The day that was, Wednesday 15 November
And with that, we are going to put the blog to bed. Before we go, let’s recap the headlines:
The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has been accused of “weaponising antisemitism” during a fiery debate in question time.
Clare O’Neil says strict visa conditions have been imposed on immigration detainees who were released following a high court decision. Meanwhile, here’s our analysis of the opposition’s emotive (and effective) attack over their release as Labor moves to rush through emergency legislation over the matter.
Scott Morrison has defended Aukus and denies lying to Emmanuel Macron.
Anthony Albanese is on his way to the Apec summit, hosted by President Biden, in San Francisco.
The deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, says Israel has a “right to act against Hamas” and any prospective ceasefire can’t be one-sided.
The trade minister, Don Farrell, is “very confident” that the final Chinese trade restrictions will be removed by Christmas.
Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, has failed to pay a $610,500 fine.
And Optus has confirmed its parent company Singtel was responsible for last week’s massive outage.
Thank you for spending part of your day with us – we will be back tomorrow to do it all again.
Updated
Tiwi Traditional Owners secure injunction ahead of Santos pipeline challenge
Tiwi Traditional Owners have secured an injunction to prevent Santos starting work near the Tiwi Islands on its Barossa gas export pipeline while their case is underway.
The court has imposed an injunction until mid-January to restrain all works on the pipeline, except for in an area about 75km north of the Tiwi Islands and further.
Jikilaruwu man Simon Munkara lodged civil enforcement proceedings late last month asking the court for an injunction to prevent work going ahead on the pipeline.
He argued the pipeline poses a significant new impact or risk to Tiwi underwater cultural heritage that was not assessed in the original environment plan for the pipeline that was approved by the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority.
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