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Happy Tuesday!
The Australian Electoral Commission will publish the Yes and No cases for the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament today.
The AEC will use the 2,000 word documents to begin work on official pamphlets, which will eventually be mailed out to voters ahead of the referendum.
The referendum will be held sometime between September and December this year. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has not yet announced the specific date.
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The quote
"Are you really worth seven times the salary of the Australian prime minister?" – Senator Deborah O'Neill in a question to Adam Powick, the CEO of Deloitte, during a Senate committee hearing on Monday. He replied "no".
The stat
4
The number of albums Taylor Swift currently has in the Top 10 of the U.S. album charts. She is the first woman to achieve this.
Today in history
1976: Nadia Comaneci was awarded the first-ever perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics.
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Some headlines from this morning:
A woman has been hospitalised after being attacked by four dingoes. The 23-year-old was bitten on her limbs and torso while jogging on K’gari, formerly known as Fraser Island. Paramedics say the dingoes followed her into the water before she was wounded. She was taken to hospital in a stable condition.
At least 40 people have died in torrential rain in South Korea. Downpours have lashed central parts of the country over the past week. Fifteen vehicles were trapped in a flooded tunnel in the city of Cheongju.
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Landlords in South Australia will soon need a valid reason to lawfully end a lease, bringing the state in line with most of Australia.
A ban on 'no-grounds evictions' means landlords cannot terminate a fixed-term lease, or end a period tenancy (e.g. month-to-month agreement) without an eligible reason.
Western Australia and the Northern Territory are now the only parts of Australia that have not banned, or proposed a ban, on no-grounds evictions.
Eligible reasons:
A landlord can still evict a tenant if they want to sell, renovate, or live in their property. Another eligible reason would be if a tenant breaches their lease agreement.
Draft laws are expected to be tabled in Parliament sometime this year.
Opposition response:
SA Opposition Leader David Speirs opposed the reforms, saying they would "contribute to landlords leaving the rental market and not providing homes to rent".
"It's important to get the appropriate protections in place for renters, but you can't do that if you're pushing landlords out of the market."
The rest of Australia:
Western Australia and the Northern Territory are yet to either ban, or launch plans to ban, no-grounds evictions.
WA Premier Roger Cook said his Government had no plans to outlaw no-grounds evictions.
He said a ban could compromise investment in WA's property market, and believed his government's rental policies strike "the right balance" between landlords and tenants.
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An official challenge seeking to cancel all remaining COVID fines in NSW has been filed in the state's Supreme Court.
Police issued the fines for breaches of COVID restrictions.
The Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is seeking for 29,000 fines to be scrapped after it successfully challenged the validity of 33,000 fines last year.
The previous case:
Last year's court challenge found two types of COVID fines were invalid because they didn't include enough detail about the offence committed.
Those fines were either withdrawn or refunded, and any other penalties imposed on the recipient, such as driving restrictions, were dropped.
At the time, the RLC said the judgement called into "disrepute" the remaining COVID fines, and asked the Government to withdraw them.
The court challenge:
The latest court challenge centres around one plaintiff who was handed a $3,000 fine for leaving Sydney without an eligible reason.
She was living out of her van at the time and waiting for a permit at the NSW border to travel to South Australia where she had been offered accommodation.
The RLC argues her fine should be repealed because it doesn't meet the requirements specified in last year's judgement.
The NSW Government’s response:
At the time of last year's decision, Revenue NSW said the remaining fines weren't affected by the decision and would still need to be paid.
It also said the decision to withdraw the fines "does not mean the offences were not committed".
Criticism:
The RLC also argues it is "especially important" for fines to be withdrawn because "COVID fines were disproportionately issued to communities with a high proportion of First Nation populations and in low socio-economic areas".
A report by the University of NSW found that "residents in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the state... were disproportionately affected". The most affected areas were South-Western, Western Sydney and more broadly Western NSW.
Give me some good news
All Queenslanders will be eligible for a free flu vaccination.
It will be available for five weeks from 22 July and offered at pharmacies and GPs across the state.
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A TDA tidbit
A Sydney man has survived two months in the Pacific Ocean by eating raw fish, drinking rainwater and hiding from the sun under his boat’s canopy.
Tim Shaddock and his dog Bella were rescued last week after a helicopter spotted them.
The 51-year-old had left the coast of Mexico in April and was heading for French Polynesia before a storm damaged his boat’s electronics and sent them off track.
A video obtained by Nine News shows the moment the man was rescued, telling the boat: “Tim Shaddock … I’m from Australia.”
He later said: “We’ve been through a very difficult ordeal at sea.
“And I’m just needing rest and good food because I’ve been alone at sea a long time.”
The Daily Aus acknowledges the Gadigal peoples of the Eora Nation who are the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work. We acknowledge and pay respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.