Afternoon Update: Coalition divided on energy; Victoria raises age of criminal responsibility; and North Korea’s lucrative human hair trade

Liberal senator Simon Birmingham declared renewables an ‘important part of the mix’. Photograph: Sam Mooy/Getty Images

Welcome, readers, to the Afternoon Update.

The Coalition is divided over energy policy, with a senior Liberal frontbencher today contradicting the National party’s anti-renewables push and the LNP’s leader in Queensland ruling out allowing nuclear energy in the state.