Jacqui Lambie says she made a mistake voting for stage three tax cuts
Jacqui Lambie voted for the stage three tax cuts. When Labor was contemplating voting towards the package deal, the Coalition labored to courtroom sufficient crossbenchers to get the invoice throughout the road (that means it might go both approach).
Labor ended up voting for the package deal. However Lambie says she made a mistake in supporting the package deal and has now made that clear within the senate.
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Graham Readfearn
For these wanting an replace on the pilot whale stranding:
A mission to rescue scores of pilot whales discovered nonetheless alive on a seashore after a mass stranding on Tasmania’s west coast has ended, with satellite tv for pc trackers displaying two rescued whales effectively south of the state.
State authorities personnel and volunteers from the native salmon farming business lifted 44 dwell pilot whales off Ocean Seashore, close to Strahan, and towed them one-by-one to deeper waters.
Some 230 pilot whales – which are literally giant oceanic dolphins – had been reported on the seashore final Wednesday.
Virtually 200 lifeless whales had been tied collectively and on Sunday pulled out into the deep ocean, the place authorities mentioned they had been anticipated to float south within the Southern Ocean. Some might float ashore. Solely two carcasses stay on the seashore.
Preliminary information from satellite tv for pc tackers on two of the rescued dwell whales confirmed they had been now effectively south of Tasmania. Incident controller Nic Deka mentioned:
That is constructive information as this means that lots of the rescued whales have been efficiently launched again into the Southern Ocean.
Deka thanked colleagues from the Division of Pure Assets and Surroundings Tasmania, in addition to salmon business workers, volunteers and the Strahan group and native council for his or her assist. Entry roads have re-opened.
Authorities mentioned carcasses might wash up within the coming weeks and surveillance flights can be monitoring close by seashores. Any sightings within the area ought to be reported to a whale hotline on Whale Hotline at 0427 WHALES.
The stranding got here two years to the day after the most important recorded mass whale or dolphin stranding in Australia on the identical location. Some 470 pilot whales had been present in Macquarie Harbour and on Ocean Seashore.
Issues that make you go hmmmmm
Yep. We getting the “particular value” of $1.90 earlier than the “further particular” value of $2.20 when by rights it ought to be $1.60 for the previous fortnight and subsequent week.https://t.co/GR1SCaAbAz
— Paul Karp (@Paul_Karp) September 26, 2022
Over 42,000 claims for veteran’s help but to be processed
There are nonetheless 42,000 claims for help which veterans are ready to be processed. Matt Keogh mentioned that the federal government is engaged on expediting these claims, however it’s going to take time – into subsequent 12 months.
It’s a very tough scenario. It’s why now we have taken on doing this triage processing and making an attempt to prioritise these claims the place individuals are most in danger or households are most vulnerable to these veterans in order that those that do discover themselves within the worst conditions can get their claims processed extra rapidly than that.
And sure, it’s an unacceptable scenario that we’ve now discovered ourselves in, the place there are 40,000-odd claims which can be sitting in a backlog, along with the 20,000‑odd claims that we attempt to course of yearly by the division. And clearly we have to massively improve our fee of processing.
The truth that this case has been allowed to eventuate due to an absence of resourcing being supplied to the division is horrible. It’s a part of what I’ve apologised for within the parliament yesterday.
The vital factor is that we at the moment are taking the motion crucial, using the extra workers, implementing techniques to make processing extra environment friendly so we will get by this as rapidly as potential, and ensuring that these veterans which can be within the tougher conditions get their claims prioritised.
As a part of his assertion on the royal fee into defence and veteran suicide to the home yesterday, Matt Keogh, the minister for veteran’s affairs, apologised to veterans and their households for the way they’ve been handled. It was a part of the federal government’s response to the interim report handed down by the fee.
On ABC RN Breakfast this morning, he was requested why saying sorry was so vital:
I feel an apology is vital as a result of a part of the problem that veterans and serving personnel and their households, particularly the family members of those that have taken their very own life, have been grappling with is being heard and feeling like they’re being heard and having an acknowledgment that the way in which by which these companies have operated has in some circumstances by no means been applicable. And it’s vital to acknowledge that, to offer that recognition and to come clean with the truth that the way in which these items have turned out, the way in which a few of these companies have operated at instances has not been applicable.
Labor: Optus information breach is partly of earlier authorities’s making
Labor’s Peter Khalil has additionally been talking on the Optus information breach. He instructed Sky Information this morning:
The safety breach, which we all know the minister has identified, rests with Optus. We shouldn’t expect this type of breach of this nature from a big telecommunications firm and we’re clearly doing every part we will do to help Optus by the Australian Cyber Safety Centre and the Australian Alerts Directorate to offer that help. But additionally our legislation enforcement and different companies are monitoring all of this and investigating it and ensuring that, you recognize, particularly if individuals strive by some stolen credentials, that the complete drive of the legislation is dropped at bear. So it is rather, very regarding.
However I simply acquired to say one vital level. I’ve heard the opposition, a conga line of shadow ministers led by Peter Dutton, the opposition chief, together with James Paterson, who’s right here with me immediately, who’ve been clutching their pearls, so to say, being crucial of the minister for residence affairs, ‘the place is she, the place is the response’.
Let me inform you what the minister of residence affairs has been doing. She’s been fixing up an issue that’s partly of their making. The earlier authorities, the Liberal authorities, determined to exempt telecommunication firms from the safety of crucial infrastructure legal guidelines. They made that call. It enabled this assault.
Now Optus is accountable, however in fact you recognize that we dwell in a really harmful neighbourhood. All of us agree on that and that call. And naturally, the minister for communications was a former Optus government, Paul Fletcher.
In order that they overlooked the telcos as a result of the telcos mentioned, ‘oh, we’ve acquired this, we will deal with it’.
However in fact that has meant that they’ve left not solely the door unlocked on this harmful neighbourhood when there’s an increase of cyberattacks and cybercriminals and so forth. They’ve left it broad open. They’ve left the backdoor open and so they’ve left the home windows open.
Peter Hannam
Council of Monetary Regulators releases quarterly assertion on markets
The Council of Monetary Regulators (The RBA, the Treasury, Asic and Apra) have launched their quarterly statement on how markets have been behaving and have added an uncommon word given the Optus information breach because the council’s 21 September assembly.
The council members, together with the ACCC and ATO, “have been liaising intently”, as you’d hope.
“Council members are additionally working intently with monetary establishments, reinforcing the significance of cybersecurity and the ‘know your buyer’ necessities,” the assertion says.
The primary monetary situation that has modified up to now couple of quarters, in fact, is the RBA’s rate of interest rises.
Stress on family budgets has elevated.
On the identical time, family steadiness sheets proceed to be supported by robust situations within the labour market, and plenty of households accrued bigger saving buffers in the course of the pandemic.
Enterprise insolvencies stay beneath equal pre-Covid ranges, although some sectors are experiencing difficult buying and selling situations.
The council will proceed to intently “monitor developments in borrowing” given the financial uncertainties, the excessive degree of family debt, the decline in housing costs and rising rates of interest.
So nothing to fret an excessive amount of about – but. However, the falling Australian greenback (down beneath 65 US cents in a single day) provides to inflationary pressures by making our imports dearer.
In flip, buyers are recently elevating their expectations of how excessive the RBA will raise its rate of interest … with one other two share factors (200 foundation factors) in will increase now their forecast for mid-2023.
Buyers are strongly anticipating a 50bp rise within the RBA’s money fee on Oct 4th (at an 83% probability). They’re additionally betting on a full share level improve by 12 months’s finish, and a peak at 4.35% by mid subsequent 12 months. (Banks reminiscent of Westpac have a ‘terminal’ fee at 3.6%.) pic.twitter.com/SsPe8usOs1
— Peter Hannam (@p_hannam) September 26, 2022
Childcare subsidy invoice to be launched in parliament immediately
The training minister, Jason Clare, will introduce the early childhood training subsidy adjustments laws into the parliament immediately.
It received’t kick in till July subsequent 12 months, although. He instructed 9:
Childcare is pricey and it’s gone up by 41%, simply within the final eight years. We promised to chop the price of childcare; I’ll introduce legal guidelines to just do that immediately. It’ll minimize the price of childcare for greater than 1,000,000 Australian households.
We try this by growing the subsidy so if you happen to’re a household on [$60,000-$80,000] a 12 months, we’ll improve the subsidy so that you can 90% of these prices. It means successfully for a household on $80,000 a 12 months, the federal government will present about $14,000 a 12 months, in case you have a toddler going three days every week.
It’s a giant funding, however we all know that if childcare is extra inexpensive, then it makes it simpler for fogeys to return to work, particularly mums. I feel 60% of mums with youngsters underneath the age of 6 are … working half time relatively than full time … it’s actually because childcare is so costly.
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Natasha Might
Optus CEO says safety breach ‘not as being portrayed’ by minister for residence affairs
The CEO of Optus, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, says the corporate’s huge safety breach was “not as being portrayed” after the minister for residence affairs accused the corporate of leaving the “window open” for the information to be stolen.
The minister for residence affairs, Clare O’Neal, described the hack as “fundamental” on ABC’s 7.30 program Monday night, undermining Rosmarin’s description earliest final week as a “refined assault.”
What occurred at Optus wasn’t a complicated assault.
We should always not have a telecommunications supplier on this nation that has successfully left the window open for information of this nature to be stolen.#abc730 pic.twitter.com/KamkiapcZl
— Clare O’Neil MP (@ClareONeilMP) September 26, 2022
Requested concerning the O’Neil’s feedback on ABC Radio Tuesday morning, Rosmarin thanks reporter Peter Ryan for “letting me handle that misinformation”.
Rosmarin mentioned that O’Neil’s interview with the ABC occurred earlier than Optus’ briefing with the minister.
Rosmarin mentioned the breach is “not what it’s made out to be” as a result of the information was encrypted and there have been “a number of ranges” of safety.
She mentioned it was not the case having an “uncovered API [address] sitting on the market”.
Territory rights invoice to be debated this week
The territory rights invoice will likely be debated this week after some fancy senate footwork from unbiased senator, David Pocock.
The Canberra Instances’ Dan Jervis-Bardy reported Pocock has agreed to place certainly one of his motions on the again burner and help the federal government to sit down late tonight to go the cashless debit card laws, with a view to deliver ahead the territory rights laws on the discover paper.
The invoice wasn’t scheduled to be debated this week, however a number of issues have occurred.
ACT unbiased David Pocock has agreed to delay his tremendous disallowance movement, and can help the federal government’s want to sit late on Tuesday to go the cashless debit card invoice.
— Dan Jervis-Bardy (@D_JervisBardy) September 26, 2022
Jacqui Lambie says she made a mistake voting for stage three tax cuts
Jacqui Lambie voted for the stage three tax cuts. When Labor was contemplating voting towards the package deal, the Coalition labored to courtroom sufficient crossbenchers to get the invoice throughout the road (that means it might go both approach).
Labor ended up voting for the package deal. However Lambie says she made a mistake in supporting the package deal and has now made that clear within the senate.
New Optus information breach ransom demand reported
Natasha Might
Within the newest information within the Optus information breach, a reported ransom demand is claiming 10,000 customers may have their information leaked a day till Optus pays.
Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, the CEO of Optus, instructed ABC Radio the Australian Federal Police had been already investigating the reported ransom demand.
Rosmarin mentioned Optus couldn’t say a lot because it’s being investigated however confirmed “now we have seen that there’s a submit like that on the darkish internet and the Australian Federal Police is throughout that”.
