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White House confirms Albanese-Trump meeting
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will meet US President Donald Trump in Washington next month, the White House has confirmed. Source: ABC News.
PM Albanese formally backs Palestinian state
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged world leaders to seize an opportunity to permanently disarm Hamas and drive the terrorist group out of the Middle East by reviving efforts to achieve a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Source: SMH.
Prime Minister announces climate target
Anthony Albanese revealed Australia will set a target to cut emissions by 62 to 70 per cent by 2035, while announcing billions of dollars towards net zero schemes, drawing condemnation from climate advocates and the Opposition. Source: Canberra Times.
Social services network welcomes Ley’s commitment to safety net
Catholic Social Services Australia responded with guarded optimism to Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s address to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia yesterday, which it said outlined a “principled approach” to fiscal management while maintaining support for vulnerable Australians.
Labor to outline plan to reconnect unemployed with workforce
The Albanese Government is set to tap into the country’s unemployed, particularly disengaged youth and older women, to fill just under two million new jobs over the next decade. Source: News.com.au.
Assessment finds 1.5m Australians at risk from sea level rise by 2050
One and a half million Australians are at risk from sea levels rising by 2050 unless climate change can be limited, Australia’s first national climate risk assessment has warned. Source: ABC News.
Government lays down rules for social media age ban
Social media platforms will not be able to rely on users to self-declare their ages under the incoming social media ban for children under 16, and will need to create a layered approach to prevent minors from accessing their apps. Source: News.com.au.
Labor warned deportation laws weren’t sufficiently justified
A Labor-majority Senate committee raised concerns about new laws that do away with the obligation to provide non-citizens facing deportation to Nauru procedural fairness, in a report tabled hours after the legislation passed Parliament. Source: ABC News.
Catholic sector ‘strongly opposes’ new deportation laws
Catholic Social Services Victoria says the passage of new laws that strip legal rights from non-citizens set to be deported is a “deeply troubling piece of legislation that can be used to undermine core principles of justice and human dignity”.