What we learned, Sunday 20 July
And that’s where we’ll leave you this afternoon. Here’s a recap of what we learned today:
The Tasmanian Liberal leader and incumbent premier, Jeremy Rockliff, says he has been speaking to cross-benchers and believes they will allow Liberals to form government, after neither the Liberal party nor Labor won enough seats in the state election to form government in their own right.
The Tasmanian opposition leader, Dean Winter, says his party won’t do a deal with the Greens, but has not conceded defeat, despite the party receiving its worst-ever election result in the state.
Controversial MP Mark Latham says he has “broken no law” as he publicly responds to a former partner’s allegations of domestic violence.
Queensland health authorities fear the number of hospital staff potentially exposed to a rare strain of mpox could grow after the condition was detected in an overseas traveller.
A man has died after being taken into police custody overnight in Gippsland in Victoria’s east.
New South Wales police have declared a critical incident and launched an investigation after a man died in a crash during a police pursuit in the state’s Lake Macquarie region on Saturday night.
A sweeping search is under way for a 56-year-old fisher missing on the NSW south coast since Saturday.
Thanks so much for your company today. We’ll be back with you bright and early tomorrow with more live news coverage. Look after yourselves until then.
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Why Mildura is demanding its moment in the sun
The banks of the Murray are sandy and broad as they wind around the city of Mildura in Victoria’s far north-west. They are beloved by locals and visitors – and were also the feature of a recent, much maligned tourism campaign, fronted by actor Shane Jacobson and surf life-savers, likening the inland river city to the far north Queensland coast.
The $390,000 campaign, which bills Mildura as “tropical north Victoria”, has been widely panned by locals since it launched a year ago. But it’s not the first time the city has taken the loud and brash approach to putting itself on the cultural map in the last few years. American rock band Kings of Leon played there in 2022, then earlier this year, Lenny Kravitz announced he would take in the Murray on his national tour.
So what’s going on in Mildura? Why is it trying so hard to grab the nation’s attention – and is it working?
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