Gas lobby spends millions on anti-tax ads – as it happened

Shell Australia’s Cecile Wake tells a Senate inquiry her company is contributing about $1m to the Australian Energy Producers campaign defending the amount the industry pays in tax. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

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What we learned today, Wednesday 22 April

Thanks for staying with our live news coverage today. We’ll leave the blog there for this evening. Here were the day’s top stories:

• The federal health minister, Mark Butler, announced major changes to the NDIS to help manage costs. Queensland’s disability minister said there would be “significant disadvantage to participants”.

• The New South Wales premier said “we don’t have billions” to cover federal NDIS savings.

• Australia’s gas industry is running a multimillion-dollar campaign of ads against proposals for a new tax, a parliamentary inquiry heard.

• The independent running in the Farrer byelection said the Coalition preferencing One Nation was “not for the good of our community”.

• The eSafety commissioner has sought answers on grooming and radicalisation on Roblox and Minecraft.

• The prime minister said the government has secured shipments of an additional 200m litres of diesel.

• Consumers and businesses are not cutting back on fuel as prices rise, Ampol reported.

• Mouse numbers are reportedly increasing across regional Australia, the agriculture minister said.

• The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption found a former CEO of a government agency was corrupt.

• The NSW police commissioner warned Sydney is dealing with a new organised crime environment after a fourth man was charged over the alleged kidnapping and murder of Chris Baghsarian.

Updated at 9.04am BST

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Air around Geelong’s Corio refinery is safe after blaze, Fire Rescue says

Fire Rescue Victoria has dropped its warning to Corio residents to avoid the refinery area and limit airflow from outdoors.

After the Geelong refinery blaze last week, residents were advised to close doors and windows and make moves to limit smoke inhalation. That has now been downgraded to a community information message, “in line with the reduced risk,” an FRV spokesperson said.

FRV has conducted air quality, surface and water runoff testing and there are no contamination concerns for the community, the spokesperson said.

Firefighters are still at the refinery site, which is being made safe to allow investigations into the cause of the fire. FRV’s spokesperson added:

Once the scene has been made safe, the incident will be handed over to Viva Energy for the beginning of recovery activities and the continued operation of the site.

Updated at 8.45am BST