Australia news live: Tim Wilson accuses Labor of ‘bad faith budget’; one dead and four injured in Sydney shooting

Follow updates live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Minister says reaction to the budget going ‘as we expected it to’ Catherine King, the federal infrastructure minister, said the reaction to the federal budget is going “as we expected it to”, adding the government was responsible for explaining the changes, and the rationale behind them, to the country. We think when you’re trying to do big, hard changes and big reforms, these are the sorts of things … and it’s our job to go out and explain it to people, and to sell it to people. I think it’s to be expected that there will be people and commentary from people who are concerned about those changes. Australia is a good stable democracy, good stable economy, [with] lots of advantages over many other places in terms of investing and we want to make sure that continues. Continue reading...