That’s where we’ll leave our live news coverage for the day. Before we go, let’s recap the day’s top headlines: The One Nation deputy leader, Barnaby Joyce, has called his party “one of the gayest in Australia”. The shadow housing minister, Andrew Bragg, has stood by his proposal to lower net migration to 180,000 a year in a wide-ranging speech in which he lamented not stopping the Morrison government’s “madness” – even as colleagues side-stepped supporting the target figure publicly.
The Commonwealth Bank has reported a bumper $10.9bn full-year cash profit, up 7%, in its full-year financial results. The Victorian parliament has voted to abolish group voting tickets (GVTs) to elect its upper house. Australia has joined the US and dozens of other nations, including the UK, France, Germany and the Philippines, in calling on all relevant countries to provide advanced notice of ballistic missile launches.
Melon-gate continues, with the Coalition demanding an investigation while the Japanese ambassador downplayed the prime minister’s comments on a comedy podcast. Victoria will begin vaccinating about 5,000 little penguins at Phillip Island and St Kilda from next week to protect them against the deadly H5 bird flu, in what is believed to be the world’s largest vaccination program involving wild birds. The teals have brought some of the best merch we’ve seen in parliament, as they try to pressure the government and opposition to go harder on gambling advertising.
The prosecution’s case against Naveed Akram for his alleged role as a gunman in the Bondi terror attack now includes 12 additional electronic devices and a report on an explosive device. Thanks for sticking around, we’ll see you tomorrow!
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