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Australia Covid live news update: Victoria records 2,297 cases, 11 deaths; NSW 406 cases, six deaths; and ACT 46 cases, one death | Australia Covid live news update: Victoria records 2,297 cases, 11 deaths; NSW 406 cases, six deaths; and ACT 46 cases, one death |
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Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest is asked what medium term 2030 targets need to be set by the federal government to give industry “confidence and clarity”. | |
Forrest can’t really hear him, though: | |
Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest is asked whether it’s appropriate for Australia to continue to sell thermal while there’s an international market for it. | |
He says it doesn’t matter much what the government thinks, or what he thinks, but what customers think, particularly big financiers: | |
Katharine Murphy: | |
Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest: | |
Independent member for Indi Helen Haines has weighed in on debates on the transition to net zero. | |
The electorate has been held by an independent since Cathy McGowan beat Liberal incumbent Sophie Mirabella in 2013. | |
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) has recommended the government consider listing Hamas in its entirety as a terrorist organisation. | |
The PJCIS today tabled a report reviewing the relisting of five terrorist organisations under the Criminal Code: al-Shabaab, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas’ Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). | |
While the committee supported the relisting of all these organisations under the Criminal Code it has gone a step further, recommending the government expand the listing of Hamas’ Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades to include the whole organisation of Hamas. | |
The committee made a similar recommendation in June 2021 in its report on the review of the relisting of Hizballah’s External Security Organisation as a terrorist organisation under the Criminal Code that the listing of Hezbollah’s External Security Organisation be expanded to the whole organisation of Hezbollah. | |
Committee chair senator James Paterson said it was clear from evidence received during the review that the whole organisation of Hamas met the definition of a terrorist organisation: | |
End Covid For All’s Tim Costello has addressed Australia’s decision to end local manufacturing of AstraZeneca once the current contract is met. | End Covid For All’s Tim Costello has addressed Australia’s decision to end local manufacturing of AstraZeneca once the current contract is met. |
Forrest says the fact the federal government still hasn’t set an official net zero by 2050 target is an “enormous concern”: | Forrest says the fact the federal government still hasn’t set an official net zero by 2050 target is an “enormous concern”: |
Back in the ACT, Andrew Barr addresses the vaccination mandates that were introduced yesterday for the education sector. | Back in the ACT, Andrew Barr addresses the vaccination mandates that were introduced yesterday for the education sector. |
He says mandates have always been used as the “absolute last measure”. | He says mandates have always been used as the “absolute last measure”. |
Forrest turns to “increasingly rare, fear-mongering politicians” who have been pushing back against net zero by 2050 targets: | Forrest turns to “increasingly rare, fear-mongering politicians” who have been pushing back against net zero by 2050 targets: |
Forrest: | Forrest: |