Australia news as it happened: Liberal leader Angus Taylor unveils new shadow cabinet; Government won’t repatriate IS brides and their children, Albanese says

Thanks for reading the national news blog. This is where we’ll end today’s coverage. We will be back tomorrow morning with the latest updates.

To conclude, here’s a look back at the day’s major stories:

• Deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume and Goldstein MP Tim Wilson will lead the opposition’s effort to regain the party’s image as better managers of the economy in Angus Taylor’s new-look frontbench.
• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared he has no sympathy for 34 Islamic State-linked Australians trying to re-enter the country, saying the government would provide no help to the families, even as a close associate of Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke is reported to be helping them leave the camp where they have been living.
• On the second day of the landmark case by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission against Coles over alleged illusory discounts, the supermarket’s legal team claimed the watchdog’s overall focus on the “Down Down” ad jingle was “a bit of a furphy”.
• The Australian Federal Police has cleared Lidia Thorpe of a criminal offence after an investigation into comments the independent senator made saying she would “burn down Parliament House to make a point”.
• In Western Australia, a man who allegedly threw a homemade bomb into a crowd of protesters at an Invasion Day rally in Perth’s CBD has been identified for the first time after a suppression order on his identity was lifted.
• And, in world news, Nancy Guthrie’s family have been cleared as possible suspects in her abduction in the US, as the case involving the missing mother of NBC’s Today show host Savannah Guthrie enters its third week.
• US President Donald Trump says he will be involved “indirectly” in high-stakes talks set for Tuesday in Geneva between Iran and the US over Tehran’s nuclear program, adding he believed Tehran wanted to make a deal.

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Deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume said the new shadow frontbench showed a “depth of talent in our party room”, and she looked forward to fighting for everyday Australians alongside her colleagues.

“They are going to be at the very front line of restoring Australia’s standard of living and protecting our way of life. I am extraordinarily honoured to take on the role of employment industrial relations, as well as productivity and deregulation, something that you have heard me speak about many times before,” she told reporters.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do as a parliamentary team to make sure that we have a policy platform and positions that reflect the hopes and aspirations and the dreams of all Australians, not sectional interests.

“We’re not here for big unions. We’re not here for big business. We’re here for ordinary Australians, ordinary Australian families, small businesses, that’s who the Liberal Party heartland is.”

Where there are winners, there are also losers.

New Liberal leader Angus Taylor lamented the need to drop a group of frontbenchers from his new-look team. The new leader demoted a group of frontbenchers who backed Sussan Ley last week.

The small size of the Liberal Party room, at 51 MPs, means more MPs have frontbench roles than those who do not. There are about 35 frontbench positions.

Importantly, Taylor retained key moderate MPs Anne Ruston, Andrew Bragg and Tim Wilson in key roles. These are the MPs who lost out in this afternoon’s announcement:

• Alex Hawke, Sussan Ley’s numbers man, who has lost his job.
• Former immigration spokesman Paul Scarr, whom conservatives viewed as too left-wing on migration, and was dumped.
• Former defence industry spokeswoman Melissa Price, another Ley supporter, who lost her job. So did former shadow attorney-general Andrew Wallace, who said it was wrong to topple the party’s first woman leader.
• Angie Bell, a moderate, who lost the environment portfolio and has now taken on sports and arts.
• South Australian senator Kerrynne Liddle, a moderate, who lost the Indigenous Australians portfolio and will become spokeswoman for health and aged care.

Some of ousted Liberal leader Sussan Ley’s allies have managed to keep their spots on the front bench in Angus Taylor’s reshuffle.

“[Former deputy and shadow treasurer] Ted O’Brien will move to the shadow ministry for foreign affairs,” Taylor said.

“Ted will bring the moral and strategic clarity to Australia’s foreign policy that has been lacking under this government.

“He’ll be supported by Senator Dave Sharma in the role of shadow assistant minister for international development.”

Taylor said Senator Andrew Bragg would continue as spokesperson for housing and homelessness, and would pick up environment.

Senator Anne Ruston would keep health and ageing, and education spokesman Julian Leeser would also stay put, Taylor said.

Adding to the economic team, Senator Claire Chandler will take on finance and government services.

“She’ll hold Labor to account for its budget blowouts and skyrocketing debt,” Liberal leader Angus Taylor said.

Factional heavyweight James Paterson will go to defence, and Jonno Duniam will keep home affairs and will add immigration, which previously operated as a subset of the portfolio.

After speculation Senator Michaelia Cash would be challenged for Senate leader, she’ll stay put.

“Senator Michaelia Cash will return to the attorney-general’s portfolio and continue as leader of the opposition in the Senate,” Taylor said.