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‘Different Rights’ Based on Race: Former Australian PM Warns Against Indigenous Voice

Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has spoken out against embedding the Indigenous Voice to Parliament into the country’s Constitution. Federal MPs are debating the Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) Bill 2023, which will lock in a referendum for Australians to decide whether to include The Voice in the country’s founding legal document….


Former Australian PM Issues Warning to Beijing on Taiwan Issue

Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has warned that a war over Taiwan will cripple China’s economy and make it suffer far more than Western countries. In a speech at the Hudson Institute on Dec. 7, Morrison warned of a “mutually assured destruction” if conflicts break out between Washington and Beijing over Taiwan Strait. “There…


Australian Party Leaders Heat Up the Debate on the Minimum Wage

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese have exchanged words over wage rises ahead of the final federal election debate on the night of May 11. While visiting the electorate of North Sydney, Albanese said Labor supported a 5.1 percent increase in the minimum wage to keep up with inflation. “I’m the…


PM Scott Morrison Says China has ‘Form on Foreign Interference’ in Australia

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Saturday that China has “form”—or a record—on foreign interference in Australia and that his government is “very aware” of the influence that Beijing seeks to have in the country. “So any suggestion that China, the Chinese government, doesn’t seek to interfere in Australia—well, we didn’t put that legislation in…


Reserve Bank of Australia Expected to Lift Interest Rates Amid Federal Election

Economists and financial markets are now anticipating the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to raise the cash rate in the next board meeting on May 3 instead of June, as previously predicted. The swift change in thinking comes right after the Australian Bureau of Statistics released new inflation figures on April 27, indicating the annual…


Coalition Promises More Jobs for Regional Australia

The Liberal-National coalition party has promised to generate 450,000 new jobs in regional Australia in the next five years as part of its election campaign. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, from the centre-right Liberal Party, said on April 27 the additional jobs were part of the total 1.3 million jobs the Coalition already pledged to deliver. “Only…


Major Australian Political Parties to Increase Funding for Northern Territory

The Coalition and the Labor party have pledged to provide the Northern Territory with millions of dollars to help it deal with rising crimes, generate more jobs and improve health care for Indigenous people. Prime Minister Scott Morrison promised on April 24 that the federal government would spend $14 million (US$10 million) on a community-led…


IMF’s Economic Outlook Report Brings More Confidence to Australian PM

The latest upgrade of Australia’s economic outlook by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has prompted Prime Minister Scott Morrison to show further confidence in his economic plan. According to the latest world economic outlook report, the projection of real GDP growth for Australia in 2022 rose to 4.2 percent from 4.1 percent in January’s report,…


Labor and Coalition Won’t Form Government With Independents

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese have said they will not do a deal with independent candidates in the event that their parties fail to win majority government at the May election. According to the latest Newspoll, nearly one third of voters are likely to vote for independent candidates or minor…


Federal Investments Bring Certainty to Gas and Minerals: Australian Peak Body

The Australian mining, oil, and gas industry has welcome newly announced federal subsidies for fossil fuel and mineral projects worth hundreds of million dollars in Western Australia (WA). Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Deputy Chief Executive Damian Dwyer said that the new investments reflected the federal government’s recognition of the significance of gas in…