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Natasha May and Amy Remeikis (earlier)

Bandt backs students over climate protests – as it happened

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Greens leader Adam Bandt
Greens leader Adam Bandt has backed the school students planning climate protests in Victoria. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

What we learned today, Tuesday 14 November

We’re going to close the blog now, but let’s recap the big headlines before we call it quits and pick it up tomorrow:

  • Asked about the Israel-Hamas war, NDIS minister Bill Shorten said “we shouldn’t be importing a conflict somewhere else into our own streets.”

  • Commonwealth Bank recorded a $2.5bn quarterly profit.

  • Premier Chris Minns said the NSW government will review hate speech laws he said do not go far enough.

  • Premier Jacinta Allan said Victorian students should not to skip school for a pro-Palestine protest.

  • Protesters at Parliament House called for the release of Israeli hostages with balloons representing citizens kidnapped by Hamas.

  • Liberal MP Russell Broadbent quit the party in protest after losing preselection to contest his seat for the Liberals.

  • Nearly 40% plan to spend less on Christmas gifts as consumer confidence takes a hit.

  • The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, told MPs there have been “too many civilian deaths in Gaza” and noted the rise in antisemitism.

  • A UN rapporteur told the press club Australia is among nations “paralysed” in response to Gaza crisis.

  • Climate protesters disrupted question time in Victorian parliament.

  • Labor accused the Coalition of “playing politics” with the high court’s latest immigration decision.

  • The Greens leader, Adam Bandt, backed Victorian students planning a climate protest, saying “I think it is the students who are being the adults.”

Amy will be back bright and early for the third day of the sitting on the Australian politics blog tomorrow morning. Have a great night.

Updated

Victorian Greens declare support for student climate strikers

The Victorian Greens are supporting the school strikers for climate change who unfurled banners in the public gallery of Victoria parliament during question time today.

Greens MP for Richmond Gabrielle de Vietri called the strikers “courageous”:

When the future of the planet is at stake, business as usual is no longer tenable.

Updated

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