Residents of southeast Queensland have awoken to a frosty morning, with widespread frost visible on satellite to the west and south of Toowoomba.
The Bureau of Meteorology said a number of locations had their coldest morning of the year today, including Oakey on -4.4°C.
the CrowdStrike outage and calls for people to be patient if there are legacy issues – and not take out their frustrations against staff members at grocery stores and hospitality venues.
Asked if Australia is too reliant on too few companies for digital infrastructure, Albanese says:
Those issues will be examined over the coming weeks and months and years. We know that this has had an impact, but the impact was far less than what was first thought it might be, and that shows that agencies have put in place mechanisms as well as the business community …
I think that Australians can take a great deal of heart by the fact that this disruption could have been far worse than it was … [we] acted swiftly and worked together to minimise disruption.
New South Wales.
As AAP reports, the role would direct government agencies to resolve planning challenges and reassess major, unapproved housing projects in a bid to resolve issues and guide government on infrastructure investment.
Housing Now! chair David Borger said:
A dedicated housing coordinator would cut through swathes of red tape, compel government agencies to address issues and inform cabinet on how to progress major housing projects stuck in the planning system.
The recommendation is one of 10 the alliance has made in its 2024 policy platform, launched today. Other policies include rezoning to allow housing to be constructed at places of worship, alternative planning pathways for university accommodation, and better security for renters with an end to no-grounds evictions.
Borger is also scheduled to appear before a parliamentary inquiry into a proposal to develop Rosehill Racecourse in Sydney’s west into a mini-city of up to 25,000 homes.
The inquiry is chaired by NSW’s opposition housing spokesperson Scott Farlow and will examine the development proposal’s process and what role the government played, as well as associated impacts on transport infrastructure and the horse-racing industry.
Trainer Gai Waterhouse has previously voiced her opposition to the proposal and will be first to appear before the committee inquiry today.
New South Wales in a bid to boost social housing stocks, AAP reports, with research showing construction targets will not be met.
Sites in Wollongong and Lake Macquarie, south of Sydney, have been selected to trial modular social homes under a NSW government trial hoped to speed up delivery. But the government is still working through regulatory barriers for modular housing, which has not been rolled out at scale in the state before.
Housing affordability and availability is putting pressure on people in NSW and the state needs to use “non-traditional methods” to deliver more homes sooner, premier Chris Minns said:
We are pulling every lever we can to tackle the housing crisis.
The government is working with the state’s building commission on standards for offsite manufacturing of homes.
Research from Oxford Economics Australia today predicted more than one in five of the 1.2m dwellings the nation is trying to build in the next five years will not be completed.
No date yet for Albanese’s wedding
At the end of the interview, Anthony Albanese is asked if a date has been set for his wedding. He says it “is a busy time” and a date will be set “when we can find a gap”.
Albanese also says he is supposed to be on leave today, but is back because of Joe Biden’s announcement.
Source: theguardian.com
