The federal government will investigate how insurers handled the 2022 floods, assistant treasurer Stephen Jones announced.
Jones visited the flood-hit central west NSW towns of Eugowra, Cudal and Molong ahead of launching the parliamentary inquiry, which will examine the ongoing economic and human challenges from frequent and severe flooding events.
When asked what effect the cancellation of the Commonwealth Games would have on sport in Australia, Bromley said there would be a “significant” impact, right from the grassroots of athletics.“A home [Commonwealth Games] has a unique way of uniting our community, and that community is not just athletes ... It also has an impact on how we encourage people to step up and be volunteers at these sorts of events,” he said.
“There’s still very strong competition across Commonwealth countries, so I think there’s got to be a competition that remains, how we do it is a different thing. “We built further momentum in our Pilbara iron ore business for the quarter, and now expect to deliver shipments in the upper half of our guidance range for the year,” Rio’s chief executive Jakob Stausholm said in a quarterly update.The miner’s Pilbara operations produced 81.3 million tonnes in the second quarter, about 3 per cent higher than the same quarter last year, although shipments were about 1 per cent lower.
“I don’t know the detail of the Victorian circumstances but... our budget in Queensland was $1.2 billion for the Commonwealth Games. The Queensland government insisted on us sticking within that budget, we did that. We were innovative about how to deal with the challenges. The federal government got a “very short heads up” that the announcement would occur on Tuesday morning, the prime minister said.“Obviously it’s not something that we were anticipating, given that it’s been in the wind for some time,” he told 2GB’s Ben Fordham.
It’s deflating for not just the athletes but the entire country and particularly the state of Victoria. The Australian Electoral Commission published the formal Yes and No cases for the proposed Voice to parliament referendum on Tuesday. “This is about just three simple things: recognition, but importantly, it’s about getting better outcomes [and] listening to Indigenous Australians about matters that affect them.”
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