the mass resignations. More coming up.
University executives have been put on notice over wage theft, spending and conflict-of-interest concerns as the federal government attempts to launch a probe. Labor senator Tony Sheldon is seeking the support of a Senate committee to establish an inquiry into university governance after a spate of scandals within the sector. More details coming up.
