Good morning, and welcome to our national news live coverage for Thursday, June 25. We’ll be keeping you up to date with today’s news.
Here are today’s main headlines.
Teal independents to form new political party: Teal independents Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender will form a new political party, Community Strong Australia, in a much-anticipated move set to further destabilise the two-party system, and an attempt to grab disaffected One Nation voters.
ASIO boss criticises terror threat level: The nation’s domestic spy boss has revealed he is working with the government to overhaul the decade-old terror threat warning system, as he warns that the current threat level underestimates the seriousness of the dangers Australians face.
Warning over Labor’s union procurement changes: New federal laws that would allow businesses with union-backed enterprise agreements to be favoured for taxpayer-funded work have sparked warnings they could create a fresh corruption risk in Commonwealth contracts, drawing comparisons with practices exposed in the CFMEU scandal.
Trump cancels event, demands voter ID laws ahead of midterms: President Donald Trump’s deteriorating relationship with the US Congress has reached new lows after he cancelled a planned event on Capitol Hill and refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill until lawmakers passed stricter voter ID laws.
Meanwhile, in the media world, Today show host Karl Stefanovic will leave Nine following his incendiary podcast interview with far-right British activist Tommy Robinson, potentially defusing a major advertiser boycott.
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