What we learned today, Wednesday 10 September
Thanks for staying with the live blog this evening. We’ll leave our coverage there for the day. Here were Wednesday’s top stories:
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has been dumped from the opposition frontbench after failing to back Sussan Ley’s leadership.
The home affairs minister Tony Burke’s electorate office in south-west Sydney has been vandalised.
Music and art therapies will remain on the NDIS but the cost of sessions will be capped.
The NSW children’s guardian has been removed from his position for alleged misbehaviour.
Neo-Nazis may take to Melbourne streets again this weekend, police warned, with the entire CBD to be declared a designated area.
The Queensland Conservation Council said the state government cannot meet its emissions targets without abandoning plans to keep coal generators operating for longer.
About 500 machetes have been surrendered under Victoria’s amnesty program.
Labor ministers condemned Israel’s strikes against top Hamas members in Qatar, adding the Australian government was not informed of the actions beforehand.
We’ll be back tomorrow, keeping you across the country’s breaking news.
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Tony Abbott says dumped Price a ‘big loss’
The former Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott has said he expects Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to remain a strong presence in Australian politics despite her resignation from shadow cabinet.
Abbott wrote in a post on X:
Jacinta Price will be a big loss to the frontbench but I’m confident that she will continue to make a strong contribution to our public life.
Abbott earlier today published a column entitled “Mass Immigration Across the Anglo-Sphere Must Cease”. Price today doubled down on her own campaign against “mass migration” leading up to and after her resignation, while refusing to back Sussan Ley’s leadership or apologise for her comments about Indian migrants.
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