Australia news live: Taylor says Coalition preferencing One Nation in Farrer to stop ‘teal policies’; Victoria announces one-off car rego rebate

Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Taylor won’t call Trump’s Iran war a mistake, says it’s ‘reasonable to call out’ Iran Angus Taylor has steered clear of endorsing his colleague Andrew Hastie’s condemnation of Donald Trump and his war on Iran. I’m not going to get into commentary on major leaders like Donald Trump. What I will say is what we want to see is an opening of the strait of Hormuz. I’m not going to get into commentary on this. What I do know is: Iran is a bad country. It is. It kills its own people. That is a bad country. And I think it is reasonable for freedom-loving countries like ours to call out the bad behaviour of those countries. But I tell you what I want to see most of all: an opening up of the strait of Hormuz because, if we don’t get that, we are going to continue to see high petrol and diesel prices at the bowser, high jet fuel costs for when you fly around this country, and we need that brought down.

The government should be making every possible effort to not accept these people back into the country. That includes both the issuing and distribution of passports, where that’s possible. … There’s a lot of discretion or some discretion with the minister, as there is with temporary exclusion orders. I don’t trust the government. … All I’m saying is [what] we need to know is when the last security assessments were done, what we know from that and why only one temporary exclusion order has been issued. Continue reading...