Independent MP Monique Ryan has condemned a number of recent comments by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, specifically her admiration for Donald Trump's mass deportation policy. Speaking to ABC's Afternoon Briefing, Ryan said the thought of such a policy being implemented in Australia makes her "sick," citing footage of people being killed during deportations in the US and being removed from hospital settings. Ryan also rejected Hanson's claim that she was misinterpreted as supporting a White Australia policy, calling One Nation "incredibly incoherent as a political force" and questioning why they get so much airtime.

In other news from today's coverage: One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce defended Hanson's meeting with far-right convicted criminal Tommy Robinson, while also making headlines for a spiky ABC interview that involved barking at an off-camera dog. Qantas apologized to 250 passengers stuck on a tarmac in Sydney for four and a half hours. A Melbourne synagogue was denied security grants before a December 2024 arson attack. Staff numbers at the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will be cut by 30. KPMG appointed a lifelong staff member as new Australian CEO amid its audit leaks scandal. WA police arrested a 16-year-old boy for allegedly stabbing his mother to death and attacking his sister.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong pressed her Lao counterpart over the lack of serious charges in the methanol poisoning deaths of Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones. The government's $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund has provided only 1,432 of the promised 40,000 homes, with the auditor general criticizing Treasury's lack of transparency. Queensland is considering four pumped hydro projects, including the $18.4 billion Borumba scheme, after scrapping the larger Pioneer Burdekin project. Ryan also raised concerns about AI datacentre locations, urging they be powered by 100% new renewables. A dead humpback whale calf tested negative for bird flu. Hundreds protested at Pine Gap, demanding its closure, with one activist arrested. And a family rejected a coroner's finding that their newborn daughter died from a heart defect.