Australia politics live news: government faces net zero ‘plan’ fallout; Covid vaccine booster shots approved; overseas travel for fully vaccinated

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3.44am BST03:44 Helen Haines on what she believes regional communities are worried about: The regional people that I represent have real concerns for those communities. They want to see them transition to these new high-tech renewable economies. They do. My constituents also want to see what’s in it for the communities that they are in. … Read more

Australia news live update: cabinet to finalise 2050 net zero deal; Victoria records 1,461 Covid cases, NSW 294; 11 deaths across both states

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By the end of of a two-hour party room conversation, a majority of colleagues were in favour of the net zero transition, provided Morrison followed through on the various high-level policy undertakings. There wasn’t a formal vote in the room, but a tally was kept. Joyce acknowledged the majority position in favour when he spoke … Read more

Australia politics live: Scott Morrison in last-ditch talks with Nationals on net zero

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Ready for more climate talk? Because you’ll be hearing a lot of it today. Again. Despite being one of the governing parties for the past eight years, and being heavily involved in the climate policy wars, the Nationals, led by Barnaby Joyce, have apparently never before considered a net zero by 2050 target. All we … Read more

Australian politics live: Barnaby Joyce says Nationals ‘not chained to a script’ on net zero

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I hope not. We don’t suggest that. A lot of times – I have been through them all – the single desk debate, the ETS debate, the Telstra debate – well, I wasn’t there for the guns debate, but we all remember that. And, you know, these are trying times and we think, for what … Read more

Australia Covid news live update: Victoria records 1,571 cases, 13 deaths; NSW 444 cases, four deaths; federal cabinet to debate net zero target

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I think the Victorian Liberal party have a lot to answer for … What I did within 24 hours, along with Daniel Andrews of the Channel Nine revelations on 60 Minutes, was expel Adam. We then went and intervened into the Victorian branch … We suspended operations of the membership committee. We wrote to every … Read more

Australia Covid news live update: Victoria records 1,466 cases, eight deaths; 360 cases, five deaths in NSW ahead of recovery package announcement

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So then how do we do it? We do it by moving to a well-being focus…Where it can be more difficult to make a diagnosis in the early days, we focus on wellbeing. It’s a spectrum. Is a child well or are they coping? Are they struggling? Or are they unwell?… That framework is something … Read more

Australia news live update: construction restarts in Victoria with Covid vaccine mandate, NSW Liberals to elect leader

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9.48pm BST21:48 Outgoing NSW transport minister Andrew Constance is speaking to ABC radio now about his decision to resign from state politics in order to make a federal run. Constance has defended his choice to leave as the party faces a tremulous leadership change, but said it “would’ve been ideal” for the deputy premier and … Read more

Australia Covid live news update: Victoria records 246 new cases; NSW infections expected to rise; Pfizer vaccines arrive from UK

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So the MPs all along the northern rivers region here and joined by the Gold Coast MPs are still calling for those border checkpoints, so the Covid checkpoints to be moved further south… Whether that’s Tweed Shire or the whole northern rivers – that’s our main aim. Obviously I joined with the other northern rivers … Read more

Australia politics live news: NSW reports two new Covid cases; Nationals in disarray as spill called

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2.14am BST02:14 You can’t imagine the Nationals latest leadership crisis will take too long. There’s only 21 people in the party room. They only have to count to 11. That’s it. 2.07am BST02:07 NSW records two new Covid cases The official NSW Covid press conference will be at 1pm but here is the NSW Health … Read more

Victoria reports two new ‘likely’ Covid cases in Melbourne as federal parliament resumes – politics live

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This bill makes fossil fuel companies liable for climate change damage, giving victims of climate change, such as the 2019–2020 bushfire survivors, the right to bring an action against thermal coal, oil and gas companies for climate change damage. Major emitters of greenhouse gases, including fossil fuel producers and owners or operators of coal-fired power … Read more