| | 28/10/2024 Greens blame Labor in Queensland election washup, conservative US influencer denied visa, carbon offsets ‘ineffectual’ |
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| | | Good morning. In the aftermath of the Liberal National party’s convincing win in the Queensland election, the Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather said Labor would have done better if it had worked with his party rather than fighting them. Meanwhile, Australia has rejected the visa of the right-wing pundit Candace Owens ahead of her scheduled November speaking tour. And more than 60 climate change scientists have warned about the overuse of carbon offset schemes involving forest-related projects, which they say are “ineffectual”. |
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| Australia | | Visa issues | Australia has rejected far-right provocateur Candace Owens’ visa application ahead of a planned national speaking tour, with the immigration minister, Tony Burke, saying she had the “capacity to incite discord”. | Third party | The Greens’ housing spokesperson, Max Chandler-Mather, says the Queensland election result shows federal Labor needs to drop its “deep hostility” to the minor party – or risk losing next year’s national poll. | Net zero | Carbon offsets used by corporations around the world to lower their reportable greenhouse gas emissions are “ineffectual” and “hindering the energy transition”, according to more than 60 leading climate change scientists. | Queensland election | Queensland’s incoming premier, David Crisafulli, and his deputy, Jarrod Bleijie, will be sworn in as an interim cabinet of two so the LNP can “get cracking” with governing, the party’s leader says. | Avian radar | The yearly travel plans of birds up and down Australia’s east coast have been revealed using the same tool that tracks the weather – a development experts say could have “profound” implications for conservation as more windfarms are built. |
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| World | | Post approval | The multi-billionaire owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, faced more criticism throughout the weekend as it emerged executives from his aerospace company had met with Donald Trump on the same day the newspaper prevented its editorial team from publishing an endorsement of Kamala Harris. | Middle East | Iranian military officials should decide how to respond to Friday night’s Israeli attack on Iran, but the event should neither be minimised nor exaggerated, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Sunday in his first response to the attack. | Abortion rights | Stevie Nicks has said Fleetwood Mac would have been “done” if she had not decided to terminate a pregnancy in the 1970s, after she released a song inspired by progressives’ battle to reinstate federal abortion rights in the US. | Pivotal election | Georgia’s pro-western opposition has called for protest over what it called a “rigged" vote in which the conservative, pro-Russian GD party retained power. | Ecosystem ownership | A petition is to be submitted to Ecuador’s copyright office to recognise a forest as the co-creator of the composition Song of the Cedars. |
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| In-depth | | Queensland politics have historically operated as somewhat of an outlier in Australia. But the weekend’s election, with the surprise decline of Greens support in Brisbane and One Nation in Queensland’s north, could be a prediction for what federal politics will look like, Julianne Schultz writes. Schultz examines what political lessons are to be learned from the sunshine state’s results. |
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| Not the news | | Gardening Australia host Sophie Thomson tells Katie Cunningham why she always travels with an infrared thermometer and why she’d save her seed box from a house fire, in Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects. Thomson also reflects on the grounding effects of soil and how she was sad to “lose” her old batch. |
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