What happened, Thursday 10 August
With that, we’ll wrap up our live coverage of the day’s news.
Here’s a summary of the key developments:
Patients with chronic conditions are set to receive two months of medicine for the price of one from 1 September, after the Senate voted down a Coalition push to tear up Labor’s 60-day dispensing changes.
Pollution at Australia’s largest Antarctic research station, Casey, has exceeded international guidelines for close to 20 years, new research shows.
Big business has sided with the Albanese government by rejecting the “misconception” that migration is higher than normal and the “disingenuous” claim by the Coalition that Labor is pursuing a big Australia policy.
Elon Musk has accused the ABC of embracing censorship after Australia’s public broadcaster drastically reduced its presence on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Ten years after losing the prime ministership, Kevin Rudd’s official portrait has been unveiled in parliament house.
Police have interviewed a 26-year-old man in hospital after a severed finger was found on the windscreen of a car in south-west Sydney.
The remains of a woman whose body was hidden in the wall of a Brisbane apartment block for about 13 years have been identified by police, who are investigating why anyone would target “a vulnerable single female in this way”.
Airlines are preparing to cater for an increase in Chinese tourists to Australia after China’s government announced group tours to the country could resume, as the relationship between Beijing and Canberra continues to thaw.
Thanks for reading, and have a pleasant evening. We’ll be back again tomorrow.
Updated
Ten years after losing the prime ministership, Kevin Rudd was back in Parliament House holding court - but seemed almost lost for words.
“It’s a funny thing being asked to speak at an event like this,” Rudd told current and former political figures, among them many of them his former cabinet colleagues, reporters and other dignitaries.
“Speaking at the unveiling of your prime ministerial portrait is the closest you come in life to being the after-dinner speaker at your own wake.”
As it turned out, Rudd had plenty he wanted to say before the covers were pulled off the portrait that will remain on permanent display in Parliament House.
With visiting schoolchildren watching from the first-floor balcony, Rudd declared he was proud to have served as Australia’s 26th prime minister.
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