What we learned today, Saturday 22 July
That’s the end of our live news blog for today. Here’s what happened:
Police in Sydney have extended a search for the tech entrepreneur Andrew Findlay who is believed to have been aboard the same fishing boat that broke up on rocks at Watsons Bay, where the body of the art dealer Tim Klingender was found on Thursday.
The NT government has begun consultations to introduce new voluntary assisted dying legislation 25 years after the territory’s pioneering VAD laws were quashed by the Howard government.
Demonstrators were rallying across the nation against Australia’s decade-long policy of offshore detention of refugees seeking asylum by boat.
The first US warship to be commissioned in a foreign port – the USS Canberra – was ushered into service at a ceremony in Sydney.
The Australian women’s football team, the Matildas, are enjoying a rest day in Brisbane before turning their sights on their next match against Nigeria on Thursday.
Technology and software billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes is separating from his wife, Annie.
Take care everyone and thanks for being here.
Sydney Harbour search extended for entrepreneur Andrew Findlay
Police are continuing to search for a man missing after a fishing boat crashed on to rocks outside Sydney Harbour, in an accident that claimed the life of a prominent art dealer.
The body of Tim Klingender, 59, was found on Thursday, after a fishing boat was found, overturned and broken up on the rocks at the base of The Gap in Watsons Bay.
Police are still searching for the second man thought to have been on board the boat, believed to be 51-year-old Andrew Findlay.
Police superintendent Joe McNulty said it was believed the men’s rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) was capsized by large swell off the cliffs.
We are still continuing to look for the second male person from that vessel accident.
We have extended the search area out to five nautical miles, nine kilometres from the shore.
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