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Premier discussed John Barilaro’s job application in social setting
By Lucy Cormack
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says John Barilaro told him he was intending to apply for the US trade commissioner role in a “social setting” after the former deputy premier left parliament.
Perrottet on Tuesday confirmed he learnt of Barilaro’s ambition for the $500,000-a-year role before the application process, however he could not recall when it was.
Dominic Perrottet and John Barilaro.Credit:Brook Mitchell, Jessica Hromas
He said he was later advised by Trade Minister Stuart Ayres that Barilaro had applied for the role, which was one of six trade commissioner roles Barilaro created as trade minister, but insisted it was an independent process in which government could play no role.
“I think in a social setting he may have said he was applying for a position, which was an independent process,” Perrottet said. “I speak to people socially all the time and there is always interested people saying I’m interested in this, I’m interested in that.”
“I was advised by Minister Ayres at some date ... that he had applied for the role. But that was an independent process in which we were not to be intervening,” he said.
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Marles targets March for a decision on nuclear submarines
By James Massola
Defence Minister Richard Marles says he’s aiming to decide which nuclear submarine Australia will acquire by early next year while blasting the former government for letting major defence purchases “drift” for years.
As well as choosing between British Astute-class and American Virginia-class nuclear submarines, the government expects to know by March 2023 when they can be acquired and whether Australia will need an interim, conventionally powered submarine to replace its ageing Collins-class boats.
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, left, with Chief of the Defence Force General Angus Campbell, at a press conference announcing senior ADF appointments.Credit:James Brickwood
Over the next two years, Marles also plans to have a “force posture review”, which will examine whether Australia’s military bases are adequate and its forces are positioned to deal with the strategic circumstances facing Australia and the Indo-Pacific.
Marles on Tuesday took the unusual step of extending by two years the terms of three of the country’s top military leaders, while appointing new heads of the army, navy and air force as planned, to ensure “continuity of advice” to the government on its submarine and frigate purchases.
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Premier signals shift on new train fleet to break union deadlock
By Tom Rabe and Matt O'Sullivan
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has raised the likelihood of the government bowing to union calls to modify the state’s new intercity trains at the centre of a long-running industrial dispute as the cost of storing the fleet rises by $1 million a day.
As commuters endured disruptions to train services across NSW on Tuesday, Perrottet said he was now weighing up whether the government should pay to make modifications to the new Korean-built trains, which rail workers argue are not safe to operate without changes.
Signs at Central Station warn commuters about the disruptions to train services on Tuesday.Credit:Brook Mitchell
The $2.88 billion fleet – first slated to begin entering service in 2019 – is sitting in storage on the NSW Central Coast, which the government has estimated is costing taxpayers $30 million a month.
Perrottet said the government was factoring the ongoing cost to the taxpayer into its decision-making on the fleet’s future as it attempts to break a deadlock in negotiations with rail unions over a new enterprise agreement.
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Protest brings Sri Lanka crisis to the boundary’s edge ahead of opening Test
By Daniel Brettig
Galle: For all the goodwill surrounding Australia’s tour to Sri Lanka amid the island’s grim economic crisis, a sombre protest outside Galle International Stadium underlines the many contradictions of the hour.
Snaking for several hundred metres around the ground’s southern end, next to the ancient Dutch fort that makes Galle one of cricket’s most picturesque venues, are empty gas bottles.
Gas bottles stacked up in protest around the southern end of Galle cricket stadium.Credit:Daniel Brettig
Some blue, some yellow - the brands of two gas providers, Litro and Laufgs - they provide a less optimistic representation of the colours of the two competing teams than was seen when thousands of Sri Lankans donned Australian gold to pay tribute to the tourists for the final limited overs match in Colombo last week.
Galle residents have quite deliberately assembled the bottles as a way of indicating their displeasure at the extreme shortages of basic goods that have followed Sri Lanka’s economic collapse.
They have been asked by police to remove them before the Test match begins on Wednesday, but have responded by stating the bottles will not be moved until they can be filled - gas and petrol queues have become a commonplace sight across the country in recent months.
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‘One of the boys’ again, Israel Folau’s exile is over
By Georgina Robinson
Israel Folau’s four-year exile from Test rugby will end on Saturday when he starts for Tonga in a star-studded back line against Fiji in the Pacific Nations Cup.
The dual-code Australian international was spurned by Australian rugby and the NRL after being sacked in 2019 for making anti-gay social media posts.
Test return: Israel Folau was sacked by Rugby Australia in 2019 but will return to Test rugby this weekend.Credit:Getty
But a three-year effort to make it back to the top of international sport will pay off when he headlines the strongest Tongan side ever to be named by the Pacific Islands nation, alongside former All Blacks Malakai Fekitoa and Charles Piutau.
Wallabies great and Tonga coach, Toutai Kefu, is expected to name Folau on the wing, with the 73-Test back tipped to mix it up with Piutau in the back three.
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Albanese’s partner steps onto international stage in Madrid
By Katina Curtis
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s partner, Jodie Haydon, played a low-key role during the federal election campaign but has now stepped onto the world stage.
She is accompanying the prime minister on his trip this week to Madrid for the NATO leaders’ summit and Paris to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon arrive in Madrid to attend the NATO summit.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
En route to Europe, Albanese and Haydon spoke to Australian troops at Camp Baird in Dubai and laid a wreath at the memorial there.
It is expected Haydon will also attend the gala dinner hosted by Spain’s King Felipe and Queen Letizia for leaders at the meeting of the NATO military alliance and their partners.
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Toll rises after Russian missile strike on Ukrainian shopping centre
By Francesca Ebel and Yuras Karmanau
Kremenchuk, Ukraine: Rescuers searched through charred rubble of a shopping centre on Tuesday looking for more victims of a Russian missile strike that killed at least 18 people and wounded scores in what Ukraine’s president called “one of the most daring terrorist attacks in European history”.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said many of the more than 1000 afternoon shoppers and workers inside the centre in the city of Kremenchuk managed to escape. Dust and orange flames billowed from the wreckage as emergency crews combed through broken metal and concrete for victims. Drones whirred above, clouds of dark smoke still emanating from the ruins several hours after the fire was extinguished.
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters search for survivors among debris at the Kremenchuk shopping centre hit by a Russian missile attack.Credit:AP
Casualty figures rose as rescuers sifted through the smouldering rubble. The regional governor, Dmytro Lunin, said at least 18 people were killed, and emergency services reported more than 60 were wounded.
“We are working to dismantle the construction so that it is possible to get machinery in there since the metal elements are very heavy and big, and disassembling them by hand is impossible,” said Volodymyr Hychkan, an emergency services official.
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Victoria is more diverse and residents have smaller mortgages, census finds
By Rachel Eddie
Victoria is a more multicultural community, and its residents have smaller mortgages and rent payments than other Australians, and are less likely to live in an apartment, the census has revealed.
The survey, taken during COVID-19 lockdowns in August 2021, found 30.2 per cent of households in the state used a language other than English – higher than the national average of 24.8 per cent and the 29.5 per cent recorded in NSW.
Victoria is more multicultural than the rest of the country, the census has shown.Credit:Arsineh Houspian
Data released on Tuesday showed more than 40 per cent of respondents in Victoria said both their parents were born overseas, compared with the Australian average of 36.7 per cent. Meanwhile, 38.3 per cent of all Indian-born Australians lived in Victoria.
Dr Liz Allen, a demographer at the Australian National University, said Victoria could comfortably call itself Australia’s most multicultural state or territory.
“That’s a relatively more recent thing,” Allen said.
However, just 1 per cent of the state’s population identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, lower than the 3.2 per cent recorded nationally.
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Podcast journalist denies using Hollywood to induce Dawson witnesses
By Sarah McPhee
The journalist behind The Teacher’s Pet podcast about former Sydney teacher Chris Dawson has denied flattering his interview subjects and inducing them with promises of walking the red carpet, a court has heard.
Hedley Thomas faced a second day of cross-examination in the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday, when he said he understood News Corp had signed an agreement with Jason Blum’s American production company Blumhouse for a TV miniseries, following his podcast released in May 2018.
Hedley Thomas and Chris DawsonCredit:Oscar Colman, Nick Moir
Detective Senior Constable Daniel Poole, who was assigned the case within the unsolved homicide squad in 2015, testified that a brief of evidence was submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions in April 2018, and Dawson was charged in December that year.
Dawson, 73, has pleaded not guilty to murdering his first wife, Lynette Dawson, who vanished from the northern beaches in January 1982.
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The sharemarket wrap
By Colin Kruger
The ASX 200 posted its fourth consecutive day of gains, closing 0.9 per cent higher at 6,763.6 thanks to rising commodity prices.
Miners, energy and the utilities led the gains - with all three sectors closing more than 3 per cent higher.
Woodside Petroleum and BHP closed more than 4 per cent higher, with the other major mining stocks closing in positive territory.
Easing COVID restrictions in China boosted commodity prices and ensured that the S&P/ASX 200 lifted for a fourth straight day.Credit:Jim Rice
On Monday, the ASX surged by 1.9 per cent, its best day since January.
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