Good morning. The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, has won a confidence vote despite an unexpectedly large rebellion in his party, energy companies have been urged to find more gas for Australia and the RBA weighs up the risk of “climb shock” ahead of interest rates decision.
Boris Johnson has won a no-confidence vote against him, with a majority of Tory MPs supporting his leadership, however more than 40% of his party voted against him. There were 211 votes in favour and 148 votes against in a contest that will leave him severely weakened. The prime minister retained the support of most of his colleagues after promising tax cuts in a speech on the economy next week.
The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has denounced an incident in which a Chinese fighter plane forced an Australian plane into a dangerous manoeuvre. China’s actions were “an act of aggression and a dangerous act”, Albanese told reporters in Jakarta on Monday evening. The Australian government published a statement on Sunday saying that on 26 May, “a RAAF P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft was intercepted by a Chinese J-16 fighter aircraft during a routine maritime surveillance activity in international airspace in the South China Sea region”. The statement added: “The intercept resulted in a dangerous manoeuvre which posed a safety threat to the P-8 aircraft and its crew.”
The new resources minister, Madeleine King, has asked companies to find more gas to direct into Australian markets as she considers pulling the so-called gas trigger. However, King has also claimed more coal supply was key to combating a brewing energy crisis. The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, called on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to investigate factors behind spiking energy prices, saying the new Labor government was mulling “a number of actions” to address electricity and gas concerns.
The Reserve Bank faces a delicate task of raising the interest rate fast enough to quell inflation, but without causing so much “climb shock” to household budgets that the economy stalls, economists say. The central bank board meets on Tuesday with economists almost evenly split between tipping the cash rate will be lifted either by 25 basis points to 0.6%, or 40 basis to 0.75%, according to Bloomberg. Any rate rise would be the RBA’s first back-to-back monthly increase in 12 years.
Australia
Rising fuel, food and energy prices have people meticulously tracking their spending and struggling to make rent, with welfare recipients hit hardest.
Anthony Albanese has confirmed Australia will attend the G20 meeting in Bali in November despite Russia’s controversial attendance at the summit. The prime minister also pledged to assist Indonesia as host of the summit. With some world leaders signalling they may not attend the event if Russia comes, Indonesia as the summit host has arranged for the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to make a virtual appearance.
Welfare advocates have warned job seekers may have their payments suspended under a new points-based mutual obligations system because of “unnecessarily onerous” requirements.
A fresh battle over the underfunding of public schools is brewing, with Victoria and New South Wales vowing to push the new Albanese government to lift its contributions to close an investment shortfall.
Victoria is set to establish an independent authority to help oversee Australia’s first treaty negotiations between a government and First Nations groups. The minister for Aboriginal affairs, Gabrielle Williams, will introduce the treaty authority bill to parliament on Tuesday.
The incoming federal environment minister has been urged to block the construction of a fertiliser plant on a world heritage-nominated site in Western Australia, and to act swiftly to stop the multinational company behind the plans from removing Indigenous rock art.
The world
More than 100 days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China’s strategic assessment of the conflict is becoming clearer: it does not wish to be cast in the same light as Russia, but the war has deepened Beijing’s mistrust of the west.
The current outbreak of monkeypox in the UK has topped 300 cases, official figures reveal, as contacts who have a rash with blisters are asked to get in touch with a sexual health clinic.
Fears are growing over the safety of a British journalist and a Brazilian Indigenous expert who have disappeared in one of the remotest corners of the Amazon days after receiving threats.
Protesters in Paris are celebrating having saved more than 40 trees – one of them more than 200 years old – from being chopped down or threatened with damage around the Eiffel Tower as part of a €72m scheme to create a huge garden.
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Media roundup
The defence minister, Richard Marles, says he doubts Australia will be able to build its first nuclear submarine by the previous government’s deadline of 2038, accepting an interim fleet of conventional boats may be needed to avoid a serious capability gap in the nation’s defences, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. As many as 5,000 members of the mafia have been identified in Australia, and the Australian federal police say Italian organised crime is responsible for smuggling in illicit drugs, reports the Australian.
Coming up
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese continues his visit to Indonesia, while back home the Reserve Bank meets to decide on the cash rate. The federal police will hold a press conference on money laundering and organised crime in Australia. Hearings continue in the disability royal commission.
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