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Good afternoon and welcome to our live national news coverage for Thursday, July 23. We’ll be bringing you the news from around Australia and the world as it happens throughout the day.
Here are our top stories so far today:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will set up his bid for a third term with a promise of further expensive cost of living measures to address the financial stress fuelling One Nation’s ascension – including the expansion of a program to pay health workers as they study – in a speech to Labor faithful when the party’s national conference begins this morning. The first witnesses to front a sensational NSW corruption investigation have been revealed, including publican, lawyer and developer Michael O’Hara, one-time Liberal staffer Dylan Whitelaw, and consultant Robert Assaf, who is being investigated for allegedly soliciting or accepting political donations from banned donors in amounts that were not declared and exceeded donation caps. Bulldozers will raze the Wentworth Park greyhound track in Sydney by the end of the year under a surprise expedited deal which paves the way for an urban renewal project roughly the size of Darling Harbour. Thousands of Victorian students will face a day of disrupted learning when up to 35,000 government school teachers walk off the job for a second time today, forcing the Labor government back to the negotiating table months before the state election.
Latest Posts 4.14pm Workers to remove Pam the bird tag from Melbourne bridge By Isabel McMillan
Workers have today begun removing a now widely recognised Melbourne image from the Bolte Bridge tower, more than a fortnight after a dramatic stand-off that left its artist behind bars.
On July 7, Jack Gibson-Burrell, 22, allegedly climbed a giant concrete pylon on the bridge in Melbourne’s CBD to spray-paint a giant Pam the Bird tag on it.
Painters this morning preparing the Pam the Bird tag to be painted over. Jason South A dramatic siege situation followed, as he refused to follow their directions to come down, police said. While he was on the bridge, he allegedly posted regular updates to an Instagram account with the biography “#notcomingdown”.
3.48pm AEC locks in state seat allocations ahead of next federal election By Shane Wright
Voters will go to their second successive election with no change to the balance of power between the nation’s states and territories.
The Australian Electoral Commission this afternoon said the result of the next ele
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