Australia politics live: last day of petrol tax cut; evacuation amid warnings Echunga dam burst is imminent

We’ve made it to the last day of the make-up sitting – after this, the MPs won’t be back in Canberra for a month when they’ll return for the budget.

So it’ll be a big day with lots to get through. After all, budget week makes it hard to get clean air for anything other than the budget, so if you want a song and dance over what you’re doing, you’ve got to get in before or after.

The prime minister is back from Japan, just in time for the government to introduce the national anti-corruption commission legislation. It’ll be the first time a major party has introduced legislation for a federal Icac (the crossbench, especially Helen Haines tried). The Morrison government “tabled” its exposure draft but never actually introduced legislation into the parliament.

After it’s introduced, the bill will go straight to a committee for review, where the high threshold for public hearings is expected to get a workout – so far, from what’s been released, it’s the most controversial part. But we’ll find out more when it’s officially introduced – and Paul Karp will be all over that like me on cake.

Cost of living will also dominate the parliamentary group chat (question time) with the fuel excise pause expiring at 11.59pm. Will there be queues for petrol today? Probably not. Fuel is already expensive. But from tonight it will increase by what the ACCC thinks should be, on average, by 25 cents a litre. Still, it will come as a shock for a lot of people to see petrol jump up overnight and add fuel (if you like) to the fire for the government to do something on the cost of living. We know that the government is planning a “bread and butter” budget (the opposition is repeating the line it’ll be all Australians can afford boom tish – because struggling to make ends meet is apparently pun worthy) so there won’t be a lot of planned relief. But fuel is something everyone can see going up. The excise pause was always due to expire tonight – that’s what the previous government set – and Jim Chalmers has been making the argument that to extend it will cost $6bn. It’s still going to hurt though.

We’ll cover all the day’s events – and reactions – so thank you for joining us . You have Sarah Martin, Paul Karp and Josh Butler on deck, and Mike Bowers is off his project and back where he belongs – walking the hallways and getting into mischief for you. You’ve got Amy Remeikis on the blog for most of the day.

Ready? It’ll be a four-coffee day, minimum, over here, so let’s get into it.