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And now to news just in from Victoria.
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan is visiting East Melbourne Synagogue after it was damaged in a suspicious fire on Friday night.
A NSW man was charged following the suspicious fire at the Melbourne synagogue – one of three separate incidents that appeared to target the city’s Jewish community on Friday night.
Watch the live stream here.
9.24am
In Victoria, Premier Jacinta Allan has visited the East Melbourne Synagogue targeted in an alleged arson attack on Friday night.
Allan was flanked by Deputy Premier Ben Carroll, Police Minister Anthony Carbines and Multicultural Affairs Minister Ingrid Stitt.
Rabbi Dovid Gutnick stands in front of the charred entrance to the East Melbourne Synagogue.Credit: Aaron Francis
The visit is Allan’s first since the alleged attack and comes after she announced the creation of a new anti-hate taskforce that will examine broader statewide challenges combating extremism and antisemitism.
The Victorian government has also pledged funding for mental health support for the East Melbourne congregation who were in the synagogue on Friday night.
Jacinta Allan has visited East Melbourne Synagogue. Credit: Justin McManus
Allan will make some brief comments at the synagogue before fronting the media at a press conference later today.
9.08am
Underqualified teachers are exploiting a loophole to work in Victorian and NSW classrooms without meeting the states’ minimum qualifications, following a West Australian decision to lower its standards.
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This masthead has confirmed that dozens of teachers have already used a mutual recognition agreement to register in states where they cannot directly qualify to work, prompting the Victorian and NSW governments to investigate ways to close the loophole ahead of an expected flood of less qualified WA teaching graduates later this year.
Read how the government plans to respond here.
8.30am
Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy said “now is the time” to consider a federal truth-telling process.
It comes after Australia’s first truth-telling inquiry found that Aboriginal Victorians should be provided redress through statewide and local treaties for historical injustices.
Speaking to ABC Breakfast this morning, McCarthy said the Australian parliament will be watching the report findings “very closely”.
Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
“This is a significant moment in history for our country,” she said. “It has been a courageous journey in Victoria – one that I’ve certainly been watching and listening to with the commissioners, but also with First Nations people in Victoria.
“This is something that I think the Australian parliament will be watching very closely.
“But now is the time, I hope, as we go forward, that we can look at what we can do at a federal level in regards to taking the steps that are required around truth-telling.”
8.00am
Australian Formula One star Oscar Piastri has missed out on a first place victory at the British Grand Prix after a controversial penalty.
The McLaren driver came from second place on the grid to lead, then incurred a 10-second penalty before seeing teammate and chief rival Lando Norris go clear to take the chequered flag.
Find out how it played out here.
7.51am
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is waiting to hear back from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after writing to him to offer support for fast-tracking childcare reforms.
It comes after horrific abuse allegations against Melbourne childcare worker Joshua Brown, accused of abusing children aged between five months and two years at the Creative Garden Early Learning Centre in Point Cook between April 2022 and January 2023.
Speaking to Sunrise, Ley said she hoped that a collaborative approach would lead to faster law reform.
“I felt physically sick when I heard this,” she said.
“I have written to the prime minister in good faith to offer our constructive engagement in the lead-up to parliament returning so we can have legislation ready to go to actually act once and for all to do what I think every parent would expect, and every community member would expect, to make sure our children are safe in childcare settings.”
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has offered to work with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to fast track childcare reform. Credit: The Age
7.35am
Former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has warned that Australia’s relationship with the United States is “not going well”, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese preparing to travel to China this week while yet to obtain a meeting with the United States president.
“This is very dangerous. This is very dangerous,” Joyce said, speaking to Sunrise this morning.
“You need to understand the United States is the cornerstone of our defence relationship. It is not going well; this is the fourth meeting he has had with the leader of China, but that is a totalitarian regime. Mr Trump has not had a meeting with the prime minister yet. I’m truly concerned about that,” Joyce said.
“If we can’t extract the meeting between the prime minister and the president of the United States, we are on bad ground.”
However, also speaking to Sunrise, Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek rejected claims that Australia’s relationship with the United States was fraying.
“The prime minister has spoken to the president on the phone, the defence minister met his counterpart recently, the foreign affairs minister has just been in the United States recently ... the United States is absolutely our foundational defence and security partner. The relationship is terrific,” Plibersek said.
7.07am
A former Greens candidate who suffered a serious injury when police broke up an anti-Israel protest in Sydney last month has been told to be “prepared for the worst”, including the possibility she will never regain vision in her right eye, as she readies for a second round of surgery.
Hannah Thomas, who ran against Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Grayndler at the May election, suffered a gruesome eye injury on June 27, when she was arrested alongside four others.
In her first interview since the arrests, Thomas said she has been warned that she will probably never regain full vision following the incident.
Read what she said here.
Former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas is preparing for a second round of surgery to her eye, which was severely injured in a tussle with police at a recent protest linked to the Israel-Gaza war. Credit: Max Mason-Hubers
6.56am
Overseas, the death toll from catastrophic floods in central Texas has risen to 70, with many adults and children still missing, as US President Donald Trump declared a major disaster over what he called an “unimaginable tragedy”.
In the worst-affected region, Kerr County, authorities said 59 people were confirmed dead – 38 adults and 21 children – while 11 children and a counsellor from the Camp Mystic summer camp were still missing.
Read the story by our US correspondent, Michael Koziol, here.
Officials comb through the banks of the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area.Credit: AP
6.56am
A new anti-hate taskforce will be assembled by the Allan government as it scrambles to beef up efforts to address antisemitism in Victoria following a new round of attacks on Friday, last week.
In Melbourne’s CBD on Sunday, pro-Palestinian protesters, including children, chanted “Death to the IDF” at a demonstration that went ahead less than 48 hours after the antisemitic attacks, which included an attack on East Melbourne Synagogue while children and families were inside.
Premier Jacinta Allan, is expected to visit East Melbourne Synagogue today and will announce that the new anti-hate taskforce will meet this week for the first time.
Read the full story here.
Pro-Palestinian protesters march in Melbourne’s CBD on Sunday, two days after attacks on a synagogue and an Israeli restaurant.Credit: Chris Hopkins
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