What we learned today, Thursday 31 March
That’s it for today, thanks for reading. Here’s a recap of the day’s main stories:
- The Ukraine president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, urged a joint sitting of Australian parliament to send more military equipment including armoured vehicles to the country, and to enforce stronger sanctions on Russia.
- The opposition leader, Anthony Albanese, delivered his budget reply speech.
- Five people were killed in a helicopter crash in Victoria.
- Widespread weather warnings across NSW as the flood threat lingered.
- Solomon Islands pressed ahead with its controversial security deal with China.
- A total of 32 Covid deaths were recorded across Australia.
We will see you all back here tomorrow.
Updated
We’ll be closing this up shortly, but a full story on Labor’s budget reply will be up on the site in the next hour or so.
