Shadow minister says Australia ‘ill-prepared’ for conflict – as it happened

Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast And with that, we are going to put the blog to bed. Before we go, let’s recap the big headlines: The RSL has announced it will review its guidance on welcome to country addresses at Anzac Day services after Indigenous leaders were booed at three dawn services on Saturday. The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, says a Coalition government would double fuel reserves in Australia to at least 60 days, and spend $800m to build a new storage facility. Announcing a new policy alongside the Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, Taylor said the Albanese government should lift baseline stockholdings from 1 January next year, to get Australia closer to the 90-day minimum reserves required by the International Energy Agency. The White House has nominated David Brat, a former Republican member of the US House of Representatives, to be the next ambassador to Australia. Brat represented Virginia in Congress and served two terms before he was defeated by a Democrat in a close race in 2018. The NSW premier, Chris Minns, said he may not move to ban the contested phrase “globalise the intifada” if a constitutional challenge over a similar ban