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Gillard praises appointment of Mostyn as Governor-General
Former prime minister Julia Gillard has congratulated Sam Mostyn on her appointment to be Australia’s next Governor-General.
Anthony Albanese announced today that the former lawyer would succeed David Hurley on July 1, and said she would be a “modern and optimistic leader for our modern and optimistic nation”.
Gillard praised the appointment, and said on social media site X that Mosytn was a fantastic pick for the roel.
“She will be an outstanding representative for Australia internationally and thoughtfully engaged with communities around our great country,” Gillard wrote.
Earlier, Trade Minister Don Farrell praised the appointment on ABC’s Afternoon Briefing.
“I think the Prime Minister has hit the nail on the head here with this appointment and I think she will do a terrific job,” he said.
‘Unclear’ whether autopsy body parts taken with consent
A major university that collected body parts from almost 150 coronial autopsies over decades may have done so without the consent or knowledge of families.
The University of Tasmania’s RA Rodda Museum of Pathology advised the state coroner’s office in 2016 it might have specimens from coronial autopsies.
In a statement today, the coroner’s office said the existence of the specimens had been confirmed and had been formally reported under provisions of the coronial act.
“The coroner has now commenced a formal investigation,” the statement said.
“Initial records provided indicate that the collection of specimens began in 1953 and ceased in 1985 and relate to 147 persons.
“It is unclear whether this occurred with the knowledge or consent of family members.”
The museum was established in 1966 by pathology professor Roland Arnold Rodda as a teaching and research facility.
It specialises in diseased organs from samples collected primarily through autopsies and surgical specimens from the years soon after it was established, the museum’s website says.
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Musk’s ‘X’ to fight eSafety over order to remove harmful post
By Tim Biggs
Social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, plans to file a legal challenge against the office of the eSafety Commissioner.
It comes after the Elon Musk owned social network was ordered to remove a harmful post attacking an Australian queer health expert.
Elon Musk’s X plans to fight the eSafety commissioner on an order to remove a harmful post.Credit: Bloomberg
The request was made last week regarding a post vilifying trans rights activist Teddy Cook, who is director of community health at NSW health organisation ACON.
Anti-trans commentators on X had taken notice of the Australian following of an article about his involvement in a World Health Organisation panel on transgender issues.
The article, published by the Daily Mail, suggested Cook was “too smutty” for intergovernmental work.
Foreign minister lays flowers for Zomi Frankcom
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong laid flowers at a monument for humanitarian workers today, in tribute to aid worker Zomi Franckom.
Melbourne-born aid worker Zomi Frankcom was volunteering with the World Central Kitchen charity in Gaza when the car she was travelling came under deadly Israeli missile fire.
“This afternoon I joined representatives from Australian NGOs to lay flowers for Zomi Frankcom at the monument to commemorate the sacrifices of Australia’s humanitarian workers. Zomi will not be forgotten,” Wong wrote on social media today.
Along with the flowers, was a note from the minister which read: “For Zomi, Your commitment to humanity will not be forgotten. Vale, Penny Wong.”
The first recorded deaths of foreign aid workers since the war in Gaza began prompted several organisations to suspend operations in the beleaguered enclave, where civilians were already struggling from malnutrition and extreme hunger.
Family’s tribute to Australian aid worker killed in Gaza
By The Frankcom family
Returning to the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, who was killed when the car she was travelling in came under deadly Israeli missile fire.
Her family shared a wonderful tribute to her, and here’s an excerpt:
She wasn’t just smart. She was brimming with fun, always the life of the party with her ability to make everyone around her laugh.
She loved dress-up parties and always entered into the theme with great enthusiasm. She had the biggest smile and a very distinctive, loud laugh that was enormously infectious.
Zomi was not just a livewire. She was immensely serious about politics and humanity. She was passionate about justice and equality for all people and loved a philosophical debate.
Zomi displayed amazing kindness, wisdom and love to her friends and family – always ready to hear about our lives even when her own was so much more interesting.
Alice Springs curfew not ‘long-term solution’ to crisis: McCarthy
Northern Territory senator Malarndirri McCarthy has been speaking about the curfew imposed on young people in Alice Springs and says it’s not a long-term solution to issues in the community.
The two-week curfew was imposed in a bid to curb a spate of youth crime. It bars under-18s from entering the CBD between 6pm and 6am.
“It is good to see calm on the streets of Alice Springs and from the many organisations and individuals, I’ve been able to speak to, they certainly do say it’s very calm,” she said on ABC’s Afternoon Briefing.
Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy.Credit: AAP
The assistant minister said it was the intent of the curfew, but it wasn’t a long-term solution to issues in the community.
“I do believe [it’s] the circuit breaker right now that the town has needed. But clearly it’s not the long-term solution,” McCarthy said.
She said she would visit the town this weekend to get a sense of how people were feeling and an understanding about what would happen.
“We have committed from the federal perspective quite heavily in terms of funding in central Australia, and it’s important to get a sense of where people are at.”
Trade minister probed about remaining Chinese tariffs on lobster, beef
Staying with Trade Minister Don Farrell, who has been questioned about remaining Chinese tariffs in place on Australian goods such as lobster.
Last week China dropped its tariffs on Australian wine after years of sanctions that crippled the billion-dollar export industry.
The minister said the government’s objective over the past 18 months had been to stabilise its relationship with China.
“I have now met with my Chinese counterpart on six occasions and on each occasion, I raised with him the lifting of these trade impediments as we saw … we got the good news about wine,” Farrell said on Afternoon Briefing.
He said that would provide a boost to South Australia, which was particularly impacted by the impediments.
“ I continue to advocate for the removal of these bans on lobster and the few remaining abattoirs. I am confident that the good working relationship that we have now established with my counterpart will result in the lifting of these impediments,” he said.
But the minister didn’t provide a timeline for when that could happen.
Full accountability needed from Israel after aid worker deaths: Farrell
Australia’s Trade Minister, Don Farrell, says the government wants full accountability after the death of seven aid workers in Gaza, including an Australian.
Melbourne-born aid worker Zomi Frankcom was volunteering with the World Central Kitchen charity in Gaza when the car she was travelling in came under deadly Israeli missile fire.
Trade Minister Don Farrell.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
“We want full accountability from the Israeli government about what has happened here,” Farrell told the ABC’s Afternoon Briefing.
He was asked whether Australia would expel Israel’s diplomatic representative over the incident.
“I’ll be leaving this to the prime minister, the foreign minister,” Farrell said in response.
“I don’t think we could have expressed more strongly our condemnation of what has gone on here. An innocent young Australian has been killed in terrible circumstances and we will continue to press the Israeli government for the satisfactory outcome of the situation.”
Renewable energy boost turns up heat on existing power plants
By Nick Toscano
Australia’s energy industry is warning greater co-ordination is needed to ensure new sources of electricity are built in time for more coal-fired power station closures as efforts to turbocharge renewable spending heap further pressure on older plants’ viability.
The Albanese government has been consulting industry players over the details of a Commonwealth-funded “capacity investment scheme”, through which it wants to spur enough new large-scale renewable and storage to help double the share of green power in the grid by 2030.
Power plants located in the Latrobe Valley in regional Victoria.Credit: The Age
The owners of renewable energy and coal-fired power stations have expressed their broad support for the ambitious underwriting scheme and its aim of accelerating the deployment of new projects, particularly following a worrying 80 per cent drop in financial commitments in grid-scale projects from $6.5 billion in 2022 to $1.5 billion in 2023.
However, the rollout of the scheme has also prompted calls from across the industry for the government to be alert to the risks caused by a flood of new renewables pummelling wholesale power prices more often to levels where older generators will struggle to compete.
Dutton whacks ‘supine’ CEOs in pitch to working class
By Paul Sakkal
Weak CEOs and business leaders fearful of social media pile-ons must raise their voices to back policies that expand the economy, Peter Dutton says, as the alternative prime minister pitches the Coalition as the party of the working classes.
In a keynote address to the small business lobby, the opposition leader will on Wednesday commit himself to “simpler” industrial relations laws and lower taxes, three months after Labor modified the Coalition’s stage 3 tax cuts, giving bigger returns to Australians on the average wage.
Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor and Peter Dutton have faced questions about the opposition’s policy agenda.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
Dutton will seek to frame Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as an inept manager of the nation’s finances who has fuelled rate rises and inflation, just weeks out from what looks to be Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ second straight budget surplus.
The legend of Liberal Party founder Robert Menzies, Dutton claims, places the party as the champion of the so-called “forgotten people” – including small business owners and humble salary earners – who he claimed are “forsaken by the modern Labor Party”.
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