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‘Clamour for detail is disingenuous’: Pat Anderson
Uluru Dialogue co-chair and member of the Referendum Working Group Pat Anderson says the Coalition’s “clamour for detail is disingenuous”.
Speaking on ABC RN this morning, Anderson said:
As the prime minister has been saying we will have enough information to make an informed vote, and there’s a lot of working being done being the scenes to make that happen.
Of course the Australian public will get some detail.
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Young boy critical after lightning strike
A young boy that was struck by lightning on a beach near Wollongong yesterday is in a critical but stable condition after his heart stopped, AAP reports.
NSW Ambulance chief inspector Terry Morrow said the boy was believed to be in the water at the time of the strike, which caused his heart to go into cardiac arrest and his breathing to stop.
The boy also suffered burns to his chest in the incident, Insp Morrow told Seven’s Sunrise program on Friday.
Surf lifesavers patrolling nearby commenced CPR on the nine-year-old with the help of a doctor who was on the beach with her family at the time.
Ambulance crews and police responded shortly after and paramedics took over resuscitation efforts.
‘Anti-semitism is on the rise, but it will not find a home here’: Anthony Albanese
Anthony Albanese has marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by sharing a message on Twitter honouring keeping alive the memory of those who died, and those who survived.
Many survivors of the Holocaust found refuge here after the war and their stories are importantly preserved in Holocaust museums. As we’re starting to lose the last generation of Holocaust survivors, the work of documenting their lives has never been more important. Their stories carry the dark weight of sorrow and they also carry the important message: never again.
Anti-semitism is on the rise, but it will not find a home here. Australia will always denounce it and reject it utterly, just as we do all forms of racism and prejudice. We owe it to our country. We owe it to our Jewish community, and we owe it to our survivors.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we keep alive the memory of those who died, and those who survived.
And we make sure that generations to come know their stories.
They carry the important message: never again. pic.twitter.com/0SzLcvMnzL
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) January 26, 2023
NSW drivers asked to offset emissions
NSW drivers are being given the option to buy carbon credits to offset their car’s yearly emissions when paying their registration, AAP reports.
Treasurer Matt Kean today said the average car generated about 2.4 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each year but that could be fully offset with $80 of carbon credits.
NSW is the first state to offer this option, with all money going directly into Australian carbon offset projects. No international credits will be purchased.
The voluntary scheme will allow drivers to purchase Australian carbon credit units, generated through abatement projects around the country.
Corporate Carbon Advisory has been appointed as the offset provider partner.
Tamsin Rose
Antisemitic incidents are on the rise around Australia
Antisemitic incidents are on the rise around Australia, according to the latest research by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.
The council’s annual report into antisemitism found there were 478 antisemitic incidents lodged with the group in the year to September 2022, up from 447 in 2021.
There were 180 more incidents compared with the 2013 to 2021 annual average.
The biggest increase across all categories of incidents was in posters – including banners, clothing, leaflets and flyers – believed to be in part due to Covid protests, according to researcher Julie Nathan.
She said:
The Covid regulations … produced mass street protests, particularly in Victoria, and the antisemitic conspiracy theories associated with the anti-vaxxer, anti-lockdown camp, resulted in large numbers of antisemitic placards at protests and antisemitic stickers on the streets.
Secondly, there was an increase in neo-Nazi activity, propagating antisemitic propaganda material in the form of posters, stickers and the like.
Nathan said the annual report captured just the “tip of the iceberg” of what was happening around the country.
Voice to parliament the way forward to alleviate disadvantage: Pat Anderson
Anderson says people rallying a “no” vote to the voice to parliament at yesterday’s Invasion Day rallies need to realise that it is the way forward to alleviate disadvantage.
As part of consultations, she said delegates spoke to those who are voiceless and not only those “with megaphones”.
First Nations people around the country who participated in the regional dialogues and the delegates that they elected to come to the convention issued the Uluru Statement from the Heart to the Australian people, which was a culmination of all their work over many over many weeks and months.
So, the Uluru statement from the heart is a way forward to do away with this continuing disadvantage which … continues to plague our families and communities across the country.
‘This is the most important decision this generation is going to make,’ says Pat Anderson
Voting on the voice to parliament is one of the most important decisions many Australians will make, Anderson tells ABC RN.
It’s really up to the Australian public as well to not be passive here, to inform themselves because this is the most important decision this generation is going to make. It will speak to what kind of country we are, what are our values, and what do we stand for? So this is not just us, the future of the nation and who we are in the world is at stake here.
‘We’re not going to be around for another 200 years unless something is done now’: Pat Anderson
Anderson says an Indigenous voice to parliament is “the only thing that’s left open” to First Nations people to overcome entrenched disadvantage.
Speaking on ABC RN, she said.
What the people said at the regional dialogues is to use their big law and that big law is the constitution because we’ve been talking for a long time, for generations, and successive governments refuse to hear or to listen. They just move on to the next to the next thing. That’s got to stop. This is the torment of our powerlessness.
This is what those of us that support a voice to the to the parliament say is the only thing that’s left open to us. There’s no other place for us to go to begin to deal with this disadvantage that plagues us
Nothing has worked. We’ve still got Alice Springs and all the other places around the country. And it’s just got to stop. We’re not going to be around another 200 years unless something is done now.
‘Clamour for detail is disingenuous’: Pat Anderson
Uluru Dialogue co-chair and member of the Referendum Working Group Pat Anderson says the Coalition’s “clamour for detail is disingenuous”.
Speaking on ABC RN this morning, Anderson said:
As the prime minister has been saying we will have enough information to make an informed vote, and there’s a lot of working being done being the scenes to make that happen.
Of course the Australian public will get some detail.
Natasha May
Ukrainian loss would embolden leaders in Pacific region, ambassador says
The ambassador of Ukraine to Australia and New Zealand, Vasyl Myroshnychenko, stresses that the reason Australia’s assistance needs to continue is because it’s in Australia’s interests to support the Ukraine:
The reason why we need to keep up and step up that assistance because this war in Ukraine is disrupting everything. It’s really undermined security, regionally, globally.
It’s having a major impact on your partners here in the region. Look at Indonesia. I mean, they are really suffering from the lack of food that can get on their market. They have 275 million people to feed and they really rely on grain from Ukraine, which now they have a hard time getting hold of as the prices have surged. We’ve seen the impact on the energy markets on the volatility of the commodity markets.
So it’s really in the interest of Australia to help Ukraine win and to help Ukraine be rebuilt because at the end of the day, it’s in the interest of Australia and your immediate partners here in the region.
So the focus that Australia has chosen to focus on the Pacific and Asia is clearly and directly linked to how this war is going to play out in Europe. Because otherwise if we lose, it will embolden many other leaders here in the region. It will really undermine the whole international rule based order.
Relations with Australia have never been so high, Ukrainian ambassador says
Natasha May
This morning as Russia has launched another series of deadly air strikes across Ukraine, the ambassador of Ukraine to Australia and New Zealand, Vasyl Myroshnychenko, has spoken to ABC Radio.
Myroshnychenko said the latest strikes are “definitely a response from Russia” to Ukraine securing dozens of powerful western tanks from the US and Germany.
He said the Ukraine would welcome Australia joining “the tanks coalition, as we call it” and choosing to send more Bushmasters, but also expresses his gratitude for the help already provided:
What’s important is that Australia continues to support Ukraine. We are truly thankful for what Australia has done so far, especially the last package which was announced in October where another 30 Bushmasters were allocated and the troops which are now in Britain have already been able to train Ukrainian soldiers. It’s really a big help.
Myroshnychenko flagged that, with Penny Wong and Richard Marles being briefed by their European partners on developments in the continent during their visit to France, he hopes that they may submit another proposal to cabinet close to the one year anniversary of the war.
He says that Australia and the Ukraine’s bilateral relations has “never been at this high level,” especially since the prime minister Anthony Albanese visited Ukraine last year.
Poll: 80% of First Nations people back the voice to parliament
A survey shows overwhelming support for a voice to parliament despite fierce criticism at Invasion Day rallies yesterday, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
The polling, carried out by Ipsos, showed 80% of the 300 First Nations people surveyed want the reform.
Uluru Dialogue co-chair Pat Anderson said:
We’re not going to chuck the towel in now because we’ve got people on Invasion Day speaking loudly – that’s fine, it’s a democracy.
Hopefully, they will be convinced over the next little while, but there’s a rusted-on group in Australia – about 10 per cent, it goes up and down – and it doesn’t matter what you say, they’re not going to change their opinion, they’re always going to say the same.
West Sydney prison guards to strike again
Prison officers at one of the most dangerous maximum security jails in NSW will strike for two days, demanding an improvement in safety conditions, AAP reports.
More than 150 officers from Parklea Correctional Centre in northwest Sydney will strike at 6am today over what they say is the lowest pay in the country in a jail, with some of the worst assault records in the state. It is the second strike in as many months.
Community and Public Sector Union NSW assistant general secretary Troy Wright said officers at the privately run prison suffered the highest number of serious assaults in the state.
We know of prison officers being king-hit from behind, having shivs held to their throats, being punched in the face, and having faeces thrown on them.
Wright blamed MTC, a US-based firm that also runs a detention centre housing refugees on Nauru, for failing to protect officers at Parklea – one of only two private jails in NSW.
The business model of MTC is to make their money from their own prison officers.
Man suffers serious leg injury in crocodile attack in Northern Territory
A man has suffered serious injuries during a crocodile attack at a remote Northern Territory cattle station, AAP reports.
The incident happened on Thursday near Daly River, about 220km south of Darwin.
The man suffered a serious but non life-threatening wound to his right leg, a police spokesperson said.
Consumer watchdog to crackdown on social media influencers
The consumer watchdog revealed it is taking a close look at more than 100 social media influencers after receiving tip offs that they might not be disclosing sponsored content.
The chair of the ACCC, Gina Cass-Gottlieb, told ABC News this morning:
We put our own Facebook post up and asked consumers to come forward and give us tip-offs. We got over 1,000 responses, likes, shares, and tip-offs, that asked us to look at particular influencers and the areas those influencers were in were fashion and beauty, lifestyle and parenting.
We are also going to look at gaming, electronic equipment, sometimes they even promote financial products. So, we’re looking quite broadly at up-and-coming influencers and also very well established millions-of-followers influencers.
Our reporter Josh Taylor has more on the story here:
Why a voice to parliament won’t impact First Nations sovereignty as Lidia Thorpe fears
Yesterday’s Invasion Day rally drew thousands of Australians, and swung the debate from changing the date to an Indigenous voice to parliament. In many locations First Nations speakers made a case against an Indigenous voice to parliament being enacted before a treaty.
At the Melbourne rally, the Greens senator Lidia Thorpe has vowed not to support the Indigenous voice to parliament unless she is “satisfied that First Nations sovereignty is not ceded”.
Our Paul Karp has spoken to two experts who explained why the two questions are entirely separate.
Royal comission into robodebt scheme resumes
Good morning, Jordyn Beazley on deck with you this morning. Thanks to Martin for kicking things off today.
Senior welfare officials will be grilled over their involvement with robodebt when a royal commission into the unlawful scheme resumes, AAP reports.
The latest evidence centres on what department officials knew about the potential illegality of the scheme and how they communicated that information with the government, other staff and independent watchdogs.
Government solicitor James Carter will appear before the commission on Friday along with three senior officials from the Department of Social Services, which delivered the scheme.
Among them will be Allysson Essex and Kristin Lumley, two former officials involved with payment integrity within the department, as well as the department’s former principal legal officer Anna Fredericks.
The voice and the media
Guardian Australia’s editor, Lenore Taylor, takes a look today at the growing clamour around the voice debate to make a plea for responsible media reporting on what is a very complex matter.
Lenore writes:
This is a discussion where different views need to be heard, not just from politicians and pundits but in particular from the Indigenous communities who have the most at stake.
In this discussion the media has a particular responsibility to help readers understand the facts and the historical, political and legal context, to call out falsehoods and to avoid fuelling an ideological outrage cycle. It’s just too important for that. Every Australian needs to engage with the details over the next six months, and it’s our job to help them.
Here’s her full article:
Welcome
Good morning and welcome to our rolling coverage of the day’s news. I’m Martin Farrer bringing you the main overnight developments before Jordyn Beazely takes to the keyboard.
Our top story this morning concerns the voice to parliament and a dilemma for the Greens. The party’s Indigenous spokesperson, Lidia Thorpe, used rallies yesterday to push her position that she will vote no unless First Nations sovereignty is not ceded. That stance will be further complicated after it emerged that she initially backed an inquiry into Indigenous bodies that has been driven by anti-voice Coalition senators. The Guardian’s Paul Karp writes that she withdrew support after an intervention by party’s leader, Adam Bandt, but her support for a sovereignty settlement rather than voice has been criticised as conflating two separate matters.
Meanwhile, Adani Group has held meetings with bond investors overnight to reassure them in the wake of an analysts’ report that accused the Indian conglomerate of “brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud”. The company, whose assets include its controversial coalmine in Queensland, hit back at the report by Hindenburg, calling it bogus and saying it will give a detailed response on Friday.
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