Good morning. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will address Australia’s parliament tonight, followed soon after by Anthony Albanese’s budget reply. A senior Zelenskiy aide has claimed the leader could meet “soon” with Vladimir Putin, even as the Kremlin downplayed hopes of an early breakthrough in peace talks.
Barnaby Joyce has dissolved the national advisory body established less than two years ago to scrutinise major water projects. This came after an expert member of the body, Stuart Khan, expressed concern in letters to other members that the government’s funding announcements to build dams had been made for “brazenly political purposes” and without the body having been given an opportunity to consider the proposals.
