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23rd July 2018
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To Commemorate the establishment of the Australian Constitution
Published on Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia (https://www.gg.gov.au)
Speech
Address By
His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffery AC CVO MC
Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
On the occasion of
To Commemorate the establishment of the Australian Constitution
National Archives, Canberra
9 July 2007
• His Excellency Mr Robert McCallum Jr, US Ambassador and Mrs McCallum
• NAA Director-General, Ross Gibbs
• Council Chairman, Paul Santamaria
• Distinguished guests
• Ladies and gentlemen
Marlena and I thank you for your warm welcome, and for this invitation to lead the celebration of this important
commemoration.
The Constitution. What exactly is it? Why are we here? What is so important, in this age, about commemorating a document
that became law 107 years ago?
Ladies and Gentlemen that document can be seen as the foundation stone of our nation. It introduced a complex yet workable
governance structure for Australia to become one, and remain so. It helped us build bridges to cross not only the physical
boundaries of this large and harsh land, but also the mental ones.
Implicit in its pages is the notion of freedom, fairness and cooperation. A notion entrenched in our behaviour today. Just
consider - how many times have you heard someone utter the words “that’s unconstitutional” when faced with a wrong? They
are words that we have come to understand as “unAustralian”.
Whether we know the minutiae or not, the Constitution remains deeply entrenched in our national psyche, the measure against
which we judge all decisions - as individuals, as local, state or federal governments, in the courts, and as a nation.
And it is a document that has served us well.
Incredibly, the Constitution has altered little – only eight times – and each time through the approval of the people.
Indeed, at the end of May, Marlena and I were fortunate to have hosted a celebration marking one of those amendments – the
1967 referendum that changed clauses of the Constitution that more than 90 per cent of Australians felt discriminated against
our indigenous Australians.
That landmark decision was proof positive that all citizens have the power to shape the Constitution to ensure it continues to
provide stability, relevance and guidance for Australia.
Our predecessors were indeed far-sighted in drawing up this blue print - created on this day in 1900 by Queen Victoria when
she gave her royal assent to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act.
The Constitution was drafted by leading representatives from the colonies – great names in our history such as John Cockburn,
John William Downer, Charles Cameron Kingston and later Edmund Barton, who became Australia’s first Prime Minister.
And importantly, it was a document which had the backing of the people of Australia and the support of the British Empire. It
was a document born out of freedom, not from war.
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To Commemorate the establishment of the Australian Constitution
Published on Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia (https://www.gg.gov.au)
The drafters were guided, naturally enough, by our sovereign leaders, but they also drew on Constitutions from other nations,
in particular, the United States, and I extend a special welcome to the Ambassador of the United States of America, His
Excellency Mr Robert McCallum Jr, who joins us today.
So what did the Constitution do? Quite simply, it provided us with the framework for governing and managing the affairs of
the new Commonwealth of Australia, officially established on January 1, 1901.
This legal instrument meant that the former colonies united as the states of a federation with a national, elected parliament.
That Parliament would consist of the Queen, represented in Australia by a Governor-General; have an Upper House (the
Senate) to safeguard the interests of the states; and a lower House of Representatives, to protect the interests of the people.
The Constitution also provided for an Executive, with executive power vested in the Queen, and exercised by the
Governor-General, extending to ‘the execution and maintenance of this Constitution and of the laws of the Commonwealth’.
And to enable the Governor-General to do this, the Constitution established the Federal Executive Council and Ministers of
State to administer ‘such Departments of State of the Commonwealth as the Governor-General in Council may establish’.
And it provided for a High Court and lower federal courts, to make up the judiciary.
Furthermore, the Constitution laid down working relationships for state and federal relations in terms of finance, trade,
defence, marriage, immigration, pensions, health and welfare, our surrounding waterways, and treaties with foreign
governments.
After more than 100 years, the Constitution continues to touch the everyday lives of all Australians. We have the right to a trial
by jury. We have the right to certain financial supports, and we are, in turn, required to pay taxes. We have the freedom to
follow any religion. We have the right to elect those who govern. We have the right to essential services. The list goes on.
In short, the Constitution guards our democracy and democratic processes, setting out the checks and balances for good
governance and good law by ensuring power is never concentrated in too few hands.
And the Governor-General has an important role in these processes.
Bills passed by the Parliament are assented to by the Governor-General on written recommendation from the Clerk of the
Parliament. To enable an election to be held, the Governor-General has the role of both closing the Parliament and reopening
it. And after an election, it is the Governor-General who appoints the Prime Minister and his or her Ministers.
The Governor-General is, if you like, a checkpoint, a checkpoint in a carefully formulated system of checks and balances
cleverly and prudently constructed by our founding fathers. He or she acts in the main on the advice of the Ministers of State.
So, a Governor-General can kick the constitutional tyres; make sure the wheels are turning properly; and that they stay on!
The Governor-General’s appointment is made on the advice of the Prime Minister to the Queen. And can be reversed through
the same process should the need ever arise.
Commonwealth-State relations are also provided with checks and balances - the Commonwealth has specific areas over which
it can legislate; the states can legislate on most areas to fine-tune to their own circumstances; but should a state law clash with
federal, the federal law overrides in the national interest.
Should the Commonwealth try to legislate in areas outside its boundaries, it can be challenged by the states through the
judiciary - another checkpoint.
Such checks and balances have facilitated a stable, harmonious and subsequently, prosperous nation.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I believe it is a measure of the integrity of our system of government and our own politicians that the
rules laid down by our forefathers are still respected and adhered to, despite the remarkably changed conditions under which
they now work in this modern, technologically-charged, highly scrutinised world.
For example, some might criticise the Constitutional powers bestowed on the Governor-General as vague; a sort of rubber
stamp for the system. Well, firstly, I would say flexible and well-proven, not vague – and one of the very reasons why the
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To Commemorate the establishment of the Australian Constitution
Published on Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia (https://www.gg.gov.au)
Constitution remains relevant. Secondly, in my term as Governor-General and I am sure of those before me, the legislation,
ministerial appointments, conduct of the houses of parliaments, and the calling of elections has rarely needed more than a
Governor-General’s careful scrutiny before formal approval. However, should something untoward have arisen, then those
powers, including the reserve powers, could have come into play.
All testimony, I suggest, to the respectful relationships between the various arms of government and the careful crafting of the
checks and balances that exist in our governance arrangements.
However, in any healthy democracy there will, and should always be, debate over the structures that uphold it.
Which brings me to a final point. I have urged, and continue to urge, all Australians to understand our Constitution, the role of
the Governor-General, how our parliaments work, and how our judiciary impacts on them. Without that knowledge, we cannot
have effective, informed and balanced debate.
A recent survey commissioned by federal, state and territory ministers has found that very few Year 10 students have a
sophisticated understanding of Australian democracy and related civics and citizenship issues.
The teaching of civics has fallen off the radar.
I know the Government is working to improve this knowledge through its Discovering Democracy education initiatives, and
with the introduction of the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate, and I commend such renewed efforts.
And by holding this special celebration today we are also providing an opportunity to highlight our federation origins and how
those origins affect everything we take for granted in our country today.
This knowledge is important to our new citizens also - some of whom I have the pleasure of welcoming today from as far
afield as Argentina, Sudan, Burma, the United States, Nepal, England, the Russian Federation, Germany and Wales.
You come here in anticipation of a better life. And you are drawn here by what this wonderful nation has to offer.
It would be prudent to understand why this nation can offer a better life, and how you have a part to play in any decisions that
affect you as citizens, and affect the nation as a whole.
Our Constitution gives everyone a say, so all of us - whether born here or elsewhere - need to understand how to speak its
language.
Ladies and gentlemen, today provides us with an opportunity to rediscover our roots.
The birthday of our Constitution is a day for us to ‘own’ our Constitution and celebrate how it has shaped our past, our present
and our future.
We all of us enjoy the freedoms and protections of a peaceful, prosperous and democratic country. And these freedoms and
protections have been built upon a great platform - the Constitution.
I urge all of you to take the opportunity to have a look at the original document and the Commission of Assent which are on
permanent display here at this wonderful institution, the National Archives of Australia.
Please enjoy today’s events, and the commemoration of Australia’s Constitution.
Source URL: https://www.gg.gov.au/speech/commemorate-establishment-australian-constitution
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Documents released under Freedom of Information and marked 'Sensitive: Personal' dated November 1, 2015, show Mr Dutton wrote in relation
to the case that "it would be in the public interest" to grant the woman a three-month tourist visa.
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Department of Home Affairs MediaLink Report 14 March 2019 [DLM=For-Official-Use-Only]
Date:
Friday, 15 March 2019 10:59:20 AM
For-Official-Use-Only
Good morning,
Please find the MediaLink report below.
1) Article No: 2591335
Language: KOREAN
Media Type:
Media source:
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: NSW GOVERNMENT PROMISES $700,000 FUND TOWARDS MULTICULTURAL EVENTS IN
KOREAN COMMUNITY.
Summary: IF NSW Liberal-National Coalition party wins at the election, it is expected $700,000 boost in
funding for Multicultural events over next 4years. Minister for Multiculturalism Ray Williams, Minister for
finance Victor Dominello and MP Scott Farlow visited Korean Community Centre at Croydon Park and
announced the plan.
2) Article No: 2591332
Language: CHINESE
Media Type:
Media source:
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: 80% AUSTRALIAN REFUSED. SYDNEY IS OCCUPIED BY MIGRANTS WITH THE HIGHEST
POPULATION DENSITY. HOWEVER, MIGRANTS BRING MANY BENEFITS TOO.
Summary: NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian once requested her Coalition government to slow down the
net migration rate in Australia.
3) Article No: 2591331
Language: CHINESE
Media Type:
Media source:
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: 80% AUSTRALIAN REFUSED. SYDNEY IS OCCUPIED BY MIGRANTS WITH THE HIGHEST
POPULATION DENSITY. HOWEVER, MIGRANTS BRING MANY BENEFITS TOO.
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Summary: NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian once requested her Coalition government to slow down the
net migration rate in Australia.
4) Article No: 2591308
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Il Globo
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: “RESCUE OUR RECYCLING”: THE M.A.V.’S PLAN
Summary: The Municipal Association of Victoria, which represents the state’s local governments, has
launched a five-part plan for the Australian government to confront the recycling crisis jointly with the state
and local governments.
5) Article No: 2591307
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Il Globo
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: CANZONIERE GRECANICO SALENTINO’S GLOBAL PIZZICA
Summary: The Puglian musical group Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino recently won the Songlines award
for world music in London. It is presenting its ‘pizzica’ music tomorrow night in a concert for the Melbourne
Taranta Festival 2019. Group leader Mauro Durante said the first wave of Puglian immigration to Australia
wasn’t familiar with its musical traditions, but there had been a revival in Puglian music here since 1999. [A
photograph of the band].
6) Article No: 2591306
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Il Globo
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: MEDITERRANEAN DIET CELEBRATED BY CALABRIAN FEDERATION
Summary: The South Australian Calabrian Association recently presented its project ‘The Mediterranean
Diet in Australia’ at the Italian Centre on Carrington St in Adelaide. Guests of honour included former state
Labor education minister Grace Portolesi. There was also a photographic exhibition on the history of
Calabrian immigration to Australia. [A photograph of participants at the event].
7) Article No: 2591304
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Il Globo
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
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Hyperlink:
Title: NEW GOVERNMENT ADVERTISEMENT: AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT
Summary: Full-page advertisement for the Australian government: The advertisement states that the
Australian government is investing $75 billion over ten years in a national infrastructure project to make
transport more efficient, reduce travel times, increase security and create jobs. For more information,
search for the web site ‘building our future’.
8) Article No: 2591303
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: La Fiamma
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: ITALIAN COMMUNITY INVITED TO HISTORICAL CELEBRATION
Summary: The Inner West Council local government authority is inviting members of the Italo-Australian
community to an Italian family picnic at 6:30pm on Saturday 30 March at Peace Park to commemorate two
icons of Italian immigration to Australia, the Apia Club and the Iron Cove Bay Fishing Fleet. [Photograph: A
black and white photograph of the Apia Club].
9) Article No: 2591301
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: La Fiamma
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: TONY ABBOTT WORRIED, PERHAPS JUSTIFIABLY (SIC)
Summary: PM Scott Morrison has rejected quotas for female Liberal representation in parliament, calling it
‘a Labor solution’. But half of the 12 female Liberal MPs would lose their seats with a uniform 3% swing
against the Australian government in the next elections, while Labor currently has a female representation
of 46% in the House and Senate combined. Labor’s quotas work.
10) Article No: 2591296
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: La Fiamma
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: GO-AHEAD FOR AIRPORT LINK
Summary: PM Scott Morrison and Victorian Labor Premier Daniel Andrews have signed an agreement to
jointly fund the Tullamarine Airport rail link. Construction is planned to start in 2022 and last nine years.
[Photographs: Morrison; Andrews].
11) Article No: 2591295
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Language: CHINESE
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Australian Chinese Daily
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: COUSIN OF KILLED MAN APPEALS TO MELBOURNE AFRICAN TEENAGERS
Summary: Article reports on the shooting death of Winis Apet in Springvale, Melbourne last Sunday and on
the police investigation into the case and quotes the cousin of the victim, Jacques Dhieu, who was born in a
Kenyan refugee camp, commenting on the issue.
12) Article No: 2591294
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: La Fiamma
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: LATHAM: “DNA TESTS FOR ABORIGINES”
Summary: The One Nation candidate in the NSW elections, Mark Latham, has called for DNA testing on
people claiming access to indigenous welfare. [Photograph: Latham].
13) Article No: 2591292
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: La Fiamma
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS FEATURE IN CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES
Summary: NSW Labor opposition leader Michael Daley launched his party’s campaign for the 23 March
elections with a $7.4 billion promise of funding for government schools. Premier Gladys Berejiklian,
accompanied by PM Scott Morrison, announced $1.3 billion to renovate Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital.
[Photographs: Daley with NSW deputy Labor leader Penny Sharpe and federal Labor opposition leader Bill
Shorten].
14) Article No: 2591290
Language: CHINESE
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Australian Chinese Daily
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: CONSTRUCTION OF MELBOURNE AIRPORT RAILWAY TO START IN 2022 AND TO BE
COMPLETED IN 2031
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Summary: Article reports on a funding agreement on the construction of a Melbourne Airport railway signed
by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews yesterday and quotes them
commenting on the issue. [Photo: Scott Morrison and Daniel Andrews]
15) Article No: 2591289
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: La Fiamma
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: NEWSPOLL PREDICTS MINORITY GOVERNMENT
Summary: The lastest Newspoll on voting intentions in the NSW elections on 23 March indicates that
Gladys Berejiklian’s NSW government and her Labor opposition are neck and neck at 50% - 50% on two-
party preferred. [Photographs: Berejiklian; Labor opposition leader Michael Daley].
16) Article No: 2591288
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: La Fiamma
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: ROBB BLAMES TURNBULL FOR ‘TOXIC’ RELATIONS WITH CHINA
Summary: The former trade minister in the Australian government, Andrew Robb, has accused former PM
Malcolm Turnbull and deputy PM Barnaby Joyce of stoking anti-China sentiment when they were in office.
Robb admits working for the China-affiliated company Landbridge, which manages the port of Darwin.
[Photograph: Robb with Alibaba co-founder Joseph Tsai].
17) Article No: 2591286
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: La Fiamma
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: POLLS: GOVERNMENT IN FREE-FALL
Summary: PM Scott Morrison’s Australian government has lost ground to its Labor opposition in the latest
two opinion polls, with Monday’s Newspoll showing it trailing 46% to 54% on two-party preferred and
Tuesday’s Essential poll for the Guardian putting it at 47% to 53%. [Photograph: Morrison].
18) Article No: 2591284
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: La Fiamma
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
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Title: LABOR: REFERENDUM ON WAGES
Summary: Labor’s Federal opposition leader, Bill Shorten, has said that the coming elections campaign will
be ‘a referendum on wages’. Shorten pointed out that wages had only increased by 8% since 2016 despite
company profits increasing by 43%. [Photograph: Shorten].
19) Article No: 2591283
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: La Fiamma
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: BARNABY JOYCE: DEBATE OVER NATIONALS LEADERSHIP REOPENED
Summary: NSW Nationals leader John Barillaro (sic) has called on his Federal colleagues to stop ‘navel-
gazing’ after former leader Barnaby Joyce declared himself the ‘Deputy PM-elect’. Barilaro faces a tough
battle to retain his seat in the state elections on 23 March.
20) Article No: 2591276
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: La Fiamma
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: NEW POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT: LET’S DO IT, NSW
Summary: Half-page advertisement for nsw.liberal.org.au: The advertisement states that NSW Liberal
Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s plan for NSW is building for the future, offering more emergency services, and
taking the pressure off ‘you’, the readers. It calls for readers to vote 1 Liberal in the elections. [Photograph:
Berejiklian].
21) Article No: 2591274
Language: CHINESE
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Australian Chinese Daily
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: SCOTT MORRISON ATTACKS BILL SHORTEN FOR DEMANDING PAY INCREASE
Summary: Article reports on Prime Minister Scott Morrison attacking Labor Leader Bill Shorten over the
latter’s wage increase plan and quotes Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert and Labor frontbencher Ed Husic
commenting on the issue.
22) Article No: 2591271
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
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Publication: La Fiamma
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: NEW POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT: POWERING FORWARD
Summary: Half-page advertisement for the Australian government: The advertisement states that energy
companies lowered prices on 1 January thanks to pressure from the Australian government, but consumers
have to call their companies to ask for cheaper plans. More information is available at
PoweringForward.energy.gov.au.
23) Article No: 2591270
Language: CHINESE
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Australian New Express Daily
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: NSW LIBERAL PARTY CHINESE CANDIDATE SCOTT YUNG ANNOUNCES RUNNING IN STATE
ELECTION
Summary: Article reports on the election campaign launch of NSW Liberal candidate for Kogarah Scott
Yung in Hurstville on 9 March and mentions NSW Minister for Multiculturalism Ray Williams and NSW
Liberal Party President Philip Ruddock giving their support personally and the name of Premier Gladys
Berejiklian. [Photo: Scott Yung with Philip Ruddock, Ray Williams and other supporters]
24) Article No: 2591269
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: La Fiamma
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: ZANETTI CARTOON
Summary: PM Scott Morrison is standing in a huge pile of excrement behind a farting bull that has Barnaby
Joyce’s head. Giving the thumbs-up sign, Morrison is saying “One thing’s for sure … with Barnaby, I always
know exactly where I stand”.
25) Article No: 2591267
Language: ITALIAN
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: La Fiamma
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: DARWIN AND CANBERRA OFFER DEFENCE REASSURANCES
Summary: PM Scott Morrison’s Australian government has introduced new rules to ensure that Canberra’s
approval will in future be necessary before state or territory governments can make decisions, such as that
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of the Northern Territory government some time ago to lease the port of Darwin for 99 years to Landbridge
Industry Australia, a company with strong ties to China’s defence forces. Meanwhile, shadow defence
minister Richard Marles has said a Labor elections win could see a review of the 2016 submarine contract
with French company Naval Group.
26) Article No: 2591266
Language: CHINESE
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Australian New Express Daily
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: ELECTION CAMPAIGN T-SHIRTS ARE SAID TO BE MADE IN CHINA AND UNITED AUSTRALIA
PARTY STAR CANDIDATE RESIGNS
Summary: Article reports on Home And Away actor Bryan Wiseman, who intended to challenge Prime
Minister Scott Morrison for the seat of Cook, resigning as a United Australia Party election candidate after
he discovered the election campaign T-shirts were made in China and mentions the name of Opposition
Leader Bill Shorten. [Photo: yellow T-shirts]
27) Article No: 2591260
Language: CHINESE
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Australian New Express Daily
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: SOME BIG AUSTRALIAN COMPANIES STRONGLY SUPPORT SKILLED IMMIGRATION
Summary: Article reports on the positions of some major Australian companies including Telstra,
Woodside, Qantas and Suncorp on skilled immigration and quotes Woodside CEO Peter Coleman, Telstra
CEO Andy Penn and Mayne Pharma CEO Scott Richards commenting on the issue.
28) Article No: 2591258
Language: CHINESE
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Australian New Express Daily
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT WRITES TO CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES
Summary: Article reports on the position of the Federal Government on whether the Confucius institutes
should register under the new foreign influence transparency legislation, mentions the word ‘China’ and
quotes Federal Attorney General Christian Porter commenting on the issue. [Photo: part of the University of
Sydney]
29) Article No: 2591248
Language: CHINESE
Media Type: Printed Media
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Publication: Sing Tao Daily
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: TRADE UNIONS ADVOCATE INCREASE OF $43 TO MINIMUM WEEKLY WAGE AND
BUSINESSES: IT WOULD PUSH UP COSTS
Summary: Article reports on the ACTU advocating a $43 increase to the minimum weekly wage and on the
response of the Business Council of Australia and quotes ACTU Secretary Sally McManus and Prime
Minister Scott Morrison commenting on the issue mentioning Labor.
30) Article No: 2591247
Language: CHINESE
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Sing Tao Daily
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: RECEIVING NOTIFICATION ON FOREIGN AGENCY REGISTRATION, CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES
MAY BE AUDITED BY GOVERNMENT
Summary: Article reports on the Federal Attorney General’s Department writing to the 13 Confucius
institutes in Australian universities about the foreign influence transparency legislation and quotes Federal
Attorney General Christian Porter commenting on the issue and mentions the words ‘Australian
Government’.
31) Article No: 2591233
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: AN-Nahar
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: POWERING FORWARD
Summary: The Australian government publishes an advertisement promoting “Powering forward” energy
drive which aims to help household save on energy bills.
32) Article No: 2591232
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: AN-Nahar
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: AGED CARE CAN IMPORT SKILLED WORKERS
Summary: Aged care providers can hire overseas workers to support older Australians from multicultural
backgrounds under a new initiative announced by the Australian Government.
33) Article No: 2591231
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Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: AN-Nahar
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: NEW TEMPORARY VISA
Summary: Minister of Immigration David Coleman announced that the Australian Government will deliver
on its commitment to introduce a new temporary Sponsored Parent visa, with sponsors able to lodge an
application to sponsor their parent from 17 April 2019.
34) Article No: 2591230
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: AN-Nahar
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: SPONSORING RULES
Summary: The Australian government announces changes to sponsoring rules for religious institutions
seeking clerics from overseas to come to Australia.
35) Article No: 2591229
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: AN-Nahar
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS
Summary: The Australian government has introduced new measures to help religious foundations and
institutions gain what they need in terms of skilled staff.
36) Article No: 2591228
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: AN-Nahar
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: MORRISON MAY USE COAL
Summary: The energy minister Angus Taylor has confirmed the Scott Morrison government is continuing to
assess new coal generation projects despite pushback from moderate Liberals, but he says taxpayers will
only support projects that are “viable”.
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37) Article No: 2591227
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: AN-Nahar
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: MORRISON IS UNKNOWN TO QUARTER OF VOTERS
Summary: A poll released by progressive think tank the Australia Institute showed that about one in four
voters cannot recognize Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison just two months out from the general
election.
38) Article No: 2591224
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: AN-Nahar
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: GREENS SENATOR LAUDS JULIE BISHOP
Summary: Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says she has ‘no doubt’ that Julie Bishop would have
been a better Prime Minister than Scott Morrison.
39) Article No: 2591216
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: AN-Nahar
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: GREENS SENATOR LAUDS JULIE BISHOP
Summary: Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says she has ‘no doubt’ that Julie Bishop would have
been a better Prime Minister than Scott Morrison.
40) Article No: 2591214
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: AN-Nahar
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: CITIZENSHIP FOR REFUGEE PLAYER
Summary: Refugee footballer Hakeem Al Araibi has become an Australian citizen after a nearly five-year
wait. Al Araibi returned to Australia last month following a publicised stint in a Bangkok jail.
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41) Article No: 2591210
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: AN-Nahar
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: BUILDING OUR FUTURE
Summary: The Australian government publishes a full-page colour advertisement to promote the “Building
Our Future” projects in which $75 billion is spent for infrastructure.
42) Article No: 2591205
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: EL-Telegraph
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: SCOTT MORRISON REVIEWS BROKERS
Summary: The Morrison government is to review a key recommendation on brokers from the Hayne royal
commission. The proposed review will be undertaken by the Council of Financial Regulators and the
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
43) Article No: 2591198
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Future
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: POWERING FORWARD
Summary: The Australian government publishes an advertisement promoting “Powering forward” energy
drive which aims to help household save on energy bills.
44) Article No: 2591195
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Future
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS
Summary: The Australian government has introduced new measures to help religious foundations and
institutions gain what they need in terms of skilled staff.
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45) Article No: 2591193
Language: PUNJABI
Media Type:
Media source:
Date of publication: 07/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: AUSTRALIA SENT 57 REFUGEES TO SUDOOR ISLAND
Summary: As per media reports, 57 refugees have been sent to detention centre setup in Sudoor Island
recently.
46) Article No: 2591192
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Future
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP TO AL ARAIBI
Summary: Refugee footballer Hakeem al-Araibi has become an Australian citizen after a nearly five-year
wait. The 25-year-old returned to Australia last month following a publicised stint in a Bangkok jail.
47) Article No: 2591190
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Future
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: CHANGES TO SPONSORING RULES
Summary: The Australian government announces changes to sponsoring rules for religious institutions
seeking clerics from overseas to come to Australia.
48) Article No: 2591189
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Future
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: FOSTERING INTEGRATION GRANTS
Summary: The Australian Government has provided grants to 220 organisations under the Multicultural
Affairs and Citizenship Program – Fostering Integration Grants from 2018-19 to 2019-2020.
49) Article No: 2591188
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Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Future
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: GRANT TO ORTHODOX CHURCH
Summary: The Antiochian Orthodox community in Western Sydney will benefit from $57,000 to repair St
Mary’s Orthodox Church in Mays Hill. Minister for Multiculturalism Ray Williams said he was delighted to
assist the parishioners of the St Mary’s Orthodox Church in Mays Hill.
50) Article No: 2591187
Language: ARABIC
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Future
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: BUILDING OUR FUTURE
Summary: The Australian government publishes a full-page colour advertisement to promote the “Building
Our Future” projects in which $75 billion is spent for infrastructure.
51) Article No: 2591173
Language: VIETNAMESE
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Chieu Duong
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: AUSTRALIA'S CURRENT AFFAIRS
Summary: Opinion piece: Phuong Tien writes about the court case of Cardinal George Pell for sexual
assaults of two children at St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne in the 1990's. Prime Minister Scott Morrison
says nobody is above the law. [Photograph of George Pell].
52) Article No: 2591172
Language: VIETNAMESE
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Chieu Duong
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT BANS BOEING 737 MAX FROM AIRSPACE
Summary: Domestic news: The Australian Government announced the above decision on March 12 after
the air crash of Ethiopian Airlines on Sunday.
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53) Article No: 2591170
Language: VIETNAMESE
Media Type: Printed Media
Publication: Chieu Duong
Date of publication: 14/03/2019
Hyperlink:
Title: CARDINAL GEORGE PELL REJECTS ALL CHARGES AND APPEALS AGAINST THE SENTENCE
OF SIX YEARS IN PRISON
Summary: Domestic news: Cardinal George Pell received the above sentence on March 13 for sexual
assaults of two children in 1996. Previously, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he would take action to strip
his Order of Australia if convicted. [Photograph of George Pell].
Kind regards,
s.47F(1)
Portfolio Media and Engagement Branch
Department of Home Affairs
P:
s.47F(1)
Media Line: s.47F(1)
E: s.47F(1) @homeaffairs.gov.au
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From:
Hamish HANSFORD
To:
Michael PEZZULLO
Cc:
s.47F(1)
Marc ABLONG; s.47F(1) Sophie
SHARPE
Subject:
RE: Cyber Election Commitments [DLM=For-Official-Use-Only]
Date:
Tuesday, 21 May 2019 3:22:49 PM
For-Official-Use-Only
Secretary
Understood.
Hamish
Hamish Hansford
Acting Deputy Secretary Policy
Policy Group
Department of Home Affairs
Mobile: s. 22(1)(a)(ii)
Ph: s. 22(1)(a)(ii)
Email: s. 22(1)(a)(ii) @homeaffairs.gov.au
For-Official-Use-Only
From: Michael PEZZULLO < s.47F(1) @homeaffairs.gov.au>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 3:19 PM
To: Hamish HANSFORD < s. 22(1)(a)(ii) @homeaffairs.gov.au>
Cc:
s.47F(1)
@homeaffairs.gov.au>;
s.47F(1)
@homeaffairs.gov.au>;
s.47F(1)
@homeaffairs.gov.au>;
s.47F(1)
@homeaffairs.gov.au>; Marc
ABLONG s. 22(1)(a)(ii)@homeaffairs.gov.au>; s.47F(1)
@homeaffairs.gov.au>; Sophie SHARPE s. 22(1)(a)(ii)@homeaffairs.gov.au>
Subject: RE: Cyber Election Commitments [DLM=For-Official-Use-Only]
For-Official-Use-Only
Hamish
ACSC should lead on these initiatives. We are the support act.
MP
Michael Pezzullo
Secretary
Department of Home Affairs
s.47F(1)
E: s.47F(1)
@homeaffairs.gov.au
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From: Hamish HANSFORD < s. 22(1)(a)(ii) @homeaffairs.gov.au>
Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2019 11:17 AM
To: Michael PEZZULLO < s.47F(1) @homeaffairs.gov.au>; Sophie SHARPE
<s. 22(1)(a)(ii)@homeaffairs.gov.au>;
s.47F(1)
@homeaffairs.gov.au>
Cc: s. 47F(1)
s.47F(1)
@homeaffairs.gov.au>;
s.47F(1)
@homeaffairs.gov.au>;
s.47F(1)
@homeaffairs.gov.au>;
s.47F(1)
@homeaffairs.gov.au>; Marc
ABLONG s. 22(1)(a)(ii)@homeaffairs.gov.au>
Subject: Cyber Election Commitments [DLM=For-Official-Use-Only]
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Secretary (for info)
As discussed this morning, please find below a list of the Coalition election commitments on
cyber.
C-1408 Cyber Resilience and Workforce Package – Overview
The Coalition has committed to invest $156 million to protect older Australians, small businesses
and national security assets from the risk of cyber-attacks. The cyber resilience and workforce
package will:
∙Invest $50 million to create a Cyber Security National Workforce Growth Program
∙Invest $40 million to establish a Countering Foreign Cyber Criminals capability within the
Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC)
∙Invest $26 million to support the ACSC
∙Invest $40 million to assist the Australian Defence Force and Defence to grow its cyber warfare
workforce
C-1413 Establish Countering Foreign Cyber Criminals Capability
The Coalition has committed $40 million to establish a Countering Foreign Cyber Criminals
capability within the Australian Cyber Security Centre, and drawing on the expertise of the
Australian Federal Police to combat the increasingly sophisticated organised cyber-crime gangs.
C-1418 Grow the Cyber Workforce
The Coalition has committed to invest a further $40 million to assist the Australian Defence
Force (ADF) and the Department of Defence in particular to grow its cyber warfare workforce. As
part of this commitment, the Coalition will:
∙Accelerate the creation of 230 positions for military cyber operations specialists in the ADF over
the next four years, significantly enhancing existing capabilities.
∙Build on the highly successful ADF Gap Year Program to create up to 100 new gap year positions
each year that are focused on cyber and information warfare domains to encourage young
Australians, particularly women, to embark on a cyber-related career.
∙Expand the Australian Government cyber security ‘SPRINT’ teams to work with owners and
operators of critical infrastructure to prepare against future cyber threats.
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The full media release can be found at the following link under the heading ‘enhancing our cyber
warfare and security workforce and resilience’:
https://www.liberal.org.au/our-plan-stronger-defence-and-defence-industries
Happy to discuss.
Hamish
Hamish Hansford
Acting Deputy Secretary Policy
Policy Group
Department of Home Affairs
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Ph: s. 22(1)(a)(ii)
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From:
Marc Ablong
To:
Mike Pezzullo
Cc:
ESU
Subject:
The China student boom and the risks it poses to Australian universities
Date:
Sunday, 25 August 2019 12:23:01 PM
Attachments:
The China student boom and the risks it poses to Australian universities.pdf
Cheers
Marc
The China student boom and the risks it poses to Australian universities
Salvatore Babones
Centre for Independent Studies
Australia’s universities are taking a multi-million dollar gamble with taxpayer money to pursue a
high-risk, high-reward international growth strategy. Their revenues are booming as they enrol
record numbers of international students, particularly from China. As long as their bets on the
international student market pay off, the universities’ gamble will look like a success. If their bets
go sour, Australian taxpayers may be called on to pick up the tab.
This report establishes the scale of the universities’ China risk, assesses the difficulty of
addressing it, and proposes steps to reduce it. It identifies seven leading universities where
Chinese students seem to account for more than 50% of all international students, and finds that
they rely on Chinese student course fees for anywhere from 13% to 23% of their total revenues.
The report warns that the financial risks of over-reliance on China are very large and cannot be
mitigated or diversified by greater recruitment in India. It also assesses nine potential risk factors
that could adversely affect Chinese student numbers, and finds that macroeconomic risks are
the most serious because they could lead to a sudden and severe fall in Chinese student
enrolments.
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From:
Media Operations
To:
Media Operations
Subject:
Media Monitoring: Media release | Morrison Government will continue to protect our borders | 9 May 2019
[DLM=For-Official-Use-Only]
Date:
Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:30:27 AM
Attachments:
Morrison Government will continue to protect our borders.PDF
For-Official-Use-Only
Good morning,
Please find attached and below a media release from Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton:
MORRISION GOVERNMENT WILL CONTINUE TO PROTECT OUR
BORDERS
The Morrison Government’s economic management underpins the investments needed to
protect our borders and keep Australians safe. The Coalition’s strong border protection policies
under Operation Sovereign Borders have ended the deaths at sea and enabled us to close 19
detention centres, with all children placed in detention by Labor removed from that detention.
We have achieved this by not compromising on our three proven border protection policies,
which have stopped the boats: regional processing, turn-backs where it is safe to do so, and
temporary protection visas. By closing detention centres, we returned $638 million to the
Budget and reclaimed control of the refugee and humanitarian program from criminal
syndicates.
We have increased Australia’s humanitarian intake to 18,750 in 2018-19, and welcomed to
Australia an additional 12,000 persecuted minority refugees from the conflict in Syria and Iraq.
We have restored vital resources to our border agencies, along with technology to enhance
passenger screening and automation and we have worked steadfastly on community protections
by strengthening the character requirements of visa holders and introducing the mandatory
cancellation of visas of non-citizens who commit serious crimes. In total, we have cancelled the
visas of over 4,400 non-citizen criminals.
By contrast, Labor’s promise to dismantle our proven three pillars of border protection would
hand control of our border back to the people smugglers. Last time they were in government,
Labor’s policies hamstrung our border agencies and public confidence in the migration program
evaporated. Labor hasn’t learnt their lesson and is seeking to return to these dangerous policies.
At every turn Labor has sought to water down the Government’s laws to protect the Australian
community. In office, they would go further still.
Only the Morrison Government has the necessary suite of proven policies to keep Australians
safe and our borders secure. You simply cannot trust Labor on border protection.
Kind regards,
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s.47F(1)
Media Officer, Portfolio Media and Engagement Branch
Department of Home Affairs
Media line: s.47F(1) P: s.47F(1) E: xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
For-Official-Use-Only
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THE HON PETER DUTTON MP
MINISTER FOR HOME AFFAIRS
MEDIA RELEASE
MORRISION GOVERNMENT WILL CONTINUE TO PROTECT OUR BORDERS
The Morrison Government’s economic management underpins the investments needed to protect our borders
and keep Australians safe.
The Coalition’s strong border protection policies under Operation Sovereign Borders have ended the deaths
at sea and enabled us to close 19 detention centres, with al children placed in detention by Labor removed
from that detention.
We have achieved this by not compromising on our three proven border protection policies, which have
stopped the boats: regional processing, turn-backs where it is safe to do so, and temporary protection visas.
By closing detention centres, we returned $638 mil ion to the Budget and reclaimed control of the refugee and
humanitarian program from criminal syndicates.
We have increased Australia’s humanitarian intake to 18,750 in 2018-19, and welcomed to Australia an
additional 12,000 persecuted minority refugees from the conflict in Syria and Iraq.
We have restored vital resources to our border agencies, along with technology to enhance passenger
screening and automation and we have worked steadfastly on community protections by strengthening the
character requirements of visa holders and introducing the mandatory cancel ation of visas of non-citizens
who commit serious crimes.
In total, we have cancel ed the visas of over 4,400 non-citizen criminals.
By contrast, Labor’s promise to dismantle our proven three pil ars of border protection would hand control of
our border back to the people smugglers.
Last time they were in government, Labor’s policies hamstrung our border agencies and public confidence in
the migration program evaporated.
Labor hasn’t learnt their lesson and is seeking to return to these dangerous policies.
At every turn Labor has sought to water down the Government’s laws to protect the Australian community. In
office, they would go further stil .
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Only the Morrison Government has the necessary suite of proven policies to keep Australians safe and our
borders secure. You simply cannot trust Labor on border protection.
You can find out more about our Plan to Keep Our Borders Secure here:
https://www.liberal.org.au/our-plan-protect-our-borders-keep-australians-safe?
9 May 2019
Media Contact: Coalition Campaign Headquarters: T: (07) 3557 7533 / E: xxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
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From:
Media Operations
To:
Media Operations
Subject:
Commitments and Announcements: 16 May [DLM=For-Official-Use-Only]
Date:
Thursday, 16 May 2019 6:21:03 PM
Attachments:
190516 Media Release Community and Public Sector Union Coalition axe to cut another $1.5b and 3000
jobs from public sector.PDF
190516 Media Release Gordon Ramsay and Mick Gentleman Tougher laws to combat organised crime.PDF
190516 Media Release High Resolves Australian Government supports High Resolves’ school-based
programs tackling hatred and intolerance.PDF
190516 Media Release JOSH FRYDENBERG and MATHIAS CORMANN RESPONSIBLE BUDGET
MANAGEMENT UNDER THE COALITION.PDF
190516 Media Release Linda Reynolds and Craig Crawford DISASTER ASSISTANCE EXTENDED TO
LONGREACH PRIMARY PRODUCERS AFTER TC TREVOR.pdf
190516 Media Release Linda Reynolds and David Elliot BUSHFIRE ASSISTANCE FOR COMMUNITIES
ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL WEST NEW SOUTH WALES.pdf
190516 Media Release Paul Fletcher Morrison Government backs school program to tackle intolerance.PDF
190516 Media Release Paul Fletcher MORRISON GOVERNMENT DELIVERS NATIONAL FUNDING BOOST
TO SUPPORT MIGRANT AND REFUGEE FAMILIES.PDF
190516 Media Release Police Association of South Australia Police Association approves of Labor’s bill to
protect emergency services workers.PDF
190516 Media Release Rachel Stephen-Smith Final Blueprint for Youth Justice Taskforce Report.PDF
190516 Media Release Suncorp Suncorp welcomes development on Rockhampton levee project.PDF
190516 Press Conference JOSH FRYDENBERG and MATHIAS CORMANN.PDF
190516 Speech Bill Shorten ADDRESS TO THE NSW VOTE FOR CHANGE RALLY BLACKTOWN.PDF
190516 Speech Scott Morrison NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, CANBERRA.PDF
190516 Media Release Australian Council of Trade Unions Morrison slashing jobs and handing out
contracts.PDF
Political Wrap - 16 May 2019.pdf
190516 Media Release Paul Fletcher MORRISON GOVERNMENT DELIVERS NATIONAL FUNDING BOOST
TO SUPPORT MIGRANT AND REFUGEE FAMILIES.PDF
For-Official-Use-Only
Good evening all,
Please see below the daily summary of key election commitments and announcements made by
the major parties. To view all election commitments recorded so far, you can browse the
Election Commitments Module (open in
Chrome ) and filter by portfolio, critical date, party
etc.
Major election commitments and announcements for 15 May 2019:
Coalition
·
Released its election costings – since Budget on 2 April, the Coalition has made $1.4
billion in new spending commitments over the forward estimates, building to $3.8 billion
over the medium term.
·
Commission an independent audit of NOPSEMA’s current consideration of exploration in
the Great Australian Bight
·
Committed that the Milton-Ulladulla Bypass will be the first project funded as part of
the Coalition’s commitment to the Princes Highway Corridor Strategy, providing up to
$400 million to the bypass project
·
Reiterated their commitment to create 1.25 million new jobs in the next five years
Labor
·
Announced it will cap the number of fixed term contracts an employee can be offered
before converting them into permanent employment
·
$13.5 million to expand Turning Point’s early intervention program to more Australians
struggling with addiction
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·
Announced their national policy framework for managing PFAS contamination around
Defence bases
·
Announced it will provide 25 $20,000 scholarships for Queensland students to work in
the hydrogen industry
·
$20 million towards a purpose-built Rail Technology Campus at the Chullora rail precinct
·
$6 million to a UNSW program to help more disadvantaged Australians attend university
PORTFOLIO RELATED TRANSCRIPTS & MEDIA RELEASES:
·
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONs: Morrison slashing jobs and handing out
contracts (attached)
·
COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC SECTOR UNION: Coalition axe to cut another $1.5b and
3000 jobs from public sector (attached)
·
RAMSAY and GENTLEMAN:
Tougher laws to combat organised crime (attached)
·
HIGH RESOLVES: Australian Government supports High Resolves’ school-based
programs tackling hatred and intolerance (attached)
·
FRYDENBERG and CORMANN:
Responsible Budget Management Under The Coalition
(attached)
·
REYNOLDS and CRAWFORD:
Disaster Assistance Extended To Longreach Primary
Producers After Tc Trevor (attached)
·
REYNOLDS and ELLIOT:
Bushfire Assistance For Communities Across Northern And
Central West New South Wales (attached)
·
FLETCHER:
Morrison Government backs school program to tackle intolerance (attached)
·
FLETCHER:
Morrison Government Delivers National Funding Boost To Support Migrant
And Refugee Families (attached)
·
POLICE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA:
Police Association approves of Labor’s bill
to protect emergency services workers (attached)
·
STEPHEN-SMITH:
Final Blueprint for Youth Justice Taskforce Report (attached)
·
SUNCORP:
Suncorp welcomes development on Rockhampton levee project (attached)
·
FRYDENBERG and CORMANN:
Transcript of Press Conference (attached)
·
SHORTEN:
Address To The NSW Vote For Change Rally Blacktown ( attached)
·
MORRISON:
Speech, National Press Club, Canberra (attached)
PORTFOLIO RELATED MEDIA COVERAGE:
·
Mirage News
: Australian Government supports High Resolves’ school-based programs
tackling hatred
Kind regards,
Media Operations
Department of Home Affairs
Home Affairs media line:
02 6264 2244
ABF media line:
02 6264 2211
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Thursday 16 May 2019
Morrison slashing jobs and handing out contracts
Morrison to slash 3,000 jobs and keep outsourcing services to top end of town
The peak body of working people has condemned the Morrison government’s attempt to hide
the destruction of 3,000 jobs in the public sector in its election eve costings.
This compares with the Labor commitment to hire an additional 1,200 DHS workers and
deliver real wage increases as per their commitments during the election.
Quotes attributable to ACTU Secretary Sally McManus:
“The Morrison government has spent its entire time in office undermining our public services
by outsourcing jobs and services to the big consulting firms and their mates at the top end of
town.
“As the election campaign comes to a close we now see that a re-elected Morrison government
will smash another 3,000 jobs ripping away the livelihoods or dedicated public sector workers.
“By contrast the Labor Party has committed to real improvements in public services, increases
in DHS staffing and proper wage increases following years of deliberate low wages by the
Liberal/National Coalition.
“This latest attack shows the total disregard Scott Morrison and his party have for the jobs and
services that so many Australian’s rely on and simply provides another reason to Change the
Government on Saturday May 18th.”
Media contact: Peter Green 0400 764 200, ACTU Media: 03 9664 7315
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MEDIA RELEASE
Coalition axe to cut another $1.5b
and 3000 jobs from public sector
Thursday, 16 May 2019
The CPSU says the Coalition’s plans to slash another $1.5 billion from Commonwealth agencies will
mean at least 3000 jobs are cut and underlines why a change of government is urgently needed to
provide quality services and public sector jobs.
The Coalition has today released its election costings, revealing that a re-elected Coalition
government would renege on its previous funding commitments and instead impose a further $1.5
billion dollars in cuts to Commonwealth agencies through the so-called efficiency dividend.
By contrast, the Labor Party has committed to reduce the efficiency dividend next year, returning
$500 million to agencies in addition to other critical changes including scrapping the arbitrary
staffing cap, reining in wasteful spending on contractors, consultants and labour hire, adding 1200
DHS jobs and providing real wage increases for public sector workers.
CPSU National Secretary Nadine Flood said: “This $1.5 billion dollar cut to Commonwealth agencies,
putting 3000 jobs at risk, is the Coalition’s final insult to public sector workers and all Australians
who rely on the essential services they provide. Labor has adopted detailed and sensible policies to
rebuild public sector jobs, capacity and services, while the Liberal and National parties have now
confirmed they’re promising nothing but more damaging cuts and dysfunction.”
“These figures show the Coalition is planning to sack at least another 3000 people working in
Commonwealth agencies, causing even more damage to essential services the Australian people rely
on such as Centrelink and Medicare. The Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Government has been pillaging
the public sector for six years, selling it off to private interests piece by piece, and these 11th hour
costings show they’re planning more of the same if they’re re-elected.”
“This is how dodgy deals for the top end of town from the party that worships trickle-down
economics work. They slash essential services and the jobs to provide them, causing disasters like
robo-debt and over 40 million unanswered calls in Centrelink, then use that money to funnel
generous contracts to the big end of town. Even in the handful of agencies that would be exempt
from these Coalition cuts, like the NDIA, their arbitrary cap on staffing numbers will continue to do
tremendous damage and hold these agencies from providing the decent services that the general
public need and deserve.”
“It beggars belief that this mob is criticising Labor for its plans to cut off the billions of dollars the
Coalition has siphoned from Commonwealth agencies into the pockets of multinational companies
like EY, Deloitte, PwC and KPMG. These consulting firms have tripled the amount they’re reaping
from Commonwealth contracts since the Coalition came to power, and their political donations to
Authorised by Nadine Flood for Community and Public Sector Union (PSU Group), Sydney
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the Liberal Party reflect that fact. The Coalition are trying to trick and confuse people rather than
being honest about their neoliberal agenda.”
“The difference between the Coalition and Labor plans for the efficiency dividend tell the real story
about their commitment to Commonwealth agencies and the essential jobs and services they
provide. The Liberal and National parties are planning to rip another $1.5 billion out of agencies that
have already been decimated by their previous cuts, while Labor will restore $500 million in funding
and stop the contractor and consultant gravy train. Labor is not cutting 3000 plus workers, but
creating new jobs including 1200 in the Department of Human Services alone, and scrapping the ASL
cap so that agencies can directly employ more people rather than using labour hire and
contractors.”
MEDIA CONTACT: SIMON FRAZER 0409 493 290
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THE HON JOSH FRYDENBERG MP
TREASURER
SENATOR THE HON MATHIAS CORMANN
MINISTER FOR FINANCE AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE
MEDIA RELEASE
RESPONSIBLE BUDGET MANAGEMENT UNDER THE COALITION
The Morrison Government has maintained its commitment to responsible Budget management
during this election campaign and will continue to deliver a budget surplus this coming year and
every year over the forward estimates and the medium term.
Additional spending on election commitments by the Coalition, beyond what was already factored
into the 2019-20 Budget, has been modest and has been more than offset by additional savings.
Since the Budget delivered on 2 April 2019, the Coalition has made $1.4 billion in new spending
commitments over the forward estimates, building to $3.8 billion over the medium term.
This is more than offset by a reduction in departmental funding of $1.5 billion over the forward
estimates, building to $5 billion over the medium term.
This means a re-elected Coalition Government will reduce departmental funding by $600 million
less than Labor, who have announced a $2.1 billion cut to departmental funding.
That means that over the forward estimates departmental funding will reduce from $288.6 billion
to $287.1 billion over the forward estimates, whereas under Labor it would reduce further to
$286.5 billion.
Unlike Labor the Coalition will leave it to the judgement of departmental secretaries where those
efficiencies are best found.
If departmental secretaries assess that these efficiencies can best be secured through reductions in
expenditure on contractors, consultants and travel, because that makes sense from a value-for-
money point of view, then of course that is what the Coalition would expect them to do.
Efficiency outcomes will be better and more sensible by letting departmental secretaries make
those judgements based on value-for-money considerations.
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The net effect of all our policy commitments announced since the Budget during the election
campaign is a slight improvement to the budget surplus in each year of the current forward
estimates period, without increasing taxes.
This leads to a slight overall increase in the cumulative surplus, now expected to be $45.1 billion
over the next four years.
In contrast Labor has abandoned any pretence of budget responsibility.
Labor’s own costings reveal a massive $35 billion in additional spending on its promises over the
forward estimates, and $112 billion over the medium term.
However, its spending goes well beyond this. Just one day after Labor released its costings, Bill
Shorten promised a further $10 billion in spending.
Labor’s costings do not account for a series of expensive spending promises they have made
costing more than $40 billion over the forward estimates and more than $240 billion over the next
decade.
The Coalition has made a lot of progress in rebuilding our economy and repairing the Budget.
There is more to do. This is not the time to turn back to Labor’s fiscal mismanagement. The
Coalition has the right plan to build our economy and secure Australia’s future.
Our plan to deliver Budget surpluses without increasing taxes - https://www.liberal.org.au/our-
plan-deliver-budget-surpluses-without-increasing-taxes
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Rachel Stephen-Smith MLA
Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Affairs
Minister for Disability
Minister for Children, Youth and Families
Minister for Employment and Workplace Safety
Minister for Government Services and
Procurement
Minister for Urban Renewal
Member for Kurrajong
16 May 2019
Final Blueprint for Youth Justice Taskforce Report
The final report from the Blueprint for Youth Justice Taskforce shows steady progress is being made
as the ACT Government works to improve outcomes for children, young people and families involved
in the youth justice system.
The Taskforce was established in 2017 to review progress on the
Blueprint for Youth Justice in the
ACT 2012-2022 (the Blueprint), the ACT Government’s framework for reform in the youth justice
system.
Released today, the final report shows that an increased focus on early support, prevention and
diversion of young people from the youth justice system is delivering results.
Since 2011- 2012, the number of young people under youth justice supervision has decreased by
27%. The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people under youth justice
supervision has decreased by 33%.
While these numbers are positive, we know there is more work to be done. The over-representation
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people remains a critical focus for the government, as
does delivering trauma-informed supports and services for young people and their families
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The report makes recommendations across ten focus areas to inform the future direction of the ACT
youth justice system. These recommendations identify existing initiatives to be built on and address
a number of new and emerging challenges.
As we move into the final four years of the Blueprint, it is important we continue to provide support
services to ensure children, young people and families are safe, strong and connected.
The Taskforce included representatives from key community groups, organisations and government agencies,
and was co-chaired by Jodie Griffiths-Cook, the Public Advocate and Children and Young People
Commissioner and Dr Mark Collis, former Executive Director, Children, Youth and Families in the Community
Services Directorate. I thank all Taskforce members for their work and commitment to this process.
A copy of the Final Blueprint for Youth Justice Taskforce Report can be found here:
www.communityservices.act.gov.au/youth/the blueprint for youth justice in the act
Statement ends
Media contact/s:
Caitlin Cook T (02) 6207 8731
M 0434 702 827 xxxxxxx.xxxx@xxx.xxx.xx
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Media Release
16 May 2019
Suncorp welcomes development on Rockhampton levee project
Suncorp has welcomed yesterday’s announcement by the Queensland Government that public consultation wil
commence on the South Rockhampton Flood Levee.
The project wil provide flood mitigation for the Rockhampton community and is being fast tracked through a
streamlined process.
Suncorp has been a strong supporter of flood mitigation in Rockhampton because it has long been a dangerously
exposed community.
Suncorp Insurance CEO Gary Dransfield said he welcomed the important development for a critical infrastructure
project in Rockhampton.
“This project wil not only strengthen the local economy by minimising disruption and productivity loss but ease
the cost of living pressures, and even potential y save lives,” Mr Dransfield said.
“We must acknowledge al levels of government for funding the project, particularly Rockhampton Regional
Council and the Mayor for designing and championing this for many years now.
“Suncorp looks forward to receiving data and information about the project and get ing on with the important
business of re-pricing premiums for those households and buildings that stand to directly benefit from the reduced
flood risk,” he said.
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For more information contact:
Media
Kate Sinclair - 0448 288 281
Suncorp Group Ltd - ABN 66 145 290 124 – Level 28, 266 George Street, Brisbane Qld 4000
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16 May 2019
THE HON. JOSH FRYDENBERG MP
TREASURER
SENATOR THE HON. MATHIAS CORMANN
MINISTER FOR FINANCE AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE
TRANSCRIPT
CPO, MELBOURNE
Subjects: Coalition’s responsible Budget management, East West Link
EO&E..................................................................
JOSH FRYDENBERG:
Well, it is great to be here with my friend and ministerial colleague, Mathias Cormann, the
Finance Minister.
When the Coalition came to government, six years ago, economic growth was lower,
unemployment was higher, investment was weaker and there were budget deficits as far as
the eye could see. As a result of the Coalition’s strong economy management, we have
helped create more than 1.3 million new jobs and today’s jobs figures show that 28,000 new
jobs were created in the last month and 320,000 new jobs were created over the last year.
Eight out of 10 of those jobs have been full-time and female workforce participation is now at a
record high and workforce participation rate is also now at a record high.
In addition to our jobs growth, we have also, as a result of policies the Coalition has put in
place, provided tax relief for millions of Australian families and businesses. That helps grow
the economy and ensures that people not only earn more, but keep more of what they earn.
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We also announced in the most recent budget, the surplus for 2019-20 – the first surplus in
more than a decade – and consecutive surpluses over the forward estimates to we pay back
all of Labor’s debt at the end of the decade. Unlike Labor, our spending commitments have
been targeted, costed and funded and, as Mathias will now outline, have all been more than
offset by savings.
The Coalition are offering the Australian people at this election, an opportunity to vote for a
government and for the Liberal and National Parties who will continue to deliver strong
economic growth, more than 1.25 million new jobs over the next five years, tax relief for hard-
working Australians and record funding on infrastructure – more than $100 billion of
infrastructure funding committed – more apprentices and record funding on the essential
services of schools, hospitals, aged care, disability support, support for our carers that
Australians need and deserve.
We will meet all those commitments, without increasing taxes. The same cannot be said of the
Labor Party. The Labor Party are saying to the Australian people that they will impose a $387
billion burden of higher taxes, higher taxes on retirees, home owners, renters, people who
have put money into superannuation, people who have run a family business, people who
simply go to work and want to put more income into their pockets and into their families’
pockets.
Remember, the more that Labor spends, the more that Labor taxes – and the more that Labor
taxes, the weaker the Australian economy. That’s the choice. Vote 1 for the Liberal Party and
for the National Party, for a stronger economy and for more jobs. The Labor Party will only
deliver you higher taxes.
MATHIAS CORMANN:
Thank you very much Treasurer.
Our costings show that we have been very frugal with our election commitments in this
campaign.
$1.4 billion in additional expenditure on election commitments under the Coalition, which
stands in stark contrast with Labor’s $35 billion spending spree over the same period. And
that is looking at their own costings.
When taking the cost of all of Labor’s spending promises into account, they have made
promises in excess of $75 billion over the current forward estimates period, building to more
than $350 billion in higher spending over the next decade.
Importantly all of our spending commitments during this election campaign have been more
than paid for with a $1.5 billion reduction in expenditure.
In contrast – Labor is just lazily going after retirees, hardworking mums and dads and family
businesses with higher taxes.
Bill Shorten really is the Bill Australia can’t afford.
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Labor does not know how to manage money, which is why they come after yours.
Labor’s billions and billions of dollars in higher taxes would harm our economy, cost jobs and
leave all Australians worse off.
Higher income tax under Labor means less take home pay. Lower income tax under the
Liberal and National party means higher take home pay.
In contrast to Labor’s approach our economic plan is designed to keep building a stronger
economy to secure our future and to ensure Australians have the best possible opportunity to
get ahead.
Our costings show that as a result of more than paying for our election commitments with real
savings that the budget bottom line will improve slightly to $45.1 billion in cumulative
surpluses over the forward estimates.
This is not the time to turn back to Labor’s harmful high taxing agenda.
You can stop Labor’s high taxing agenda by voting Liberal or National on Saturday by voting
for your Liberal National candidates at this election.
QUESTION:
Why did you wait until two days before an election to announce your costings, when Labor did
it a week ago?
MATHIAS CORMANN:
We actually delivered a budget on 2 April. This is a very small set of additional measures that
has been announced. We have made a series of announcements during this campaign and at
the end of having made these announcements, we are reconciling against a budget that was
delivered only a short time ago.
This is the first time that Labor has come out with any sort of presentation of the fiscal impact
of their spending promises.
They have not come clean with the Australian people. All they showed the Australian people is
$35 billion in higher spending over the forward estimates period when, in fact, they are posing
to spend about $75 billion more over the forward estimates period, building to about $350
billion in higher spending over the next decade. That $350 billion in higher spending under
Labor compares to about $3.5 billion in additional spending under the Coalition, except that
our spending commitments have been more than paid for by savings whereas Labor's
spending spree is paid for on the back of higher taxes which harm the economy, cost jobs and
leave all Australians worse off.
QUESTION:
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If Victoria swings hard against the Government, do you think there should be a serious review
of the Liberal Party’s factionalism and in-fighting?
JOSH FRYDENBERG:
Look, we are focusing on not just holding the seats that we currently hold in Victoria, but
actually winning seats off the Labor Party and I point, for example, to Kate Ashmor in the seat
of Macnamara and she is fighting very hard to win that seat off the Labor Party.
This election, as Mathias and I have made clear, presents a very clear choice to the Australian
people and to the people here in Victoria, of course – and that is a Coalition that is committed
to a stronger economy as a means of providing more jobs and guaranteeing the essential
services that people expect, need and deserve and a Labor Party with $387 billion of higher
taxes. That is the ‘Bill’ Australians cannot afford.
You get up in the morning, he is going to tax you more. You go to work, he is going to tax you
more. You want to save, he is going to tax you more. You want to invest in a property or a
share portfolio, he is going to tax you more. You want to put money into your superannuation,
he is going to tax you more. You become a retiree, he is going to tax you more. Whichever
way you look, Bill Shorten and Labor will tax you more.
QUESTION:
Mr Frydenberg, that is not really answering the question though. If Victoria does swing hard
against the Government on the back of a pretty bad state election result for you guys – and
there has been a lot of in-fighting and factionalism that certainly has not helped you – will
there be a review into…
JOSH FRYDENBERG:
Well, with the greatest respect, what I am saying to you is that we are contesting an election
this Saturday. You are already looking beyond this Saturday, I am looking to this Saturday, to
the Morrison Government being re-elected. We have a very strong plan for the people of
Victoria and for the people of Australia and I have been buoyed by the response that I have
had, not just in my electorate, but that my colleagues have had across the state.
MATHIAS CORMANN:
Let me add to this. This election is not about us. This is not about Scott Morrison or Josh
Frydenberg or Mathias Cormann or the Canberra bubble. This election is about the Australian
people. This election is about a choice between a team committed to building a stronger
economy and Labor's high taxing agenda which will make our economy weaker. This is a
choice between a team committed to give families around Australia the best possible
opportunity to get ahead and the alternative which is chasing them with ever higher taxes
which would harm the economy and leave them worse off. This is about making sure that the
Australian people have the government that they need to give them the best possible
opportunity to get ahead.
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QUESTION:
Treasurer, just on, last one on Victoria, are you concerned about the polls though? That show
the primary vote for Liberals has dramatically fallen in line with the state election last year.
JOSH FRYDENBERG:
I have actually been buoyed by the response that our candidates have had on the ground and
we have a very strong economic plan. I point you to some of the infrastructure spending that
we have outlined here for Victorians. I mean, it has taken 50 years, half a century, to get a
government to commit to a fast rail between Melbourne and the airport – we have done it, $5
billion, we have put that down. Melbourne is growing, as you know, by 2000 people a week,
putting real pressure on our services and particularly public transport. We have put down $2
billion in the Budget for fast rail between Melbourne and Geelong.
We have also got congestion busting infrastructure right across the state, including removing
a level crossing at Kooyong station which is important to the people of Kooyong and Higgins.
We have got commuter car parks right around the state. What we are focused on is getting
people to work earlier, but importantly, getting them home to their families sooner and safer.
We have the plan to do that and that has hit the mark with Victorians.
QUESTION:
Just on the infrastructure spending and the costings, what about the East West Link? The $4
billion there, if I am right, as a contingent liability. Is that disingenuous to include it as a
contingent liability rather than…
JOSH FRYDENBERG:
I will say something and then Mathias will no doubt want to add. Only the Coalition is
promising to build the East West Link and we are not looking for a cent from Daniel Andrews.
We are putting $4 billion of taxpayers’ money to work, if he gives us the go ahead, because
we are focused on delivering for these people across Melbourne.
Some 100,000 commuters will be using the East West Link when it is up and running – and
that will save them 20 minutes on a journey, it will bypass 23 sets of traffic lights – and Daniel
Andrews has made it very clear, he is not focused on those communities in Melbourne. Well,
we are – and that is why we are putting $4 billion to work, to build the East West Link.
Something we have taken to the last two federal elections and two federal elections that we
have won.
MATHIAS CORMANN:
So the Labor party here in Victoria spent $1 billion of taxpayers' money not to build a road. $1
billion of taxpayers' money spent by the Labor party here in Victoria not to build a road.
People here in Victoria know that the East West Link is absolutely necessary. What the
Australian Government says to the people of Victoria and the people of Melbourne is, we are
committed to build it. Our message to Daniel Andrews and the Labor party here in Victoria is,
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get out of the way. Get out of the way. This is a project that people in Victoria need, that
people in Melbourne need. We are committed to making it happen.
[ENDS]
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BILL SHORTEN MP
LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION
SHADOW MINISTER FOR INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS
& ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS
MEMBER FOR MARIBYRNONG
ADDRESS TO THE NSW VOTE FOR CHANGE RALLY
BLACKTOWN
THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
Women and Men of Australia!
Forty-seven years ago, when an earlier Labor generation filled this marvellous
hall with their hope and their passion, the door was ajar for our nation.
And Australians had to choose.
Would we hide from change? Would we turn our backs on the world?
Would we shrink into our familiar habits and submit to our old fears?
Or would we cross the threshold, would we push open the door?
Would we broaden the sweep of our national ambition, would we reach for
something bigger and bolder than more of the same?
Would we step forward into a more confident, more modern, more self-reliant
future?
This was the choice then – and this is the choice this week and this year and
now.
Once again, we put it to the men and women of Australia, from this hall.
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Our nation must choose:
“The habits and fears of the past or the demands and
opportunities of the future.”
The habits and fears of the past or the opportunities and the demands of the
future.
This was where Australians chose the future.
Universal healthcare, for every Australian, launched here.
Access to university to working class kids was created here.
Equality for women, championed here.
A new sense of Australian identity – drawn from every culture in the world and
home to the world’s oldest living culture – was articulated here.
It was here that new connections, new infrastructure, new respect for Western
Sydney and the suburbs of Australia, started right here.
And now we gather here – with our country on a threshold of a new decade,
facing again the choice between the past and the future.
The nation’s door to the future stands ajar.
And we ask the men and women of Australia to vote for change.
On May the 18th, we ask you to vote for new ideas, new equality of opportunity.
We ask the women and men of Australia to vote for new purpose and new
energy in a new decade.
And we ask you to vote for the new vision, the new stability, the new
determination of a new Labor Government.
Never before has your decision and your vote been more important.
Never has the case for change been more clear or more urgent.
Because just as Blacktown tells us the story of the change that Australia voted
for back then, it also speaks for why our country should vote for change now.
When Gough’s voice rang through this grand hall in 1972 our public schools
were suffering from neglect and underfunding, the price of health care was
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beyond the reach of people in need and the economy was not working for
working people.
Now think about Australia today kids missing out in classrooms all around the
nation.
People going broke, paying for their cancer treatment, pensioners who
cannot afford to see a dentist.
Working parents are battling the rising cost of child care, workers are battling
stagnant wages and growing job insecurity.
The three challenges then remain fundamental now – but there is a new
challenge that the previous generation could not have imagined.
I speak of the delay and denial on climate change.
Climate change is threatening our environment, our economy and our children’s
future.
The problems facing our nation are real – and they are growing.
But we are not despondent. We do not preach despair.
We know Australia can solve these problems.
And – friends – we can start on May the 18th.
Today we say to our fellow Australians who want to see their wages moving
again and their penalty rates restored – vote for change.
To the people who want more hours of work but can’t find them, to the people
working two jobs with no safety net and no security – vote for change.
To the young people who cannot find an apprenticeship, to older Australians
who cannot get a foot back in the job door because they’ve got too much grey
in their hair – vote for change.
To the working mums who are tired of seeing their whole salary eaten up by the
cost of child care – vote for change.
To the small businesses enduring the frustration of a third-rate NBN – vote for
change.
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To our fellow Australians battling cancer, the ones we love, in the fight of their
lives, paying thousands of dollars out of their own pockets for the scans and the
tests because the system is not free – vote for change.
To the women fleeing family violence who cannot find a safe place for them or
their children to stay – vote for change.
To the nurses and the patients in the overcrowded, under-funded emergency
rooms – vote for change.
To the dairy farmers on the land getting up at 3am in the morning but being
ripped off at the farm gate – vote for change.
To the First Australians being excluded from the opportunities, denied the
justice that the rest of us take for granted – vote for change.
To our fellow Australians who live with profound and severe disability and their
loving carers being failed and forgotten by the cuts to the National Disability
Insurance Scheme – vote for change.
To the pensioners down on confidence, short on quality of life because they
cannot afford to get their teeth fixed up – vote for change.
To the countless Australians who are sick of political infighting and instability
and chaos in the Government – vote for change.
And to Australians of all ages, from all walks of life and every part of our nation
who are waiting for the politicians to finally wake up, to protect the environment,
to act on climate change – vote for change.
And if you vote Labor we will deliver the change that the nation deserves from
day one.
The very first item of business at our very first Cabinet meeting will be a new
Commonwealth submission to the Fair Work Commission for a real wage
increase for the working people of this country.
The first laws that we will seek to pass will be the restoration of Sunday penalty
rates for working people.
And we will pass tax cuts for 10 million working and middle class people in this
country.
We will convene Parliament to prioritise real action on climate change,
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expanding the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, to help drive 50 per cent
renewable energy in our system.
I promise that we will send a message to the world that when it comes to
climate change – Australia is back in the fight.
It is not the Australian way to avoid and duck the hard fights.
We will take this emergency seriously – and will not just leave it to other
countries or to the next generation.
We are up for real action on climate change now if we get elected on Saturday.
The history of our great movement, the story of our great nation, all of our
shared struggle and success tells us that every bit of change, every step
forward, every inch of progress, is hard-won, hard-fought and hard work.
And we knew, my team and I, from the moment that we rejected the tyranny of
low ambition and the politics of small targets and chose instead to present a
positive vision for the future.
We knew the scare campaigns and the fear-mongering would surely follow.
We knew all of the weight and the wealth of the status quo would be deployed
against us.
We present to Australia our plan for a Fair Go for All and meanwhile those who
profit and benefit from the current inequality – the immediate unfairness in our
society – they campaign against us.
Our political opponents stand where they always have stood: against change,
against progress and as servants to the same vested interests:
the big banks and big business;
the multinationals and the tax minimisers;
the employers who rely on exploitation and wages theft as a business
model;
they stand with those real estate agents sponsoring scare campaigns to
defend their commissions;
they stand with the polluters who prefer to pocket a payment rather than
clean up their act.
And on top of this, they are doing preference deals with a billionaire who
spends ten times what he owes his workers promoting himself.
It is clear enough who the vested interests are barracking for at this election.
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But for all of their money and all of their power and all of their sense of
entitlement and all of their platforms – they don’t get to decide who governs this
country.
In our democracy, that power, that inalienable privilege, that responsibility,
belongs to you, the people of Australia.
And have no doubt about the choice that people face.
There are only two possible governments of Australia contesting this election.
Our stable, united and talented Labor team or a Coalition of Chaos.
And when our region is transforming, when our economy is evolving, when our
climate is changing even more dramatically and more quickly than ever before
– three more years of dysfunction and division will not just mean the nation
standing still, it will mean going backwards.
Friends, the world will not wait for Australia – it never has.
If our country is to compete and succeed in the 2020s we need our government
united by purpose – not divided by chaos.
My opponent today said: “This is not the time to turn back.”
Really?
Well I say cuts to schools and hospitals are not the way forward.
Wage stagnation and job insecurity are not the way forward.
Unfairness and growing inequality are not the way forward.
Extremism and racism are not the way forward.
Chaos and division is not the way forward.
Denial and delay on climate change is not the way forward.
There is only one way to get Australia heading in the right direction – vote
Labor on May the 18th.
Friends, Little Pattie is here with us today.
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On that historic night, November night, 47 years ago, I don’t know how Pattie
felt about the words that she sang or the speeches that she heard.
I don’t know if she could imagine how many of the ideas shared in this hall
would then become the law of the land.
I don’t know if she could guess that the vision that was revealed that night
would be still be part of our contemporary national identity today.
But friends that’s what Labor Governments do, we change the country for the
better
.
It is why we seek government – not for history’s sake and not for our own.
Not for the trappings or ornamentation of office – but for the opportunity to build
things that last.
To change the nation forever, to write Australia larger and better.
So, friends, I say to you today: leave here with pride, leave here with your head
up, leave here with belief.
Leave here ready to vote for change, ready to carry the momentum into the
final 48 hours.
And when you’re on the pre-poll, when you’re making those final calls, when
you are handing out the Labor ticket on Saturday, take every chance you get.
Tell your friends and your neighbours and your fellow citizens why you are
voting for change, why you are voting Labor.
Go from here and tell people you’re voting Labor because you want to see
working people get a pay rise, to get their Sunday penalty rates back.
Tell people you’re voting Labor because you want a million households to get
an extra $2,000 per child to help with the cost of childcare.
Tell people you’re voting Labor because you believe in Closing the Gap and
enshrining our First Australians in the Constitution, the nation’s birth certificate.
Tell people when you leave here you’re voting Labor to provide the funding and
the staff and the services and the dignity to transform the NDIS from a noble
promise into a life-changing reality for hundreds of thousands of our fellow
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Australians.
Tell people you’re voting to put back the $14 billion cut back into public schools
because every child deserves the best start in life, including universal pre-
school for every 3 and 4 year old Australian child.
Tell people you’re voting Labor to keep the doors of our universities open to
working-class kids and students from the bush, to restore 150,000
apprenticeships and training places and to rebuild public TAFE in this country.
Tell people you’re voting Labor because you want a more independent foreign
policy, speaking with our values, with an Australian accent – a genuine
partnership in the Pacific and a view of Asia that doesn’t dumb the region down
to “threats” or “customers.”
Leave here today and declare that you’re voting Labor so 3 million pensioners
and seniors will have their dental care, covered by Medicare.
Go out into your community, tell people you’re voting Labor to not just protect
Medicare but to expand Medicare.
Because if you are battling cancer you shouldn’t have to cash in your super or
your life savings or worry about burdening your family with a debt to pay for
your treatment after you are gone.
Tell people you’re voting Labor because while cancer makes you sick, in a rich
and prosperous nation like Australia it should not make you poor.
Tell people that you are voting Labor because you want to restore trust in our
political system with a National Integrity Commission.
Or because after 250 years of borrowing a monarch from the other side of the
world, it is time for an Australian Head of State.
Tell the commuters at your railway station you’re voting Labor because we are
the party of public transport, the party of quality infrastructure for the suburbs
and the regions.
Tell people you’re voting Labor to nourish and cherish and build the arts, telling
our Australian story and saving our ABC.
Tell people you’re voting Labor because you choose hope over fear, you
choose a vision of the future over an empty, threadbare scare campaign.
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Tell people you’re voting Labor because you want to see the most talented,
experienced and passionate Shadow Ministry in a generation become a great
Labor Government.
Tell them you’re voting Labor because you want the Father of Reconciliation to
be in charge of Indigenous Affairs.
And you want a Treasurer from Smithfield.
You want Albo building the roads and the rail and we want Penny Wong on the
world stage.
And tell them you’re voting Labor because you want equality for women and
opportunity in education to be championed by the Deputy Prime Minister Tanya
Plibersek.
And friends go forth from here and tell people you’re voting Labor so you can
look at your children and your grandchildren, look them in the eye and say: “We
fought for a better environment”.
So that years from now you can tell them that you didn’t fall for the fear
campaign, you didn’t capitulate to the deniers and the delayers.
Here we have a chance for you to be able to say that when the moment
beckoned, when the time came and the decision was ours, this generation of
Australians, this generation of parents, this generation of voters – tell them that
we decided to do the responsible thing for the environment, that we did the
smart thing for our economy and we did the right thing for our future
generations.
I say to the women and men of Australia, vote Labor because we are the only
party with the courage and the principles and the plan to take real action on
climate action.
My fellow Australians, the door to a better, bolder and more equal and exciting
future stands ajar.
Do we have the capacity to push through it?
A chance for a smarter, more progressive Australia is before us.
The choice for Australia to be a leader in the world is ours to make.
And the power is in your hands.
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Stop the cuts. Vote for Change. Vote Labor.
End the chaos. Vote for Change. Vote Labor.
Bring back the fair go. Vote for Change. Vote for Labor.
Reject the habits and the fears of the past and step up to the demands and
opportunities of our future. Vote for Change. Vote Labor.
And for the health of our environment, for the qualities of our lives, for the
ambitions of our children. Vote for Change. Vote Labor.
Thank you very much.
ENDS
MEDIA CONTACT: LABOR CAMPAIGN MEDIA - 02 9165 8299
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The Hon. Scott Morrison MP
Prime Minister
TRANSCRIPT
SPEECH
NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, CANBERRA
THURSDAY 16 MAY 2019
E&OE…
[Applause]
PRIME MINISTER: Thank you very much, Sabra. Can I begin by acknowledging the Ngunnawal People,
elders, past, present and emerging, can I also acknowledge any serving men and women in our Defence
forces, or any veterans who are in the room and simply say to you, thank you for your service. I'm very
pleased to be here today. This is an important tradition and part of our electoral process here in
Australia. That the leaders of both parties, major parties going into an Election present themselves
before the National Press Club. It's part of the process, it's part of what Australians, I think, expect; for
our leaders to come and submit themselves to our dear friends in the media here in Canberra before the
election. It's about accountability. It's about submitting yourself to scrutiny. It's about showing respect
for the electoral process and the decision that Australians will make importantly this weekend.
Election campaigns are not coronation tours as some seem to think they are. There’s an event
happening somewhere else today, elsewhere in the country, in Sydney where I understand that is much
more the tone of that event. Very much focused on a self-congratulatory process in a party hoopla-style
event. That’s not what's happening here today. What's happening here today, is part of the discipline of
our electoral process in this country; fronting up to take the questions which I'm pleased to do.
I understand, my advice is that it's been a long time since Leader of the Opposition has not presented
themselves here for such an address. You’ve got to go back to John Hewson in 1993.
Anyway, that said I'm pleased to be here and happy to have the opportunity to share with Australians
and to be subject to the questions of the media today. This will be a close election. That is not
something I think anyone was writing two months ago, six months ago, eight months ago or even longer.
But it is a close election and it will be a close election and that is certainly, I think, the consensus that has
emerged particularly in recent days, a fact now realised.
What that means to Australians watching this today is you will decide. Every single vote that is cast on
this weekend, this Saturday, will decide who leads our country for the next three years. Who will form
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government and it will determine not just the three years that are in front of us, but I believe the next
decade that Australia will live in, The next decade of the economy that Australians will live in and the
choices that they will have. So every Australian, as you are making up your minds in the last few days, as
so many more will and even as they walk towards the ballot box on Saturday, they will be making up
their minds. Don't let anyone tell you that this election is run and done. Don't let anyone tell you that
your vote doesn’t count - because it will. Every single vote will count. You are empowered with this
great and important choice.
Australians I think take their elections very seriously and always have. But you know, it doesn't mean
that they spend all their waking moments thinking about politics. That's reserved for Canberra, I think.
They don't think about this all the time. But that doesn't mean they take this decision less seriously than
anyone else. They don't think about it all the time, because frankly they have better things to do with
their lives and they expect those who come and form governments and leaders who they elect, to get
on and do the job, to get about it.
And they go back to what they get about; their daily lives. Raising their families, run their businesses, go
to work, save to buy a home, buy a home, study to secure a better future for themselves, save for their
retirement so they can be independent and have choices, care for perhaps a disabled child or an elderly
parent, or indeed your partner, over the course of your entire life and it’s now your job - your loving job
- to be providing care to your partner in your closing years. To enjoy life by spending it with friends and
family. To volunteer at local sports clubs or at the local surf lifesaving club or the Rural Fire Service or
the emergency services, being part of the community. These are the honest, decent, humble aspirations
of Australians going about their lives. That's what they are focused on. That's what matters to them.
They have no time for shouty debates in politics. They have no time for Twitter trolling, sit-in protests,
sit-in protests or any of these other forms of political activity. They’re too busy doing the things that
matter most to them and frankly build our country and make it stronger every single day. They are
Australians going quietly about their lives, planning and steadfastly pursuing their own goals for their
own futures.
Over the course of this campaign, well before and over my entire political and public life and indeed before
that, I’ve had the great privilege of meeting with Australians right around the country and listening
carefully with them. Those who have just bought their home or saving for it, small business owners and
the smile on their face as they tell me about the young apprentice who is just about to complete that four
and a half year apprenticeship. How they have helped change that young person's life. Another family
who has started a family business, one that's been running it for 30 years and is passing it on to their next
generation. Or in farms hit by floods, farms hit by drought, just carefully listening to them. Australians
who are retiring from a lifetime of hard work, having paid taxes and are now looking forward to pursuing
their retirement together with their loved ones.
You know, I think Australia is made stronger, by Australians. It's Australians that are the source of our
strength. It’s them pursuing their own aspirations that makes our country strong. The lives they wish to
lead, the families they form, the homes that they make, the businesses they start and run, the savings
they put aside, the communities they build, the legacy they leave. That is what makes Australia stronger,
more resilient, safer, more secure. Australians being Australians.
I believe that this election is not so much at all about Australians deciding which side they’re going to be
on, Liberal, Labor and the many other myriad choices there are, it's got nothing to do with that. They’re
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trying to work out; ‘Which one of these are on my side?’ That's the question they’re asking. It's not about
joining the blue team or the red team. It's about asking; ‘Which of those teams is actually for me and
focused on me and what I want for my family and what I'm trying to achieve? Do they think I'm the answer
or do they think they are?’ I believe that's what Australians are doing as we go across this election.
So, I see my job in this campaign as Prime Minister leading a Liberal and National Government, it’s not to
convince Australians to join my side, but to demonstrate to them each and every day I have the privilege
to serve, that our Government and our policies are firmly on theirs.
I believe Australians have also become far more discerning, even more discerning in making these choices.
Far more realistic too, when forming judgements about who really is on their side. They quickly see
through I think today, tired old claims that if the government could just spend more of your money, they
could solve all of your problems. They've seen that before and they've seen where it ends. They know
they end up paying for it and paying for it and paying for it.
So as we go into this election, I think Australians are not looking for big-spending, big-taxing programmes
directed up as vision. That's no vision.
What they’re looking for is something that's real, something that's credible, something that's achievable
and is being achieved. Something they know they can afford - not the bill they can't afford - something
that they know they can rely on and someone they know they can really trust.
At this election, my proposal is actually quite straightforward. I have been making it each and every day.
I believe that Australians are the answer to meeting the challenges that we face as a nation. I believe
Australians are the answer to securing our future prosperity and the opportunities that are there in front
of us.
I believe they are. Our Government believes that
Australians are the source of a stronger economy and a
stronger society and a safer nation. We choose - our government - your aspirations, we choose the life,
the job, the future you see for yourself in your town, in your home, in your suburb, in your family. We
don't see our Government as the centre of your world, we see you as the centre of our world, as a
government, putting your aspirations and what you want to achieve at the top of our list.
See, there will be a bit of talk today about; ‘it's time’. Well, let me tell you what it's time for, let me tell
you what it’s really time for today. It’s time to create 1.25 million new jobs and that's what our economic
plan outlines. It’s time to see 250,000 more small and family businesses created in this country, creating
prosperity and opportunities for people right across our country. It’s time to see 250,000 young people
over the next five years go and get a job, and get that job because of the economy that they are living in
and the choices they have and the support of programmes. Whether it’s support for 80,000 new
apprentices to get that training or to ensure that the businesses they will go and work for will be there
and they’ll be thriving. Not just in our big cities but right across the country whether it’s out there in
Wangaratta where I was yesterday or up in Gladstone or over in Perth, in Kununurra, down in the suburbs
of Adelaide or indeed with ‘J-Rod’ over there just out of Launceston. Quite a character, I hope you get the
chance to meet him, I certainly enjoyed meeting him. He’s a great guy.
So creating 1.25 million jobs is what it’s time for. That’s what our economic plan has being delivering and
what it will continue to deliver. 1.3 million jobs already created. I won’t go through all the statistics today
because you’ve heard them, 100,000 jobs for young people that we created in just one year. That’s what
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it’s time for. It’s time for a stronger economy to continue, it’s also time to maintain and achieve those
Budget surpluses that pay down the debt. From a Government that knows how to do that job and has
proved itself to do that job. The Budget comes back into surplus for the first time next year in twelve
years. Not by accident, not by chance, but by a Government that knows how to keep its expenditure under
control and it’s taxes, to support a stronger economy. To ensure that Australians are taken off welfare
and put into work. That’s what is balancing the Budget. Not higher taxes.
What is balancing the Budget, is the hard work of Australians each and every day, being supported and
enabled and facilitated by a Government that understands that it’s a stronger economy that makes
Australia stronger, not government taking all of your money and pretending to have all the answers.
It’s time to continue to deliver the tax relief that Australians deserve. Not just the tax relief that we have
already legislated, but the tax relief that we will legislate if elected this Saturday and we recall the
Parliament and we pass those laws, to provide further tax relief for families and small and family
businesses into the future. Tax relief that enables Australians. You know tax can sometimes be a pretty
dry topic, it’s not one that is often talked about in the pubs and clubs of Australia - except when it comes
time to pay it. If someone is asking you to pay more, that’s for sure. But let me tell you why tax is such an
important issues to define the difference between the alternatives at this election.
If you think that Australians are really the answer to the questions being posed to our country at the
moment then you ensure that they keep more of what they earn. If you really think that.
If you don’t you think the government should have more of what they earn. Because you think that the
government is the answer to the problem, not Australians themselves.
See for me taxation is a key litmus test of what you really think about the capacity and ability of the
Australian people. If Australians have the opportunity to have the choice about where they’re investing
their hard-won money - in their families, in their futures, in their plans - if you really believe that you’ll let
them keep more of it.
If you don’t, you’ll take more of it off them. That’s the difference between Bill Shorten and I at this
election. I’m saying I want all Australians to keep more of what they earn. Not just some, I want all
Australians to keep more of what they earn, because I believe that they’re the answer to a stronger
economy in this country. I believe that if you give them that go, then they’ll have a go and they’ll get a go
and Australia will be stronger as a result.
I believe that now is the time to guarantee that increased funding for essential services, hospitals, schools
and roads as we have been doing to record levels. Hospitals up 60 per cent. Public schools up 60 per cent.
Medicare at record levels. 2,000 medicines listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. A strong track
record of delivering on the essential services. Building the East West Link, building the Fast Rail from
Melbourne to Geelong. Building the Melbourne Airport link realising one of the biggest projects of
infrastructure this country has seen, the Western Sydney International Nancy Bird Walton Airport and the
rail and road infrastructure that supports it and makes a reality. Realising the interconnector between
Tasmania and the mainland in Victoria, the Marinus Link. Advancing the Battery of the Nation, and the
Snowy 2.0 project. All of this is what we’ve achieved in guaranteeing the essentials that Australians rely
on. It’s time to do all of that. That’s what we are going to do. It’s time also to keep Australians safe and
our borders secure as our Government always has and Liberals and Nationals can always be trusted to do.
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But I can tell you what it’s not the time to do; now is not the time for a weaker economy. Now is not the
time for policies and an experiment that puts our economy under unnecessary pressure when we’re facing
the challenges that we’re facing.
Over the last five and a half years or Government has had to deal with one of the most significant
impacts on our economy that we've seen as a nation. One of the biggest tests to our AAA credit rating
and indeed, our economic growth and the record levels of growth we have seen now in our 28th year.
That was the fall-off in investment after the mining investment boom that took $80 billion out of our
economy. We grew through it. Because we were backing in small and family businesses and Australians,
to get on with what they were doing each and every day, putting investments in place through the
instant asset write-off, making sure that they knew when they put in, they would be able to take out and
then put in again.
So now is not the time, with trade tensions between China and the United States. Now is not the time
when there is uncertainty in the security environment. Now is certainly not the time to do things that
will weaken our economy.
A key part of that is, now is not the time to impose $387 billion of a higher tax burden on our economy,
weighing it down, holding it down, holding it back, impacting on every single Australian. Every single one
of the 25 million and more Australians there are today around the country. 1 million Australians
specifically impacted by their retiree tax, which will withdraw the company tax already paid and
extended as a credit to every single shareholder in this country. But not some, according to the Labor
Party under their policy. No, they’ll be denied that. Everyone else can get it, the same credit from the tax
paid by the company that flows through to every single shareholder in this country, but not for some.
Not for a million Australians for whom Bill Shorten will deny that to. He’ll take it. Like Rosalie over there
living in Ken Wyatt’s electorate of Hasluck, who I saw the other day when I visited Perth; $1,800 out of
her $30,000 income. No refund for her, no credit for her. She invested in that company, like every other
shareholder, but no credit for her. That's her private health insurance. It's people's money to go and say
their grandkids, to pay their electricity bill. This is their money. They've paid taxes all their lives.
Now is not the time to go and hit Rosalie. Now is not the time to hit a million Australians whose sin,
according to Chris Bowen and Bill Shorten, is they’ve gone and invested in an Australian company.
Planned for their future and set themselves up for retirement.
Now is not the time for a housing tax that will undermine the value of your home, or put up your rent.
Those are the two things that will happen as a result of Labor's housing tax changes. Rents will be higher
than they would otherwise be and your home value, two-thirds of Australians either live in a house that
they own outright or they’re paying a mortgage on. Every single one of them, impacted by Labor's
housing tax.
Now is not the time to see the biggest asset that you’ve ever invested in with the sweat of your own
hard work and effort in your life, to be undermined because of a Labor Party that just simply wants to
tax everybody more.
Now is not the time to abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission and basically see
the ACTU and Sally McManus effectively be the silent shareholder and silent board member, on every
board, of every private and public company, in the country.
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Now is not the time to bring lawlessness back to our building and construction industry, particularly
when we’re proceeding with the biggest investment in infrastructure programmes around the country
of some $100 billion. Now is not the time for that.
Now is not the time for invasive new laws that Labor would seek to do, telling farmers what they can
and can't do on their land and holding them back.
Now is the time to support those farmers. Now is the time to pass the Drought Fund Bill, which Labor
refused to pass when we were last in Parliament. Now is the time to recognise that they need us to
stand with them, as I have done, as Michael McCormack has done and as we have done together as a
Coalition Government, giving people hope in the most difficult of circumstances.
Now is not the time to put a Labor Party that has never demonstrated their ability to manage money, in
charge of a $2 trillion economy, which is what it will be next year.
The one thing I get the biggest head nod about around the country as I’ve moved around is I’ve said to
people - particularly among retirees I’ve got to say - I say; ‘Have you ever noticed that people who can't
manage money always end up spending more of it? And when they have spent it all, they always end up
coming after yours?’ And they all agree. That's what a Labor government would look like.
Labor have never demonstrated they can manage money. They are proposing the biggest spending of a
government that we have ever seen in this country. If only their capacity to spend money was as good as
their capacity to want to spend money. Their ability to actually spend on programmes effectively means
what you have heard, is just the starting price. We know how much bigger that price gets. It goes up and
up. Pink Batts, we all remember it, school halls, cash-for-clunkers, border failures.
The bill that you can't afford will just keep rising and rising and rising, because Labor have never proven
an ability manage money in this country.
If you can't manage money you can't run the country.
Now is not the time to turn back.
Now is not the time to say to those Australians who have worked so hard to get us where we are today,
to have grown through these difficult and hard times, now is not the time to say to those who’ve saved
up and bought their first home that apparently; ‘Negative equity is ok’, as Chris Bowen said today. ‘It is
Ok for the value of your house to fall as a result of the government's policy - not a problem’.
No, it is. It’s actually a big one, I think. Worked hard for it, saved it for it, Australians have worked hard to
get where they are. Now is not the time to say to them they have to turn back on what they have been
able to achieve and put at risk what they have already built up. It's certainly not the time to say to them
that your opportunities in the future should also be delayed or deferred, because a Labor government has
a whole bunch of ideas that they want to spend your money on. Now is not the time.
Now is the time to stop Labor's higher taxed this Saturday, by voting Liberal and voting Nationals.
Now is the time to stop Labor's reckless spending from starting by voting Liberals and Nationals on
Saturday.
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Now is the time to build our economy together and secure your future, by voting Liberals and Nationals
this Saturday.
Now is the time, now is the time to ensure that as we go into this next decade we build the economy you
want to live in.
Because it is real. It determines what job you have. It determines your own future, the choices that you
have and I want the economy for Australia that enables Australians' aspirations to be realised. From
buying your first home, to saving for your retirement, to working hard every day, they are honest, decent
aspirations of quiet Australians that I want to back in.
Labor wants to tax them more and that is fundamentally what is going on in this election. That’s why this
election is such an important choice about where we are going further and where we're going into the
future as a country. So, I'm asking Australians, I'm asking Australians to vote Liberal and Nationals this
Saturday. To elect me and not Bill Shorten as your prime minister, so I can continue to get on with the job
while you get on with your job. You can trust me to do that. You can trust me too diligently and every day
get on with the task and the job that I've outlined at this election campaign and that me and my team are
hungry and eager to get on with.
It's been eight months since I have been in this job. It has been an incredible privilege and pleasure.
But I can tell you, I'm just getting started.
The hunger for Australia and achieving the aspirations of Australia, it is burning deep within me. I'm asking
Australians to let me get on with the job and let me on this Saturday by voting Liberal and Nationals get
on with the job of realising your future.
Thank you.
[Applause]
[ENDS]
Contacts: Press Office, (02) 6277 7700 The Hon. Scott Morrison MP, Sydney
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Political Wrap – 16 May 2019
Social topics
Analysing the key topics of discussion on social media
Topic: Rwandan individuals accepted in the US
resettlement deal
Summary: Commentary on this topic has been
negative.
Influencers: Pauline Hanson
Political Wrap – 16 May 2019 | 1
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Topic: Immigration Policy
Summary: Commentary on this topic has been
negative.
Influencers: Senator Jordan Steele-John
Political Wrap – 16 May 2019 | 2
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From:
Marc Ablong
To:
Mike Pezzullo
Cc:
ESU
Subject:
The future of law reform - a suggested program of work 2020-25
Date:
Sunday, 8 December 2019 9:43:45 AM
Attachments:
The future of law reform - a suggested program of work 2020-25.pdf
Cheers
Marc
The future of law reform - a suggested program of work 2020-25
Australian Law Reform Commission
DESCRIPTION
This report seeks to identify the most pressing areas for law reform in Australia that would be
suitable for an inquiry by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC). If accepted, the topics
set out in this report could form a set program of work for the ALRC over the next five years. This
is the first time the ALRC has undertaken this process. The objectives of the Future of Law
Reform project include efficiency, proactivity, and inclusiveness. An agreed program of work for
a period of years in advance is likely to enhance the efficiency of the ALRC’s work. In addition, a
more proactive approach to the identification of law reform issues facilitates a more systematic
review of Australia’s laws.
The objectives of the Future of Law Reform project include efficiency, proactivity, and
inclusiveness. An agreed program of work for a period of years in advance is likely to enhance
the efficiency of the ALRC’s work. In addition, a more proactive approach to the identification of
law reform issues facilitates a more systematic review of Australia’s laws. Finally, opening up
conversations about future inquiry topics to the general public acknowledges the fact that, in the
words of its inaugural Chairman the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, law reform is ‘too important to
be left to the experts’.
Significant topics suggested:
the establishment of a standing body to oversee ongoing reform of the Australian
Constitution;
coherent, effective, aligned, streamlined, and clear laws for environmental protection;
simplifying and enhancing the operation of migration legislation;
drafting statutes to enhance the coherence, readability, and useability of the law,
especially in light of the anticipated transition to digital legislation;
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the rights of creditors of an insolvent trustee, particularly when trust assets may be
insufficient to meet creditors’ claims;
uniformity or complementarity between state and territory surrogacy laws;
regulation of debt management services, ‘buy now pay later’ services, or services
targeting people at risk of financial hardship; and
human tissue laws that can accommodate emerging technologies, are nationally
consistent, and do not operate as barriers to organ and tissue donation.
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From:
Marc Ablong
To:
Mike Pezzullo
Cc:
Marc ABLONG; ESU
Subject:
FOR INFORMATION: Political Parties, Australia and the U.S. Alliance - 1976-2016
Date:
Sunday, 18 October 2020 11:05:02 AM
Attachments:
Political Parties, Australia and the U.S. Alliance - 1976-2016.pdf
Cheers
Marc
Political Parties, Australia and the U.S. Alliance - 1976-2016
Michael D. Cohen
Asian Security
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From:
Marc Ablong
To:
Mike Pezzullo
Cc:
Marc Ablong; ESU ESU
Subject:
FOR INFORMATION: Gridlock - removing barriers to policy reform
Date:
Sunday, 1 August 2021 12:22:09 PM
Attachments:
Gridlock - removing barriers to policy reform.pdf
Cheers
Marc
Gridlock - removing barriers to policy reform
by John Daley
Grattan Institute
Summary
Australia’s governance is going backwards. Without change, there is little prospect for many
substantial policy reforms that would increase Australian prosperity.
The 1980s and 1990s were ‘golden years’ of policy reform. Governance has deteriorated since
then. Governments have failed to progress reforms that have been recommended for decades.
Analysis of a large sample of proposed policy reforms over the past decade shows that
unpopularity is now an insuperable obstacle to reform. This is a big change from the past when
political leaders implemented many unpopular reforms, doing their best to explain why they
were in the public interest.
Tribal beliefs that mark membership of political parties and factions have also become major
obstacles to sensible reform, particularly in tax, superannuation, and energy policy.
While powerful vested interests blocked some reforms, they had much less influence when
countered by the published reports of high-quality inquiries.
Unpopularity, tribal beliefs, and vested interests stand in the way of the public interest because
of less effective media, a weakened public service, the power of ministerial advisers, a growing
professional political class, and increasing political patronage.
Australia could break the gridlock in policy reform by increasing the expertise and independence
of the public service, reducing the number of ministerial advisers closely tied to political parties
and making them more accountable, tightening controls over political donations, campaign
finance, lobbying, and post-politics careers, and setting up a federal anti-corruption commission
with teeth to ensure that the rules of the system are followed.
Unfortunately, politicians from both major parties routinely block such institutional changes
because they think they will reduce their prospects of re-election. The most politically realistic
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path to institutional change is for independent members of parliament to champion institutional
changes, particularly when they hold the balance of power.
Problems with our systems of governance are cruelling the chances of policy reform.
The slow corrosion of our institutions is gnawing away at Australian prosperity.
We hope this report galvanises people to change how Australian government works.
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for a simultaneous surge in COVID-19 and flu cases before winter. Royal Australasian
College of Surgeons NSW chair Payal Mukherjee said clearing elective surgery waitlists
would become more difficult, with more hospital bed shortages expected when flu case
numbers rise.
The Daily Telegraph writes that COVID-19 is causing havoc in NSW schools as one in
five public school students did not turn up to class on Monday because they were sick,
self-isolating, or told to learn from home due to the fact there were not enough teachers
to cover classes. Independent Education Union acting secretary Carol Matthews said a
substitute teacher shortage meant some staff were left wandering school corridors trying
to supervise three classes at once.
The Herald Sun reports that the AUKUS defence pact will be expanding beyond nuclear
submarines, as Australia will fast-track the development of cutting-edge hypersonic
missiles in conjunction with the US and the UK. It comes after Defence Minister Peter
Dutton unveiled a $3.5 billion weapons package on Monday, including air-to-surface
missiles with a 900km range for the air force and missiles to double the current strike
range of the navy’s frigates and destroyers.
The Age reports that if Labor wins next month’s federal election, Australia will bid to host
a United Nations climate change summit in partnership with other Pacific nations in a
push to improve the nation’s credentials within the region. Opposition Leader Anthony
Albanese blamed Australia’s lack of action on climate change for Solomon Islands’
decision to sign a security pact with China.
The Canberra Times reports that COVID-19 has forced a number of Canberra’s public
schools to move back to remote learning amid staffing shortages across the ACT’s
education system, directly related to the virus. Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith
addressed changes to the territory’s COVID-19 reporting, saying health authorities still
needed to balance legal obligations with transparency as more details about COVID
cases were released.
The Courier Mail reports that the state’s mandatory check-ins will cease from next week,
with the government also scrapping vaccine mandates for hospitality and entertainment
venues from next Thursday. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the move would reunite
Queenslanders as she conceded the mandates had hit businesses hard. Chief health
officer Dr John Gerrard also declared Queensland had passed the peak of the second
wave of COVID-19 cases.
The Advertiser reports that dedicated dad Joe Statton has spent thousands of dollars
building a dream treehouse for his 13-year-old stepdaughter, but has now been ordered
to rip it down by Marion Council. In a letter to Mr Statton and his wife Tanya on March
9th, council compliance development officer Dylan O’Brien said the treehouse needed to
be removed as approval for its construction had not been requested.
The West Australian reports that Australia will get access to long-range hypersonic
missiles and a range of other cutting-edge technology and weaponry in a historic security
pact with the US and Britain. In the deal, Australia will also have access to
electromagnetic warfare technology. Prime Minister Morrison will reveal Australia’s
deeper ties with its allies in a joint statement with US President Joe Biden and British
Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday.
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The NT News writes that all eyes and ears will be fixed on a small courtroom in
Katherine on Wednesday as they await answers in one of the NT’s greatest outback
mysteries. Paddy Moriarty was one of 12 residents in Larrimah when he vanished without
a trace, along with his dog, Kelly. Since then, the mystery surrounding the 70-year old’s
disappearance centred around the town’s iconic Pink Panther pub.
The Mercury reports that Jeremy Rockliff is set to become Tasmania’s next premier, with
sources close to the Deputy Premier and Health Minister saying he is keen to take on the
top job following the resignation of Premier Peter Gutwein. Political analyst professor
Richard Herr said Elise Archer should be considered as the leader but said she would be
a good fit as deputy leader, the position she is tipped to contest to replace Mr Rockliff.
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Looming asylum surge sparks maritime security overhaul
The Australian by Geoff Chambers Chief Political Correspondent
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 6
About 8000 Afghan refugees in Indonesia have been identified as vulnerable to people-
smugglers monitoring shifts in border protection policies ahead of the May election,
prompting a strengthening of maritime security measures to combat rising Indo-Pacific
threats and Chinese aggression. A...
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Curtin benefits from vow to curb crime
The West Australian by Kimberley Caines
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AWST - Page 5
Curtin University is among the organisations to receive a share of $50 million to help
young people get on the right track by participating in a program that aims to reduce
crime, antisocial behaviour and reoffending. Home Affairs Minister Karen...
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PM to forge ahead with election amid High Court threat
Australian Financial Review (AFR) by Aaron Patrick And Phillip Coorey
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 2
Scott Morrison is expected to call the election any day now after a court challenge to his
imposition of candidates in key NSW seats failed. But there remained a pall of
uncertainty last night when Liberal state executive member Matthew...
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PM's court win clears path for election
The Canberra Times by Dan Jervis Bardy
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 5
SCOTT Morrison's controversial intervention into the NSW Liberal branch has been
upheld in the courts, setting the stage for the Prime Minister to call the federal election.
Justice John Basten on Tuesday ruled the internal Liberal Party dispute couldn't be...
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PM's pick prevails as campaign looms
The Daily Telegraph by Clare Armstrong
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Pages 4 and 5
A MAJOR legal win for Scott Morrison on the eve of the federal election has guaranteed
his “captain's pick” candidates in key NSW seats, as the Coalition now seeks to urgently
make up lost ground in the campaign. The NSW...
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PM defends captain's picks for election
The Sydney Morning Herald by Latika Bourke
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 4
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he was standing up for the women in his party by
imposing his handpicked candidates in several key seats in a decision made just days
before he was expected to call the federal election. Speaking...
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Liberal women are calling for change
The Sydney Morning Herald by Jenna Price
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 23
Many tried to give the PM advice on the quiet but he didn't listen. Now there's a Greek
chorus. So many sympathetic Liberal women have tried to give Scott Morrison advice.
He is not listening to them. The people he...
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Shortage of critical workers addressed with Pilbara DAMA
North West Telegraph by Alexander Scott
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Pilbara businesses struggling with critical labour shortages could soon feel some relief
with the approval of a migration plan allowing small businesses to hire foreign workers
for 66 different occupations. The Pilbara Designated Area Migration Agreement is a five-
year agreement...
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PM says he intervened in NSW pre-selection to protect 'great
women', infuriating one of his own senators
ABC News by James Glenday
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 8:39pm AEST
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he made the controversial decision to intervene in
some pre-selections in New South Wales because he is "very serious about having great
women" in his ranks.
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The Guardian by Anne Davies
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 7:16pm AEST
The courts won’t wade into the murky pool of internal party politics and it seems ordinary
Australians don’t want to either
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Scott Morrison says NSW preselection intervention was him
standing up ‘for the women in my team’
The Guardian by Katharine Murphy
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 9:43pm AEST
Prime minister denies move against Liberal state branch was anti-democratic saying he
was motivated by desire to get the ‘best candidates in the field’
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NSW Liberal party 'captain's picks'
Nine News by Jorge Branco
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 11:14pm AEST
The Prime Minister has dismissed the growing list of critics from his own side of politics
as having an "ax...
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Night. The Prime Minister has won a legal battle over his controversial intervention in
the New South Wales. Liberal Party preselection process.
He was being challenged by businessmen and a member of the Liberal State
Executive, Matthew Kamenzuli, who was seeking to overturn the preselections of
Immigration Minister Alex Hawke and Mitchell Environment Minister Sussan Ley.
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Pilbara News by Alexander Scott
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 11
Pilbara businesses struggling with labour shortages could soon feel some relief with the
approval of a migration plan allowing small businesses to hire foreign workers for 66
different occupations. The Pilbara Designated Area Migration Agreement is a five-year
agreement between...
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Ex-mayor enters Parramatta fight
The West Australian by Finbar O'Mallon
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 11:28am AWST
Former Cumberland City mayor Steve Christou blasts the major parties as he announces
run as an independent for the federal seat of Parramatta in Sydney's west.
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Liberals hijack a website named after Labor leader Anthony
Albanese as the dirty tricks kick off even before Scott Morrison
calls an election
The Daily Mail by Paul Osborne
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 6:26pm AEST
The Liberal National Party has raised eyebrows by purchasing the domain name
albanese.com.au and directing traffic to their official site liberal.org.au.
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The Rita Panahi Show 4 times a week, 9:30pm to 10:30pm
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 9:34pm AEST
Funny that they left out the fires. Smoke devastated Koala habitat, drought dried up
Rivers, thousands of abandoned coal mines, clear cut forests, Pentecostal climate
denying PM, the fascist Immigration Minister and the beach router. She is eloquent.
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Outspoken Liberal MP accuses Scott Morrison of BACKFLIPPING
on flood victims as she launches another stinging tirade against
the PM
The Daily Mail by Brett Lackey
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 10:12pm AEST
Former Liberal MP Catherine Cusack said on Tuesday night Scott Morrison agreed to
further funding for some flood victims only after she publicly called him out.
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Be lenient on 'impossible' requirements on refugees, inquiry tells
Home Affairs
The Canberra Times by Harley Dennett
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 11
AUSTRALIA may need to lift its financial support for Afghanistan, a parliamentary
committee has found, as the scale of the humanitarian and economic crises in the war-
ravaged country have continued to worsen in the months since the withdrawal of US...
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Tuesday 5 April 2022, 6:51pm AEST
To developing news. A parliamentary committee covered the war in afghanistan
Afghanistan has recommended the home affairs department begin urgently
processing visas for afghans who have fled the country to escape taliban Taliban
rule.
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Capp calls for ‘brave' action to keep foreign students
The Age by Michael Fowler; Paul Sakkal
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 10
Lord mayor Sally Capp will lobby the next federal government to make it easier for
international students to work in Australia for as long as they like once they finish their
degrees, as she works to revive Melbourne's pre-pandemic trajectory...
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Nearly 1,400 Afghans granted emergency visas never made it to
Australia
The Guardian by Daniel Hurst
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 7:21pm AEST
Senate inquiry calls on government to reinstate 1,398 lapsed humanitarian visas
originally granted after Taliban takeover
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Report urges Home Affairs to improve Afghan visa processes
The New Daily by Andrew Brown
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 6:11pm AEST
The Department of Home Affairs has been urged to improve its processes for visa
applicants from Afghanistan following the country's takeover by the Taliban.
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State's biggest drug bust off the coast of Yorke Peninsula
Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 7
SOUTH Australia's largest ever drug bust has occurred off the coast of Yorke Peninsula.
An Australian Federal Policeled investigation resulted in the seizure of 416 kilograms of
cocaine, estimated to be worth more than $166 million. Police said crew members...
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Police seek information about empty boat connected with giant
cocaine seizure
ABC News
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 9:04pm AEST
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The Australian Federal Police is calling for help from the public for information about a
blue and white cabin cruiser found between Kangaroo Island and the Yorke Peninsula
last month.
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We have been given a front row seat to south South australia's biggest ever drug
bust. Boaties stumbled across the cocaine bobbing in the yorke peninsula. They
radioed authorities about he record stash and border force Force leapt to action.
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bundles of the drug bobbing among calm seas the startling find - pixelated at he
request of federal police - immediately radioed-in to authorities on March twenty -
first- before border force pounced.
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...only illegal firearms on the streets police are targeting, border force officer are
intercepting imported parts used to make these firearms every day. the last financial
year, the australian border force detected 1059 firearms parts of firearms at the...
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How AUKUS has brought an alliance revolution to Australia
Australian Financial Review (AFR) by Peter Dean
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 39
Defence Last year's agreement acknowledged the end of US primacy in the Pacific,
replaced by strategic competition and a far more complex deterrent alliance. If AUKUS
evokes anything, it is the image of nuclear-powered submarines. They dominated the
AUKUS press...
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Shipbuilder's pitch on destroyers
The Australian by Ben Packham Foreign Affairs And Defence Correspondent
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 6
Spanish shipbuilding giant Navantia has launched a pre-election pitch to build the
Australian Defence Force three more of its air warfare destroyers within a decade, in a
plan that would dramatically expand the nation's longrange strike capability. The
company said...
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federal (1), Morrison government (1), Peter Dutton (2), naval shipbuilding (1),
Adelaide (1), Australians (1), Sydney (1)
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Hypersonic missiles for Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald by Anthony Galloway National Security Correspondent
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 3
Australia will develop long-range missiles that can travel at least five times the speed of
sound under a new agreement with the United States and Britain to build up its defences
in the face of a rising China and belligerent...
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Adelaide (1), Dutton (1), Woomera (1), South Australia (1), National Security (1)
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AUKUS goes ballistic: Missiles added to pact
The Daily Telegraph by James Morrow
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 5
AUSTRALIA will have access to not only nuclear subs but also futuristic hypersonic and
counter-hypersonic missile technology, quantum computing, and advanced cyberwarfare
capabilities after Prime Minister Scott Morrison met with his US and UK counterparts
Tuesday. At the meeting between...
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Missiles for AUKUS
The Courier Mail by Madura Mc Cormack
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Pages 1 and 2
AUSTRALIA'S quest to build hi-tech missiles will be fasttracked after the US and the UK
agreed to share closely guarded weapons secrets, in a significant step forward for the tri-
nation AUKUS deal. Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his US and...
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Missiles firing Khaki State into the future
The Courier Mail by Robert Noia
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 47
THE commonwealth government's decision to appoint the Australian Missile Corporation
as one of its sovereign partners for the multibillion-dollar guided missiles enterprise has
thrust Queensland into the defence industry frontline. The AMC has forecast that the
economic benefit of the...
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Manila warned on China policy
The Australian by Amanda Hodge Southeast Asia Correspondent
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 8
Beijing has warned Manila to avoid “disturbances” to its China policy and any “improper
measures” that could damage bilateral ties or stability in the South China Sea as the
Philippines' prepares for presidential elections next month. The comments coincided
with...
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The big factor restricting the EV market
The Canberra Times by Cristina Talacko
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 18
TREASURER Josh Frydenberg confirmed on Sunday that reforming fuel emissions
standards is an "area of focus" for the federal government. As petrol prices soar and
global instability in the oil markets deepens, this sensible adjustment - that would
encourage the...
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Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AWST - Pages 1, 4, and 5
Pact with US and UK to provide cutting-edge protection Australia will get access to
hypersonic missiles and other high-tech weapons thanks to the historic security pact with
the US and Britain. MUST-READ REPORT P4-5LANAI SCARR FEDERAL POLITICAL
EDITOR Australia will...
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More EU countries expel Russian diplomats
Canberra Times
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 9:53pm AEST
The Italian, Danish and Swedish governments have joined a growing list of EU countries
to kick out Russian...
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EU allies expel 149 Russian diplomats in two days after Bucha
killings
The Guardian by Kate Connolly
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:09am AEST
More than 250 diplomats and embassy workers now expelled since Moscow invaded
Ukraine
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Concerns for Aussie detained in Vietnam
The West Australian by Dominic Giannini
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 10:29am AWST
Foreign Minister Marise Payne is continuing to make representations to the Vietnamese
government for the return of Australian citizen Chau Van Kham.
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Russian mercenaries and Mali army accused of killing 300
civilians
The Guardian by Emmanuel Akinwotu
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 10:38pm AEST
Human Rights Watch says deaths during anti-jihadist operation in Moura ‘the worst
atrocity in Mali in a decade’
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New Telegram fraud rattles stockbrokers
Australian Financial Review (AFR) by Michael Roddan; Jonathan Shapiro
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 17
Crooks are hijacking the identities of Australian stockbrokers and their employees to lure
retail investors into punting on questionable forays into S&P500 and Nasdaq-listed
shares. Share traders and consumers are being approached on encrypted messaging
applications Telegram and WhatsApp with...
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Scammers on the move during flood recovery
Gold Coast Bulletin by Blake Antrobus
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 3
SCAMMERS posing as members of law firms, fraud taskforces and government
agencies are swindling hundreds of thousands of dollars from Aussies at an alarming
rate. Following a spike in the bogus schemes, Australia's consumer watchdog has urged
people to remain...
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Racism furore says more about us than PM
The Sydney Morning Herald by Osman Faruqi
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 23
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The allegations that Scott Morrison played an active role in white-anting one of his
preselection rivals over his Lebanese heritage and false claims that he was a Muslim
should spark questions about Australia's attitude to race, and inspire deep soul-
searching...
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BITCOIN, BOOZE AND $1 MILLION
The Advertiser by Mitch Mott
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am ACST - Pages 4 and 5
A YOUNG couple accused of running an intricate dark-web drug dealing operation has
had hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cryptocurrency, luxury booze and precious
metal frozen by the courts. Tom Booker, 27, and Erin Gold, 32, are facing...
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CCC probe into Ross, Martin court case
Gold Coast Bulletin by Lea Emery
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 6
THE Crime and Corruption Commission has been ordered to investigate the police
handling of a high-profile double murder, and allegations that parts of the evidence did
not exist. An “outraged” Justice Peter Davis also referred the conduct of detectives
during...
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State's biggest drug bust off the coast of Yorke Peninsula
Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 7
SOUTH Australia's largest ever drug bust has occurred off the coast of Yorke Peninsula.
An Australian Federal Policeled investigation resulted in the seizure of 416 kilograms of
cocaine, estimated to be worth more than $166 million. Police said crew members...
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Tobacco crop haul
Tumbarumba Times
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Pages 1 and 4
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The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and local police seized and destroyed over
276,000 kilograms of illicit tobacco across two separate properties in regional NSW,
including one near Tumbarumba. Illicit tobacco equivalent to the weight of about 14
bulldozers was seized...
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Australian federal police demand parties commit to ‘far-reaching
anti-corruption body’
The Guardian by Christopher Knaus
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 3:30am AEST
Police say current anti-corruption regime is unequal and holds law enforcement to a
higher standard than politicians
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Fight is on for our fair share of water
The Advertiser by Jamie Pittock
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am ACST - Page 17
FALTERING implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan threatens the
environmental and socio-economic health of the state's Riverland. Policies taken to the
federal election by the major parties will be crucial if the next government is to get river
management back...
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NSW braces for more rain amid flood recovery
The Border Mail
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 15
FURTHER severe weather is forecast to hit NSW amid the ongoing recovery from
repeated floods in the north of the state. Widespread rainfall is expected to hit with up to
50 millimetres predicted in the Hunter, central and southern coastal...
Keywords: NSW (2), floods (1)
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Herald, The Border Mail, The Daily Advertiser, The Examiner
Grain exports hit flood snag
Weekly Times by By Peter Hemphill
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 7
FLOODS in NSW have hit Australia's massive task to export grain out of the country
after the biggest national harvest on record. Exporters are reporting big delays in getting
grain bulk carriers loaded at Newcastle and Port Kembla. CHS Broadbent...
Keywords: FLOODS (3), NSW (3)
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Lightning started the fire
Gloucester Advocate
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 10
THE Rumba Dump fire was started by lightning strikes, investigators told the State
Coroner during the NSW Bushfires Coronial Inquiry on Monday, March 21 at the
Coroners Court in Lidcombe. The inquiry into the 2019/2020 bushfires started on
February 28,...
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Widespread, heavy rain to hit the Hunter… again
Newcastle Weekly
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 6:00pm AEST
Widespread, heavy rain is expected to return to the Hunter this week, with up to 50
millimetres predicted on Wednesday.
Keywords: NSW (4), floods (4)
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Flood Watch Issued
Hills to Hawkesbury
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 6:03pm AEST
FLOOD WATCH ISSUED FOR THE THE HAWKESBURY, COLO & MACDONALD
RIVERS (13:00 Tuesday 5th April 2022)
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Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission 1 item
Top cop to become new WA governor
Sound Telegraph by Peter Law
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Page 3
Police Commissioner Chris Dawson is to become governor of Western Australia. Mr
Dawson was named the Queen's 34th representative for the State by Premier Mark
McGowan on Monday. Mr Dawson, who played a key role in WA's pandemic
management as...
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AUSTRAC 4 items
Star accused of giving bank fake letters
Australian Financial Review (AFR) by Elouise Fowler And Hannah Wootton
Wednesday 6 April 2022, 12:00am AEST - Pages 15 and 20
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From:
Diana WILK
To:
Michael PEZZULLO
Cc:
Sophie SHARPE; s.47F(1)
Subject:
Updated Report and Chronologies - SIEV 915 Public Announcement [SEC=PROTECTED]
Date:
Monday, 30 May 2022 1:14:04 PM
Attachments:
INQ - Report - SIEV 915 and CJATF Public Announcement.DOCX
ADD2022 2539471 Attachment A - OFFICIAL Chronology - Events in the lead up to the issuance of the
CJATF media statement 30 May.DOCX
ADD2022 2464095 Attachment A - Chronology - Events in the lead up to the issuance of the CJATF media
statement [Version 1.5] - 30 may.DOCX
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Good afternoon Secretary
Please find attached the updated report and chronologies in relation to the SIEV 915 public
announcement, approved by the ABF Commissioner, CJATF, DCJATF, and General Counsel (Pip).
Sophie and I can discuss updates at the 4pm meeting.
Please let me know if you need anything further at this stage.
Thank you
Diana
Diana Wilk
Chief of Staff / Strategic Issues Management
Executive and International Group
Department of Home Affairs
P: (s. 22(1)(a)(ii) s. 22(1)(a)(ii)
E: s. 22(1)(a)(ii)@homeaffairs.gov.au
EA:s. 22(1)(a)(ii) | s. 22(1)(a)(ii)
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