A plane bringing 349 people back from Lebanon landed in Sydney last night. Follow today’s news live

Good morning and welcome to our live politics blog (yes, it’s a sitting week in Canberra). I’m Martin Farrer, bringing you the top overnight stories before Amy Remeikis takes the wheel.

The events of the Middle East continue to dominate the domestic news agenda today. There were jeers for Anthony Albanese in Melbourne and cheers for Peter Dutton in Sydney at events held by the Jewish community to mark the first anniversary of the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel. A large crowd also gathered outside Sydney Town Hall last night “to honour and mourn and remember” Palestinian and Lebanese lives lost.

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