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, has announced the ADF deployment into aged care has been extended to the end of September.There is a significant number of outbreaks, more than a thousand across the country. And so it’s important that we need to be doing everything we can to meet the challenge of that. It’s not just extending the military support to aged care, it’s actually increasing it up to 250 personnel through until the end of September. And it’s an important step, given what the sector faces.
So it’s a busy time. We have a lot to get through as agendas are laid out – and that doesn’t even take in everything that is going on outside of parliament.says the Albanese government would build parliamentary support for its climate bills if it was prepared to insert a climate trigger as part of its looming revamp of national environmental laws.
Ahead of the opening of the 47th parliament on Tuesday, the independent senator for the Australian Capital Territory said, which documented an alarming deterioration in Australia’s natural heritage, made a stark and compelling case for considering greenhouse gas emissions when new development proposals are assessed.
“Reading the state of the environment report, climate cuts across everything,” Pocock told Guardian Australia. “Climate change will affect every part of our lives. For me, [a climate trigger] really needs to be considered and needs to be in there because [the climate crisis is] clearly already having a huge impact”.
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