Good morning and welcome to our live politics blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then Krishani will take you through the day’s events.
The former prime minister Paul Keating says he provided Anthony Albanese with tips about how to “fight back” against Donald Trump if the US president had turned nasty during their recent meeting. Speaking at the State Library of NSW, Keating also compared Trump to a mafia boss and said that China had won the battle for superpower supremacy with the US “hands down”. More coming up.
The Nationals leader, David Littleproud, has said the Nationals’ decision to ditch the net zero target will not put pressure on Sussan Ley’s leadership of the Liberal party. His comments on ABC’s 7.30 last night came after a weekend of turmoil around the Coalition and reports this morning that the former frontbencher, Andrew Hastie, would consider running for the Liberal leadership. More on that, too, soon.
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