PM says Labor has ‘balance right’ on super tax concessions – as it happened

Prime minister Anthony Albanese was asked why Labor won’t lower the threshold of proposed superannuation changes to $1.9m, as the Greens have suggested. Photograph: Morgan Hancock/AAP

4.03am GMT

What we learned today, Saturday 4 March

We are closing this news blog for now. Here’s a recap of the day’s headlines:

• The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said Labor has “the balance right” on superannuation tax concessions as the Greens push for a lower threshold of $1.9m.

• The Greens leader, Adam Bandt, said the party could support the Albanese government’s changes to the safeguard mechanism if Labor agreed to pause new fossil fuel developments until the parliament has dealt with planned changes to national environment laws.

• Tanya Plibersek has urged survivors of assault to reach out for help, after her daughter Anna revealed her own story of sexual and domestic violence.

• NSW police have confirmed an “unauthorised protest” took place in Sydney on Friday night, after videos circulating on social media showed a Christian march taking place in Newtown.

• Ed Sheeran broke the Australian record for ticketed concert attendance, with 109,600 tickets sold to his second Melbourne performance at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday night.

Updated at 4.07am GMT

3.47am GMT

The fight over brumbies in the Barmah-Millewa forest

Horses in the Barmah Brumby Preservation Group’s brumby sanctuary, at the south-eastern edge of Barmah national park. Photograph: Stuart Walmsley

In the Barmah-Millewa forest, the largest river red gum forest in the world, tensions over feral horses and their fate have reached boiling point.

Guardian Australia has spoken to more than a dozen residents, business owners, farmers, community volunteers and government employees, most of whom disagree with brumbies being culled. Those who do support the eradication of the invasive species declined to be quoted, even anonymously. In a growing number of regional towns, speaking out against the brumbies is to become a social pariah.

Most of the brumbies live in the Barmah national park, on the Victorian side of the border. It is jointly managed by Parks Victoria and the traditional owners, the Yorta Yorta nation. A Parks Victoria spokesperson said:

Parks Victoria has an obligation to control invasive species in Victoria’s national parks, including feral horses, which cause long-term and large-scale damage to native plants and animals, many of which occur nowhere else in the world.

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Updated at 3.56am GMT