Australia politics live: PM says ‘too many’ paying for GP visits with credit cards; Dan Tehan ejected from question time after calling Pat Conroy a ‘clown’ | Australia news

Independent senator David Pocock has repeated calls for sanctions on Israel over its war in Gaza, criticising the Albanese government’s approach of “saying harsher and harsher things”.

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The prime minister over the weekend heightened his criticism of the Israeli government but the Canberra senator said he was not satisfied with Labor’s approach. Pocock told the ABC:

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The time for just words is over. We’ve even got President Trump now saying that clearly starvation is happening …

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What’s it going to take for this government? Just saying harsher and harsher things is not going to have an impact.

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Pocock, who has advocated targeted sanctions on Israel for over a year, said the government’s approach had given rise to increasing community protests and advocacy.

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A lot of the unrest we’re seeing, people wanting to protest, is looking at what we’re seeing: this sort of live-streamed human-induced famine and then seeing a prime minister and a ‘government that just says, ‘Oh, well, we’re saying harsher and harsher things’. They want our government to act.

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One of those protests in support of Palestine, a march planned for this Sunday across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, is facing pressure from the government in New South Wales. We’re expecting an update on how police will handle the march shortly.

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Government frontbencher Tim Ayres has compared the prime minister’s rebuke of the Israeli government to communication between friends,

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Anthony Albanese earlier today said it was “beyond comprehension” that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Israeli embassy in Australia have claimed there is no starvation crisis in Gaza.

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Ayres, Labor’s minister for science and industry, repeated that the government believed conditions in Gaza amounted to starvation. He told the ABC:

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It is hard to understand how it could be anything else [than starvation]

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The minister was asked whether Labor was concerned about the claims, given the support it has provided Israel in the past. Ayres said:

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Calling these things out, in what is an absolutely distressing set of circumstances, is the right thing for the prime minister to do. It’s not inconsistent …

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Friends communicate directly to each other. This is important. It’s consistent with Australia’s interests and it’s consistent with our values.

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We have our first question time booting for the day under 94a, and it’s the member for Wannon, the shadow energy minister, Dan Tehan.

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During a dixer on the government’s Future Made in Australia policy, Tehan makes a point of order, saying the answer (by government frontbencher Pat Conroy) went into Liberal policy when that’s not what was asked.

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Tehan says this:

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The question was very specific. It asked about what the Labor party was doing in this area. It said nothing about the Coalition, and only a clown would answer like that.

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Milton Dick is absolutely not having that and says in disbelief, that comment was “next level” and tells Tehan to leave.

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Sussan Ley gets the next question asks directly, “how many Australians today are using their credit card to see a GP?”

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This time there’s no preamble to the question, so Albanese has less room to move.

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He says “too many” but blames that on the opposition.

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Because of those opposite and the undermining of the health system – too many is the answer, too many. Which is why we want 90% by 2030 to just use this little card here. This piece of green and gold plastic.

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(He’s holding a Medicare card in his hand).

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Manager of opposition business, Alex Hawke, says Albanese is missing a prop – his credit card – to go along with the Medicare card.

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Albanese then talks about Australians who have gone to a medicare urgent care clinic (which are free).

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Ley tries to make a point of order, saying it was a very “tight” question, but Milton Dick says Albanese is being relevant.

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But the PM still won’t say exactly how many people have had to see a GP and pay a gap fee.

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Shadow communications minister Melissa McIntosh asks the next question – again on GP bulk-billing rates, and whether Anthony Albanese still stands by his statement that all an Australian needs to see their GP is their Medicare card.

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Albanese says he was “surprised” that when the government announced its $8.5bn bulk-billing incentive for GPs, the opposition immediately matched it.

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There’s a bit of back and forth here because McIntosh tries to make a point of order but Milton Dick says he’s being relevant. Dick says he can’t force the government to give the opposition a yes-no answer just because it’s what they want.

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Before Albanese returns to his answer, someone in the Coalition shouts if the PM has brought his Medicare card to the chamber today. Albanese says:

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For those opposite, who wanted a yes or no answer – you know what the people of radio answered on 3 May? They answered yes to saving Medicare, they answered yes to increasing bulk-billing, they answered yes to another 50 urgent care clinics on Medicare.

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The first question from the crossbench is from Allegra Spender, who says that last week the US Navy told Congress that submarine production is around half the level needed for the US to be able to supply Virginia class submarines to Australia by 2032.

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She asks the deputy PM and defence minister, Richard Marles, whether Australia has an alternative plan, and if not, why not?

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Marles says the government went into the deal with open eyes, that the government was, “aware of the challenges of US production and sustainment of Virginia and the need to lift that production”.

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Marles says that the three former Coalition prime ministers (Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, and Scott Morrison) were too focused on plan Bs for submarines.

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They [the Coalition] were in and out of the deal with Japan, then in and out of a deal with France, and it was the better part of the entirety of their government, before they ended up settling on the arrangement that is Aukus …

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If you are focused on a plan B, and there is always chopping and changing, that is not a decision to walk down the path of plan B, that is a decision not to have a capability at all. Unless you stick to a plan for longer than a couple of years … you don’t get a capability at all.

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It’s question time!

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Sussan Ley starts, asking about aged care, and the delay in bring additional home care packages online.

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Ley says that the now health minister said back in 2022 that it was a “national disgrace”, when there were 60,000 people on the home care package waitlist – but there are now 87,000 people on that waitlist.

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Anthony Albanese starts the answer, saying the government, with the opposition, has passed legislation to fix the aged care sector that was in a state of neglect.

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We have been working through all of these issues, including the reform to both aged care residential and homecare. We have been working that through and making an enormous difference and it has been positive.

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Health minister Mark Butler adds to the answer, and says that the number of home care packages has doubled over the last five years.

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Butler also says Ley, as a former health and aged care minister, cut funding to aged care in 2016.

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The Greens have called for Australia to dramatically toughen sanctions on Israel, demanding Labor match the measures applied against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

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The plan for so-called autonomous sanctions would target members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and other key decision-makers, limiting their travel and use of financial assets.

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The Greens’ foreign affairs spokesperson, David Shoebridge, said Australia has sanctioned about 1,400 people in Russia over the war in Ukraine, but only a small number related to the war in Gaza.

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In June, Australia joined countries including the UK and New Zealand to sanction far-right Israeli government ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

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The Greens will also seek sanctions to stop the export of goods and materials from Australia to Israel, including arms. The party is critical of the Albanese government for not blocking exports of key parts for fighter jets, manufactured in Australia and assembled in Israel. Shoebridge said:

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If applied to Israel, it would mean no more F35 parts, no more drone shields, no more aluminium and steel that we know feeds the armaments industry and allows the Israel Defense Forces to engage in those repeated breaches of international law in the horror show in Gaza.

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Organisers of a pro-Palestine protest who have planned a march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge are vowing to go ahead despite the NSW premier rejecting the protest.

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In a statement to social media, spokesperson for the Sydney-based Palestine Action Group, Josh Lees, said: “[The premier] made clear on the radio this morning that he’s not opposing it because of the timing of the protest. He is opposed to it happening at any time.”

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We are determined to go ahead this Sunday.

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If the police and the premier want to stop us from protesting, they have to take us to the supreme court, and we’re prepared to fight them in court if necessary. Obviously, we wish it won’t come to that. We would rather have the authorities in agreement that we should all be standing together against the genocide.

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Earlier this morning the premier, Chris Minns, said on ABC Sydney that he wouldn’t close it “for any circumstances”.

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I’m asking the organisers to work with NSW police on an alternative route, and to shut it down in these circumstances would be beyond the resources of the NSW government.

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I do acknowledge that there’s widespread community concern about the humanitarian aid and war situation in Gaza, particularly in relation to Palestinians, shared by many Australians.

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The federal government will fund a vaping education course in high schools across the country after new research demonstrates the program’s effectiveness.

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About 5,100 year seven and eight students across 40 schools were involved in the trial of OurFutures vaping prevention education program designed by the Matilda Centre at the University of Sydney.

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Half of the students received their usual health education and the other half received the four-lesson web-based skills and education program.

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The results, published today in the Lancet show students who participated in the program were 65% less likely to have used vapes after 12 months compared to those who did not do the course and 80% said the information they learned will help them handle vaping situations in future.

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The program had already been designed by researchers to be used for education around alcohol and the government funded the trial to adapt the model to vaping behaviours.

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The health minister, Mark Butler, told the media at parliament that the program would be rolled out in every high school, and schools could register their interest to participate in the program immediately.

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This highly prestigious evidence-based program that’s proven to work at the 40 schools where it was trialled will now be funded by the federal government to roll out in every single high school.

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Anthony Albanese says it is “beyond comprehension” that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Israeli embassy in Australia have claimed there is no starvation crisis in Gaza.

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The prime minister criticised the claims from the Israeli government in comments to the Labor caucus room this morning. He was referring to comments from Netanyahu, reported overseas, as well as reports from Australian media outlets about comments from the deputy Israeli ambassador, Amir Meron.

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Meron reportedly told journalists in a briefing, to which Guardian Australia was not invited, that Israel believed photos of starving Palestinians were “false pictures” from a “false campaign that is being [led] by Hamas”.

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“We don’t recognise any famine or any starvation in the Gaza Strip,” Meron reportedly said.

\n In comments to the Labor party meeting today, Albanese referred to such claims as “beyond comprehension”.

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Albanese also told the party room that while there should be a “caveat” on any health information shared by Hamas, he added that Israel had blocked many journalists from entering Gaza to report first-hand.

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Commonwealth Bank has told the corporate regulator it won’t pay back the $270m in fees it charged over 2 million low-income customers despite new refund promises from three other big banks in the watchdog’s sights.

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We told you earlier this morning refunds of a further $57m in fees to 730,000 customers will be made by three other big banks in the sights of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (Asic).

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ANZ, Bendigo Bank and Westpac had already paid $8m to over 55,000 customers after the ASIC last year found banks had charged high fees to people earning low incomes who were entitled to low-fee accounts. The new refunds from those banks, and several others not originally part of Asic’s report, were announced in the regulator’s update overnight.

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CBA, though, admitted it charged $270m to 2.2 million other customers in similar circumstances from 2019 to 2024 but said it would make no further refunds, having already made goodwill payments of $25m to nearly 90,000 customers.

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The Asic reports were focused on helping lower-earning customers who likely had First Nations heritage. Banks don’t collect data on customers’ heritage so outcomes focused on customers who were receiving government payments and eligible for concession cards.

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CommBank told Asic low-income customers benefited from the flexibility of overdraw features on high-fee accounts. The bank told Guardian Australia the group was a diverse cohort with varying income, savings and home ownership.

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The other three banks also committed to migrate an additional 815,000 low-income customers from high-fee to low-fee accounts, saving them an expected $40m a year, while making it easier for customers to move to low fee accounts.

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CommBank told Asic it planned to migrate 1.5 million customers in similar circumstances to a new account with no overdraw fees, pending authorisation, and would pause fees for those customers in August if it did not receive an authorisation decision by 31 July.

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As the Nationals row about net zero, research adds “bigger hail” to the list of threats from the climate crisis.

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With some in the Nationals pushing for the party to scrap its commitment to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and One Nation again reminding Australians they don’t believe the climate crisis is even a thing, comes another reminder of the risks of global heating.

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Now we can add bigger hailstones and more frequent hailstorms to the very long list of risks from global heating.

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Dr Tim Raupach of the University of New South Wales used climate models to work out what might happen to hail in a warmer world – one that would be about 2.8C hotter than before the industrial revolution.

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Raupach’s projections – published today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters – found an increase in the frequency of hailstorms in the areas around Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane.

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The research also found the models forecasting the size of hail would get bigger around Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Kalgoorlie and Perth.

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A reason for the potential increase in the size of the hail could be down to changes in the strength of the updraft in thunderstorms which keep hailstones in the cloud for longer, allowing them to grow larger before gravity eventually wins and the stones drop. Raupach said:

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We looked at changes in hailstone size between simulations of historical and future periods and we can see increases in hail size produced by the model around Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Perth.

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For example, in past simulations, very large, 10cm hailstones were expected once every 20 years around Melbourne. But in a warmer future, it’s once every three years.

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How to cut the risks? Raupach says two obvious steps are to cut greenhouse gas emissions and allow for the increased risk in the design of the urban environment.

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Matt Canavan, one of the loudest climate action critics in the Coalition, says the Coalition is “irrelevant” right now as it continues to debate its position on net zero.

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The senator from Queensland is currently undertaking a review of the emissions-reduction policy for the Nationals, but has pushed hard from the start to ditch the 2050 target.

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Asked whether Sussan Ley needed to come out and state her position on net zero (she’s said she’ll allow a committee led by shadow energy minister Dan Tehan to review the policy), he said there’s “no particular rush” for her to do so.

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We’re irrelevant right now, who cares what it looks [like] right now. We have got to get the results. That’s what’s important. It doesn’t have to be neat or tidy or pretty, it has to be effective.

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Canavan and fellow conservative Liberal senator Alex Antic voted in favour of Pauline Hanson’s motion on repealing net zero in the Senate last night.

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He said that when Barnaby Joyce told him about his private member’s bill to repeal net zero he thought, “Jeez why didn’t I think about that, and I think Pauline had the same view.”

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Hogan said Anthony Albanese should seek a meeting with the US president to push back on behalf of Australia.

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If Trump is looking to put tariffs higher, I think that is damaging not only to the US consumer, which means their inflation rate will go up, but it has a real danger to slow global growth.

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We’ve seen a bit of it, but this could accentuate it, almost like a global trade war. Especially a country like China, if they were to retaliate to these higher tariffs, what would that mean? That would mean slower global growth.

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[It] accentuates in my belief the importance that our prime minister secure a face-to-face meeting.

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He has to put a very strong sovereign case to America that their policy is bad … this has to be put very forcefully and has to happen.

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Australia could face even higher tariffs from the US, as President Donald Trump says he plans a new tariff that could be “somewhere in the 15 to 20% range”.

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The US has currently placed a “baseline” 10% tariff on Australia, rather than a higher “reciprocal” tariff.

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Trump made the comments in Scotland, after negotiating a 15% tariff rate with the European Union this week.

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Trump said that his administration will notify about 200 countries soon of a new tariff rate for “the rest of the world”.

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It puts even more pressure on the government to negotiate with the US to avoid a higher rate.

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This new test, which is being described by the government as the “toughest” in the country, would apply to alleged offenders of all ages – including youth – and covers six offences: aggravated home invasion, aggravated carjacking, armed robbery, aggravated burglary, home invasion and carjacking.

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The government said the change will increase the “likelihood that bail will be refused and prevents re-offending.”

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A new “second strike” rule that is being proposed will also make it harder for people to get bail if they are accused of committing another indictable offence while already on bail. This will apply to charges such as theft, assault, sex offences and serious drug offences.

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But the government said low-level offences like minor drug possession would be excluded to “avoid remanding vulnerable people unnecessarily”.

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The government said other safeguards would also be in place to “mitigate any disproportionate impact on vulnerable people” but it did not outline these measures in the media release.

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Kilkenny said:

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These laws protect the community from serious repeat offenders who endanger Victorians, while ensuring vulnerable people aren’t unfairly caught up.

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Banks will refund more than $93m to low-income customers who were charged high fees on their accounts, AAP reports.

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More than a million people have already been moved to low-fee accounts, saving an expected $50m in annual fees, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (Asic) Better and Beyond report released today.

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The review follows the Better Banking for Indigenous Consumers report, released in July 2024, which revealed at least 2 million low-income Australians, who relied on Centrelink payments, had bank accounts charging high fees.

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There were 21 banks included in the latest report, which found even larger numbers of low-income Australians paying too much.

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The Asic commissioner, Alan Kirkland, said:

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What started as an initiative focused on addressing avoidable bank fees for low-income customers in regional and remote locations, particularly First Nations consumers, revealed a much wider problem affecting customers nationwide.

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Since July 2024, the four banks involved in the initial report – ANZ, Bendigo Bank, Westpac and Commonwealth Bank (including Bankwest) – have paid more than $33m in refunds to the customers identified.

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Three of those four banks have committed to refunds to a broader group of low-income customers who have been in high-fee accounts.

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The Commonwealth Bank and BankWest have indicated they don’t intend on making payments to customers outside the initial cohort, Asic’s report said.

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Several other banks have also reviewed the impact of high-fee accounts on low-income customers and have committed to remediation.

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A further $60m will be refunded to more than 770,000 customers as a result.

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The Asic chair, Joe Longo, said while banks had made improvements during the commission’s surveillance, there was still work to be done.

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Australia’s hopes for a total tariff exemption are dwindling as Donald Trump’s deals with other nations lay bare the limits of trade negotiations, Australian Associated Press reports.

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Since pushing his tariff deadline to 1 August, the US president has struck trade agreements with Japan, and overnight, the European Union – much to the disgust of French ministers who think the EU has caved in to Trump.

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While the deals landed on tariffs lower than Mr Trump’s initial threats, both were higher than the 10% baseline levy imposed on Australian goods.

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No US trading partner has managed to completely dodge tariffs on their items.

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So it seems unlikely that Anthony Albanese and his trade minister, Don Farrell, can negotiate their way out of any tariffs at all.

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“Trump really does see tariffs as something that is good in themselves,” University of Sydney US politics expert David Smith told AAP.

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“Even though there were a lot of hopes at the beginning of this process that countries could negotiate their way out of tariffs altogether – that’s not really happening.”

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Australia, like other nations, might instead have to pivot approaches and try to strategically position its industries within these deals.

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Good morning and welcome to our live politics blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it’ll be Krishani Dhanji with the main action.

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Anthony Albanese could find it hard to negotiate a tariff-free trade deal with the US after the European Union became the latest American trading partner to settle for higher tariffs on exports to the world’s biggest market. One expert warns today that it’s looking increasingly unlikely that Labor will cut a tariff-free deal. More coming up.

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Four banks will refund charges to low-income customers after the financial regulator found that a much higher number of Australians were paying too much than originally thought. More on that shortly.

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And Labor is going to introduce new bail laws to the Victorian parliament which it says are the “toughest” in the country, despite opposition from legal, First Nations and human rights groups. More on that too, in a few minutes.

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