Australia politics live: Rio Tinto given $2.5bn bailout for Australia’s largest aluminium smelter; tech giants face law to pay for news content

Tim Ayres says bailout means the facility will remain operational until 2039. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The shadow defence minister, James Paterson, says his party will take a “careful” approach to migration planning, and that Andrew Bragg was speaking in a personal capacity at the press club. Yesterday Bragg told the press club the Coalition would reduce net migration to 180,000 – which would see a cut in international student,…