Experts are combing a remote highway in Western Australia after a radioactive capsule fell off a truck; New Zealand’s biggest city is in chaos after torrential rain
Good morning and welcome to the live blog. I’m Martin Farrer and here are the main breaking stories overnight.
In an interview with Guardian Australia, Jim Chalmers has promised to use the May budget to tackle entrenched disadvantage in Australia’s most vulnerable communities to ensure people have better pathways to economic participation. The treasurer told our weekly politics podcast that he was working with the social services minister, Amanda Rishworth, on a new package that would “identify some of the most vulnerable communities in our country, work out how to empower local leaders and pool our resources and make a meaningful difference to some on the entrenched disadvantage that’s in our country”.
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