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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced he will make disaster recovery payments available to NSW flood victims from tomorrow during a visit to the damaged parts of the state with NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet this morning.
Eligible adults impacted by the floods across 23 local government areas will receive $1000 each and $400 will be given for every child.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addresses the media at a doorstop interview on his arrival back in Australia after a visit to Europe.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
“The cabinet made that decision yesterday based upon the advice. We know this is having a real impact on people. We want to make sure the supports are available as soon as possible” he told ABC’s News Breakfast. The government will also deploy 250 Australian Defence Force personnel to assist.
“We’ve been very quick to act in partnership with the New South Wales government, and it is pleasing that we’ve been able to work together so strongly.
“We know those communities were also impacted by bushfires. My heart goes out to people who have been impacted there.”
Albanese praised the handling of the situation by the Liberal Premier, who dismissed federal Opposition’s attempts to accuse Albanese of a lack of involvement in the floods disaster during a diplomatic trip to Europe.
“Premier Perrottet has been extremely responsible with the way he has acted,” Albanese said.
“People have conflict fatigue,” Albanese said. “They don’t want to see governments arguing. They don’t want to see governments acting with the sort of childish comments we’ve seen, with some of my federal counterparts ... criticising me for not making a phone call while I was in Ukraine, without any radio equipment.”
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has hit out at the opposition, following accusations that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was missing in action on the NSW floods during a diplomatic trip to Europe.
Albanese has touched down in Australia after visiting war-torn Kyiv to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris to repair the fractured relationship between the two nations over the scrapped submarines deal.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
He also attended a NATO summit in Spain. Australia was invited for the first time in a group called the “Asia-Pacific Four” alongside New Zealand, Japan and South Korea.
Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor accused the Prime Minister of “circumnavigating the globe he hasn’t been able to deliver an economic plan”, drawing a false equivalence with Scott Morrison’s holiday in Hawaii during the 2019 bushfire crisis.
Chalmers hit back on Wednesday morning, telling ABC’s RN Breakfast: “Angus Taylor is as responsible as anyone for the mess that we’re trying to clean up.
“If his argument is that we’ve been in government for six weeks or so and we haven’t cleaned up a decade of economic mismanagement, then I think he’d be best served pulling his head in.
“We’d prefer to not have to fix these relationships around the world that our predecessors and particularly the former Prime Minster ran down.”
On the RBA’s interest rate rise, Chalmers said he told bank chief executives that the benefits of rate rises “aren’t passed on to savers as quickly as rate cuts are passed on to savers.”
“People aren’t getting the kinds of returns that they think they should be getting from their savings.
“I would also encourage them to shop around and find a bank that is prepared to treat you better .... the victims of these low interest rates that we’ve had for a little while now are savers. We want them to be the beneficiary of rising interest rates in the same way that they were victims of rates when they went down to those historic lows.”
“I would encourage the banks to do the right thing by them.”
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting for his political survival on Tuesday after finance minister Rishi Sunak and another senior minister abruptly resigned over the latest scandal to blight his administration.
Sunak and health minister Sajid Javid sent resignation letters to Johnson within minutes of each other in which both took aim at his ability to run an administration that adhered to standards.
Boris Johnson’s prime ministership is under threat.Credit:Getty
Signalling his intention to stay in power for as long as possible, Johnson quickly appointed former businessman and current education minister, Nadhim Zahawi, as his new finance minister. Steve Barclay, appointed to impose discipline in Johnson’s administration in February, was moved to the health portfolio.
The resignations came as Johnson was apologising for appointing a lawmaker to a role involved in offering pastoral care to his party, even after being briefed that the politician had been the subject of complaints about sexual misconduct.
Johnson went on television to apologise for appointing lawmaker Christopher Pincher to a role involved in offering pastoral care in the Conservative Party, his latest public expression of contrition for his mistakes.
“I apologise to everyone who’s been badly affected by it,” Johnson told broadcasters. “I just want to make absolutely clear that there’s no place in this government for anybody who is predatory or who abuses their position of power.”
The resignations come after months of scandals and missteps, with Johnson so far weathering criticism over a damning report into parties at his Downing Street residence and office that broke strict COVID-19 lockdowns and saw him fined by police.
The man accused of attacking a Fourth of July parade in a Chicago suburb bought his rifle legally, fired more than 70 rounds from a roof and dressed in women’s clothing to blend into the fleeing crowd afterwards, local officials said on Tuesday.
The suspect, 21-year-old Robert E. Crimo III, surrendered to police on Monday, hours after the attack in Highland Park, Illinois, that took seven lives and sent over three dozen other people to hospital with gunshot wounds and other injuries.
Highland Park authorities released a photo of Robert Crimo III.Credit:City of Highland Park
Police revised the confirmed casualty toll on Tuesday with the death of a seventh person who had been hospitalized after the attack.
Among the dead were Nicholas Toledo, a grandfather from Mexico in his 70s celebrating with his family among the flag-waving crowds at Monday’s parade, and Jacki Sundheim, a teacher at a nearby synagogue.
Officials told reporters the suspect had planned the attack for several weeks and fired into the crowd at random. Authorities were still considering what criminal charges to bring. It was not immediately clear if Crimo had a lawyer.
At a news briefing on Tuesday, authorities cited two previous encounters between Crimo and law enforcement - an April 2019 emergency-911 call reporting he had attempted suicide and another in September of that year regarding alleged threats he had directed a family members.
The road through Shanes Park, in Sydney’s west, is usually lined with paddocks, chickens and a variety of farm animals. But since Friday, water, floating mattresses, milk bottles, car parts and bins line the street. It’s a sight that has become all too familiar for resident Suzette Turner, who said the area has been hit by four floods in the last two years.
The water now sits at the top of their double-storey house and she’s confident they’ve lost everything. This time was different from the previous floods. This time, Turner said, there was limited assistance from the emergency services, and delayed evacuation orders that not everyone in the community received.
For its part, the NSW SES says its resources are stretched but that it has thousands of volunteers and rescue teams responding to the flooding event, bolstered by additional interstate support.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit the flood affected area with NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet this morning.
The SES has issued more than 100 evacuation orders and 55 evacuation warnings across the state over the past few days, as many locations received more than double their monthly average rainfall. This includes Cessnock, which has received 137mm of rain to date – much higher than its 29mm July monthly average; Camden, which has seen 232mm in the past five days, 197mm more than its monthly average; and Kiama which has received 318mm more rain than its monthly average.
Nick Kyrgios will chase a career-best grand slam semi-final berth at Wimbledon despite confirmation the tennis star will face court in Australia next month accused of assaulting his former girlfriend.
Tournament organisers declined to comment on the allegations on Tuesday, citing legal proceedings, but have confirmed the 27-year-old remains scheduled to meet Chilean Cristian Garen on court one on Wednesday evening (AEST).
Nick Kyrgios at Wimbledon.Credit:Getty Images
“We are in touch with Nick’s team and he remains scheduled to play his quarter-final match tomorrow,” an All England Club spokesperson said.
Kyrgios has been summoned to appear at the Australia Capital Territory Magistrates’ Court on August 2 on an allegation of common assault against Chiara Passari. The charge carries a maximum jail sentence of two years.
ACT Police said in a statement on Tuesday evening that the allegations related to an incident in December last year, which Kyrgios’ barrister says was “in the context of a domestic relationship”.
Ranked 40 in the world, Kyrgios needs just one more victory to reach the final four at any of the sport’s four majors for the first time.
Banks are being urged to deliver the nation’s army of savers an increase in their interest rates to help offset some of the pain facing borrowers after the Reserve Bank again tightened monetary policy with the promise of more to come.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says interest rate rise will put pressure on borrowers.Credit:Getty
As Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the country was strong enough to withstand a second consecutive 0.5 percentage point increase in official interest rates, economists said the RBA would push ahead with a similar lift when it meets again in August.
The bank took the official cash rate to 1.35 per cent following its Tuesday board meeting. It has lifted the cash rate by 1.25 percentage points in the last three months, the most aggressive tightening of monetary policy since 1994.
Chalmers said the hike will be felt by “hardworking Australians” as they face higher costs, with more pain to come as the NSW flooding is predicted to add even further pressure to grocery prices.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has backed state government calls to give more Australians access to a fourth COVID vaccine dose, saying it’s only a question of when those under 65 become eligible.
Albanese backs the widening of a fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.Credit:Eddie Jim
The nation’s vaccine advisory body, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisations (ATAGI), will consider fourth doses at its meeting on Wednesday, while the nation’s drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, will on Friday consider giving final approval for vaccines for children under five, who have so far been ineligible for any doses.
The prime minister intervened in the debate shortly after he returned to Australia from his NATO trip, following petitioning from NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to widen the eligibility criteria.
The call comes as one of Australia’s top pandemic advisers warned that the impending winter wave of Omicron could be the worst COVID-19 outbreak the nation has ever seen.
Albanese told radio station 6PR in Perth that it was vital all Australians got their third shot because it had a real impact on mitigating the disease’s symptoms. About 67 per cent of eligible Australians have had their third shot.
“I know that the authorities including ATAGI are looking at that [approving a fourth jab]. I think it’s a question of when rather than whether it will happen. We need to make sure that people continue to keep up their vaccinations,” he said.
Good morning and thanks for your company.
It’s Wednesday, July 7. I’m Timna Jacks and I’ll be anchoring our live coverage for the first half of the day.
Here’s what you need to know before we get started.
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has backed state government calls to give more Australians access to a fourth COVID vaccine dose, saying it’s only a question of when those under 65 become eligible.
- Nick Kyrgios charged with assaulting former girlfriend
- Flood clean-up begins in Sydney as east coast low moves on, but residents are angry
- Banks are being urged to deliver the nation’s army of savers an increase in their interest rates to help offset some of the pain facing borrowers after the Reserve Bank again tightened monetary policy with the promise of more to come.
- At least 65 home owners have been left in financial limbo after another Victorian house builder collapsed, citing pressure from construction costs, supply-chain delays and labour shortages.
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