Australia records 75 Covid deaths as data shows fatalities rising since March – as it happened

Australia recorded 75 Covid deaths on Tuesday with 40 of those in NSW as data shows weekly coronavirus fatalities have doubled since March. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

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What we learned today, Tuesday 28 June

With that, we’ll wrap up our live coverage of the day’s news. Here’s a summary of the main developments:

• Results from the 2021 census were released on Tuesday. Christianity is in decline, millennials are catching up to boomers, and everyone was at home, were among the key insights from the pandemic census night.
• Meanwhile, India has overtaken China and New Zealand to become the third largest country of birth for Australian residents, 2021 census data has found.
  
• You can check out our interactive looking at how Covid changed Australia and your suburb.
• Forty-six people were found dead and 16 others were taken to hospital after being found inside a truck on Monday on a remote back road in south-west San Antonio, Texas officials have said.
• Twelve more Blockade Australia climate protesters have been arrested over the group’s mass disruption campaign in Sydney’s CBD.
• John Barilaro told the New South Wales premier, Dominic Perrottet, in a “social setting” that he intended to apply for a plum $500,000 trade job in New York, some time after the former deputy premier quit parliament last year.

Thanks for reading. We’ll be back bright and early tomorrow to do it all over again.

Updated at 9.38am BST

9.19am BST

India third most common country of birth for Australian residents, census finds

India has overtaken China and New Zealand to become the third largest country of birth for Australian residents, 2021 census data has found.

On 10 August 2021, 673,352 people living in Australia reported India as their country of birth – an increase of 220,000, or 47.9%, since the previous census in 2016. The most common country of birth was Australia, followed by England.

Overall, more than one million migrants arrived in Australia in the past five years despite Covid-19 travel restrictions.

The census data, released on Tuesday, provides the most up-to-date information on cultural diversity, language and religion, and found Australia continues to be a broadly multicultural nation.

Half of Australians have a parent born overseas, and more than one in four were born internationally.

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Updated at 9.26am BST