In this bulletin, the federal government to announce an inquiry into the handling of the pandemic; Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces agree to a ceasefire; and in sport, Melbourne City's first Asian Champions League game has ended in a goalless draw.
Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces agree to a ceasefire.The federal government is set to announce an inquiry into how Australia handled the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie told Sky News she sees an inquiry, rather than a royal commission, as a broken election promise. Leader of the Victorian Greens Samantha Ratnam has called on the government to build 100,000 publicly-owned and managed homes, rather than privately-managed housing, which she says has been the model for previous redevelopments.
A Senate inquiry into increasing rural branch closures has raised the possibility of changing banks' licences, requiring them to maintain a presence in rural Australia. "It's not a formula that we run through a machine and computer says 'shut the branch'. I mean, of course we get the data of who is in the branch, what are they doing, what are they talking about, how long it's taking and we consider all of those things. Again we do so, also, I mean, consultations probably not really the right word, but we do so in discussion with our people.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Wednesday said his government, which did not intervene militarily, was not involved in writing the agreement, which calls for talks on the future of the region today.
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