Welcome to the 9News.com.au live blog for Friday, June 3, 2022.
A third case of monkeypox has been identified in NSW.
Four days of celebrations honouring Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee have kicked off with a raft of traditional pomp and colour.
The Federal Government is scrambling to find a solution to the nation's worsening energy crisis, as it comes under increasing pressure to secure more gas for Australia. - Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations kick off across the UK - Government weighs options as gas prices continue spike - Woman hands herself in to police after boy fatally hit by car Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Tony Burke has refused to define "low paid workers", the group which the government is recommending receive a 5.1 per cent pay rise. "The Fair Work Commission deals with this term all the time," he said.
Burke added many low paid workers are women.
When asked if the rest of the economy should also receive a 5.1 per cent increase, Burke said the government wants all wages to go forwards not backwards but will leave this decision to the Fair Work Commission. "The Fair Work Commission has got the expertise to work all this through," he said. "It's not like there's a desire from the government for anyone at all to go backwards. "But the thrust of the submission is for low paid workers." Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Tony Burke has announced the government has made a submission to the Fair Work Commission in its annual wage review.
With 21-year high inflation rates and stagnant wages, Burke said the government wants to increase wages, which was a key election promise. "The submission makes clear that with the Wage Price Index measured against that, it means people are going backwards by 2.7 per cent," Burke said. "The government doesn't want anyone to go backwards, but this is at its most acute for low wage earners." In the submission, the government has recommended the Fair Work Commission "ensures that the real wages of Australia's low paid workers do not go backwards".
The job market has tightened, if the latest data from Seek is any indication.
The employment classifieds website has registered a 2.1 per cent rise in job ads in May.
At the same time, applications for each job have fallen 2.3 per cent month-on-month.
Which means there's more jobs out there with fewer people to fill them.
Only the ACT saw a fall in job advertisements.
Victoria saw the biggest rise at 3 per cent.
The industry most looking for workers is retail and consumer products, which had a 10.6 per cent rise in ads.
Hospitality and tourism, accounting and manufacturing were also high.
Turkey is rebranding itself.
The country is now called "Türkiye" in the halls of the United Nations , who agreed to recognise the change on Wednesday after a request from Turkey's government.
The campaign to rebrand as Türkiye began in December. "The process we started under the leadership of our President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in order to increase our country's brand value is to be finalised," Cavusoglu tweeted on Tuesday.
Read the full story A man is lucky to be alive after he fell onto railway tracks and was narrowly missed by an oncoming train in Sydney's south .
Emergency services were called to Penshurst train station just after 9am this morning after a man in his 40s suffered a medical episode and fell onto the train tracks. "The train was coming into the station at quite high speed and the way he fell was between the carriages and he ended up laying alongside the platform and railway tracks," NSW Ambulance Inspector Shane Whittaker said.
Read the full story Global supply chain issues and the war on Ukraine have been the usual culprits when it comes to inflation impacting Australians, but when it comes to the vegetable crisis, most of the blame lies on the weather.
At this time of the year, much of the vegetables on Australian supermarket shelves are coming from Queensland - specifically the Lockyer Valley as well as Scenic Rim and Stanthorpe.
But three months of rain have all but wiped out an entire crop of common vegetables.
Read the full story A third case of monkeypox has been identified in New South Wales.
NSW Health said the man in his 50s developed a mild illness several days after arriving back in Sydney from Europe .
He is currently isolating at home. "NSW Health is undertaking contact tracing and providing appropriate health advice to any contacts identified," NSW Health said in a statement.
The case is not connected to the two previous cases reported in the state.
Monkeypox is endemic to part of Africa however cases have been reported from non-endemic countries since May this year.
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