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Controversial property developer Jean Nassif has been suspended from holding a building licence in NSW for 10 years, while the building licence of his company, Toplace, has been permanently revoked. Thu 8 Dec Thu 8 Dec Thu 8 Dec 2022 at 5:33am
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Despite serious accusations against him, and the United States imposing restrictions in 2018, it has taken until now for Australia to hit Oleg Deripaska with sanctions. Fri 18 Mar Fri 18 Mar Fri 18 Mar 2022 at 6:32am
Anthony Albanese needs to establish trust with the public to win the election, but undecided voters in key marginal seats say they remain unsure about who he is and what he wants for the country, writes Sean Nicholls. Thu 17 Feb Thu 17 Feb Thu 17 Feb 2022 at 5:46am
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Links to an Indonesian executive jailed over a match-fixing scandal — and accusations of "sportswashing" by a wealthy Arab state — have been uncovered in an investigation into foreign ownership in the A-League. Fri 1 Oct Fri 1 Oct Fri 1 Oct 2021 at 12:42am
Billionaire James Packer and then-NSW premier Barry O'Farrell failed to reveal a private lunch at influential broadcaster Alan Jones's apartment as they became central players in the high-stakes battle to build Crown Sydney. Tue 1 Jun Tue 1 Jun Tue 1 Jun 2021 at 6:36am
On March 23, 2019, Nikola Anderson's overnight shift as a security guard at Parliament House was like any other — until Brittany Higgins and her male colleague arrived in the early hours of the morning. Mon 22 Mar Mon 22 Mar Mon 22 Mar 2021 at 11:09am
Russia 'sees itself at war' with the West. Four Corners investigates the international network of patriots determined to remind Australia that Vladimir Putin's Russia is a force to be reckoned with. Tue 28 Jun Tue 28 Jun Tue 28 Jun 2022 at 7:18am
The global rollout of 5G has spawned wild conspiracy theories, and the coronavirus pandemic was the perfect environment for them to spread. Four Corners has investigated these claims and examined the science around whether the technology is a threat to our health. Mon 3 Aug Mon 3 Aug Mon 3 Aug 2020 at 3:14am
Four Corners goes inside a COVID-19 screening clinic to see what frontline staff and patients are experiencing every day during the crisis. Mon 6 Apr Mon 6 Apr Mon 6 Apr 2020 at 5:49am
They are the heart-stopping videos that stopped the nation and stunned the world. But who filmed them and how did their stories end? Tue 23 Mar Tue 23 Mar Tue 23 Mar 2021 at 2:44am
Four Corners has obtained exclusive video of the police interrogation of washing machine repairman Bill Spedding, who was wrongly accused of abducting three-year-old William Tyrrell from outside a home on on the NSW mid-north coast. Tue 5 Nov Tue 5 Nov Tue 5 Nov 2019 at 12:12am
The whitegoods repairman who became the chief suspect in one of Australia's biggest child abduction mysteries reveals for the first time how the ordeal "shattered" his life. Tue 4 Feb Tue 4 Feb Tue 4 Feb 2020 at 5:23am
Bronwyn Weir was commissioned by Australian governments to write a report on the state of nation's building industry. Now she says she wouldn't buy a new apartment. Mon 19 Aug Mon 19 Aug Mon 19 Aug 2019 at 6:01am
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Even as Tony Abbott was campaigning during what he called the fight of his life, he still didn't seem able to comprehend what was happening to him and his political career, writes Sean Nicholls. Wed 22 May Wed 22 May Wed 22 May 2019 at 12:51pm
Uber developed and deployed a spyware program in its Australian office in an attempt to crush a local start-up that was backed by billionaire James Packer. Tue 19 Mar Tue 19 Mar Tue 19 Mar 2019 at 11:27pm
When Australian transport authorities realised they were being played by Uber, they fought back, using fake names, multiple phones and credit cards in a sting operation to dodge the rideshare giant's spyware.
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Laura Tingle on who can stop Israel
Sam Hawley: Israel says there's no starvation in Gaza. The pictures tell a very different story and there's now growing condemnation from some of Israel's closest supporters, including Australia. Anthony Albanese says the images of suffering are completely indefensible. Today, Global Affairs Editor Laura Tingle on the mounting pressure and what will really get Benjamin Netanyahu to change course. I'm Sam Hawley on Gadigal land in Sydney. This is ABC News Daily. Sam Hawley: Laura, the world is increasingly horrified by what is unfolding in Gaza. Hunger is taking hold, children are dying of starvation. The images are horrifying. Laura Tingle: They're completely horrifying, Sam. I mean, they've been horrifying for a long time and, you know, you just don't think it can get worse and it keeps getting worse. It's just beyond belief. Apart from the fact there's no food or water or sanitation, so much of the Gaza Strip has been bombed to oblivion and to the point where the Israeli government is now just unilaterally clearing out large areas that weren't even bombed, particularly in the south. You just wonder how people are surviving. Sam Hawley: Yeah, and no one's outside the scope of this, you know, doctors, nurses, journalists, aid workers. There's actually not enough food for anyone. Laura Tingle: The reports of doctors feeling dizzy and fainting and aid workers feeling dizzy and fainting because of lack of food. I mean, it just really brings it home just that there is just not enough to eat for, you know, a couple of million people. Sam Hawley: Yeah, there's a story from one of our ABC Middle East correspondents that a member of the team that they're relying on in Gaza, he no longer had enough strength to actually hold up the camera. He's lost 34 kilos. Matthew Doran, ABC Middle East Correspondent: And it's important to point out his story is not isolated. Other members of our team in Gaza have also spoken of their hunger. These are Gazans reporting on Gazans and experiencing what Gazans are being subjected to as the war in the Strip drags on. Sam Hawley: Well, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu denies that there is starvation in Gaza. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Prime Minister: Israel is presented as though we are applying a campaign of starvation in Gaza. What a bold face lie. There is no policy of starvation in Gaza and there is no starvation in Gaza. Sam Hawley: But Israel has begun airdrops of aid and it has paused military operations between 8am and 10pm in three parts of Gaza to allow aid in. But is that enough, Laura? What are people saying? Laura Tingle: Well, I think that the aid agencies in particular who are the best people to judge this because they're on the ground are saying, no, it's not enough. Because people are desperate, it becomes even harder because, you know, you do these airdrops and often you just, we saw the last time this happened that sort of ended up just being more chaotic than normal aid. And the agencies say it's not sufficient. And of course, a lot of this problem has been exacerbated by the arrangements that have been in place since March with this US-Israeli operation, which has ended up seeing people being killed while they've been lined up for food and water. It's just beyond belief. Sam Hawley: So, Laura, given what the world is now bearing witness to in Gaza, it's not surprising that many people are asking the question, why isn't more being done to end this suffering? So let's unpack what nations, including Australia, are doing and saying. Initially, of course, when the humanitarian crisis began to grow in Gaza, Australia and others were in lockstep with Israel, weren't they? Laura Tingle: Well, I don't know that they were in lockstep with Israel about the humanitarian crisis. I think because the start of this obviously was the Hamas atrocities on October 7, for some period of time there was this view that what's happening is terrible, but of course what happened on October 7 was terrible. And they were very reluctant to sort of take a moral position, if you like, because the original events had been so horrendous. Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister: Israel has a right to defend itself and it will be doing so. This is an attack on Israel by Hamas that has no precedent for what is occurring here. Laura Tingle: Now, you know, they were horrendous, but you've now had over 50,000 people killed in Gaza. Most of them are not Hamas activists. Certainly the children aren't, the women and children aren't. And the pressure and the position of Israel and its support from the United States as a Western ally, I think has really made it very hard for Western governments to actually say, wait a minute, the way Israel is now performing, it's a different place to the one that has been a traditional ally. But I think also there's this general view that you can't go full steam against Israel because, you know, there's this sort of sneaking suspicion that it won't actually make any difference so that all you can do is gradually ramp up the pressure because the Israelis keep ramping up the pressure. We've seen some concessions to the international pressure in the last few days, but it's only, it has that feeling of doing something to just look like it's got an excuse for continuing its actions. And I think this is the crucial and difficult dilemma for other countries that clearly Israel doesn't care what other people say about it now. It believes or its government believes, let's be clear about that, the Netanyahu government does not care what other states say about it. Sam Hawley: All right, well, the Israelis might not be listening, but the international condemnation is growing. We've seen that with our own Prime Minister. His language really started to change in May. Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister: Well, Israel's actions are completely unacceptable. It is outrageous that there'd be a blockade of food and supplies to people who are in need in Gaza. Sam Hawley: You then interviewed him, of course, after his visit to China recently. He went further then. And then again on the weekend on the Insiders program, really strong language from Anthony Albanese. So just tell me about that progression and why you think it's happened. Laura Tingle: Well, of course, there are domestic pressures as well, sort of from local communities about this, not just communities with ties into Gaza, but more broadly, people, as you say, are horrified about what they're seeing. In the government's mind, I think, and in government's minds, they are responding to individual step ups in what the Israelis have been doing. Now, the sort of cutting off of aid started in March and the government has been responding to particular steps along the way. And what really struck me when I interviewed the PM in China at the end of his trip was that you'd say to him, look, the Israel we thought we knew has changed, hasn't it? And he'd say, oh, well, no, it's still this country that blah, blah, blah. And you'd say, but people are now starving. And he'd said, well, we've taken these actions and we've got these sanctions against ministers, but they are all linked to former escalations of Israeli activity. And I had to press him a bit to say, look, we now have people starving. What is your response to that? And it was in response to that that he said that what was happening was completely indefensible. Laura Tingle: With respect, things have escalated. We're now seeing Palestinians regularly killed while waiting for food and water. Do we need to start changing our view of what's happening in Israel? Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister: Well, that is completely indefensible. And we've called that out each and every time that that has occurred. Laura Tingle: Now, as you say, on insiders, he's now stepped that up even further. Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister: Well, quite clearly, it is a breach of international law to stop food being delivered, which was the decision that Israel made in March. David Speers, Insiders host: So it's breached international law? Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister: Well, I'm not a lawyer. Those things will play out their course. But I tell you what it's a breach of. It's a breach of decent humanity and of morality. And everyone can see that. Laura Tingle: But clearly, Australia wants to have this position of being part of an international condemnation. It doesn't want to be standing out at the front of that. I think the prime minister has been quite clear about that. He's always said, look, we act in lockstep with other countries. And I think that's partly because they think that that's going to be more influential. But I think things have got so desperate in Gaza now and the images are so desperate. It's taken a very long time for the government to just go, wait a minute, the way Israel is behaving now is something above and beyond anything we've experienced. They still do, I think, want to keep some options open to them so that they can escalate the language and the actions further. Sam Hawley: And there has been, of course, more debate over the use of the term genocide and what that actually means. But Australia and others are certainly not labelling it genocide at this point, are they? Laura Tingle: No. And I think this has become one of those things where it's very tied up in the legal definition of genocide because there is now this action as well in the International Court of Justice about genocide. And there are these very legalistic terms. You've basically got to, genocide has got to be about wiping out an entire race. And so there's this sort of semantic argument going on about genocidal intent and all these sorts of things. And of course, there's also the whole overlay of the history of the creation of the state of Israel and the connections with the genocide of the Second World War against the Jews, which has made people very reluctant to use the term. And I think some people have argued that it's Israel sort of regards it in what happened in the Second World War as something above and beyond anything else that could happen. So they react really furiously if anybody dares to use the term genocide against them, no matter what they might be doing. Sam Hawley: Laura, France and its President Emmanuel Macron has announced it will recognise Palestinian statehood. Anthony Albanese and the Foreign Minister Penny Wong say they won't do that yet. How significant is that debate, do you think, going on internationally? Laura Tingle: Well, the Prime Minister and Penny Wong argue that there's a whole range of reasons why you don't do it at the moment, which is because essentially, you know, what is the state of Palestine? You don't want Hamas being the governing authority. There are deep flaws in the Palestinian Authority, which means that the question of who actually would be running a state of Palestine are very complex and difficult and cause problems all of their own. So that's their argument. But it's been an incredibly powerful symbol for Emmanuel Macron as the first leader of a major Western country to do it because it shows the sorts of arguments that are going to become the next step along the way, if you like, about what's going to happen. It also, it's a warning shot to Israel, I suppose, at a time when they are actually levelling large parts of Gaza, that you know, you can't just keep taking the rest of the world for granted in the way you've annexed the West Bank, or you're effectively annexing Gaza. I mean, all the language around these things has become so complex. I mean, when is annexing something, annexing it or not officially annexing it when you're forcibly moving people regularly from one place to another? There's sort of something a little bit sick about the sort of semantic arguments, if you like, as opposed to what's actually happening on the ground. Sam Hawley: All right, well, Laura, international condemnation of Israel's actions in Gaza is clearly increasing, but ultimately, more aid is still needed and a ceasefire is crucial. So what can nations like Australia actually do to make that happen? Or really, does it all just rest again with Donald Trump? Laura Tingle: I fear that it largely does because he has got that capacity to pressure Israel. Now, as with everything else, he's been incredibly erratic about this. He's talked about, you know, starvation in Gaza at various times, but he's also talked in recent days about how they've got to basically get rid of Hamas. Donald Trump, US President: Hamas didn't really want to make a deal. I think they want to die. And it's very, very bad. And it got to be to a point where you're going to have to finish the job. Laura Tingle: And, you know, he swings from day to day, but certainly doesn't seem to have any clear resolve to get that involved in this dispute. If there's any pattern we can see out of the way he behaves in terms of his interventions in the Israel-Iran conflict, he likes to have a short, sharp impact and get out again. And how you have a short, sharp impact in something as intractable as Israel and the Palestinians, it's not clear that there is one. So, you know, you can't be at all optimistic that this can be a viable option. Sam Hawley: Laura Tingle to the ABC's Global Affairs Editor. This episode was produced by Sydney Pead. Audio production by Sam Dunn. Our supervising producer is David Coady. I'm Sam Hawley. Thanks for listening.
The Australian
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- The Australian
Anthony Albanese denies Donald Trump ‘snubbing' him amid meet worries
Anthony Albanese has denied Donald Trump is 'snubbing' him amid growing concerns in both Australia and the US that the two leaders have not yet had a face-to-face. The Prime Minister did a morning media blitz on Tuesday to champion a host of cost-of-living measures kicking in. But with Australian products still slugged with US tariffs and concerns AUKUS could be on the rocks, his relationship with the US President dominated. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has denied US President Donald Trump is 'snubbing' him. Picture: Martin Ollman / NewsWire / Nicolas Tucat / AFP Appearing on Nine's Today, host Karl Stefanovic put it to Mr Albanese that Mr Trump 'couldn't give a rat's about meeting with you'. 'I think it's so disrespectful,' Stefanovic said. 'And why don't you just tell him to bugger off?' But Mr Albanese took a different view, insisting he has a 'respectful' relationship with Mr Trump. 'No, not at all, and we've had really constructive discussions,' he said. 'I've been respectful of the President and I must say that he's been respectful of me as well when he rang to congratulate me on the election.' Mr Albanese added that he'd had 'constructive discussions with members of the US administration, as have my ministers'. 'But the President has a view about tariffs – it's different from Australia's view and it must be said that it's different from past presidents' views as well,' Mr Albanese said. 'And what most economists realise, (is) that free and fair trade is a good thing for the world and America has benefited from that.' Mr Albanese said he had 'a right to represent Australia's national interests', and Mr Trump 'has a right to adopt his America First policy, as he calls it'. Pressure has ramped up on Mr Albanese to secure a meet after his scheduled bilateral meeting with Mr Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit fell through last month. On Monday, two of the staunchest supporters of the US-Australia alliance in Washington urged Mr Albanese to visit the White House. Republican representative Michael McCaul and Democrat colleague Joe Courtney are co-chairs of a congressional working group on AUKUS. Mr McCaul said Mr Albanese going to 'the White House would be a great gesture on the Prime Minister's part, that I think would go over very well'. 'That would be very sound advice for him to do that,' he told the Australian Financial Review. Without a Washington trip, Mr Albanese's next most-likely opportunity to meet Mr Trump is at the Quad leaders summit tipped for September.
The Australian
an hour ago
- The Australian
Kerrynne Liddle Marion Scrymgour
The Coalition has renewed calls for an audit of commonwealth-funded Indigenous service providers after Labor MP Marion Scrymgour urged Anthony Albanese to audit the Northern Territory government's spending on Indigenous affairs. Ms Scrymgour, Labor's special envoy on remote communities, said on Friday it was time for the commonwealth to 'show some leadership' in order to examine where generous federal grants to successive NT governments had been spent and why the outcomes were so poor. On Sunday, opposition spokesperson on Indigenous affairs Kerrynne Liddle pointed to her own various attempts to scrutinise spending within the portfolio. In August 2024, Senator Liddle asked colleagues to support an inquiry into Aboriginal land councils and corporations, including their consultations with communities, declarations of conflicts of interest and transparency in their decision making. That proposal failed when Labor, the Greens and independents Fatima Payman, David Pocock and Tammy Tyrrell voted against it. 'The Coalition has long called on the Labor government to investigate the spending of commonwealth money to ensure the most effective application for improving lives but each time we have asked for an inquiry Labor and the Greens have rejected it,' Senator Liddle told The Australian on Sunday. 'The Coalition will continue to push for an audit into commonwealth-funded Indigenous service providers and monitor the impact of the Better, Safer Future for Central Australia Plan. Every individual relying on these services, and every taxpayer dollar, matters,' she said. 'The Albanese government must explain why it has rejected persistent Coalition calls to improve outcomes and why it has failed to demand transparency from the services it funds. 'Labor seems to have forgotten that they have been in power in the Northern Territory for eight of the past nine years, and the Country Liberals are still in their first year of government. 'Labor is hiding from its own accountability.' Senator Liddle's multiple efforts to force an inquiry into government spending in Indigenous affairs have not singled out the NT government, although she has previously said government agencies and any organisation – Indigenous or non-Indigenous – must be accountable for the services they are paid to deliver to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The NT's consistently poor results in the Closing the Gap national agreement were among key reasons why the Albanese government announced it would contribute an additional $4bn for public housing in the NT in a partnership with the then Labor Fyles government. Five months later, the Finocchiaro-led CLP won government with a mandate to crack down on crime and lower the age of criminal responsibility in an effort to intervene earlier in the lives of trouble youth. The NT has a population of just over 260,000, about 30 per cent of whom are Indigenous, and receives the highest GST share of any jurisdiction in recognition of challenges such as the poor health of many of its residents. The NT generates little income and its debt climbed above $11bn last July. Ms Scrymgour claimed last week that many more families in Central Australia should be on welfare management plans that effectively quarantine portions of their payments. She said the NT department responsible for child protection – Territory Families – was supposed to refer families to the commonwealth for welfare management orders called family responsibility agreements but the department had made 'very few' referrals. Ms Scrymgour said on Friday that Aboriginal organisations were required to submit to audits while the NT government was unaccountable for poor outcomes. 'The commonwealth needs to step up and say 'we can't continue to have a lot of the commonwealth's money being thrown into the Northern Territory and not see the outcomes that we should be getting',' Ms Scrymgour said. Read related topics: Anthony Albanese Paige Taylor Indigenous Affairs Correspondent, WA Bureau Chief Paige Taylor is from the West Australian goldmining town of Kalgoorlie and went to school all over the place including Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory and Sydney's north shore. She has been a reporter since 1996. She started as a cadet at the Albany Advertiser on WA's south coast then worked at Post Newspapers in Perth before joining The Australian in 2004. She is a three time Walkley finalist and has won more than 20 WA Media Awards including the Daily News Centenary Prize for WA Journalist of the Year three times. Nation Zempilas noted Peter Dutton's emphatic defeat in explaining why the WA parliamentary party would not be adopting the positions Indigenous An academic who said 'Blak activists' were turning Melbourne University into 'an ideological re-education camp' has been mocked for using anti-discrimination laws in a bid to save his job.
