SA police say footprint discovered yesterday unrelated to seek for lacking 4-year-old
South Australia police have issued an announcement on Gus Lamont after the seek for the 4-year-old was scaled back last week.
Gus was final seen in his household’s sheep station in distant South Australian on 27 September.
The deputy commissioner, Linda Williams, says a small footprint discovered within the search yesterday was discovered to be unrelated to Gus. Williams says the investigation is now being led by the Lacking Individuals Part, the place long-term circumstances are managed:
We’ll by no means surrender hope of discovering Gus. There are additional strains of enquiry being undertaken and the household have continued to cooperate absolutely with police.
Key occasions
Professional-Palestinian activists have gathered in Melbourne to honour Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza on the second anniversary of Hamas’ 7 October assault.
The vigil, held at MPavillion within the Queen Victoria Gardens within the metropolis, begun at 5pm.
Organisers have deliberate a procession by town, with a second vigil is predicted to be held exterior state parliament home later this night.
Anthony Albanese mentioned protests held on 7 October would undermine assist for the Palestinian trigger in Australia.
The Melbourne organisers, the Free Palestine Coalition Group, requested attendees to respect grieving households and the silence of the procession.
Anne Davies
Whistleblower calls icare a ‘basket case due to how it’s run’
McCann advised Mookhey that the brink was too excessive, and limiting compensation to psychological accidents brought on by violence, felony conduct or sure disasters in a office was unfair:
[It] goes in opposition to what you and the Labor Occasion proposed earlier than coming into energy
Icare is a basket case due to the way in which it’s run, not due to accidents folks maintain.
McCann mentioned his message was ignored by Mookhey, however after extra messages, Mookhey replied: “I’m sorry to listen to that you simply’re feeling this fashion. Please name Lifeline when you’ve got any issues.”
McCann mentioned he had come to offer proof due to his personal expertise with the icare system and his concern in regards to the Minns Labor authorities’s invoice to limit compensation for psychological harm. The federal government has mentioned the reforms are important to maintain the employees compensation scheme afloat.
The invoice is being examined by a parliamentary committee and is predicted to return to parliament late this 12 months.
Anne Davies
NSW state insurer whistleblower reveals shock at authorities’s deliberate overhaul of scheme
A whistleblower who labored at icare has revealed particulars of his leaking to then NSW shadow treasurer, Daniel Mookhey and his shock at how, as treasurer, Mookhey plans to overtake the NSW employees compensation to make it tougher for folks with psychological accidents to assert compensation.
Giving proof to a parliamentary inquiry Chris McCann, an icare worker now on employees compensation, mentioned he had contact with Mookhey “on an nearly day by day foundation throughout 2020” whereas Mookhey was operating a public marketing campaign in opposition to icare after which premier Dominic Perrottet.
In 2025 he noticed Mookhey on tv proposing to elevate the entire individual impairment to 31% and he reached out by textual content. He wrote:
The aim of this message is to boost my private considerations in regards to the modifications to psychological accidents. What’s being proposed is unfair and unjust and goes in opposition to what you advised me about defending folks like me who’re ready to face up and say one thing within the office, regardless of being bullied and harassed. Should you change the legislation, it will likely be the reason for folks suiciding.
My entire private impairment harm is because of being bullied, victimised and focused in icare, and I tried suicide. It destroyed my profession, and I’ve by no means been the identical since my WPI was assessed at 24% lowered by 10% however my life has fully modified, and it has impacted me a lot I can’t stroll out the door.
• In Australia, the disaster assist service Lifeline is 13 11 14
Coalition frontbencher says authorities ought to strain Hamas to comply with Gaza peace plan
Talking to the ABC, the shadow lawyer normal, Julian Leeser, says he want to see “Hamas come to the desk” and comply with the US peace plan for Gaza.
He says the Albanese authorities ought to use the “capital its constructed” with Palestinian actors by recognising a Palestinian state to “put strain on Hamas to come back to the desk” and comply with the plan.
Cremorne Synagogue suspect launched
A person who was arrested after allegedly making a threatening gesture exterior Sydney’s Cremorne Synagogue on Tuesday morning has since been launched, police say.
The 23-year-old was allegedly seen pointing what was believed to be a firearm from a shifting truck in direction of the place of worship, police mentioned.
After being arrested and brought to Chatswood police station, he was launched pending additional inquiries, police mentioned. No costs have been laid.
The motive force, a 21-year-old man, was additionally arrested and later launched with out cost.
SA police say footprint discovered yesterday unrelated to seek for lacking 4-year-old
South Australia police have issued an announcement on Gus Lamont after the seek for the 4-year-old was scaled back last week.
Gus was final seen in his household’s sheep station in distant South Australian on 27 September.
The deputy commissioner, Linda Williams, says a small footprint discovered within the search yesterday was discovered to be unrelated to Gus. Williams says the investigation is now being led by the Lacking Individuals Part, the place long-term circumstances are managed:
We’ll by no means surrender hope of discovering Gus. There are additional strains of enquiry being undertaken and the household have continued to cooperate absolutely with police.
Assistant overseas minister says employees working ‘across the clock’ to make sure Australians on Gaza flotilla are returned from Israel
Thistlethwaite is requested about seven Australian detained by Israel whereas on board a flotilla carrying help to Gaza.
He says Australian consular employees in Israel are working “across the clock” to make sure the seven Australians detained by Israel are handled with dignity and returned house.
Requested in regards to the remedy of the detainees, he says Australia has referred to as on Israel to abide by worldwide legislation:
We’ve actually made our views identified to the Israeli authorities by the consular employees within the Center East that these folks needs to be handled in accordance with worldwide legislation, however most significantly, we wish to see them returned to Australia as rapidly as doable.
Matt Thistlethwaite says authorities is engaged on antisemitism envoy’s suggestions alongside Islamophobia envoy’s stories
Requested about why the federal authorities hasn’t agreed to all of the suggestions within the antisemitism envoy report, Thistlethwaite says the federal government is engaged on it alongside the Islamophobia envoy report printed final month.
You don’t single out a legislation to use to at least one group, you need it to use to all Australians. We wish to strengthen the legislation for all Australians in order that they’ll stay peacefully.
Thistlethwaite says he can’t specify a timeline however confused the federal government is working by the envoy’s suggestions.
Labor MP says pro-Hamas graffiti is “disgusting”
Assistant minister for overseas affairs, Matt Thistlethwaite, is talking to the ABC. He says pro-Hamas graffiti seen in Melbourne this morning is “disgusting” and “fully unacceptable”:
What I don’t get is that people who find themselves advocating for that, I don’t assume it does their service or their trigger any good. I believe it simply turns the typical Australian off the case for which they’re attempting to advocate
Daisy Dumas
Specialists says yellow loopy ant eradication hinges on federal funding
Specialists are calling for federal funding to match Queensland’s dedication in direction of eradicating the unfold of extremely invasive yellow loopy ants.
The Crisafulli authorities on Tuesday pledged an extra $6m as a part of ongoing 10-year funding program to eradicate yellow loopy ants from the moist tropics area.
Jack Gough, the chief government of the Invasive Species Council, mentioned a long-term dedication from each state and federal governments was important to “end the job and guarantee we are able to eradicate yellow loopy ants as soon as and for all”. He mentioned a delay in federal funding might influence eradication progress in north Queensland.
The ants have been not too long ago detected in Townsville’s port, with the council warning maritime commerce represented a significant biosecurity weak spot.
Gough mentioned:
Yellow loopy ants are among the many world’s worst invasive species – they spray formic acid, blind and kill native animals and may collapse complete ecosystems. The Queensland program is likely one of the largest eradication efforts ever tried globally, and it deserves full nationwide backing.
If yellow loopy ants are allowed to unfold, the harm will far outweigh the price of eradication.
Man arrested after alleged threatening gesture exterior Cremorne Synagogue
Daisy Dumas
A person has been arrested after allegedly making a threatening gesture exterior Cremorne Synagogue on Tuesday morning.
The 23-year-old was allegedly seen pointing what was believed to be a firearm from a shifting truck in direction of the place of worship, police mentioned. He was arrested and brought to Chatswood police station.
The motive force, a 21-year-old man, was arrested and later launched.
Police mentioned officers hooked up to strike pressure Raptor, the canine unit and freeway patrol assisted within the seek for the merchandise, which was not situated. Inquiries have been ongoing.
The incident comes on the second anniversary of the 7 October Hamas terror assault in Israel.
Krishani Dhanji
That’s it for me as we speak, thanks for following alongside on the weblog! A giant shoutout to my colleague Tom McIlroy who baked a scrumptious cake which received us by the day.
I’ll go away you with the great Adeshola Ore for the remainder of the afternoon.
Luca Ittimani
Productiveness chair warns that financial professional commentary can ‘stifle’ reform
Circling again to the warning that media’s “slender” definitions might hinder financial reforms from the Productiveness Fee (PC) chair, Danielle Wooden:
Wooden, a former chair of the Grattan Institute thinktank, additionally referred to as out consultants who used their “privilege” in media commentary to unfold division and stifle change:
Specialists form [debates’] credibility … [but] typically consultants don’t use this privilege as constructively as they may.
Proposed reforms are unlikely to align 100% with an professional’s view of first-best. Once they fixate on the ten% distinction, as an alternative of acknowledging the 90% of shared floor, the general public hears division, not consensus. That may stifle fragile reform strategies.
Wooden cited one tutorial, who she declined to call, who referred to as to abolish the PC after it proposed an organization tax system differing from that tutorial’s most popular change.
The PC has launched a string of reform proposals in current months, together with to overhaul company taxes, share school lesson plans, enable AI data mining and lower green energy subsidies, together with different proposals that obtained much less media protection.
The PC chair as we speak inspired reporters to dedicate extra time to these less-covered proposals whereas noting protection of the higher-profile reforms as controversial risked eroding public assist for change.
Wooden additionally acknowledged the PC’s communication additionally hindered public engagement, estimating about half the inhabitants wouldn’t be capable to perceive (evaluating favourably to the UK central financial institution, which has estimated its publications are inaccessible to 90% of UK residents).
