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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it’ll be Krishani Dhanji with the main action.
Stand by for a frenetic last two days of parliament, with Labor believing it will be able to make a deal with the Greens to rush through its signature environment protection laws before the summer break. Details coming up.
And outside of politics this morning, New South Wales has woken to its first catastrophic fire warning for two years with high temperatures, low humidity and strong winds putting the lower central west plains district – covering eight local governments areas across the state’s central western river area – on alert.
A total fire ban has also been placed across Sydney and large swathes of the state.
More coming up.