And, that’s a wrap this Easter Sunday. Here’s what’s been keeping us busy today:
Byron Bay’s Bluesfest was just one of a handful of music festivals saved by New South Wales state funding, the Minns government revealed.
Bridget McKenzie was grilled over cost of Coalition’s nuclear plan, then said that Murray Watt had ‘lied’ about the Coalition’s supposed cuts to Medicare.
Michael Sukkar, meanwhile, defended negative gearing for people on high incomes – and said, referring to election day, that the Coalition was ‘in it to win it’.
Over in the Greens camp, Adam Bandt said the government should prepare a ‘green book’ in anticipation of a hung parliament – and, while the Greens were taking nothing for granted, he defended his party’s campaign stunts.
Customary Easter messages arrived from both Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton.
60 economists penned an open letter calling for clean energy, rather than nuclear.
Anthony Albanese said that he has “consciously tried to bring people together and to reduce conflict” while Peter Dutton tried to fit into a zeitgeist of strength.
Finally, a man was arrested outside Nine Entertainment shortly before Anthony Albanese was due to arrive at the broadcast network’s North Sydney base. Nine Newspapers reported the incident was not connected to the PM.
We’ll be back bright and early tomorrow – until then, thank you for joining us.
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Man dead after being swept off rocks at beach south of Sydney
A fisher has died and a teenager is in a stable condition after being swept from rocks south of Sydney this morning.
New South Wales Police said the pair were winched out of the water after emergency services were called to Wattamolla at about 11am. They had been rockfishing when they were swept into the water.
Officers from Sutherland Shire Police Area Command, PolAir, Marine Area Command, Surf Life Saving NSW and NSW Ambulance paramedics helped in the rescue, police said.
One man was unable to be revived and died at the scene. He is yet to be formally identified, police said. A report will be prepared for the coroner.
A 14-year-old boy was taken to the Children’s hospital at Randwick where he remains in a stable condition, police said.
The death is believed to be the sixth drowning so far this Easter long weekend, as wild surf conditions caused by ex-Tropical Cyclone Tam continued to batter Australia’s east coast.
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