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Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast That’s where we’ll leave our live coverage for today. Before we go, let’s recap the day’s top headlines: Police are investigating the death of a woman who was struck by a car that crashed into a restaurant at Westfield Knox in Wantirna South in Melbourne’s east. The National Reconstruction Fund will invest $120m into a $240m advanced manufacturing project north of Perth expected to be able to build 2,000 apartments a year once fully operational. A second long-nosed fur seal is suspected to have died in South Australia from H5 bird flu, just a day after officials confirmed the first death of a mammal on the Australian mainland. Leah Stewart, the woman who was bitten by a shark at Sydney’s Coogee beach in June, issued an update on GoFundMe yesterday, thanking the community for its support during her recovery. Barnaby Joyce says a fellow One Nation MP made a mistake on Sunday by suggesting the minor party’s migration numbers would not be much different to Labor’s. Australia’s unemployment payments have fallen so far behind the pension they now amount to just 68% of the payment, a new research paper released

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