Australia news live: Tropical Cyclone Narelle crosses NT coast as category three system

Weakening system expected to bring severe weather across parts of NT already saturated from recent rains and flooding. Follow live updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEnergy minister Chris Bowen gave an update on the fuel crisis, telling the ABC Insiders program that petrol supply had gone up, with 38 days worth of supply, and 30 days of diesel and jet fuel.That indicates that while we’ve released more from the strategic reserve, the ships continue to arrive in good numbers, and both [of] our refineries are working absolute full pelt, and they’re both entirely 100% dedicated to Australian suppliers, not exports.I think the Prime Minister, and the entirety of the federal Labor team, are very conscious of the fact that you’re going to make sure that, first and foremost, the economic settings are right - to ensure that a growing economy doesn’t leave people behind and actually delivers a dividend for more people to have a degree of prosperity in their lives.And that’s, of course, a very difficult thing to achieve, particularly in a global climate like the one that we have now Continue reading...