Australia news live: Wong heads to Japan, China and South Korea to secure fuel supply; new ADF armoured vehicles ordered

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Nationals MP says welcome to country is generally a ‘good part’ of ceremonies Nationals MP Michael McCormack said he thinks welcomes to county were generally a “good part” of ceremonies after the opposition leader, Angus Taylor , said this weekend he thought they were oversized. Taylor made the comments after booing incidents at some of Saturday’s Anzac Day dawn services. McCormack said he believed that booing seemed to be almost “orchestrated” and was unacceptable. But when he was asked if he agreed with Taylor’s view on welcome to countries, McCormack told RN Breakfast: double quotation mark I can if you have several speakers and every one of them takes a lot of their speech time to do welcomes to country when it’s already been done. If you do it at the start, you do it appropriately, I think most people find that to be a good part of the ceremony, and then you get on with what the actual event is all about. And I think that’s probably appropriate. Michael McCormack. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP Wong to visit Japan, China and South Korea to secure fuel supplies The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong , will travel to Japan today as part of another diplomatic tour to secure Australia’s fuel and energy supply chains. …