Summary of the day
And that’s where we’ll leave you this evening. Here’s a wrap of what we’ve learned today:
The federal government has announced Australia’s “largest-ever” tender to build renewable energy projects, which will be underwritten by the commonwealth.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese said it was “extraordinary” that X, formerly known as Twitter, did not comply with orders from the eSafety commissioner to take down footage of the Wakeley church stabbing.
The X boss, Elon Musk, should “front up here to parliament”, Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has declared, calling the billionaire CEO a “tech thug” and “cowboy” after his platform refused to take down the videos.
The shadow foreign minister, Simon Birmingham, said the opposition would support any moves from the government to place penalties on social media companies that won’t remove content deemed damaging to social cohesion.
The Nationals leader, David Littleproud, has denied there is tension in the Coalition around nuclear power, telling Sky News that a “clear majority” of his party want nuclear power.
Global financial uncertainty has prompted the Treasury to downgrade its growth forecasts for major economies ahead of the federal budget.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has called for the government to issue targeted sanctions on Israel and cease all military trade due with the country due to the war in Gaza. It has also called for a commitment of an additional $100m in humanitarian assistance to Gaza and the West Bank.
An inspection report by the Australian Human Rights Commission has found a high-security immigration detention centre in Western Australia was, in part, “no longer fit for purpose”.
Steve Gollschewski has been named as the new Queensland police commissioner, following the resignation of Katarina Carroll last month.
Erin Patterson, the woman accused of murdering and attempting to murder her relatives by serving them a meal laced with deadly mushrooms, may spend 15 months in custody before she faces a committal hearing, a court has heard.
Murujuga traditional custodians have called for an immediate inquiry to investigate the alleged leak of a confidential report on the Burrup peninsula to the media.
International traffic is now closer to pre-pandemic levels than domestic flights at Sydney airport.
A man has died after being shot by police at a rest area south of Gladstone, Queensland.
Electric utes are being shipped to Australia for use on mining sites after a local firm signed a deal with one of America’s leading vehicle manufacturers.
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Crocodile euthanised after fatal attack on teenager
Wildlife officers have euthanised a large crocodile believed to have killed a 16-year-old boy in the Torres Strait last week.
The teenager, and a 13-year-old boy, reportedly attempted to swim back to Saibai Island from a broken-down dinghy early on Thursday morning last week, Queensland police said, with the younger boy making it to safety.
Wildlife officers located the four-metre animal responsible during spotlight searches on Friday night near where the boy died and it was killed on Saturday, according to a spokesperson for the Department of Environment, Science and Innovation.
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