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The federal opposition has written to federal police urging them to investigate an apparent leak of correspondence between Japan and Australia over the prime minister’s melon gaffe. Follow live.  Source link

Opposition housing spokesperson Andrew Bragg has promised to slash the National Construction Code from over 2,000 pages to 80 if elected. Source link

A vaccine will be rolled out to protect Australia’s native species from the deadly H5N1 bird flu, with a focus on birds in captivity.  Source link

Abdullah Ashraf, a law student from Pakistan, had his student visa lapse while on compassionate leave from his studies in the aftermath of the Bondi Beach terror attack. Source link

Anthony Albanese is resisting opposition calls to apologise to the Japanese PM over hand gestures he made while referring to her gift of crown melons. Source link

Ask Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi what she was like as a child and you’ll catch a revealing glimpse of her as an adult. Source link

The 44-year-old inherits the trade union movement while it is enjoying a golden era of political influence, but also faces a long-term decline in membership and a fight for the rights of workers in the AI boom.  Source link

The Australian prime minister has landed in hot water over a gesture involving two melons, which his office insists was not referring to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s body. Source link

Mining cities across Australia say the count fails to acknowledge the increasing pressure the nation’s growing fly-in fly-out workforce puts on communities.  Source link

Cabinet’s indecision on support for Tony Burke’s immigration cuts shows a key difference between Anthony Albanese and Kevin Rudd.  Source link