Thanks very much for reading Need to Know this Sunday, June 16. Here are the biggest headlines:

- Weaker climate goals would betray Pacific partners Foreign Minister Penny Wong said any move by the opposition to weaken climate targets would equate to abandoning Australia’s neighbours in the Pacific.

- Dutton sidesteps pledge to scrap Labor’s 2030 climate target: Peter Dutton has refrained from pledging to scrap Labor’s 2030 climate target, saying a Coalition government would make decisions in the country’s best interests.

- NSW to increase property taxes on foreign buyers, owners: NSW will increase property taxes on foreign buyers and owners, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has announced.

- Eight Israeli soldiers killed as fighting continues in Rafah: Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday (Sunday AEST), the military said, as forces continued to push into and around the southern city of Rafah and strikes hit several areas of Gaza, killing at least 19 Palestinians.

- World leaders join Ukraine summit in test of Kyiv’s peace push: World leaders gathered at a Swiss Alpine resort to seek broader consensus for Ukraine’s peace proposals at a summit shunned by China and dismissed as a waste of time by Russia, which pushed its own rival ceasefire plans from afar.