Welcome
Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the best of the overnight stories before Rafqa Touma takes you through the day.
The Albanese government has reportedly listed white supremacist network Terrorgram as a terrorist organisation. Penny Wong announced sanctions on the group earlier this year. The home affairs minister, Tony Burke, will have more to say on that soon.
The big domestic political event of the day comes in Canberra with a joint Coalition party room meeting to discuss reforms and the federal election review. Our report this morning tells us that Sussan Ley will be seeking a more inclusive policymaking process in order to avoid the mistakes of the Dutton era. We’ll have more coming up.
And as we reported earlier in the week, staffers from the offices of the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, and the police minister, Yasmin Catley, have agreed to appear before a parliamentary inquiry into the Dural caravan “fake terrorism plot” today – we’ll have more on that.
Key events
Angus Taylor says Australia needs to increase spending on defence as “we’re seeing authoritarian regimes around the world flexing their muscles”.
The shadow defence minister said on ABC TV:
It’s absolutely appropriate that we increase defence expenditure up to at least 3% of GDP …
Ultimately, if you step back from this, we’re seeing authoritarian regimes around the world flexing their muscles. We’re seeing it, of course, with Russia, we have seen it with Iran and their proxies. We’re seeing it with the military buildup of the Chinese Communist Party. And all of this means we are in a more uncertain world than at any time since the second world war. So it’s essential Australia be in a position to stand on its own two feet alongside our allies like the United States and the UK, and that does mean we have to spend more on defence.
Tony Burke is due to speak shortly on the ABC about Terrorgram’s listing as a terrorist organisation.
The online network for neo-Nazis promotes militant accelerationism, which calls for violent acts to destabilise society.
As Dan Jervis-Bardy reported earlier in the year, the group was hit with counter-terrorism sanctions in February, making it a criminal offence to use or deal with the online entity.
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Rafqa Touma
Thank you Martin Farrer for getting the blog rolling this morning. I’ll be updating you from here – let’s go.
Sydney man dies from stab wounds in driveway
NSW police are investigating after a man died from stabbing wounds in Sydney overnight.
Police were called to Pemulwuy in Sydney’s west at around 10.45pm on Thursday, they said in a statement, after reports a man “believed to be aged in his 20s” was found wounded in a house driveway.
He was treated by paramedics but was unable to be revived and died at the scene, police said.
Welcome
Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the best of the overnight stories before Rafqa Touma takes you through the day.
The Albanese government has reportedly listed white supremacist network Terrorgram as a terrorist organisation. Penny Wong announced sanctions on the group earlier this year. The home affairs minister, Tony Burke, will have more to say on that soon.
The big domestic political event of the day comes in Canberra with a joint Coalition party room meeting to discuss reforms and the federal election review. Our report this morning tells us that Sussan Ley will be seeking a more inclusive policymaking process in order to avoid the mistakes of the Dutton era. We’ll have more coming up.
And as we reported earlier in the week, staffers from the offices of the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, and the police minister, Yasmin Catley, have agreed to appear before a parliamentary inquiry into the Dural caravan “fake terrorism plot” today – we’ll have more on that.
