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Australia news LIVE: Liberal leaders face fresh pressure over Nationals’ dumping of net zero; Eleven injured, one still fighting for life after UK train mass stabbing
Key posts1 of 2Latest posts7.53am‘Australians shouldn’t pay the price of Coalition chaos’, says PM By Emily KainePrime Minister Anthony Albanese has this morning said that the government will “leave the to their chaos and infighting”, as division within the opposition over net zero reaches a fever pitch.
The PM’s comments follow Nationals leader David Littleproud’s announcement yesterday that his party would abandon net zero by 2050 climate targets.
“My government is focused, it’s disciplined, it’s orderly, and the Coalition, I’ll leave them to their chaos and infighting,” the PM told reporters in Canberra this morning. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Credit: Getty Images“Australians shouldn’t pay the price of Coalition chaos when we are looking at the reforms, including environmental reforms, that are before the Parliament at the moment.”
Pressed on whether he was concerned about the shift...
Australia will overhaul telecommunications after Optus emergency call failure linked to 4 deaths
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Australia on Monday foreshadowed changes to the country's telecommunications industry after a major company’s failure to connect hundreds of emergency calls last week was linked to four deaths.
Optus, Australia’s second-largest telecom company, blamed a “technical failure” on Thursday last week for 624 calls failing to connect to emergency services. While Americans call “9-1-1” in an emergency, Australians call “0-0-0.” Someone died in four of those Australian emergencies.
Optus was fined more than 12 million Australia dollars ($8 million) for failing to meet emergency call rules during another network outage on Nov. 8, 2023.
Telstra, Australia’s largest telecom company, was fined AU$3 million ($2 million) in December last year for failing to comply with emergency call rules during a technical disruption at its “0-0-0” call center.
Communications Minister Anika Wells said on Monday the Australian Communications...
Australia politics live: Coalition continues question time pressure on PM over ‘former flatmate’ Daniel Andrews’ China trip; NZYQ bill passes
It’s time to wind down our live news coverage for the day. Here’s what has been keeping us busy on the last sitting day of parliament:","elementId":"8d7b66b7-4405-4afc-967f-9d39780ac327"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"n n A bill to strip basic legal protections from the noncitizens it plans to deport to Nauru and retrospectively validate visa decisions made before the high court’s NZYQ ruling has passed the Senate. But just who is within the NZYQ cohort? And are they all violent criminals, as some politicians have claimed? Read our fact-check here. The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre said the bill was “Trump-style” and “sends a devastating message” to migrant and refugee communities across Australia.n n The high court will not hear an appeal by Australia’s most decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, ending a seven-year challenge of news reports that labelled him a war criminal.n...
Australia Says It Cancelled Kanye West’s Visa Over ‘Heil Hitler’ Song
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has had his Australian visa cancelled after he released “Heil Hitler”, a song promoting Nazism, the country’s home affairs minister said on Wednesday.
The U.S. rapper released the song that praised the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler across social media and music streaming platforms in May.
The song came a few months after Ye made a string of antisemitic posts on X, which included comments such as "I love Hitler" and "I'm a Nazi".
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said that while previous offensive comments made by Ye had not affected his visa status, officials reviewed it again after the song’s release.
"It was a lower level (visa), and the officials still looked at the law and said, 'You're going to have a song and promote that sort of Nazism; we...
