Good afternoon and welcome to our live national news coverage for Thursday, July 23. We’ll be bringing you the news from around Australia and the world as it happens throughout the day.
Here are our top stories so far today:
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will set up his bid for a third term with a promise of further expensive cost of living measures to address the financial stress fuelling One Nation’s ascension – including the expansion of a program to pay health workers as they study – in a speech to Labor faithful when the party’s national conference begins this morning.
- The first witnesses to front a sensational NSW corruption investigation have been revealed, including publican, lawyer and developer Michael O’Hara, one-time Liberal staffer Dylan Whitelaw, and consultant Robert Assaf, who is being investigated for allegedly soliciting or accepting political donations from banned donors in amounts that were not declared and exceeded donation caps.
- Bulldozers will raze the Wentworth Park greyhound track in Sydney by the end of the year under a surprise expedited deal which paves the way for an urban renewal project roughly the size of Darling Harbour.
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Thousands of Victorian students will face a day of disrupted learning when up to 35,000 government school teachers walk off the job for a second time today, forcing the Labor government back to the negotiating table months before the state election.
