Australia news live: Albanese meets King Charles; housing ministers to discuss new rights for renters

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Prime minister has private audience with the monarch at Buckingham Palace ahead of coronation; housing ministers meet in Canberra as soaring rents add to cost of living

Thousands of workers from Victorian universities will walk off the job today as part of national industrial action, pushing back against wage theft, casual employment and underfunding.

The week of action, launched by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) on Monday, comes in protest to chronic casualisation in the sector. Approximately only three in 10 university jobs are currently permanent.

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