News live: all eyes on Albanese’s potential meeting with Xi Jinping; Ukraine appeals for more Australian coal and energy support

Ukraine’s international minister Dmytro Kuleba has made an enchantment to Australia for coal provide and power infrastructure together with mills, after the war-torn nation suffered current injury to its power system.

Kuleba requested Anthony Albanese for the help in individual when the pair met on the Asean summit in Cambodia in current days, following missile assaults final weekend that broken greater than 40% of Ukraine’s power community and led to blackouts and “catastrophic” issues with heating and water provide, in line with the Ukraine authorities.

In a press release launched by the embassy of Ukraine in Canberra, ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko stated Albanese and Kuleba had a “very constructive” dialogue in Phnom Penh.

Myroshnychenko stated:

It exhibits the mateship of Australia and Ukraine in standing up for democracy and sovereignty in opposition to autocracy and illegality. Ukraine actually wants the mateship now.

Our purpose is to assist our folks via instant restoration of essential power provide, diversification of power sources, and the event of disaster inventory.

It will be invaluable to Ukraine to once more obtain coal provide from Australia, a world chief. Additionally it is a terrific engineering nation, and will help us with mills – to maintain important providers like hospitals and water remedies vegetation going – and by way of transformers to revive the general system.

Whereas Ukrainians are decided to outlive this difficult winter, and whereas our troops are making advances on the battlefield, the extra assist we request from Australia would have life-saving affect.

Paul Karp

Australia might free a 3rd of its prisoners with little threat to group, new analysis finds

Unique: Australia’s jail inhabitants may very well be decreased by one-third with little threat to group security, in line with analysis carried out for the Institute of Public Affairs.

The analysis paper by Prof Mirko Bagaric, the dean of regulation on the Swinburne College of Know-how, recommends regulation reform to stop imprisonment of non-violent offenders.

It provides to calls from Labor’s assistant treasury minister, Andrew Leigh, and the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia to deal with Australia’s rising incarceration charges, significantly amongst girls and Indigenous girls.

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G20 preview: all eyes on Albanese’s potential assembly with president Xi

Katharine Murphy

Good morning from Phnom Penh. Anthony Albanese is on his strategy to the airport after two days within the Cambodian capital for the Asean and East Asia Summits.

We fly in the present day to the G20 in Bali, the place in the present day’s focus is on the essential bilateral assembly between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping. This shall be Biden’s first face-to-face assembly along with his Chinese language counterpart since successful the presidency.

On Sunday, Biden met Albanese for about 40 minutes on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit. As we reported overnight, and senior US official Jake Sullivan confirmed with US reporters afterwards, yesterday’s dialog between the US and Australia was about evaluating notes forward of in the present day’s bilateral in Bali.

Sullivan stated Biden wished to be “properly coordinated along with his closest allies”. Albanese will meet the summit host Joko Widodo shortly after we land this night, earlier than pushing on to a business event on the sidelines of the G20.

From the Australian perspective, all eyes shall be on whether or not Albanese will get his personal dialog with Xi through the G20 summit after breaking the ice with the Chinese premier at a gala dinner in Phnom Penh on Saturday evening.

Paul Karp

Useful resource sector concedes menace from company ‘gorillas’ was unlucky

The Australian Sources & Energy Employer Affiliation head of coverage and public affairs, Tom Reid, has appeared on the Senate inquiry into Labor’s IR invoice.

Labor’s Karen Grogan requested about feedback from the AREEA chief govt Steve Knott that “company gorillas within the mining, oil and gasoline sector have stated this isn’t on” and are threatening a multi-million greenback marketing campaign “just like the mining tax on steroids”.

Reid stated the usage of the time period “gorilla’” was “unlucky”:

[Knott] likes to talk freely, he’s fairly vibrant and open when speaking to stakeholders about points that have gotten him animated and anxious. That media remark was within the instant aftermath of the invoice coming in – Steve [Knott] was very shocked by the dimensions of the invoice, the inclusion of issues with no proof base. It was a bit unlucky.

However as for the marketing campaign? Reid stated:

We have now the total assist of AREEA’s board and broad assist of the membership. We’re very actively and really publicly attempting to elucidate to the final group and parliament simply how damaging components of the invoice may very well be. We don’t apologise [for] going forward with that, given the big contribution to employment and economic system from our sector.

Grogan then tried to cross-examine him on the income and tax paid by a few of AREEA’s bigger members, however Reid stated he had “restricted insights” to supply.

Reid stated a part of the business’s marketing campaign would spotlight that the components of the invoice aiming to raise low paid staff’ pay is totally totally different to broader adjustments to greenfields agreements and the single-interest, multi-employer bargaining stream, warning that the invoice dangers “pulling the very best paid and best sectors of the economic system” into elevated complexity.

Labor’s chair, Tony Sheldon, then attacked the “extremely worthwhile” and influential miners, questioning whether or not AREEA had been “a bunch of extremists” and labelling them the “monkey grinder of company gorilla munsters”. There was a query in there – are they the “overpaid gorillas of the Australian economy, telling everybody else to get out of their approach?”

Reid once more thanked Knott for the “unlucky use of the time period gorillas within the press” and pivoted to a really gracious reply about AREEA’s considerations concerning the invoice, refusing to take the bait.