BREAKING NEWS Jacinta Nampijinpa Price makes huge leadership move days after defecting to the Liberals
Ms Price made the announcement on Sunday as she officially endorsed Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor for party leader.
'As I've said with respect to my decision to change party rooms, these are not matters which I take lightly, and this decision today brings with it a great deal of responsibility which I fully accept,' she said.
'There is no question that returning to our roots as a party is critical right now.
'If we want to inspire and empower Australians across our country, we must return to these roots – these basic values – that define who we are as a party.'
more to come
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
BBC News
an hour ago
- BBC News
Why Lions series could save rugby union in Australia
First Test: Australia v British and Irish LionsDate: Saturday 19 July Kick-off: 11:00 BST Venue: Suncorp Stadium, BrisbaneCoverage: Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app with post-match analysis on iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live and Rugby Union Weekly podcast Last Friday, the day before the Lions' final pre-Test warm-up, Peter V'landys headed out of was unlikely he would have been tuning in anyway.V'landys, the chair of the Australian Rugby League Commission, has been a consistent and caustic critic of the 15-man to him, rugby union in Australia is an "attention-seeking", external liability that leaves its players "terribly bored"., externalV'landys flight was bound for the US, where he is reportedly pitching to steaming superpowers such as Netflix, Disney and product is the NRL. And, for those in Australian rugby union, the numbers involved are NRL's current TV deal is worth A$2bn (£973m) over five years. V'landys hopes the next deal, which kicks in after 2027, will be worth A$3bn (£1.5bn).The NRL is expanding on other fronts. The addition of the Perth Bears and a Papua New Guinea franchise will take the league up to 19 teams by the end of the decade. Last year the league staged two matches in Las Vegas, a jaunt that is now an annual Australia, by contrast, is on the signed its own TV rights deal in April. Despite being an increase on their previous, Covid-dented agreement, it clocked in at A$240m (£117m) - about an eighth of the NRL's present Melbourne Rebels went into administration last year, leaving Australia with four Super Rugby teams. The Brumbies - the best of the survivors - struggle to attract five-figure crowds. Rugby Australia is losing out on the balance sheet as well, leaking A$36.8m, external (£17.9m) in its latest Aussie Rules also well ahead of union in terms of finances and coverage, some fear the sport is in terminal decline in Australia."Rugby sits a fair way down the ladder in our sporting ecosystem at the moment," said James Horwill, who captained Australia during the 2013 Lions tour and now sits on the board of Queensland Rugby Union."We've got three full-time sporting codes that are all competing for the same athletes, the same fans, the same sponsorship dollars and ultimately the same TV slots. It's a very congested marketplace for a country that has 25 million people."Union wasn't always so 2003 the World Cup was held in Australia.A team of Wallaby greats, defending the title they had won four years earlier, went all the way to the Larkham pulled strings at fly-half, George Smith menaced the breakdown and George Gregan crowed over the beaten All World Cup pulled more people through the turnstiles and more profit into the tills than any tournament in was front and centre. However, its subsequent attempts to tap into new territories, launching the Western Force in Perth and the Rebels in Melbourne, did not strike the NRL and the Australian Football League (AFL) moved nimbly to accelerate their game and improve the spectacle, union lagged players were picked Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii arrived to much fanfare last year, the Wallabies were at a net loss to rugby league as Carter Gordon and Mark Nawaqanitawase headed in the opposite direction at the same time. The raiders come from overseas as well. Top 14 clubs especially have come calling for teenage talent, taking them out of school and halfway round the world to play in all the time, the Wallabies have stalled. The two-time champions have reached the World Cup final once since nadir came in 2023 when, 20 years on from their home World Cup, they were dumped out of the tournament at the pool stages for the first Waugh, who played in the 2003 final, is the man tasked with staging the Rugby Australia chief executive in 2023, he is clear that the Lions are key to boosting the beleaguered finances of his predicts that Rugby Australia could end this year with a A$50m (£24m) surplus, with a mammoth 100,000-plus crowd for the second Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground helping it wipe out its heavy borrowing."We're still very much on track to have the option of being debt-free by the end of 2025, and then with the uplift in broadcast and continued financial discipline through the next cycle... we'll be in a far stronger position to, sensibly and in a well-considered way, invest into the different projects or community elements of the game," he told the Australian Financial Review, external this next cycle is key for union in Australia. The Lions is just the well as the Lions tour, Australia will host the men's and women's World Cups in 2027 and 2029 respectively and the Olympic Sevens tournament in 2032. It is seen as a golden decade that, taken together, underlines the strengths that union has over its rivals - a global depth and intrigue that Aussie Rules or rugby league can't has already seen it. When he made his Test debut at Twickenham last November, the scale of the occasion, in front of 82,000 people, caught him to the media this week, he counted the number of microphones and Dictaphones in front of him as an indicator of the interest a Lions tour generates."My old man has always said to me 'it's a big world out there' and rugby brings that," Suaalii said."This is one of the great parts of our game and we should be celebrating it," said Horwill."It is so unique, really to any other sport in the world - four nations coming together with so much tradition, history and so much support, and come out on tour."In Australia, where you're competing every weekend for talent, for sponsors, for fans, for kids playing the game, this means a lot."Kids will watch this and want be part of it one day. You can't overestimate the impact it has."Justin Harrison agrees. "It's a real shot in the arm," the former Wallabies second row said."People will be able to see rugby played on the screens when they're walking past pubs. They're going to see a ground swell of people moving towards an event; they're going to hear singing and jocularity and friendly rivalry."Sport is wonderful, but rugby in particular brings the world right into the palm of your hand and we have to make the most of that."Horwill and Harrison know, however, that the surest route back to into the limelight is also the simplest: via the pitch."We haven't been able to perform at the level we've wanted to over the last little bit. So ultimately we want some good performances to engage the fickle or casual rugby fan," said Moore, a former team-mate of both, believes the ultimate injection of momentum may is at hand."Without wanting to put too much pressure on the current players it is there for them to take," he told the BBC's Rugby Union Weekly."If we can keep our best players on the field, it is a very winnable series for us."The Wallabies are playing for themselves, their country and also a whole sport.
The Independent
an hour ago
- The Independent
Hunter Biden says Democrats lost 2024 election because they weren't loyal to his father
Hunter Biden, the son of former president Joe Biden, attributed the Democratic Party's 2024 election loss to the fact that they abandoned his father as the party's leader. Speaking for the first time since his father lost the presidential election, Hunter Biden offered a different perspective about the election on At Our Table, a new podcast hosted by former Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison. 'We lost the last election because we did not remain loyal to the leader of the party,' Hunter Biden said. 'That's my position. We had the advantage of incumbency, we had the advantage of an incredibly successful administration, and the Democratic Party literally melted down,' he added. After Joe Biden gave a disappointing and concerning debate performance against President Donald Trump last June, Democrats scrambled to create a 'Plan B' – ultimately replacing Joe Biden with former vice president Kamala Harris on the Democratic presidential ticket. But it took weeks for Joe Biden to agree to drop out of the presidential race. Democratic party leadership, as well as voters, pressured Joe Biden, then the oldest person to serve as president, to let a younger candidate take the reins. In that time, Trump continued to aggressively campaign, picking up undecided voters who viewed the Democratic Party in turmoil. At that point, Joe Biden was already behind Trump in the polls, and while Harris revitalized support among young people, it wasn't enough to defeat the Republican nominee. Hunter, however, believes that if the party had stood beside Joe Biden, the outcome would have been different.
Daily Mail
3 hours ago
- Daily Mail
This looks like nothing but an empty concrete lot - but what's underneath is actually worth $2MILLION
A concrete slab not much bigger than a driveway that has been used as a parking spot for years is now for sale. While the slab of concrete itself isn't worth much, the dirt that it's covering - in yet another indication of Australia's dire housing market - is worth millions because of it's location in the trendy Sydney suburb of Balmain. There's no waterfront view, in fact, at the rear of the property is a three-story high brick wall, and there's no backyard to speak of, yet the owners are confident of a quick sale and have listed it with a price guide of $1.5 million to $2 million. An inspection for the property was held on Saturday with respected real estate firm Spencer & Servi in charge of the sale. Director David Servi confirmed that an entire group of interested buyers showed up for the inspection and that he has received a lot more inquiries over the phone. 'Because it's a vacant block of land with a cyclone fence across the front of it, you can see the whole thing from the street,' he told 'And there's nothing to show them – I can't exactly show them the tennis court or the swimming pool.' The propety's listing on the website caslls it 'a rare and exciting opportunity in one of Sydney's most tightly held inner-west locations'. Houses in the area sell for a median asking price of $2.4 million and the 221sqm empty slab is a rare commodity in the built-up inner west suburb. The property is close to Balmain's 'vibrant' cafes and shops, is with walking distance of Sydney Harbour, and is close to bus and ferry transport links. 'Whether you're an architect, investor, developer, or owner-builder, this is your chance to secure a piece of blue-chip Balmain.' Earlier in the year a similar piece of land which was even smaller sold for $1.5 million in the same suburb. That property was only 134sqm and advertised as the 'ultimate blank canvas for your dream home'.
