Australia news live: Anthony Albanese bound for Berlin with security and EU trade in spotlight

Australia news live: Anthony Albanese bound for Berlin with security and EU trade in spotlight

Prime minister’s trip comes as Ukraine marks 500 days since Russian invasion. Follow the day’s news live

Education minister lashes Peter Dutton over Robodebt

The education minister, Jason Clare, has spoken to Sky News on Sunday where he spoke about the Coalition’s reaction to the robodebt royal commission report, saying opposition leader Peter Dutton had shown “all the empathy of a rock” in responding to it.

The fact that Peter Dutton on the day that this came down, went straight to politics showed that this bloke doesn’t get it. It’s not about that. It’s about Jennifer [Miller]. It’s about people like her. You know, a number of people lost their live others tried to take their own life, ended up in hospital and they’re still dealing with that. That’s the real human consequence of this. And that should always be kept in mind here. This was, i think now proven any legal scheme that operated For four and a half years ... You can go back further than late 2017 from late 2016, early 2017 they knew this computer system was sending our bills to people who didn’t owe them. And yet they kept on, going it showed that they didn’t give the stuff. How could you keep sending bills to people that they didn’t know when the system or when the evidence at least was showing that that it was wrong.

A trade agreement with the EU would unlock an overall market of 445 million people and a GDP of $24 trillion.

Concluding an ambitious trade deal between like-minded partners is important at a time of mounting geo-political uncertainty.