Thanks for reading our live news blog today. We’ll be back for more bright and early on Monday morning. For now, here are the day’s top stories:
- Both NSW and Victoria have recorded new cases of the monkeypox virus, pushing the nation’s total up to five.
- Labor is arguing the wages of Australia’s lowest-paid workers should rise in line with inflation in its highly anticipated submission to the industrial umpire. Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke spoke at a press conference in Sydney to differentiate Labor from the previous government, saying “the government policy of low wages as a deliberate design feature ended today”.
- East Timor will sign agreements with Beijing covering air services, healthcare, economic and technical cooperation. This ends Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s tour of the region and increases concerns among countries offshore, including Australia.
- Thirty years ago today, the High Court dismissed terra nullius – the legal fiction that Australian land belonged to no one before European settlement – after Eddie Mabo launched a legal challenge in 1992. Family members paid tributes to their father and grandfather, and held ceremonies at Mabo’s grave site on his traditional land at Las Village on Mer Island.