‘No role for Hamas’ in future Palestinian state, Marles says – as it happened

Defence minister Richard Marles says Australia has been part of a multilateral F-35 arrangement ‘for decades’ but does not supply weapons to Israel. Photograph: Con Chronis/AAP

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What we learned; Sunday 10 August

We’re going to wrap the blog up for today.

Here are the day’s key events:

• The deputy prime minister Richard Marles repeated the government’s denials it does not supply weapons to Israel when appearing on the ABC’s Insiders on Sunday morning.

• The Greens foreign affairs spokesperson David Shoebridge responded saying the government was “actively choosing to continue the two-way arms trade with Israel” and “international law is crystal clear, parts of weapons are weapons”.

• Anthony Albanese and his New Zealand counterpart, Christopher Luxon, discussed the Middle East war and Israel’s plans to take control of more of Gaza in coming days. The PM said Australia would make its own decisions about recognising Palestinian statehood, likely ahead of the United Nations general assembly in New York next month.

• Albanese also said Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy must be a party to Donald Trump’s upcoming ceasefire talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. The two leaders are set to talk about the invasion of Ukraine in Alaska this week.

• The Tasmanian premier Jeremy Rockliff announced the Tasmanian Liberals would phase out funding for greyhound racing by 2029 – effectively ending the sport in the state – in a bid to secure the support of crossbenchers in minority government.

• The NSW government released CCTV footage taken onboard the state’s light rail network of near-misses involving pedestrians, cars and cyclists.

Thanks for joining us. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and we’ll see you again on Monday.

Updated at 5.36am BST

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The lethal legacy of Aukus

For Australia’s proposed nuclear-powered submarine fleet there is, at present, nowhere for that radioactive spent fuel to go. As a non-nuclear country – and a party to the non-proliferation treaty – Australia has no history of, and no capacity for, managing high-level nuclear waste.

But Australia is not alone, writes my colleague Ben Doherty: there is no operational site anywhere on Earth for the permanent storage of high-level nuclear waste.

Read the full feature here:

Updated at 4.54am BST