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Sydney Morning Herald
8 hours ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
NSW Labor vowed to never work with Mark Latham. The reality is more complicated
'They wanted our support,' Roberts said. 'It wasn't a one-off, they were constantly chasing us. This idea they won't work with Latham is bullshit. You only have to sit there and watch the footage in the chamber when parliament is sitting and watch certain ministers go and sit beside him and chat with him. Loading 'I know and can say that he's had texts of support from some Labor MPs in the last couple of days.' Nor can Labor claim to have a zero-tolerance policy towards MPs with questionable track records. In 2022, the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party leader Robert Borsak was captured on camera saying a female MP should have been 'clocked' following a fiery debate in parliament. Despite Labor MPs calling on Borsak to apologise at the time, in government they have continued to work with him. Last month, this masthead revealed Minns had opened the door to a Shooters plan to establish a new 'hunting authority' and pay bounty hunters to kill feral animals. Minns has pointed out the government doesn't 'accept' votes on legislation, and, unlike a normal workplace, he has no power to restrict Latham's conduct in parliament. At the same time, he has also criticised the Liberals and crossbench parties such as the Greens for having 'backed each other's motions'. But ministers regularly negotiate with him. In March, during debate over a bill to establish a new governance model over SafeWork NSW, the government MP leading the debate thanked Latham for his 'carefully considered amendment' to the bill which had been drafted 'in consultation with the minister's office'. The allegations against Latham are yet another chapter in the long and unsavoury history of politics in this state. Rape allegations against a Nationals MP aired in the parliament, the alleged harassment of a female journalist by Labor leader Luke Foley, and the former NSW Labor general secretary, Jamie Clements, who quit in 2016 facing sexual harassment allegations. The Broderick Report, released in 2022, was a shocking indictment on the parliament's culture. The report found five people had experienced attempted or actual sexual assault. There was a culture of 'systemic and multidirectional bullying' in parliament, it found. More than a third of respondents said they had been bullied or sexually harassed over the past five years, and some offices were 'well-known hotspots'. It also found that almost half of sexual harassment incidents in the past five years were perpetrated by MPs. Loading Despite that, by June last year, only 6 per cent of MPs had taken part in a workplace culture program set up following the report's release. That figure has since risen to 48 per cent of MPs who have done the first stage of the training. Only 39 MPs, or about 29 per cent, have done both stages. The Department of Parliamentary Services did not directly respond to a question about how many of the Broderick report's 31 recommendations had been implemented, but pointed to a $15 million funding announcement made by the government in 2023 to help put the changes in place. They included 10 new human resources staff members. 'Key areas of change have transitioned to ongoing arrangements, including a commitment to ensuring that the parliament has the resources needed to support staff and promote a safe and respectful workplace,' a spokesperson for the department said. However, progress on other reforms has been slow. A parliamentary committee set up after Labor came to power in 2023 to review the implementation of Broderick's recommendations has yet to hold any hearings, and submissions only closed last month. A separate inquiry into the Independent Complaints Officer, which is supposed to deal with internal bullying and harassment claims, found most complaints were not investigated because they were outside its remit.
West Australian
9 hours ago
- West Australian
WA Police establish dedicated hate crime unit to target rise in anti-Semitism and racial hatred
WA Police have established a dedicated hate crime unit to combat rising racial hatred and anti-Semitism across the State. Senior members of Perth's Jewish community say incidents of anti-Semitism have risen 300 per cent since renewed Middle East conflicts — sparked by the Hamas attack on Israeli citizens — in October 2023. The unit is only the second such specialised team to be established by police in Australia. The first was in NSW, which was given a $525,000 boost by the Minns Government this year. WA Police Commander Darren Seivwright on Saturday said there was no place for hate crimes in the State. 'The hate crime team was established in response to growing community concern about hate-related offences,' he said. 'The establishment of this team aligns with national efforts to improve the reporting and response of these crimes. 'Criminal offences that are motivated by an ignorance or prejudice towards people that are different from the offenders have no place in WA. 'WA Police Force are well placed to respond to hate-related offending, and no tolerance will be afforded to the small section of our community who engage in this type of insidious behaviour.' The team provides police with the capability to respond to, and investigate, hate motivated incidents, also working with online operatives from the State Security Investigation Group. The unit uses a myriad of sophisticated tools at their disposal to identify and find people involved, including using automatic number plate recognition where applicable and scouring CCTV and dashcam footage. Since the unit was established in April, five arrests have been made in relation to hate-based crimes, including over an anti-Israel graffiti attack on the WA Parliament in May and a Perth man performing a Nazi salute during a live stream in June this year. Across Australia, there has been a disturbing rise of hate crimes and anti-Semitism. Jewish Community Council of WA president Geoff Midalia said while few reports were made, incidents targeting his community were rife. 'Every week there is a drive-by at a school where somebody winds down the window and takes photos, or somebody drives by a synagogue screaming 'F… the Jews or someone doing a Heil Hitler sign out the window,' he said. 'This is ongoing. It's regular. 'Since October 7, 2023, the increase in anti-Semitism in our community has been around 300 per cent.' Establishment of the hate crime team comes off the back of several measures already taken by the WA Government to address similar incidents. Legislation enacted in March prohibits the public display of Nazi symbols and the Nazi salute. A maximum penalty of five years imprisonment applies. The Cook Government is also introducing a 'post and boast' offence to punish the glorification of illegal and dangerous acts on social media. The new laws will impose penalties of up to three years' jail for circulating such material, including online. The laws will target material on social media that may humiliate, intimidate or victimise a person, increase the reputation or notoriety of the offender, glorify the conduct, or encourage copycat behaviour. Those who don't remove offending material face a year's jail and a $12,000 fine. Offences covered by the legislation will include assaults, stealing and robbery; property damage; dangerous or reckless driving, racial harassment and inciting racial hatred and Nazi symbols and salutes. Premier Roger Cook said on Saturday his government would do all it could to keep the Jewish community safe. 'My government has a strong relationship with Western Australia's Jewish community, and we will continue to work together to keep WA safe,' he said. ''We condemn recent attacks like those on an East Melbourne synagogue that strike fear into the heart of all Western Australians. 'Racism and antisemitism will not be tolerated in WA, and WA Police will use every tactic and measure at its disposal to protect the community and catch the perpetrators. 'Hate crimes have no place in WA and we will do everything to crack down on the cowardly thugs who commit these vile attacks.'
ABC News
a day ago
- ABC News
Tasmanian election 2025: When will we know the result?
Tasmanian election day is here. A record number of people in the state have already voted early — over one-quarter of eligible Tasmanian voters. If you're eagerly awaiting an election outcome tonight, you might need to temper your expectations. Polls have consistently pointed to a likely hung parliament and a large crossbench, meaning a clear winner might not emerge right away. And then there's all the pre-polling votes to count. It all depends on how close the result is. If one of the major parties emerges with a clear majority of seats, then the ABC will be able to confidently call the winner. That magic number of seats for a majority government in Tasmania is 18. But based on primary voting intention polling, no party is likely to convert primary votes into majority government. But the expectation, according to polling released during the campaign, is the election will result in a hung parliament. Political analyst Kevin Bonham told ABC Radio Mornings the count will be less complete tonight than last year's election, because postal votes won't be counted on the night. But, he said we should have a good idea of where things are heading by the end of tonight. "We may well know the majority of seats, but then there may be more in doubt than last time," Dr Bonham said. The Tasmanian Electoral Commission (TEC) says rechecks and further counting of first preferences will happen next week, while they wait for the arrival of final postal votes up until 10am on Tuesday 29 July. A full distribution of preferences then begins, which can take several days to complete. The first preferences will start to be counted as soon as polling closes, with the results expected to start coming in about 6:45pm tonight. The TEC runs the election and will call the winner. But it won't do that until the process of counting, rechecking and distributing preferences happens — and this can take weeks. So, the ABC uses a modelling system that is fed with TEC counting data to project a winner. On Friday afternoon, the TEC said it expects at least 130,000 people will have cast their vote early, either at a pre-poll centre, by postal vote or over the phone. Well over a quarter, and probably a third, who are early voters," TEC electoral commissioner Andrew Hawkey said. Last election, the number of people who voted early was just under 110,000. Because of that significant increase, only nine of the 15 pre-poll centres will start to be counted tonight. "What we're going to do is focus on getting the nine that we can get done, hopefully by the 11:00pm shut off," Mr Hawkey said. "Then the further six of them will be completed on the Sunday, hopefully by about 2:00pm. "Last year we had, well after midnight, four or five of our polls coming in." Mr Hawkey said postal vote counting won't begin until Thursday next week due to a new system where the TEC checks to make sure postal voters have not voted twice. The last Tasmanian election was on March 23, 2024. Premier Jeremy Rockliff called the snap election after two former-Liberals MPs, who moved to the crossbench to sit as independents the year before, threatened to pull confidence and supply. Mr Rockliff had hoped the election would restore his government back to a stable Liberal majority. This didn't happen. The Liberals won 14 seats, Labor won 10, the Greens claimed five, JLN won three, and three seats went to independent MPs. On the night, Liberal leader Jeremy Rockliff claimed victory and said Tasmanians had sent a "clear message" about who they wanted to govern the state, despite a decline in the party's primary vote. Then-Labor leader Rebecca White refused to concede defeat on the night, and Tasmanians went to bed unsure who would govern in the coming weeks. The next day, Ms White declared Labor had lost the state election and wouldn't attempt to form government, leaving the door open for the Liberals to form minority government. At last year's election, it appeared early on that two independents would win seats — Kristie Johnston and David O'Byrne. But almost a fortnight later, independent candidate Craig Garland surprised everyone with an 11th hour win in Braddon. As preferences were distributed, he raced past the Greens because of Shooters, Farmers and Fishers party preferences, then past the Liberal's candidate Giovanna Simpson on Greens preferences. According to Dr Bonham, Mr Garland received the lowest primary vote that has resulted in a win for a lone independent ever. His victory complicated things for the Liberals in negotiating with the crossbench to form minority government.
