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The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, is speaking in Port Kembla, NSW, about his proposal to double the amount of fuel the country holds in reserve.

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Taylor said, if enacted, the plan would be a “leap forward” towards creating an insurance policy against any future fuel crisis. He said:

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The announcement today is about filling up the car, fuelling up the nation, and powering up our future. That’s what it’s about.

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It’s about making sure Australians have the fuel security and affordability they need, particularly at times of crisis.

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Sharon has not been seen since around 11pm on Saturday night after she was put to bed in her family home. Police say she may have been abducted and officials told reporters on Monday that the force was searching for a 47-year-old man, Jefferson Lewis, who had disappeared from the camp about the same time.

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An NT police official said the search involves helicopters, drones, dog units, horses, motorcycles and ATVs, as well as volunteers participating in the effort. A stream of volunteers has been assisting, working alongside police search and rescue section coordinators.

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The NSW premier, Chris Minns, said he may not move to ban the contested phrase “globalise the intifada” if a constitutional challenge over a similar ban is successful in Queensland.

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Minns announced his intention to ban the phrase after the Bondi terror attack last year, sending the issue to a parliamentary inquiry so that legislation could be introduced when parliament returned in February.

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The Labor-controlled committee recommended the phrase be banned when linked to the incitement of violence or hatred, but recommended against a ban on “from the river to the sea”. Queensland has since banned both phrases, leading to dozens of arrests, with activists announcing their intention to launch a constitutional challenge. No legislation has materialised in NSW.

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The premier, who said last month he would ban the phrase irrespective of what happened in Queensland, has since said he is looking to the neighbouring state following a successful supreme court challenge to NSW’s protest assembly restriction declaration (Pard) laws.

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In an interview with 2GB this morning, the premier explicitly tied the decision to the outcome of a Queensland challenge, saying it was his “commitment” to ban “globalise the intifada” if the laws were upheld.

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We want this to be in place, not just for 6 months or 12 months or until a court comes along and knocks it over … If we’re going to take this step, which I accept is a pretty large step to restrict freedom of speech in New South Wales … I want it to stand up for ever.

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The White House has nominated David Brat, a former Republican member of the US House of Representatives, to be the next ambassador to Australia.

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Brat represented Virginia in Congress and served two terms before he was defeated by a Democrat in 2018 in a close race. He is currently a vice-president of business relations at Virginia’s Liberty University.

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Ambassadors must be confirmed by the US Senate.

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The post has been vacant for a year and a half after former ambassador Caroline Kennedy left the post in November 2024.

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Nationals leader Matt Canavan has detailed a Coalition plan to build the nation’s fuel reserves to a 60-day supply, spending $800m (out of a total estimated total $6bn) to build a new storage facility.

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Canavan told RN Breakfast that to meet that obligation for a doubled reserve, Australia would need about 4.4bn litres of extra storage which will be met by existing infrastructure and the private sector. The $800m figure would come from Export Finance Australia, which would be used to help the private sector fund that effort in loans that would then be paid back. He said:

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It wouldn’t fund the entire amount of that extra storage, but it would help make a contribution …

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Obviously, this comes at a cost … But given what we’re facing right now, we think it’s a reasonable insurance premium to improve the security of all Australians.

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Canavan went on to say the estimated total cost of the project would be closer to $6bn, which includes the extra storage costs and actually filling and maintaining the extra reserves. The public cost from Export Finance Australia would just “ease that” figure.

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It was sensible to do a few years ago to get to 30 days. It’s helping us now. Given the high risks, it’s even more sensible to go to 60 days.

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The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, released a statement this morning, 30 years after the massacre at Port Arthur in Tasmania. He said the nation had held on to the idea that “somehow amid the most terrible darkness the best of humanity found a way to shine”.

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We think of everyone whose world was shattered by the loss of those who had been the bright centre of their lives, their love left desperately wrapped around an absence. …

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We think of Walter Mikac who channelled his devastating loss into a call for national action on gun reform, writing to Prime Minister [John] Howard with a message that echoes through the decades: “Be strong, act now”.

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Australia is a better place because the Government and the Parliament of the day came together to answer Walter’s call.

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The federal environment minister, Murray Watt, will use a speech later today to lay out Australia’s credentials in protecting the Great Barrier Reef before a meeting of the world heritage committee in July.

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Global heating remains the reef’s most significant threat, Watt will say, along with impacts from severe weather events, fishing, outbreaks of coral-eating starfish and poor water quality related to clearing of vegetation on land. At an event hosted by the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Watt will say:

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Faced with these challenges, humankind must be at its best. That’s why we are taking up the fight to protect the Great Barrier Reef for future generations.

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Watt will also flag reforms to national environment laws agreed last year that strengthened the approvals needed to clear vegetation within 50m of watercourses in the reef’s catchments.

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Consecutive governments have had to lobby Unesco experts continually for years to prevent the 21-country committee from placing the reef on its “in danger” list.

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Last year the committee asked the government to submit a progress report by 1 February before this year’s meeting in South Korea.

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Unlike in previous years, such as 2023, the committee last year made no specific mention that the reef would be considered for the “in danger” list at the next meeting.

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The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, says a Coalition government would double fuel reserves in Australia to at least 60 days, and spend $800m to build a new storage facility.

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Announcing a new policy alongside the Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, Taylor said the Albanese government should lift baseline stockholdings from 1 January next year, to get Australia closer to the 90-day minimum reserves required by the International Energy Agency.

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Taylor said:

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This is a plan the prime minister should pick up today. No excuses, no delays. If fuel stops, Australia stops. It’s that simple. Trucks don’t move, supermarkets don’t stock, businesses shut their doors.

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We are putting forward a practical plan to make sure that never happens. More fuel in reserve, more storage on the ground and a country that can stand on its own two feet.

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The Coalition says their plan would mean Australia could reach 60 days’ supply by the end of this decade.

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When Labor proposed a 90-day fuel reserve before the 2019 election, Taylor, then the energy minister, said the plan would cost “tens of billions of dollars” and called on Labor to explain how it would be funded.

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The RSL has announced it will review its guidance on welcome to country addresses at Anzac Day services after Indigenous leaders were booed at three dawn services on Saturday.

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The RSL national president, Peter Tinley told the ABC on Monday that the body would review its policies on RSL organised commemorations and “provide guidance to our branches as to how they might attend to this”.

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Tinley said he was appalled by the booing during the dawn ceremonies but added that some of the “anodyne acknowledgments” can get “overworked”.

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It can get overworked … so then it becomes a question of how are we going to review this process and make it more relevant.

I think there’s a real opportunity for the RSL to lead and provide a better expression that is more tailored and appropriate for the commemorative day that it is.

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Tinley said it was a “good thing” for the guidelines and service to be dynamic and reflective of the community.

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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it will be Nick Visser with the main action.

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The RSL has announced it will review its guidance on welcome to country addresses at Anzac Day services after Indigenous leaders were booed at three dawn services on Saturday.

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And the opposition has revealed a new policy, to double Australia’s fuel reserves to 60 days.

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More on this, and much more, coming soon.

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