Hanson-Younger manufacturers Pauline Hanson ‘coward’ for barring media from presser
Josh Butler
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Younger has rubbished Pauline Hanson’s choice to bar the Guardian, the Age and the ABC from a One Nation press convention in the present day.
Hanson-Younger claimed Hanson was “working frightened of scrutiny”, calling her “a politician who thinks that she ought to have the proper to say no matter she desires, however nobody else ought to have the proper to ask questions”.
“Pauline Hanson is exhibiting herself to be a political coward by hiding from sure media as a result of she doesn’t like questions from journalists, and it is a very very dangerous begin to any political marketing campaign,” the Greens senator informed a press convention in Parliament Home this afternoon.
As we reported earlier, reporters from the ABC, the Age and the Guardian weren’t supplied with the time or location of the press convention to announce One Nation’s Victorian state election candidates.
“I’m not placing up with the spin, gotcha moments, eager to have a go at me … [and] deal with us completely totally different to what you do the opposite main political events. Sufficient is sufficient,” Hanson mentioned of her choice on the press convention.
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SA authorities involved about fowl flu case in petrel discovered within the Coorong
Lisa Cox
South Australia’s surroundings minister says she is anxious a few confirmed case of H5 fowl flu in a petrel discovered within the Coorong, one in all a number of new places the place the lethal illness has been detected within the state.
The migratory petrel is one in all 18 confirmed new instances in SA. The brand new instances embody a silver gull in Glenelg, two higher crested terns at Troubridge Island, a silver gull at Southend, a higher crested tern at Monarto and 6 higher crested terns on Pages Islands.
5 higher crested terns and a silver gull at Baudin Rocks additionally returned constructive outcomes. These birds had been a pattern from about 50 useless and 30 sick birds discovered by aerial surveillance at Baudin Rocks in what has been confirmed as Australia’s first H5 mass mortality occasion.
The Coorong is a big space that’s dwelling to internationally important wetlands that assist populations of waterbirds and migratory species.
SA Surroundings minister Emily Bourke mentioned:
double citation markThat confirmed location is of concern as a result of it’s the place waterbirds are additionally situated.
So it’s going from seabirds, but in addition doubtlessly now into the place we all know a number of water birds are nesting and utilizing this house as a secure haven.”
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Media freedom alliance condemns Pauline Hanson’s press convention bans
The Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom has condemned One Nation’s Pauline Hanson for barring the Guardian, the Age and the ABC from a press convention in the present day.
Government director Peter Greste mentioned “no political celebration ought to have the proper to select and select the information shops who ask them questions”.
In an announcement, he mentioned:
double citation markOne of the strengths of our democracy is the flexibility of all journalists to robustly interrogate politicians on behalf of the individuals who rent them – the voters. It isn’t all the time snug, however that freedom is likely one of the causes our political system is likely one of the world’s most secure and efficient.
By locking out the ABC, The Age and The Guardian, One Nation is straight weakening our democratic system.
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Two males maintain neck and leg accidents after constructing collapse in Sydney
Two individuals are being handled for leg and neck accidents after a partial collapse of a seven-metre-high constructing in internal Sydney, in keeping with Hearth and Rescue NSW (FRNSW).
FRNSW mentioned emergency providers responded to the incident round 11am on Wattle Avenue in Ultimo, the place a complete of seven individuals had been assessed by paramedics.
Ambulance NSW say the 2 males, each of their 60s, had been taken to Royal Prince Alfred hospital and St Vincent’s hospital, the place they’re now in secure circumstances.
Earlier we incorrectly reported that one of many males was in his 30s.
FRNSW mentioned the wall collapsed on to an adjoining service station, the place particles broken a number of parked automobiles.
The service station stays closed as a precaution, and its workers have been evacuated. Some neighbouring buildings have additionally been cleared.
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Josh Butler
Information Corp claims media bargaining modifications ‘intestine’ scheme
The federal government’s modifications to the Information Bargaining Incentive have additionally not impressed Information Corp, with the writer claiming the updates would hurt Australian media shops.
Information Corp’s Australian chair, Michael Miller, was sad with the modifications to settings which might see slender the cost base of how the price is calculated on massive tech corporations, however improve the speed of cost. He mentioned:
double citation markThese modifications intestine the inducement for tech platforms to strike truthful offers with Australian media, proper when these guidelines want strengthening, not softening.
On an already uneven taking part in subject, getting this unsuitable gained’t simply harm Australian media. It’s going to erode the standard and independence of stories each Australian depends on.
Tech giants can’t hold dodging their obligations. Australia deserves full income transparency, backed by extreme, non-negotiable penalties for any platform that flouts native legislation.
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Josh Butler
Information code modifications will ‘short-change’ Australian media, Coalition says
The Coalition claims Australian journalists shall be “dudded” by the federal government’s modifications to the Information Bargaining Incentive, and that the brand new framework is not going to accumulate sufficient cash from massive tech platforms.
Shadow communications minister Sarah Henderson and shadow assistant treasurer Kevin Hogan have launched an announcement on in the present day’s announcement, calling it “a regarding free kick to the multinational tech giants on the expense of Australian information shops” and elevating issues it will result in “dramatically short-changing Australian media corporations.” They mentioned:
double citation markWhile the federal government has elevated the cost fee to 2.5 per cent, it’s estimated this about-face will imply billions of {dollars} of revenues earned by the tech giants is not going to be included within the scheme.
Henderson accused Labor of letting massive tech “off the hook” with the modifications. She mentioned:
double citation markNot solely will Labor’s scheme imply much less cash for Australian journalism, the federal government is now doing even much less to encourage industrial offers with massive tech which is extraordinarily disappointing.
Labor’s dithering and delay on a promised substitute scheme has left tech giants unaccountable for his or her use of Australian copyrighted information content material, whereas newsrooms and regional newspapers face uncertainty about their future.
Hogan mentioned the Coalition welcomed the inclusion of LinkedIn within the scheme – which had beforehand been given a carveout underneath the draft framework.
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Penry Buckley
NSW Icac hears of doubtless unlawful conferences between Reformers after summons
The NSW Icac has adjourned early for the remainder of the day. Not lengthy earlier than lunch, Reformers witness Robert Assaf admitted to having three conferences with one other individual named in allegations, Jeremy Greenwood, after receiving a summons to seem at a personal listening to earlier than the inquiry this 12 months.
Beneath part 114 of NSW’s Icac Act, it may be a prison offence if an individual discloses any details about a summons from the watchdog “that’s more likely to prejudice the investigation to which it relates”, punishable by as much as 12 months imprisonment.
Requested about conferences at a restaurant in Belfield and one other on the Cooks river monitor in Sydney, Assaf admitted the boys left their telephones and laptops in Greenwood’s automobile earlier than going for a stroll so their conversations couldn’t be traced.
Assaf mentioned throughout the conferences they mentioned the character of proof they might give to Icac, together with potential vulnerabilities for the group on the inquiry.
Counsel aiding, Peggy Dwyer SC, requested: “Did you perceive at that cut-off date, given what you had been informed if you acquired the summons, that it was necessary to not focus on your proof?”
Assaf, who has described being careworn and nervous after receiving communication from Icac, admitted that he did.
The inquiry will return tomorrow with the NSW shadow lawyer basic, Damien Tudehope, and businessman Frits Maré anticipated to present proof first.
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Nick Visser
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Garma pageant 2026 in footage
The theme of the twenty sixth Garma pageant was Bukmak, which means all of us, everybody collectively in Yolngu language. The four-day gathering on the Gulkula ceremonial grounds in Arnhem Land is the biggest First Nations cultural occasion in Australia.
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Aerial surveillance has detected a suspected H5 fowl flu mortality occasion in Victoria
Lisa Cox
The Victorian authorities mentioned a cluster of useless and sick higher crested terns had been recognized by aerial surveillance within the Glenelg River estuary close to Nelson and throughout Lawrence Rocks over the weekend.
The federal government has not but offered the variety of birds noticed however state authorities will communicate to media later this afternoon.
Victoria’s chief biodiversity officer, James Todd, mentioned the observations had been per what was lately reported in South Australia, the place mass deaths of crested terns at Baudin Rocks had been confirmed earlier in the present day as Australia’s first mass mortality occasion from the lethal illness.
Victoria’s chief veterinary officer, Dr Graeme Cooke, mentioned investigations had been underneath solution to higher perceive the development of the virus in wildlife.
double citation markThis occasion is per the kind of wildlife impacts we have now been getting ready for as H5 fowl flu turns into established in a fowl inhabitants.
Sampling has taken place in the present day, together with additional aerial surveillance, to find out any additional impacts in different species.
There have to date been seven confirmed constructive H5 fowl flu instances in Victoria in crested terns, 5 in Portland and two in Nelson.
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‘Holding public figures to account is the function of a free press,’ Guardian Australia says after blockage from One Nation press convention
Guardian Australia has launched an announcement after being barred from Pauline Hanson’s press convention earlier in the present day.
As reported earlier, reporters from the ABC, the Age and the Guardian weren’t supplied with the time or location of a press convention to introduced One Nation’s Victorian state election candidates.
A Guardian spokesperson says:
double citation markHolding public figures to account is the function of a free press and a vital a part of the democratic course of. It’s disappointing that One Nation continues to forestall the Guardian and different information shops from reporting on its press conferences. Our journalists ought to be capable to ask questions within the public curiosity and never be deterred from doing their job.
The Guardian has printed necessary public curiosity journalism on Pauline Hanson and One Nation and stands by the rigour of its work.
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