Speaker 1: Daniel Andrews says the IBAC report on corruption in his
Speaker 1: government has cleared him of claims that he'd been blackmailed
Speaker 1: by the United Firefighters Union in a state been issued
Speaker 1: last night following the release of the report yesterday. The
Speaker 1: former Victorian premier says these claims were baseless when they
Speaker 1: were made almost a decade ago, and they remained baseless today.
Speaker 1: For the record and the avoidance of any doubt, there
Speaker 1: are no findings in relation to corrupt conduct made about
Speaker 1: me any other member of the government or the public service.
Speaker 1: That is a fact, he says. The state opposition leader
Speaker 1: Jess Wilson has vowed to put an end to alleged
Speaker 1: corruption and improve credibility if she wins the upcoming state election.
Speaker 1: The Climate Change Minister has got some more expenses more
Speaker 1: than a few. He spent more than three hundred and
Speaker 1: forty five thousand taxpayer dollars to travel the world and
Speaker 1: spook his net zero ambitions. The latest travel expense reports
Speaker 1: for mister Bowen and his staff for the last financial
Speaker 1: year reveal an average of seven and a half thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a day, which was spent on international travel over
Speaker 1: forty six days. Some of the travel expenses included in
Speaker 1: the report include over forty one thousand dollars for a
Speaker 1: six day trip to Germany and Singapore and eleven day
Speaker 1: trip to Brazil and Chile totally nearly eighty thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: more than one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars for nine
Speaker 1: days in the US, and a seven day trip through China,
Speaker 1: Hong Kong, India, and Sri Lanka, which cost about fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. An analysis of flight distance calculations estimates that
Speaker 1: Chris Bowen's overseas travel covered nearly one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: thousand kilometers, which is just under half the distance between
Speaker 1: the Earth and Moon. The opposition leader has warned housing
Speaker 1: shortages will last another seven years under the federal government's
Speaker 1: migration plans. The coalition released analysis this week indicating migration
Speaker 1: levels under Labour will remain ahead of new home constructions
Speaker 1: until at least twenty thirty three. The Home Affairs Minister
Speaker 1: Tony Burk's immigration program is supposed to keep migration levels
Speaker 1: at two forty five thousand for twenty six twenty seven
Speaker 1: those years. It coincides with Tony Burk canceling that National
Speaker 1: Press Club address that was supposed to be on today
Speaker 1: because some elements of his speech couldn't be finalized with
Speaker 1: enough time to spare. The war in Ukraine is becoming
Speaker 1: deadly for civilians. The capital of Kiev and surrounding areas
Speaker 1: have come under the deadliest strikes this year, leaving seventeen
Speaker 1: people dead. Eight of those people died waiting on their
Speaker 1: morning trains. President Voladimirzelinski is urging his nation's allies to
Speaker 1: bolster Ukraine's stock of ballistic interceptors. Eleven people have been
Speaker 1: injured in an Israeli air strike which struck southern Lebanon.
Speaker 1: Lebanon's health ministry says it's one of Israel's deadliest bombings
Speaker 1: since the start of the June ceasefire. Israel reportedly carried
Speaker 1: out the strike in southern Lebanon, hitting a cemetery. The
Speaker 1: Idea of issued a displacement order about thirty minutes before
Speaker 1: the strike, claiming it was destroying Hesbeler's infrastructure in the area,
Speaker 1: and the Iranian backed Huthis they're threatening to intensify attacks
Speaker 1: in the northern Red Sea. The group has claimed responsibility
Speaker 1: for two attacks on Saudi oil tankers. A spokesman for
Speaker 1: the group claims one of the vessels was forced to
Speaker 1: turn back after being struck by a ballistic missile. The
Speaker 1: latest escalation follows a declaration from the group that they
Speaker 1: would blockade all Saudi shipping. The group has claimed to
Speaker 1: have attacked eight ships since launching the blockade so far,
Speaker 1: but Saudi authorities have not responded to these most recent claims.