In this bulletin;
- Australia will send three men to Nauru, after the government strikes a visa deal;
- European leaders set to attend an emergency summit over the war in Ukraine;
- And in sport, teen sprint sensation Gout Gout smashes Noah Lyle's 400-metre personal best.
The Australian government says Nauru has agreed to take three men who had been released from immigration detention as a result of the High Court's NZYQ ruling.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says all three men are violent offenders who had "failed the character test" and that one of them has been convicted of murder.
The men had been released after the High Court ruled the Australian government could not indefinitely detain non-citizens even when their application for asylum had been rejected.
Mr Burke says their temporary Australian bridging visas were automatically cancelled after Nauru issued 30-year visas allowing them into the country.
"Overnight, officers of the Australian border force have detained all three, and all three are now in immigration detention. they will be put on a plane and sent to Nauru as soon as arrangements are able to be made. that will not be within the next seven days, but it will be as soon as possible."
Mr Burke says he expects Nauru will take more detainees in similar circumstances soon.
But Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson has issued a statement saying almost 280 non-citizens remain in the community due to the High Court's NZYQ decision.
He says sending "a handful" of violent offenders to Nauru is not enough to keep Australians safe.
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Opposition leader Peter Dutton says he would expect to see funding cuts for Indigenous programs if the Coalition wins government at the next election.
The LNP has promised a comprehensive audit of spending on Indigenous programs as well as a Royal Commission into abuse of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
Mr Dutton says that while the Coalition wants to reward effective programs, any waste will be cut.
"I think when Australians have had to trim back every dollar of expenditure and discretionary spend and waste in their own budgets. I think they expect the same of the Australian government, and as I say, the prime minister is putting more and more public servants, more and more bureaucracy and more layers, making it harder for decisions to be made. That is not the Coalition's way."
Speaking in the NT, Mr Dutton also reiterated the Coalition's support for the Middle Arm project proposed for Darwin Harbour, criticised by environmentalists as a petrochemical hub.
However, he stopped short of matching Labor's commitment of $1.5 billion in federal funding.
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Greens housing and homelessness spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather has taken aim at the government's two-year ban on foreign investors purchasing existing homes in Australia.
He told reporters that in order to fix the housing crisis, the government must phase out tax concessions for negative gearing and capital gains.
Mr Chander-Mather says modest estimates show this would allow for an extra 70,000 renters to become owner-occupiers.
He says the Greens policy platform offers real support for renters and first-home buyers.
"The last person in this country that we need to be leading the housing debate is Peter Dutton who doesn't give a stuff about renters or first home buyers, and only cares about protecting the profit margins of property developers and the big banks. So it beggars belief that Labor would be copying his policies."
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European leaders are set to gather in Paris next week for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine.
Senior White House officials are also due to meet Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in Saudi Arabia in coming days.
It follows Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine saying at the Munich Security Conference that European leaders would be consulted but not take part in any talks between US and Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine will never accept deals made without its involvement.
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And in sport,
Australian teen sprint sensation Gout Gout set tongues wagging again when he ran the 400 metres in just 46.20 seconds at the Joanna Stone Shield meet in Brisbane.
It comes just days after the 17-year-old warned in a joint podcast appearance with US track star Noah Lyles that he was coming for the world and Olympic champion.
Gout's performance on Saturday is almost a second under Lyle's personal best for the distance, and the fastest under-18 time by an Australian for 35 years.
