Australia news live: Angus Taylor dismisses Labor’s ‘half-arsed’ tweaks to CGT reform; boy, 12, dies in Cairns crash in suspected stolen car
Follow live updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Ted O’Brien distanced himself from Pauline Hanson ’s suggestion that Australia shouldn’t give aid to Pacific countries that also take aid from China. He said it was a legitimate concern, but her solution was “completely wrong” for the Pacific and not in Australia’s national interest. The idea that you effectively hold a gun to the head of our Pacific neighbours – that’s not what a friend does, that’s not a way of b…


