A recap: this afternoon, most phones, and some smartwatches and tablets, will receive a pop-up notification and an alert sound that cannot be silenced \u2013 even if your device is on \u201cdo not disturb\u201d or silent mode. The warning system will be deployed to prepare Australians for fires, floods, terrorist incidents or health emergencies.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a backgrounder we prepared earlier on the nationwide test:<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.54 EDT<\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n Emergency management minister Kristy McBain has said the AusAlert system that will be tested this afternoon is \u201cmuch more accurate than the current system\u201d, following several outages from major telco companies in recent months that saw hundreds of people unable to access triple zero.<\/p>\n McBain told ABC News Breakfast today:<\/p>\n double quotation mark[AusAlert] doesn\u2019t rely on any one telco provider, it\u2019s not subject to network congestion, and we can geolocate an alert down to 160 metres of where an incident is actually occurring.<\/p>\n In an actual emergency event (not a test, like today), the alert would explain what the type of emergency is, where it\u2019s located, how serious it is, the emergency organisation that sent it, and where to get more information.<\/p>\n McBain emphasised the system would work alongside existing warning channels such as websites, radio, social media, television, and community outreach, and that it was \u201canother tool in the toolkit\u201d.<\/p>\n McBain also said on Monday the government had \u201cdone a lot of work\u201d with domestic violence groups to limit harm, and that any victims should place their phone in aeroplane mode before the alert sounds.<\/p>\n \u2013 with AAP<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Emergency warning siren to blare across most phones today at 2pm AEST<\/p>\n A reminder that today\u2019s the long-awaited AusAlert day! The day when every phone in the country (except for those who take specific precautions<\/a>) will \u2013 or should, at any rate \u2013 blare an emergency siren at 2pm AEST as part of the first Australia-wide test of a new national warning system.<\/p>\n A recap: this afternoon, most phones, and some smartwatches and tablets, will receive a pop-up notification and an alert sound that cannot be silenced \u2013 even if your device is on \u201cdo not disturb\u201d or silent mode. The warning system will be deployed to prepare Australians for fires, floods, terrorist incidents or health emergencies.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a backgrounder we prepared earlier on the nationwide test:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.54 EDT<\/p>\n Man charged with murder after woman fatally injured at home in Melbourne<\/p>\n A man has been charged with the murder of a woman in Melbourne\u2019s outer south-east last night, according to police.<\/p>\n Emergency services were called to a home in Clyde North on Sunday evening at about 6.30pm after reports a woman had been seriously injured.<\/p>\n The woman was found critically injured in the home and was taken to hospital with life threatening injuries, where she later died.<\/p>\n Police arrested a 32-year-old man at the property. They believe he was known to the woman. He was charged with one count of murder and will appear in the Melbourne magistrates court today.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.52 EDT<\/p>\n Paterson again hoses down possibility of Liberal-One Nation coalition<\/p>\n Paterson also sought to hose down the possibility of a Liberal coalition with One Nation, after Liberal senator Andrew Bragg appeared to leave the door open to it, in some roundabout comments on the Today Show.<\/p>\n Paterson said:<\/p>\n double quotation markI think Angus Taylor\u2019s made the position of the Liberal party very clear. My assessment is it\u2019s widely supported by colleagues. We have one coalition partner already, which is the National party, our traditional coalition partner, and we are not in the market for any other coalition partners \u2026<\/p>\n I\u2019d be surprised if Andrew Bragg is advocating for a coalition with One Nation. That\u2019s not my understanding of his views. I think he made a sensible point that we\u2019ll work out our preferences in the normal time, in the normal way, closer to the election.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.21 EDT<\/p>\n Latest US tariffs on Australia \u2018unjustified\u2019, James Paterson says<\/p>\n The 12.5% tariff imposed on Australia by the US government is \u201cunjustified\u201d and should be reconsidered, the shadow defence spokesperson, James Paterson, has said.<\/p>\n The tariffs were imposed after a US trade investigation into forced labour and international supply chains. Speaking to ABC RN, Paterson said:<\/p>\n double quotation markIt\u2019s unjustified. Australia is not a haven of slave labour-produced goods and it\u2019s inconsistent with the spirit and the letter, in my view, of our free trade agreement and the partnership that we have with the United States, which is very deep and very sincere and very important. And I\u2019d really hope that the administration reconsiders applying tariffs like these to countries like Australia.<\/p>\n Paterson, who has recently been in the US and met with Pentagon officials, said the US sentiment towards Australia on Aukus, however, was \u201cvery positive\u201d:<\/p>\n double quotation mark[The US has] had their very well-publicised review about Aukus and they\u2019ve made an active decision to proceed with Aukus. And so the focus is now delivering \u2026 Everybody acknowledges there is more work to be done on increasing those submarine production rates to make them where we all want them to be.<\/p>\n Shadow defence spokesperson James Paterson. Photograph: Lukas Coch\/AAPShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.23 EDT<\/p>\n Culture of debate \u2018not valued as it should be\u2019 within Labor, Husic says<\/p>\n Labor\u2019s Ed Husic has said there was \u201can extraordinary amount of energy expended\u201d at Labor\u2019s national conference last week on stopping his motion to recognise Israel\u2019s campaign in Gaza as a genocide from even reaching the floor<\/a>, rather than allowing it to be debated.<\/p>\n Husic told ABC\u2019s RN this morning:<\/p>\n double quotation markI am concerned \u2026 the climate that exists in the party at the moment about having a different view is one that\u2019s not valued as it should be. We bring perspectives from constituencies we represent on issues we feel strongly about, and that you want to be able to have those voices represented, particularly at the floor of conference.<\/p>\n He said there\u2019s a large constituency that want this issue to be \u201cventilated and importantly, responded to\u201d.<\/p>\n double quotation markThere\u2019s a lot of support. I have to say, I\u2019ve been really grateful for the support that I\u2019ve received from rank-and-file members, from our supporters, from people in the public who believe it\u2019s right to be able to have \u2013 you may not agree with the issue but believe it\u2019s important to speak about. But a lot of party members feel strongly on this issue about what\u2019s happened in Gaza, what\u2019s happening in the West Bank, and they do want the government to be part of a process to stand up to that.<\/p>\n Labor member for Chifley Ed Husic leaves after a press conference at last week\u2019s Labor conference in Adelaide. Photograph: Mick Tsikas\/AAP<\/p>\n He continued:<\/p>\n double quotation markI\u2019ve been forward about the ideas that I believe strongly in, and on this issue in particular, that when Israel undertook a campaign in Gaza during our last term of government in the Rudd Gillard years, my son had just been born and I saw a father in Gaza taking a two-year-old out of rubble. And I rang the Israeli ambassador at that point and said, where do you think this ends? Like, my view is there\u2019s got to be space for both Israelis and Palestinians.<\/p>\n It\u2019s something I\u2019ve spoken about for ages. It\u2019s something I\u2019ve spoken about as a minister. And while I don\u2019t necessarily ascribe my faith to all the things that I do in public life, on this, as Australia\u2019s first minister of Muslim faith, and where I express views early on, and where I come from a Bosnian Muslim background, where we have witnessed genocide \u2013 that took 10 years to establish as a genocide. Like, I am going to have views about it. And I think it\u2019s only fair that I be able to express them.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.13 EDT<\/p>\n Barnaby Joyce suggests One Nation could accept some refugees while barring other migrants<\/p>\n It\u2019s also well worth watching this video of Guardian Australia\u2019s community affairs reporter Adeshola Ore\u2019s interview with Barnaby Joyce about Armidale\u2019s refugee resettlement program and One Nation\u2019s policy positions on immigration.<\/p>\n One Nation\u2019s policy is that immigrants who do not speak English should \u201cunder no circumstances \u2026 be able to settle in Australia\u201d.<\/p>\n However, Joyce told the Guardian there could be an exemption for refugees under a One Nation government because they are a different cohort than \u201cgeneral immigration\u201d.<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.01 EDT<\/p>\n Nine years ago, as deputy prime minister and Nationals MP for New England, Barnaby Joyce was instrumental in supporting a resident-backed campaign for Armidale to be a site for resettling refugees, spruiking its benefits for reducing regional skills shortages<\/a>.<\/p>\n Last December, the area\u2019s federal MP, Barnaby Joyce, defected from the Nationals to One Nation, saying he was \u201cphilosophically aligned\u201d<\/a> with the rightwing party.<\/p>\n On a national level, One Nation is pushing a vision of a \u201cmonocultural\u201d Australia<\/a> alongside an anti-immigration agenda. But in the electorate of the party\u2019s most high-profile recruit, a different story is playing out.<\/p>\n Read the full story here:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.45 EDT<\/p>\n Key figure in Icac NSW Liberal inquiry will not appear<\/p>\n A key figure at the centre of an anti-corruption inquiry involving the New South Wales<\/a> Liberal party has moved to the UK and is not expected to give evidence during eight weeks of public hearings.<\/p>\n The Independent Commission Against Corruption<\/a> (Icac) will start its Operation Rosny hearings on Monday. The first witness will be hotelier Michael O\u2019Hara, followed later in the week by former Liberal staffer Dylan Whitelaw and consultant Robert Assaf.<\/p>\n O\u2019Hara and Assaf are among 10 individuals Icac has said it is investigating. Whitelaw is not named in the Icac allegations.<\/p>\n Christian Ellis, a former registered lobbyist and Liberal powerbroker who once received a glowing endorsement from the federal opposition leader, Angus Taylor, is named in two Icac allegations but is not expected to appear.<\/p>\n A 2023 parliamentary inquiry preceded Icac\u2019s current examination of \u201cpossible offences under the Electoral Funding Act\u201d. Since that parliamentary inquiry, Ellis has moved to the UK, Guardian Australia can reveal.<\/p>\n Read the full story here:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.31 EDT<\/p>\n Jacinta Allan loses majority caucus support after meeting of state Labor factions Speculation has been mounting overnight that Victoria\u2019s Labor premier Jacinta Allan will face a leadership challenge this week, just four months from an election.<\/p>\n Factional conveners from Labor\u2019s left and right met on Sunday night to discuss whether Allan still had the support of a majority of the caucus. It is understood the group agreed she did not.<\/p>\n But the pathway to a leadership challenge remains unclear as Allan\u2019s most likely opponent \u2013 the deputy premier, Ben Carroll \u2013 has indicated to colleagues he would only run if the position was vacant.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.26 EDT<\/p>\n Morning folks, Stephanie Convery with you here to bring you all the live news today. Thanks so much to my colleagues for kicking us off this morning.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Commonwealth Games swimming record for Australian sprint ace<\/p>\n Cam McEvoy has dominated the 50m freestyle final in Glasgow, breaking the Commonwealth Games record, AAP reports.<\/p>\n McEvoy, who broke the world record in March, was the only finalist to crack 21 seconds as he led home an Australian medal sweep.<\/p>\n The 32-year-old dad clocked 20.97 seconds to beat Flynn Southam\u2019s 21.44, while Jamie Jack took bronze in 21.47.<\/p>\n It is McEvoy\u2019s first individual Commonwealth Games gold medal.<\/p>\n Read more about Australia\u2019s overnight medals scoop here:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.39 EDT<\/p>\n Two more bird flu cases confirmed in South Australia<\/p>\n Two local birds in South Australia suspected to have a deadly bird flu<\/a>, greater crested terns found in Robe and Semaphore, have been confirmed positive for the H5N1 virus by CSIRO.<\/p>\n This takes the total of H5 confirmed or presumed positive detections to 20 nationally, Australia\u2019s acting chief veterinary officer, Dr Sam Hamilton, said in a Sunday statement.<\/p>\n double quotation markAll of these have been individual wild seabirds found in coastal locations.<\/p>\n There remains no evidence of any mass mortality events and there are no detections in poultry or in our agricultural production system.<\/p>\n The risk to human health remains low.<\/p>\n Share<\/a> NSW planning minister calls for bill to allow commercial activity around new pool<\/p>\n The planning and public services minister, Paul Scully, said the Callan park upgrades represented a \u201cnew era\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe new tidal baths and return of 1.6 hectares, or the equivalent of 4,000 large picnic blankets of green open space, to the community will mean more people can enjoy this great parkland,\u201d he said on Monday.<\/p>\n Scully argued Callan park would be further improved by the Parklands bill, which passed the state\u2019s lower house in May and was now before the Legislative Council. Legislation currently prevents any commercial activity in Callan park.<\/p>\n \u201cFor the park to be able to host your new favourite caf\u00e9 and reach its full potential, we need the \u2026 bill to pass parliament,\u201d Scully said.<\/p>\n When opened, the Callan park baths will be the latest of Sydney\u2019s new or re-animated public swimming spots. Marrinawi Cove at Barangaroo was dubbed Sydney\u2019s first city beach in 50 years when it opened in 2023.<\/p>\n Bayview park on the Parramatta River reopened for swimming in 2022 after being closed for more than five decades. The river also boasts Chiswick baths and Cabarita beach, while \u201cPondi\u201d \u2013 Penrith beach \u2013 was opened in Castlereagh in 2024.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>New Sydney Harbour pool to open this summer Sydney\u2019s latest harbour swimming pool, on the banks of Callan Park in Lilyfield, will open for swimmers this summer, the state government says, with construction now under way.<\/p>\n The new tidal baths on the Iron Cove foreshore, along the popular Bay Run and close to sports fields like Leichhardt Oval and King George Park, is expected to attract thousands to the southern banks of the Parramatta River.<\/p>\n Demolition work has also started on nine unsafe buildings in Callan park \u201cwhich were neglected for so long that they have become not only an eyesore but a safety hazard\u201d, the Minns government said on Monday.<\/p>\n \u201cThe removal of these long cordoned off buildings will unlock central parts of Callan Park, delivering the equivalent of two football fields of green space back to free community use,\u201d the government said in a statement.<\/p>\n The baths will include a shark net, a fixed jetty, a pontoon, and an accessible pathway and ramp into the water.<\/p>\n Construction of the new tidal baths was expected to take six months, meaning it should open for summer 2026. The building demolition in Callan park was also expected to be completed by the end of this year.<\/p>\n An artist’s rendition of the Callan Park swim site on the Parramatta River in Sydney’s inner west. Photograph: NSW governmentShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.17 EDT<\/p>\n Good morning<\/p>\n Stephanie Convery will be with you soon to take you through today\u2019s news as it unfolds.<\/p>\n At 2pm AEST today, most phones in the country will blare an emergency siren as part of the first nationwide test<\/a> of the new AusAlert warning system. People who may have secret \u201csafe phones\u201d, kept hidden for personal safety reasons, have been advised to consider turning off their devices<\/a> for up to 24 hours after the test and drivers have been warned not to touch their phones during the alert.<\/p>\n The Royal Commission on Anti-semitism and Social Cohesion continues in Sydney.<\/p>\n And Ed Husic is up on ABC Radio soon to talk about fallout from the national Labor conference.<\/p>\n![\"Barnaby](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8002.jpg\")
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