Today’s headlines
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‘Net zero lies and madness’: Hanson slams smelter bailout
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has slammed the Albanese government’s $200 million bailout of Rio Tinto’s Bell Bay aluminium smelter and said it was an example of “net zero lies and madness killing Australian manufacturing”.
“Yet another smelter is on the brink. And Albanese hands out a taxpayer-funded Band-Aid while Chris Bowen keeps piling on costs through his climate safeguard mechanism,” she wrote on social media.
The leader of the minor party also repeated her vow to scrap net zero and abolish the government’s climate change programs.
“We must use our own resources and stand on our own two feet,” the post said.
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor also criticised the bailout during a press conference yesterday, but said the Coalition would have done the same if it were in government.
UK police arrest dual British-Iranian man over airbase ‘terror plot’
London: Police arrested a dual UK-Iranian national on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a US-run military air base in England that British authorities have linked to Tehran.
The 27-year-old man was arrested in central London on Thursday (UK time), and police have searched two properties in the city, Counter Terrorism Policing said.
Five men, all British nationals in their 20s and from London, were arrested on the weekend on suspicion of explosives and terror offences close to the RAF Fairford air base, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran. The suspects have since been released on bail.
Police later said they had found a quantity of an accelerant – petrol – in three vans linked to the five suspects, but no explosives.
Today’s headlines
Hello and welcome back to our rolling coverage of national and world news for this Friday, October 2. Here’s what you need to know today.
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