Travellers across the nation are bracing for lengthy airport lines ahead of the long weekend, with passengers urged to arrive two hours early for domestic flights.
There are long lines at Melbourne and Sydney Airport this morning.
Minister for emergency management Murray Watt is appearing on Radio National from Lismore now, an area devastated by flooding earlier this year.
He says the opposition always wanted to “pick a fight” before forming solutions, and he wants to put the “blame game and division” behind them in the recovery.
The cold snap along Australia’s east coast is being felt keenly in communities devastated by record flooding earlier this year@MurrayWatt is the new Minister for Emergency Management – he’s in Lismore today and he joins us shortly.
Listen live: https://t.co/8WwIJpfjRT
— RN Breakfast (@RNBreakfast) June 9, 2022
Watt says it was important to get out to Lismore as quickly as he could after being sworn in.
It is a pretty chilly morning here in Lismore and that’s a reminder there’s going to be new challenges for these communities to deal with as they recover.
I wanted to get back here to see for myself where things are at and what we can do to get the recovery moving more quickly.
Watt will hold a series of roundtables today with with community leaders, business leaders and insurers which will look at, among other things, thousands of people still living in temporary accommodation.
They’re really, really cold – sitting in caravans, sitting in temporary accomodation.
We really want to get a real snapshot of where things are at and what we can do to get this community back up and running.
There are still many people who are displaced from their homes and frankly it’s going to take awhile … we’re going to do everything we can in cooperation with other levels of government … but I don’t want to mislead people, it’s going to take time.
Good morning
Happy Friday! We’ve almost made it.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese and New Zealand’s leader Jacinda Ardern will sit down in Sydney today for their first in-person meeting.
They are expected to discuss a host of issues including Australia’s controversial deportation policy, which has kicked thousands of New Zealanders with criminal records out of the country.
Ardern will be the first foreign leader to visit Albanese on his soil since he won the election.
The Nadesalingam family will arrive home to the central Queensland town of Biloela today after four years in detention. The timing of the journey means Tharnicaa, who was just nine months old when she entered detention, will celebrate her fifth birthday in Biloela on Sunday.
Refugees living in limbo hope the family’s release will grant them a future as well.
And former defence minister Peter Dutton has been used of working against the national interest for “political point scoring” after publishing sensitive details of a plan to secure two nuclear submarines in the US in the media.
Diplomatic figures have condemned his disclosure, suggesting it could destroy plans to secure a joint agreement with the UK at the end of the year.
Caitlin Cassidy is here to guide you through it all. You can reach me at [email protected] or on Twitter at @caitecassidy.
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