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Good morning and welcome to our live politics blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then Krishani Dhanji will take you through to the end of parliament’s final week of the year.
Barnaby Joyce could announce that he is quitting the Nationals and defecting to One Nation as early as today, according to reports this morning. The former Nationals leader and deputy prime minister said last month he would not stand as a National again in his New England seat and that he would consider his position over the summer. But speculation is mounting that he will reveal his plans today. More coming up.
A UK-based company behind three of the most widely-used “nudify” deepfake services has blocked Australian users after it was warned by Australia’s eSafety watchdog in September that its services were being used to generate AI child exploitation material. We have more details coming up.