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Australia news live: nonstop Sydney-London flights delayed again; anti-abortion bill blocked in SA
Qantas now says first Project Sunrise flight due to take off in November 2027. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJoyce stops short of confirming outright ban on certain migrantsWhen Joyce was pressed on whether One Nation’s evolving immigration policy included a total ban on migration from all Muslim-majority nations, Joyce stopped short of confirming an outright ban, instead saying Australia should not accept migrants living in “febrile parts of the world.”
On the economy, Joyce backed Hanson’s criticisms of recent childcare wage increases and worker-friendly industrial relations reforms, refocusing the party’s priority towards small business owners.The greatest driver of our economy is small business. If you arbitrarily say, well, we’re just going to put up wages and somehow magically the small business that’s already struggling... is going to be able to somehow charge $10 for a cup of coffee and everybody will buy it, it won’t.What we’re saying is Australia has to have the capacity to bring in an Australian culture, a culture with guardrails, a culture that is able to absorb people so that we have harmony, we have peace, and we have a unity of purpose.If you get a Balkanisation in Australia where there are so many people in so many different corners that they basically live their culture not an Australian culture, then inherently that just does not work out. Continue reading...
On the economy, Joyce backed Hanson’s criticisms of recent childcare wage increases and worker-friendly industrial relations reforms, refocusing the party’s priority towards small business owners.The greatest driver of our economy is small business. If you arbitrarily say, well, we’re just going to put up wages and somehow magically the small business that’s already struggling... is going to be able to somehow charge $10 for a cup of coffee and everybody will buy it, it won’t.What we’re saying is Australia has to have the capacity to bring in an Australian culture, a culture with guardrails, a culture that is able to absorb people so that we have harmony, we have peace, and we have a unity of purpose.If you get a Balkanisation in Australia where there are so many people in so many different corners that they basically live their culture not an Australian culture, then inherently that just does not work out. Continue reading...
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