One Nation leader’s counsel says she didn’t actually want Mehreen Faruqi to return to Pakistan. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPrime minister says trial ongoing into funding for women escaping violenceThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is speaking to ABC RN about yesterday’s announcements...

Ninette Simons, 73, tells immigration minister Andrew Giles she and 76-year-old husband Phillip feel they have been let downGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA Perth grandmother allegedly assaulted by a freed immigration detainee has asked the immigration minister why the man’s ankle monitoring bracelet was removed...

Ex-chancellor and Truss were close political allies and friends before he was sacked over a crisis stoked by the mini-budgetKwasi Kwarteng, the chancellor of the exchequer for 43 of Liz Truss’s 49 days as British prime minister, has said Truss “essentially” sacked him “on Twitter”, a dismissal he called “kind of Trumpian” in its swiftness and brutality...

There are few policy reasons to change leader, so lack of campaigning nous of PM who ‘can’t do human’ may be only argumentWith just two days to go before a knife-edge election in Rishi Sunak’s own back yard, it was the shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, campaigning in North Yorkshire, where Labour is expected to win the mayoralty. The prime minister...

Progressives counting on a strong performance to rein in Robert Fico’s drift away from rule of lawAs fears grow that Slovakia is following Hungary down a path away from the rule of law, the country’s opposition says it is determined to prove that citizens want a democratic future.Since coming back to power last year, Slovakia’s populist prime minister,...

Exclusive: 2003 study was cited as evidence that risks of hepatitis C could not have been foreseen at the timeA study cited at the infected blood inquiry, as evidence that the devastating consequences of blood products contaminated with hepatitis could not have been foreseen, misrepresented the results of a trial in making its case, the Guardian can...