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A charity on NSW’s central coast has been gifted an anonymous $200,000 donation to continue its work feeding Australians in need as the cost-of-living crisis wears on.

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More than 60 volunteers provide free meals and music as part of SafeLink Alliance’s weekly pop up in Kibble Park, Gosford, about an hour’s drive north of Sydney.

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Before the donation came in, chaplain and director of Safelink Alliance, Joe Arena, said he was wondering: “How on earth – with less than $1,000 in the bank – are we going to keep this charity going? … It’s been running off the smell of an oily rag week by week.”

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He said an anonymous person reached out via a third party to make the $200,000 donation, citing the hands-on approach the charity was taking in the community and the positive impact it was having.

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Arena called the money a gamechanger. “We’re now looking at purchasing a good second-hand van, which will allow us to do outreach [and] change things. People are normally sitting on the park benches at Kibble Park, whereas now we can actually transport the tables and chairs that we have.”

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“We will be able to bring food to people … who suffer disabilities and can’t get out of the house … for us to actually go to people with emergency supplies. It just totally transforms what we’re doing”.

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The Greens have insisted the federal government table a statement in parliament outlining the objectives of Australia’s participation in the Middle East conflict, as well as the conflict’s legal basis and defence strategy.

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In November 2024, the government published the Memorandum on Government Conventions Relating to Overseas Armed Conflict Decision Making. That requires the government to table an unclassified written statement in both Houses of Parliament outlining the objectives of any deployment in a “major military operation”, its legal basis, and the orders made.

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The government is also required to table defence strategy documents in parliament within 30 days of their publication. This week’s parliamentary sittings are the final opportunity for the government to comply within the deadline.

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On 10 March, the government announced the deployment of an E-7A Wedgetail aircraft, 85 Australian personnel and missiles to the United Arab Emirates, to assist the UAE in conflict against Iran.

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On 4 March, three Australian navy personnel were onboard a US submarine which torpedoed and sank an Iranian frigate off the Sri Lankan coast.

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Greens spokesperson for defence and foreign affairs, David Shoebridge, said the government was failing its own low standard of accountability and transparency for critical decisions about Australian service personnel being committed to war.

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A key requirement of the memorandum is that the Government must provide the legal basis for the deployment of Australian military forces. Labor has now refused to do this, almost certainly because there is no lawful basis for Australia joining this war.

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The memorandum also requires regular reports, public statements on the aims and a day of debate in Parliament. All of that has been scrapped so Albanese could be first in line to support Trump.

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The violence that is spreading through the Middle East, the resulting chaos here in Australia, all of it shows why these decisions need to be under public scrutiny. It absolutely proves how dangerous it is for Australians to be sent into a war zone by a handful of government ministers who have never said ‘no’ to Trump or the US.”

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But the government says the Middle East conflict – or Australia’s part in it – does not meet the threshold of “major military operation”.

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In response to a Greens letter, the defence minister, Richard Marles wrote to Greens leader Larissa Waters, saying the government was “committed to parliamentary transparency, accountability and oversight of the defence portfolio”.

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Marles said the commitment of Australian personnel and materiel to the Middle East was “not a major military operation”.

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The Albanese government has been clear that this is in support of the collective self-defence of nations of the region, that we are not taking offensive action against Iran, and that we are not deploying Australian troops on the ground in Iran.

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Marles accused the Greens of seeking to obstruct enhanced parliamentary oversight for political purposes.

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Marles said the deployment of the Wedgetail aircraft was akin to previous deployments in Europe “to support Ukraine to defend itself against Russia’s illegal and immoral invasion”.

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In that deployment, however, the Australian aircraft never flew over Ukrainian airspace or landed on Ukrainian soil.

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  Fuel was in the spotlight again, except for a brief deviation from the Coalition into whether the government will expand parliament.

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  The government said fuel shipments continue as expected, while Chris Bowen provided an update with the number of service stations running empty.

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  Anthony Albanese dismissed questions on whether the government will move to expand parliament – but did leave a very small gap in the door.

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  Independent MP Zali Steggall asked the government what it was tangibly doing to secure justice for Zomi Frankcom, an Australian aid worker killed by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza.

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  The Greens continued to press the government on implementing a 25% gas export tax.

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The ABC section of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has recommended members vote for a new and improved pay offer from ABC management, days after a 24-hour strike.

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Jocelyn Gammie, ABC Section Secretary:

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After many hours of intense negotiations with ABC management and other unions in the Fair Work Commission yesterday, the CPSU bargaining team and delegates are now in a position where they can recommend that members support the new improved offer.

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The CPSU said after negotiations at the Fair Work Commission on Monday the ABC came up with an offer with significantly better pay and automatic progression.

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Jocelyn Gammie, ABC section secretary, said:

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While ABC’s revised position does not fully address every issue in our claim, there has been significant movement on the key issues of pay and progression.

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In our view the strongly supported strike action last week worked exactly as intended – ABC management have listened and improved their position. Members should be extremely proud of the way they stood together and fought for what they deserve.

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The pay rise has been lifted to 4% in the first year, backdated to 1 October 2025, a 0.5% improvement on the offer available before 2,000 staff went on strike last week.

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Progression has been one of the toughest issues in bargaining, and your delegates have secured major improvements,” the union told staff.

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Last Wednesday staff walked off the job for 24 hours to protest what they called a low pay offer from the ABC managing director, Hugh Marks, as well as poor working conditions and the broadcaster’s refusal to rule out replacing journalists with artificial intelligence.

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Staff will now have to vote on the improved offer before a new enterprise bargaining agreement is put in force.

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Nationals MP Jamie Chaffey is next and asks Chris Bowen to clarify the number of ships en route to Australia. Bowen last week said that 81 fuel shipments were expected to arrive this month, but today said 53 ships are currently headed to Australia.

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Bowen says there are more than 53 ships on their way but the opposition are trying to compare “apples and oranges”.

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He says we expect 81 ships to arrive in Australia every month, and so far that number is expected to arrive in May.

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[For] some, arrival is imminent, others are just leaving the refineries as we speak. So that’s an average. Of course, a ship from the United States takes about a month to get here. It’s a lot quicker than that from Singapore and Malaysia.

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So those two comparisons the honourable member has made is just not a fair comparison. It’s apples and oranges. We do expect, on average, 81 ships a month to arrive. That’s a historical average.

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At the National Press Club, the Israeli ambassador to Australia, Hillel Newman, would not say whether Israel would release critical drone audio, and did not say whether the Israeli government would apologise to Frankcom’s family, but said sympathy has been expressed.

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Steggall says the UK and Poland have launched coronial inquiries and commissioned international probes into the deaths of their citizens killed by the IDF.

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Anthony Albanese says he will meet with Frankcom’s brother, Mal, who is in parliament, this afternoon.

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I have certainly raised the issue very directly, most recently with the Israeli president Isaac Herzog during his visit here to Australia. Last year at the United Nations, when I was there, Australia led the world in launching the declaration for the protection of humanitarian personnel.

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This is a tragic loss. We’ll continue to work each and every day to do our best to ensure that there is transparency and appropriate action.

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Angus Taylor is back at the dispatch box and asks if the government will spend $600m to expand parliament and increase the number of representatives.

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(For more context, see here)

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Anthony Albanese’s not entertaining the question, and gives a very short answer. This is the whole thing:

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Let me make this as clear as I possibly can. I am more than satisfied with both the number of members of the House of Representatives and their composition.

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How many service stations are empty, asks Dan Tehan.

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Like last week, Chris Bowen gives us the latest figures:

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  NSW: 247 without diesel, 61 with no stock, out of 2,400 service stations.

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  QLD: 77 without diesel, 39 with no unleaded, out of 1,800 service stations.

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  VIC: 82 without diesel, 40 with no stock, out of 1,627 service stations.

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  WA: 18 without diesel, 14 with no unleaded out of 771 service stations.

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  TAS: 8 without diesel, 15 with one or more fuels unavailable, out of 294 service stations.

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  NT: 5 without diesel, 4 with no unleaded out of 180 service stations

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  ACT: 5 without diesel, 2 with no unleaded

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Bowen adds that in the ACT the service stations are normally filled within the same day, and shortages in the NT are also due to flooding.

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Angus Taylor asks how Australians can have confidence in the prime minister when he changes his position (after the government decided to cut the fuel excise when they’d said it wasn’t a measure being considered just days before).

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Anthony Albanese says the government has been consistent in acknowledging that Australians are feeling “stretched and under pressure” from the impact of the war in the Middle East.

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He defends the government’s response to the crisis and says the measures taken – including the excise cut – have been responsible.

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There are challenges ahead of us. It is also a fact that because prices have increased right around the world, we sought to have a responsible plan to make a difference as well to people’s cost of living issues as we always do.

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The ABC has offered staff an additional 0.5% pay rise and some improved conditions after “very challenging negotiations” in the Fair Work Commission on Monday, unions have told ABC staff.

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After a strike last week the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), and the non-journalists’ Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), which represents staff in technology and control systems, sat down with management.

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The offer of a 10% pay rise over three years was increased to 10.5% with a 4% rise in the first year backdated to October.

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People and culture director, Deena Amorelli, told staff:

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I’m pleased to provide you with an update on the Enterprise Agreement (EA). Following discussion at the Fair Work Commission (FWC) conciliation yesterday, we have agreed a position that is endorsed by all bargaining representatives, including union delegates from both the CPSU and MEAA.

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The MEAA has asked staff to decide whether to accept the offer. They told members the walkout was a success because “we now have above inflation pay for year 1 on the table, real pathways for band progression, and improved reward for hard work”.

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“This will benefit us and our future colleagues for years to come, and we should all be extremely proud,” the union said.

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Israel’s ambassador to Australia says he is not aware that the investigation into the Israeli drone strike that killed Zomi Frankcom and six aid workers in Gaza has been shelved or that there will be no prosecution.

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At the National Press Club, Hillel Newman defends the Israeli government’s actions and says Australian investigator, Mark Binskin, who was sent by the Albanese government, delivered a report that found “the attack was not intentional”.

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Binskin’s review, handed to the government, found the IDF strike on the World Central Kitchen volunteers was the result of “serious failures to follow procedures”.

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Newman says:

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You say it’s been shelved, I don’t know what basis, I have not … I have never heard it’s been shelved. It could be I have not been updated, I will check.

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As far as I know they have not come to final conclusions not because they delay, there are legal cases in Israel that go on for years … as far as I know it [has] not come to that conclusion yet but I will check again.

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Newman says Binskin was “given full access at the time to what they had available and he drew up the conclusions together”. But Binskin has said he was never shown the drone audio during the investigation.

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Journalist Anna Henderson pushes Newman on why the drone audio was not shown to Binskin and whether he will commit to it being released.

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He won’t make the commitment.

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[It] could be intelligence. I was not there … I would have to check [why] it is not possible to release that video information.

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Last month, prime minister Anthony Albanese told Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, Australia wanted to see transparency over the investigation and “any appropriate criminal charges”.

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Israel’s ambassador to Australia says the two nations are “close allies”, with the relationship “deeply rooted in history”.

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Hillel Newman is speaking to the National Press Club, his first address since taking on the role earlier this year.

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The diplomatic relationship between the two nations has faced some strain over the last two years, including Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu publicly criticising the Australian prime minister for recognising Palestinian statehood last year, and accused Albanese of “betraying” Israel.

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Newman says:

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Israel and Australia stand in the same camp. Of moderates, modern democracies that value human rights and uphold democratic concerns. That has long characterised the relationship between our two countries. Our connection is deeply rooted in history and founded on shared values. It is only natural, for Australia and Israel to be close allies.

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We share the same values, we share the same threats, we must stand together and defend our values.

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The Reserve Bank says oil at around $US100 will push inflation to about 5% in the year to June, or 0.75 percentage points higher than expected in February.

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The international oil price benchmark, Brent crude, has traded at $US100 or above since the 17 March rate decision, and last fetched about $US109 a barrel.

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The RBA board decided to hike rates earlier this month, in a 5-4 split decision that spoke to a dissenting view among a big minority of members that it would have been better to wait a few weeks to better gauge the potential fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran.

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In the end, a majority believed the Middle East conflict was overwhelmingly an inflationary shock that threatened to broaden out into other prices beyond fuel.

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All agreed, however, that rates would have needed to go up sooner rather than later, given inflation was already running too hot before the start of hostilities.

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The minutes push back against some predictions that we have three more rate hikes ahead of us.

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Members agreed:

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That it was not possible to predict the future path for the cash rate target with any confidence, given the high degree of uncertainty around the breadth and duration of the current conflict in the Middle East.

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The minutes noted “a longer conflict could have a material bearing on both inflation and economic activity. Members therefore acknowledged that future policy decisions would require the board to balance its two objectives carefully” – the two objectives being low and stable inflation, and full employment.

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The eSafety Commission says the federal government’s ban on under-16s accessing social media is not working as well as had been hoped, with a survey finding nearly a third of young people still had social media, and that nearly 70% of children with accounts on major platforms had not been removed.

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In a compliance report on the legislation, more than three months on from the law coming into force, eSafety said “despite overall reductions in account ownership, a substantial proportion of children under 16 retained accounts on age-restricted platforms”. It said:

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Of the parents who reported their child had an account on each platform prior to 10 December 2025, around 7 in 10 reported that their child still had an account on Facebook (63.6%), Instagram (69.1%), Snapchat (69.4%), and TikTok (69.3%). Around three in 10 reported that their child no longer had an account. One in two of these parents (48.5%) reported that their child still had an account on YouTube following the age restrictions coming into effect.

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Prior to the ban, the survey respondents said about 49.7% of their kids had social media; post-ban, that was down to 31.3%. The Albanese government has long conceded that not all kids would be immediately removed from their accounts, but that the laws would reduce the number and help parents set their own household rules.

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As we reported earlier, eSafety is “actively investigating potential non-compliance” with the ban by Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and YouTube. The eSafety report said the most common reason kids still had social media was that they hadn’t been asked by the platform to verify their age, with 67% of parents listing this as the main reason.

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But the report also noted that age verification technology is not perfect, and makes mistakes. The government was not prescriptive about what methods the platforms should use, but often pointed to facial scanning as a method to verify age. The eSafety report said facial age estimation is “a popular and effective form of age assurance” but conceded that it “is known to have higher error rates for children near the age threshold of 16 years.”

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Communications minister Anika Wells will hold a press conference at 12.30pm.

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Anthony Albanese says uncertainty over the duration of the war in Iran is adding to Australians’ anxiety about price increases and tensions overseas.

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Speaking to Labor MPs at Parliament House on Tuesday morning, he said the government was working to shore up fuel supply, even as global energy reliability is being undermined by the war.

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“We have been concentrating on supply, supply, supply,” Albanese told the closed-door caucus meeting.

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People are doing it tough. There is uncertainty over the war and uncertainty over how it ends. This is causing understandable anxiety.

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The increase in price only adds to this anxiety.

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The PM said Australia was viewed as a reliable partner for energy exports in Asia and “expect that reliability to be reciprocated”.

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He also said the government wanted to “avoid mandating” fuel purchases. “We’re a nation where we want to look after each other,” he said.

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Albanese will address the National Press Club in Canberra on Thursday.

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This morning, the full bench of the Fair Work Commission decided to grant 18-20-year-olds the full adult minimum wage – to be phased in for businesses to adjust.

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Until now, “junior pay rates” applied to people under 21, meaning 18-year-olds were paid 70% of the award rate, 80% for 19-year-olds and 90% for 20-year-olds.

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Junior wages will still remain in place for minors, while the higher rate for junior workers will start to be phased in over a four-year period from December.

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Chalmers says the decision recognises the “unfairness” in the system.

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This is a great outcome for young workers, especially in retail, fast food and pharmacy. We welcome it.

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This is all about ensuring that Australians get fair, decent wages, and the outcome announced by the Fair Work Commission will help achieve that.

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Labor MP Jerome Laxale has been leading the charge on ending surcharges for card transactions, which has now been removed by the Reserve Bank.

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Laxale, the Member for Bennelong, said it was “a great result for consumers who have been ripped off at the checkout for too long”.

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Digital payments shouldn’t cost consumers more than cash and Australia will get there on 1 October.

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There’s more work to do on small business merchant costs, but this is a solid start.

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Laxale had been pushing for change for more than a year, critical that the declining use of cash and rise of electronic payments meant Australians were being hit with fees just to use their own money.

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The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, said Australians had been paying $1.6bn in surcharges per year, adding that the change would “help with the cost of living”.

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Key events

For your evening edification, a recap of the top headlines:

• More than 10,000 Australians have returned from the Middle East since the US-Israeli-led conflict with Iran began.

• Queensland premier David Crisafulli said he did not support “blanket mandates” for work from home and has criticised a four-stage fuel security plan announced by the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, on Monday.

• Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube are being investigated for “potential non-compliance” with the under 16s social media ban, with the Albanese government saying some of their systems to weed out underage users are “unacceptable”.

• The prime minister said he would meet the brother of slain aid worker Zomi Frankcom, who was killed two years ago in an Israeli airstrike. At the National Press Club, the Israeli ambassador to Australia, Hillel Newman, would not say whether Israel would release critical drone audio of the strike, and did not say whether the Israeli government would apologise to Frankcom’s family, but said sympathy has been expressed.

• The government said fuel shipments to Australia continue – 53 shipments are now en route to Australia – while energy minister Chris Bowen provided an update with the number of service stations running empty. More than 100 are now without fuel.

Thank you for being with us today. Please join us again tomorrow.

Amanda Meade

ABC announces agreement with unions over pay

The ABC says it has reached an agreed position with ABC staff unions on the new enterprise agreement offer after conciliation at the Fair Work Commission on Monday.

The Fair Work meeting comes after a 24-hour strike by 2000 staff last week which shut down ABC news across TV and radio stations.

“The proposed agreement includes an annual pay increase of 4% in the first year and 3.25% in each of the second and third years, with back pay to the first full pay period after 1 October 2025,” an ABC spokesperson said.

“It also delivers clearer progression pathways between pay bands, targeted performance bonuses, retention of existing promotion provisions and enhanced leave entitlements.”

The Community and Public Sector Union and the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance will now consult members before a staff vote.

Deputy Liberal leader takes swipe at PM over ‘concerns’ with war in Iran

Ted O’Brien, has criticised the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, for his interview on the ABC’s 7.30 on Monday night, saying he should not have publicly ventilated Australia’s issues with the America’s ongoing conflict in Iran.

If you heard the prime minister on the 7.30 Report last night, he basically broadcasted a list of demands of the United States.

To do that through the ABC, with all due respect to the ABC, is completely inappropriate. If he has a list of demands, then he should be communicating directly with the United States.

Appearing on ABC TV, O’Brien said he believed Albanese’s wavering support for the war was in response to opinion polls which reflected a deep unpopularity for the Israel-and-US-led assault on Iran.

The prime minister changes his tune on national television flagging that he, too, has concerns with the war.

I think he is just poll driven. He is not a leader. He is a consummate politician who will always blow with the breeze.

NSW charity providing free meals receives anonymous $200,000 donation

A charity on NSW’s central coast has been gifted an anonymous $200,000 donation to continue its work feeding Australians in need as the cost-of-living crisis wears on.

More than 60 volunteers provide free meals and music as part of SafeLink Alliance’s weekly pop up in Kibble Park, Gosford, about an hour’s drive north of Sydney.

Before the donation came in, chaplain and director of Safelink Alliance, Joe Arena, said he was wondering: “How on earth – with less than $1,000 in the bank – are we going to keep this charity going? … It’s been running off the smell of an oily rag week by week.”

He said an anonymous person reached out via a third party to make the $200,000 donation, citing the hands-on approach the charity was taking in the community and the positive impact it was having.

Arena called the money a gamechanger. “We’re now looking at purchasing a good second-hand van, which will allow us to do outreach [and] change things. People are normally sitting on the park benches at Kibble Park, whereas now we can actually transport the tables and chairs that we have.”

“We will be able to bring food to people … who suffer disabilities and can’t get out of the house … for us to actually go to people with emergency supplies. It just totally transforms what we’re doing”.

Greens demand Labor reveal Australian objectives in Middle East conflict

The Greens have insisted the federal government table a statement in parliament outlining the objectives of Australia’s participation in the Middle East conflict, as well as the conflict’s legal basis and defence strategy.

In November 2024, the government published the Memorandum on Government Conventions Relating to Overseas Armed Conflict Decision Making. That requires the government to table an unclassified written statement in both Houses of Parliament outlining the objectives of any deployment in a “major military operation”, its legal basis, and the orders made.

The government is also required to table defence strategy documents in parliament within 30 days of their publication. This week’s parliamentary sittings are the final opportunity for the government to comply within the deadline.

On 10 March, the government announced the deployment of an E-7A Wedgetail aircraft, 85 Australian personnel and missiles to the United Arab Emirates, to assist the UAE in conflict against Iran.

On 4 March, three Australian navy personnel were onboard a US submarine which torpedoed and sank an Iranian frigate off the Sri Lankan coast.

Greens spokesperson for defence and foreign affairs, David Shoebridge, said the government was failing its own low standard of accountability and transparency for critical decisions about Australian service personnel being committed to war.

A key requirement of the memorandum is that the Government must provide the legal basis for the deployment of Australian military forces. Labor has now refused to do this, almost certainly because there is no lawful basis for Australia joining this war.

The memorandum also requires regular reports, public statements on the aims and a day of debate in Parliament. All of that has been scrapped so Albanese could be first in line to support Trump.

The violence that is spreading through the Middle East, the resulting chaos here in Australia, all of it shows why these decisions need to be under public scrutiny. It absolutely proves how dangerous it is for Australians to be sent into a war zone by a handful of government ministers who have never said ‘no’ to Trump or the US.”

But the government says the Middle East conflict – or Australia’s part in it – does not meet the threshold of “major military operation”.

In response to a Greens letter, the defence minister, Richard Marles wrote to Greens leader Larissa Waters, saying the government was “committed to parliamentary transparency, accountability and oversight of the defence portfolio”.

Marles said the commitment of Australian personnel and materiel to the Middle East was “not a major military operation”.

The Albanese government has been clear that this is in support of the collective self-defence of nations of the region, that we are not taking offensive action against Iran, and that we are not deploying Australian troops on the ground in Iran.

Marles accused the Greens of seeking to obstruct enhanced parliamentary oversight for political purposes.

Marles said the deployment of the Wedgetail aircraft was akin to previous deployments in Europe “to support Ukraine to defend itself against Russia’s illegal and immoral invasion”.

In that deployment, however, the Australian aircraft never flew over Ukrainian airspace or landed on Ukrainian soil.

Jordyn Beazley

Public hearings into police actions at anti-Herzog protest to be held later this year

The police watchdog anticipates that public hearings into alleged police misconduct at a Sydney protest against the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, will be held in the second half of this year.

The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission’s chief commissioner, Peter Johnson SC, has also appointed two lawyers to act as counsel assisting to its investigation – Kirsten Edwards SC and Emma Sullivan.

The watchdog said in a statement released this afternoon that it had received a “significant volume of material” since it began the investigation, now dubbed Operation Makalu. Material can still be submitted via its website.

The watchdog launched an investigation after widespread allegations of police brutality at the 9 February protest against the Israeli president during his visit.

The NSW premier, Chris Minns, and the police commissioner, Mal Lanyon, have defended the police actions, with Minns saying police were placed in an “impossible situation”.

Jordyn Beazley

Police officer who allegedly assaulted Hannah Thomas will face a hearing next year

The New South Wales police officer who allegedly assaulted Hannah Thomas at a pro-Palestine protest will face a 10-day hearing in February 2027.

The hearing dates – 1 to 12 February – were set at Downing Centre Local court today after 33-year-old senior constable Christopher Davis pleaded not guilty two weeks ago.

He is facing two charges, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and recklessly causing grievous bodily harm.

Thomas, a former Greens candidate in the prime minister’s seat of Grayndler, was arrested and charged alongside four others at a pro-Palestine protest in Sydney on 27 June that was attended by about 60 people at SEC Plating.

Thomas was taken to hospital and has since undergone three rounds of surgery to her right eye after she sustained a serious injury.

Last September, prosecutors dropped all three charges against Thomas, who was later awarded more than $22,000 in legal costs. Charges were also dropped against three other protesters who were also awarded costs.

The following month Davis was charged with the two offences.

Krishani Dhanji

That’s all from me today, thanks so much for following along on the blog.

I’ll leave you with the excellent Ben Doherty and will see you here bright and early tomorrow!

TLDR: here’s what happened in question time

• Fuel was in the spotlight again, except for a brief deviation from the Coalition into whether the government will expand parliament.

• The government said fuel shipments continue as expected, while Chris Bowen provided an update with the number of service stations running empty.

• Anthony Albanese dismissed questions on whether the government will move to expand parliament – but did leave a very small gap in the door.

• Independent MP Zali Steggall asked the government what it was tangibly doing to secure justice for Zomi Frankcom, an Australian aid worker killed by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza.

• The Greens continued to press the government on implementing a 25% gas export tax.

ABC non-journalists’ union recommends members support latest pay offer

Amanda Meade

The ABC section of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has recommended members vote for a new and improved pay offer from ABC management, days after a 24-hour strike.

Jocelyn Gammie, ABC Section Secretary:

After many hours of intense negotiations with ABC management and other unions in the Fair Work Commission yesterday, the CPSU bargaining team and delegates are now in a position where they can recommend that members support the new improved offer.

The CPSU said after negotiations at the Fair Work Commission on Monday the ABC came up with an offer with significantly better pay and automatic progression.

Jocelyn Gammie, ABC section secretary, said:

While ABC’s revised position does not fully address every issue in our claim, there has been significant movement on the key issues of pay and progression.

In our view the strongly supported strike action last week worked exactly as intended – ABC management have listened and improved their position. Members should be extremely proud of the way they stood together and fought for what they deserve.

The pay rise has been lifted to 4% in the first year, backdated to 1 October 2025, a 0.5% improvement on the offer available before 2,000 staff went on strike last week.

Progression has been one of the toughest issues in bargaining, and your delegates have secured major improvements,” the union told staff.

Last Wednesday staff walked off the job for 24 hours to protest what they called a low pay offer from the ABC managing director, Hugh Marks, as well as poor working conditions and the broadcaster’s refusal to rule out replacing journalists with artificial intelligence.

Staff will now have to vote on the improved offer before a new enterprise bargaining agreement is put in force.

Question time ends

After a final dixer to Mark Butler, the prime minister calls time on QT.

Bowen offers to help taxi drivers in Queensland

Nationals MP David Batt asks whether the government can guarantee diesel supplies to keep wheelchair accessible taxis on the road, and says essential transport for vulnerable Australians is “now under threat”.

Chris Bowen says the supply of fuel continues to arrive in Australia “at the rate we would expect”.

But of course there are still shortages, which he acknowledges, particularly in regional Australia.

Having just helped farmer Josh in South Australia, Bowen also offers to help individuals in Queensland.

If you have constituents with whom you’d like us to pay particular attention and speak to them about their particular needs, if there have been shortages, and to put them in contact with the relevant fuel companies.

PM helps secure fuel for farmer Josh

If you were here yesterday, you might remember Liberal MP Tom Venning’s question to the prime minister, about farmer Josh in his electorate who said he couldn’t access fuel ahead of the crop season.

Anthony Albanese is asked a dixer, and says that he’s now spoken to farmer Josh and secured fuel for him.

Albanese says the government contacted Josh’s local fuel terminal to find out more:

Just yesterday, there had been a ship delivered of fuel to the terminal, and that I was able to ring Josh back again, as I committed to do, to find out for him, and he will be receiving fuel in the next 48 hours and that’s a good result.

Joyce calls for increased funding to fight spread of fire ants

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce asks the government if it will commit more funding to tackle fire ants, an invasive species which he says will be “devastating to the lifestyle of Australian people” if they continue spreading across farms in Queensland.

There’s a tiny misunderstanding – Tony Burke thinks he said firearms instead of fire ants, which everyone laughs off.

Burke says it has been an issue since he was environment minister back in 2010.

We need to continue the fight because of the extraordinary damage, the extraordinary damage that those fire ants do.

Notwithstanding all the attempts at containment that had been involved in government funding back then, government funding that I think, started under the Howard government, that continued during the nine years when the member was on and off, the deputy prime minister of Australia, that the containment funding has continued under us, no one has been able to successfully prevent the spread.

He says the government will continue efforts to try to fight fire ants, but doesn’t commit to new funding in the budget.

More than 53 fuel shipments currently en route to Australia, says Bowen

Nationals MP Jamie Chaffey is next and asks Chris Bowen to clarify the number of ships en route to Australia. Bowen last week said that 81 fuel shipments were expected to arrive this month, but today said 53 ships are currently headed to Australia.

Bowen says there are more than 53 ships on their way but the opposition are trying to compare “apples and oranges”.

He says we expect 81 ships to arrive in Australia every month, and so far that number is expected to arrive in May.

[For] some, arrival is imminent, others are just leaving the refineries as we speak. So that’s an average. Of course, a ship from the United States takes about a month to get here. It’s a lot quicker than that from Singapore and Malaysia.

So those two comparisons the honourable member has made is just not a fair comparison. It’s apples and oranges. We do expect, on average, 81 ships a month to arrive. That’s a historical average.

Greens push Labor to implement gas export tax

Back to the crossbench, Greens MP Elizabeth Watson-Brown asks the treasurer if he will confirm that Shell has paid no petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT), and will now only pay a few cents per dollar of revenue at best … AND if the government will put a 25% tax on gas export revenue.

Jim Chalmers says Australians do deserve a fair return from the natural resources that they own.

On the PRRT, he says that tax isn’t calculated and shared separately by the tax office so he can’t confirm how much of the PRRT that Shell has paid.

He also says that the PRRT sets in seven years after a project, so for two Shell projects, that tax will begin to take effect shortly.

We work closely together to try and make the tax system more transparent in this regard, and we’ll continue to focus on our agenda to make sure multinationals, including oil and gas companies, pay their fair share of tax.

Government diversifying fuel imports, says Bowen

Nationals MP Alison Penfold takes the next question and asks Chris Bowen how many oil tankers have left the Middle East for refineries in Asia since 28 February. Australia receives much of its fuel supplies from countries in Asia.

Bowen acknowledges that Asia “gets the majority of its oil from the Middle East”, but that the government is diversifying its imports.

He says there are currently more than 53 ships en route to Australia from Asia, the United States, Mexico, other places.

I can confirm, 3.7 billion litres are contracted legally to arrive in Australia over April.

Asia gets the majority of its oil from the Middle East through the strait of Hormuz. That is true. That’s why we’ve taken the actions we have taken, like releasing more of the minimum stock obligation … Asian refineries don’t just supply Australia, they supply Asia, and of course, we’ve been in constant contact, the prime minister, the foreign minister and I, with our respective counterparts, and we’re very pleased with the way those conversations have gone.

PM to meet Zomi Frankcom’s brother on anniversary of aid worker’s death

What “tangible progress” has the government made since the prime minister’s meeting with Israeli president Isaac Herzog, to secure justice for Zomi Frankcom, asks independent MP Zali Steggall. Tomorrow is the two-year anniversary of the Australian aid worker’s death in an Israeli airstrike.

At the National Press Club, the Israeli ambassador to Australia, Hillel Newman, would not say whether Israel would release critical drone audio, and did not say whether the Israeli government would apologise to Frankcom’s family, but said sympathy has been expressed.

Steggall says the UK and Poland have launched coronial inquiries and commissioned international probes into the deaths of their citizens killed by the IDF.

Anthony Albanese says he will meet with Frankcom’s brother, Mal, who is in parliament, this afternoon.

I have certainly raised the issue very directly, most recently with the Israeli president Isaac Herzog during his visit here to Australia. Last year at the United Nations, when I was there, Australia led the world in launching the declaration for the protection of humanitarian personnel.

This is a tragic loss. We’ll continue to work each and every day to do our best to ensure that there is transparency and appropriate action.

Wilson and Chalmers trade barbs on budget spending

Will the treasurer guarantee his budget won’t add to inflation or interest rates, asks shadow treasurer Tim Wilson, who says mortgages have gone up due to Jim Chalmers’ “runaway spending”.

Chalmers says Wilson has some “nerve” asking the question, when the Coalition’s pre-election costings showed their spending would go higher in their first two years if elected.

He says the government has been banking savings, and that the next budget – due on 12 May – will find more savings and include tax reform and “more effort on productivity”.

It took those opposite something like seven budget updates to find the same amount of savings that Katy Gallagher found in December …

Those opposite wouldn’t know the first thing about responsible economic management.

When the member for Hume took to the election … policy for higher taxes on 14 million working Australians and he still managed to find a way to have bigger deficits and more debt.