PM announces Fair Work Court, defends tax changes at ALP national conference

Speaking at the ALP national conference, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the federal government will create a Fair Work Court. Follow live. Speaking at the ALP national conference, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the federal government will create a Fair Work Court.

Follow all the updates in our live blog. Choose what information you see below by using filters We're standing by as Labor delegates prepare to resume the party's national conference for the afternoon session. In the meantime, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has spoken to Sky News, telling the outlet a gas export tax is "not on the government's agenda", despite support from the idea from former Labor leader Bill Shorten and influential backbencher Ed Husic.

"We've got other more pressing, more important things to focus on, he says. As you drive from the coastal town of Yeppoon to Rockhampton in Central Queensland there's a huge billboard. Pauline Hanson looms over the road in a checked shirt.

The sign reads: "$13 million Cooee Bay Pool delivered. One Nation didn't pay for the pool, but its leader did lobby the federal government for funds. Regional Queensland is where One Nation first found support as a fringe movement.

Thirty years on, Pauline Hanson's party is rolling out a well-funded, grassroots campaign across regional and rural communities the country over. Read the full story from ABC reporters Alex Barwick, Jacob Gamble and Bridget Murphy in the link below. The opposition leader has pushed back on Pauline Hanson's comments on domestic violence.

The One Nation leader has described domestic violence as a "two-way street", while telling women who suffer abuse they should not "put up with it" on Brisbane radio yesterday. Hanson also acknowledged that domestic violence was "a scourge" that could not be dismissed and said people needed to communicate better. Speaking in Adelaide, Taylor says domestic violence is not a two-way street and that it must be condemned.

"It's not a two-way street, it's unambiguously unacceptable. And domestic violence is a scourge on this nation when it happens. It shouldn't happen and it should be condemned unconditionally, Taylor says.

While the Labor National Conference is underway on North Terrace in Adelaide, Angus Taylor is just down the road at the Central Market speaking to local businesses. The opposition leader has urged the federal government to commit to not allowing an Australian doctor who joined Islamic State back home. The Australian reports IS doctor Tareq Kamleh, who was presumed dead, is among 13 Australian IS fighters detained in an Iraqi prison.

The paper reports the government has known he was alive. "The government should be admitting to not letting Dr Jihadi back to the country. They should make a clear commitment on this.

This prime minister is hiding on this issue. He's said nothing, Taylor says. Former Labor leader Bill Shorten has thrown his support behind a gas export tax, but wouldn't say how much resources companies should pay.

Speaking from Canberra, Shorten says while he doesn't support changing existing contracts, the national mood is changing in favour of a tax. He's pointed out that people in other countries pay less tax on the gas they get from Australia than we receive in revenue. "One thing I don't believe is that we should change existing contracts where investments have been made on one set of laws, Shorten says.

"I think that the national mood, certainly a lot of uni students here say, hey we pay our student debt, it's important that the big resource companies, when they're going to make future profits out of Australian resources, that some of it gets reinvested back in Australia. The Labor conference has passed a motion calling on the government to create a national taskforce on artificial intelligence. NSW Senator Tony Sheldon, who is seconding the motion, speaks first, delivering a fiery speech condemning "tech bros" for putting human intelligence and creativity at risk.

He also recounts his early days "sticking chewing gum in ATMs" before he finally embraced the technology, prompting bemused looks from the treasurer and finance minister, who are seated directly opposite him. There's a lot of support in the room for the broader sentiment of the speech, though, with successive speakers calling on the government to ensure productivity gains resulting from AI are shared with workers in the form of better wages and conditions. Queensland delegate Emily Searle, a young policy officer, also speaks about the risks posed by deepfake technology, calling on the government to hold the creators of AI deepfake tools just as accountable as the people that use them.