Here’s what’s making news across the nation and around the world today:
- One Nation publicly reported racking up $400,000 in debts to its leader and financial backer Pauline Hanson over the past decade without corresponding records to show she had lent the money in the first place.
- Barnaby Joyce’s latest interview on ABC’s 7.30 program devolved into chaos when he shouted that he was One Nation’s treasury spokesman – “not Jesus Christ” – when pressed on modelling central to his party’s controversial superannuation policy unveiled on Monday.
- Coalition MPs face fierce pushback from right-wing influencers to oppose restrictions on social media content despite Labor insisting it was not interested in curtailing speech.
- Most young Australians are still interested in having children — despite what the nation’s steep decline in fertility rates suggests — but their family plans are affected by their worry about the future.