Anthony Albanese has cast doubt on Pauline Hanson ’s claims One Nation received $1.5m of donations in a day of fundraising this week.
After a reporter in Sydney cited Hanson’s claims to have raised the money, Albanese said:
double quotation mark Did she though? Did she though? Did she? What evidence is there?
It is an example of slogans being put forward, are not substance. And people can say all of these things. They get a run in the media. They had an ad for their fundraising campaign, effectively, free ad in one of the mainstream publications here, yesterday.
We’ll continue to actually be interested in making a difference to people’s lives. that is what we will focus on.
Albanese did not directly answer when asked if he believed that Hanson had raised the $1.5m. He said:
double quotation mark Well, you work it out. You know. I … no idea, nor am I … you know, this is someone who got a plane worth more than that given to her by Australia’s richest person.
So that [$1.5m] pales in significance with the size of a single donation which was given. showing, I think the interest that One Nation represents. It is not battlers, they vote against battlers each and every time.
Wells says parents see the social media ban as ‘untidy’ but right
Ahead of an expected announcement in the UK,. as Australia marks six months of its under 16s social media ban, the communications minister, Anika Wells, has admitted to the BBC that parents have seen the process as “untidy” but the right thing.
Wednesday marked six months since ten platforms were required to remove under 16s accounts from their platforms. Wells told the BBC that there have been 5m accounts removed for the 1.2m Australians between 13. 16 – a figure that the government has refused to break down by platform.
Wells said that was a “huge result”. said social media platforms were using tactics to “undermine” the ban in Australia to ensure other countries do not follow in our footsteps. She said the government was aware of teens circumventing the ban,. this is why five of the platforms are being investigated by eSafety to face potential fines of up to $49.5m per breach.
Wells urged the UK to follow, while acknowledging the issues with the process. She said:
double quotation mark This is the right thing. All of the feedback I’ve received from Australians. Australian parents in the six months since we have attempted this has been: ‘thank you for trying, we appreciate this wasn’t going to be perfect, it is untidy. That’s what parenting looks like in the modern age.’
Anthony Albanese has cast doubt on Pauline Hanson ’s claims One Nation received $1.5m of donations in a day of fundraising this week.
After a reporter in Sydney cited Hanson’s claims to have raised the money, Albanese said:
double quotation mark Did she though? Did she though? Did she? What evidence is there?
It is an example of slogans being put forward, are not substance. And people can say all of these things. They get a run in the media. They had an ad for their fundraising campaign, effectively, free ad in one of the mainstream publications here, yesterday.
We’ll continue to actually be interested in making a difference to people’s lives. that is what we will focus on.
Albanese did not directly answer when asked if he believed that Hanson had raised the $1.5m. He said:
double quotation mark Well, you work it out. You know. I … no idea, nor am I … you know, this is someone who got a plane worth more than that given to her by Australia’s richest person.
So that [$1.5m] pales in significance with the size of a single donation which was given. showing, I think the interest that One Nation represents. It is not battlers, they vote against battlers each and every time.
Onshore immigration detention centre staff to strike
Staff at Australia’s onshore immigration detention centres will strike for the next two days over what they describe as “US-style labour practices”.
The US-based private prison operator Management. Training Corporation assumed control of the onshore detention system last year, through its local subsidiary Secure Journeys.
The company. the main staff union, the United Workers Union, are negotiating a new enterprise bargaining agreement, which has reached a stalemate.
The UWU says workers are now engaging in two-hour rolling stoppages at immigration detention centres on Thursday and Friday.
Surya Nagulapalli, United Workers Union lead organiser, said:
double quotation mark Members have raised serious issues about their rostering. pay rates that threaten the ability of Immigration Detention Centres to be run in a safe, sustainable way.
It is beyond belief that the moment Secure Journeys took over this contract a year ago it sought to cut jobs, cut critical roles. cut the standards of Immigration Detention Centres. Despite more than 10 rounds of bargaining. Secure Journeys – which is being paid $2.3bn to run these centres – has shown they are not willing to address members’ concerns in a meaningful way.
Instead, they continue to import US-style labour practices, cutting the overall labour force at commencement of the contract. keeping wages low, at the expense of Detention Services Officers and detainees.
In a statement last week, during prior strikes, a Secure Journeys spokesperson said the company has made “a fair. balanced offer” to workers regarding wages, conditions and rostering, “while recognising the realities of operating in an immigration detention environment”.
“Secure Journeys’ commitment to maintaining safe and secure operations and detainee welfare remains our top priority,” the spokesperson said.
Kyle. Jackie O show’s former Sydney breakfast slot on Kiis FM has dropped 3.5% in the first full radio survey since the $20m a year duo were taken off air in March.
Jackie “O” Henderson. Kyle Sandilands have both taken legal action in the federal court against KIIS FM’s owner, Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), after their contracts were terminated.
The federal court case is scheduled to begin on 12 October and is expected to run for 10 days.
The Kiis FM breakfast show has slipped to third place in Sydney’s FM ratings with 8.2%, behind Smooth FM (11.4). Nova (9.5), according to the survey which ran from 1 March to 23 May. The slot has had multiple hosts including Smallzy, Mike E and Abbie Chatfield.
Overall, the Sydney breakfast ratings were won by 2GB’s Ben Fordham with a 15.6% share, down from 16.8%.
This post was corrected on 11 June 2026, the original version had incorrect ratings figures for Ben Fordham.
State. territory disability ministers are ringing alarm bells over the Albanese government’s proposed overhaul of the NDIS, warning they cannot deliver “like-for-like services” for more than 200,000 participants expected to be shifted off the scheme by 2030.
In a submission uploaded to the NDIS inquiry this morning on its third. final day of public hearings, the joint submission warned curbing the scheme’s growth was important but must not be prioritised over participant safety, wellbeing and life outcomes.
The submission said:
double quotation mark Without a careful, coordinated approach that aligns these changes with broader improvements across the disability support system, there is a significant risk that people with disability will end up in hospitals or other settings that are inappropriate. unable to meet their needs, or have no access to services at all.
States. territories are not in a position, and have made no agreement, to deliver like-for-like services to people who are exited from the NDIS.
The Albanese government’s NDIS bill is designed to dramatically curb the $50bn-a-year scheme’s growth by reducing category budgets from later this year. the number of Australians with disabilities who can access it from 2028. Without these changes, the government estimates it will cost $117bn a year in a decade’s time.
Albanese criticises notion One Nation. Coalition could strike a deal and says Liberals ‘giving up almost two years’ before election
The prime minister. Anthony Albanese, heaped criticism on any notion the Coalition could strike a deal with One Nation amid the latter’s surging popularity.
Albanese, speaking in Sydney, was asked about Pauline Hanson. a claim in The Australian this morning from Tony Pasin, a Liberal frontbencher, that One Nation and the Liberals should split seats. The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, said this morning there is “no plan” to carve up seats”.
The prime minister had this to say:
double quotation mark That says it all about the way that the once-mainstream Liberal party has become just a fringe party. almost giving up almost two years before an election is held.
Chalmers accuses political opponents of defending ‘broken status quo’
Jim Chalmers has accused his political opponents of engaging in a “truly absurd” effort to defend a “broken status quo” from tax reforms. as he claimed a noisy minority of vested interests were overshadowing the silent minority who stand to benefit.
“Too often the story of this budget is told by the biggest beneficiaries of these current arrangements. not the biggest victims of the broken status quo,” the treasurer said in a speech to the ALP’s national policy forum this morning.
double quotation mark Our job is to make the right decisions for the right reasons. to represent those voices who aren’t already amplified by the usual suspects with political or commercial skin in the game.
The government has released a range of Treasury analysis showing most Australians would be better off under the proposed changes to the capital gains tax. negative gearing, alongside a $250 working Australians tax offset from next year.
“Those reforms are motivated by three main goals: making it easier for people to buy their first home; cutting taxes for workers again,. again; and better aligning the tax treatment of labour and asset income,” he said.
With One Nation riding high in the polls. Chalmers said the three rightwing parties wanted to replicate the divisive politics seen overseas.
double quotation mark The irony of their position is they want to change the government in order to leave everything as it is – a truly absurd proposition.
Mal Lanyon says it’s hard to read some of the accounts of harmful behaviour within NSW police
Mal Lanyon, the NSW police commissioner, said the experiences he read in the report are “simply unacceptable”. He went on:
double quotation mark It’s very hard to read some of the personal accounts … they are human, they are my officers, I expect them to have a safe. respectful workplace …
That’s why I’m firmly committed to making sure we implement the recommendations.
NSW police minister and commissioner speaking after sweeping report into culture
The NSW police minister, Yasmin Catley,. NSW police commissioner, Mal Lanyon, are speaking after the release of a report into the culture of the force, which found bullying, discrimination and harassment within the organisation after interviews with about 5,000 current and former officers and staff.
Catley said Lanyon had accepted all 29 recommendations included in the report. saying the government was “taking this very seriously, because it’s the right thing to do”. She said during a press conference:
double quotation mark We want the NSW police to reflect the community that it serves,. this review goes a lot to making sure that we do that.
We want to be transparent. This is a time to reset … to build a future workforce within the NSW police.
Lanyon said NSW police was moving in the right direction, but that there was more work to do. He went on:
double quotation mark What it shows to me is a healthy organisation, an organisation where people care …. want to make it better … I am committed to improving the NSW police force.
He confirmed the report found harmful behaviours were present in the NSW police force, including bullying, discrimination. harassment, behaviours he said “were unacceptable and will not be tolerated”.
double quotation mark I have made it clear,. I have made it clear to our workforce that that is not the culture that we will have in the NSW police force.
States and territories ‘unequivocally’ cannot support NDIS exits under proposed federal changes
The states. territories argue there’s a “significant risk” the Albanese government’s proposed changes to the NDIS will leave people with disability in hospitals or other inappropriate settings.
The submission, which has only just been uploaded, was read out in part by Greens senator, Jordon Steele-John, this morning on the third. final day of public hearings for the inquiry.
Steele-John said the joint submission said the federal bill would undermine the original intent of the NDIS. focused heavily on expenditure constraints without a clearly defined broader ecosystem.
The senator said the submission concluded the states. territories “unequivocally” are not in a position and have made no agreement to deliver like-for-like services for people who are exited from the NDIS due to the proposed changes.
The pace of the inquiry, which has reportedly received more than 4,000 submissions. has so far only uploaded about 500, has been heavily criticised over the last few days with the majority of witnesses saying it should not pass in its current form.
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