And that’s where we’ll leave you this evening. Here’s a snippet of what we learned today.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese attended the inaugural mass and met His Holiness Pope Leo XIV.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Australia to put more sanctions on Russia.
Albanese said he continues to put pressure on Russia to secure the release of Oscar Jenkins.
The electorate of Bradfield will go to an automatic recount after independent Nicolette Boele defeated Liberal Gisele Kapterian by 40 votes.
Greens leader Larissa Waters says the upcoming North West shelf decision will be the new environment minister’s first test on climate.
The boss of the federal climate change department is the latest senior public servant to call it quits after the election.
The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, says there will be “no new taxes” in tomorrow’s state budget.
NSW’s rent reform is “the biggest step forward for renters in a generation” according to the state’s premier Chris Minns.
A major Australian energy company acknowledged that carbon offsets do not prevent or undo damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions and apologised to its customers.
ABC managing director Hugh Marks appointed Freya Campbell as director of communications ahead of an expected overhaul of the public broadcaster’s operations.
Vodafone accused Telstra of “dramatically” overstating its reach by as much as 40% for more than a decade and misleading customers.
A major industrial manufacturer in Tasmania will pause production in a decision that could affect hundreds of workers in the north of the state.
Two bushwalkers have been rescued overnight after becoming stranded in bad weather and suffering from exposure in Mt Field national park.
More heavy rain and strong winds are on the way tomorrow for New South Wales, with frosty mornings and mostly clear days around much of the rest of the country.
Thanks so much for your company today. Join us again bright and early tomorrow for a state budget, an interest rates decision, and much, much more.
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Pesutto admits he ‘should have handled things better’ in dealings with Deeming
Victorian Liberal MP John Pesutto has said he accepts he “should have handled things better” in his dealings with Liberal MP Moira Deeming.
Speaking to ABC Radio this afternoon, Pesutto said:
I’ve reached the process where I’ve accepted that, that I should have handled things better at the time … I do accept that on reflection, I think often about what I might have done differently or should have done better, and I accept that, but I want to assure our listeners that my purposes were always such that I wanted the party to be the best it could be, the broadest it could be.
As we reported earlier, Pesutto’s friends launched a GoFundMe on Friday, just hours after the former opposition leader was ordered by the federal court to pay $2.3m in legal fees following his loss in a defamation case brought by Deeming.
A second, fake GoFundMe, purporting to be him, was also “launched without consent”, Pesutto said.
Pesutto said he is “doing everything I can to possibly avoid” being declared bankrupt, which would make him ineligible to sit in parliament.
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