December 25, 2024

Australia news live: Peter Dutton’s jobseeker proposal ‘a thought bubble’, Amanda Rishworth says

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And welcome to another Sunday Guardian live blog.

A search for a 46-year-old man who is believed to have died after being attacked by a shark on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula will resume on Sunday morning. Police, SES and residents of Elliston, a small town of 400 people about 650km from Adelaide searched throughout Saturday on boats and jet-skis to find the missing surfer, who was about 50m offshore when he was attacked.

The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, and the social services minister, Amanda Risworth, have been doing the rounds on Sunday morning. Appearing on Sky News, Rishworth dismissed a suggestion by the opposition leader Peter Dutton in his budget reply speech that the cap on how much income jobseeker recipients can receive from work before their payments are affected should be raised.

I’m Royce Kurmelovs, taking the blog through the day. With so much going on out there, it’s easy to miss stuff, so if you spot something happening in Australia and think it should be on the blog, you can find me on Twitter at @RoyceRk2 where my DMs are open.

With that, let’s get started …

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