Thanks very much for reading Need to Know this Sunday, June 2. Here are the biggest developments of the day so far:

• Marles raises concerns over Chinese military harassment: Defence Minister Richard Marles says he raised incidents in which the Chinese military harassed Australian warships and aircraft during a “frank conversation” with his counterpart from Beijing on the sidelines of the IISS Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore.
• Paterson accuses PM of shirking blame for deportation rule: Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson has accused the prime minister of failing to take responsibility for the consequences of Direction 99, a rule that requires authorities to consider a criminal’s ties to Australia before deporting them to their country of birth.
• Deportation rule had unintended outcome, says Watt: Agriculture Minister Murray Watt says the Albanese government is “taking action to fix” Direction 99 after the Administrative Appeals Tribunal interpreted it differently to the government’s initial intention.
• Race to find person trapped after townhouse collapse: Authorities remain hopeful a person feared trapped in the ruins of a collapsed townhouse in Whalan in Sydney’s west is still alive as rescuers continue a desperate search.
• Democrats push Biden to make Trump’s felonies a top 2024 issue: Now that former president Donald Trump is a convicted criminal, the Democratic Party finds itself wrestling with a choice that will help define this year’s presidential race: should it try to push his felonies to the centre of the election?
• Zelensky meets heads of state in Singapore: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met heads of state and legislators in Singapore late on Saturday and early on Sunday, seeking security assistance and support for a peace summit after arriving for a surprise visit to the Shangri-La Dialogue.