News live: Gallagher defends Australia’s ‘billions of dollars’ on defence spend after Nato decision to increase to 5% of GDP

<p>Follow the latest updates 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><strong>‘We’ve got to be a Liberal party that is proudly for women’: Ley</strong></p><p>Reviews will look into where the Liberal party went wrong in their recent failed election campaign, <strong>Sussan Ley</strong> says.</p><p>I stood on polling booths during the election, and I spoke to a lot of women, and women said to me they weren’t confident that the Liberal party had their back when it came to understanding and putting policies in place, about work-life balance, about getting it right, between dropping the children at childcare, doing the best by your family, managing struggles at work, paying your mortgage, cost of living, and so on. And as I said yesterday, we’ve got to be a Liberal party that is proudly for women, made up of women standing up for women.</p><p>We have to meet modern Australia where they are. And clearly we did not do that in the last election.</p><p>We’re going to listen. That’s the first and most important thing. And yesterday, I outlined two important reviews that are part of that first stage of listening. We’re going to fix our policies. We’re going to work hard every single day for the Australian people.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/jun/26/defence-spending-nsw-queensland-parliament-banks-predict-rate-cuts-in-july-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>