Thanks for reading our live blog coverage today. To wrap up the blog, here’s a look at the stories we covered.
- A visit to Canberra by Chinese premier Li Qiang has been hailed a success, but the trip also made headlines for tense protests outside Parliament House and a bid by Chinese officials to block cameras from capturing footage of formerly detained journalist Cheng Lei.
- The Reserve Bank is expected to hold interest rates steady tomorrow, as it kicked off the first sitting of its two-day rates meeting today.
- Federal politicians will get a 3.5 per cent pay rise, lifting the base salary for an average backbench MP to $233,651.25 per year.
- One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has told Robert Irwin to “lighten up, mate”, after the TV personality threatened to sue the producers of her political cartoon series
- Overseas, a Virgin Australia flight bound for Melbourne made an emergency landing in a New Zealand town after its engine reportedly caught fire.
Thanks again for joining us, and see you again tomorrow.