What happened Monday 27 June, 2022
With that, we’ll wrap up our live coverage of the day’s news. Here’s a summary of the main developments:
- Anthony Albanese has visited Australian troops in the Middle East as he travels to the Nato summit in Spain.
- A woman who locked herself to the steering wheel of her car and blocked the harbour tunnel is one of 11 climate protesters arrested in Sydney. The protesters were among a group of 50 to 60 activists who kicked off a week of disruption in Sydney with a march through the city centre on Monday.
- John Barilaro personally approached former New South Wales Labor leader Jodi McKay about a trade commissioner job in India, raising further questions about the role senior ministers in the government have played in appointing the controversial $500,000-a-year roles.
- Australia’s new environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, has received an enthusiastic welcome in Lisbon at the UN ocean conference after flagging five new blue carbon projects and declaring that “under the new Australian government, the environment is back – front and centre”. Meanwhile, Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2021 as the country wound back Covid-19 lockdowns without taking significant steps to maintain a fall in carbon pollution recorded during the pandemic.
- The United Australia party’s new senator has accused Labor of “pumping the brakes” on the crossbench’s ability to scrutinise the government by cutting their staff, as Albanese stares down the prospect of a “Senate strike” over cuts to parliamentary staff.
- Australian states and territories announced at least 23 deaths from Covid-19 on Monday.
- The Victorian department of health says the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants are likely to become dominant variants in Victoria. These may be offshoots of an earlier Omicron strain, BA.2.
- An emergency biosecurity zone has been imposed to stop the movement of bees across NSW after the deadly parasite varroa mite was discovered.
Thanks for tuning in, we’ll be back to do it all over again tomorrow – when the first tranche of 2021 census results are released.
Have a pleasant evening.
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Man shot by police in Melbourne
A man has been shot by police in Melbourne.
Victoria police confirmed he was shot in Coburg North at 4.40pm on Monday, AAP reports.
They said the man was being treated by paramedics and no one else had been injured.
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