Australian politics live: digital platform laws to be unveiled; international arrivals to land in Melbourne and Adelaide

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Government to release draft laws forcing global digital giants Google and Facebook to pay for journalism, and international arrivals will resume at Adelaide and ramp up in Melbourne. All the latest updates

10.04pm GMT

Childcare group G8 Education is the latest big Australian company to admit to systematically underpaying its employees.

The company has this morning told the ASX it has underpaid up to 27,000 employees for the past six years and it will cost as much as $80m to repay them.

Related: Coalition proposes four-year jail sentence and $1.1m penalty in wage theft crackdown

10.02pm GMT

There is a new ‘parliamentary friends’ group in town.

Joel Fitzgibbon and Phil Thompson (the ‘friends’ bit comes from being bipartisan) have started a parliamentary friends of defence honours and citations group.

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