Australia news live: Melbourne council rejects new 24-hour McDonald’s; NSW Nationals pull plug on net zero

State party follows federal lead in abandoning the commitment. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAlbanese reflects on moment Whitlam removedThe prime minister spoke more about Whitlam in an interview with Radio National Breakfast this morning.For someone like my mum, who’d waited a long, long time, 23 years to see the election of a Labor government, it was seen to be this intervention that was very unfair, that was something that they didn’t expect could ever happen in Australia.The world has obviously changed substantially. All the things that are undermining trust in institutions, of course, misinformation, disinformation that comes from social media conspiracy theories out there, the polarisation to the far left and the far right. The difficulty in 2025, I think, of ascertaining the truth, and just some agreement about facts is far more difficult. …People benefit from the fact that the sources