As New Zealand prepares to host this year's APEC meeting, it's calling on regional partners, including Australia, to join a push for a pause on taxpayer dollars being spent on the production and consumption of fossil fuels.
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Standing alongside Scott Morrison outside Ampolâs Brisbane oil refinery on Monday, Australian Workers Union national secretary Daniel Walton felt a buzzing in his pants.
No, it was not a consequence of any newfound affinity for the Liberal Prime Minister, but a steady stream of text messages from labour movement colleagues questioning why he was, in effect, giving comfort to the enemy.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison takes centre stage at Ampolâs Lytton refinery on Monday.Â
Dominic Lorrimer
Walton had every reason to be present at the announcement that the government would spend up to $2.3 billion in subsidies over the next nine years to ensure Australiaâs remaining two oil refineries did not follow their multinational counterparts and close down.
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In a devastating and traumatic period of just six days, Australia recorded three more Indigenous deaths in custody.
The death of a woman in her 50s on 5 March followed that of a man in his 30s on 2 March. It came to light through questioning in a state budget estimates hearing.
It prompted an outpouring of grief across the country and sadness about how so many deaths could happen in such a short space of time, three decades on from a damning royal commission.
Questions were asked about how Indigenous people could still be dying inside prison in 2021, mere months after tens of thousands of Australians marched in rallies demanding an end to racial inequality.
Cathy Freeman has become the latest high-profile person to criticise Mr Morrison for raising the experience of those aboard the First Fleet while explaining why 26 January is a tough day for some people.