Australia live news: Vatican mass for George Pell; Perrottet battles internal enemies

The late Australian cardinal will be honoured with a funeral mass at St Peter’s in Rome later today

Good morning and welcome to our rolling news coverage this Saturday morning. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll get you started with the top stories overnight before my colleague Graham Readfearn takes the wheel.

The travails of New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet continue to dominate the headlines with the focus really now not so much on his donning of the Nazi uniform but who within the Liberal party wanted to use the revelation to damage him. Our state political reporters Michael McGowan and Tamsin Rose report that one insider says it’s a bit like the film Knives Out – “there are about 20 people who it could’ve been and they all had a motive”. Ouch.