Australia politics live: boost for national domestic violence helpline after huge increase in calls for help

Social services minister, Tanya Plibersek, calls on governments and services to do more to protect victims of domestic violence. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘Continued disappointing behaviour’ from Hanson, says PlibersekSocial services minister Tanya Plibersek says she doesn’t understand what Pauline Hanson was trying to say with her burqa stunt, and called it “continued disappointing behaviour” from the One Nation senator.I don’t remember the last time someone in a burqa robbed a bank. Two weeks ago, there was a queue of neo-Nazis standing outside New South Wales Parliament House and I didn’t hear her joining with ASIO to admit that the fastest growing source of danger in the Australian community is right-wing extremism.The only thing that she’s ensured today is that some schoolgirl wearing a headscarf is going to get bullied on the train on the way to school. Continue reading...