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Australia and NZ to coordinate on electric vehicle fleet

Royce Kurmelovs

Australia will coordinate with New Zealand when it comes to procuring electric vehicles for its government fleet.

Prime minister Anthony Albanese made the announcement on Friday when discussing opportunities for trans-Tasman collaboration in the area of renewable energy.

Albanese said:

If we are all competing against each other for procurement at the same time, we will end up paying more for it but not if there is cooperation between Australia and New Zealand.

The PM went on to say this collaboration could also include the creation of industry policy and developing domestic manufacturing capacity for renewable energy – a key issue following an International Energy Agency report on Friday that said China dominated the photovoltaic solar supply chain:

What’s more, if we are looking at the potential that I certainly see Australia having of stepping up industry policy and manufacturing in the renewable sector, then that, if it is combined across our two nations, could have a much more positive economic outcome.

Government and corporate fleet buying is considered one way to boost the uptake of electric vehicles. As governments and corporations regularly update their fleets, the old cars are sold on the second-hand market, making them available to people who can’t afford to buy a new car outright.

This announcement suggests Australian and New Zealand governments will work together rather than be drawn into a bidding war for a limited pool of electric vehicles being sent to the region, which would drive up the price.

Energy minister Chris Bowen told the National Press Club in June that the new government planned to convert three in four cars in the commonwealth fleet to “no-emissions vehicles”.

This was part of the government’s “Driving The Nation” plan which also aimed to install a fast charger every 150km on Australian highways.

The new Albanese government has been promising to make the uptake of electric vehicles a priority, promising to cut tariffs on their importation and abolish the fringe benefits tax on “affordable electric vehicles” from 1 July.

Updated at 23.31 EDT

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If it weren’t for a helicopter hovering overhead there’d be few signs that western Sydney had been lashed with floods while heading down the Hume motorway on Friday morning.

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Blue skies had finally hit the region, as strings of emergency vehicles flocked to Windsor where the Hawkesbury River was beginning to recede.

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In Windsor’s main drag, strings of ADF crew walked the streets alongside tired SES volunteers, sat on the banks of the river, watching it flow.

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The river peaked above the major March 2022 flood level of 13.8 metres on Tuesday, but was now sitting at 9.18 metres and falling slowly. The Bureau said it was likely to fall below the moderate flood level of 7 metres on Saturday.

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A plaque on the side of the Macquarie Hotel pays testament to the 1867 floods, when water licked at the main street. The pub had been saved from any damage this time around, but locals agreed July 2022 had been the worst floods in their recent memory.

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Australia will coordinate with New Zealand when it comes to procuring electric vehicles for its government fleet.

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Prime minister Anthony Albanese made the announcement on Friday when discussing opportunities for trans-Tasman collaboration in the area of renewable energy.

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Albanese said:

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If we are all competing against each other for procurement at the same time, we will end up paying more for it but not if there is cooperation between Australia and New Zealand.

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The PM went on to say this collaboration could also include the creation of industry policy and developing domestic manufacturing capacity for renewable energy – a key issue following an International Energy Agency report on Friday that said China dominated the photovoltaic solar supply chain:

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What’s more, if we are looking at the potential that I certainly see Australia having of stepping up industry policy and manufacturing in the renewable sector, then that, if it is combined across our two nations, could have a much more positive economic outcome.

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Energy minister Chris Bowen told the National Press Club in June that the new government planned to convert three in four cars in the commonwealth fleet to “no-emissions vehicles”.

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This was part of the government’s “Driving The Nation” plan which also aimed to install a fast charger every 150km on Australian highways.

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Huge breaking news out of Japan where there are unconfirmed reports that Japan’s former PM Shinzo Abe has been shot – he has reportedly collapsed while making a speech, with initial reports saying gunshots had been heard shortly before he fell to the ground.

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Follow the developments here:

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There were 3,809 new cases in the last reporting period, and nine people are in intensive care.

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There were 5,726 new cases in the last reporting period, and 17 people are in intensive care.

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Today we have recorded 5,726 new COVID-19 cases.

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Steph Cooke, the state minister for emergency services and resilience, is providing more details about the transition from an emergency to recovery scenario:

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We are starting to see those floodwaters recede but of course, there is a lot of water lying around.

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The premier and I have the opportunity to see it from the air. The landscape is absolutely saturated, the creeks and rivers are still incredibly swollen.

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There is widespread inundation and it really does highlight the task ahead for us now so we are really moving from that emergency response scenario into recovery.

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Cooke said the expansion of natural disaster declarations will enable communities to get the government support they need:

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The number of natural disaster declarations has increased from 23 to 29 with the addition of six overnight, working in partnership with the federal government, to make sure that as the weather event moves through and we become aware of areas and local government areas that are impacted, that we do move quickly to make those natural disaster declarations.

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So that is the first step in terms of unlocking support for those communities. As we go forward, as more local government areas are able to be assessed, and we are aware of damage, we will move to make further natural disaster declarations together as required.

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NSW premier Dominic Perrottet is in Maitland giving an update on the flooding in the state.

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Currently today, we still have 67 evacuation orders in place, 22 evacuation warnings that are impacting about 47,000 people across New South Wales.

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There are a number, 75, return with caution to homes that is affecting about 50,000 people across NSW.

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He thanked the volunteers who have come from across the country from as far as Alice Springs to help, as well as the other state premiers who had offered assistance.

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There is no country in the world that has what we have in terms of that spirit of service, that high level of volunteerism and the people who put their own lives on the line to get people through and I think that’s a wonderful and phenomenal thing about our state and something I’m incredibly proud of.

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Perrottet said a helicopter ride this morning had allowed him to see the extent of. the damage.

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Anthony Albanese is currently speaking about the “reset” between Australia and New Zealand that has come out of his meeting with Jacinda Ardern today.

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Albanese is outlining the new decisions that have come out of this morning’s “positive” discussion:

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One is to have annual meetings between our economic ministers and our international ministers.

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When we say our “economic ministers”, that includes climate change so, our treasurer and climate ministers, working on ways in which we can benefit from the innovation that will occur with the shift to clean-energy economies in our respective nations.

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In foreign Affairs and also defence issues, there will be annual meetings there as well, and we look forward to next year’s discussion at leadership level, which, of course will be the 40th anniversary of the Closer Economic Relations Agreement between Australia and New Zealand.

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We worked together on ways in which we have a seamless transition. We don’t want people to be temporary residents forever, and what we’ll do is we’ll work on ways of a pathway to citizenship with a timeline of AnzacDay 2023.

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We know that there have been a range of issues raised relating to citizenship and we think those pathways and working through these issues so that people get more rights that are more consistent, whether it be Australians who have moved to New Zealand or New Zealanders moving to Australia – we want to work through these issues with all the implications that are there for full participation in our respective societies.

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One of the issues that we’ll look at as well unilaterally in Australia is, in New Zealand, if you’re an Australian who has been resident for a year, you have voting rights in New Zealand, you’re able to participate fully in those processes.

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So, as part of the normal review process that occurs after a federal election in Australia, we’ll be asking the joint standing committee on electoral matters to consider whether there’s a way to return to systems that have existed in the past of giving New Zealand people who are here in Australia, contributing to society, paying taxes, working, voting rights here in Australia as well.

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The ACT supreme court held a brief hearing on Friday to close off the prosecution of Bernard Collaery, which the attorney general Mark Dreyfus formally discontinued.

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Collaery was set to be tried for allegedly leaking classified information to help his client – an ex-spy known only as Witness K – reveal a mission to spy on Timor-Leste, an impoverished ally, during negotiations over oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea in 2004. Collaery was fighting the charges.

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On Friday Collaery’s counsel told the court that “there may be an application in relation to costs”, arguing that there had been “substantial resources” expended over several years in relation to the case.

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The commonwealth’s barrister, Perry Herzfeld, said he had nothing to say on that issue unless and until an application for costs is made.

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There was also a brief back and forth about how documents, including classified material, should be stored. Collaery’s counsel noted the ordinary course is for the court to keep complete records.

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Justice David Mossop commented that the prospect of storing the documents “for eternity” was an “unattractive one”. He said the alternative, of returning documents to the attorney general on the condition they be returned to the court if requested “has downsides as well”, especially regarding how that might work in 10, 20 or 50 years’ time.

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Justice Mossop vacated the trial, excused the director general of Asis from various subpoenas, and ordered that Collaery’s legal team make any application for costs by 15 July. Parties will discuss what should happen to the court file, and have liberty to apply for other orders before the case is formally closed.

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José Ramos-Horta, the president of Timor-Leste, is on the ABC discussing the attorney general’s decision to end the prosecution of Bernard Collaery:

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I’m very pleased, and so are the Timorese leaders, with the decision by the Australian government, the prosecutor general Dreyfus.

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Prime minister Anthony Albanese and foreign minister Penny Wong, to all I congratulate for these wise – this wise decision to drop the case, thus closing a bitter chapter in our 20-year relationship since Timor-Leste became independent.

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What happened in the past on the part of Australia with the bugging of our offices, the spying on our government and during negotiations on oil revenues, maritime boundaries, talks, all of that, we leave it behind.

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We now have a permanent maritime boundary with Australia and a median line. Our governments are pursuing conversations with Australia, with mining and oil operators to develop the Timor Sea, a great region. So that’s what matters now.

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To make everything easier, a far better atmosphere of mutual trust. We are determined to move forward, to expand our relationship with Australia, a very important neighbour and friend of Timor-Leste.

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Johnson resigned last night but said he would stay on as British PM until a replacement was organised, a process which could take weeks. Speaking on Channel Nine’s Today program, Albanese said Australia would work with whoever followed Johnson:

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Whoever comes through this process we’ll work with. I hope it’s a quick process, because I think the idea that you have a couple of months where there’s no one in charge, no prime minister with authority, is not a great thing for the UK.

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But we’ll allow them to have their own political processes.

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Asked again about his recent gifting of a Rabbitohs jersey to the outgoing British leader, Albanese talked up the diplomatic possibilities of South Sydney.

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Well, there’s an endless supply of Bunnies jerseys and caps. There are no limits on our capacity to reach out.

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The PM said Australia needed “to pick up our game in the Pacific”, as he prepares to attend the Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji next week, specifically talking up his concern at the Solomon Islands inking a security deal with China.

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We’ve been the preferred security and economic partner for a long period of time with our neighbours in the Pacific. My government’s changed position on climate change has been welcomed by all of these leaders. We need to continue to engage with them. We can’t afford a circumstance whereby Australia is not the preferred security partner in our own region.

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The rains may be receding in New South Wales, but the threat of flooding and landslips remains, with tens of thousands of residents still under evacuation orders, AAP reports.

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About 700 NSW residents called for help overnight as flood waters rose and heavy rain lashed the state’s Hunter and mid-north coast regions.

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Authorities are looking at winding back evacuation orders and warnings in some communities.

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But the State Emergency Service chief superintendent, Ashley Sullivan, said 40,000 people remain under the 69 evacuation orders still in place.

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“There’s a lot of risk out there and it is not over yet,” he told the Seven Network on Friday morning.

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“We have a few days, if not a few weeks, left.”

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Hazardous surf and marine wind warnings were also still in place for parts of the NSW coast.

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The BoM said on Thursday major flooding was likely to occur at Maitland, in the lower Hunter, into Friday despite the rain clearing for much of the state.

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Further south, the clean-up has already begun with the premier, Dominic Perrottet, and the NSW Emergency Services Minister, Steph Cooke, visiting Camden, one of the areas worst affected in the latest flooding.

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Anthony Albanese will meet with the New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, today with the two leaders tipped to discuss how their nations can work together on climate change, including electric vehicle purchasing arrangements and more funding for the Pacific.

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Australia’s foreign minister, Penny Wong, is due to meet her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in Bali today on the sidelines of the G20, which will be the first direct conversation between foreign ministers since 2019.

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The government has announced a new code of conduct that will require ministers to divest any shares they own, only allowing them to keep those in superannuation and putting an end to blind trust arrangements.

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The New South Wales flood threat continues to ease but there are still areas on the mid-north coast on alert this morning, as the clean up continues in western Sydney.

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I’m Natasha May and I’ll be updating you on all the latest this Friday morning. If you see something that you reckon ought to be on the blog, you can catch me by email at [email protected] or on Twitter at @natasha__may.

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Brownie points and eternal gratitude if you can provide any animal content as delightful as yesterday’s story about a seal pup far from home.

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People in flood-affected areas urged to remain vigilant

The Bureau of Meteorology says the sun is out along most of the NSW coast.

However, the SES earlier this morning reminded people just because the sun was out didn’t mean flood dangers had passed. They encouraged those in affected areas to remain vigilant, especially people travelling north for holidays.

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Following a week of rain, most of the #NSW coast is seeing blue skies and sunshine ☀️ The chance of showers along central parts of the coast on Sunday but these are expected to be light. Current warnings include flood, surf and marine wind warnings. See: https://t.co/Ss766eSCrL pic.twitter.com/afeAbUQ8u9

&mdash; Bureau of Meteorology, New South Wales (@BOM_NSW) July 8, 2022

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Following a week of rain, most of the #NSW coast is seeing blue skies and sunshine ☀️ The chance of showers along central parts of the coast on Sunday but these are expected to be light. Current warnings include flood, surf and marine wind warnings. See: https://t.co/Ss766eSCrL pic.twitter.com/afeAbUQ8u9

— Bureau of Meteorology, New South Wales (@BOM_NSW) July 8, 2022

Updated at 00.14 EDT

Mostafa Rachwani

Mostafa Rachwani

Melbourne and Adelaide airports avoid long wait times seen in Sydney

Fears of long waiting lines at airports around the country have yet to materialise today, with Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide airports avoiding some of the horror wait times seen in recent weeks.

With school holidays in Victoria, NSW and Queensland coming to an end, just as holidays begin in South Australia, authorities had warned travellers to arrive early for their flights, and to expect big crowds.

A spokesperson for Melbourne airport said that while 90,000 people were still expected to pass through the terminals on Friday, and 80,000 on Saturday, longer wait times had been reduced:

A little over half of passengers today are arrivals, which suggests people returning to Victoria as the school holidays end. There has been some queueing at peak periods, but the lines are moving quickly.

A spokesperson for Adelaide airport said today was the busiest day since the pandemic, with more than 30,000 travellers expected today, but with lines moving quickly:

Adelaide airport is very busy this morning as expected but the lines for check in and security have been moving well, and all of our security lanes are open.

Updated at 00.06 EDT

Caitlin Cassidy

Caitlin Cassidy

On the ground in Hawkesbury

Melanie Woods is a self-described “Hawkesbury-ite”, her family has grown up on its banks for generations.

We know what it does, it doesn’t shock us … it is what it is, but it came up very quickly, and we’ve had three this year.

On Friday afternoon, Woods was carting boxes of Christmas decorations and camping gear out into the street, discarding items too covered in mud muck to salvage.

Her daughter, Elora Kingsbury, sat in their yard, wiping grime off her wedding decorations in the sun. Kingsbury was married during Covid, when you could only have 11 guests, and was planning a proper celebration in September (pending more floods).

It’s the shock, the fact we’re here again, like, seriously? It’s unprecedented.

A sense of resilience has been echoed by politicians, however there is a grim acceptance of one’s fate amongst locals who’ve been here before.

Woods and her family have lived in their current property for two years, and have experienced four floods in that time.

They evacuated this week when the river exceeded 13 metres, with no time to move everything upstairs, and Woods says it’s been the worst one yet.

The last one that went into our house was one in 100 years, well, so is this one. We’ve lost of a lot of my parent’s stuff this time, their memorabilia, but I think we’re tired. We’re disaster weary … I’m sick of it. But there’s people worse off than us.

If you choose to live in Hawkesbury, this is what you get.

Melanie Woods stands in front of her Windsor home after tossing flood-damaged belongings onto the street. Flood recovery efforts have begun in the town following record-level flooding along the Hawkesbury River in NSW.
Melanie Woods stands in front of her Windsor home after tossing flood-damaged belongings onto the street. Flood recovery efforts have begun in the town following record-level flooding along the Hawkesbury River in NSW. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

Updated at 00.00 EDT

Paul Karp

Paul Karp

Australia won’t need to ‘compromise’ with China on trade sanctions, Birmingham says

The shadow foreign affairs minister, Simon Birmingham, has taken aim at trade minister Don Farrell for comments to Guardian Australia about possible “compromise” with China.

On Tuesday Farrell said this about trade disputes with China:

So, at the moment the plan is to proceed with those [World Trade Organisation disputes]. Obviously if the opportunity arises to have a different set of discussions, whereby we can nut out a compromise situation – then I’d be fully supportive of going down that track.

At the moment it’s the WTO process, that’s the proper way that these issues should be determined. But, if an alternative way emerges, then we’ll certainly be happy to look at that.

On Friday Birmingham told Sky News he “noted with some concern” that Farrell had suggested “that perhaps there were compromises to be had with China”, because we should expect that “unfair trade sanctions” would cease “without the need for compromise or without any acquiescence towards Chinese demands”.

He said:

We certainly shouldn’t be working through those issues by potentially pushing one Australian industry under a bus at the expense of another. We should make sure that the Australian government … is standing up clearly for all of Australia’s interests in relation to our engagement with China.

And that talk of compromise by senator Farrell was erroneous language on his part, rather than a suggestion that somehow we’re going to concede that some industries can be penalised or punished while others won’t be.

Updated at 23.55 EDT

Stephanie Convery

Stephanie Convery

I’ll hand you back to the intrepid Natasha May now.

On the Hawkesbury River, the floods clean-up begins

Caitlin Cassidy

Caitlin Cassidy

If it weren’t for a helicopter hovering overhead there’d be few signs that western Sydney had been lashed with floods while heading down the Hume motorway on Friday morning.

Blue skies had finally hit the region, as strings of emergency vehicles flocked to Windsor where the Hawkesbury River was beginning to recede.

Closer in, though, mud slicks, closed roads and shuttered shops were a reminder of the torrential rainfall that had lingered in Sydney since the weekend. And, as the water dries, the clean up begins.

In Windsor’s main drag, strings of ADF crew walked the streets alongside tired SES volunteers, sat on the banks of the river, watching it flow.

The river peaked above the major March 2022 flood level of 13.8 metres on Tuesday, but was now sitting at 9.18 metres and falling slowly. The Bureau said it was likely to fall below the moderate flood level of 7 metres on Saturday.

A plaque on the side of the Macquarie Hotel pays testament to the 1867 floods, when water licked at the main street. The pub had been saved from any damage this time around, but locals agreed July 2022 had been the worst floods in their recent memory.

Down at the river bank, Melanie Woods was carting mud-drenched belongings from the bottom story of her house, as her children mopped the floors, donned in knee-high gumboots.

Updated at 23.34 EDT

Australia and NZ to coordinate on electric vehicle fleet

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Australia will coordinate with New Zealand when it comes to procuring electric vehicles for its government fleet.

Prime minister Anthony Albanese made the announcement on Friday when discussing opportunities for trans-Tasman collaboration in the area of renewable energy.

Albanese said:

If we are all competing against each other for procurement at the same time, we will end up paying more for it but not if there is cooperation between Australia and New Zealand.

The PM went on to say this collaboration could also include the creation of industry policy and developing domestic manufacturing capacity for renewable energy – a key issue following an International Energy Agency report on Friday that said China dominated the photovoltaic solar supply chain:

What’s more, if we are looking at the potential that I certainly see Australia having of stepping up industry policy and manufacturing in the renewable sector, then that, if it is combined across our two nations, could have a much more positive economic outcome.

Government and corporate fleet buying is considered one way to boost the uptake of electric vehicles. As governments and corporations regularly update their fleets, the old cars are sold on the second-hand market, making them available to people who can’t afford to buy a new car outright.

This announcement suggests Australian and New Zealand governments will work together rather than be drawn into a bidding war for a limited pool of electric vehicles being sent to the region, which would drive up the price.

Energy minister Chris Bowen told the National Press Club in June that the new government planned to convert three in four cars in the commonwealth fleet to “no-emissions vehicles”.

This was part of the government’s “Driving The Nation” plan which also aimed to install a fast charger every 150km on Australian highways.

The new Albanese government has been promising to make the uptake of electric vehicles a priority, promising to cut tariffs on their importation and abolish the fringe benefits tax on “affordable electric vehicles” from 1 July.

Updated at 23.31 EDT

Japan’s former PM Shinzo Abe shot during speech, reports say

Huge breaking news out of Japan where there are unconfirmed reports that Japan’s former PM Shinzo Abe has been shot – he has reportedly collapsed while making a speech, with initial reports saying gunshots had been heard shortly before he fell to the ground.

Follow the developments here:

Updated at 23.17 EDT

Thanks to everyone following along this morning, handing you over now to my wonderful colleague Stephanie Convery!

More than 100 people evacuated following Sydney unit fire

More than 100 people were evacuated early this morning following a unit fire in a multi-storey residential building in the Sydney suburb of Ultimo.

Fire and Rescue NSW said three people were assessed on-scene by NSW Ambulance but were not transported to hospital.

An electric bike battery was the cause of the fire.

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Ultimo | 100 people evacuated following unit fire: More than 100 people were evacuated following a unit fire in a multi-storey residential building in Ultimo early this morning.

A fire broke out in a … https://t.co/HyqJKLMOuS

&mdash; Fire and Rescue NSW (@FRNSW) July 8, 2022

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Ultimo | 100 people evacuated following unit fire: More than 100 people were evacuated following a unit fire in a multi-storey residential building in Ultimo early this morning.

A fire broke out in a … https://t.co/HyqJKLMOuS

— Fire and Rescue NSW (@FRNSW) July 8, 2022

Updated at 23.12 EDT

South Australia records no Covid deaths and 249 in hospital

There were 3,809 new cases in the last reporting period, and nine people are in intensive care.

Updated at 23.05 EDT

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