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Re-elected South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas said mainstream parties needed to offer a clear policy agenda in response to the rise of parties like One Nation.
Appearing on ABC Insiders, he said:
If I was going to pick one area of policy that requires ongoing, sustained effort around the country, it is undoubtedly housing. I think that social compact that we have in Australia, where one family to the next can pass on to the idea of home ownership as an aspiration, I think that’s at risk.
For me, it’s all in on housing.
Good morning
Welcome to another Sunday Guardian live blog.
We’ll continue to bring you the latest on Tropical Cyclone Narelle, which crossed the Northern Territory coast early this morning as a severe category three system, and will continue moving west bringing rain and dangerous storm surges across the Top End.
We’ll also bring you all the wash-up from yesterday’s South Australian state election, and keep across the unfolding situation in Iran.
We’re expecting to hear from the energy minister, Chris Bowen, in TV interviews this morning for the latest on the fuel crisis, which the International Energy Agency has called the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market”.
I’m Petra Stock, and I’ll be taking the blog through the day.
Tropical Cyclone Narelle makes landfall in Top End as category three system
Tropical cyclone Narelle has crossed the Northern Territory coast bringing destructive winds up to 165km/h and intense rain, with the possibility of dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding, the Bureau of Meteorology has warned.
Narelle crossed at about 4am local time as a severe category 3 system.
It is now a category 2 system. A warning is in place for communities between Milingimbi and Nathan River, extending westwards into the Top End, taking in Katherine, Bachelor, the Adelaide River, as well as the Daly River.
Senior meteorologist Jonathan How said:
Within this severe weather warning zone, we will see 24-hour rainfall totals of between 180 to 230 millimetres and some isolated locations could see more than 300mm, particularly to the north of Katherine, and this could produce dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding.
Narelle was forecast to weaken as it continued to move west during Sunday, but would still bring severe weather across parts of the territory that were already saturated from recent rains and flooding.
Major flood warnings were in place for the Katherine, Daly, Waterhouse and Georgina rivers and Eyre creek.
