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The Albanese government has passed its climate bill through the lower house.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has become the first of the big four to pass on the RBA's latest interest rate hike.
There are reports of multiple people shot on a rural Queensland property, with one man being treated for a gunshot wound. - Climate change bill passes through lower house - Four people 'shot' on rural Queensland property - Family of five forced to share single motel room - The non-explosive missile experts believe killed al-Qaeda leader Health Minister Mark Butler has expanded on the monkeypox vaccines and how they can be used to treat the virus during question time.
Butler earlier announced that 450,000 doses of the "state-of-the-art" vaccine had been procured by the government.
He said the vaccine can be used for pre-exposure protection and as a post-exposure treatment for those who contract monkeypox. "We will be rolling out that vaccine through state and territory clinics," he said.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been asked during Question Time how the climate bill will help to end the climate wars.
Albanese said instead of continuing on the same path for climate action, the government's vision was to find "new allies" and change the approach. "On May 21 the Australian people voted for change," he said. "They voted to end the division, they voted to end the inaction and finally put the climate wars behind us. "On the first day that I became Labor leader, I said that Australians had conflict fatigue and on climate. "Rather than rally the same troops to dig a deeper trench in the same spot, I wanted us to find new allies and new allies we have found." Albanese said the Coalition was "stuck in the same old trench fighting a fight that has passed them by".
Footage has emerged of a rare species of shark using its fins to crawl over rocks.
The shark is known as an epaulette shark and is the only of its kind to be able to walk on land.
It is the first time the shark species has been documented "walking".
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Senator Dorinda Cox has announced an inquiry looking and missing and murdered First Nations women and children has been retriggered in the Senate. "An important inquiry that will look into the nationally harmonised data that is collected mainly by law enforcement agencies and research across the country," she said. "It will look into why we're not honouring and respecting the lives of First Nations women and children in the country and the role of the media in that." Following Cox's announcement, Senator Lidia Thorpe sprayed the media about the lack of reporting on missing and murdered Indigenous women and children. "Why isn't black lives in this country respected and reported on, like white people in this country?" she said. "When a black woman dies, when a black woman is murdered, you don't hear about it. "When a white woman dies, or a white woman is murdered, it's a front page. "We have to have an inquiry to call you all out, including the police, including all the racist systems that keep us oppressed in this country." In some world news, five people have been rescued after a pod of orcas, also known as killer whales, attacked a boat off the coast of Portugal .
The attack caused the sailboat to sink off Sines, about 11 kilometres from the coast on July 31.
The passengers were forced to deploy a life raft as the vessel took on water.
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Kelly said he is confident Australia had reached the peak of the current COVID-19 wave. "And certainly, the actual data we're seeing from hospital admissions decreasing in all states over the last few days and week support that," he said.
However, he warned this will not be the last wave of the virus.
When asked about strikes planned at 10 ports tomorrow due to the proposed termination of an enterprise bargaining agreement, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the issue would be discussed at the upcoming national jobs and skills summit. "We've said repeatedly that the industrial relations system is not working in the interests of business or in the interests of workers," he said. "We'll look to have constructive discussions between both employers and unions around how we can change that.
Tobias Moran has been granted bail but will remain in custody for the next few days.
He is accused of killing his German backpacker girlfriend Simone Strobel in Lismore in 2005.
Moran was arrested in Perth last week and extradited to New South Wales to face a Sydney court.
Today a magistrate granted him bail but he will not be released for up to three days as the prosecutor has indicated it will submit an application to keep him in detention.
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