QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has opened up to a couple of Kiwi secrets after touching down in New Zealand. Morrison is visiting Aotearoa on a 24-hour trip for the annual Australia-New Zealand Leaders Forum, alongside Jacinda Ardern. Morrison is no stranger to New Zealand, which he refers to as Australia’s “family.” The Liberal leader worked in New Zealand’s capital before he entered politics, spending two years in the Wellington bureaucracy heading up the Office of Tourism and Sport. This is his third visit as prime minister. The first was to Auckland for the same forum in February 2019,…
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QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has opened up to a couple of Kiwi secrets after touching down in New Zealand. Morrison is visiting Aotearoa on a 24-hour trip for the annual Australia-New Zealand Leaders Forum, alongside Jacinda Ardern. Morrison is no stranger to New Zealand, which he refers to as Australia’s “family.” The Liberal leader worked in New Zealand’s capital before he entered politics, spending two years in the Wellington bureaucracy heading up the Office of Tourism and Sport. This is his third visit as prime minister. The first was to Auckland for the same forum in February 2019,…
MELBOURNE, Australia — This week marks the start of when Australians can start getting their second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine after it first started rolling out 12 weeks ago. Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt and his Department of Health secretary Brendan Murphy both received their second shots on May 30. He claimed that the second dose, 12 weeks after the first jab, is an indispensable part of the vaccine program. There is a three-week gap for those receiving the Pfizer shot. He claimed that 4.2 million Australians have had a vaccination so far after a record of almost 600,000 were…
MELBOURNE, Australia — This week marks the start of when Australians can start getting their second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine after it first started rolling out 12 weeks ago. Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt and his Department of Health secretary Brendan Murphy both received their second shots on May 30. He claimed that the second dose, 12 weeks after the first jab, is an indispensable part of the vaccine program. There is a three-week gap for those receiving the Pfizer shot. He claimed that 4.2 million Australians have had a vaccination so far after a record of almost 600,000 were…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — There will be no change to Australia’s policy of criminal and character-based deportations arising from New Zealand’s latest protestations on the issue. And furthermore, Ardern detects no community push to send Australia’s most notorious criminal — Brenton Tarrant — back home to serve his life jail term. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern brought up deportations once more in formal talks with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on May 31. “Prime Minister Morrison is under no doubt as to my views on these matters,” Ardern said. “And likewise,” Morrison replied. Brenton Tarrant listens as Crown prosecutor Mark…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — There will be no change to Australia’s policy of criminal and character-based deportations arising from New Zealand’s latest protestations on the issue. And furthermore, Ardern detects no community push to send Australia’s most notorious criminal — Brenton Tarrant — back home to serve his life jail term. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern brought up deportations once more in formal talks with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on May 31. “Prime Minister Morrison is under no doubt as to my views on these matters,” Ardern said. “And likewise,” Morrison replied. Brenton Tarrant listens as Crown prosecutor Mark…
MELBOURNE, Australia — As the Victorian citizens of Australia set record testing numbers and contact tracers make “exceptional progress”, Labor has sharpened its criticism of Canberra’s role in failing to prevent another lockdown. Five new Covid-19 cases were reported in the state on May 29, taking the outbreak — sparked by a hotel quarantine breach in South Australia — to 35 cases. Acting Victorian Premier James Merlino is among many pointing the finger at the federal government, saying a successful vaccine rollout and fit-for-purpose quarantine facilities may have changed Victoria’s fate. There was similar criticism from Queensland’s Deputy Premier Steven Miles…
WOLLONGONG, Australia — Australian authorities have banned Qatari-owned bulk carrier Maryam from entering any Australian port for three years after major safety and maintenance issues were identified, along with crew welfare abuses. The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), which represents hundreds of transport workers’ trade unions worldwide, claims Maryam was detained in Port Kembla in Wollongong in February. Inspections by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority identified 36 safety, crew welfare, and maintenance breaches, with 23 seafarers owed tens of thousands of dollars in outstanding wages. A lack of fuel left the vessel without lighting, air-conditioning, or power for refrigerators as authorities delivered urgent food and fuel supplies…
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s senior federal government minister Angus Taylor is hailing “breakneck” renewables growth for Australia edging closer to reaching its 2030 reduction target. A marked rise in renewable energy supply and Covid-curbed transport industry activity has helped to drive down Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions to their lowest levels on record. The National Inventory has tracked the nation’s emissions since 1990 and the March quarterly update shows 499 million tonnes of carbon dioxide were released last year to December. That represents a five percent or 26.1 million tonnes reduction from the previous 12 months, said the report published late on May…
The Israel Philharmonic is no stranger to embracing causes: it was founded in 1936 as a safe place for Jewish musicians fleeing the perils of the Holocaust. Now, 95 years later, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is taking a stand on climate change: they are aiming to become the first major orchestra to be carbon-neutral — and expect to do so by the end of 2022 by offsetting all their CO2 emissions, through planting trees that absorb the same amount of gas they emit. A philharmonic orchestra is hardly the epitome of a polluter. But one of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s…