18 Sep 2024

Australia: Housing bill battle, MP's Nazi defamation trial, big sculpture bill

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 18 September 2024
Australian and New New Zealand Prime Ministers Anthony Albanese and Christopher Luxon meet in Sydney

Photo: RNZ / Angus Dreaver

Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst looks at Labor's battle to get its shared equity Help to Buy Bill through the Senate, a defamation trial underway in Victoria between two Liberal MPs that involves a text referring to Nazis, the Kiwi artist who got $2m for a kangaroo sculpture that still isn't finished and has now blown out to $22m and Elon Musk's hitting back at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Annika Smethurst is political editor at The Age