Australian politics live: Victoria Labor promises free abortion care if re-elected; Albanese criticises Hanson’s ‘monoculture’

Follow the day’s news live. Good morning, Krishani Dhanji with you here for the final sitting day of the week, thanks to Martin for getting us started. The communications minister Anika Wells is doing the media rounds this morning, ahead of a press club address to sell the government’s digital duty of care bill. We’re undertaking significant investment at the moment in modernising our web page so that AI tools actually pull factual information from our web page and reflect that back to the voter, rather than pulling .