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Good morning and welcome to our rolling news coverage for the day. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be looking at some of the breaking stories overnight before my colleague Stephanie Convery comes along to take the helm.
Our top story this morning is that amid demands by opposition MPs for the government to have Chinese-made technology removed from official buildings, it turns out that the Australian Signals Directorate said a year ago it was up to government departments whether to use equipment from Chinese companies Hikvision and Dahua. Peter Dutton was defence minister at the time the advice was given to departments. And Senate records show the late Labor senator Kimberley Kitching had raised concerns the devices when the Coalition was still in office.
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