Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will seek a tightening of rules for British backpackers coming to Australia when he meets his UK counterpart this week.
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A joint Commonwealth-New South Wales gun buyback scheme begins today, allowing people to surrender certan firearms in exchange for money.
NSW and the ACT are the only state and territory to sign up to the scheme, which splits the cost of the buyback 50-50 with the federal government.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the scheme following the Bondi Beach terror attack.
NSW Premier Chris Minns told ABC News Breakfast the buyback is only for registered eligible guns and people will need to make an appointment to surrender their firearm.
"It's not cheap but we believe it's worthwhile and hugely important in terms of driving down crime and making our community safer," Minns says.
Tanya Plibersek has again defended the federal government's budget tax changes, after new data was released showing the value of homes has dropped.
Cotality data says national house prices have fallen for a seventh consecutive month, with the speed of the decline in home values tracking at the fastest pace seen over the past 40 years.
Its latest national Home Value Index (HVI) was down 1.2 per cent in October and is now 6.7 per cent below its March peak, equivalent to a decline of about $63,400 in the value of the median Australian dwelling .
But speaking to Channel Seven alongside One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce , the social services minister says she thinks the changes have made housing more affordable.
"The fact that the growth in house prices is moderated, I think that means that housing will be affordable for my kids and my grandkids one day," Plibersek says.
Plibersek has also been asked about polling showing Treasurer Jim Chalmers has an approval rating of minus 16.
The social services minister has thrown her support behind Chalmers, saying the treasurer is getting the "tough stuff" done.
"The treasurer is at the forefront of that and there's been no reforming treasurer in Australian history that hasn't copped it when they've made big changes and we all support Jim, we all make decisions together," she says.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will seek a tightening of rules for British backpackers coming to Australia when he meets his UK counterpart this week at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Antigua.
In what will be his first official bilateral discussion with UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham , Albanese will seek to reverse part of the Morrison-era UK free trade agreement (FTA) that exempts British backpackers from regional and rural work.
The number of British backpacker visas has doubled to almost 80,000 per year since the 2021 decision.
The government has already imposed a lottery system to stem the flow of working holiday-makers and issued a go-slow on processing UK backpacker visas to reduce net overseas migration.
While the FTA is already law, it's understood regional work rules could be reimposed on British working holiday-makers with the consent of the UK government.
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The prime minister has arrived in Antigua in the Caribbean to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
He's expected to meet with the new UK PM Andy Burnham and seek a change to the Australia-UK free trade agreement.
