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ABC News
18-06-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
NT government backflips on 2030 emissions reduction target promise
The Northern Territory government has revealed it will not implement a 2030 emissions reduction target that it promised before the last NT election. The Country Liberal Party (CLP) committed to a 43 per cent reduction in the NT's greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, six weeks out from the 2024 territory election. Then in opposition, the CLP's policy was in contrast to Territory Labor, which did not promise a 2030 emissions reduction target. Both major parties went into the election promising net zero emissions by 2050. At the time, the CLP was lauded by the Environment Centre NT for having "the strongest climate policy" of the two major parties. But in NT budget estimates on Wednesday, Environment Minister Josh Burgoyne said the CLP government had not adopted its promised 2030 emissions target. "[The 2030 target] is not current government policy," he said. "There's the [overarching] target of that net zero by 2050, which has yet to change." Under Australia's commitment to the Paris Agreement on climate change, the country is committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 43 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030. While in opposition, the CLP also supported Labor's legislated 50 per cent renewable energy target, but scrapped that in March. During a CLP central council meeting at the weekend, party delegates passed a motion supporting the abandonment of net zero and a withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. In a social media post, CLP Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said the "current impact of these polices" did not "justify their burden of everyday Aussies". "It's high time we did something about it," she said. "While it's important to steward our country and environment well, that should not come at the cost of our economy and way of life." However, when asked in budget estimates about the central council meeting motion, Mr Burgoyne said the NT government was still committed to net zero. "Our position on net zero emissions has not changed since the position we took to the election," he said. "There's been no formal information provided by my department in regards to a changing in regards to net zero." During budget estimates, the NT government's executive director of environment, Paul Purdon, said the department was finalising a "first-look" assessment of climate risks in the territory. Mr Purdon said the assessment would be focused on future liveability in the NT, looking at "themes" such as community health and wellbeing, economic sustainability and natural disaster readiness. Asked why there was a lack of money for climate mitigation measures allocated in the NT budget in May, Mr Burgoyne said the assessment first needed to be finalised. "We need to first assess those risks, deal with the issues which we face here in the NT, and ensure our government, through our departments, are dealing with them in the best way possible," he said.
West Australian
11-06-2025
- Politics
- West Australian
Education non-profit group Teach for Australia apologises for MAGA-style email
A national organisation that recruits high-achievers to become teachers has issued an apology for circulating an email entitled 'help make education great again'. Teach for Australia sent out an email seeking donations on Wednesday morning with a heading that reflected US President Donald Trump's election slogan of 'Make America Great Again'. A few hours later, TFA sent out another message, signed by 'the TFA philanthropy team', apologising for the previous 'poorly worded' subject line. 'We sent an email this morning with a subject line that was poorly worded and unintentionally did not reflect our intent or values,' it said. 'Our intended message was: 'Help Give Every Child a Great Education'. 'We sincerely regret our initial wording and any confusion or concern that may have been caused. 'We apologise and thank you for your understanding and support.' Former Coalition frontbencher Jacinta Nampijinpa Price copped criticism for engaging in US-style politics during last month's Federal election when she vowed in a speech to 'make Australia great again'. She later claimed she had not even realised she was echoing Mr Trump's slogan. TFA is a non-profit organisation that recruits talented individuals to teach in schools serving disadvantaged communities. Its first email called for donations to help students who were being left behind because of where they lived. 'Through no fault of their own, and without being able to change these factors, their postcode or socioeconomic background hinder their access to the same quality of education that their inner city counterparts often enjoy,' it said.
ABC News
01-06-2025
- General
- ABC News
Jennifer Feller
He has chased his impossible dream across clubs and continents. Now, Ange Postecoglou has made it real by coaching Tottenham to glory in the Europa League. 2h ago 2 hours ago Sun 1 Jun 2025 at 7:03pm There's a fear that follows Sue-Yen Luiten as she cycles through the Mekong Delta with hundreds of DNA kits in tow. What if her birth parents have been looking for her and it's too late? Mon 26 May Mon 26 May Mon 26 May 2025 at 6:07am Polarising politician Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is rising up the political ranks after helping defeat the Voice referendum. The former singer and TV host reveals the private pain that shaped her views and why she's unapologetic. Tue 11 Feb Tue 11 Feb Tue 11 Feb 2025 at 1:23am Controversial senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price could become the next Minister for Indigenous Australians. She says tragedy and trauma shaped her views. Sat 8 Feb Sat 8 Feb Sat 8 Feb 2025 at 11:30pm A mysterious email. Shocking revelations. And the ultimate betrayal. 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Irish Times
30-05-2025
- Business
- Irish Times
‘It's nuclear meltdown': Re-elected Australian leader Albanese powers ahead as opposition tears itself apart
The old saying that you should never interrupt your enemies when they are making a mistake has morphed over the centuries. Having once referred to war, it now finds greater use in the context of politics. But Australia's ruling Labor Party, which won 94 of the parliament's 150 lower house seats in the May 3rd election , cannot help but try to give the opposition Liberal-National coalition a helping hand in the latter's seeming quest to reach rock bottom. 'This is a nuclear meltdown, and the coalition now is nothing more than a smoking ruin,' treasurer Jim Chalmers said of the conservative alliance. The coalition parties, following their worst result of 43 seats (they may win one more on a recount), immediately began an internecine war, with re-elected senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price at the centre of much of it. READ MORE First, she switched her allegiance from the Nationals to the Liberals. Then she backed the wrong horse, Angus Taylor, in his bid to become the new Liberal leader in the expectation that she would become his deputy. When Taylor lost to Sussan Ley, Price declined to stand for deputy. This was a sideshow to the main event, which saw the coalition split for about a week, then get back together just in time for the baubles and higher pay of shadow cabinet positions to be handed out. Price was dumped from the shadow cabinet, which she did not take well. 'There are probably some appointments that have not been predicated on experience or merit,' she said to Sky News. Chalmers said the opposition was 'completely and entirely focused on themselves. They tried to divide the Australian community in the election campaign, and they ended up dividing themselves'. Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese , who was regularly criticised for being too timid over the past three years, is showing signs of a more ambitious policy agenda after being re-elected in a landslide in which the Liberal and Greens leaders lost their seats. Speaking after the recent devastating floods in northern New South Wales (NSW) that left five people dead and about 800 homes uninhabitable, Albanese said: 'The science told us that [extreme weather events] would be more frequent and they would be more intense. And that's precisely what, tragically, is playing out.' Though acknowledging climate change's role in the tragedy seems the least any responsible politician should do, many Liberal-National coalition MPs still regularly say there is no connection, that each new disaster is a 'once-in-a-100-years' occurrence. At the time of the last major flooding in the region in 2022, former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce went even further, saying: 'This is a one-in-3,500-year event.' When catastrophes supposed to happen centuries or millenniums apart are happening every two or three years, it might be time to take climate change seriously. It scarcely matters to sceptics such as Joyce though. The people most likely to be affected by weather disasters are also most likely to vote for politicians unwilling to do anything about it beyond sending help afterwards and offering 'thoughts and prayers'. Not that Labor has a free pass on its own response to the climate emergency, having just extended the life of Australia's largest mainland gas facility until 2070. Amanda McKenzie of Australia's Climate Council said: 'Communities in NSW are starting the clean-up after record-breaking floods. It is shocking that at the same time the Albanese government has approved this massive climate bomb as the first act of this term of government. They've just opened the floodgates on over four billion tonnes of climate pollution.' Albanese may be on safer ground, though, in unequivocally condemning the Israeli government over its war on Gaza . 'Israel's actions are completely unacceptable,' he said. 'It is outrageous that there be a blockade of food and supplies to people who are in need in Gaza.' Albanese met Israeli president Yitzhak Herzog in Rome when they were there for Pope Leo XIV's inauguration mass. 'I made it very clear that Australia finds these actions completely unacceptable and we find Israel's excuses and explanations completely untenable and without credibility,' he said. His forceful language is a marked change given the regular claims from Australia's conservative press and broadcasters that any criticism of Israel's actions is anti-Semitic. Not that the Rupert Murdoch -owned newspapers, websites and Sky News have lessened their attacks on Labor. Their latest target is the proposed changes to how compulsory pension savings (which sees 11.5 per cent of a person's salary going to a superannuation fund most people cannot access until they are at least 60) are taxed. The change will see those with more than $3 million Australian dollars (€1.7 million) in their superannuation savings pay 30 per cent tax on earnings above that figure, rather than 15 per cent as is stands. It will affect just the richest 0.5 per cent of people with such accounts. That hasn't stopped a scare campaign claiming that eventually everyone will have to pay this tax. Albanese's government just has to convince people that if they had $3 million Australian dollars in savings then they probably could afford to pay more tax.
The Guardian
29-05-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
‘Treaty of Versailles': angry Liberal MPs warn makeup of Coalition shadow ministry will make new enemies
A rump of Liberal MPs are fuming over the makeup of the new shadow ministry, warning the perceived rewarding of supporters and sidelining of factional rivals was a 'Treaty of Versailles'-type peace deal that would cause long-term unrest. One Liberal MP said the appointments would 'create enemies', setting up an early challenge for new leader Sussan Ley as she attempts to rebuild the party. After striking a deal with the Nationals to reunite the Coalition, Ley is facing an internal backlash after dumping senior figures in favour of a new breed of MPs in a major reshaping of the Peter Dutton-era frontbench. Liberal sources said the makeup of the frontbench could be viewed as a mix of moderates and people who were 'very close' to Ley – such as Alex Hawke – and the 'flag bearers' for the party's right wing, who needed to be retained in senior roles to preserve a degree of factional balance. This group included Angus Taylor, James Paterson, Andrew Hastie and Michaelia Cash. Sign up for Guardian Australia's breaking news email While the most high-profile demotion, Jane Hume, is from the party's moderate flank, arguably the biggest losers were the conservatives. Sarah Henderson was relegated to the backbench while Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was demoted to the outer shadow ministry. Claire Chandler will also sit on the backbench after being forced out of shadow cabinet. Price claimed some of the appointments were not based on 'merit' as she expressed disappointment with her demotion on Sky News. A group of younger conservative MPs, including Henry Pike, Cameron Caldwell and Garth Hamilton, were all overlooked as Ley handed junior portfolios to moderates such as Maria Kovacic, Dave Sharma and Gisele Kapterian, subject to her winning Bradfield. Other ambitious backbenchers such as Aaron Violi and Simon Kennedy also missed out. Veteran rightwinger Tony Pasin – a key backroom player in Taylor's failed leadership tilt – was demoted as expected. Moderates Tim Wilson, Andrew Bragg and Angie Bell were among the biggest winners after promotions to shadow cabinet. The reaction to the shadow ministry presents an immediate test for Ley as she tries to rebuild from the 3 May election disaster. One conservative MP said the shadow ministry was more 'Treaty of Versailles than Marshall Plan' – a historical reference used to suggest the appointments would cause ongoing angst. The Treaty of Versailles was the peace deal between Germany and the allies that followed the first world war. The harsh conditions imposed on Germany were considered to have laid the foundations for the second world war. The Marshall Plan was the US-led initiative to help rebuild Europe after the second world war. Sign up to Breaking News Australia Get the most important news as it breaks after newsletter promotion Asked for their view on the shadow ministry, another MP who missed out on a senior role referenced former Liberal prime minister's Tony Abbott's old saying about reshuffles. 'The Abbott truism that reshuffles create enemies will live out this term,' they said. In a blitz of morning television and radio on Thursday, Ley defended her frontbench choices and decision to promote more moderate voices. Ley called Price 'a real talent' and said she had 'a new, expanded role' in a critical area. 'I'm excited by the role Jacinta will play in that, and I've had a great chat with her about that role and as part of my team, she's excited to go forward with it,' she told 4BC radio. Ley on Radio National dodged several questions about Price's claims that 'merit' was not rewarded in the reshuffle, repeatedly declining to address her claims directly. 'She is part of that team. She's an incredible Australian in terms of her ability to connect. But I'm very proud of my team,' Ley said in response. Senator James Paterson, the new shadow finance minister, conceded on Radio National that while merit was the most important issue in a frontbench reshuffle, 'I'd be lying if I said merit is the only consideration' – calling it a 'political process' where leaders had to balance geographical, gender and party room factors. 'I'm disappointed on behalf of Sarah [Henderson], in particular, who did a great job in her portfolio and is a valued colleague as well, and Jacinta, understandably, would have preferred to be in shadow cabinet. We would all like to be in shadow cabinet,' he said. Asked about future unity in the Coalition party room, Paterson said ideas would have to be 'robustly tested' inside the party. Arguably the biggest internal fight for the Coalition this term will be over whether to dump or retain the net zero by 2050 target. In his latest intervention in the debate, the Nationals senator, Matt Canavan, published a bizarre anime-style video with the tagline 'dark Nats rise' and promising to 'defeat net zero'. Accompanied by a song with some lyrics in Japanese, the translation on screen includes lines like 'our nation needs a hero to defeat the net zero' and 'We rise, we fight, dark Nats burning through the night', with animation of men destroying wind turbines and solar panels.
