 | | 11/12/2023 Changes to ‘broken’ migration system; Cop28 goes down to the wire; winter looms in Gaza |
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| | | Good morning. Labor is looking to seize the initiative on migration, with a new strategy to overhaul what the government says is Australia’s “broken” temporary migration program. It aims to crack down on the use of student visas as a “back door” entry for employers looking to import low-skilled workers into Australia. In Gaza, winter is coming quickly. Almost all healthcare has collapsed, and rain storms and powerful winds are threatening to make an already catastrophic situation even worse as Israel’s ground offensive continues. Leaders at Cop28 are being told to embrace compromise as an impasses threatens to derail the climate summit’s final meetings – and Australia’s Chris Bowen has called for the end of fossil fuels use. Plus: Radical libertarian Javier Milei has been sworn in as Argentina’s new president. |
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| World | | Israel-Hamas war | People across Gaza are dreading the onset of winter as the threat of disease rises amid overcrowded and unsanitary conditions; The UN chief, António Guterres, vows to go on seeking a ceasefire despite the US veto; Joe Biden is under scrutiny after bypassing Congress to supply tank shells to Israel. | Cop28 summit | The climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has told Cop28 talks overnight that the world must “face this fact head on: if we are to keep 1.5C alive, fossil fuels have no ongoing role to play in our energy systems”. The summit’s president, Sultan Al Jaber, has urged nations to be flexible in final meetings amid an impasse over whether to phase out or phase down fossil fuels. | Javier Milei |Argentina’s new president has vowed to lead his country out of decades of “decadence and decline” as a who’s who of the global far right assembled to celebrate his inauguration. | Exclusive | Human rights groups are investigating a death at a Del Monte pineapple farm in Kenya after a man’s body was found in a dam last month, amid allegations of brutality by security guards. | Mahsa Amini | Iran has blocked the family of the Kurdish-Iranian woman, whose death in custody sparked protests, from travelling to France to receive the EU’s top human rights prize on her behalf. |
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| | | Lenore Taylor | | Editor, Guardian Australia |
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| Full Story | | Behind Australia’s pro-Palestine protests Around Australia, pro-Palestine protests against the Israel-Hamas war are growing, with sit-ins, school strikes, vigils and weekly mass demonstrations – some of which are attracting tens of thousands of people. Organisers say it is an anti-war movement calling for peace but there are concerns the rallies are stirring unrest. Mostafa Rachwani and Laura Murphy-Oates go behind the scenes to find out what is driving this movement. | |
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| In-depth | | The Albanese government is reducing Australia’s migrant intake as it seeks to make inroads to easing the population and housing squeeze. It’s clear the home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, and the immigration minister, Andrew Giles, are seizing the levers they have to restrict what the migration strategy describes as “back doors and side doors” into Australia. Paul Karp says it won’t silence Peter Dutton but Labor is moving to back away from the feared Big Australia. |
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| What’s happening today | Bruce Lehrmann | The trial of the former political staffer’s defamation claim against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson continues. | Exams results | Students in Victoria will get their VCE scores. |
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