Australia news LIVE: Coalition seeks to criminalise actions of anyone assisting IS brides to return to Australia; Armed man shot and killed trying to enter Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce says Australian GPs should work a mandatory 10 years in regional services before moving back to work in metro areas.

“So there has to be an obligation that ... you spend some time, like other countries, in regional areas, so that all Australians get an appropriate medical service, a basic medical service,” he said on Seven’s Sunrise this morning.

Joyce also demanded that the government do more to retain GPs in regional areas.

“If anybody has got a policy to get doctors in the regional areas that works, let’s hear it.”

Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek insisted the government was focused on the importance of health services in regional areas and pointed to its investment in regional health.

“We completely agree that we want to see more doctors in regional areas, and that’s why we’ve increased the incentives for doctors to go there, and it’s why we’re investing $816 million in training new GPs,” she said.

“2100 new offers will be made to train GPs this year, taxpayer-funded. Half of those training places will be in regional areas.”

Health Minister Mark Butler would not say this morning where a cohort of 34 IS brides and their children should go if denied re-entry to Australia.

Asked whose role it was to find a home for or relocate the group – if not the Australian government’s – Butler dodged the question.

“Well, at the end of the day, these people took the decision, a very bad decision, to go and assist one of the most horrific death cults we’ve seen in our generation, and as the prime minister said, they’ve made that bed and they have to lie in it. As far as we’re concerned, we’re not going to provide any assistance for them to come back,” he told Nine’s Today show.

Pressed again, Butler said if they managed to make their own way back to Australia, “they’ll be met with the full force of the law from the time they reach the airport”.

“Quite what they do, whether they stay in northern Syria or they move to another country, is a matter for them.”

Police have shot and killed a man in his early 20s who was trying to break into Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, armed with a shotgun and a gas canister, authorities say.

The man breached the secure perimeter on the north side of the property about 1.30am on Sunday (Florida time) when he was confronted by two Secret Service agents and a local police officer.

Trump was not in the resort at the time and was hosting a governors’ ball at the White House.

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said the Secret Service agents and sheriff’s deputy ordered the man to “drop the items”. He then put down the gas can and “raised the shotgun to a shooting position”, Bradshaw said.

“At that point in time, the deputy and the two Secret Service agents fired their weapons and neutralised the threat. He is deceased at the scene.”

Read the full story from North America correspondent Michael Koziol.

The Coalition will challenge Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to take further steps that stop the return of a cohort of IS brides and their children to Australia, seeking the introduction of laws that criminalise the actions of NGOs or advocates who help people linked to terrorism come back into the country.

New Liberal leader Angus Taylor sought to turn up the pressure on Labor after Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke insisted yesterday that the government was not assisting the 34 Australian women and children linked to Islamic State who are trying to return, aside from what was legally required.

The proposed laws signal Taylor’s first move to “shut the door to people who do not share our values” – the pledge he made when he seized the Liberal leadership this month as polls indicated Coalition voters were switching to One Nation.

Burke and Albanese have taken a hard line on the women and children who have been trying to leave the deteriorating al-Roj camp in north-eastern Syria, but point to legal requirements and bureaucratic processes to explain why the group has received Australian passports.

“We do not want the individuals in Australia,” Burke said on the ABC’s Insiders program. “Legally, you can’t stop a citizen from entering your country. Legally, if a citizen applies for a passport and the authorities don’t think thresholds are reached to be able to block it, then a passport gets issued.”

The Coalition is also pressuring the government to use temporary exclusion orders to deny the group re-entry. One of the women will be prohibited under such an order from entering the country because she was deemed by intelligence agencies to pose a higher risk than the rest of the group.

Good morning and welcome to our national news live blog for Monday, February 23. My name is Emily Kaine, and I’ll be helming our coverage this morning. Here’s what is making headlines.

• The Australian neo-Nazi group that held an anti-Jewish rally outside NSW Parliament last year, and continues to harbour ambitions to form a political party, included serious domestic violence offenders, drug dealers, stalkers and an accused paedophile. The National Socialist Network formally disbanded in January to avoid designation as a hate group under new laws passed following the Bondi mass shooting.

• Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke may deny a visa to a controversial Israeli journalist because of inflammatory comments he made lamenting the fact that there hadn’t been more casualties in Gaza and applauding the killing of Palestinian journalists. Israeli journalist Zvi Yehezkeli is scheduled to speak at fundraising events next month in Sydney and Melbourne.

• The Coalition will challenge Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to take further steps that stop the return of a cohort of IS brides and their children to Australia, seeking the introduction of laws that criminalise the actions of NGOs or advocates who help people linked to terrorism come back into the country.

• Australia’s best-ever Winter Olympics will come to a close this morning in Verona, where the Milano Cortina organisers will hand over to France, who are set to host the 2030 Games. Follow our updates on the closing ceremony here.

• Overseas, police have shot and killed a man in his early 20s who was trying to break into Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, armed with a shotgun and a gas canister, authorities say. The man breached the secure perimeter on the north side of the property about 1.30am on Sunday (Florida time) when he was confronted by two Secret Service agents and a local police officer.
• And the British government has signalled plans to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the royal line of succession following his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office last week, as police launch further inquiries.

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