Opposition leader will formally respond to the budget in parliament today
Good morning and welcome again to our rolling news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ve got the top overnight stories for you before Amy Remeikis takes the controls.
In an exclusive story today we reveal how an inundation of survivor claims means insurers have abandoned church bodies, leaving state governments to organise taxpayer-funded deals to indemnify the churches. Queensland alone has brokered temporary deals relating to 18 organisations providing out of home care and youth homelessness services to underwrite claims they face.
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