News live: Sussan Ley says her leadership can survive Coalition split; Australian actors among Oscar nominees | Australia news

News live: Sussan Ley says her leadership can survive Coalition split; Australian actors among Oscar nominees | Australia news

Sussan Ley ‘absolutely confident’ in the leadership she has delivered Ley spoke to Channel Nine’s Today this morning, where she was asked about her future as leader of the Coalition. The opposition leader maintained that she was confident in her leadership so far, and the future of her role at the helm. She said: That’s […]

Bondi day of mourning live: PM tells memorial ‘I am deeply and profoundly sorry we could not protect your loved ones’ | Anthony Albanese

Bondi day of mourning live: PM tells memorial ‘I am deeply and profoundly sorry we could not protect your loved ones’ | Anthony Albanese

Albanese: ‘I am deeply and profoundly sorry that we could not protect your loved ones’ The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is now giving his speech. My fellow Australians, tonight should have been nothing more than a regular Thursday night. Our beautiful city, brightened by the light of another 15 lives. 15 lives illuminated by possibility, […]

Australia news live: Labor’s hate speech laws pass the Senate; experts warn research gap on NDIS tool could lead to ‘tragedies’ | Anthony Albanese

Australia news live: Labor’s hate speech laws pass the Senate; experts warn research gap on NDIS tool could lead to ‘tragedies’ | Anthony Albanese

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature NSW bids ‘final farewell’ to remaining lockout laws NSW will officially end the final major provisions of the state’s controversial lockout laws, 12 years after they were first established. The NSW government said it would remove remaining restrictions including the 3.30am […]

News live: IMF forecasts Australia to experience ‘drawn-out’ inflation; measles alert for western Sydney | Australia news

News live: IMF forecasts Australia to experience ‘drawn-out’ inflation; measles alert for western Sydney | Australia news

Australia will see ‘drawn-out’ and ‘above-target inflation’, IMF says Patrick Commins The International Monetary Fund says Australia is “projected to see some drawn-out persistence in above-target inflation”, as economists and investors bet the RBA will be forced to hike interest rates this year. Unemployment figures on Thursday followed by consumer price data the following Wednesday […]

Australia news live: ‘dehumanisation leads to exactly what happened in Bondi’, Jewish MP tells parliament; 100,000 livestock likely lost in Queensland floods | Australian politics

Australia news live: ‘dehumanisation leads to exactly what happened in Bondi’, Jewish MP tells parliament; 100,000 livestock likely lost in Queensland floods | Australian politics

Burns: ‘Dehumanisation leads to exactly what happened in Bondi’ Josh Burns, a Labor MP who is also Jewish, also stands up, and talks about the night of 14 December as the shooting began. He said his daughter was about to go to the same Hanukkah in the park festival in Melbourne. As he speaks, his […]

Australia news live: Labor urges ‘unity’ from Ley after hate speech backdown; NSW dog owners face jail for leaving pets in cars | Australia news

Australia news live: Labor urges ‘unity’ from Ley after hate speech backdown; NSW dog owners face jail for leaving pets in cars | Australia news

Labor urges ‘unity’ from Ley after hate speech backdown Tom McIlroy Labor has urged the opposition leader, Sussan Ley, to follow through on her commitments after the Bondi terror attack and support legislation dealing with guns and hate groups in parliament this week. The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, agreed to split his controversial bill in […]

Australia news live: Allegra Spender urges Coalition to ‘follow through’ on calls for urgent action after Bondi terror attack | Australia news

Australia news live: Allegra Spender urges Coalition to ‘follow through’ on calls for urgent action after Bondi terror attack | Australia news

Member for Wentworth calls for all parties to work together to pass hate speech laws Allegra Spender has urged the Coalition to follow through on their calls for “urgent action” in the wake of the Bondi terror attack after leader Sussan Ley flagged the opposition would oppose new hate speech laws. The independent member for […]

Iran protests live updates: death toll passes 2,500 as Trump warns Tehran against executions | Iran

Iran protests live updates: death toll passes 2,500 as Trump warns Tehran against executions | Iran

Erfan Soltani reportedly facing imminent execution Erfan Soltani is reportedly facing execution in Iran on Wednesday after he was tried, convicted and sentenced, following his arrest on Thursday. The 26-year-old was arrested in Karaj, a city on the north-west outskirts of Tehran, at the peak of the protests before the internet black-out. Soltani is one […]