Afternoon Update: Liberal breaks ranks on Taylor plan; Mafs UK rape allegations; and having tea with Flea

Liberal senator Andrew McLachlan says Angus Taylor’s plan to bar non-citizens from accessing welfare is ‘not the Australian way’. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Good afternoon.

A Liberal senator has broken ranks to criticise Angus Taylor’s plan to bar non-citizens from accessing welfare, warning it will create “two types of members of the community” and is “not the Australian way”.