NSW government announces free weekend train travel in bid to avoid industrial action – as it happened

This blog is now closedDutton suggests apology for calling Lebanese-Muslim migration a ‘mistake’ made to ‘senior person’ in communityGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia “abstained with great disappointment” on the Palestinian-drafted resolution at the United Nations general assembly in New York early this morning, the Australian ambassador to the UN has said.The resolution – which sought to act on a recent advisory opinio