12 October 2026
Australia politics live: Labor’s $630m funding boost for charities; Greens at odds about Ukraine weapons

Follow the day’s news live. Sarah Hanson-Young on Monday said she supported giving Kyiv military aid if that’s what was needed, contradicting her party’s freshly minted leader David Shoebridge during his first sitting week in the top job. We always come from a position of wanting to de-escalate military violence... we want to see humanitarian support, we want to see diplomatic support, but of course you can’t allow people to be left fending for themselves. We cannot close the gender pay gap without...
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