That’s where we’ll leave the blog for today. We’ll be back early tomorrow morning with more breaking news for you. Until then, I hope you have a great night, and here were today’s top stories:
The federal opposition went on the attack after the prime minister, Anthony Albanese – who had been in London following his visit to the US – travelled to Liverpool to speak at a UK Labour conference, saying it was inappropriate for him to participate in a political forum overseas.
In his speech, Albanese defended the UK prime minister Keir Starmer’s struggling leadership, insisting the Labour government has an “absolute resolve” to stand up for democracy and fight far-right forces in Britain.
Back in Australia, Optus reported another triple-zero outage overnight and the communications minister, Anika Wells, was preparing to confront the boss of the telco’s Singaporean owner, Singtel at a meeting.
The opposition leader, Sussan Ley, said she didn’t believe Liberal colleague Andrew Hastie was after her job, and brushed off his claims about immigration.
Four teenage boys were arrested after a car chase through Melbourne’s eastern suburbs and into the city centre, which ended when they abandoned the allegedly stolen BMW in the middle of Bourke Street mall.
And Freya Leach’s Sky After Dark program was axed after only six weeks on air, following a decision to let on a far-right guest who wore a shirt festooned with raw bacon rashers and went on a diatribe about Islam while the show was being broadcast live.
