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Australia live news updates: Scott Morrison heads to Darwin as Labor pledges 500 Indigenous health staff; NSW records eight Covid deaths, Vic two

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Labor Shadow Treasure Jim Chalmers is appearing on ABC’s Insiders just now and is lashing the government over its handling of the relationship with Solomon Islands:

“Clearly, this is the consequence of a Government which has cut foreign aid spending, they have mocked our Pacific friends when it comes to climate change, and they have dropped the ball when it comes to our national security and that’s what we’re seeing now.”

“Our country is less safe as a consequence of the mistakes that they have made on foreign policy. That is the net effect and the consequence of all of this chest-beating.”