Key events
- Seven children confirmed seriously injured in Melbourne bus crash
- Angus Taylor rejects suggestion opposition rhetoric on migrants has emboldened fascists
- Truck driver charged
- Angus Taylor addresses National Press Club
- ‘He’s not turning up to parliament’: Albanese criticises Liberal MP Stuart Robert’s no-show
- Wages rise again
- Quad meeting not going ahead, PM says
- Miles Franklin long-list announced
- Falls festival cancelled after 28 years of NYE revelry
- Indian PM still expected to visit Australia
- Children to undergo amputations after school bus crash
- Aukus depends on ‘seamless’ technology transfer, Marles says
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Anthony Albanese colouring in rabbits – in pictures
You might have noticed the PM’s press conferences are pretty regularly coming from different childcare centres around the country. That’s because these visits are part of a tour spruiking his subsidies to help more women get back into the workforce. This morning’s press conference came from Goodstart in Tweed Heads.
If you were wondering how Anthony Albanese helped ease the blow of the US president, Jo Biden, cancelling his big visit down under and then the whole Sydney Quad leaders’ meeting falling to pieces as a result … the answer is some colouring in.
I do not have confirmation whether Albanese brought along the Rabbitohs print offs himself or whether the centre provided the PM the opportunity to colour his favourite team’s emblem.
Anthony Albanese during a visit to Goodstart Early Learning in Tweed Heads. Photograph: Jason O’Brien/AAP
Anthony Albanese displays his artistic talent with a classmate for the day. Photograph: Jason O’Brien/AAP
Anthony Albanese and the member for Richmond, Justine Elliot, colouring Rabbitohs logos. Photograph: Jason O’Brien/AAP
Loch Ard Gorge cliff face in Victoria closed after fears of collapse
Part of a cliff face on the Great Ocean Road has fallen into the sea, leading authorities to close one of the route’s most popular tourist attractions.
The ABC is reporting that the beach steps at Loch Ard Gorge have been closed to the public following a rock fall at a cliff which overlooks the stairs.
A crack was discovered in the cliff face following the rock fall, just three kilometres north-west of the famous Twelve Apostles.
Parks Victoria has engaged specialists to assess the geotechnical risk at the site.
Authorities have closed access to one of the Great Ocean Road’s most popular tourist attractions, the…
Original from www.theguardian.com