Australia news live updates: Albanese to welcome Chris Hipkins amid migration and defence overhauls

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New Zealand prime minister to begin official visit ahead of Anzac Day; NSW Liberal leader to spend first full day in leadership

Happy Saturday and welcome to the Guardian’s live news coverage. I’m Graham Readfearn.

Defence will likely dominate the day after news broke last night that Australia is set to dramatically scale back the number of infantry fighting vehicles it buys for the army as part of a defence overhaul to be announced on Monday.

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