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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it will be Rafqa Touma who takes over.
Penny Wong has pledged another $1.5bn in aid to Ukraine and announced that the Australian embassy in Kyiv will be reopened. On a visit to the Ukrainian capital on Wednesday, the foreign minister said the ambassador to Ukraine, Paul Lehmann, and the deputy head of mission will return to Kyiv in January. More coming up.
The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has announced this morning that tech companies will have two extra months to finalise plans to restrict children from accessing adult websites. She said the industry needed time to consider the rushed under-16s social media ban legislation and how it might intersect with restrictions on adult content.
Vanuatu’s capital was still without water last night, a day after reservoirs were destroyed by the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that wrought havoc on the South Pacific island nation. The death toll of 14 is expected to climb as rescue workers dig through collapsed buildings and includes a woman who recently finished a nine-month work stint in Queensland. More coming up.
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