Australia news live: Wong heads to Japan, China and South Korea to secure fuel supply; new ADF armoured vehicles ordered

Foreign affairs minister begins another diplomatic tour to secure Australia’s fuel and energy supply chains. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNationals MP says welcome to country is generally a ‘good part’ of ceremoniesNationals MP Michael McCormack said he thinks welcomes to county were generally a “good part” of ceremonies after the opposition leader, Angus Taylor, said this weekend he thought they were oversized.I can if you have several speakers and every one of them takes a lot of their speech time to do welcomes to country when it’s already been done. If you do it at the start, you do it appropriately, I think most people find that to be a good part of the ceremony, and then you get on with what the actual event is all about.And I think that’s probably appropriate. Continue reading...