It’ll “stop labour hire workers getting paid out accrued leave at a host company’s higher rates on termination if they have worked at a number of hosts”, the AFR ($) explains. Speaking of Burke - he’s amending same job, same pay rules again, in a flexible bid to get the IR reforms through. Burke said the then-Home Affairs minister had overseen the citizenship laws that were declared illegal in the High Court despite being warned they were likely to be unconstitutional. It’s Dutton’s fault actually, Workplace Minister Tony Burke said, in a speech in which he mentioned Dutton no fewer than 14 times, as the AFR ($) reports. This comes as the government will give Australian Border Force, Australian Federal Police and other agencies $255 million to help manage the freed stateless detainees who’ll cop a raft of penal restrictions because Opposition Leader Peter Dutton effectively scared Labor into it, the ABC reports. Only 1,135 carpenters and 215 plumbers have arrived since last May and it’s making building more costly - the industry wants a $10,000 subsidy for each international worker. We need 480,000 tradies over the next three years and we should import them, the building industry told the government, as the SMH ($) reports. But we don’t know much more - Australia is known for keeping military export permits shrouded in secrecy (hiding behind reasons such as confidentiality or protecting business), to the point where human rights groups have filed legal action about it.Ĭorrection: a previous version of this item incorrectly identified Dave Sharma as Jewish. The government has greenlit 350 defence export permits to Israel in the past five years, including 50 this year, The Conversation says. Thorpe said Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong was yet to respond to her letter urging Australia to stop selling weapons to Israel. She explained she hadn’t attended pro-Palestine marches because she’d been under police protection in her home amid threats after the Voice to Parliament debate. Meanwhile independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has vowed to make a statement “every day this war continues” in her first remarks since the war began, Sky News Australia reports. Neuer had cited a media release that described her “sponsored” trip”, but the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network told Crikey it and the Australian Friends of Palestine Association supported but did not fund Albanese’s trip. This comes as UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur Francesca Albanese denied that her trip to Australia was paid for by Palestinian lobby groups, calling it “another trail of egregiously false claims”. The geo-political former diplomat reenters the fray at a tense time as the Israel-Hamas four-day ceasefire comes to a close. He beat former NSW Liberal minister Andrew Constance in an upset for the frontrunner and his moderate pack after former ACT senator Zed Seselja’s preferences flowed to Sharma. Dave Sharma is back - the former Wentworth MP who lost his blue ribbon seat to teal MP Allegra Spender has been preselected to fill the NSW Senate seat left vacant by Marise Payne, The Australian ($) reports.
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