Australia news live: racism ‘systemic’ at universities; Angus Taylor disowns leaked migration policy

Seven in 10 experienced indirect racism, rising to nine in 10 Palestinian and Jewish students and staff, report finds. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Following the leak of immigration policy developed under former Liberal leader Sussan Ley on Monday, the new opposition leader, Angus Taylor, said he had not seen the plan, and that it had not been brought to shadow cabinet and it had “no validity”. The Ley plan proposed to ban migrants from specific regions of 13 countries, and would seek to remove up to 100,000 asylum seekers and people on student visas more quickly from Australia. Frankly, I don’t know what the document is. I don’t know where it’s come from, and I don’t know what’s in it. That doesn’t mean you necessarily shut the door on those places, but it does mean, you do the work to make sure the people who are coming are not people who are going to threaten our way of life, and bring violence to our country. Continue reading...