What’s making news today
Hello and welcome to our national news live blog for Thursday, June 4. My name is Emily Kaine, and I’ll be helming our coverage for the first part of the day. Here’s what is making news.
- Pauline Hanson’s One Nation now has more women supporters than men, according to an analysis of a year’s worth of polling by the Resolve Political Monitor, while the number of young people and people living in the inner city who support the party has surged in the last year.
- The first tranche of the government’s budget tax reform legislation is expected to pass the lower house today. We will bring you the latest out of Canberra throughout the day.
- Former prime minister and frequent AUKUS critic Malcolm Turnbull said parliament needs to apply harsher scrutiny to the deal, calling on the government to acknowledge the risk that Australia will get no submarines. But former prime minister Scott Morrison – whose government signed the pact – said that renewed criticism of the submarine deal is the Left playing politics.
- Donald Trump confirmed he had a fiery, expletive-laden phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu this week as the Israeli prime minister prepared to launch a fresh assault on Lebanon, telling him the attacks had to stop.
- Iranian attacks on Kuwait damaged its airport, killing one and injuring dozens, while the US military carried out strikes near the Strait of Hormuz, with diplomacy to halt the war showing little sign of progress.
- And Ukrainian drones have hit an oil terminal in St. Petersburg, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media, a day after Moscow launched a major drone and missile attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.
Watt accuses McKenzie of ‘making figures up’ on migration
Environment Minister Murray Watt has this morning accused Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie of “making figures up”, after she claimed 2 million new migrants had entered Australia under Labor.
During a debate about the government’s budget on the Today show, McKenzie said: “The quiet thing that your budget says that no one wants to hear is you are still letting in 2 million people over the forwards that actually all need somewhere to live, so until you address that issue, the demand side, those housing prices, everything you are saying will not make a difference.”
Watt hit back. “You are making figures up, Bridget,” he said.
“We have nearly halved overseas migration over the last couple of years.”
Kuwait says Iranian drones hit airport, killing one
Gulf hostilities flared again as Iranian attacks on Kuwait damaged its airport and injured dozens while the US military carried out strikes near the Strait of Hormuz, with diplomacy to halt the war showing little sign of progress.
The attacks are the latest to test a shaky ceasefire, sending oil prices up nearly 2 per cent, as the strait remains largely closed more than three months after the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran.
Flights at Kuwait International Airport were suspended after an Iranian drone and missile attack damaged airport facilities and diplomatic missions, killing one person and injuring more than 60 others, Kuwaiti authorities and state media said.
Kuwait Airways and Jazeera Airways later resumed flights after taking safety measures, the civil aviation authority said.
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said they did not fire at Kuwait’s airport and blamed the destruction on US interceptor missiles that failed to hit their targets, according to Iranian state media.
The US military said that was not accurate, and that Iranian drones targeted the airport deliberately.
Trump confirms fiery phone call with Netanyahu
Donald Trump confirmed he had a fiery, expletive-laden phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu this week as the Israeli prime minister prepared to launch a fresh assault on Lebanon, telling him the attacks had to stop.
The US president reportedly told Netanyahu “you’re f—ing crazy” and “everybody hates Israel because of this”, according to an account of the call given to American news site Axios by a US official.
Trump appeared on The New York Post’s podcast Pod Force One with American-Australian journalist Miranda Devine, who asked whether he spoke to Netanyahu in those terms.
“I did,” he said. “I wouldn’t say [I was] angry. I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon. At some point, I said, ‘Bibi, we’ve got to stop this. We’ve got to stop it’.”
What’s making news today
Hello and welcome to our national news live blog for Thursday, June 4. My name is Emily Kaine, and I’ll be helming our coverage for the first part of the day. Here’s what is making news.
- Pauline Hanson’s One Nation now has more women supporters than men, according to an analysis of a year’s worth of polling by the Resolve Political Monitor, while the number of young people and people living in the inner city who support the party has surged in the last year.
- The first tranche of the government’s budget tax reform legislation is expected to pass the lower house today. We will bring you the latest out of Canberra throughout the day.
- Former prime minister and frequent AUKUS critic Malcolm Turnbull said parliament needs to apply harsher scrutiny to the deal, calling on the government to acknowledge the risk that Australia will get no submarines. But former prime minister Scott Morrison – whose government signed the pact – said that renewed criticism of the submarine deal is the Left playing politics.
- Donald Trump confirmed he had a fiery, expletive-laden phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu this week as the Israeli prime minister prepared to launch a fresh assault on Lebanon, telling him the attacks had to stop.
- Iranian attacks on Kuwait damaged its airport, killing one and injuring dozens, while the US military carried out strikes near the Strait of Hormuz, with diplomacy to halt the war showing little sign of progress.
- And Ukrainian drones have hit an oil terminal in St. Petersburg, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media, a day after Moscow launched a major drone and missile attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.
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