Sportsbet pauses Spotify promoting after kids allegedly uncovered to playing content material
Henry Belot
Australian playing big Sportsbet has paused promoting with the music streaming service, Spotify, after a grievance alleging kids had been uncovered to its content material between Disney songs.
Earlier right now, Guardian Australia reported on a father’s formal complaint to the streaming service. The daddy, who declined to be named, stated the content material was “doubtlessly damaging” to his kids and urged Spotify to introduce an opt-out perform for wagering content material:
I really like Spotify and utterly perceive your must generate revenue. Nevertheless, enjoying Sportsbet’s advertisements earlier than and after Disney songs is inappropriate and doubtlessly damaging to my kids.
The daddy was listening to music on his personal, free account. Spotify doesn’t have an opt-out of promoting choice without cost or premium customers. Paying Spotify customers are uncovered to fewer advertisements, however they’re nonetheless embedded into some podcasts.
Sportsbet has instructed Guardian Australia it takes measures to make sure kids are usually not uncovered to its promoting:
Sportsbet’s promoting on Spotify and all social media channels makes use of age gating measures, and excludes children and household content material as an extra management.
We’re disenchanted this has occurred and have paused promoting on Spotify whereas the difficulty is rectified.
Key occasions
Nearly two-thirds of Australians consider the transition to renewables will probably be good for Australia total whereas few perceive what the transition means for them personally.
A brand new Energy Customers Australia survey of greater than 4,000 house owners discovered only one in 5 agreed that “how the vitality transition will have an effect on households like theirs” had been clearly defined to them.
The Shopper Vitality Report Card, launched right now, additionally discovered that whereas most house owners consider the vitality transition will probably be good for the surroundings, their area people and Australia as a complete, one in 4 are assured the nation has a well-planned method to managing the transition.
The analysis discovered shoppers had been cut up over whether or not the transition to renewables would decrease payments within the quick time period, however 45% had been assured payments would come down on the long run.
Vitality Customers Australia CEO, Dr Brendan French, stated:
Australians really feel constructive in regards to the transition to renewable vitality and consider will probably be a great factor for the nation – and greater than half say they perceive why Australia is making the change. They’re much much less sure about what it means for them and their households, with most believing that is but to be clearly defined.
Jonathan Barrett
Woolworths says warehouse strikes have price $50m
Australia’s greatest grocery store chain, Woolworths, says it has misplaced $50m in grocery gross sales for the reason that begin of business motion that has disrupted the movement of products into a few of its shops.
Greater than 1,500 Woolworths warehouse staff have been on strike since 21 November, searching for higher pay and security on the job. Industrial motion has affected as much as 5 distribution centres, impacting provides in some shops in Victoria, NSW and the ACT.
Woolworths instructed shareholders right now that its income was being affected.
“Because the begin of the economic motion, Australian meals gross sales have been negatively impacted by roughly $50m thus far (as much as 2 December),” Woolworths stated.
Till the economic motion is resolved, an additional influence to gross sales is predicted.
It will likely be depending on the period and extent of the continued industrial motion throughout the affected websites, and the time taken to rebuild stock forward of the Christmas buying and selling interval.
The United Staff Union nationwide secretary, Tim Kennedy, stated warehouse staff had engaged in good-faith negotiations for nearly seven months and have raised issues a couple of “punitive” productiveness framework imposed on staff.
“They’re additionally preventing for a good pay rise,” Kennedy stated.
Shares in Woolworths had been buying and selling barely greater in morning commerce in a broadly constructive market.
Vitality retailers requested to clear buyer money owed and accused of worth hikes amid cost-of-living disaster
Vitality retailers are being known as on to clear all buyer money owed and permit clients in “debt traps” to seek for cheaper plans.
Cease the Invoice Shock was began by organisations whose members are experiencing vitality poverty heading into summer time, as new knowledge from the Australian Vitality Regulator confirmed a 37.8% improve within the variety of households struggling to pay their vitality payments.
The marketing campaign group stated it had delivered a $173m invoice – the estimated price for the corporate to wipe debt for its clients – to Australia’s largest retailer, Origin Vitality.
Jay Coonan, a spokesperson for Cease the Invoice Shock and the Antipoverty Centre, stated:
Vitality debt goes up yearly and it’s due to vitality retailer greed. Peculiar individuals simply attempting to satisfy their fundamental wants are being punished with worth hikes in service of large earnings for large corporations like Origin and AGL.
Vitality debt have to be wiped, however that is solely a primary step. We want robust regulation to forestall worth gouging and assure that clients can at all times swap to the most affordable plan out there.
Emma Bacon from Sweltering Cities stated it was “unacceptable that older individuals, individuals with continual diseases and disabilities, households with younger children and others are making the selection between paying for cooling or groceries”:
The individuals most vulnerable to warmth associated sickness can’t afford to maintain cool and it’s making summer time extra harmful. Excessive costs result in hardship, and hardship results in debt … It’s time for us to place well being over retailer earnings.
Benita Kolovos
Jacinta Allan defends Victoria after Enterprise Council last-place rating
The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, has defended the state’s enterprise credentials after the Business Council of Australia ranked it the worst place to do enterprise within the nation.
The Regulation Rumble 2024 report ranked Victoria final for total enterprise settings and located “with a low rating for its property taxes and costs, payroll taxes, and enterprise licencing necessities, the state has a lot room for enchancment whether it is to draw and generate business-driven progress”.
However talking in Melbourne this morning Allan says there’s key knowledge lacking from the report. She says:
The ABS knowledge tells us that increasingly companies are selecting Victoria as a spot to put money into document numbers. … if you have a look at our vitality costs, we now have amongst the bottom vitality costs of anyplace within the nation and we now have an important and powerful expert workforce.
Allan says the report additionally fails to consider a string of bulletins she made in October to streamline planning and construct extra properties.
These are the priorities that I’m centered on – a future the place we have to hold constructing properties, renewable energies, constructing productive transport infrastructure, most definitely centered on constructing extra jobs.
She says she will probably be releasing an “financial progress assertion” “very quickly”.
Ben Doherty
Responses to evaluate into Trendy Slavery Act agree extra reforms are wanted
Staying with the federal government’s response to the impartial evaluate of Australia’s Trendy Slavery Act: the president of the Australian Council of Commerce Unions, Michele O’Neil, stated 5 years into the operation of the Act, it was clear the regulation was not robust sufficient to ship actual enhancements for staff in conditions of contemporary slavery within the operations and provide chains of Australian corporations.
We welcome the dedication to implement penalties for corporations failing to uphold their reporting obligations. Nevertheless the dedication should go additional and will embody a requirement for corporations to take concrete motion to forestall trendy slavery – this implies introducing a requirement for corporations to undertake due diligence, and penalties for corporations failing to forestall trendy slavery of their operations and provide chains.
Keren Adams, the authorized director on the Human Rights Legislation Centre, stated the trendy slavery act was failing staff. The introduction of penalties for corporations that fail to report, or falsely report, was welcomed, she stated.
However merely imposing higher reporting won’t drive the transformational adjustments to company practices we all know are wanted to assist finish pressured labour. The act also needs to impose a authorized requirement on corporations to take motion. We urge the Albanese authorities to maneuver swiftly to implement a due diligence obligation on corporations, as really useful by the impartial evaluate.
Carolyn Kitto, co-director of Be Slavery Free, stated the federal government’s response had been too gradual.
The federal government has had the Trendy Slavery Act evaluate report for 557 days – throughout which an estimated 15 million extra individuals have fallen into slavery. Whereas these commitments are welcome, pressing motion to implement all suggestions is crucial. We can not afford one other delay like this.
The federal authorities’s new anti-slavery commissioner, former Labor senator Chris Evans, began his five-year time period on Monday.
Ben Doherty
Advocates say authorities ought to make corporations take energetic function in preventing trendy slavery
Anti-slavery advocates, human rights teams and unions have welcomed proposed adjustments to strengthen Australia’s trendy slavery regulation, together with by means of the introduction of penalties for corporations that fail to undertake trendy slavery reporting necessities.
However they’ve argued the federal government ought to go additional and in addition introduce a authorized requirement for corporations to take motion to forestall trendy slavery.
An impartial evaluate of Australia’s Trendy Slavery Act, enacted in 2018, was given to the federal government in Could 2023. Greater than 18 months later, the federal government has now responded.
The evaluate of the act discovered “no laborious proof that the act, in its early years, has but brought about significant change for individuals dwelling in situations of contemporary slavery”.
The Act at the moment requires corporations with a income of greater than $100m to finish a ‘trendy slavery assertion’ yearly. The assertion should describe the dangers of contemporary slavery within the firm’s operations and provide chains.
The evaluate made 30 suggestions, together with that corporations that fail to submit their mandated trendy slavery stories or that knowingly publish false info face penalties – at the moment there isn’t any penalty. The federal government has agreed to that suggestion.
However the evaluate additionally really useful the act be strengthened with the introduction of the “due diligence” obligation, resembling exists within the EU and different jurisdictions. A due diligence obligation would require corporations to actively determine trendy slavery dangers and take motion to forestall trendy slavery of their operations and provide chains – motion past merely submitting trendy slavery danger stories.
Residence affairs minister to satisfy Indonesian minister for regulation as Bali 9 hypothesis swirls
As developments across the destiny of the remaining Bali 9 members continues to dominate Tony Burke’s pre-planned go to to Indonesia, the Indonesian authorities has confirmed its coordinating minister for regulation, human rights, immigration and corrections, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, will meet with the house affairs minister right now.
The pair will meet in Jakarta at 1pm native time.
The assembly is potential additional progress within the ongoing and delicate negotiations across the futures of the 5 Australians who stay in captivity in Indonesia.
Amanda Meade
Media Watch host Paul Barry thanks ABC managing administrators for supporting proper to criticise broadcaster
The outgoing ABC Media Watch host, Paul Barry, has thanked managing administrators David Anderson and Mark Scott for at all times supporting this system’s proper to critique the general public broadcaster.
“It’s outstanding that any broadcaster tolerates a program that rips into it as we now have finished,” Barry stated in his ultimate present on Monday. “And two individuals specifically deserve the credit score.”
Mark Scott who was managing director from 2006 to 2016 and David Anderson who has been managing director since 2019.
They’ve at all times had my again, and defended Media Watch’s proper to criticise, even when they didn’t agree with its criticisms.
Barry stated a relentless marketing campaign to carry again motion on local weather change is the media’s worst crime throughout his 11 years within the function. Barry was additionally crucial of the Information Corp tabloids for “doing their greatest to maintain Labor out of energy”.
“However feminine politicians have been hit even tougher and extra usually than the blokes,” he stated. “And none greater than Julia Gillard – by Alan Jones specifically”.
Barry stated Gillian Triggs on the Human Rights Fee and author Yassmin Abdel Magied had been additionally focused by Information Corp.
Sportsbet pauses Spotify promoting after kids allegedly uncovered to playing content material
Henry Belot
Australian playing big Sportsbet has paused promoting with the music streaming service, Spotify, after a grievance alleging kids had been uncovered to its content material between Disney songs.
Earlier right now, Guardian Australia reported on a father’s formal complaint to the streaming service. The daddy, who declined to be named, stated the content material was “doubtlessly damaging” to his kids and urged Spotify to introduce an opt-out perform for wagering content material:
I really like Spotify and utterly perceive your must generate revenue. Nevertheless, enjoying Sportsbet’s advertisements earlier than and after Disney songs is inappropriate and doubtlessly damaging to my kids.
The daddy was listening to music on his personal, free account. Spotify doesn’t have an opt-out of promoting choice without cost or premium customers. Paying Spotify customers are uncovered to fewer advertisements, however they’re nonetheless embedded into some podcasts.
Sportsbet has instructed Guardian Australia it takes measures to make sure kids are usually not uncovered to its promoting:
Sportsbet’s promoting on Spotify and all social media channels makes use of age gating measures, and excludes children and household content material as an extra management.
We’re disenchanted this has occurred and have paused promoting on Spotify whereas the difficulty is rectified.
Woolworths information utility with Truthful Work to forestall union blockade
The Woolworths Group says it has filed an pressing utility with the Truthful Work Fee searching for orders stopping the United Staff Union (UWU) from blocking entry to its Melbourne south regional distribution centre and three different websites in Victoria and New South Wales.
The UWU commenced indefinite strike action on the 4 websites on 21 November, with the strike motion now extending to 12 days, Woolworths stated.
In a press release this morning, the grocery store stated the applying to Truthful Work alleges a breach of the nice religion bargaining necessities within the Truthful Work Act and that the matter had not but been listed for listening to.
The applying comes after the UWU refused to present any assurance of secure passage for group members searching for to return to work at our Melbourne south regional distribution centre yesterday and this morning.
A majority of the group on the website had indicated they wished to return to work to start being paid, which is able to assist improve provide of important meals and grocery merchandise resembling nappies, rest room paper and drinks to Woolworths’ Victorian shops.
The UWU selected to dam the location entry factors to MSRDC with automobiles and protesters, which created an unsafe surroundings for group members who had proven as much as work. Nearly all of our group members at this website are usually not members of the UWU.
We are going to once more be making an attempt to function the MSRDC right now, and we’ll comply with the recommendation of the Victorian police to make sure the security of our group.
