Albo’s budget backdown + 'I heard the screams': Inside Israeli detention
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What are the latest headlines impacting Australia?
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Hey, it's Chris Beer with you. Welcome to The Briefing. Days after being locked up by Israeli forces, Melbourne student Niamh O'Connor is back in Australia and she wants people to know exactly what she went through.
The most harrowing experience for my entire mission... was in that tent and it was when I was listening to the national anthem and the screams of people being beaten to the point of them like screaming for their life.
That chat with Niamh, one of 11 Aussies on board the global Samud flotilla that was intercepted by Israel on its way to Gaza is coming up in the second half of this episode. First though, let's get into the headlines with Sasha Bar-Bagat on Wednesday the 27th of May.
Hey Chris, 19 Australian women and children linked to Islamic State have returned home from Syria and all of them have been released into the community with no arrests made. The group landed in Melbourne and Sydney yesterday afternoon and into the evening after more than seven years in the notorious al-Raj detention camp in northern Syria.
Two so-called ISIS brides and their seven children first touched down in Melbourne just after 4.30pm, followed by four women and their six children at Sydney Airport about an hour later. Both flights came via Doha. This group of women were met by joint counter-terrorism teams both in Sydney and Melbourne. They were searched and had their devices downloaded before being quietly processed and released through side exits away from media waiting at the main arrival gates.
Now, there had been speculation about whether anyone in this group would be charged, given we saw three ISIS-linked women arrested on arrival earlier this month. But New South Wales and Victorian Police later confirmed in a joint statement that no one in this cohort has been charged, though investigations are continuing.
Yeah, and according to reports, another woman who is subject to a temporary exclusion order banning her from re-entering Australia was stopped before boarding her flight after she had reportedly booked her tickets home. It's understood her daughter, who isn't subject to that temporary exclusion order, did choose to stay with her. Now, as to what will happen with these women and their children... We don't have the clearest picture and that's, you know, by design because of how ISIS brides have kind of integrated in the past and the media storm around it. We aren't given all the details, but we do know that they have been offered assistance from the Department of Communities and Justice. So what that looks like is access to medical, mental health and education services as well as support related to their experiences at these refugee camps.
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Anthony Albanese is consulting with the small business sector on potential carve-outs for changes to capital gains tax concessions amid growing backlash. The Prime Minister during question time yesterday told Parliament Labor is looking at widening exemptions from CGT.
And the changes, of course, to capital gains tax, of course, will result in different outcomes for different businesses across a range of systems.
Now, the remodelling of the tax system announced in the budget, while being welcomed by some experts, is also being criticised for having unintended consequences on some small businesses.
Yeah, while the government hasn't locked in widening the exemptions for businesses that have to pay the capital gains tax... It could look to make those carve-outs part of the bill when it is introduced to avoid giving further ammunition to the coalition. And a new poll out today showing Labor is having trouble selling its controversial budget to the people. And that's according to the latest Guardian Central poll, which showed that less than a third of voters back the changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax.
Yeah, and it's interesting, some from within the government, according to reports, at least Chris, say the PM and Treasurer just have not done a good enough job at not only selling this budget, but also explaining the real world impacts on Australians and businesses.
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