Australia news LIVE: PM announces $925m investment to support people leaving violence; Qantas app data breach investigated

Australia and Korea have agreed to collaborate in blocking North Korea’s access to funding for its illicit nuclear and missile development.

South Korea’s defence minister Shin Won-sik said it was an agreed collaboration in the realms of cyber and maritime security.

This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows what it says is a test of surface-to-sea missiles.Credit: KCNA

“We agreed to collaborate in blocking North Korea’s access to funding for its illicit nuclear and missile development and to thwart illegal activities such as arms trading between Russia and North Korea,” he said.

“Our Australian counterparts have expressed their steadfast support for enhancing the human rights of North Koreans and through our policies aimed at reunification.”

Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s speech followed Shin’s, where she made it clear that Australia continues to condemn North Korea’s actions.

“We’ll continue to work together to ensure that this risk and threat to our collective security continues to be met in solidarity,” she said.

Defence Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong are speaking in Melbourne this afternoon as they are hosting counterparts from the Republic of Korea for the Australia-ROK 2+2 Foreign and Defence Ministers meeting.

Republic of Korea Minister of National Defence Shin Won-sik, Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Republic of Korea Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Tae-yul met earlier this morning.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

Marles said it was a pleasure to welcome South Korea’s defence minister Shin Won-sik and foreign affairs minister Cho Tae-yul as Australia and South Korea have an incredibly close relationship.

“We are seeing increased engagement between our two countries across the world. We are certainly seeing that in our role of defence,” Marles said.

“Korea and Australia are working together to uphold the rules-based order within our region and in fact, within both countries, as we’ve discussed tonight, are playing our part in supporting Ukraine in its resistance of the appalling aggression that has been forced upon it by Russia.

“In respect of defence industry, we are seeing a blossoming of the relationship between our two countries.”

Defence Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong held a press conference with their South Korean counterparts after hosting the Australia-ROK 2+2 Foreign and Defence Ministers meeting.

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To end his press conference, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is asked about the attack of Ninette and Philip Simons allegedly by a former immigration detainee who was not wearing an ankle bracelet at the time.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke from Sydney after the meeting of the national cabinet.Credit: AAP

Asked if there will be an application to the courts to re-detain any of the released individuals, Albanese says it takes a long time to bring a case based on proper legal advice, but he wants to see applications made soon as a matter of urgency.

Here’s what he said:

The law that was passed last December was based upon the previous government’s legislation on terrorist offenders. That took a long time to bring a case to bear based upon proper legal advice.

What you want to make sure, is that you don’t make an application that doesn’t succeed. You want to make sure that an application does succeed. I want to see, to be very clear, I want to see applications done as soon as possible and I want them to see them succeed.

It’s always best to make announcements when they’re happening, rather than foreshadow them. Something that is good practice and I want to see it happen as a matter of urgency, I’ve made that very clear, my view.”

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has snapped back at a journalist about the way he dealt with domestic violence rally organiser Sarah Williams.

Albanese did not agree that he would have responded differently to Williams in hindsight, nor that it was ill-advised to use the phrase “I am the prime minister”.

Rally organiser Sarah Williams looks away as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at the event calling for an end to violence against women.Credit: AAP

Sky presenter Andrew Clennell asked if the PM could have “handled that interaction a bit better in retrospect.”

Albanese responds: “You have not put what was said beforehand, I was asked to have discussions with people unknown about whether it was appropriate, whether we would be speaking or not,” he said.

“I responded to that, I was happy to speak, happy to not speak.”

Clennell responds by asking again if Albanese thought his response to Williams was appropriate, the prime minister quips back.

“You can look at it, don’t you work at Sky? Everyone can look at it. This is a serious issue. We are talking about a woman dying at the hands of their partner every four days and I have no interest in this.

“This is not about me, I attended a rally, I was proud to do so. As a national leader, it is appropriate that I do that, and I stand by that … I congratulated, if you look, I congratulated the organisers of the rally.”

Asked if he felt regret that Williams was in tears at the end of the exchange, Albanese said Sexual Violence Commissioner Micaela Cronin had reached out to Williams’ organisation to provide a briefing.

“I don’t want to see anyone in that situation, [or] feel badly about anything, about any circumstances,” he said.

“I wish Sarah well, we have reached out, the commissioner’s reached out to Sarah’s organisation to provide a briefing that will occur. I engage constructively with people.”

The changes to bail laws will be led by the state and territories while the Commonwealth plays a role in bringing people together, says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Asked how he will achieve uniformity across the states, Albanese said under a federation it has to be done in a cooperative way.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Sunday’s rally to end domestic violence in Canberra.Credit: AAP

“What I heard from the premiers and chief ministers, is the commitment to best practice, to examine what works, and they will work in a coordinated way to look at how they can deal with issues like our laws,” he said.

“Some of them require individual legislation across the jurisdictions, so that will, if you like, take place by states and territories with the Commonwealth essentially playing a role in bringing people together, bringing together jurisdictions.”

Albanese said he will also look into working with Education Minister Jason Clare to include improvements in the national curriculum.

“[We’ll look] to make improvements there as well to make sure our youngest [learn about good behaviour].”

Albanese also said there will be an approach to sharing information between states and territories for repeat offenders.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is holding a press conference in South Australia.

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Bail laws were discussed at the national cabinet meeting, but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says it will be addressed through later meetings while denying he is kicking the can down the road.

“When we went through reports from each of the jurisdictions, they spoke about electronic monitoring, spoke about the range of issues in the justice system as well which are there. That’s the work we’ll continue,” he said.

“There is a police minister’s meeting this Friday. The Attorney-General’s standing meeting will discuss these issues as well and come back in the next quarter, so [we’re] not kicking this down the road, but will come back with ways in which uniformity or greater uniformity can be considered going forward.

“It was very constructive. One of the things that was clear as well is that jurisdictions were keen to learn off each other.”