Senator claims authorities advised she was ‘potentially a target’ for abuse – as it happened

Senator Lidia Thorpe has opened up on her altercation outside a Melbourne strip club last week. Photograph: Martin Ollman/Getty Images

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What we learned; Tuesday 25 April

And that’s where we’ll leave you this Anzac Day. Here’s what we learned:

• Thousands gathered to commemorate the contribution of Australian defence personnel at Anzac Day dawn services across the country, with events held in major cities, suburban centres and country towns.

• More than 1,600 Australians attended the dawn service at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli, Türkiye – the biggest crowd of Australians at the ceremony since the Anzac centenary, according to Matt Keogh, the minister for veterans affairs and defence personnel.

• Work has been halted on Australia’s largest renewable energy project after a fatal truck rollover. A man aged in his 50s was behind the wheel of a Snowy 2.0 project truck when it rolled on Monday afternoon on the Snowy Mountains Highway at Dry Plain.

• Defence minister Richard Marles pushed back at comments from China’s foreign ministry overnight that Australia should not “hype up the so-called China threat narrative”. Marles also said the timing of the release of the defence strategic review on the day before Anzac Day was coincidental.

• A US citizen has faced court on customs charges after allegedly being caught with an unregistered gold-plated handgun in her luggage at Sydney airport.

• The Indigenous Australians minister, Linda Burney, told a crowd at the Anzac Day ceremony that Australians should not to forget the frontier wars committed against Indigenous communities during Britain’s colonisation.

• The independent senator Lidia Thorpe claims Australian federal police warned her she was “potentially a target” for abuse when she went out in public.

• Collingwood triumphed 90-77 in the traditional Anzac Day AFL match against Essendon at the MCG, while in the NRL the Sydney Roosters claimed a nail-biting 27-26 victory over St George Illawarra.

We’ll be back with you bright and early tomorrow morning. Look after yourselves.

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Collingwood take the Anzac Day AFL match

And Collingwood have won the Anzac Day AFL match at the MCG, coming back from 28 points down at three-quarter time to beat Essendon by 13 points, with the last goal kicked at the final siren.

Final scores: Collingwood 90 (13 goals, 12 behinds) to Essendon 77 (11 goals, 11 behinds).

Updated at 9.04am BST