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Good morning and welcome to our live news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer, bringing you what’s making the news this morning and then it will be Emily Wind taking the helm.

There’s a lot of pre-election sparring going on with Anthony Albanese giving Peter Dutton a spray yesterday. But today he’s down to some practical stuff with Bill Shorten tipped to hand the reins of the national disability insurance scheme to the social services minister, Amanda Rishworth, in a small reshuffle prompted by the former Labor leader’s departure before this year’s federal election.

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