Australia news live: shark attack victim thanks donors after ‘incredibly difficult’ recovery; second fur seal dies of suspected bird flu

Leah Stewart lost her arm in a great white shark attack at Sydney’s Coogee beach. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Watt says fur seal death from H5 bird flu ‘very serious’, but government prepared Murray Watt, the environment minister, said the confirmed death of a fur seal, was a “very serious development”. What we’ve been doing over the last couple of years is trying to build up larger populations of these mammals, so if we do have bird…