Australian News Live: MPs who left Nationals over vocal stance urge ‘skeptics’ to open up | Australian News

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Australian professor held hostage in PNG’s remote highlands

An Australian professor is taken hostage in a remote highland area. Papua New Guineatogether with three other researchers.

The professor, whom Guardian Australia chose not to name, was reportedly taken by an armed group demanding a ransom payment from PNG and the Australian government.

It is believed that the professor was conducting research in the area with graduates of the University of Papua New Guinea and guides.

PNG Prime Minister, James Marape, said they had been contacted and confirmed the report. He told reporters in Port Moresby today:

I want to inform the families of the hostages we worked for.

Contact was made with those in the bush through a secondary source.

They show the ransom. We don’t demand ransom, but we are very diligent and careful with this because lives are in danger, lives are in danger.

Skeptics will be proven wrong about the proposal, says a former lawmaker who quit the party because he opposed indigenous voices to Congress.

Andrew ZeeHaving left the party in December and now sitting on the bench as an independent, he joined the Australian Indigenous Affairs Minister. Linda Barneyin rural NSW as the Yes Campaign is launched.

Gee said those who opposed the High Court’s Mabo ruling, which recognized indigenous land rights, have been proven wrong about its implications, and the same will happen to voices.

He told Orange reporters today:

Skeptics will realize that, once this voice is implemented, this is not a scary moment, not a bad moment for our history, but an uplifting moment for our history.

We want this to be a true community conversation and a moment in our history to celebrate, not divide.

I hope the skeptics approach this with an open mind and an open mind.

Former Nationals Leader, David Littleproudtold Sky News that the voice creates an extra layer of bureaucracy that doesn’t help create better outcomes for indigenous peoples.

However, Bernie called the comments “misinformation” and “threatening.”

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The Reserve Bank has offered treasurers the option of using Prince Charles on the five-dollar bill.

of Reserve Bank of Australia Proposed to Federal Treasury Secretary Jim Chalmers the choice of whether the new five-dollar bill will feature Charles III Alternatively, documents reveal that the design honors Indigenous history.

Documents published by the RBA under Freedom of Information on its website right to knowcentral bank governors, Philip Lowetold Chalmers in October that the government’s wishes would be a major factor in the decision.

In an email to the Treasurer on October 7, 2022, Lowe said:

If the government thinks the king’s portrait should be on the five-dollar bill, the bank will proceed accordingly, looking for a suitable image from the palace.

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Robodet victim’s mother who died by suicide ‘sabotaged’ by government

The mother of a suicidal Robodet victim told the Royal Commission that she had been thwarted by the previous Union government because she had been seeking answers for more than five years.

Jennifer Millerhis son, Lys Cauzo He died on January 26, 2017 while facing Centrelink’s debt worth about $17,000.

She said she wrote a letter to the former welfare minister Alan Tudge – His response said his department acted adequately on the case with only a few “minor” errors – the Federal Ombudsman and the Victorian Coroner.

Only through the Royal Commission did Miller have access to key documents that revealed the absence of a “vulnerability index” in Cauzzo’s Centrelink files despite his pre-existing mental health condition. . This may have prevented him from receiving those debts, which Miller described as “gross” rather than “minor” negligence.

The key question for Miller was whether Cauzzo’s debt was calculated illegally in the same manner as the hundreds of thousands of other victims of the scheme.

Services Australia, formerly the Department of Human Services, was accused by a federal judge in 2021 of overseeing an ongoing class action lawsuit against robodebt. Didn’t let Miller know if the debt was illegal.

The Royal Commission said on Monday that Cauzzo’s debt had been refunded and was now “zero.”This means it was calculated using the illegal average income method

Miller also eventually learned via internal documents provided to the Royal Commission that the Cauzzo vulnerability indicators were automatically removed from the files. Her attempts to obtain such documents, including freedom of information processing, had previously been blocked. However, in the investigation, she was told that she did not provide the coroner with several documents related to this fact.

Miller said he felt he had “disappointed the squirrels” during his years of searching for answers, but was “certainly disappointed with the system.”

Miller told the committee on Monday:

I think it’s crazy that they’ve been trying so long to stop me being nagging…everything has gotten so sly, everyone was lying and hiding each other’s backs. When I saw all the information…it was heartbreaking, but it was also proof that I knew the truth.

royal commissioner, Catherine Holmes AC SC, thanked Miller for his courage. “It’s a tragic story,” she said.