Ministers to allow energy market operator to procure and store gas – as it happened

The energy minister Chris Bowen met with his state and territory counterparts on Wednesday to discuss solutions to Australia’s energy needs. Photograph: Steven Saphore/AAP

9.18am BST

The day that was, Wednesday 8 June

That is where we will leave the live blog for Wednesday.

Here’s what happened:

• Federal, state and territory energy ministers have agreed following an emergency meeting to allow the Australian energy market operator to store gas to combat price spikes, and to give regulators more power over the energy market to provide more transparency.
• The ministers have also agreed to advance a national transition plan.
• ANZ, NAB and Commonwealth Bank all followed Westpac and passed on the full rate rise announced by the Reserve Bank yesterday.
• The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has vowed to review the former government’s decision to lease Port of Darwin to a Chinese company.
• The Nadesalingam family left Perth on their way back to the regional town of Biloela in Queensland after the new Labor government granted them bridging visas.
  
• The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will be given more resources to deal with the massive rise in passport applications and the associated logjam it has created.
• The high court ruled that laws allowing dual nationals to be stripped of their Australian citizenship for suspected terrorist activities are unconstitutional.
• The high court also ruled that the detention of an Aboriginal non-citizen was not unlawful, because he was detained before a landmark decision that found they were beyond the reach of the aliens power.
• The chief executive of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), Martin Hoffman, resigned.
• Tasmania announced plans to raise the age of detention from 10 to 14.
• There were 59 Covid-19 deaths reported across Australia.

9.13am BST

A name change for the Murugappans

You might have seen the family heading home to Biloela – the Nadesalingam family – previously referred to in our reportage as the Murugappan family. The family was known as the Murugappans for a number of years in Australia. We’ve asked the family, and they have asked to be known now, collectively, as the Nadesalingam family.

There are four people in the family: Nadesalingam Murugappan (known as Nades), Kokilapathmapriya Nadesalingam (known as Priya) and their two Australian-born daughters, Kopika and Tharnicaa.

Priya and Nades Nadesalingam and their daughters Kopika and Tharnicaa. Photograph: Richard Wainwright/AAP

Murugappan is Nades’s second name. It is common for Tamil families to use a patronymic naming convention, with the father’s first name taken as a second name by other family members.

Updated at 9.35am BST