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Good morning, and welcome back to the Australia news live blog. I’m Emily Wind, and I’ll be taking you through our rolling coverage for most of today.

The Australian Defence Force says it is monitoring Chinese warships off the east coast of Australia. In a statement, it said three vessels “continue to operate to the east of Australia”. The Financial Times has reported that the vessels are “within 150 nautical miles of Sydney”.