Australia news LIVE: Rate increase on RBA program after inflation bump; Julian Assange goes back to Australia

Key posts 1 of 2 Latest posts 1.36 pm What we’ve covered up until now Good afternoon. I’m Lachlan Abbott, and I’ll be keeping you upgraded with the most recent Australian news for the remainder of the day. Thanks a lot to Josefine Ganko for her blogging efforts today. As we head towards concern time in Canberra, let’s appearance back at the news of the day up until now: Julian Assange’s fans continued to commemorate the WikiLeaks creator’s go back to Australia today, however Coalition foreign affairs spokesperson Simon Birmingham knocked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for welcoming him “like some homecoming hero”. Read our devoted blog site here. New ABS information launched in the last hour revealed task vacancies are continuing to fall. There were 353,000 task vacancies in May, down by 10,000 from February. Bruce Lehrmann has actually been bought to pay $2 million in legal expenses to Network Ten after he brought a stopped working character assassination action versus the broadcaster over its interview with Brittany Higgins. In NSW, a teen has actually appeared in court on terrorism charges after apparently going into a Newcastle MP’s workplace worn tactical equipment on Wednesday. A manifesto released online exposed he had actually prepared a series of attacks versus the general public and political leaders and was influenced by the Christchurch mass shooter. In Victoria, 2 of the state’s biggest health services have actually enforced instant employing freezes in action to the Allan federal government’s needs for big cost savings as the state faces high federal government financial obligation. In Queensland, Premier Steven Miles has actually minimized the result of a 2021 commercial blast at the Callide power station on power costs. A draft report today set out failings of its part-public owner CS Energy and raised concerns about instructions to the business by its 2 shareholding ministers. In Western Australia, a Perth guy has actually been jailed after apparently scheduling 3 guys to eliminate his father-in-law in India. In service news, Qatar Airways remains in speak with take a stake of as much as a 20 percent in Virgin Australia, according to a report in The Australian Financial Review. In global news, a Bolivian general who appeared to lead stopped working coup today has actually been jailed. 1.07 pm ASX upgrade: Shares drop after choppy Wall Street session By Jessica Yun and Millie Muroi In service news, realty financial investment trusts and energies have actually dragged the Australian sharemarket dramatically lower on Thursday, after Wall Street had a hard time for instructions in the last stretch of a strong quarter that’s seen a little group of high-flying innovation shares blaze a trail. The S&P/ ASX 200 Index recuperated a few of its earlier losses by midday, however dropped 75.6 points, or 1 percent, to 7707.4 at 12.30 pm AEST, extending Wednesday’s losses. Wall Street had a choppy trading session over night. Credit: Bloomberg The S&P/ ASX lost 0.7 percent on Wednesday after higher-than-expected inflation information raised the chances that the Reserve Bank may think about rai
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