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Good morning
Thank you very much to Martin for starting us off so early and bringing us all up to date.
You’ve got Amy Remeikis with you for most of day now and I’ll take you through all the news of the House of Representatives sitting day, as well as estimates.
That’s right – it’s budget estimates time in the senate, which means a lot of eyebrow raising, statements posed as questions, questions posed as answers, and hopefully, a bit of transparency where it is needed.
We’ll also continue to follow everything which is happening across politics in general.
So grab your coffee (number two over here) and get comfortable – ready?
Let’s jump in.
Government panel to investigate violence against women
The federal government is convening an expert panel into violence against women, which will recommend new approaches to preventing gender-based violence.
Journalist Jess Hill and author Anne Summers have been named on the panel, alongside academics, advocates and other experts. The Panel will be co-convened by Australia’s domestic family and sexual violence commissioner, Micaela Cronin, the executive director of the commonwealth office for women, Padma Raman, and the secretary of the Department of Social Services, Ray Griggs.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese said governments “need to act, but we also recognise that this is an issue for the whole of society”. He said in a statement:
Women should not be responsible for ending violence against women. This rapid review will bring together experts and provide practical advice to Government to help us end the scourge of domestic violence.
Minister for women Katy Gallagher said the review, which is to provide a report by year’s end, would give advice to the federal government and national cabinet.
The review, meeting for the first time today, will consider new approaches to violence prevention across different groups of society, as well as risk factors and pathways toward violence.
It will also consider stronger accountability and consequences for perpetrators.
Social services minister Amanda Rishworth said “we must have a considered focus on perpetrator intervention and prevention activities”.
As mentioned at the top, today’s Full Story podcast is by Nour Haydar from inside the newly opened Parramatta Women’s Shelter.
With shelters struggling to keep up with the demand for crisis housing, she speaks to chief executive of Women’s Community Shelters Annabelle Daniel about the crisis.
You can listen here:
And she has also written a feature about what she found at the shelter and how it is helping women and often their children to rebuild their lives.
Read her full piece here:
Australia to give $2.5m to help with PNG landslide response
The Australian government will give $2.5m in humanitarian assistance to help Papua New Guinea respond to the Enga province landslide, which has claimed the lives of at least 670.
In an announcement last night, the Albanese government said emergency relief supplies, such as shelter, hygiene kits and specific support for women and children would be provided.
Australia would also send technical experts to offer incident management assistance, support geohazard assessments and to help with early recovery efforts.
Yesterday, Papua New Guinea’s national disaster centre asked the United Nations for international assistance, reportedly saying the landslide in the country’s remote north could have buried more than 2,000 people.
The deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, said Australians will be thinking of PNG at this very difficult time. He said:
As a close neighbour and friend, we will be doing all we can to provide support. Australia’s defence force is working closely with the PNG Defence Force to assist with the response. This work is yet another demonstration of the close partnership between our nations and militaries.
Here’s our latest report on the disaster:
Welcome
Good morning and welcome to the live blog. My name is Martin Farrer and I’ll be bringing you the best of the overnight stories before Amy Remeikis takes over in a bit.
The Albanese government is assembling an expert panel to examine the rise in violence against women and will recommend new approaches to try to curb the problem. There have been a spate of high-profile incidents this year, most recently last week’s double murder in Perth of Jennifer Petelczyc and her daughter Gretl. We have more details coming up, plus a feature and podcast by Full Story presenter Nour Haydar on a new women’s shelter in Parramatta in western Sydney.
As the federal parliament returns for two weeks, our environment editor Adam Morton bemoans the lack of clear policies to tackle the climate crisis and issues an impassioned plea for a change. On the one hand the government appears confused and wedged by the gas industry – especially in Western Australia where Labor is in power and can’t turn against such a powerful lobby. And on the other hand, Coalition hasn’t even got a policy.
Australia will send technical experts and $2.5m in initial aid to Papua New Guinea as the death toll continues to rise after a catastrophic landslide that destroyed a village. PNG’s disaster centre said more than 2,000 people had been buried alive by Friday’s landslide in remote Enga province. Under the Australian aid package experts will provide incident management assistance, support geo-hazard assessments and help early recovery efforts, with the Australian defence force also assisting. More coming up.
