Julian Leeser says Liberals had ‘false sense of confidence’
Stephanie Convery
Liberal MP Julian Leeser has mentioned his social gathering misplaced the federal election as a result of it “didn’t produce a set of insurance policies that tackle the elemental issues that they had about price of dwelling”.
Chatting with ABC’s Afternoon Briefing at present, he mentioned the social gathering had developed a “false sense of confidence” round Anthony Albanese’s poor efficiency on some points, together with the voice to parliament and on responding to antisemitism in Australia.
The social gathering’s failure to deal with younger individuals, ladies and multicultural communities additionally contributed to their loss, he mentioned.
Leeser mentioned:
We have now elementary classes we didn’t take from the earlier campaigns, outlined in a report, which talked about the necessity to concentrate on younger individuals, on ladies, multicultural communities, and I don’t suppose we did sufficient to focus our coverage choices on that. And the third key factor is I don’t suppose we’ve got essentially our marketing campaign construction, our marketing campaign professionals and activists on the bottom, as developed as they may very well be.
In massive elements of Australia there may be not a presence of our social gathering and [that] makes the chance of successful seats with glorious candidates – even you probably have a wonderful coverage platform – a lot tougher. And we don’t have a superb pipeline, just like the Labor social gathering does, for activists and campaigners, and I feel these are actual structural points we have to tackle.
Key occasions
Extra election outcomes: the Australian Electoral Fee has introduced the depend has been accomplished for South Australia’s senate representatives. So as of their election, they’re:
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Marielle Smith – Australian Labor Occasion
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Alex Antic – Liberal Occasion
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Karen Grogan – Australian Labor Occasion
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Anne Ruston – Liberal Occasion
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Sarah Hanson-Younger – Australian Greens
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Charlotte Walker – Australian Labor Occasion
AEC says why it determined towards Goldstein recount
The Australian Electoral Fee determined to not conduct a full recount of the Melbourne seat of Goldstein, regardless of impartial candidate Zoe Daniel requesting it, as a result of they had been assured the choice distribution was “thorough” in the course of the later a part of the depend, AEC spokesperson Evan Ekin-Smyth has mentioned.
Chatting with Afternoon Briefing, Ekin-Smyth mentioned:
Given there was a little bit motion within the late a part of that full distribution of preferences we predict it’s truthful sufficient to do a recheck of first preferences for these prime two candidates.
He mentioned the margin of 260 votes between Daniel and Liberal candidate Tim Wilson was “affordable”, and that whereas within the context of 118,000 voters it appears very small, it will nonetheless be unlikely to shift a lot with the odd poll being challenged right here and there.
He continued:
So pending any type of error within the contemporary scrutiny course of, which was our obligatory second depend we did depend throughout the usual depend, you’d suppose it will be comparatively tough [to change the margin substantially] however completely you will need to undergo this legislative course of.
Daniel did request a full recount, Ekin-Smyth mentioned, however the AEC didn’t settle for that request.
We expect a partial recount [is warranted] due to how assured we’re in our distribution of preferences, that course of finalised on Saturday was very thorough, we’re simply going one step additional to make sure there may be confidence for us and the candidates and voters. The general public enjoys the very fact the AEC is thorough on the subject of the depend and that’s what we’re doing.
Adeshola Ore
Extra from Erin Patterson’s trial: Atkinson says throughout a telephone name with Patterson on 3 August, the accused talked about the suburb Glen Waverley for the primary time when attempting to find out the place she had bought dried mushrooms for the meat wellington.
The Division of Well being official says Patterson named the suburbs Oakleigh, Clayton or Glen Waverley whereas attempting to slim down the place the Asian grocer was positioned.
Atkinsons says beforehand Patterson had talked about Mount Waverley however not Glen Waverley.
The court docket has adjourned for the day. The trial will resume at 10.30am on Tuesday.
Lisa Cox
Kean desires ‘formidable’ and ‘achievable’ emissions targets
The Local weather Change Authority has been commissioned to advise the federal government on a 2035 goal and plans to chop emissions from electrical energy and power, transport, business and waste, agriculture and land, sources and buildings.
In a consultation paper released last year, the authority nominated a 65-75% minimize in contrast with 2005 ranges based mostly on an preliminary evaluation of scientific, financial, technological and social proof.
Kean mentioned on Monday he needed to ensure the goal the authority really useful to the federal government was “science aligned”, “formidable” and “achievable”. He mentioned:
Power and electrical energy will do the majority of the heavy-lifting in direction of the ambition that we need to have.
So on any state of affairs, any quantity – and we’ve consulted on between 65% and 75% – power and electrical energy is the swing arm to getting these deep cuts into our emissions.
Matt Kean says election was ‘win for rational coverage’
Lisa Cox
The chair of the Local weather Change Authority, Matt Kean, has mentioned the federal election was a “win for rational decision-making and rational coverage” and the authority has been consulting on a possible 2035 emissions discount goal of between 65% and 75%.
Kean, a former NSW Liberal power minister, instructed a webinar organised by information web site the Power that “the Australian public clearly selected the rational path, which can be the most cost effective path, and likewise the trail that lets us decarbonise the economic system”. He mentioned:
This election end result was a win for rational decision-making and rational coverage.
And clearly there was a fork within the highway when it got here to the alternatives that Australians had been introduced with when it got here to the power transition and the transition of our broader economic system.
Underneath one path, one social gathering was saying we’re going to delay the transition to internet zero till 2048 once we would possibly set up some nuclear reactors.
He mentioned the election end result was a “win for proof, engineering and science” and “I feel clearly the federal government has a mandate to get on with this power transition”.
Adeshola Ore
Well being official says Patterson denied foraging for mushrooms, court docket hears
A Division of Well being official says Erin Patterson denied foraging for mushrooms when questioned concerning the fateful beef wellington lunch.
Sally Ann Atkinon has recounted to Patterson’s triple homicide trial a dialog she had with the accused on 2 August whereas a toddler safety employee was conducting a house go to.
She says in the course of the dialog Patterson instructed her water, tea and occasional had been the one drinks served on the lunch. Patterson mentioned the milk was from Woolworths in Leongatha, Atkinson says.
Atkinson says Patterson instructed her the Asian grocery retailer the place she had bought the dried mushrooms was prone to be in a procuring strip, slightly than a procuring centre, in Oakleigh or Clayton.
She says Patterson instructed her the mushrooms had not been utilized in a earlier pasta meal as a result of that they had a “humorous” odor. Atkinson says that is completely different to what Patterson had beforehand instructed her within the preliminary dialog. Atkinson says:
The preliminary dialog appeared to point she’d use a few of them within the first dish.
She says when requested if she had foraged mushrooms, Patterson mentioned “no”.
Adeshola Ore
Patterson mentioned it was ‘onerous to pinpoint a precise day I purchased this or that’, court docket hears
Atkinson additionally texted Patterson on 2 August at 1.44pm asking what time of day she purchased the components on Friday earlier than the lunch. Atkinson wrote:
Councils are when the grocery store receives deliveries and storage and many others, time of procuring would assist with their investigation.
Patterson replied on 2 August at 2.44pm.
Hello Sally. I’m unsure precisely what time of day. I went just a few instances final week and I do know I acquired a number of the components on possibly Wednesday or Thursday (I do know I purchased some discounted eye fillet steaks one time on a kind of two days) after which I went again one both Thursday or Friday and acquired a pair extra however they weren’t discounted, simply regular value. And I purchased the remainder of the components at a kind of procuring journeys. I usually go day by day or each second day to choose up a bag or two and get what I would like as I am going so it’s onerous to pinpoint a precise day I purchased this or that however I do know I purchased all of it at some stage final week on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.
Atkinson says Patterson had beforehand instructed her she purchased the components for the lunch on Friday.
Well being official requested Erin Patterson for particulars on lunch, texts present
The jury in Erin Patterson’s homicide trial have been proven textual content messages between the accused and a Victorian Division of Well being official.
Sally Ann Atkinson,, the official, was investigating a possible demise cap mushroom poisoning after company at Patterson’s lunch fell ailing, the court docket has heard.
Jurors are proven a textual content message Atkinson despatched Patterson on 1 August – three days after the meat wellington lunch – at 3.50pm after making unsuccessful makes an attempt at reaching her.
Within the message, Atkinson says she requires details about what drinks had been served on the lunch, the varieties of shallots bought and a “primary description of the packaging of the mushrooms from the Asian grocer” together with weight and dimension of packaging.
Atkinson additionally requested Patterson to think about the names of the roads she parked on or close to when she bought the dried mushrooms.
The court docket is proven textual content messages between Atkinson and Erin.
Patterson replied the identical day, 1 August, at 4.08pm:
Hello Sally. Certain I’ll attempt to get that info all to you as quickly as attainable. I’m simply coping with attempting to handle and take care of the children within the hospital right here and a bit snowed beneath attempting to handle that. I’ll get this information to you as quickly as attainable however I’ve simply been in a few conferences with individuals on the hospital if you’ve been attempting to name.
Stephanie Convery
Liberals have to concentrate on ‘huge center of Australia’ – Leeser
Requested if the Liberal party has lurched too far to the suitable, Liberal MP Julian Leeser says his view is that the social gathering ought to concentrate on “the huge center of Australia”.
I feel we have to continuously have in mind: who’re the individuals we symbolize and we wish to symbolize?
I feel key to that’s households within the suburbs and small-business individuals, amongst others, and once we are centered on the wants and issues of households and small companies – based mostly on our enduring values of particular person freedom, of private accountability, of robust defence, robust households – I feel these are the types of values that may information us effectively sooner or later.
Leeser mentioned it was straightforward in opposition to “get distracted” and the social gathering wanted to concentrate on “the issues that unite us and join us with the voters we have to win”.
Julian Leeser says Liberals had ‘false sense of confidence’
Stephanie Convery
Liberal MP Julian Leeser has mentioned his social gathering misplaced the federal election as a result of it “didn’t produce a set of insurance policies that tackle the elemental issues that they had about price of dwelling”.
Chatting with ABC’s Afternoon Briefing at present, he mentioned the social gathering had developed a “false sense of confidence” round Anthony Albanese’s poor efficiency on some points, together with the voice to parliament and on responding to antisemitism in Australia.
The social gathering’s failure to deal with younger individuals, ladies and multicultural communities additionally contributed to their loss, he mentioned.
Leeser mentioned:
We have now elementary classes we didn’t take from the earlier campaigns, outlined in a report, which talked about the necessity to concentrate on younger individuals, on ladies, multicultural communities, and I don’t suppose we did sufficient to focus our coverage choices on that. And the third key factor is I don’t suppose we’ve got essentially our marketing campaign construction, our marketing campaign professionals and activists on the bottom, as developed as they may very well be.
In massive elements of Australia there may be not a presence of our social gathering and [that] makes the chance of successful seats with glorious candidates – even you probably have a wonderful coverage platform – a lot tougher. And we don’t have a superb pipeline, just like the Labor social gathering does, for activists and campaigners, and I feel these are actual structural points we have to tackle.
Greater than 12,000 individuals nonetheless remoted after NSW floods, SES says
There are hundreds of employees and volunteers on the bottom at present with the NSW State Emergency Service after the devastating floods.
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The SES has responded to greater than 7,700 incidents, together with 794 flood rescues.
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Greater than 5,000 harm assessments have been accomplished.
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SES officers are working to get essential provides to greater than 12,000 individuals who stay remoted by the intense climate.
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Sixty-nine warnings remaining place throughout the area, however officers are working to de-escalate these as they will to permit individuals to return residence.
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Helicopters and high-clearance autos have been dropping off grocery provides and medical must flooded communities at present.
“Regionally led teams aiding in clean-up operations like it will guarantee communities are resilient into the longer term and might assist one another within the long-term restoration,” Jihad Dib, the minister for emergency companies, mentioned in a press release.
Adeshola Ore
Again to Erin Patterson’s trial
A Division of Well being official says Patterson instructed her she needed to make one thing “fancy” for her company on the lethal beef wellington lunch.
Sally Ann Atkinson is giving proof within the courtroom in Morwell. On the time of the lunch, she was working in a division workforce centered on gastro-type diseases.
On 31 July 2023 – two days after the lunch – Atkinson obtained a attainable illness notification about suspected demise cap mushroom poisoning through Dr Conor McDermott on the Austin hospital, the court docket hears.
Atkinson says she spoke to Patterson whereas she was in hospital on 1 August – three days after the lunch. She mentioned Patterson instructed her it was beef wellington with mashed potatoes, beans and gravy from a packet.
She says Patterson instructed her she had not cooked a beef wellington earlier than and needed to make one thing “fancy”.
Patterson instructed Atksinon nearly all of components had been purchased from Woolworths whereas dried mushrooms had been bought from an Asian grocer in April 2023, the court docket hears.
Atkinson says Patterson instructed her the mushrooms from an Asian grocer had been bought dried and had been then saved in a Tupperware container.
Josh Butler
Dfat aiding Australian detained in Bali on drug fees
The Division of International Affairs and Commerce is offering help to an Australian man arrested in Bali on drug fees. In a short assertion, a spokesperson for the division mentioned it couldn’t say way more at this stage.
Information Corp reported that an Australian man had been arrested in Bali for allegedly attempting to smuggle 1.8kg of cocaine into Indonesia, after allegedly receiving packages within the mail.
“The Division of International Affairs and Commerce is offering consular help to an Australian detained in Bali,” the spokesperson instructed Guardian Australia through electronic mail.
Owing to our privateness obligations we’re unable to offer additional remark.
Residence auctions spiking already after RBA price minimize
Public sale clearance charges jumped instantly after the Reserve Financial institution’s second rate of interest minimize of the yr, in an indication residence patrons are regaining confidence, the Australian Related Press studies.
The quantity of auctions held in capital cities surged greater than 40% to 2,512 final week, with 71.3% reported as offered, in keeping with property knowledge analytics agency Cotality.
That’s the second-highest preliminary clearance price in 2025.
Power within the Melbourne market underpinned the restoration, with nearly three-quarters of properties beneath the hammer recording a profitable public sale. In the meantime, Sydney’s preliminary clearance price handed 70% for the primary time in 10 weeks.
Whereas purchaser confidence improved, sellers’ expectations are in lots of circumstances nonetheless above what the market is prepared to pay.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
PM sends military to assist NSW floods clean-up
Seventy Australian defence power personnel can be deployed to the New South Wales mid-north coast to help with the cleanup from the devastating floods.
The troops can be on the bottom from Tuesday alongside the veteran-led Catastrophe Aid Australia, serving to to clear particles, reopen roads and conduct welfare checks on residents within the flood zone.
Anthony Albanese introduced the ADF deployments as the large cleanup operation started for communities throughout the area.
“Sadly we’re getting far an excessive amount of expertise in coping with excessive climate occasions,” the prime minister instructed a press convention contained in the nationwide scenario room in Canberra.
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Elias Visontay
I’ll now cross over the weblog to my colleague Nick Visser. Have a superb afternoon!
