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Good morning and welcome to our rolling news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be bringing you a few of our top overnight yarns before my colleague Amy Remeikis takes over.
The top story today is our latest Essential poll which shows that a majority of voters support interventionist measures such as a rent freeze and migration caps to. Such policies are supported by the Greens and the Coalition so the poll spells trouble for the Albanese government if they ignore popular opinion for much longer.
Anthony Albanese has urged Australians to imagine who they want to be on the morning after a referendum to enshrine an Indigenous voice in the constitution. In a stirring Lowitja O’Donoghue Oration at the University of Adelaide last night, the prime minister said he believed Australians would wake up on that morning with “the strongest sense of ourselves”, adding: “A great nation that has dared to become even greater, not just to ourselves but to the world.” More to come on this story.
But perhaps highlighting the work that needs to be done in achieving better outcomes for Indigenous Australians, we also have a shocking exclusive story on how nearly a third of prisoners in New South Wales are Aboriginal. The proportion of Aboriginal people has , prompting an urgent call for governments to end the “over-policing” of Indigenous communities. The NSW Aboriginal Legal Service’s chief executive, Karly Warner, said the system was “stacked against Aboriginal people at every step of the way”.
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Anthony Albanese says No campaign is 'underestimating Australians' in lead-up to Voice referendumAnthony Albanese will deliver the Lowitja O'Donoghue Oration in Adelaide on Monday night, using the speech to argue for the Yes campaign and contest arguments put up by opponents.
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Anthony Albanese brands Voice opponents ‘Chicken Littles of the past’Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has taken aim at opponents of the Indigenous Voice in a speech set to be delivered tonight, calling them “Chicken Littles of the past”. An advanced copy provided to the media, ahead of a narration that Mr Albanese will deliver Monday night at an event in Adelaide, will reiterate why he believes the Voice needs to be enshrined into the constitution. Despite support for the Voice to Parliament sliding in the polls, the Prime Minister believes Australians will ultimately back Labor’s proposal at the referendum later this year. “Australians have healthy scepticism of doomsayers, a scepticism kept in good health by memories of all the predictions offered by the Chicken Littles of the past,” Mr Albanese will say on Monday.
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‘Disappointing’ RBA leak trying to ‘damage’ the Albanese governmentAssistant Minister to the Prime Minister Patrick Gorman has slammed the “disappointing” leak concerning a reported stoush between government ministers and Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe over wage rises. Mr Gorman claimed someone is trying to “damage” the government by leaking the story. “I’d say to whoever that was and the Liberal Party at large, there’s plenty of ways to have a fight in parliament but breaching the confidentiality of a government committee is not the way to do it,” he told Sky News Australia. “It’s disrespectful to your fellow members of parliament, it’s disrespectful to the RBA Governor and it does make the operations of the parliament less effective.”
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Liberals ‘happy to engage’ constructively with Albanese government on taxesShadow Climate Change and Energy Minister Ted O’Brien says the Liberals are “happy to engage” constructively with the Albanese government on taxes, including the petroleum resource rent tax. “We’re prepared to be constructive where we can and critical where we must,” Mr O’Brien told Sky News Australia. “I think what Peter Dutton has said with the PRRT, is that we’re happy to be constructive. “The industry is nervous that Labor will yet again do a deal with the Greens that will make life harder for everyday Australians and harder for the Australian economy. “We have to look at the entire context here … if we are to say yes that won’t be a blank cheque we will have to negotiate.”
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Albanese government floats making people pay more for careA new consultation paper on how Australians should pay for aged care has been called a “landmark” move towards greater user pays’ pricing. auspol
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