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The ISIS bride currently on trial in Melbourne has been accused of trying to indoctrinate her own children and expressing an intent to kill “non-believers”. It seems that she married multiple Islamic State fighters, and it appears that she only left Islamic State when it was defeated, not because there was any change in her views. Apparently, the reason she hasn’t attended any deradicalisation classes since returning to Australia is because the process is “a bit much for her”.

I wonder how much this charade is costing the Australian taxpayer? This vile individual clearly despises Australia and all that we stand for. She should never have been allowed to set foot in our country again.

The Albanese Labor Government has secured another 40 million litres of additional diesel for Queenslanders, through an agreement between Export Finance Australia (EFA) and independent supplier Freedom Fuels.

This shipment is due to arrive to Brisbane in June for onwards distribution to regional Queensland. This is in addition to 16 separate shipments already secured in partnership with Ampol, BP Australia, IOR and Viva Energy.

Combined, this brings the total amount of additional fuel shipments through the Government’s new Fuel and Fertiliser Security Facility to approximately 690 million litres of diesel and approximately 150 million litres of jet fuel across 17 additional shipments.

EFA has partnered with Ampol, BP Australia, Freedom Fuels, IOR and Viva Energy to make these 17 additional cargoes of diesel and jet fuel possible so far. More shipments are expected under these agreements.

Under its Strategic Reserve powers, the Albanese Government has also now supported an additional approximately 205,000 tonnes of agricultural grade urea through agreements between EFA, CSBP and Incitec Pivot.

Through these measures and ongoing negotiations with industry, the Albanese Government is securing essential fuel and fertiliser supplies to safeguard Australians from the impacts of continuing global volatility, and to keep our nation and our people moving.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

“In the face of global instability, we are leaving no stone unturned as we work to keep Australia moving, working and flying.

“This is a win for regional Queensland when they need it most, through a partnership between our Government and a business with demonstrated and reliable pathways to ensure fuel gets to farmers and growers who need it.”

Minister for Trade Don Farrell

“By underwriting additional fuel purchases, the Albanese Government is helping to keep our road transport and farm machinery moving at a time of supply volatility.

“This particular purchase of diesel will provide confidence to tourists planning to undertake road trips to regional Queensland.”

Minister Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen

“Our Government is continuing to do everything we can to secure our fuel security, to shield Australians from the impacts of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

“This 40 million litres of extra diesel will ensure that we keep households, farmers and businesses in regional Queensland moving.”

“There is no evidence that trans women are harming other women in toilets or change rooms.” — Anna Cody, Sex Discrimination Commissioner
 
Anna Cody’s assertion in today’s The Australian is as reckless as it is naïve.
 
While Ms Cody claims there is “no evidence” that biological males identifying as women pose risks to females in female-only spaces, women in Australian prisons have already paid the price for this ideology.
 
In South Australia, multiple allegations have emerged involving violent male prisoner Krista Richards being housed in women’s prisons. The case became a national scandal after reports that female inmates had allegedly been sexually assaulted and intimidated after authorities prioritised gender identity ideology over women’s safety. Family First has repeatedly called on the Malinauskas Government to remove biological males from women’s prisons and protect vulnerable female inmates.
 
In Victoria, the Allan Government was forced into damage control after a biological male prisoner who identified as a woman sexually assaulted a female inmate after being transferred into a women’s prison. The victim reportedly received a secret compensation payout while the government quietly rewrote prison placement policies after the scandal became public.
 
These are not hypothetical concerns.
 
These are real women harmed by real men who should never have been placed in female facilities.
 
Ms Cody’s comments demonstrate the danger of ideology replacing common sense.
 
If biological males can harm women in prisons, where women are a captive population unable to leave, it is entirely reasonable for women and girls to be concerned about the erosion of sex-based protections in other female-only spaces.
 
Family First rejects the increasingly common claim that a man becomes a woman simply by declaring it.
 
Women and girls deserve privacy, dignity and safety.
 
Even more concerning is Ms Cody’s promotion of the notion that sex is merely an identity rather than a biological reality.
 
This ideology has already contributed to thousands of vulnerable children being encouraged to question their sex, leading many onto pathways involving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and irreversible surgeries. Around the world, governments and medical authorities are retreating from these practices as the evidence of harm mounts.
 
The Australian Human Rights Commission has become one of the nation’s most powerful promoters of gender ideology while increasingly ignoring the rights and concerns of women.
 
Family First therefore reiterates its policy to abolish the Australian Human Rights Commission and the highly paid bureaucracy that sustains it. Anna Cody is on $400,000+ in her role as Sex Discrimination Commissioner.
 
Australians should be asking why taxpayers fund a Human Rights Commission that spends so much time advancing radical gender ideology while failing to defend the rights of women and girls.
 
Ms Cody correctly notes that 22 women and children have allegedly died this year as a result of gendered violence.
 
She is right that violence against women deserves national attention.
 
But protecting women from violence also means preventing biological males from being placed in women’s prisons, women’s sport, women’s change rooms, women’s shelters and other female-only spaces.
 
Women’s rights are not protected by pretending biological sex does not exist.
 
Family First will continue fighting for laws that recognise biological reality, protect women and children, and restore common sense to public policy.

Palliative Care Australia (PCA) has warned that proposed amendments to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Act risk leaving people with life-limiting illness without access to essential care and support.
In a submission to the Senate Committee Inquiry into the amendments to the NDIS legislation, PCA raised serious concerns that the Bill, as currently drafted, presents an unacceptable risk to the safe and dignified care of people whose support needs arise from a life-limiting condition.

PCA said the legislation acknowledges that people may face barriers to appropriate treatment because of where they live or because they cannot afford direct or out-of-pocket healthcare costs. However, the Bill also states that it is not the role of the NDIS to fill gaps in affordable and accessible health services.

PCA National Policy Director Josh Fear said this creates a dangerous gap for vulnerable Australians.
“Under this approach, people with life-limiting or terminal illness could find themselves locked out of both systems,” Mr Fear said.
“The Bill effectively accepts that some people may be unable to access appropriate healthcare because of cost or geography, while also excluding them from accessing functional supports through the NDIS.

“That is not an adequate safeguard for people with complex and highly vulnerable care needs.”
Mr Fear said the proposed changes fail to recognise the reality faced by many Australians living with serious illness, particularly in rural, regional and remote communities where access to specialist health and palliative care services is already limited.
“People approaching the end of life should not be left navigating gaps between systems while trying to manage serious illness, disability and distress,” Mr Fear said.

“We are calling on the Senate Committee and the Australian Government to ensure the legislation protects equitable access to both healthcare and disability supports for people with life-limiting conditions.”
PCA’s submission urges the Committee to consider safeguards to ensure people with permanent and significant disabilities arising from a terminal diagnosis are not left without essential supports.

PCA’s submission raises concerns regarding:
· Unreasonably precluding entry to the NDIS for people with life-limiting conditions who are undergoing treatment, or struggling to access treatment.
· Reducing the already-constrained capacity of the NDIS to respond flexibly and swiftly to fluctuating functional capacity and to rapid functional decline.
· Delayed decision-making timeframes that are unsuitable for people with short-life expectancies, including a proposed 90-day timeframe for decisions about unscheduled plan reassessments.
· Decreased NDIS capacity to intervene early to meet the functional support needs of people with progressive terminal conditions before they reach crisis point.
· Further fragmenting the care and supports offered to people with life-limiting conditions by the health system, the NDIS and other service systems.
PCA’s submission also encourages the Senate Committee to consider options to ensure the functional support needs of people under 65 with life-limiting conditions are prioritised in the disability reform process, with the aim of resolving the current service gap for those not eligible for NDIS supports.
Palliative Care Australia is the national peak body for palliative care.

Family First National Director Lyle Shelton says Australia’s military must focus on defending the nation, not accommodating gender ideology.
 
Mr Shelton was responding to reports that transgender and non-binary recruits to the Australian Defence Force are assessed according to their “affirmed gender” rather than their biological sex in fitness testing and other service requirements.
 
“The military is not a laboratory for social experiments. Biological males should not be allowed to pass a female fitness test because they identify as female,” Mr Shelton said.
 
“The primary purpose of the Australian Defence Force is to defend Australia and win wars. It is not to validate personal identity choices or promote the latest ideological trends.”
 
“Family First agrees with the standards now being enforced by the United States Department of War under President Donald Trump. Military personnel should be assessed according to their biological sex, not an asserted gender identity.”
 
Mr Shelton said the revelations raised serious questions about combat readiness, fairness and interoperability with Australia’s most important defence ally.
 
“The fact that transgender and non-binary personnel are reportedly unable to participate in parts of the AUKUS nuclear submarine program because of United States military requirements should be a wake-up call for Canberra.”
 
“If people wish to change their gender, a career in the military may not be the right path for them. Australia’s national security is too important to be compromised by policies that deny biological reality.”
 
Side effects of gender conversion therapy treatments include impaired brain function, muscle atrophy and sterility.
 
Mr Shelton said Australians expected defence recruitment and promotion standards to be based on merit, capability and objective physical requirements.
 
“At a time when the ADF faces recruitment challenges and growing strategic threats in our region, Defence leaders should be focused on military effectiveness, not woke agendas.”

Victorian Greens Leader Ellen Sandell will use the party’s Campaign Conference on Saturday to make the Greens’ clearest pitch yet to young people and voters fed up with the major parties, declaring the Greens are ‘not just here to pressure Labor, we’re here to replace them’. 

In the major vision-setting speech Sandell will position housing affordability and economic fairness at the centre of the Greens’ election campaign, with Sandell foreshadowing major upcoming housing announcements aimed at helping ordinary people into homes and rebalancing a housing system increasingly stacked against younger generations. 

The Greens will unveil a new $18 billion ‘Fair Share Plan’ to make the big banks, gambling corporations, fossil fuel giants and wealthy property developers pay more tax to fund permanently free public transport, more renewable energy and more public housing. 

The speech also marks a major escalation in the Victorian Greens’ positioning towards Labor, with Sandell arguing the Allan Labor Government has become too focussed on clinging to power rather than solving the crises communities are facing. 

The party’s campaign conference will also feature international organisers and campaigners from major progressive movements overseas, including from the campaign of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. 

Later in the day Sandell will interview UK Greens Leader Zack Polanski, whose party has surged against amidst growing dissatisfaction with Labour. 

In her speech, Sandell will argue that Victoria is experiencing the same political conditions driving these progressive insurgent movements overseas, as more voters abandon the major parties and that the Greens are ready to win more lower house seats off both Labor and the Liberals this November.

Leader of the Victorian Greens, Ellen Sandell: 

“Even if you work hard and do everything right, it’s getting harder to get ahead and people are fed up. 

“Labor keeps asking you to vote for them, while refusing to make the big changes people need. 

“People are done with a Labor government that’s more interested in protecting their own power than solving the big problems that people are facing. 

“The Greens aren’t here to make Labor better. We’re here to replace them.”

“The time to break the two-party system is now. This is the Greens’ moment, and we’re ready to win more seats in November”

“The Greens are the only party with a real plan to fix the system – to make housing affordable, cap rents, take real climate action and finally make big corporations pay their fair share to fund the things we all need to live a decent life, like free public transport and renewable energy to bring down energy bills”

“If we want things to change, we can’t keep settling for less. This election, people have the chance to demand better by voting Greens.”

The Leader of the UK Greens, Zack Polanski, has joined the Victorian Greens’ push to turn growing frustration with Labor into electoral success at this year’s state election, telling hundreds of Greens supporters that the same political conditions driving the Greens’ breakthrough in the UK are emerging in Victoria.

In conversation with the Victorian Greens Leader Ellen Sandell at the party’s Campaign Conference on Saturday, they discussed how rising living costs, growing inequality and growing disillusionment with establishment politics were creating opportunities for Greens movements around the world.

Earlier in the day, Sandell delivered a keynote speech where she argued that Victoria is experiencing the same political conditions driving progressive insurgent movements overseas, as more voters abandon the major parties and that the Greens are ready to win more lower house seats off both Labor and the Liberals this November. 

Polanski’s appearance comes as the Victorian Greens prepare for the November state election, with the party arguing voters are increasingly looking beyond the major parties. 

Polanski shared lessons from the UK Greens’ recent surge in support, which has seen membership soar, major local government gains and the party win new parliamentary seats, saying that Greens movements were succeeding because they understood the frustration many people felt with politics as usual and were prepared to offer a hopeful alternative and that he wants to see “Greens governments all around the world.” 

Addressing the party’s state conference via video link on Saturday, Polanski said: 

“People are feeling more and more angry, more and more disillusioned, and more and more ready for change.”

“The other parties take money from oil and gas companies, private healthcare companies, gambling companies and arms trade companies.”

“The Green Party only has two vested interests. We want to protect the communities that we seek to serve, and we want to protect the planet.”

“I’m not here to be concerned or disappointed by the Labour Party, I’m here to replace the Labour Party. We’ve just replaced Labour in hundreds of seats across England and Wales at the council level.”

“I want to see Green governments all around the world.”

Quotes attributable the Leader of the Victorian Greens, Ellen Sandell: 

“People are fed up because they’re working harder than ever but finding it harder to afford a home, pay the rent or keep up with rising bills.”

“For too long Labor has taken people for granted. They’ve become too focused on protecting powerful interests while ordinary people are being left behind.”

“What Zack and the UK Greens have shown is that when you connect with people’s frustration, take on vested interests and offer real solutions, people respond.”

“The same conditions that fuelled the Greens breakthrough in the UK exist right here in Victoria. People are frustrated, they feel ignored and they’re ready for change.”

“People are fed up with Labor and the Victorian Greens are the hopeful alternative.”