What we learned, Monday 8 June
And with that, we are going to put the blog to bed. Before we go, let’s recap today’s headlines.
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Labor insists it’s implementing “big changes” as voters appear to abandon the major parties, with new polling showing Pauline Hanson’s One Nation continuing its surge in popularity.
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Liberal shadow minister Andrew Hastie accused One Nation’s Pauline Hanson of being “Maga first”, intensifying the standoff between the two conservative parties.
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Former prime minister Julia Gillard issued a rare political comment after a Melbourne brothel owner admitted to funding advertisements targeting Victoria premier Jacinta Allan using the phrase “Ditch the Witch”.
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Anthony Albanese condemned the ‘ditch the witch’ billboards.
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The Victorian opposition leader, Jess Wilson, joined the chorus of politicians criticising the billboards.
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Prof Richard Scolyer, the world-renowned cancer researcher and former Australian of the year, died at the age of 59.
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The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says Richard Scolyer will have a state funeral after speaking with the late professor’s family this morning.
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The NSW premier, Chris Minns, says Richard Scolyer was a “great Australian, a pioneering scientist, and an inspiring example of grace in his final years”.
Returning to Clive Palmer’s interview on ABC’s Afternoon Briefing a short time ago.
Palmer has said we need to “leave it to the courts to decide” Ben Roberts-Smith’s guilt or innocence after being asked if he backed Pauline Hanson’s campaign to support the former soldier who has been accused of war crimes.
The One Nation leader said after the former Special Air Service Regiment soldier was arrested and charged with war crimes in April that she would not “abandon” him and remained “steadfast” in her support.
On Sunday, Hanson told a rally in Brisbane held in support of Roberts-Smith that the former soldier is a person “I respect and I admire” and that he was a “war hero”.
Asked if he supported Hanson’s campaign, Palmer said:
I think, you know, when someone’s been charged with a charge that’s before the court, you’d have to leave it to the courts to decide, and you know the very stability we have in this country is because we have a judicial system which is reliable … We may not always like the decision, but we always abide by those decisions.
We shouldn’t prejudice a fair hearing … Ben’s entitled to a fair hearing like any other Australian. He’s entitled to the presumption of innocence, and I don’t think it’s something that should be before the media at this stage.
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Labor criticism of ‘ditch the witch’ billboards ploy to protect Allan government, Canavan says
The Nationals leader Matt Canavan hasn’t condoned the “ditch the witch” campaign against the Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, saying he wouldn’t be “advertising in this particular way”.
But Canavan claims the chorus of Labor figures lining up to criticise the billboards – including Anthony Albanese and Julia Gillard – are doing so to protect Allan’s “failing government”.
Asked on Monday about the billboards, Canavan told reporters:
I wouldn’t be advertising in this particular way … However, I don’t think the attacks we’ve seen from the Labor party are disinterested. I think they’re just trying to protect what is a failing government down there. What would be better is if we had governments that do what they promised to do.”
The comments differentiate the Nationals from their major political rival, One Nation, whose leader Pauline Hanson told Allan via Sky News to “suck it up, sweetheart”.
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Clive Palmer noncommittal on support for One Nation
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has said he hasn’t had any official talks with One Nation about supporting the party and that his support depends on their policies.
Palmer, who is the chair of the United Australia party (UAP), appeared on ABC’s Afternoon Briefing a short time ago.
Asked if the UAP, which has one senator in parliament, would preference One Nation over the Liberal party at the next election, he said “depends what their policies are”.
He said:
The Liberal party doesn’t have any policies. You really can’t make a judgment about them, and you know it’s very, very disappointing, really.
The Liberal party brand, as I said, is a dead brand.
He also called “Barnaby Joyce’s housing policy” for One Nation a “disaster”.
Palmer was asked about Pauline Hanson being described by Liberal MP Andrew Hastie as “Maga first” and if it was true.
Palmer responded:
I think the most important thing is to be for Australia and for Australians, and I think Pauline Hanson has shown that she is for Australians, and she does believe in good policies for our country.
I don’t know why people want to bring overseas debates into the Australian domestic context.
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Liberal MP claims Pauline Hanson is ‘Maga first’
Liberal shadow minister Andrew Hastie has accused One Nation’s Pauline Hanson of being “Maga first”, intensifying the standoff between the two conservative parties.
Hastie also urged Australia to be “frank” with the United States, saying President Donald Trump’s operation had not gone to plan.
In comments first made to the Nine newspapers, Hastie was critical of Hanson for not speaking more strongly against the effects of the US war on Iran, and how repercussions were being felt by Australians. Speaking to a Nine newspapers podcast, Hanson suggested America’s war on Iran would be a success “if we can get the strait of Hormuz open, and we get the oil supply”.
Hastie criticised the One Nation leader’s stance.
He said:
Our first loyalty must be to the Australian people. Not to international institutions, not to ideology like Maga – but to the Australian people, first and foremost.
The United States is a close ally but we should always be frank with our friends, and speak up for the national interest. The truth is that President Trump’s war in Iran hasn’t gone to plan. That’s not controversial to say that.
Citing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, Hastie added:
Pauline Hanson’s problem is that she is Maga first, even when the Australian people suffer the economic consequences.
Hanson has attended events at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort with Gina Rinehart, and famously popped champagne in 2016 after Trump’s first election win, saying at the time: “I can see in Donald Trump a lot of me and what I stand for in Australia.”
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific urges Chris Bowen to halt new fossil fuel projects
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has urged Chris Bowen to lead by example and halt new fossil fuel projects in Australia as he leads negotiations at a major climate conference this week.
The federal climate and energy minister is in Germany this week leading negotiations at a climate conference where he has said he will progress action on energy security, clean energy and climate change.
Dr Simon Bradshaw, the COP31 lead at Greenpeace Australia Pacific and who is in Bonn for the conference, said:
Amid a global energy crisis, accelerating climate disasters and a looming super El Niño, the urgency to accelerate climate action and break free from fossil fuel dependence has never been clearer.
Minister Bowen has been telling Australia and the world that we are in a global ‘fossil fuel crisis’, and that unhooking from fossil fuels is fundamental both to tackling the climate crisis and to ensuring secure and affordable energy. It’s time to match that message with a clear vision and agenda for COP31 – one that has the transition away from fossil fuels at its heart.
Bradshaw said Australia has the opportunity and responsibility to build on the momentum of COP30 in Belém and should lead by example at home by immediately halting new fossil fuel projects.
Bowen said in a statement about the conference yesterday:
We are living through the biggest energy shock in history and the world agrees that clean energy and electrification is the future for a more sovereign and secure energy system.
Australia is leading – one in three households have rooftop solar and more than 420,000 batteries have been installed in homes, taking advantage of our clean and cheap power sources that can’t be interrupted by conflicts overseas. We want to bring this experience to the world stage.
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Coalition won’t run ‘small-target’ strategy
Facing a wipeout at the hands of Pauline Hanson and One Nation, the Coalition will present a full suite of policies to try to win back support before the next election, according to a veteran strategist.
Queensland Liberal National party senator James McGrath says the opposition won’t offer a small-target approach ahead of the 2028 poll, insisting well-developed policies addressing the government’s shortcomings and the challenges facing Australia is how to win back support.
Asked how the party would win back support, he told Sky:
Part of being in opposition is ensuring that you have those solutions.
So it is highlighting the failures of this Labor government, of which there are many, and then it is ensuring that we’ve got those policy responses, those substantive policy responses as a party of government.
There is a big difference between being a party of government, which the Coalition are, and being a smaller party, which is very easy to try and govern by bumper stickers.
He added: “I am saying that we need, and I think everybody in the Coalition, I think Angus [Taylor] and Jane [Hume] and Matt [Canavan] have said, that there’s not going to be a small target strategy over the next 18 months.”
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Hello, I’ll now be taking you through the rest of our live news coverage for today.
That’s all from me. Jordyn Beazley will take things from here. Take care.
An old quarry atop extinct volcano has been transformed into Sydney’s newest bushland park
Sydney has an epic new natural wonderland at the site of an old quarry abandoned since 2003.
The first stage of Hornsby Park opened in March. The main attraction is, of course, the quarry itself. A remnant of its working history remains in the form of an old crusher plant, fenced off from would-be climbers. Then there’s a new red metal viewing platform that’s stunning – even in a city famous for its vistas.
Jutting out 14 metres above the ground below, the 42-metre-long platform draws in visitors who can then look down to the turquoise water filling the lower level of the quarry.
Read more here if you’re a Sydneysider looking for an adventure:
Pilot survives after small plane crashes at airport near Melbourne
A small plane crashed on the runway at Moorabbin airport near Melbourne this morning, but the pilot was able to escape the wreckage.
Fire Rescue Victoria said in a statement officials responded to an incident on the runway at around 11.15am after a triple zero call. Firefighters arrived on scene minutes later to find a single engine aircraft had landed without the nose gear coming down.
The pilot was able to self-evacuate and was placed in the care of ambulance teams before being transported to the hospital.
The incident was deemed under control less than an hour later.
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Victorian opposition leader criticises billboard targeting Jacinta Allan
The Victorian opposition leader, Jess Wilson, has also joined the chorus of politicians criticising the billboards showing the premier, Jacinta Allan, and the phrase “ditch the witch”.
Speaking to reporters in Kew East this morning, she said:
It’s inappropriate, and that sort of language, that sort of discourse, should never be used in politics. We shouldn’t see this happening on our streets.
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Strong earthquake strikes southern Philippines; tsunami warnings issued
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook part of the southern Philippines early on Monday, sparking tsunami warnings on some regional coasts, collapsing some houses and killing at least one person.
“Many buildings were affected, but I cannot enumerate them now because we are busy with ongoing rescues,” Master Sergeant Robert Dagon of the General Santos City police told Agence France-Presse.
The Philippines office of civil defense warned people to avoid entering damaged homes or other infrastructure due to the threat of aftershocks.
Video verified by the Guardian shows the collapse of the upper floor of a Jollibee restaurant, a popular fast food chain, as well as the outer concrete walls of a commercial complex giving way in General Santos City, near the epicentre of the quake.
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PM condemns ‘ditch the witch’ billboards targeting Victorian premier Jacinta Allan
Earlier this morning, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, was asked about the truck billboards showing the Victoria premier, Jacinta Allan, and the phrase “ditch the witch”.
It comes about 15 years after then opposition leader Tony Abbott spoke at an anti-carbon tax rally with person holding a poster featuring the phrase “ditch the witch” visible behind him in reference to then prime minister Julia Gillard.
Albanese told reporters in Canberra two things worried him about the billboards:
What worries me is the misogyny that’s involved there. The sexist campaign targeting the Victorian premier is totally unacceptable and has no place in public life. We want to encourage women to enter public life and it should be a contest of ideas, not personal attacks.
But it comes in [the] context as well, as I’ve stood in this courtyard so many times and said, ‘Turn the temperature down’ … Some of the personal ways in which mainstream media as well has characterised people in public life has just got to stop. You can have a disagreement with people’s policy position by all means. You don’t have to denigrate people in such a personal way. It has got to stop
He said young girls shouldn’t have to see the premier depicted as a witch:
Just like the denigration that Julia Gillard suffered from as prime minister … it is just not on.
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Two arrested after separate incidents in Perth airport
Two passengers were charged over separate incidents at Perth airport on the same night in May.
Body scanning equipment at the airport showed one 47-year-old man had allegedly taped two small bags containing cannabis and methamphetamine to his chest and two glass pipes on 20 May.
He was charged with one count of possessing illicit drugs and one count of possessing drug paraphernalia.
Another man, in a separate incident on the same night, was charged by federal police with one count of disorderly behaviour in public after he allegedly boarded the flight heavily intoxicated, and was then removed from the flight by airline staff.
The 52-year-old man was accused of harassing a crew member and refusing a direction by police to leave the airport. Both are facing court in Perth today.
AFP detective acting superintendent Peter Brindal said:
It is not acceptable to behave poorly or carry illicit substances at any airport in Australia, and the AFP will intervene to protect members of the public and workers to ensure they feel safe.
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Reece Walsh recalled by Queensland for crucial State of Origin Game 2
Queensland’s coach, Billy Slater, has recalled Reece Walsh to the Maroons squad for next week’s crucial State of Origin Game 2, but it remains to be seen exactly what role the Broncos star will play in Melbourne.
Walsh, who was overlooked by selectors for Game 1 in Sydney, was brought back into the fold as Queensland’s 18th man on Monday, but whether he will play off the extended bench or in what position will be decided by Slater over the course of a 10-day camp.
“We think it’s the best thing for the footy team [if he is] on the bench there,” Slater said. “We know what Reece is capable of … I have a great relationship with Reece, and he’s built a really good game, and if needed, he’ll perform.”
Slater kept the door open to Walsh playing in the halves off the bench. Read more here:
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Third fatal shark attack in a month sparks warnings
An expert has warned that spear fishing is putting divers right where sharks hunt after three people engaging in the high-risk sport have died in just under a month.
The most recent victim, 35‑year‑old diver Daniel Turpin, died on Saturday after being bitten by a suspected 4.5‑metre shark while spearfishing with his family off Michaelmas Island near Albany.
Turpin’s death followed the killing of 38‑year‑old Perth father Steven Mattaboni off Rottnest Island on 16 May, and 39‑year‑old Queensland spearfisher Michael Jensz at Kennedy Shoal south of Cairns on 24 May.
Both WA attacks are believed to have involved great white sharks, while Jensz was thought to have been taken by a bull shark.
Daryl McPhee, a shark expert at Bond University, said spearfishers faced different and often higher risks than swimmers or surfers because of how and where they entered the water.
McPhee said:
You have the potential stimulus of fish in the water or fishing activity.
The risk of a bite on a spear fisherman being fatal is higher than on surfers or swimmers.
He said spearfishers were often bitten on the torso or head, with no board or other barrier between them and a large shark, making catastrophic injuries more likely when a serious bite occurred.
He said one of their key food sources, humpback whales, was increasing in number, and other prey such as Australian salmon had also risen, undermining claims sharks were turning to humans because their food had been fished out
Nationally, average shark‑related deaths have risen from about 1.65 fatalities a year between 2002 and 2019 to about four a year since 2020, with four deaths already recorded in 2026.
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NSW health minister says Richard Scolyer’s legacy is in ‘lives changed and saved’
The New South Wales health minister, Ryan Park, has said Prof Richard Scolyer’s legacy will remain in the lives he “changed and saved”.
Park said in a statement:
I am deeply saddened by the passing of Richard Scolyer AO.
Richard dedicated his life to cancer research becoming one of the world’s leading researchers in melanoma, improving the health outcomes of so many for generations to come.
I am so proud that to say that his work in the NSW health system, including at the Royal Prince Alfred hospital, formed just one chapter in his illustrious career.
His legacy will remain in the lives changed and saved.
My thoughts are with his family, loved ones and colleagues.
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We’ve been sharing tributes to Prof Richard Scolyer on the blog this morning. If you’d like to read his open letter, penned before his death, we’ve published it in its entirety below.
Joyce says Labor’s response to polling ‘scratchy’
One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce said this morning Labor’s response to the poll showed it was in trouble, AAP adds.
Joyce told Sunrise this morning the government’s response was “scratchy”, adding:
One Nation is a reflection of the sentiment of the people … (they) are over Labor and they’re over the Coalition.
Joyce said the nation needed to re-evaluate the number of people it “could absorb” amid a debate surrounding immigration as housing supply comes under further strain.
Labor gets the ‘message’ after One Nation poll, Plibersek says
Labor insists it’s implementing “big changes” as voters appear to abandon the major parties, with new polling showing Pauline Hanson’s One Nation continuing its surge in popularity, AAP reports.
The latest Newspoll recorded a four-point rise in One Nation’s primary vote to 31%, while Labor dipped one point to 30% and the Coalition fell two points to 18%.
“We see those polls and we get the message, which is we need big changes in this country, and that’s exactly what Labor is delivering,” Tanya Plibersek, the social services minister, told Sunrise this morning. She went on:
We agree this country needs to be changed, so that it’s fairer, so people get paid more, taxed less, they get the health and education services that they deserve.
Pauline Hanson’s been around politics for three decades and she still has got a list of complaints and no real policies for change.
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Police seek to identify further man in investigation into Chris Baghsarian’s alleged murder
The investigation into the alleged mistaken-identity kidnapping and murder of grandfather Chris Baghsarian has widened as police release an image of a man they are seeking to identify, AAP reports.
The image of the man was released on Monday, almost four months after the 85-year-old was abducted from his home in Sydney’s north in the early hours of 13 February
Four men have been charged and remain before the courts.
On Monday, police called on anyone with information about the man, seen in a hardware store in Leppington at 7.39am on Wednesday, 11 February, to contact Crime Stoppers.
Investigators allege Baghsarian was killed on the night of 14 February at a makeshift stronghold in Dural, about a half-hour drive from where his remains were found.
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A Sydney flat with a broken shower still costs nearly $1m
Lena and Linly just bought their first home at a $28,000 discount. Not one investor bid against them.
The couple, who asked that their last names not be published, were successful at the first auction they bid at, after six weeks of looking at properties.
The two-bedroom flat in Ashfield in Sydney’s inner west passed in below the $950,000 reserve on Saturday, with the 31-year-olds negotiating a $922,000 final price.
To make it into the market, Linly and Lena needed not just steady incomes but Linly’s parents’ help, the federal 5% deposit scheme and New South Wales’ stamp duty discount. Nor have they ended up in the perfect place.
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The fight to save Australia’s ‘incredibly captivating’ endangered spiny crayfish
The Conondale spiny crayfish – one of 52 known species of spiny crayfish unique to Australia – is endangered.
In 2019 only three appeared on the country’s threatened species list. Now there are 36, with more heading for the list.
“Most Australians are not aware of them,” says Dr Nick Whiterod, an ecologist and crayfish expert at the Coorong Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) Research Centre and Adelaide University.
“People could be water skiing or whatever and have no idea there might be thousands of crayfish under their feet.
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Richard Scolyer will have a state funeral
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says Richard Scolyer will have a state funeral after speaking with the late professor’s family this morning.
Albanese said in a press conference:
Professor Scolyer walked his uncertain path, as he called it, with courage, determination, and grace. And his legacy will always with us.
He continued to work right up until the very end, until it was impossible, but spent … his final days with family, still in good humour. And with the strength, determination, and character that defined what is an extraordinary legacy.
May he rest in peace.
Is Australian music at risk of extinction? Here’s what the data tells us
The music that charts in Australia has changed considerably over the past couple of decades – rock is out, country is in and old tracks are new again.
But some trends remain – like the slow decline in the Australian appetite for Australian music, from as much as 30% of the annual chart in the early 1990s to low single digits.
There were only five Australian artists in the annual Australian Recording Industry Association Top 100 singles chart last year. This is actually a slight improvement from a few years ago; in 2023, just three Australians made the annual Aria chart.
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Scolyer a ‘man of warmth and hope’, NSW premier says
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, says Richard Scolyer was a “great Australian, a pioneering scientist, and an inspiring example of grace in his final years”.
The premier said in a statement this morning:
Because of Richard’s brilliant research, advanced Melanoma went from a death sentence to a curable disease. As a result of that breakthrough, in a country with the highest melanoma rates on earth, thousands of Australians are alive today. …
After being diagnosed with brain cancer, Australians got to know Richard as a man of warmth and hope. He faced his disease with optimism, with a smile, and with a deep sense of purpose. Just a few months ago, living with stage four brain cancer, he was still riding his bike through Tasmania, raising money for a cure.
In the end, life is the ultimate legacy. And thanks to Richard Scolyer, Australians have been given more life, more time, more hope.
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Tributes keep pouring in for Richard Scolyer
Sydney’s Inner West council says it will create a permanent memorial to Prof Richard Scolyer, saying the council had lost “one of our greatest citizens” and a “local hero”.
Darcy Byrne, the mayor, said Scolyer’s legacy “will be measured in the lives that he has saved, it is his brave and tender spirit that we will all miss”, adding in a statement:
The selflessness and compassion with which Professor Scolyer approached his own very sad diagnosis touched the hearts of everyone in the Inner West and people across the nation. …
Through his work and his example, Richard gave our people hope that we can keep walking forward through adversity. In doing so he has become a legend, whose story will be handed down from generation to generation.
No doubt Richard’s life’s work will inspire young Australians to serve the public and our nation in the decades to come.
Older Australians seeking new RSV vaccine for dangerous illness
Older Australians are lining up for a new federally funded vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus, as health leaders warn the common winter illness is far more dangerous than “just a bad cold”.
During RSV Awareness Week there’s a fresh push from the Australian Medical Association and the Immunisation Foundation of Australia for older Australians and pregnant women to add the vaccination to their winter protection plan.
The virus can cause severe illness, hospitalisation and death, particularly in babies, older Australians and people with underlying conditions.
“Too many people still think RSV is just a bad cold, but for some Australians it can be far more serious than that,” the association’s president Danielle McMullen said.
RSV vaccines have been added to the national immunisation program, with free jabs now available for people 75 and over, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 60 and over.
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Julia Gillard ‘disgusted’ by ‘ditch the witch’ ads targeting Victorian premier
Former prime minister Julia Gillard issued a rare political comment after a Melbourne brothel owner admitted to funding advertisements targeting Victoria premier Jacinta Allan using the phrase “Ditch the Witch”.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports the billboards were paid in part by Franco Puleo, who told the paper the ads weren’t a “political” statement, but a reflection of “basically what the Victorian public feel”.
Gillard said she was “disgusted” to see the phrase used again after being subject to it herself.
This was a slogan used against me as prime minister fifteen years ago.
It was roundly condemned then. In the years since, my view has been that things were slowly improving for women in politics. More women are leading, sexism hasn’t gone away but it is less ferocious in the political mainstream, though social media continues to be a toxic sewer.
I am saddened to see that improvement cast aside and this tired old trope resurrected.
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King's Birthday top honours awarded
The former leader of the Australian Democrats Natasha Stott Despoja has been appointed a companion of the Order of Australia on the King’s birthday honours roll, alongside the former Liberal premier of Tasmania Will Hodgman and Australian-American mathematician Prof Terence Tao.
The acclaimed radio presenter and political correspondent Fran Kelly has been appointed officer for distinguished service to broadcast journalism, the advancement of social justice and equality and for advocacy for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Lauded writer Gerald Murnane has also been appointed an officer of the order of Australia, as have former NSW premier Morris Iemma and SA premier Robert Kerin. Pat Turner, the convener of the Coalition of Peaks – the body which overseas the Closing the Gap goals – and the longest-serving CEO of the now defunct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Commission, has also been appointed.
Read more here.
Prime minister pays tribute to Richard Scolyer
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, paid tribute to Prof Richard Scolyer this morning, saying Australia has lost “our brightest lights and one of our biggest hearts”.
Albanese said in a statement:
Every day, this remarkable man – the cancer specialist who became his own subject – took us into his confidence, and he lifted us all in the process.
Richard’s journey was difficult and confronting. “My uncertain path”, as he termed it with characteristic understatement.
Yet it was one he travelled with courage, determination, and a grace that never ceased to be remarkable. The way he shared it with us was an act of profound generosity. He showed us what it means to hope, and to keep searching for solutions. He showed us how to stand firm against fear and stay true to yourself.
Now Richard’s journey is done, yet his legacy will always be with us.
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Vale Richard Scolyer
Prof Richard Scolyer, the world-renowned cancer researcher and former Australian of the year, has died at the age of 59.
Scolyer’s family shared a statement the eminent pathologist and melanoma expert penned before his final stages of illness.
“My final message to all Australians is to say thank you for your outpouring of love and support for me and my family,” Scolyer said in the statement.
“Those of you I met during my travels as joint 2024 Australian of the Year, my amazing online community which spans many countries, and of course my hometown Tasmanians – you’ve laughed with me, cried with me, and provided encouragement and support to keep going just when I needed it most,” he said.
One Nation support surpasses Labor in Newspoll
Support for Anthony Albanese has slumped while One Nation has edged ahead of Labor as the country’s most popular political party in a Newspoll published by The Australian.
The survey showed a four-point rise in One Nation’s primary vote to 31% while Labor dipped one point to 30% and the Coalition gave up two points to 18%.
The Newspoll also registered a one-point decline for the Greens to 11% while backing for those in the “others” category – minor parties and independents – remained unchanged on 10 per cent.
The survey sampled 1,240 voters online, has a 3.2-point margin of error and was conducted between Monday and Thursday last week.
It echoes the results of a Redbridge Group/Accent Research poll published a week ago that had One Nation on 31%, Labor on 28% and the Coalition on 20%.
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Scientist and former Australian of the year Richard Scolyer has died after a lengthy public battle with brain cancer. He was 59.
Today is the King’s Birthday public holiday in the ACT, New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, with top honours to mark the day awarded to Natasha Stott Despoja, Will Hodgman and Terence Tao.
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