News live: PM says Australia will commence negotiations on security and defence partnership with EU

<p>Follow today’s news live</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Treasurer <strong>Jim Chalmers</strong> said nearly 2,000 Australians had registered to leave Israel and Iran amid a growing conflict between the pair over the past week. He told RN Breakfast:</p><p>I’m told by the colleagues that there are more than a thousand Australians and family members in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories who’ve registered with us who want to get out of that part of the world, and then another 870 or so in Iran.</p><p>We’re obviously working very closely with those Australians via the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. We’re monitoring developments in that very dangerous part of the world closely. Obviously our major focus is on the human cost of this escalating conflict. …</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/jun/18/australia-news-live-albanese-g7-starmer-zelenskyy-critical-minerals-trump-aukus-submarines-chalmers-tax-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>