What we learned; Thursday 12 September
Here is a wrap of the day’s politics news, in case you missed a bit:
Anthony Albanese announced a major reform to aged care, including a new support at home program by 2035, changes to affect the funding availability of residential aged care, and new laws to protect older Australians in care.
The Albanese government will cancel the awards and honours of a small group of former military officers who commanded others that were accused of war crimes. Richard Marles says the award removal stems from “credible information” in the Breteron report.
The Australian Electoral Commission confirmed it will abolish the electorate of North Sydney, now held by independent Kylea Tink.
Tanya Plibersek labelled anti-war protests in Melbourne as “disgraceful” and condemned violence against police. Disrupt Land Forces, a coalition of activist groups involved in the protests, criticised the police response, saying they had been “attacked”, including with pepper spray and “rubber bullets”.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission has passed into law.
And you can read a wrap of question time from Amy Remeikis here.
Thats all for today. See you back on the blog tomorrow.
Updated
NSW police an ‘escalating factor’ in mental health crisis call outs, internal review finds
New South Wales police have admitted that when they attend mental health incidents they are often “an escalating factor” and it would be better if experts were deployed instead.
An internal review conducted by NSW police has called for better resourcing so officers are only involved if a crime has occurred or a person is at immediate risk of serious harm.
A summary of the review, released today, said officers would be “unlikely” to be able to properly respond to mental health incidents even if they received significantly more training.
Read the full story from Tamsin Rose and Catie McLeod here:
