Afternoon Update: Government grilled over Kathryn Campbell’s $900k job; Victoria to end native timber logging; and Qantas’s record profit

Kathryn Campbell, who held the top jobs at the two departments responsible for robodebt, was given a $900,000-a-year Aukus job in 2022. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Good afternoon. The government has been pressed at Senate estimates as to why Kathryn Campbell, the public servant who held the top jobs at the two departments responsible for robodebt, was given a plum $900,000-a-year job in June 2022 as an Aukus advisor.

Penny Wong offered a qualified defence in response, saying the evidence that has since come out in the robodebt royal commission went “beyond what [she] would’ve anticipated”. In April, Bill Shorten warned that public servants adversely named by the royal commission could face disciplinary action.