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- Albanese pays price as Voice support slips again
- Four Australians on 30th birthday surf trip missing off Indonesia
- German foreign minister’s ageing plane halted en route to Australia
- This morning’s headlines at a glance
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Albanese pays price as Voice support slips again
Australian voters have cut their support for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after a fierce political dispute over the Indigenous Voice, slashing his net performance rating from 16 to just 2 percentage points over the past month and weakening trust in the government’s message.
The powerful shift has narrowed the gap between Labor and the Coalition to only 4 percentage points on the primary vote, down from 9 points last month, at a crucial point in the contest for a Yes or No vote at the referendum likely in October.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton (right) trails Anthony Albanese as preferred prime minister by 25 to 46 per cent, but has gained ground on this measure from the result of 21 to 51 per cent last month.Credit: Fairfax Media
The exclusive findings from the Resolve Political Monitor show that support for the Voice has slipped from 48 to 46 per cent on the Yes or No question that will decide the referendum, continuing a decline from 63 per cent one year ago.
Find out more on the survey findings here.
Four Australians on 30th birthday surf trip missing off Indonesia
Four Australians on a surfing trip to Indonesia for a friend’s 30th birthday are missing off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province after their wooden speed boat struck rough weather en route to the remote Banyak Islands.
A search and rescue effort was launched on Monday in a bid to find the small vessel which disappeared on Sunday night and on which three Indonesian crew were also on board.
The four Australians are Elliot Foote, Steph Weisse, Will Teagle and Jordan Short.
The four missing are Steph Weisse, Jordan Short, Elliot Foote and Will Teagle.Credit: Instagram
The keen surfers had been travelling in Sumatra and on the island of Nias with eight other friends to celebrate Foote’s 30th birthday.
They were on two separate boats from Nias, 130 kilometres west of Sumatra, to the small island of Pinang in the Banyaks when they hit a storm. One of the boats reached the destination after taking shelter, but the other has not been seen since.
Find out more from our correspondents here.
German foreign minister’s ageing plane halted en route to Australia
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was stranded in Abu Dhabi for more than 18 hours on Monday en route to Australia after a technical fault on her government Airbus A340-300 forced the pilot to return to the United Arab Emirates capital after a refuelling stop.
A malfunction meant the wing flaps on the aircraft — which is more than two decades old and has a history of mechanical problems — could not be retracted correctly, and the plane had to jettison fuel before it was light enough to land safely back in Abu Dhabi, the German air force said in a tweet.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock in front of a German government plane.Credit: AP
German news agency DPA reported that around 80 tons of kerosene was dumped.
Flight tracking website Radarbox.com showed the aircraft taking off from Abu Dhabi at 3.33am local time and circling for almost 2 hours before landing again at 5.33am. The plane, registered as 16+01, flew for 12 years with Deutsche Lufthansa AG before it was acquired by the German air force for VIP transport.
Read more from Bloomberg on this issue here.
This morning’s headlines at a glance
Good morning, and thanks for your company.
It’s Tuesday, August 15. I’m Caroline Schelle, and I’ll be anchoring our live coverage for the first half of the day.
Here’s what you need to know before we get started:
- The prime minister will crash through internal Labor opposition to the AUKUS agreement and declare the nuclear pact a central part of his government’s agenda.
- Voters have cut their support for Anthony Albanese after a fierce political dispute over the Indigenous Voice.
- Remarks from a key figure in the Voice No campaign about Indigenous journalist Stan Grant and independent senator Lidia Thorpe have been condemned as disgusting.
- Commonwealth Bank predicts the Reserve Bank will need to slash interest rates to stabilise the economy, as consumer spending falls across two states.
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the airline’s unveiling of its Yes logo on Monday.Credit: Louie Douvis
- Nine former Labor attorneys-general are calling on the prime minister to intensify his efforts and lobby the United States to end its pursuit of Julian Assange.
- Small business owners are hesitant to support a proposal for a public holiday if the Matildas win the FIFA Women’s World Cup, warning labour costs would be prohibitive.
- A man has been arrested after allegedly threatening crew and passengers on board a Malaysia Airlines flight bound for Kuala Lumpur, which was forced to return to Sydney.
- Overseas, lawyers are sending experts to the Hawaiian island of Maui to look into whether power lines are a possible source of the deadly wildfires.
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