Australia news live: counter-protests expected at anti-immigration rallies; Albanese heads to Washington for Trump meeting | Australia news
Good morning
Good morning and welcome to Sunday’s live blog. I josh taylor.
Prime minister, Anthony AlbaneseHe leaves for Washington today for the long-awaited meeting with the US president. Donald Trump. You can read more about what is expected to emerge in that meeting in this post from my colleague. Josh Butler.
Thousands of people are expected to gather across Australia to oppose anti-immigration demonstrations in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, AAP said.
Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi in question:
The far right is organized, violent and on the march. But political leaders refuse to grapple with the reality of white supremacy and racism that threatens and harms First Nations people and people of color every day.
A group of unions and community groups organized the counter-protest.
Around 50,000 people reportedly gathered in March for Australian events across the country in August, attracting significant media attention.
Parallel counter-demonstrations were also held on the same day.
Let’s get into it.
important events
Nampijinpa Price says he will wait and see on speculation that Joyce will join One Nation
An outcast from the coalition and a good friend Jacinta Nampijinpa Price Instead of accepting the nonsense, he insists he’ll wait and see. Barnaby Joyce to give his share Pauline HansonAAP reported.
Price, who left his junior coalition partner to join the Liberals and was demoted from cabinet, declined to speculate when asked what Joyce’s possible move would be.
“I’d rather wait and see,” he told Sky News.
“I’m a good friend of Barnaby, but I’ll wait and see what’s real, what’s just another attempt to perpetuate this chatter and division about the coalition.”
Much of the focus of politics today will be around the former deputy prime minister Barnaby JoyceSpeculation that he intended to quit the national competition and join One Nation was conveyed to his supporters.
You can read more about this from my colleagues below:
John Howard says he’s ‘never met anyone who is multicultural’
former prime minister John Howard the former Liberal Prime Minister told his friend Tony Abbott In an interview in which he said that the understanding of “assimilation” towards immigrants in Australia had moved away from a “logical understanding”, he said that he had “never met a multicultural person”, only bicultural people.
Howard told Abbott about Abbott Sky News documentary:
Assimilating does not mean forgetting your home culture… I have never met a multicultural person. I met a lot of bicultural people.
Howard said his 2001 election slogan, “We decide who comes to this country and under what conditions,” had “almost universal support. Because people believe it.”
Howard said Australia could remain an immigrant society, arguing that “the Australia deal is central to everyone who comes.”
The former Prime Minister also supported keeping Australia Day on 26 January, arguing that Australians were unlikely to be willing to give up New Year’s Eve if it was changed to federation day on 1 January.
Cait Kelly
Sydney man charged with child abuse material
A Sydney man has been charged with allegedly importing a child-like sex doll and producing and possessing AI-generated child abuse material on multiple digital devices.
Officers at a postal facility in Sydney detected a shipment from Asia for targeted inspection, AFP said in mid-August.
Upon further inspection, police found a sex doll that resembled a child. The item was seized and as part of initial investigations officers executed a search warrant at Lalor Park on September 8, 2025, where they spoke to the 59-year-old man.
Within the scope of the search warrant, many items, including digital devices and children’s clothing, were seized.
Subsequent investigations allegedly uncovered a significant amount of AI-generated child abuse material, as well as documents linked to the import of a child-like sex doll.
The man was arrested on October 16 and appeared in Blacktown local court on Friday where he was refused bail. He is expected to appear in the same court on October 20, 2025.
AFP Detective Commissioner Luke Needham:
The message couldn’t be clearer; If you participate in these horrific activities you will be found, accused and tried.
Good morning
Good morning and welcome to Sunday’s live blog. I josh taylor.
Prime minister, Anthony AlbaneseHe leaves for Washington today for the long-awaited meeting with the US president. Donald Trump. You can read more about what is expected to emerge in that meeting in this post from my colleague. Josh Butler.
Thousands of people are expected to gather across Australia to oppose anti-immigration demonstrations in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, AAP said.
Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi in question:
The far right is organized, violent and on the march. But political leaders refuse to grapple with the reality of white supremacy and racism that threatens and harms First Nations people and people of color every day.
A group of unions and community groups organized the counter-protest.
Around 50,000 people reportedly gathered in March for Australian events across the country in August, attracting significant media attention.
Parallel counter-demonstrations were also held on the same day.
Let’s get into it.
