{"id":911563,"date":"2026-09-30T23:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T23:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911563\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T23:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T23:40:10","slug":"australia-news-live-chalmers-says-inflation-still-lower-than-expected-after-rise-but-another-rate-hike-on-horizon-crew-members-passengers-intervene-after-midair-pilot-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911563\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Chalmers says inflation still lower than expected after rise, but another rate hike on horizon; Crew members, passengers intervene after midair pilot stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Tasmania today, announcing a $200 million bailout for the Bell Bay aluminium smelter in a jointly funded relief package handed out alongside the state government.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese said today was \u201ca fantastic day\u201d for the 550 workers at the Rio Tinto owned facility, who now have \u201ccertainty going forward\u201d over their job security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe theme of our budget was reform and resilience. We need to ensure that in today\u2019s uncertain world, we be less dependent upon imports and that we\u2019re able to ensure that we manufacture things for domestic purposes, but also that we manufacture for export as well,\u201d Albanese told journalists in Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rio Tinto\u2019s Bell Bay aluminium smelter on the Tamar River in Tasmania.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/710cea472f48141d9202cfafcccfc29599f636a9.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Rio Tinto\u2019s Bell Bay aluminium smelter on the Tamar River in Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great day. I\u2019m so pleased to be able to meet with workers this morning. Workers who\u2019ve come either from Queensland, we met people from South America, people who\u2019ve come here to make their future for themselves, but in doing the work that they\u2019re doing, they\u2019re also helping to make that future here in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking alongside the prime minister, Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff said the level of cooperation he had experienced from the federal government on the matter was \u201cextraordinary\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outcome we have today is the security of over 500 jobs at Bell Bay Aluminum, but also the 1,000 jobs that are relied on this facility as well, spread right across northern Tasmania. This is vital for our Tasmanian economy, which is why we\u2019ve all worked so hard together. What this means is effectively $5 billion of economic injection into Tasmania, particularly northern Tasmania, over the course of the next five years,\u201d Rockliff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Tasmania today, announcing a $200 million bailout for the Bell Bay aluminium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-911563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}