Dutton’s fifth petrol station in 5 days
Peter Dutton is visiting his fifth petrol station right now, this time with the Liberal candidate for Werriwa, Sam Kayal.
After a tough day yesterday, Dutton is once more making an attempt to pump up his gas coverage once more with the general public, you may say.
Key occasions
1000’s of NSW docs have walked off the job right now. Our well being reporter Natasha Could has been down at Westmead Hospital:
Environmental group welcomes Victorian insulation announcement
In response to the information that the Victorian Allan authorities is reducing the price of putting in insulation in Victorian houses, Atmosphere Victoria’s senior local weather and power adviser, Dr Kat Lucas-Healey, mentioned:
We welcome right now’s announcement from the Allan authorities that may make an actual distinction to folks’s lives. Insulation is the only largest factor we are able to do to maintain our houses snug and spend much less on cooling and heating.
In a cost-of-living disaster Victorians will welcome this announcement that may present actual assist to make their houses extra snug, reduce power payments and assist the setting with reasonably priced and efficient dwelling insulation.
Anybody who has skilled residing in an uninsulated dwelling is aware of what a distinction including ceiling insulation makes. It means much less time operating the heater or discovering different methods to remain heat. The reintroduction of ceiling insulation into victoria power upgrades will make it that less expensive to put in, protected within the data it’s being put in by educated and controlled suppliers.
Candidate slips up on pressing care clinics underneath proposed Liberal coverage
Looks like there was a little bit of a mix-up this morning from the Coalition on their well being coverage.
The Liberal candidate for Lyons, Susie Bower, mentioned this morning on ABC radio {that a} Coalition authorities “will should be understanding” whether or not the pressing care clinics Labor has arrange will nonetheless be bulk-billed.
We’ve since clarified with the shadow well being minister’s workplace that if the Liberals are elected the clinics shall be bulk-billed they usually’ve promised to make sure the service operates to full capability, together with ensuring all centres are open for the prolonged hours that they’re imagined to be.
So it might have been only a slip up.
However you’ll be able to have a learn of the change under – between Bower, the Labor candidate for Lyons, Rebecca White, and the host, Leon Compton:
Compton: Beneath the Liberal occasion’s coverage, Susie Bower, would your pressing care clinics offer bulk billing companies to those who attend?
Bower: In order that’s one thing that we are going to should be understanding. But in addition one thing else that we’re specifically is X-ray. In order that’s one thing we need to focus on.
White: That’s delivered already in Medicare.
Compton: Rebecca, simply maintain for one second. Has the Liberal occasion made a dedication that if pressing care clinics are established underneath Peter Dutton, it is possible for you to to entry them with simply your Medicare card?
Bower: I’ve — I’m not conscious that that’s, um, a coverage in the mean time. It’s one thing that we’ll be .
Victoria proclaims ceiling insulation low cost to scale back power payments and energy consumption
Adeshola Ore
Shifting off the marketing campaign path for a second…
The Victorian authorities will slash the price of ceiling insulation for households in a bid to scale back power payments.
The Jacinta Allan authorities introduced an growth of the state’s power upgrades program on Tuesday morning. It estimates the reductions will assist households save about $400 a yr on their energy payments on account of insulation decreasing power consumption.
The federal government says virtually 60% of Victorian houses haven’t any ceiling insulation or are underinsulated.
Households with no insulation shall be eligible for the primary stage of the low cost, which the federal government says will halve the common ceiling insulation set up prices of $3,000 to $1,500.
Dutton’s fifth petrol station in 5 days
Peter Dutton is visiting his fifth petrol station right now, this time with the Liberal candidate for Werriwa, Sam Kayal.
After a tough day yesterday, Dutton is once more making an attempt to pump up his gas coverage once more with the general public, you may say.
Labor’s $1bn psychological well being committment lauded as ‘landmark funding’ for younger folks
Psychological well being teams and psychiatrists have welcomed the $1bn psychological well being dedication from Labor, calling it a “landmark funding”, significantly for younger folks.
Psychological Health Australia says charges of psychological ill-health amongst younger folks rose by 50% from 2007 to 2022, and now two in 5 younger folks expertise a psychological well being situation in any given yr.
Its CEO, Carolyn Nikoloski, says extra help is critical in opposition to the backdrop of the price of residing disaster.
It is a landmark funding that recognises the challenges the neighborhood is dealing with, significantly younger folks.
At a time when folks want help probably the most, one in 5 folks delayed or didn’t see a well being skilled for his or her psychological well being on account of price in 2023-24 … commitments to free and accessible care are extra essential than ever, and can assist ship extra equitable care throughout our communities.
The Royal Australian and New Zealand School of Psychiatrists (RANCP) has welcomed the extra funding for 1,200 new psychological well being employees.
The group says the funding will assist carry the healthcare system to a degree the place “no Australian falls by means of the cracks”. RANZCP’s president, Dr Elizabeth Moore, mentioned:
This funding will enhance the variety of psychiatrists, psychologists, GPs and peer employees out there to the neighborhood … You’ll be able to’t run a psychological well being system with out the workforce. Clinics and hospitals are simply buildings and rooms with out the folks on the frontlines.
Jonathan Barrett
ASX rises in early buying and selling whereas fears persist
Australian shares are up 0.8% in early buying and selling this morning, as fears of a full-blown commerce warfare preserve many buyers on the sidelines.
The S&P/ASX 200 was buying and selling at 7,400 factors within the opening minutes, up from yesterday’s shut of seven,343.
The benchmark continues to be down virtually 14% from its February highs.
Share markets world wide have been gripped by issues that Donald Trump’s tariff regime, and retaliatory imposts from rival economies, will upend world financial development.
Merchants might want to weigh up Trump’s newest risk to lift his tariffs on China by an extra 50% from 9 April if Beijing doesn’t withdraw its personal retaliatory tariffs of 34%.
Wall Avenue skilled a risky session in a single day, after hypothesis of a pause within the tariff program, which briefly lifted share costs, was later denied by the White Home.
Dumped Liberal candidate claims NSW division plotting to ‘stab Dutton within the again’
Ben Britton – who was dumped by the Liberal occasion as a candidate for the NSW seat of Whitlam after some controversial views had been revealed by the Guardian, has spoken out on 2GB, calling his dumping a “witch hunt”, and accusing the NSW division of stabbing Peter Dutton within the again.
Britton says he’s stop the Liberal party and can proceed to run as an impartial. He informed Ben Fordham that he wouldn’t signal as much as a faction and “wouldn’t be managed” which he claims led to the choice.
It’s a witch hunt as a result of they didn’t need me there. And it’s the factions inside the occasion that didn’t need me there. It’s as a result of I wouldn’t, you understand, signal as much as a faction. I wouldn’t be managed. I wouldn’t be informed what to say …
And on the finish of the day, what’s occurring inside the New South Wales division proper now could be a scientific plot from the left, the left faction working hand in glove with members of the best faction who’re traitors to stab Peter Dutton within the again and certain he doesn’t get elected because the prime minister, to allow them to roll him as chief. That’s what’s occurring.
Britton expressed controversial views, together with that girls mustn’t serve in ADF fight roles amid vary of controversial views.
You’ll be able to learn Sarah Basford-Canales’ piece on that right here:
Albanese recollects ‘confronting’ second on youth psychological well being
Leaping again to a bit earlier within the press convention, the PM acquired a bit emotion when speaking about psychological well being and the way he’s seen it affect these round him.
He was requested, as the daddy of a younger man, how essential it’s to debate psychological well being on the dinner desk.
Albanese mentioned he most popular to not focus on what he says together with his son, however mentioned typically it’s “fairly clear that younger males, and younger girls, have points that we have to speak about extra”.
He then recalled a second when he was shocked as a younger man when a pal’s niece ended up in hospital with an consuming dysfunction. He says she almost died:
[She] ended up in RPA with an consuming dysfunction, and that was actually confronting. I used to be nonetheless fairly younger on the time. I haven’t seen something like that. She virtually died. She is now nicely, she is now nicely, and has youngsters of her personal. However that was actually confronting.
He additionally remembers Charlotte, a younger girl who took her personal life, which her mum believes was partly on account of social media. Albanese says Charlotte’s story was one of many issues that led to the federal government taking motion on social media.
ASX to open modestly increased after Monday plunge
Jonathan Barrett
Australian shares are anticipated to open barely increased this morning, erasing a number of the steep losses triggered by Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariff regime.
Futures costs are pointing in the direction of a 0.7% raise within the S&P/ASX 200 to round 7,400 factors when the market opens.
The benchmark briefly traded underneath 7,200 yesterday, earlier than closing at 7,343 factors, down greater than 4% on the day within the worst ASX session recorded in 5 years.
Fund managers informed Guardian Australia they’re looking for signs of a truce within the tariff tit-for-tat, particularly between the US and China, to sign a restoration in equities could also be on the playing cards.
Whereas Trump’s new tariff regime sparked an preliminary sell-off throughout world share markets final week, plans to hit the US with retaliatory imposts from main economies, together with China and the EU, have heightened dangers of a worldwide recession.
In a single day, Trump threatened to lift his tariffs on China by an extra 50% from 9 April if China doesn’t withdraw its owns retaliatory tariffs of 34% by Tuesday.
Albanese heckled by protester throughout press convention
Albanese has been interrupted by a protester who shouts on the PM that his authorities has authorised extra coalmines throughout its time period. She says:
Mr Albanese, you say you care about younger folks and but since being elected your authorities has authorised 33 new coal and gasoline initiatives…
She retains shouting as safety take her out of the constructing.
Patrick McGorry had earlier mentioned local weather change was one of many “megatrends” which can be conspiring to make the lives and futures of younger folks way more difficult and pessimistic”.
Albanese says he was ‘very proud’ to host Asean as questions raised about financial pivot to China
Albanese says he needs Australia’s relationship to be strengthened additional with Asean nations.
He’s requested whether or not the federal government is anxious that nations throughout Asia might pivot in the direction of China, in response to the US slapping large tariffs on them. Australia hosted the Asean assembly in March final yr, which Albanese says he was “very proud” to host.
I used to be actually proud that each single chief got here, no deputies, no representatives, each single chief, and that’s a direct results of the exhausting work that my authorities has carried out to show these relationships round.
Our relationship with Indonesia has by no means been stronger, by no means been stronger, and the work that we’ve carried out there, however with different nations in ASEAN as nicely, and one in all our responses to the choice of final Thursday shall be to construct … the concept of enterprise missions, we’ve had enterprise missions to Indonesia, to India, to Laos, to the area, to China as nicely, which have been essential by way of these financial relationships.
