What happened on Monday 25 April, 2022
With that, we’ll wrap up our live news coverage for the day.
Here’s a summary of the day’s news developments:
- Dawn services and marches were held across Australia, ranging from smaller ceremonies in some towns to parades in capital cities that attracted thousands of people, as the country marked Anzac Day.
- Labor has hit back at Peter Dutton’s claim that the only way to “preserve peace is to prepare for war”, suggesting the Coalition’s actions fall short of its words. It came as both Scott Morrison and Labor campaigned in Darwin on Monday, the 15th day of the election campaign, while opposition leader Anthony Albanese remains in isolation with Covid.
- A conservative lobby group has indicated it will not remove billboards featuring images of elite Australian female swimmers, pitting them against Zali Steggall over trans women’s participation in sport, even in the face of a legal threat from the sport’s peak body.
- The New South Wales police say they are not aware of any threats made against the Liberal party’s controversial candidate in Warringah, Katherine Deves, after an interview in which she said she had received “death threats” over comments about transgender people that she made online.
- A search is under way after four people were swept off the rocks at Port Kembla in New South Wales on Monday afternoon. Emergency services are looking for one person believed to still be in the water after rescuing the other three people.
- The Coalition’s candidate in Flynn, has suggested Australia’s net zero emissions by 2050 commitment a flexible, non-binding plan that leaves plenty of “wiggle room”.
- Scott Morrison has congratulated French president Emmanuel Macron on his re-election, calling his victory over far-right challenger Marine Le Pen a “great expression of liberal democracy in action in uncertain times”. Morrison’s congratulatory Tweet comes after a falling out with Macron in recent months over the Aukus nuclear powered submarine deal.
- Western Australian authorities are working to contain a Covid-19 outbreak onboard one of the first cruise ships allowed back in the state.
Have a pleasant evening, we’ll be back tomorrow.
Updated
Port Kembla search under way after people swept off rocks
A search is under way after four people were swept off the rocks at Hill 60, Port Kembla on Monday afternoon.
Emergency services are looking for one person believed to still be in the water after rescuing the other three people.
The trio were taken to Wollongong hospital with cuts and abrasions.
Six ambulances and the rescue helicopter were sent to the coast when emergency services were alerted to the incident about 3.45pm on Anzac Day.
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