Australia news live: Victorian Liberals pledge to mandate weekly red bin collection; Plibersek defends Albanese over podcast ‘melons’ comment

More than 30 councils across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria collect general rubbish fortnightly. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Police say the remains found in a suitcase near Goulburn are not human. Supt Linda Bradbury with NSW police said: Some good news here that we don’t have a suspicious death of a human on our hands. … We are still undertaking more forensic work to identify what they are. But we can identify that…