High Speed Rail Authority ‘seeking world-leading experts’ to plan network between Sydney, Central Coast and Newcastle. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast‘There’ll be a lot of people grieving today’Both Barnaby Joyce and Tanya Plibersek were asked about soldier Jack Fitzgibbon, the son of former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon.The Fitzgibbon family are a family of honour. Jack died in service to our nation. Joel has served our nation. The family will be absolutely grieving. We hope and pray Jack is with our maker, give comfort to them. You’ve seen the Fitzgibbons, you’ve watched them on television. They’re a great family. He is also my mate. We’ll turn up and give what support we can to Jack’s family.It’s just the worst thing that any parent can imagine and so our hearts go out to Joel and Diane and their family and the friends and comrades that Jack had in the service as well. We know there’ll be a lot of people grieving today.Well, first of all, of course it’s not on government devices in Australia either. We’ve got a ban here in Australia on government devices. But there are 8.5 million Australians who are using it.We’ll take the advice of our security and intelligence agencies on anything we need to do around TikTok. I think people should be careful of the data that they put online in general. Like I say, if the security and intelligence agencies give us advice on TikTok, we’ll take it. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2024-03-17 22:38:23
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Australian politics live: Plibersek says government will ‘take advice’ on TikTok ban; transport minister seeking tenders for NSW high-speed rail
