This is where we will conclude today’s live coverage. Thanks for reading.
To wrap up, here are the top stories we covered today:
- High-profile presenter Lisa Wilkinson has asked Network Ten to pay more than $1.8 million in legal costs amid the financial fallout from Bruce Lehrmann’s failed defamation case.
- Nine Entertainment has commissioned an independent review of its newsroom culture in the fallout of allegations of lecherous behaviour and toxic leadership centred on former TV news boss Darren Wick.
- Australian National University students are refusing to leave a pro-Palestinian encampment they have been running since late April, after they were directed to vacate their encampment as it “poses an unacceptable safety risk”.
- Coalition politicians including Barnaby Joyce and Jacinta Price criticised the ABC’s 7.30 chief political correspondent, Laura Tingle, for reportedly saying Australia was a “racist country”.
- In NSW, Premier Chris Minns has refused to reveal the date that Sydney’s flashy new Metro line will open, with the expectation still that it will open mid-2024.
- In Victoria, the Australian Human Rights Commission has terminated a claim against Hawthorn by First Nations ex-players and their partners after the parties failed to come to a deal.
- Overseas, the Papua New Guinea national disaster centre said that Friday’s landslide in a remote village in the northern part of the country buried more than 2,000 people, more than three times the number of fatalities originally reported.