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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it will be Nick Visser to get you through to the end of the week.
Sussan Ley’s leadership of the Liberal party has been has been savaged by one of her predecessors, John Hewson, for lacking clear strategy as the party grapples with infighting and demoralising polling. More coming up.
The Albanese government has announced the creation of up to 9,500 extra places at Australian universities after a decision by the Australian Tertiary Education Commission allocating additional spots. More in a moment.
