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Australia news LIVE: Labor grapples with immigration crisis; Albanese calls Zelensky ahead of Ukraine peace summit
Federal parliament will sit today with Immigration Minister Andrew Giles under increasing pressure over the government’s failure to deport convicts. Follow live here.
- by Josefine Ganko and Lachlan Abbott
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As it happened: Inflation rises as fruit and veg prices jump; Immigration stoush intensifies in parliament
Federal parliament resumes as the Labor government prepares to introduce new environmental legislation and the foreign minister responds to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
- by Josefine Ganko and Lachlan Abbott
As it happened: Wong calls Israeli airstrikes ‘horrific and unacceptable’; Albanese government launches violence against women review
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged a ‘tragic mistake’ had been made after an Israeli airstrike triggered a fire that officials say killed 45 people in Gaza.
- by Josefine Ganko and Lachlan Abbott
As it happened: Rental inflation expected to soar; Ukraine still waiting for urgent shipment of Australian coal
‘Extraordinary’ numbers signal years of pain for renters, Ukraine pleads with Penny Wong for urgent coal shipment and the migration debate continues.
- by Josefine Ganko and Caroline Schelle
Australia news LIVE: PM points finger at Coalition over release of former detainee; Taylor says working smarter will make up for migration cuts
PM blames Coalition over release of detainee charged with murder, shadow treasurer says working smarter will temper migration cuts and states oppose nuclear plans.
- by Caroline Schelle and Christopher Harris
Australia news as it happened: Dutton to name nuclear sites within weeks; Ozempic replicas to be banned in four months
Ozempic replicas will be banned in four months, Peter Dutton will reveal locations for nuclear sites and young people have been cutting back on essentials.
- by Josefine Ganko and Caroline Schelle
Australia news as it happened: One dead, 70 injured after severe turbulence on Singapore Airlines flight; Ozempic dupes banned
An Australian woman was hurled into the ceiling of a Singapore Airlines flight before smashing to the floor among glass and breakfast food during extreme turbulence that left one person dead, eight Australians in a Bangkok hospital and more than 70 people injured.
- by Josefine Ganko
Australia news as it happened: Telstra to cut up to 2800 jobs; ICC seeks arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders
Telco giant Telstra is facing widespread scrutiny from unions, employees and customers after CEO Vicki Brady announced plans to cull up to 9 per cent of its workforce.
- by Josefine Ganko, Madeleine Heffernan and Shelby Garlick
Australia news as it happened: Iran’s president, foreign minister killed in helicopter crash; voters favour migration cuts
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- by Josefine Ganko and Jessica McSweeney
Australia news as it happened: iMessage issue resolved after widespread outage; Dutton pledges to slash permanent migration to 140,000 a year in budget reply
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton shared his response to the federal budget, Labor shelves deportation bill and violence rages in New Caledonia.
- by Caroline Schelle and Anthony Segaert
As it happened: Large-scale ransomware data breach engulfs Australian health provider; Slovak PM in life-threatening condition after assassination attempt
Labor will be forced into talks with the Greens over new curbs on coal and gas in a bid to salvage the $13.7 billion tax credits in its “made in Australia” budget plan and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is in an “extraordinarily serious” condition after he was shot multiple times in a suspected assassination attempt which has rocked the central European nation.
- by Caroline Schelle and Josefine Ganko