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As part of our strategic global growth plans, Gray Dawes Group has acquired the Australian based travel management business, MP Travel .

The acquisition of MP Travel takes family-owned Gray Dawes Group’s turnover to over of £250m and pushes employee numbers beyond the 250 mark.

Both travel management specialists, renowned for our technical innovation and high-touch service, focus on providing complete business travel management solutions with a personal touch. This combination sets us apart in the corporate travel arena and is the core reason behind our respective ongoing success.

Suzanne Horner , Gray Dawes Group CEO, comments:

“I have long admired the business that Kerri Primrose, Lynn Manuel and their team have built.” Horner continues, “This latest chapter in our development – Gray Dawes’ twelfth acquisition to date – marks such an exciting time for us and our customers.”

Horner continues,

“Our clients increasingly want global solutions, even the smaller ones. They’re taking us on the journey. We’ve been very successful picking up businesses in the UK and integrating them. We know how to do that well. Now we’re doing that overseas and Australia is the beginning with MP Travel.” Horner added “Our out-of-hours service is already resourced in Australia, so with the addition of something in the US next, we’d have a follow-the-sun set up – that’s our strategy.”

Horner says, “Following the challenges of the last two years, Gray Dawes is fantastically placed, both financially and from a skills perspective, to really drive our recovery while developing all parts of the business and new ventures. Through strong management, belief in our people, innovative technology and outstanding customer service, Gray Dawes has weathered the pandemic storm of the last two years better than most.” Horner continues, “Welcoming MP Travel into the Group only strengthens our position and global offering. MP Travel is renowned in Australia for their loyal and outstanding staff. I am delighted to welcome them to the Gray Dawes Group!”

“I am very excited by the opportunity to work with Suzanne and her team, and thrilled for MP Travel’s staff to be part of an award-winning travel management company.”

Joint MP Travel Managing Director, Kerri Primrose , added:

“There are so many synergies across the businesses which makes this a very natural fit. By being part of the Gray Dawes Group, we will be even stronger and able to deliver enhanced global opportunities to our staff and clients alike.”

Lynn Manuel , Joint Managing Director

Kerri Primrose , Joint Managing Director

We are super excited to welcome  MP Travel Group  into the Gray Dawes family today, as we officially announce our acquisition of this awesome Australian TMC. Marking the start of our global expansion, we’d like to say a huge “G’day” to all our new colleagues down under.

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Reopening to tourists and other international travellers to secure our economic recovery

Joint media release with the hon. scott morrison mp, the hon. greg hunt mp and the hon. dan tehan mp.

Australia will reopen to all fully vaccinated visa holders, welcoming the return of tourists, business travellers, and other visitors from 21 February.  

These changes will ensure we protect the health of Australians, while we continue to secure our economic recovery. 

Australia’s health system has demonstrated its resilience throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including though the recent Omicron wave. With improving health conditions, including a recent 23 per cent decline in hospitalisations due to COVID, the National Security Committee of Cabinet today agreed Australia is ready to further progress the staged reopening of our international border. 

Visa holders who are not fully vaccinated will still require a valid travel exemption to enter Australia, and will be subject to state and territory quarantine requirements. 

Today’s announcement will give certainty to our vital tourism industry, and allow them to start planning, hiring and preparing for our reopening. In 2018-19, tourism generated more than $60 billion for the Australian economy, with more than 660,000 jobs dependent on the industry. 

Since the Morrison Government commenced Australia’s staged international border reopening on 1 November 2021 we have seen almost 580,000 arrivals come to Australia including to reunite with loved ones, work or study. 

The Commonwealth continues to work with States and Territories on the safe resumption of the cruise industry and looks forward to further announcements on this in due course.

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Rules on what Federal politicians can and cannot claim in travel costs will be made more explicit in a bid to prevent a repeat of expenses scandals like that engulfing sidelined Health Minister Sussan Ley.

The Federal Government yesterday promised to overhaul pollies’ perks in the first half of this year, with one minister admitting action was needed to rebuild taxpayers’ trust that money was spent wisely.

However it is unlikely the changes will stop MPs watching prestigious sporting events such as the AFL grand final at taxpayers’ expense, where sponsors often invite them to attend in their official capacity.

Questions over MPs’ expenses are spreading to other frontbenchers, with Julie Bishop forced to defend claiming $2700 to attend the Portsea Polo in Victoria last January.

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Her office told the ABC she attended the event in her official capacity as deputy Liberal leader and Foreign Minister.

And Cabinet ministers George Brandis, Mitch Fifield and Peter Dutton charged taxpayers almost $7000 to attend Malcolm Turnbull’s New Year’s Eve function at Kirribilli House in 2015.

They argued the harbourside soiree was an official function, even though 19 fellow frontbenchers did not claim expenses.

Questions over MPs’ expenses are spreading to other frontbenchers, with revelations Cabinet ministers George Brandis, Mitch Fifield and Peter Dutton charged taxpayers almost $7000 to attend Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s New Year’s Eve function at Kirribilli House in 2015.

They argued the Sydney harbourside soiree was an official function, even though 19 frontbench colleagues did not claim expenses.

Ms Ley’s woes continued with allegations she and her partner had been house hunting during a trip to the Gold Coast nine months before her now ill-fated May 2015 purchase of a $795,000 apartment that has led to be stood down and investigated by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. She is not commenting on the latest claim.

An independent review of MPs’ entitlements was handed to the Government in March, with legislation now being drafted to consolidate myriad Acts and Remuneration Tribunal determinations outlining MPs’ pay and entitlements.

A key recommendation of the report, which was commissioned after the “choppergate” scandal involving former speaker Bronwyn Bishop, was that expenses could be claimed only when the dominant purpose was for a new definition of “parliamentary business”.

This definition would cover electorate duties; parliamentary duties, such as travelling for sittings or committee service; official duties such as attending functions, events and meetings when invited in their capacity as a MP or officeholder; and party political duties, such as attending conferences. Attending political fundraisers or pursuing activities that provide a personal or commercial benefit would be specifically excluded from the definition of parliamentary business.

Acting Special Minister of State Kelly O’Dwyer said the Government accepted in principle all 36 recommendations of the review.

“A clear definition of what official business is, is obviously at the centre of the changes that need to be made and will be made by the Government in order to give the Australian people confidence that their hard-earned taxpayer dollars are respected and that they can have confidence ... in the system,” she said.

Labor said it would work with the coalition on entitlements reformbut criticised the Government for taking too long to act.

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie said rorters should face charges.

“It is no secret in Canberra that some MPs will, from time to time, perhaps often, travel wherever they want in the country and they will dress it up as an official trip,” he said.

Independent Senator Nick Xenophon and the Greens will try to re-introduce legislation next month to clean up the system.

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LUCY BRADLOW, INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE:  We know that what we are proposing is different but breaking down barriers for representation takes change.

NAS CAMPANELLA, REPORTER:  Politics like we've' never seen it before.

LUCY BRADLOW:  Parliament has become an increasingly exclusive arena, reserved for those with the pedigree, the finances and support systems that allows them to be full-time, always on and available.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  Lucy Bradlow and Bronwyn Bock have launched their campaign to become first ever job share candidates at the next federal election.

BRONWEN BOCK, INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE:  See what we've got on the ingredient list.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  Many mothers with three young kids wouldn't dream of putting their hand up to be a politician.

BRONWEN BOCK:  This is a half a cup.

Right now, if you're not willing to work full-time, be always on, always available, working 70 hours a week, for 22 weeks in Canberra, we can't participate in the current model without a change in the system, this is not something I would consider.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  Investment banker Bronwen Bock regularly came up against the challenge of combining part-time work with leadership roles when she returned from maternity leave.

BRONWEN BOCK:  And that's why I'm now working on a campaign to make it possible to job-share in federal parliament.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  But it is an idea that doesn't just appeal to working parents.

LUCY BRADLOW:  It's not just about women, it is about a huge range of people that could make parliament at all levels more diverse, more inclusive and more representative.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  Political communications specialist and former lawyer Lucy Bradlow says she is keen to have a better work/life balance.

LUCY BRADLOW:  I want to be able to be there for my friends and family when they need me, and I want to be able to make time for the things in my life that bring me joy.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  The idea stems from the experience of two women who applied to stand as joint candidates for the UK general election in 2015, but it was rejected by the courts.

PROF. KIM RUBENSTEIN, CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYER:  But the judge made a point of saying, "But this is an excellent policy idea and Parliament should look at it."

And I began thinking about this within our own constitutional system because we have a different constitutional system and I looked at our Electoral Act and it is my view that it is possible for two people to nominate to be the representative for an electorate.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  Professor Kim Rubenstein has been lobbying politicians to support job-sharing for parliamentarians.

KIM RUBENSTEIN:  It is very profound, I think, in what it represents because it would enable such a wide range of people to consider for the first time that they could themselves be representatives.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  And she wants the Electoral Act amended to allow more than one person's name to be on the nomination form.

KIM RUBENSTEIN:  But remember, the electors still have to vote you in, so it's not as if this opportunity is going to force job-sharing upon us.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  The lifelong friends plan to run as an independent candidate in the Melbourne seat of Higgins which they've called home for many years.

The electorate had been a Liberal stronghold since it was created in 1949 but changed hands to Labor at the last election.

LUCY BRADLOW:  We're running on action on climate change, help for the ever-increasing cost-of-living crisis, and integrity in politics.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  The two have been meeting members of the community in a series of kitchen-table conversations to explain how this would practically work.

COMMUNITY MEMBER:  How could you cope with the other parliamentarians who threw muck at you and said, "You are a half-time politician?"

BRONWEN BOCK:  We don't plan to do the job half-time is what I would say to them. We will be together full-time members for Higgins.

LUCY BRADLOW:  When I think about people slinging mud at us, I think it's not just me that they are slinging mud at, they are slinging mud at both of us and it's quite comforting to know it is actually two people.

LUCY BRADLOW:  Our plan is we will do one week on, one week off with a handover at the end of the week.

There will be a representative for Higgins and that representative will always be there to answer the needs of the community.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  How will the pay and entitlements be divided?

BRONWEN BOCK:  The pay and entitlements will be split down the middle.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  The pair say fundamentally they have the same views, but a pre-written conflict resolution strategy will help them navigate disagreements.

BRONWEN BOCK:  We will have an organised system in place, organised conversations and mechanisms to work through that, as you would in any other corporate environment.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  They are hopeful voters in the seat of Higgins will embrace the idea.

HIGGINS VOTER:  I'm one of many who is a bit jaded with politics as it stands at the moment and I'm open to something is new.

HIGGINS VOTER:  Some new faces coming into the political sphere and also those that have clearly been successful in their previous lives, corporate lives outside the Canberra bubble.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  But not everyone is supportive.

DARREN CHESTER, NATIONALS MP:  I think having a job-sharing arrangement in federal parliament would be completely unworkable.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  Nationals MP Darren Chester is on a parliamentary committee which does a review after each election to ensure our political system is up to scratch.

They heard evidence from Professor Rubenstein.

DARREN CHESTER:  It fails at the first test, what would happen if the two members decided on a different position on conscience vote, for example, who gets to vote?

NAS CAMPANELLA:  The committee identified the need to improve representation but didn't put forward job-sharing as one of the recommendations in the final report.

DARREN CHESTER:  I don't think voters would warm to the idea. I can tell you now that if I was a candidate in an election and my opponent were two people looking to job-share, I would find that campaign very easy to win. I would just have to demonstrate that I'm 100 per cent committed to the job and they are only going to work half time.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  In a statement a spokesperson from the government said it was wanting to improve the parliamentary workplace to ensure people from different backgrounds and walks of life can represent their communities but that it was not considering the proposal for job-sharing parliamentarians.

KIM RUBENSTEIN:  I think that we need to consider job-sharing as a structural change that gives us more possibilities of having a fully equal parliament in terms of men and women.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  Professor Rubenstein says without a change to the Electoral Act it is still possible for two people to cram their names onto the nomination form, but if the Australian Electoral Commission rejects it, the candidates could contest that decision in the Federal Court, a move Ms Bock and Ms Bradlow have vowed to do.

KIM RUBENSTEIN:  I think the likelihood of a court examining this is high and I think that's a positive thing in our system of separation of powers.

BRONWEN BOCK:  If a job-sharing proposal was rejected in another workplace, it would actually be discriminatory. It should be put to the people of Higgins to decide if two people can represent them in the next federal election.

NAS CAMPANELLA:  The pair argue dismissing the idea is an old-fashioned way of looking at power.

LUCY BRADLOW:  I think the world is changing, and if you can't adapt with the world, then you are going to end up with the same group of people taking all the leadership positions.

BRONWEN BOCK:  We are bringing two sets of skills and experience and minds to debate and come up with good decisions.

LUCY BRADLOW:  We want better politics in Australia. We want better representation for all Australians and to do that we have to think differently.

While job sharing is becoming more and more common in Australian workplaces, it's never happened for members of parliament. Bronwen Bock and Lucy Bradlow are campaigning to job-share the role of the federal member for Higgins, in Melbourne's east.

But not everyone is convinced it can work. Nas Campanella and Rhiannon Hobbins report.

Read more:  Bronwen Bock and Lucy Bradlow want to become Australia's first job-sharing MPs

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And that’s where we’ll leave you this evening. Here’s a wrap of what we’ve learned today:

The federal government has announced Australia’s “largest-ever” tender to build renewable energy projects, which will be underwritten by the commonwealth.

Prime minister Anthony Albanese said it was “extraordinary” that X, formerly known as Twitter, did not comply with orders from the eSafety commissioner to take down footage of the Wakeley church stabbing.

The X boss, Elon Musk , should “front up here to parliament”, Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has declared, calling the billionaire CEO a “tech thug” and “cowboy” after his platform refused to take down the videos.

The shadow foreign minister, Simon Birmingham , said the opposition would support any moves from the government to place penalties on social media companies that won’t remove content deemed damaging to social cohesion.

The Nationals leader, David Littleproud , has denied there is tension in the Coalition around nuclear power, telling Sky News that a “clear majority” of his party want nuclear power.

Global financial uncertainty has prompted the Treasury to downgrade its growth forecasts for major economies ahead of the federal budget.

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has called for the government to issue targeted sanctions on Israel and cease all military trade due with the country due to the war in Gaza. It has also called for a commitment of an additional $100m in humanitarian assistance to Gaza and the West Bank.

An inspection report by the Australian Human Rights Commission has found a high-security immigration detention centre in Western Australia was, in part, “no longer fit for purpose”.

Steve Gollschewski has been named as the new Queensland police commissioner, following the resignation of Katarina Carroll last month.

Erin Patterson , the woman accused of murdering and attempting to murder her relatives by serving them a meal laced with deadly mushrooms, may spend 15 months in custody before she faces a committal hearing, a court has heard.

Murujuga traditional custodians have called for an immediate inquiry to investigate the alleged leak of a confidential report on the Burrup peninsula to the media.

International traffic is now closer to pre-pandemic levels than domestic flights at Sydney airport.

A man has died after being shot by police at a rest area south of Gladstone, Queensland.

Electric utes are being shipped to Australia for use on mining sites after a local firm signed a deal with one of America’s leading vehicle manufacturers.

Thanks so much for your company today. We’ll be back bright and early with all your news, live, tomorrow morning, just after 7am. See you then.

Crocodile euthanised after fatal attack on teenager

Wildlife officers have euthanised a large crocodile believed to have killed a 16-year-old boy in the Torres Strait last week.

The teenager, and a 13-year-old boy, reportedly attempted to swim back to Saibai Island from a broken-down dinghy early on Thursday morning last week, Queensland police said, with the younger boy making it to safety.

Wildlife officers located the four-metre animal responsible during spotlight searches on Friday night near where the boy died and it was killed on Saturday, according to a spokesperson for the Department of Environment, Science and Innovation.

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Moody’s seems in no hurry to downgrade NSW credit rating

As we saw earlier today, NSW treasurer Daniel Mookhey was almost daring credit agencies to cut the state’s credit rating in the wake of what he dubbed a “rip-off” GST carve-up:

So bad was it from the budget outlook, Mookhey said, it was almost certain to cost NSW its remaining AAA rating with two of the big three agencies.

Well, one of the two, Moody’s, had kicked the tyres earlier this month and seems in no hurry to downgrade NSW.

John Manning , vice-president and senior credit officer for Moody’s Ratings, told Guardian Australia:

Moody’s retains its stable outlook on the state of New South Wales’ AAA rating ahead of the release of the state’s fiscal 2025 budget.

So nothing changing just yet. The NSW budget lands in June.

Fitch, the other agency with a top-notch rating for NSW, is yet to get back to us. (S&P cut NSW’s debt rating in 2020.)

The state opposition, meanwhile, aren’t impressed, saying Mookhey was using the GST carve-up complaints to divert attention from the impact on the budget of lifting the cap on public wage increases.

The parliamentary budget office had indicated prior to the 2023 election that Labor was relying on productivity gains to offset higher salaries – something the Coalition says is yet to happen.

Call for second Melbourne injecting room amid synthetic opioid fears

Health experts are warning of the looming threat of strong synthetic opioids called nitazenes among Australian drug users, as former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark said there was an urgent need for a second safe-injecting room in Melbourne .

Referring to the long-mooted facility, Clark, who is chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, said:

The bottom line is that people that are using drugs need to be safe. And that’s why a centre is so important … I hope it will go ahead. The first one is clearly highly successful .

Speaking at the World Health Summit regional meeting, Clark said there was a need for drug decriminalisation, public drug-testing facilities and safe-injecting sites to get ahead of what was described as the imminent threat posed by synthetic opioids, which are already causing an epidemic of drug fatalities in North America .

Nitazenes have already been identified in the ACT , New South Wales , Victoria and South Australia . Certain nitazenes can be from 10 to 100 times more potent than fentanyl, which is also a powerful synthetic opioid.

ACTU calls for sanctions on Israel over Gaza war

The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has released a new statement on Gaza, calling for the Australian government to, among other things, place sanctions on “Israeli officials who have called for the denial of aid, and military and civil servants denying essential food and materials to civilians in Gaza”.

Speaking for the Australian union movement, the ACTU statement says it is “horrified by the escalating violence and death toll of civilians in Gaza”.

It continues:

The ACTU reiterates its statements and resolution of 19 October 2023 and 23 February 2024 and continues to call for an urgent and permanent ceasefire and the release of hostages and political prisoners.

The union movement has urged the Albanese government to use “all influence, pressure and diplomatic measures to achieve a permanent ceasefire” and the end to all military trade with Israel.

As well as targeted sanctions and the cessation of all military trade, the ACTU has called on the government to commit an additional $100m in humanitarian assistance to Gaza and the West Bank.

The statement says:

The ACTU calls on the Israeli government and the Palestinian leadership to promote open, tolerant and respectful societies through adherence to democratic principles in governance, respect for human rights and equal treatment for all. The ACTU calls for an end to the occupation of Palestine and a just and sustainable peace in accordance with UN security council resolutions. Including the removal of illegal settlements, the withdrawal of Israel from all Palestinian lands along with the dismantling of the separation wall. In line with the ACTU’s commitment to a two-state solution with the security of borders for both nations, we call on all countries to recognise, without delay, Palestine as a sovereign state with East Jerusalem as its capital. This will confirm the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination in a free and independent Palestine.

Greens press for student loan overhaul

Speaking of student debt, the Greens have renewed their push for sweeping loan reforms that would scrap the process of Hecs/Help rising with inflation.

The prime minister has been dropping his own hints that recommendations to reform student loans in the University Accord are being looked at in the federal budget.

One recommendation is to tie student loans to whatever is smaller out of the wage price index (WPI) and the consumer price index (CPI) rather than setting automatically to CPI. Last year, loans were indexed by 7.1% due to high inflation, with a rise in excess of 4% expected this year.

Another option, put forward by higher education economist Andrew Norton in this masthead , would impose a cap at 3% or 4%.

But the deputy leader of the Greens, senator Mehreen Faruqi , says this isn’t enough.

WPI is usually higher than CPI (including this year, according to the govt’s projections) so this change will make little difference ... a cap of 4% still means at least a $1k hike in the avg. HECS debt and almost $3k for someone with a $70,000 debt. A hike people should not be slugged with in a cost of living crisis.

Labor refused demands from the Greens to protect students from huge debt increases last year, but there's still time to stop the massive indexation hit coming again this June. No more tinkering around the edges. In the May budget, Labor must scrap indexation on student debt. — Mehreen Faruqi (@MehreenFaruqi) April 22, 2024

Man shot by Queensland police near Gladstone dies

A man has died after being shot by police at a rest area south of Gladstone.

Police said the man was shot by an officer on Monday, 20km south of Miriam Vale, around 10.50am.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesperson said the man was assessed in a critical condition but they did not transport him to hospital.

Guardian Australia understands that he died at the scene.

The Bruce Highway at Gindoran, 5km north of John Clifford Way, remains closed.

Guardian Australia is still awaiting further details about the circumstances of the shooting. A police investigation is under way.

Treasurer considers relief for ‘under pressure’ students

We mentioned it briefly earlier but the treasurer, Jim Chalmers , has further hinted that relief may be on the way for students completing mandatory unpaid university placements.

Students in a range of courses including nursing, teaching and social work are required to complete hundreds of hours of internships in order to graduate.

Academics, the Greens and grassroots group Students Against Placement Poverty have lobbied the commonwealth for years to address the burden, pointing to high drop-out rates and burnout .

The University Accord final report, handed down earlier this year, urged the government to front the bill for “care” degrees, and work with industry to implement stipends for remaining mandatory internships.

Speaking to the media today, Chalmers said both loan reform and placements were being looked at in the budget, acknowledging “students are under pressure”.

With the budget a mere three weeks away – watch this space.

Court hears conflicting accounts over Victorian school bus crash

A bus driver says he slowed to a near stop at an intersection west of Melbourne when a truck rammed into the back of his bus, seriously injuring eight students, a court has heard.

But another motorist has disputed Graham Stanley’s claims, telling the Melbourne magistrates court he saw no brake or indicator lights in the lead-up to the May 2023 collision that saw a truck crash into the back of the bus.

At the time, 45 students from the Exford primary school in Eynesbury were on the bus. Eight children suffered life-threatening injuries, with two students needing to have arms and hands amputated. Stanley was also hospitalised with a broken ankle.

The driver of the truck was charged with 11 offences, including four counts of dangerous driving causing serious injury.

He faced the Melbourne magistrates court on Monday for the start of a two-day committal hearing.

Read the full story from AAP here:

Funding boost for warning systems in flood-hit regions

Flood-prone areas across Queensland will receive $7m for early warning infrastructure, AAP reports.

The federal government has announced 170 projects, including new river height gauges, cameras, signage and sensor technology for areas heavily impacted by flooding in 2022.

The emergency management minister, Murray Watt , said that with more frequent and intense flooding in recent years, this infrastructure was crucial.

While we can’t predict the future, we know complacency is simply not an option when it comes to building disaster resilience. With earlier flood warnings and more comprehensive information captured we’ll significantly improve our defence against disaster events.

More than 20 Queensland councils will get $235,000 each for new flood warning infrastructure. An extra $1m will be set aside for “high-priority” projects within nine of these local government areas.

Many thanks for joining me on the blog today. Stephanie Convery will be here to guide you through the rest of today’s news. Take care.

Crocodile believed to be responsible for fatal attack on teen euthanised

A crocodile believed to be responsible for a fatal attack on a 16-year-old boy in the Torres Strait last week has been euthanised.

Last Thursday a search and rescue operation was launched near Saibai Island after reports a 16-year-old was missing. That night a spokesperson confirmed they had discovered his body with injuries consistent with a crocodile attack.

According to a statement from the Queensland Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, the four-metre crocodile was located during night spotlight searches on Friday, near where the teenage boy was killed.

The animal displayed parading behaviour such as raising its head as it swam, which is consistent with it being the target animal.

The crocodile was “humanely euthanised” on Saturday and disposed of at sea, the department said, “in keeping with the wishes of the Saibai Island community”.

The [department] expresses its sincere condolences to the friends, family and community on Saibai Island.

New Zealand PM interested in Taiwan trade, but not travel

In some international news via AAP : the New Zealand prime minister, Christopher Luxon , says he wants to increase trade links with Taiwan, but has ruled out visiting the island nation while leader in deference to the One China policy.

Last week, NZ sent its first-ever official cross-parliamentary delegation to Taiwan. Taiwan is eager to join the 11-nation CPTPP trade bloc ( which includes Australia and NZ) but is considered unlikely to be admitted, given China also wants membership.

NZ does not have an official diplomatic relationship with Taipei, but has a free trade deal signed in 2013.

Luxon said his government has a goal of doubling its export value in the next decade, and plans to lean on Asia heavily to do so. Asked specifically if that included Taiwan, he said: “Yes, we already have a free trade agreement with Taiwan.”

NZ’s openness to Taiwan comes at a moment of geopolitical inflection, with the new right-leaning government exploring closer ties with the US and “traditional” partners.

Each of the countries Luxon visited last week (Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines) have strong relationships with Washington – Thailand and the Philippines were formally allied to the US.

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