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Chapter 1: What are the latest headlines affecting Australia?
A Listener Production. Hello, Sasha Barbagat with you. Happy Friday. Welcome to The Briefing. A robot named Frank showed up to our Melbourne studios a few weeks back wearing shorts and a T-shirt.
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Chris's deep dive into why we are suddenly seeing robots everywhere and the decades-long plan to get you comfortable with them is coming up in the second half of this episode. First, it is time for the headlines with Chris Spirou on Friday 5 June.
Hey, Sash, Labor's highly contentious changes to capital gains and negative gearing tax concessions have now passed the lower house but are facing a blockade in the Senate. The government's budget measures, which also include changes to how family trusts operate, sailed through the House of Reps yesterday, Arvo, thanks to Labor's 94-seat majority.
That advantage also meant it passed without amendments, including carve-outs for small businesses proposed by the Coalition and some crossbenchers.
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Chapter 2: What allegations are being investigated regarding Australian flotilla members?
However, the Greens are now needed in the upper house to get the bill signed into law and the minor party has signalled its support is conditional on a longer inquiry into the government's proposed changes to the NDIS. So a reminder, that is the plan to change eligibility rules for the scheme that had saved billions of dollars but also boot more than 240,000 people off support.
Now, the government wants both bills, that's the NDIS and the tax changes, to be passed by the 1st of July this year, even though the first of those changes aren't due to start coming into force until July next year, Chris.
Yeah, but Senate inquiries into both the NDIS and tax reforms could now be extended by both the Greens and the Coalition if the parties decide to team up. Both want greater scrutiny of the legislation with fears that true impacts aren't clear yet and there is time for further consultation.
Yeah. So to be clear, the coalition wants further scrutiny of the tax concession changes. So changes to negative gearing, CGT, family trusts. The Greens want further scrutiny of the NDIS. So they're talking about maybe we'll support each other and we'll push for longer Senate inquiries. The government's like, no, no, no, I want this done. Let's push it through.
So both the Greens and the coalition aren't happy with that approach and they do want further scrutiny. But It's worth saying as well, neither the Greens nor the Coalition have confirmed that they will back each other in this. It's just talk at the moment, so we'll have to wait and see.
The government's calling for a thorough investigation into allegations made by several Australian activists that they were sexually assaulted while detained by Israeli forces.
Eleven Australians were on board a global flotilla bound for Gaza when they were detained in international waters near Cyprus last month, with some members of the group saying they were sexually assaulted once detained, claims that the foreign minister says she believes.
Those allegations are terrible. They are horrific. Their treatment is unacceptable. And I express my empathy to those women to whom that was done.
That was Penny Wong in Senate estimates yesterday.
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