G’day. It’s Friday, June 17, and also you’re studying The Loop, a fast wrap-up of at the moment’s information.
Something you may be listening to about at the moment
There’s a nationwide cabinet assembly on at the moment.
Remember these? They used to cease us all in our tracks? They’d shut down total industries, announce strict lockdown and social distancing measures, and reveal main emergency coverage modifications? Well, at the moment’s would be the first of its sort with the new Prime Minister on the helm.
While we’re not getting ready for it to be fairly as intense as these mid-COVID disaster conferences again within the day, one of many key agenda gadgets will nonetheless be well being care. Here’s what we predict from it.
News whilst you snoozed
- Russia’s overseas ministry has sanctioned 121 more Australians, citing what it calls a “Russophobic agenda”. Mining magnate Gina Rinehart, Seven West Media chairman Kerry Stokes, Atlassian boss Mike Cannon-Brookes, Fortescue Metals CEO Andrew Forrest and SA Premier Peter Malinauskas have been added to the listing, as have key defence officers and journalists and editors from ABC News, the Sydney Morning Herald, Nine and News Corp
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- NSW Treasurer and Energy Minister Matt Kean has been granted emergency powers to direct coal corporations to present gas for electrical energy turbines. The state’s Governor, Margaret Beazley, granted Mr Kean the powers at a gathering final night time. It’s understood they had been sought as a “precautionary measure” to guarantee NSW’s electrical energy provide
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There’s been one other day of hearings into the US Capitol riots, with a spotlight on legal professional John Eastman‘s function as an architect of the scheme to interrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. The committee performed videotaped testimony from Eric Herschmann, a lawyer advising Donald Trump, expressing incredulity at Mr Eastman’s authorized principle {that a} vice-president might overturn an election, asking: “Are you out of your effing mind?“
What Australia has been trying to find on-line
- Kevin Spacey. The actor has once more “strenuously” denied allegations of a number of historic intercourse offences as his case has continued within the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London
- The South Sydney Rabbitohs. Long story brief, the Bunnies had an absolute shocker in opposition to the Dragons final night time, taking place 32-12 in what was arguably their worst hit-out of the season up to now
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