What we learned: Thursday 12 February
We will wrap up the live blog here for the evening.
This is what made the news:
Ten Liberal MPs and senators have resigned from Sussan Ley’s frontbench today, ahead of the Liberal party spill meeting at 9am tomorrow.
You can read all the latest from Tom McIlroy and Dan Jervis-Bardy here, and Josh Butler looks at the good time Angus Taylor was having here.
The government sharpened their attacks on Taylor in question time, ahead of his challenge for the Liberal leadership.
The former shadow finance minister Jane Hume will put her hand up for the deputy when a leadership spill is called, as will Dan Tehan.
The foreign minister, Penny Wong, says protesters have the right to pray in peace, in response to questions about police breaking up a Muslim prayer at a Sydney protest on Monday.
Crowds gathered in Melbourne’s CBD to protest against the visit of Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, delivered his annual Closing the Gap speech.
The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allen, said the claim in a report the CFMEU’s alleged corruption had cost the state $15bn had not been well tested.
We’ll be back tomorrow bright and early before the spill gets under way. Until then.
Updated
It’s all about the maths
Tom McIlroy and Dan Jervis-Bardy are here with a wrap of the day’s shenanigans, as Angus Taylor prepares to take on Sussan Ley:
