Pocock says Bishop should be ‘reflecting on her position’ – as it happened

ANU chancellor Julie Bishop after an all-staff town hall meeting at the campus in Canberra on Thursday. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

8.59am BST

What we learned, Thursday 11 September

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

• ANU chancellor Julie Bishop said she intends to stay on after the university’s vice-chancellor resigned and rejected ‘each and every allegation’ made against her by academic Liz Allen.

• David Pocock recommended Bishop should be “reflecting on her position”.

• The finance union said Bendigo Bank plans to cut 145 jobs, in a week of swingeing job cuts from competitors.

• Victoria police officers were charged with manslaughter over the death of Luke Briggs.

• September rainfall records were broken as heavy rain hit south-east NSW.

• Coalition frontbencher Andrew Hastie said Sussan Ley, is safe in her position.

• Mike Holston, the US influencer who Bob Irwin sensationally labelled a “dickhead”, left Australia.

• Liberal frontbencher senator James Paterson also said this morning the coalition was deeply concerned by Charlie Kirk’s death.

• Sussan Ley said the Coalition “stands in solidarity” with those mourning Charlie Kirk as Richard Marles condemned the fatal shooting of the US right-wing commentator.

We’ll see you tomorrow for Friday’s breaking news.

8.47am BST

Tasmanian firefighters warn of major bushfire risk

Tasmania’s fire service has warned the state could face major bushfires in the coming months after new data rated spring’s chance of bushfire as “normal”.

The services’ deputy chief officer, Matt Lowe, said the outlook was similar to that landed down last year, but still carried the threat of bushfire:

Normal means there is potential for one or two major fire campaigns in a season. Bushfires will occur, and we must be prepared.

We were rated as normal last year and that resulted in one major fire event for the season with a total of 116,000 hectares burnt out across the state.

Lowe said a dry spring after a winter with less rain than usual could raise the risk of early season bushfires.

The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast higher than usual spring temperatures and below average rainfall for the state’s west.

Updated at 8.49am BST