Listening to into authorities’s choice to reject Qatar Airways routes begins
Sarah Basford Canales
The inquiry into the federal authorities’s decision-making course of to grant or reject further flights to airways begins in the present day in Sydney.
To convey you up to the mark, the Coalition-majority committee is trying to get solutions into why the transport minister, Catherine King, knocked again Qatar’s request to supply an extra 28 flights per week to Australia’s main cities.
Up to now, we’re heard a number of of the “elements” that performed into the choice – it wasn’t within the nationwide curiosity, and the Doha incident – the place ladies have been topic to invasive examinations in Qatar’s airport – was a backdrop.
However again to the hearings now. Right this moment’s listening to will deal with alleged “slot hoarding” at Sydney Airport by airways and the impression it has on costs and competitors.
There’s been a little bit of a last-minute scramble to get witnesses to entrance the inquiry, however in the present day we’re anticipating to listen to from Sydney Airport and Flight Centre.
Marque Legal professionals, the authorized agency representing the 5 Australian ladies who’re suing Qatar Airways over the 2020 Doha incident, are additionally anticipated to seem.
There will likely be three extra hearings after in the present day wraps – one this Friday in Perth, and two subsequent week in Brisbane and Canberra. It’s anticipated Qantas, unions and Perth Airport will seem on the listening to this Friday.
Yesterday, it was confirmed the Qatar Airways chief govt, Akbar Al Baker, wouldn’t be showing, in addition to former Qantas boss Alan Joyce, who’s over in Europe.
Neither has dominated out showing at one of many different three hearings.
Key occasions
Clare O’Neil is requested whether or not the federal government is contemplating implementing a “secure harbour rule” like different nations have, that might allow companies to report what’s occurred however then be saved from prosecution.
She instructed ABC RN:
What’s actually essential to know Hamish is the best way wherein a cyber assault unfolds is kind of completely different than different varieties of crime. So in case you get one thing stolen from your own home, the police can are available in and you’ll establish the objects which are gone often just about instantly. Cybercrime just isn’t like that. Typically what’s taken is invisible and it’ll take typically months to know precisely what has occurred.
So what what we’re enthusiastic about in the meanwhile is how to verify we’ve bought as open disclosure as attainable on the disaster level of the assault. So after we know there’s an intruder on the system … we have to assist corporations, [eject] them from the system as rapidly as attainable. That doesn’t take away from any duties that companies can have in the end across the transparency of what has occurred, and reporting that to authorities and to regulators.
The one sort of rigidity that I might see right here is how can we handle that actually quick time period disaster response to difficulty the place we have to perceive precisely what sort of crime has occurred. None of that ought to take away from the duties that corporations must make the legal guidelines in Australia and nobody’s going to be taking away any of these duties.
Clare O’Neil says Australia aiming to turn out to be ‘world chief’ in cybersecurity by 2030
The house affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, is talking to ABC RN this morning concerning the authorities’s plan to turn out to be a “world chief” in cybersecurity by 2030.
This comes after Australia confronted cyber assaults on Optus, which impacted 9 million Australians, and the Medibank assault three weeks later, which O’Neil mentioned was a “wake-up name”.
O’Neil mentioned cybersecurity was a precedence of the federal government as a result of there’s “good purpose” to imagine it’s solely going to worsen:
We’ve bought actually good purpose to imagine that the cybersecurity atmosphere is definitely going to worsen. And I say that to not scare individuals, however to assist them perceive that we are able to see what’s coming at us and that’s the reason the federal government is so fiercely energetic on this difficulty.
She mentioned there aren’t mechanisms in place at this stage to go after culprits:
What I imply by that’s that cybercrime is a comparatively new type of legal exercise. And I feel what we’re seeing is nations around the globe begin to construct and develop responses that may really assist us convey perpetrators to account …
O’Neil mentioned the federal government has applied 10 substantial reforms inside the final 12 months and the main focus is now changing into a “cyber chief” by 2030, with company Australia additionally getting “an enormous get up name” during the last 12 months round their duties, she added.
Ed Husic says group consent would even be barrier to Coalition nuclear proposal
The business and science minister Ed Husic spoke to ABC Information Breakfast this morning concerning the Coalition’s nuclear vitality proposal.
In case you missed it yesterday: the federal authorities says it might price as a lot as $387bn to interchange Australia’s retiring coal-fired energy stations with the type of nuclear energy proposed by the Coalition. You possibly can learn the total particulars right here:
Husic mentioned photo voltaic and wind are the “least expensive, quickest” methods to get vitality technology.
What the Coalition is proposing is one thing they by no means actually labored on once they have been in authorities and in the event that they have been to get again into authorities, [it] would take ages to generate vitality and it might be rather more expensive.
He was requested if the $378bn determine was a bit “excessive”, however argued it comes all the way down to the size of funding required.
That may be a big sum of money that might be required … and the important thing ingredient right here is group consent the place these potential nuclear energy vegetation could be constructed.
…you’ve got the Liberal occasion pushing for the creation of nuclear energy vegetation whereas the Nationwide occasion fights the institution of transition strains. So that you’ll generate the vitality, gained’t have the ability to transfer it. What we actually want is to get centered on how we make this transition as environment friendly as attainable and if it can additionally longer-term ship longer costs, too, after we get it proper.
Sydney to hit 34C as NSW RFS declare fireplace ban
Sydney is in for one more sizzling day in the present day, as excessive temperatures proceed to brush the nation and the area faces its first whole fireplace ban in three years.
Yesterday, the New South Wales Rural Hearth Service enacted a complete fireplace ban for the whole Sydney area:
Temperatures are forecast to hit 34C in Sydney in the present day, with the ABC reporting the all-time September report as 34.6C.
Penrith has a forecast max temperature of 35C in the present day, as does Bega, with the Bureau of Meteorology additionally declaring an excessive fireplace hazard for the realm.
Angus Hines from the BoM mentioned elements of South Australia and Queensland would additionally really feel the warmth:
Most of Australia is sitting at average or excessive fireplace (hazard) for the following few days.
The south coast of NSW has a small space of maximum fireplace hazard there, overlapping with the heatwave situations on Tuesday.
The NSW training division listed 20 colleges that will likely be closed throughout the state’s south coast on Tuesday.
The hearth ban and faculty closures apply throughout areas together with the Bega Valley and Eurobodalla Shire.
– with AAP
NSW to put up $7.8bn deficit earlier than string of surpluses
Jonathan Barrett
New South Wales will report a $7.8bn deficit this monetary 12 months when it arms down its state price range in the present day earlier than having fun with an anticipated run of surpluses backed by income streams that outpace bills.
Whereas the 2023-24 outcome will likely be about $700m worse than forecast on the pre-election price range, the general place has improved by $3.6bn over the 4 years to 2026-27.
The NSW treasurer, Daniel Mookhey, has mentioned Labor’s first price range for the state in additional than a decade will lay the groundwork for future reform. The brand new authorities might want to tackle a power housing disaster in Australia’s most populous state, whereas being cautious to not gasoline inflation by overspending.
The federal government has already introduced its intention to see extra houses constructed nearer to Sydney’s CBD and alongside transport routes.
Mookhey will announce on Tuesday that $13bn has been redirected by an expenditure overview course of as a way to ship on its price range priorities whereas managing monetary pressures.
Housing affordability and important providers are two of the precedence areas.
However the state’s spending will likely be intently watched, given NSW is on the cusp of a credit standing downgrade, largely as a result of its escalating debt burden.
There can even be modifications to a wealth fund arrange by the earlier Liberal authorities, with its usefulness referred to as into query given it’s forecast to generate smaller returns than the curiosity repayments on the rising debt ranges.
The expenditure overview was introduced quickly after Labor took workplace in March.
NSW is forecast to generate a $1.6bn surplus by 2025-26, earlier than recording a $1.5bn surplus the next 12 months.
Any shock to the property market may derail the anticipated return to surplus, given the state’s heavy monetary reliance on property switch taxes (stamp obligation).
Emily Wind
Good morning everybody, and glad Tuesday!
I’m Emily Wind and I’ll be with you on the reside weblog in the present day. Because of Martin Farrer for kicking issues off.
If you happen to see something that wants consideration on the weblog, be happy to ship me an e-mail: emily.wind.informal@theguardian.com.
And with that, let’s get into it.
One purpose for the no lead we’ve been speaking about this morning could be their use of TikTok. As our reporters clarify right here, unfavorable movies are spreading “like wildfire”, and leaving sure flatfooted.
Authorities to spend $1.5bn on improve for maritime. surveillance plane
Daniel Hurst
The federal authorities will spend $1.5bn on increasing and upgrading Australia’s maritime surveillance plane.
The federal government will announce in the present day that it has authorised the acquisition of a fourth MQ-4C Triton, a remotely piloted plane system that has a spread of as much as 15,000km, regardless of the US navy not too long ago scaling again its personal procurement plans.
The funding additionally consists of upgrades to Australia’s current fleet of 14 Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and response plane (these are crewed). The federal government says these Poseidon upgrades will ship “enhancements to anti-submarine warfare, maritime strike and intelligence assortment capabilities”.
The defence strategic overview had referred to as for Australia to challenge navy energy farther from its shores, amid considerations about China’s assertion of sovereignty within the contested South China Sea.
Previous to this choice, Australia already had ordered three MQ-4C Triton methods from Northrop Grumman to “present long-range, persistent surveillance throughout Australia’s maritime area”. The primary of the already ordered plane, together with floor and help methods, is because of be delivered to Australia subsequent 12 months.
The brand new approval is for a fourth Triton, which the federal government expects to obtain within the 2027-28 monetary 12 months.
It says that the Triton plane “will likely be primarily based at RAAF Base Tindal, Northern Territory, and operated by the newly re-formed Quantity 9 squadron, positioned at RAAF Base Edinburgh, South Australia”.
The Poseidon plane upgrades, in the meantime, are deliberate to run from 2026 to 2030.
The minister for defence business, Pat Conroy, mentioned:
The acquisition of an extra Triton will improve operations from Australia’s northern bases, a precedence underneath the defence strategic overview.
The upgrades to the fleet of Poseidon plane strengthens our means to safe and defend Australia’s maritime pursuits.
Listening to into authorities’s choice to reject Qatar Airways routes begins
Sarah Basford Canales
The inquiry into the federal authorities’s decision-making course of to grant or reject further flights to airways begins in the present day in Sydney.
To convey you up to the mark, the Coalition-majority committee is trying to get solutions into why the transport minister, Catherine King, knocked again Qatar’s request to supply an extra 28 flights per week to Australia’s main cities.
Up to now, we’re heard a number of of the “elements” that performed into the choice – it wasn’t within the nationwide curiosity, and the Doha incident – the place ladies have been topic to invasive examinations in Qatar’s airport – was a backdrop.
However again to the hearings now. Right this moment’s listening to will deal with alleged “slot hoarding” at Sydney Airport by airways and the impression it has on costs and competitors.
There’s been a little bit of a last-minute scramble to get witnesses to entrance the inquiry, however in the present day we’re anticipating to listen to from Sydney Airport and Flight Centre.
Marque Legal professionals, the authorized agency representing the 5 Australian ladies who’re suing Qatar Airways over the 2020 Doha incident, are additionally anticipated to seem.
There will likely be three extra hearings after in the present day wraps – one this Friday in Perth, and two subsequent week in Brisbane and Canberra. It’s anticipated Qantas, unions and Perth Airport will seem on the listening to this Friday.
Yesterday, it was confirmed the Qatar Airways chief govt, Akbar Al Baker, wouldn’t be showing, in addition to former Qantas boss Alan Joyce, who’s over in Europe.
Neither has dominated out showing at one of many different three hearings.
Welcome
Good morning and welcome to our rolling information protection. I’m Martin Farrer, bringing you some in a single day headlines earlier than Emily Wind takes over.
After two weeks of escalating rhetoric and division across the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum, the no camp has taken a majority lead in our polling sequence for the primary time. Our newest Important ballot in the present day reveals the naysayers with an anticipated 51% of the vote. However 29% of the voters are nonetheless “persuadable”.
A younger girl stays in a crucial situation in hospital this morning and one other is in a secure situation after being stabbed on the Australian Nationwide College campus in Canberra yesterday. A 24-year-old man, who just isn’t regarded as a pupil on the college, has been arrested.
The inquiry into the federal authorities’s decision-making course of to grant or reject further flights to airways begins this morning, with the Coalition searching for solutions about why Qatar Airways was denied new routes. Then at noon we get particulars of Labor’s first state price range in NSW for 10 years when the lockup ends and Daniel Mookhey reveals his secrets and techniques.
And Scott Morrison has instructed a church congregation in Perth that God will “kind out” the world’s issues, as he warned about an “more and more hostile” world. Talking on the Encounter Metropolis Church yesterday in a service commemorating its fiftieth anniversary, the previous prime minister mentioned that God has “a means of reminding us … who’s in cost and it’s not us – thank God for that”.
