Aboriginal flag to fly permanently on Harbour Bridge as NSW counts down to state budget – follow live

NSW premier Dominic Perrottet has committed $25m to install a third flagpole on Sydney’s iconic bridge to permanently fly the Aboriginal flag

Prime minister Anthony Albanese has spoken to The Sun Herald this morning, outlining his domestic agenda ahead of the first sitting of the new parliament.

Albanese has had a busy first month as prime minister, travelling overseas twice already and dealing with rising inflation and the energy crisis on the east coast.

It’s four weeks since we were elected today; it has been a pretty busy four weeks. Normally governments would still be moving offices now.

We’ve asked people to bring forward the legislation to create Jobs and Skills Australia; to create the Nationally Determined Contribution [to emissions reductions] and the target – 43 per cent by 2030 and then [zero by] 2050. That legislation will come forward and there may be some appropriation legislation required.

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