Australian politics live: Labor introduces student Hecs debt relief and childcare safety bills into House

<p>Follow today’s news live</p><ul><li><p><strong>Get our </strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl"><strong>breaking news email</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3"><strong>free app</strong></a><strong> or </strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl"><strong>daily news podcast</strong></a></p></li></ul><p><strong>Ley won’t weigh into Nationals leadership</strong></p><p>The net zero debate is still alive and kicking within the Coalition with some Nationals agitating loudly for the policy to be abandoned.</p><p>The leader of the Nationals is a matter for their party room and I’ll leave that to them. And as I said at the beginning, <strong>Karl</strong> [<strong>Stefanovic</strong>], these three blokes speak up pretty well for themselves. And I’m sure they’ll do that.</p><p>We’ve now had three years of high complaints… Firms have more work to do to ensure fair responses to complaints are delivered earlier, without people having to take the extra step of coming to us.</p><p>This evil trade causes so much human harm, and the law and regulatory framework we currently have is not sufficient to address this. Industry should not wait to take action; every day we see the impact of more people affected.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/jul/23/australian-politics-live-anthony-albanese-sussan-ley-question-time-student-debt-net-zero-labor-coalition-parliament-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>