Australia politics live: super fund sends ‘hands off’ message to government; Marles says army joining search for Dezi Freeman

<p>AustralianSuper chief executive says government directing investment would be a ‘disaster’. Follow today’s news live</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p><strong>Sussan Ley</strong> “felt sick” watching a neo-Nazi confronting Victorian premier <strong>Jacinta Allan</strong> at a press conference yesterday, she tells Sunrise.</p><p>The opposition leader says she’s concerned about an escalation in hatred and intimidation seen by some at the rallies over the weekend.</p><p>This sickness has to be it has to be removed. We need to de-radicalise de-escalate, work together as a society to tackle something that I’m seeing as a troubling trend, an escalation in political violence.</p><p>We also know that by bringing in a million migrants over the first two years of this government, with no plan to house them, or to put the infrastructure in place to support them…</p><p>I speak to Australians who can’t find homes, who are taking three times as long for their commute to work, who see the pressure on infrastructure all around them every day. And they want to know that we do have balanced migration program. It’s been rushed and chaotic.</p><p>A sovereign citizen killing cops is no different from the leader of a sovereign state killing kids. The crime is the same. The criminality is the same. What is different is the response.</p><p>What is the alternative to a functioning international legal system? The only alternative is that might is right. The law of the jungle. The replacement of a rules-based international order with a fools-based international order. International law and the international legal system are the only thing standing between us and the abyss.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/sep/03/australia-politics-live-labor-coalition-greens-anthony-albanese-sussan-ley-question-time-nauru-immigration-asylum-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>

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