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Vaginal ring to be listed on PBS
The contraceptive vaginal ring will be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for the first time this Saturday.
The Albanian government announced the new list on Sunday night. It will go into effect on November 1, along with cheaper long-acting birth control methods such as IUDs and birth control implants.
Used in a monthly cycle, NuvaRing is an alternative to daily oral contraceptives.
Before listing, women could pay more than $270 a year for the ring, which would drop to $31.60 per scenario (for three months of birth control) under PBS, the government said. Concession card holders will pay $7.70 per script. Starting January 1, the maximum amount women will pay per script will be $25.
Daile KelleherThe chief executive of Sexual and Reproductive Health Australia said birth control was “an essential health service, not a luxury item”:
Everyone deserves the right to access affordable birth control options and choose the method that best suits their life, without barriers such as cost.
women’s minister Katy Gallagher He said the changes would give women “real choice” over their reproductive health and ensure their decisions were not limited by cost.
Joyce will not attend National Party chamber meetings this week
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Barnaby Joyce He said he would sit with MPs in parliament this week but not attend party room meetings, and he has not given up on the idea that he could stay with his party if they abandon their net zero target.
He says the possibility of Joyce joining One Nation, whose latest headlines have come to fruition, has yet to come to fruition; At the door of the Houses of Parliament he told us that he had not yet joined any other political party and that he would be sitting with Nats at the time in question today. Joyce refused to run as an independent, saying “I’m still in the National party”, stating that voters had voted him National, so he would remain with the National party for now.
But this is no simple journey and happy families. Joyce repeated his earlier statements: “There was a breakdown in the relationship, that was quite obvious to all of you. [election] offer”.
He was asked if he was a leader David Littleproud Joyce, who is trying to keep him on the team, said he had a “brief and extremely polite conversation lasting about three minutes” with Littleproud.
Joyce reconfirmed that he would stand down as a New England MP at the next election, but when asked if he would continue his political career from now on (perhaps in a different house of parliament or a different party), he said: “I’ll make up my mind.”
Asked whether the Nationals’ scrapping of net zero would be enough to keep him in the tent, Joyce replied: “Let’s see what they come up with.”
Joyce went further, saying they were “hypothetical” about what might happen in the future.
Rowland: no text and data mining exemption
There are a few big issues floating around this morning, one of which is confirmation from the government that tech giants will not be able to get text and data mining exemptions to train AI models.
Artists and creators – and media outlets – are pressing the government to ensure the security of their works to ensure they are not scraped for free by productive AI.
The productivity commission’s recommendation that tech giants provide free access to creative work has caused particular concern.
Chief Public Prosecutor, Michelle Rowland, He says the government has been “clear” that the Copyright Act will not be watered down.
There is a lot of work to be done on what the copyright landscape looks like in the world of AI, but we make it clear that we will not rule out the text and data mining exception.
ABC presenter Sabra Road He asks Rowland how authors who don’t want their books to be taken “in their entirety” can prevent tech companies from using their creative work. Rowland says there is some uncertainty about whether current laws fully address this.
Currently, there are ways to do this under the Copyright Act, but there is a lot of conjecture about whether the law is clear enough on this issue… As a government, we will again move forward with an ambitious set of reforms, ensuring that our copyright laws are not only suitable for the digital environment, as they have been to date, but also for the world of artificial intelligence.
Murray Watt rejects call to split environment bill
As my colleague Dan Jervis-Bardy What this morning brings to us is that the Coalition is calling on the government to split the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act into approvals on one side and protections on the other.
The laws are expected to be submitted to parliament this week.
However Murray Watt He strongly rejected the proposal, saying it would weaken protections and remove certainty for the industry.
We will not split the account. Graeme Samuel’s review of these 90s-era laws makes clear that you can’t get faster approvals without stronger environmental standards…
This will mean more habitat destruction, more species under threat, no independent regulators and slower approval times.
This is the craziest idea we’ve seen in environmental reform in the last five years, and we won’t go along with it.
Albanese and Trump agree on Asean
The Prime Minister will be absent this week as he arrives in Malaysia for the Asean summit, then flies to South Korea for Apec, where Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet.
The two leaders will likely discuss the US president’s trade war. They may also talk about security issues, such as Taiwan, which China claims is its own territory.
“One in four jobs in Australia rely on trade and we will focus on continuing to develop our core economic and trade relationships across the Asean and Apec era,” Albanese said on Sunday. he said.
Good morning
Krishani Dhanji
Good morning, Krishani Dhanji We are with you for another action-packed session for two weeks.
There will be plenty of parliamentary drama this week as the government faces a showdown with the Greens and the Coalition over the environmental protection bill, the EPBC Bill.
The coalition calls for division and says it is anti-business, while the Greens say the opposite. Murray Watt He called the split proposal “the craziest idea” he had seen in the five years since reforms to the law were first proposed.
Meanwhile, the government will also reject a proposal to allow copyright exemptions for artificial intelligence models. And the prime minister is abroad this week in Malaysia and South Korea for the Asean and Apec summits.
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