NSW police charge two men after allegedly seizing more than $1m of illicit tobacco – as it happened

Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast That’s where we’ll leave the blog for today. As always, thanks for reading. We’ll be back tomorrow with more live news. Until then, here were the day’s top stories: The health minister, Mark Butler, expressed concern about Australia’s biggest diphtheria outbreak in decades, as the serious bacterial infection continued to spread through the Northern Territory and bordering states. The second day of the federal court trial involving classical pianist Jayson Gillham and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra took place in Melbourne. Gillham is suing the MSO over a cancelled concert which he claims was an attempt to silence him over his views on Gaza. New South Wales police and the health department are expected to sign a new agreement on how to deal with mental health incidents, after a spate of fatal shootings. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials were “urgently seeking” the status of 11 Australian Gaza flotilla activists detained by Israeli forces in international waters off the coast of Cyprus. NSW police said they had charged two men after officers allegedly found more than $1m worth of illicit cigare