Key Posts That’s all for today By Isabel McMillan
Thanks for reading our national news blog for today, May 12. This is where we’ll end the live coverage. Our 2026 federal budget blog is now live and you can follow along here.
Here’s some of what we covered today:
Treasurer Jim Chalmers will hand down the government’s federal budget tonight at 7.30. The government has flagged major changes to the tax system and property, as well as a focus on balancing intergenerational inequity. Five Australian residents and a New Zealander will be held in a COVID-era quarantine facility outside of Perth for three weeks, after potentially coming into contact with a deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. None of the people returning to Australia has shown symptoms. Three people on board the cruise ship have died after contracting the disease. An Australian special forces soldier has died during an army parachuting training course, the Department of Defence has said. A second soldier was injured but did not require hospitalisation in the incident at the Jervis Bay Airfield yesterday evening.
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price delivered a tearful speech to the Senate as parliament remembers the life of Kumanjayi Little Baby. The Liberal senator is the aunt of the five-year-old allegedly killed by Jefferson Lewis in Alice Springs last month. She called for the government to do more to protect Indigenous children living in town camps like the one from which Kumanjayi Little Baby was allegedly abducted.
We will also continue our rolling coverage tomorrow morning with the latest updates and discussions.
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