Australia news live: man charged with murder after discovery of remains believed to be missing Queensland woman

Jana Armstrong was reported missing from Newtown after she was last seen on 7 July. Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has failed to guarantee the party will cost all of its policies ahead of the election after the Coalition claimed the rightwing party’s agenda would destroy the budget and drive up interest rates. The opposition leader, Angus Taylor , last week used a major speech to argue Hanson’s platform would cost more than $1tn over a decade, force the Reserve Bank to lift rates and even risk a sovereign debt crisis. We will do it to the best of our ability. I’m not going to give a sort of guarantee like that, Andrew, because that means I have the resources to do it. And if I get the promise that we’re going to have the resources to do it, it certainly makes it a lot easier. We’ll have to. Continue reading...