Australia cannot continue to ‘rely' on coal: Joe Hildebrand
'I've got no problem with nuclear, the Australian electorate does,' Mr Hildebrand told Sky News host Paul Murray.
'We're not going to be able to rely on coal forever simply because there will no longer be a market for it elsewhere.
'We have to start looking at other things.'
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‘Same issues since 2005': People wrongly detained due to Home Affairs' systemic failures
A culture of 'act first, check later' in the Department of Home Affairs led to repeat mistakes causing almost every wrongful detention in a single year, including an Australian citizen and a person who was held for a year and a half before being released. The Commonwealth Ombudsman revealed in a report on Wednesday that the department wrongfully detained 11 people between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024, with officers failing to decide for themselves whether it was reasonable to detain someone in most of the cases. The report said 90 per cent of the cases would have been avoided if existing policies had been followed, and that the same mistakes – including poor record keeping and failure to check conflicting information – had been made before but were not fixed. One person was detained for a week despite receiving an invalid visa refusal letter – the same mistake that had resulted in a man being incorrectly detained in 2018 for four years. 'Since we began monitoring the issue in 2005, we have observed the same types of errors are causing people to be wrongfully detained,' the report said. 'In addition, the department has not improved the way it addresses its mistakes with the individuals it has wrongfully detained. The department does not offer people it has wrongfully detained any form of redress, formal apology, or financial compensation.' Immigration detention staff can lawfully detain a person if they 'know or reasonably suspect' them to be an unlawful non-citizen. Wrongful detentions occur when the suspicion is incorrect and the person is released, according to the ombudsman. It did not analyse whether Home Affairs officers reasonably held suspicions about detained people in the first place, saying that would be too legally complex. The report said the data indicated that a culture of carelessness first identified in 2007 may still be present. In 81 per cent of the cases, staff acted as if the decision to detain a person had already been made by someone else and did not take responsibility for forming reasonable suspicion in their own minds. The ombudsman regularly reviews wrongful detention in part as a response to the case of Vivian Alvarez, a Filipino-born Australian citizen who was deported in 2001 after being admitted to hospital after falling into a drain. Her former husband searched for her for years, and she featured on missing persons television program Without a Trace. The department was made aware of its mistake by multiple sources in 2003, but took no action. Alvarez's case didn't become public until 2005.
The Age
9 minutes ago
- The Age
‘Same issues since 2005': People wrongly detained due to Home Affairs' systemic failures
A culture of 'act first, check later' in the Department of Home Affairs led to repeat mistakes causing almost every wrongful detention in a single year, including an Australian citizen and a person who was held for a year and a half before being released. The Commonwealth Ombudsman revealed in a report on Wednesday that the department wrongfully detained 11 people between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024, with officers failing to decide for themselves whether it was reasonable to detain someone in most of the cases. The report said 90 per cent of the cases would have been avoided if existing policies had been followed, and that the same mistakes – including poor record keeping and failure to check conflicting information – had been made before but were not fixed. One person was detained for a week despite receiving an invalid visa refusal letter – the same mistake that had resulted in a man being incorrectly detained in 2018 for four years. 'Since we began monitoring the issue in 2005, we have observed the same types of errors are causing people to be wrongfully detained,' the report said. 'In addition, the department has not improved the way it addresses its mistakes with the individuals it has wrongfully detained. The department does not offer people it has wrongfully detained any form of redress, formal apology, or financial compensation.' Immigration detention staff can lawfully detain a person if they 'know or reasonably suspect' them to be an unlawful non-citizen. Wrongful detentions occur when the suspicion is incorrect and the person is released, according to the ombudsman. It did not analyse whether Home Affairs officers reasonably held suspicions about detained people in the first place, saying that would be too legally complex. The report said the data indicated that a culture of carelessness first identified in 2007 may still be present. In 81 per cent of the cases, staff acted as if the decision to detain a person had already been made by someone else and did not take responsibility for forming reasonable suspicion in their own minds. The ombudsman regularly reviews wrongful detention in part as a response to the case of Vivian Alvarez, a Filipino-born Australian citizen who was deported in 2001 after being admitted to hospital after falling into a drain. Her former husband searched for her for years, and she featured on missing persons television program Without a Trace. The department was made aware of its mistake by multiple sources in 2003, but took no action. Alvarez's case didn't become public until 2005.
Sky News AU
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- Sky News AU
Anthony Albanese dodges Sky News questions on demilitarising Hamas thrice days after Palestine recognition pledge
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has dodged Sky News questioning on the demilitarisation of Hamas - following his pledge that a key condition of recognition is that Hamas had 'no role' in future governance. Mr Albanese also refused to lay out a possible roadmap for Hamas' demilitarisation, saying he was not "writing Middle East policy in a backyard here in Brisbane." Mr Albanese, alongside Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong on Monday, said Australia would formally recognise Palestine in the UN next month. Hamas have since welcomed Mr Albanese's pronouncement as an act of 'political courage'. During a press conference in Brisbane on Wednesday morning, the Prime Minister was asked by Sky News reporter Kaiser Shields how Australia would enforce its condition for Hamas to 'lay down its weapons' in return for formal recognition of Palestinian statehood. The Prime Minister failed to explain how demilitarisation was possible. 'The important thing is what the Arab League have said. The Arab League, the countries around the region as well as the international community, have made it very clear - Hamas has no role, no role,' he said. Mr Albanese was asked the same question again, to which he answered in the same way. 'The Arab League have made it very clear that Hamas must lay down its weapons. The international community have made it very clear that Hamas will have no role in a future Palestinian state,' he said. The Prime Minister was asked a third time whether he hoped that Hamas would listen to 'diplomatic pressure' from the Arab League to demilitarise. 'There's a range of paths, but we're not writing Middle East policy in a backyard here in Brisbane,' he said. On Tuesday, Mr Albanese claimed he had assurances from the controversial Palestinian Authority that the terror group would not be involved in governing the territories. "Hamas is a terrorist organisation. It has no role to play. And Hamas, I've seen some of the comments that have been made about Hamas somehow being rewarded ... This is the opposite of what Hamas wants. Hamas wants one state," Mr Albanese told Today. Hamas, designated a terror organisation by Australia in 2022, has said it will not disarm until there is a sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
