Good afternoon. Two long-running stories reached a climax on Wednesday, with the Liberal party finally declaring its opposition to the Indigenous voice proposal and Terence Kelly being jailed for the abduction of the four-year-old Western Australian girl Cleo Smith.
In New York, the next episode of the Donald Trump saga officially got under way after the former US president pleaded not guilty to 34 charges of falsifying business records. He marked the historic event in trademark fashion: by holding a rally.