With that, we will wrap the blog for the evening. Thanks for reading along, we’ll be back first thing tomorrow with all the latest.
Until then, here were the major developments of the day:
New South Wales’ State Emergency Service is preparing for a“severe weather event”fromByron Bay to the Illawarraby deploying helicopters and high clearance vehicles to the coastal zones that are most at risk from the developing coastal low which is forecast to hit on Tuesday. The NSW State Emergency Service (SES) has urged communities to prepare for significant flash flooding and storm damage due tointense rainfall and damaging winds.
Anthony Albanesesaystariffsplaced on Australia by the US Trump administration“should be zero”as leaders around the world prepare for a second “liberation day” announcementfollowing a 90-day pause on tariffs.
NSW police has declared a critical incident investigation into thearrest of the former Greens candidate, who has claimed she could lose sight in her right eye and has been charged with resisting arrest. NSW Greens MLCSue Higginsonhaswritten to the premier,Chris Minns, urging the charges againstHannah Thomasand four other protesters be withdrawn and accusing the police of “brutally assaulting” Thomas.
The jury inErin Patterson’striple murder trial hasretired to consider its verdicts.
And asenior home affairs department officialhas been found to haveabused public office and misused official informationto get her future brother-in-law a job, including failing to disclose their relationship and passing interview questions to her sister.
