Smelters will close without green aluminium funding, Albanese warns as Dutton labels $2bn pledge a ‘con job’

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Federal government aims to encourage power-intensive producers to switch to renewables by 2036

Anthony Albanese says smelters will close and cost many jobs without their newly announced aluminium production incentive, which opposition leader Peter Dutton has labelled a “con job”.

The mining industry welcomed $2bn in federal funding to incentivise power-intensive aluminium producers to switch to renewables by 2036, with Rio Tinto calling it a “critical piece in helping future-proof the industry”.

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At least 86 dead, 55 injured in Nigerian gasoline tanker explosion – NBC News

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  1. At least 86 dead, 55 injured in Nigerian gasoline tanker explosion  NBC News
  2. Seventy killed in central Nigeria after fuel tanker flips over and explodes  The Guardian
  3. Nigerian gasoline tanker explosion kills at least 70 people, authorities say  The Associated Press
  4. Fuel tanker explosion kills 77 people in Suleja area of Nigeria  BBC.com
  5. At least 86 killed in central Nigeria after fuel tanker explodes  FRANCE 24 English
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Get ready for the world’s first trillionaires – CNN

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  1. Get ready for the world’s first trillionaires  CNN
  2. Elon Musk Is on Track to Become a Trillionaire in Two Years  The Daily Beast
  3. Billionaire wealth surges to 'unimaginable' levels in 2024 as Oxfam predicts emergence of five trillionaires within a decade  CNBC
  4. Takers Not Makers: The unjust poverty and unearned wealth of colonialism  Oxfam International
  5. Oxfam says billionaires’ wealth soared in 2024, with 4 ‘minted’ every week  Al Jazeera English
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Reporter leaves Nine after reaching confidential settlement – as it happened

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Lambie says Labor doing ‘a fair bit of clean up’ from nine years of Coalition

Asked about polling showing Peter Dutton had drawn level to Anthony Albanese as preferred PM, and whether this could be attributed to Dutton’s stance on law and order, Jacqui Lambie responded:

It hasn’t got any worse or better, I can assure you. You didn’t get much out of him after nine years, but if people want to fall back into that and go, well, you know, Labor’s had three years and that’s all we’re going to give them, and you want to go back to the good old days – which I wouldn’t say were the good old days under the Liberal National party – then be my guest.

It’s not just about the last three years in government, it’s probably about the last 10. So have a look at who had control of that for nine years beforehand.

Because quite frankly, I think Labor’s doing a fair bit of clean up. Labor’s also put a lot of things in which you will not see coming to fruition until the next three years.

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Three hostages released by Hamas reunited with mothers after ceasefire deal – The Guardian

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  1. Three hostages released by Hamas reunited with mothers after ceasefire deal  The Guardian
  2. ‘Everybody is crying’: Israelis rejoice as 3 hostages returned after more than 470 days in Gaza  CNN
  3. Hospital director says condition of released hostages allows focus to be reunion with families  The Times of Israel
  4. Hamas frees 3 Israeli hostages under Gaza cease-fire deal  Fox News
  5. Palestinians trek across rubble to return to their homes as Gaza ceasefire takes hold  The Associated Press
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Chrystia Freeland warns of Trump’s ‘existential risk’ to Canada in campaign launch

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Freeland casts herself as ‘battle tested leader’ and most capable of negotiating with an unpredictable White House

Chrystia Freeland has warned of the “existential risk” to Canada posed by Donald Trump, casting herself as a “battle tested leader with the scars to prove it” during the formal launch of her bid to be the country’s next prime minister.

Freeland, who has presented herself as the figure most capable of negotiating with a protectionist and unpredictable White House, held her formal campaign launch the day before the incoming president’s inauguration and pledged “dollar to dollar” retaliation for any tariffs that would amount to the “largest trade blow the US has ever endured”.

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Two teenagers die after Sunshine Coast waterfall accident and failed rescue attempt

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Seventeen-year-old girl fell off waterfall at Queensland’s Wappa Falls and 17-year-old boy died after jumping in to help her

Two teenagers have died after an accident at a waterfall on the Sunshine Coast.

A 17-year-old girl fell off a waterfall at Queensland’s Wappa Falls about 2.30pm on Sunday and a 17-year-old boy jumped into the water to help her when she did not resurface, emergency services said.

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Israelis Rejoice Over Ben-Gvir’s Resignation – on Both Left and Right – Haaretz

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  1. Israelis Rejoice Over Ben-Gvir's Resignation – on Both Left and Right  Haaretz
  2. Israeli far-right ministers oppose Gaza ceasefire deal with Hamas  Reuters
  3. Smotrich Bet It All on Blocking a Deal. He Still Hopes Netanyahu Will Come Through  Haaretz
  4. Smotrich to rejoin Knesset as MK, preserving his party's seat total as Otzma Yehudit quits coalition  The Times of Israel
  5. Ben-Gvir, Otzma Yehudit MKs resign from coalition over hostage deal  The Jerusalem Post
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California wind forecast worsens as red flag fire weather warning expected on Monday

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Experts say fire weather likely to return as firefighters make progress containing wildfires and Trump plans trip to state

As firefighters in Los Angeles made progress on Sunday containing wildfires that have destroyed much of the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods, forecasters warned that fire weather is likely to return on Monday.

Donald Trump told NBC news he plans to travel to California to inspect the damage after his inauguration, “probably, at the end of the week”. California governor Gavin Newsom had initially invited the president-elect to visit more than a week ago, even as Trump attacked him on social media and spread misinformation about the state’s Democratic leadership response to the fires.

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Three hostages released by Hamas reunited with mothers after ceasefire deal

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Emily Damari, Romi Gonen and Doron Steinbrecher return to Israel after 15 months in captivity

Three women held hostage by Hamas in tunnels beneath Gaza during 15 months of devastating conflict, including the joint British national Emily Damari, have been released and reunited with their mothers in the first act of a ceasefire deal aimed at ending the conflict.

Damari, 28, Romi Gonen, 24 and Doron Steinbrecher, 31, were handed over to the International Committee for the Red Cross in Gaza on Sunday afternoon, ending a protracted ordeal that began with their violent abduction by Hamas on 7 October 2023.

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