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Shovel-ready projects almost under way after HAFF passes
By Rachel Clun
Shovel-ready projects can soon get under way and super funds will start considering investment opportunities now the federal government’s signature $10 billion housing promise has passed parliament.
Labor’s Housing Australia Future Fund will be established within weeks after the government secured the Greens’ support with the promise of an extra $1 billion for a separate public housing fund following months of negotiations.
The delay in getting the bills through parliament means community housing providers, investors and the housing corporation have been able to do preparatory work.Credit: Jason South
Housing Minister Julie Collins said the passage of the bills was a significant win.
“This will change the architecture of how social and affordable housing is funded in Australia for the better,” she said on Thursday.
“But this has always been about people. This has always been about those Australians who are doing it tough, that need a safe, affordable place to call home.”
The government has said at least $500 million a year in interest earned on the fund will be used to help build 30,000 social and affordable homes in the first five years.
Littleproud on Price’s claim that colonisation had ‘positive impact’
Nationals leader David Littleproud was asked whether he agrees with Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s claim at the National Press Club that colonisation had a ‘positive impact’ on Indigenous people.
“Jacinta spoke from the lived experience, and lived experience not just from European settlement, but from her own Indigenous culture,” Littleproud told the ABC this afternoon.
“We cannot deny there are generations of the past that have made mistakes towards Indigenous Australians but I’m proud of the fact that modern Australia, for some time, has had a generosity of spirit and financial support in making sure ... that we rectify that disadvantage.”
Coalition spokeswoman for Indigenous Australians Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price at the National Press Club on Thursday.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
Paul Sakkal reports that when Price was asked whether Indigenous people suffered the consequences of British settlement, she said: “I’ll be honest: no.”
“A positive impact? Absolutely. I mean, now we’ve got running water, we’ve got readily available food.
“Many of us have the same opportunities as all other Australians in this country.”
Hundreds protest Santos gas project outside NSW parliament
Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside NSW parliament to oppose a major coal seam gas project planned for the state’s west.
Santos’ Narrabri Gas Project has faced sustained backlash from local farmers, conservationists, traditional owners and others, who voiced their position at Sydney’s Macquarie Street on Thursday.
A protest against Santos held in front of NSW Parliament. Sydney, Credit: Kate Geraghty
Protesters say the oil and gas giant’s plan to drill up to 850 wells for the extraction of coal seam gas and run a pipeline through the Liverpool Plains foodbowl will compromise farmland and Indigenous heritage sites.
They say the wells will pass through the Great Artesian Basin which is vital to the area’s grazing and farming and could be at risk of contamination.
Independent MP Roy Butler, who represents the Narrabri region, told the protest without access to groundwater, local towns would be forced to empty.
“We cannot place groundwater at risk and that is what this project does,” he said.
Crossbenchers, Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann, Legalise Cannabis Party MLC Jeremy Buckingham and independent MP Joe McGirr also spoke at the protest to express their opposition to the project.
The NSW and federal governments approved the Narrabri project in 2020.
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Bookworms warned after Dymocks dark web cyberattack
By Olivia Ireland
Customer details from bookseller Dymocks are up for sale on the dark web.
Analysts from the cybersecurity organisation Flashpoint have confirmed customer details from Dymocks are being sold after the bookseller sent out a statement on September 8 warning there was a chance a breach had occurred.
Customer details from bookseller Dymocks are up for sale on the dark web.Credit: Rhett Wyman
Senior intelligence analyst Ben Gestier confirmed Flashpoint was continuing to investigate the situation.
“Flashpoint analysts have confirmed details from the recent Dymocks data breach are being transacted on the deep and dark web. Over a period of 48 hours since the breach, analysts have identified up to 20 interactions of varying degrees by threat actors attempting to sell the details,” he said.
“Further investigations have also highlighted the likelihood of the CSV dataset being downloaded by multiple threat elements. We are continuing to monitor the situation.”
Last question time before Voice referendum concludes
The final question time before the Voice referendum on October 14 has wrapped.
The government fielded questions about comments made by Marcia Langton marking elements of the No campaign racist, how gender parity on the Voice will be achieved, and which areas of policy don’t affect Indigenous Australians and would therefore be outside the scope of the voice.
In the final question time before the Voice referendum, Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney emphasised the Voice’s role as an advisory body with no veto power.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the opposition had “an obsession with voting no to everything ... including an obsession with being negative about the referendum” in response to a question from Opposition Leader Peter Dutton criticising him of refusing to condemn Langton’s comments.
At multiple points the government emphasised the Voice’s status as an advisory body. Albanese repeated the Voice would have “no capacity to direct the government or direct the parliament”.
Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney said: “I will just reiterate the Voice is advisory, it will not deliver programs and it has no veto power.”
Parliament will next sit on 16 October, the Monday after the referendum vote takes place.
Burke trumpets dramatic drop in days lost to industrial action
By Angus Thompson
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has seized on new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics that shows a significant reduction in working days lost due to industrial action over the past year to accuse the opposition of fearmongering.
According to the ABS, in the year ending in the June quarter in 2022, 234,600 working days were lost to industrial action, compared to 67,100 days lost in the following year.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke in question time on Thursday.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
Burke said the number of working days lost in the June quarter last year was 128,000, compared to 10,200 in the June quarter this year.
Burke used the figure to discredit Coalition claims last year that the government’s multi-employer bargaining reforms would result in widespread strikes.
The legislation took effect in June.
“Their fear campaign hasn’t landed all that well,” he said.
Join the conversation
Niki Savva’s opinion piece on how the No campaign’s squalid tactics will pollute politics long after referendum day is sparking much debate with our subscribers.
@TJms says: “The No campaign intercepted me on the street, their spiel was divisive and fear mongering. It felt like I had been teleported into the extreme conservative Trump-ism of southern USA.”
@Ross writes: “If it fails, I don’t think there will ever be another referendum that will be successful in Australia.”
@Cooper says: “Whatever the result, nothing good will come of it for Dutton or the LNP. They will leave Australia more divided than ever and will ensure they endure a sustained period in political purgatory, particularly with the Teals decimating their metropolitan vote.”
But @David Sciascia has a different view: “I’m an avid Yes supporter, but I do think the Yes campaign has failed to address the main issue that Dutton and the No campaign have used from the start … No examples are ever given showing how our constitution establishes principles of governance and nationhood and rarely any proscribes any detail. Expecting the doubters to come aboard by appealing to their decency by saying it’s the ‘right’ thing to do, and just trust us on the detail, is failing. If the Voice is approved then Dutton et al will have full participation in parliament in debating and legislating the details of the how, what, when, how much etc. It’s all very disheartening.”
What do you think? Let us know via the link above.
Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Lidia Thorpe have been subject to abuse.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen, Rhett Wyman
PM raises ‘superbug’ scientific example of Voice benefit
By Angus Thompson
It’s question time, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has raised a scientific example of the benefits of a Voice to parliament, saying he spoke to an Indigenous woman who conducted research into First Nations science.
“She spoke about how when Europeans came to south-west Sydney, they named Cabramatta after the Indigenous Australians eating the cohbra grub,” Albanese said.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in question time on Thursday.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
“The reason why they were eating the cohbra grub, they found out many years later, was because it provided an antidote to smallpox. And now in the United States, they have found that it’s an antidote to superbugs.
“It’s an example of whereby we’re just prepared to listen, prepared to embrace, prepared to be positive. This can be a win. For Indigenous Australians and also for our nation.”
Albanese has been keen to emphasise the Voice’s lack of power over parliament the advisory body will have.
This afternoon’s headlines
By Caroline Schelle
Thank you for reading our live coverage today.
I am handing over to my colleague Angus Dalton, who will anchor the blog for the rest of the day.
If you’re just joining us, here’s what you need to know:
- The federal government’s key election promise, a $10 billion housing fund to help build more social and affordable housing, has passed parliament.
- Australia’s unemployment rate remained at 3.7 per cent for the second month in a row as 65,000 people gained jobs and 3000 lost work in August.
- Opposition Leader Peter Dutton claimed Indigenous leader Marcia Langton, whom the Coalition has criticised for labelling elements of the No campaign racist, would become a member of the Voice advisory body.
- Before the opposition’s Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was due to speak at the National Press Club, an Aboriginal woman stood up and aired her view on the Voice.
- Military veterans and former Defence public servants will face up to 20 years in jail if they undertake unauthorised work for a foreign government under new laws.
Australian Council of Trade Unions president Michele O’Neil thought comments property developer Tim Gurner made about unemployment needing to be higher were “a spoof”.
- The world’s governments, businesses and households owe a record $367 trillion, with calls growing for governments to help cut debt levels.
- Australia’s biggest business organisation says employers will be on notice over how they move to outsource work, after a landmark High Court ruled Qantas illegally sacked staff during the pandemic.
Watch: Question time in Canberra
Question time is about to begin in the House of Representatives, and it will be the last one ahead of the referendum on the Voice to parliament.
Watch live below:
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