Australia politics live: NSW to lower road toll cap and Queensland to promise infrastructure in today’s state budgets

Key events Good morning, Krishani Dhanji here with you, thanks to Martin Farrer for getting us started. There will be plenty of reaction in Canberra this morning to the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer ’s resignation. The deputy prime minister and defence minister, Richard Marles has been tapped on the shoulder to do the morning media rounds today, to spruik a $2.5bn defence export deal signed with Canada yesterday. And the government will continue to be on the alert over an outbreak of bird flu in Australia, with confirmation a second bird was infected and died from the H151 virus. As all of that happens, of course, the government is trying to get a deal over the line to pass its tax changes to CGT and negative gearing as well as an overhaul of the national disability insurance scheme. It’s going to be a big one, let’s get cracking! Revamped Australian War Memorial to be revealed tonight The centrepiece of the revamped Australian War Memorial will officially open tonight in an event set to be attended by the accused war criminal, Ben Roberts-Smith , and the prime minister, Anthony Albanese . The former SAS soldier last week successfully varied his bail conditions so he could attend the ceremony at the Anzac Hall galleries. Roberts-Smith was invited as a Victoria Cross recipient. Roberts-Smith, 47, was arrested in April and charged with murdering or ordering the murders of five unarmed detainees while deployed in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012. …