Australia news live: Aukus nations to develop uncrewed undersea vehicles to protect cables; Hanson backs Taylor’s indexation plan

Marles tells Shangri-La Dialogue delegates that ‘seabed is a battlefield’. Follow updates live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has supported Angus Taylor’s plans to index Australia’s tax thresholds, telling Sky News “they just keep moving all the time”. Hanson says she wants to have a look at tax policy ahead of the next election, proposing an “overhaul” to “make it a fairer system.” Those people who work overtime do their 40 hours a week or 38 hours a week, they’re working overtime, they’re taxed to the hilt, and I think we need to overhaul the whole taxation system. We have witnessed a series of attacks against subsea critical infrastructure at a scale and frequency that is historically unprecedented. Our ability to operate as a modern economy and a functioning state, all of it is critically dependent on infrastructure that is exposed, that cannot move. As we’ve now seen demonstrated in the Baltic, [it] can be cut with an anchor in the middle of the night. Continue reading...