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watt Asked for more details - will he continue plibskTry to reform the environmental protection and biodiversity conservation laws at the stage, or do you want to fully legislate reforms?
Watt said he has not reached a conclusion yet. But the problem with different stakeholders will be tested:
A bill that is quite similar to our last bill will have some advantages, but obviously this requires some adjustments to pass - but again, I can see some advantages in one breath as I try to expand this reform and try to make a bigger reform plan.
Murray Watt said his work was built on the environmental work done by Tanya Plibersek
Murray WattThe new environment minister is talking about ABC Radio National talking about how his first job passed the environmental law:
I have called environmental groups, mining groups, business groups and they all agree that we need to change. So my job is based on work Tanya (Plibersek) As Minister did it and passed these laws.
…I think the election results have indeed been strongly recognized by Labour’s approach to environmental protection, and that’s what We can protect the environment and protect the work. That's what we want to do.
Albanes meets with Rome's leaders
AlbanysMeetings with world leaders were full of formal pictures and selfies of Vatican backpacks during the Pope’s inauguration Massage were immortal:
Australia 🤝Canada
Very happy to meet with the Prime Minister @MarkJcarney The inauguration of the Father.
Our two countries have a long history of cooperation on global issues. Together we will work for closer trade and a safer Indo-Pacific. pic.twitter.com/lq5t18budw
Free trade means more jobs and a stronger economy.
That's why we are reaching a free trade agreement with the EU.
Today I met with the President of the European Commission @vonderleyen Discuss trade, and our efforts to support global peace and security. pic.twitter.com/kb4adv4hak
Qantas could be forced to pay more than $120 million in fines after finding the airline was found illegally outsourcing 1,820 ground handling personnel, the final hearing began years-long, expensive legal proceedings.
From Monday, a five-day hearing held by the federal court will determine that Qantas must pay the 2020 outsourcing ruling, which Transport workers union (TWU) filed the initial legal action that found outsourcing illegal - which would require ordering a maximum fine of $121 million.
Outsourcing Legend has seen that the airline agrees to pay $120 million to affected workers as part of a deal concluded in December, in addition to the defense of the initial legal proceedings of the Transport Workers Alliance and subsequent defenses of the initial legal proceedings in all lawsuits in the federal and high courts.
If Justice Michael Lee It does decide on the maximum fine, which will put the cost of fines and compensation exceeds $240 million, well above the $135 million Qantas budget for half-year financial results released in February. It will limit Qantas’ expensive 12-month limit – in a completely different matter last May, the airline also agreed to a civil fine and $20 million in customer compensation for allegedly selling tens of thousands of tickets to the already cancelled flights.
TWU State Secretary Michael Kaine said the union called for the highest penalties on Qantas to “reflect the scale of its decision” and ensure that the financial burden of legal proceedings means outsourcing has no remaining “business cases”.
Kane said:
Getting rid of a loyal workforce is not only a shocking act, but the biggest case of illegal dismissal in Australian companies’ history. The fine on Qantas must reflect this and send messages to other companies in Australia that you cannot fire workers to prevent them from using their industrial rights.
You can read more about outsourcing legal processes here:
Albanes speaks to his mother's pope
What did Anthony Albanese When he met him, choose to tell the Catholic leader?
After being brought into the cathedral to greet the pope after Mass, AAP Report Albanes talked to him about his mother:
I'm sure I talked to him about my mother, who would look out of the sky with her biggest smile ever.
Albanese, a Catholic who grew up on a housing board in Sydney, often mentions his late single mother and his impact on life.
Anthony Albanese (Centre of the Hat Room) joins other world leaders at the inauguration of Pope Leo Xiv in St Peter's Square in Vatican City on Sunday, May 18, 2025. Photo: Flavio Brancaleone/AAP
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanesesaid he was honored to attend the inauguration and to meet his holiness Pope Leo 14.
While in Rome, Albanes also met with other world leaders, including the Prime Minister of Canada, including the Prime Minister of Canada. Mark Carneythe President of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
SES warned that in the first half of this week, heavy rain, strong winds, dangerous surfing and moderate flooding on the northern NSW coast will be expected to be in northern NSW.
Rainfall is expected to last for several days in the central North Coast and the Hunter area, and the SES has had to rescue eight people.