Morning Mail: Larissa Waters quits as Greens leader; Sydney datacentre scrapped; and SpaceX rocket blasts off
Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Morning everyone. The Greens will choose a new leader next week after Larissa Waters shocked Australian politics last night by announcing she was standing down due to ill health. There will also be intense focus on the Reserve Bank at 2.30pm this afternoon…
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The Greens have chosen a new leader following the announcement by Larissa Waters that she is stepping down due to ill health. A party room meeting is scheduled for the following week to select her replacement, with party deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi, senator Sarah Hanson-Young, David Shoebridge, and Nick McKim considered as potential successors.
The Reserve Bank is set to meet at 2:30 pm this afternoon, with expectations of another interest rate hike aimed at combating inflation. This comes as research reveals a significant turnover in One Nation MPs, with more than half of the party's elected representatives at the state or federal level having left the party before the end of their term.
In other news, a controversial $1.2 billion datacentre planned in Sydney's north has been scrapped by its developer. The withdrawal is attributed to emerging regulations from the state and federal governments. Meanwhile, Queensland's anti-corruption commission has only investigated 20 out of over 6,000 complaints made in the past year, raising questions about the effectiveness of the investigation process.
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