Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy says she has been meeting with the Indigenous community and elders in Perth in the wake of an alleged attempted terrorist act at an Invasion Day rally in Perth on January 26.
“We will continue to work through this with the community in Perth, because there are questions around what happens with the next gathering, and how can the next gathering be safe?
“Every Australian should feel safe, in particular when you want to protest against a particular policy or a particular government or an action. That’s what our country is built on … We want all Australians and especially First Nations people to know that they can do that,” she told ABC’s News Breakfast earlier this morning.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the alleged terror attack after the charging of a 31-year-old man who allegedly threw a homemade bomb into a crowd of thousands of Invasion Day protesters in Perth’s CBD. The bomb failed to detonate.
Authorities have declared the attempted bombing a terrorist act.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese did not rule out making changes to the capital gains tax yesterday, as analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the Greens shows the cost of the current 50 per cent concession has blown out to extraordinary levels.
The tax break on capital gains will cost the budget almost $250 billion over the next decade if the government does not water it down, with the benefits flowing strongly to people with the nation’s highest incomes.
This masthead revealed the government is considering a cut in the CGT concession as part of a broader tax reform package aimed at helping younger Australians to buy their own home.
The budget office found that between this financial year and 2035-36, the foregone revenue from the concession will total $247 billion. Of that, $100 billion will be foregone by the end of the decade.
Read the full story from our senior economics correspondent Shane Wright.
Good morning and welcome to our national news live blog for Friday, February 6. My name is Emily Kaine, and I’ll be helming our coverage this morning. Here’s what is making news today.
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese did not rule out making changes to the capital gains tax yesterday, as analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Office shows the cost of the current 50 per cent concession has blown out to extraordinary levels.
- Albanese also condemned the alleged terror attack at a Perth Invasion Day Rally on January 26, after the charging of a 31-year-old man who allegedly threw a homemade bomb into a crowd of thousands of protesters. Authorities have declared the attempted bombing a terrorist act.
- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has apologised to victims of Jeffrey Epstein for appointing Peter Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to Washington despite his ties to the disgraced financier. Starmer never met Epstein and is not accused of any wrongdoing, but he is under intense pressure over the appointment after newly released documents revealed fresh details of Mandelson’s close relationship with Epstein.
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Australia has pledged to restore the graves of its war dead in Gaza after satellite imagery revealed parts of a Commonwealth cemetery containing Anzac burials had been bulldozed during Israeli military operations over the past two years. Images taken over the past year show rows of headstones removed, soil heavily disturbed and a substantial earth berm running through sections of the cemetery.
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The disappearance of four-year-old Gus Lamont was declared a “major crime” by South Australian police during a press conference yesterday afternoon. Police revealed a family member who lived at the same outback property is a suspect in their investigation.
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