Legal Aid ACT has finally sought to explain how it hired a convicted child sex offender for a role that involved working on sensitive cases involving children. Tim Piccione, who revealed Bradley John Burch's hiring as a paralegal, reports on the legal service's explanation after months of silence.
His party may be calling for heads to roll in the public service, but Liberal MP James Patersonhas pitched his plan to rebuild the Home Affairs Department, not break it up. And Miriam Webber even asks him about whether there might be a role for disgraced former department head Mike Pezullo.
Overnight, US President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy about negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
