Australia news live: new missiles a focus of defence review, Barry Humphries family offered state funeral

The Albanese government’s strategic analysis of the military is due to be revealed today. Follow the day’s news live

The defence minister, Richard Marles, says it’s clear that the defence budget would grow, as the government prepared to release the strategic review of Australia’s military.

On Sunday he told Sky News:

And that, in many ways, is a function of the strategic landscape in which we exist.

In a rational world, defence spending is a function of strategic threat, strategic complexity - we have both of those, and we’re rational people.

The primary mover of these things is the family because it’s their gift effectively to decide in conversation with government.

So, yes, it could be that [a state funeral]. It could be many other things.

But at the end of the day, he was a boy from Kew with big dreams. And he achieved them.

[He was] an Australian legend and someone we’d love to honour.