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Peter Dutton given key board appointment by Queensland government

Andrew Messenger

The former opposition leader Peter Dutton has been appointed to the Queensland Investment Corporation board by the state government.

Former Beattie government assistant minister Michael Choi was also appointed to be a director on the board.

The corporation is one of Australia’s largest institutional investment managers, with more than $135bn in assets under management.

Treasurer David Janetzki said the two appointments “will bring world class expertise to the Queensland Investment Corporation strengthening its ability to driving [sic] investment in our state, helping to grow our economy to benefit all Queenslanders”.

In Victoria, teachers at government schools will hold rolling half-day stoppages in term 2, after a full-day strike in March saw 500 classes cancelled.

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The half-day walkouts will be done on a region-by-region basis and follow months of failed negotiations for a better pay deal, with the AEU calling for a 35% pay rise over three years. The government has offered 17%, which has been rejected.

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AEU’s Justin Mullaly said:

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They’ll commence in the third week of term, and it will see regions of the state take stop-work action so multiple local schools in a particular geographic area will all stop work at the same time, and they will converge and rally at a local state Labor MP’s office.

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Mullaly said Victoria should be “ashamed” to call itself the education state.

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[Teachers] are being taken for granted by the premier Jacinta Allan and education minister Ben Carroll, and will raise their voices around Victoria and significantly escalate their industrial action.

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The former opposition leader Peter Dutton has been appointed to the Queensland Investment Corporation board by the state government.

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Former Beattie government assistant minister Michael Choi was also appointed to be a director on the board.

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The corporation is one of Australia’s largest institutional investment managers, with more than $135bn in assets under management.

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Treasurer David Janetzki said the two appointments “will bring world class expertise to the Queensland Investment Corporation strengthening its ability to driving [sic] investment in our state, helping to grow our economy to benefit all Queenslanders”.

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Anthony Albanese visited the Singapore LNG facility on Jurong Island this morning, taking a brief tour of a jetty where an Australian ship had docked.

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Dressed in a green safety jumpsuit, Albanese met SLNG’s CEO Leong Wei Hung and inspected the jetty as gas was extracted from the ship in the harbour.

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Surrounded by hulking metal structures, like gas storage tanks and steel walkways, the facility was highly secure with tight restrictions on filming. Albanese arrived to the location on a large bus filled with facility staff and his own team members.

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Albanese and Hung spoke warmly for a few minutes, as the CEO pointed out features of the facility and jetty. Their conversation couldn’t be heard over the noise of the facility, but the PM and his guide pointed animatedly at various parts of the ship and jetty.

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Hung later briefly told journalists that he and Albanese had a warm interaction, and that the PM had asked numerous questions.

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Albanese is visiting other parts of Jurong Island, a major resource refining, energy and chemicals hub which employs about 27,000 people. He will meet Singapore’s PM, Lawrence Wong, later today and hold a joint press conference.

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The former Australian national commissioner for children, Anne Hollonds delivered a scathing opening statement at a Senate inquiry on Friday, saying governments were ignoring evidence and still using “harsh, punitive policies” to lock children up.

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Hollonds, who held the position from 2020 to 2025, said she had “witnessed things” that she “can’t unsee” when she conducted the “Help Way Earlier” report into child justice between 2023 and 24.

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She said there was often “handballing” of responsibility between federal, state and territory governments when it came to the rights and wellbeing of children.

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We need government accountability to act on the evidence …

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[I’ve seen] children held in solitary confinement and in concrete police watch house cells with no windows, no natural light or fresh air, no outdoor area, no recreation, [no] rehabilitation or education and no visits from family

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Not just overnight, but for weeks and sometimes months on end.

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At a Northern Territory police watch house last year, I asked, ‘What do you do when the children are in psychological distress’, I was told they use the restraint chair.

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You will recall the restraint chair … from the Dylan Voller footage that aired on the ABC, and what this tells is that the Northern Territory not only has brought back spit hoods and lowered the age of criminal responsibility back to 10, they brought back restraint chairs.

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So we are literally back to where we were prior to the Northern Territory royal commission which began in 2016.

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Hollonds has called for a federal minister for children to be a national taskforce to be established that would develop an “evidence-based” roadmap to deliver better outcomes for youth.

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The health minister, Mark Butler, addressed former prime minister Tony Abbott’s opinion piece this morning, saying the idea that Australia should be prepared to join the war in the Middle East was not “a particularly serious contribution”.

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Butler made the remarks on Channel 7’s Sunrise. He said:

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With the greatest of respect, I just don’t think this is a particularly serious contribution.

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I mean, we’ve been asked to provide defensive support, particularly to the UAE, where there are thousands of Australian expats living. We’ve done that.

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It’s the other side of the world and we want to see it end. I don’t think there’s any sense in the community that we want to see Australian defence force personnel deployed to offensive operations in the way that Tony Abbott has outlined.

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Butler said the Australian government maintained it wanted to see the conflict end permanently.

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The former prime minister Tony Abbott says Australia should be prepared to go to war amid the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East, saying the nation had let our main ally down, “but also betrayed our values and our long-term national interest”.

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Abbott wrote an opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph today, asking why the nation has armed forces if they won’t be used. He said:

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What is the point of having armed forces if they’re not to be used to support our allies in a just cause, and what could be a more just cause than the US-Israeli bid to deny Iran nuclear weapons, uphold freedom of navigation in the Hormuz Straits and – if possible – liberate Iran from a monstrous theocracy?

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Once it became obvious that US action against Iran was imminent, even had we not been officially alerted, the Australian government should have made contact with the White House to offer assistance, as we did in the campaign against Islamic State, where our special forces, military trainers, command and control aircraft, aerial refuellers, and strike fighters did fine work.

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The RAAF should be doing so again right now. By ostentatiously standing aside from the current conflict, doing even less than the pusillanimous British government, we have not just let down our main ally but also betrayed our values and our long-term national interest.

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Abbott went on to say Australia needed to be “strong again, as our forebears were”.

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The Greens senator David Shoebridge says Australia should cancel arms deals with Israel, a step that would be far more powerful than the foreign affairs minister Penny Wong’s statements that Australia is concerned about the country’s ongoing military assault in Lebanon.

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Shoebridge spoke to RN Breakfast this morning, saying:

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Penny Wong’s previous statements, whether it’s concerned or gravely concerned, have had no effect.

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But cancelling more than a billion dollars in Israeli arms contracts – that would not only respond to the moral situation of the appalling Israeli military attacks, it would also have the benefit of putting a very real material pressure on Israel to pull back from what is a disastrous, illegal, immoral war in Lebanon that is threatening the entire globe’s peace.

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Shoebridge went on to say the first thing Australia should do is put a “complete, two-way military arms freeze on Israel”.

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We should not be buying weapons that have been tested by Israeli defence manufacturers in conflicts like Gaza and Lebanon, and we should not be contributing any weapons parts.

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Right now it also would have the important additional benefit of making it clear to Israel that this comes at a direct and real cost to them.

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A Queensland member of parliament has died.

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The member for Stafford, Jimmy Sullivan, had served as a Labor representative for the electorate since 2020. He was expelled from the Labor party last May and sat on the cross-bench.

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Queensland police confirmed that officers attended a residence at Stafford at 10.15pm last night to a “sudden death”.

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“Officers are treating the death as non-suspicious, and a report will be prepared for the coroner,” a spokesperson for Queensland police said.

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The defence minister, Richard Marles, said the flow of ships through the strait of Hormuz during the ceasefire is not “what we want”.

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Marles, who is serving as acting prime minister while Anthony Albanese is in Singapore to discuss the nation’s fuel supplies, spoke to RN Breakfast this morning, saying:

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Ultimately, we need to see the strait of Hormuz open. We need to see the disruption of the global fuel supply chain stop. And we very much need this fragile temporary ceasefire become permanent.

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A search for a fisher who disappeared in waters off Coffs Harbour has been suspended, police said last night.

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Emergency services were called to Emerald Beach, Coffs Harbour, on Monday following reports that a 32-year-old man had been washed off rocks while fishing.

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Coffs Harbour water police, assisted by the Westpac Rescue Helicopter, carried out an extensive search in the past four days but he could not be found and the operation was suspended yesterday afternoon.

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Water police and other agencies will continue to search the waters off Emerald Beach in the coming days.

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Anthony Albanese says Singapore and Australia are “strategically aligned” on fuel and energy, ahead of his meeting with Lawrence Wong later today.

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But the Australian prime minister said the conflict in the Middle East would have “a long tail”, warning of “a difficult period ahead”.

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There’s been substantial damage in the Gulf and that will have consequences for a period of at least months ahead.

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Albanese will meet his Singaporean counterpart for an annual leaders’ meeting and they will hold a joint press conference this afternoon, after Albanese tours petrol refining facilities on Jurong Island.

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Arriving into Singapore last night, Albanese said the two countries were important partners, with Singapore providing around a quarter of Australia’s refined fuels and Australia providing around a third of Singapore’s LNG.

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We share values and we share a relationship of trust between each other. And that is why it’s so important that at difficult times in the world we can rely upon each other.

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It’s unclear whether Albanese’s meeting will directly secure any new fuel supplies for Australia, but he says the meeting is important to bolster the bilateral relationship.

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This is a relationship of trust and of mutual interest as well. We know that it is in both of our countries’ interests to engage with each other to make sure that we are both reliable suppliers.

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We have each other’s word and indeed we have each other’s back at this time.

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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then Nick Visser will take the news reins.

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Anthony Albanese says Singapore and Australia are “strategically aligned” on fuel and energy, ahead of his meeting with Lawrence Wong later today. More coming up in a minute.

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And locally, a search for a fisher who disappeared in waters off Coffs Harbour has been suspended, police said last night. More details coming.

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