Australia news live: new laws to crack down on property underquoting in NSW; inflation could reach ‘high fours’, Chalmers says

Minns government introducing legislation to significantly increase penalties. Follow the day’s updates live Barnaby Joyce says Australia should assist securing Gulf fuel supplies Nationals defector Barnaby Joyce says Australia should join countries moving to shore up international fuel supplies by sending a Navy ship to the Middle East. We’ve been asked in the past to put a frigate into the Red Sea, but Australia was unable to do it. In the past, we weren’t able to get a frigate into the one frigate into the Red Sea, and now we don’t know whether we’ve got the capacity to support the United States of America. However, in the future, we’ll be running to them straight away if we need their help. We are ensuring misconduct can no longer be written off as a cost of doing business. Continue reading...