The day that was, Tuesday 17 January
That’s where we will wrap up the live blog for today.
Here’s what made the news today:
A Qantas flight from Auckland has landed safely in Sydney after issuing a mayday call mid-flight due to a reported engine failure.
Peter Dutton has accused Anthony Albanese of being “very tricky” for dead-batting questions about whether Labor might legislate the Indigenous voice to parliament in the event the referendum to constitutionally entrench it fails.
A three-metre saltwater crocodile has been spotted lurking near a popular swimming hole on an island off the coast of Brisbane.
Ribbons tied on the fence of St Mary’s Cathedral in support of victims of clergy abuse are being removed ahead of a planned requiem mass in Sydney for Cardinal George Pell.
The federal government will acquire 40 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters for the Australian army.
The minister for defence personnel, Matt Keogh, has said Australia is prepared for possible cyber attacks from Russia in the wake of the decision to send troops to the UK to help train Ukrainian soldiers.
We will be back again tomorrow with all the latest. Until then, have a good evening.
Updated
The chair of a parliamentary inquiry into the controversial ParentsNext program has described the suggestion that in some cases single parents may be required to check in with the agency daily or risk having their welfare payments suspended as “bonkers”.
The Labor MP Julian Hill was questioning representatives of the National Employment Services Association (Nesa) and Jobs Australia, the peak bodies for commercial and not-for-profit companies that facilitate Australia’s billion-dollar outsourced welfare-to-work system, Workforce Australia.
