The Federal Government will write to the United Nations to reject its opposition of the Adani coal mine, saying it had displayed a fundamental misunderstanding of Australian law.
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‘Hysterical' campaign against Adani ignores Queenslanders ‘desperate’ for jobs | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Andrew Bolt says the activists against the Adani mine are ignoring unemployed Queenslanders that are ‘desperate’ for jobs.\n\nMr Bolt says the mine would generate 8000 jobs, earning Australia millions of dollars in royalties and taxes, that could be used for hospitals, schools and the police force.\n\nThe Queensland Labor government is more than $70 billion in debt, and Mr Bolt says the profits for the mine would benefit taxpayers looking at the state’s ‘dangerous deficit’.\n\n\n\n\n
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Thousands apply for a job at Qld's Adani coal mine | Sky News AustraliaMore than 14,000 people have expressed interest in working at the Adani Carmichael mine in Queensland. \n\nMore than 5,000 people who lodged interest were unemployed, and 4,000 of those unemployed for more than a month. \n\nWith above six per cent unemployment in the state, Queensland has the second highest unemployment rate in the country. \n\nIf the mine is approved, it is expected to create 1,500 direct jobs and 6,750 supporting jobs. \n\n\n\n
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Government will still have final say on asylum seekers: Coleman | Sky News AustraliaThe Prime Minister has bowed to demands from the Opposition to appoint an independent review panel to vet asylum seekers transferring to Australia. \n\nThe surrender, first reported by The Australian, comes amid a push from Labor, the Greens and the crossbench to pass a bill which would strip the government of its decision making powers over medical transfers.\n\nImmigration Minister David Coleman has told Sky News the panel will review decisions but the government will still make the final call, saying ‘ultimately it is very important that ministerial decision-making stays in place’. \n\n\n
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Local council is ‘most easily corruptible’ level of government | Sky News AustraliaColumnist for The Australian, Nick Cater, says that local council is the ‘most easily corruptible level of government, due to their ‘instant decision on planning regulations’, and that corruption is much harder at a state level.\n\nOne Nation member Malcolm Roberts says council corruption is often the case in Queensland and New South Wales, due to unions and private company donations.\n\nOn Tuesday the High Court found that laws which limited union spending on election campaigns were ‘unjustified’, while the Queensland State Government recently passed a law prohibiting property developers donating to political parties.
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Labor governments 'don’t reward' those who work hard | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peter Gleeson says the Labor Party doesn't ‘reward those who work hard’, instead ‘rewarding those who work less’, in response to Labor’s franking credit policy.\n\nThe Prime Minister has branded Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen ‘arrogant’ after he said older Australians opposed to Labor’s the plan were welcome to vote against the party. \n\nMore than 50,000 voters could lose up to $2,700 a year under the plan, The Australian reported on Thursday. \n\nMr Gleeson says that people who ‘work hard’ and become self-funded retirees should be rewarded, not punished.\n\n\n\n\n\n
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McGowan reportedly 'wavering' on the government's asylum seeker compromise | Sky News AustraliaSky News Political Editor David Speers says Independent MP Cathy McGowan is 'wavering' on whether to support the government's proposal to grant medical professionals more oversight on refugee transfers from offshore processing sites.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison says the government is willing to allow an independent expert review panel to be part of the process to assess whether an asylum seeker, who is held in an offshore processing facility, should be allowed to travel to Australia for medical treatment.\n\nThe concession comes as the Coalition faces the prospect of losing a vote on the floor of parliament next week after the Greens, Labor and Independents banded together in the Senate to approve a bill that would strip the government of its decision-making powers over medical transfers.
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