Anthony Albanese has repeated his declaration that Australia’s ambassador to Washington, Kevin Rudd, won’t be going anywhere. Follow today’s news live.
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for the north-east of Victoria, with forecasts of heavy rainfall and “damaging to locally destructive wind gusts”:
Heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding is forecast with areas of rain and thunderstorms for the northeast of Victoria from Sunday morning.
Six-hourly rainfall totals of 30 to 60mm are likely, with isolated totals up to 80mm possible. 24-hourly rainfall totals of 60 to 80mm are likely, with isolated falls of 100mm possible.
He’s Australia’s appointment. It says something about the importance of the United States that we have appointed a former prime minister.
That’s a sign of how seriously we take this relationship, which is a relationship between our peoples, based upon our common values.
