NSW police say man they shot dead outside medical clinic was armed – as it happened

Police says they were called to a medical clinic in Nowra after reports a patient produced a firearm. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

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What we learned today, Wednesday 10 January

Thanks so much for your company today. Here’s a look at what made headlines:

• The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, flagged cost-of-living relief in the budget.

• The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, urged tourists not to cancel trips to Queensland in the wake of the floods.

• A challenge to an agreement between the federal government and the New South Wales government that allows the state’s forest corporation to bypass environmental laws was dismissed in the federal court.

• Scott Morrison’s upcoming book will contain a foreword by former US vice-president Mike Pence.

• November consumer price index figures were released, with some relief as inflation falls back slightly faster than expected.

• Rent costs picked up again in November while petrol price increases eased.

• The energy minister, Chris Bowen, called the federal opposition a “coalition of climate inactivists and cookers” after reports Nationals and Liberal MPs are urging their leader, Peter Dutton, not to reveal a 2035 target by the next election.

• Australia’s military will still respond to natural disasters as the government considers a reserve force, the emergency management minister, Murray Watt, said.

• The foreign minister, Penny Wong, condemned North Korea’s export and Russia’s procurement of ballistic missiles.

• NSW police shot a man dead outside a medical clinic.

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The Inner West mayor, Darcy Byrne, said the council had been informed about the contamination around the children’s play area this morning. Byrne said:

As a parent whose children have been playing there myself, I understand how concerning this will be for many thousands of local people.

It is beyond belief that such a long-awaited community facility has been opened with asbestos-contaminated materials contained within it.

There must be a thorough investigation about how asbestos-contaminated material ended up within the park.

Byrne said the council had written to the state government to insist on “urgent and immediate testing of the entire site” and remediation.

Updated at 5.47am GMT