Alice Dempster

It's one of his first major policy announcements since taking over the leadership.

And as for the Albanese government's response, the Defence Industries Minister, Pat Conroy, said the coalition had zero credibility on immigration, in his words, and that the plan was an attempt to compete with One Nation in a race to the bottom.

A message now from Xero.

Workplaces around the country are transitioning to payday super from the 1st of July, but research shows that despite being supportive of the move overall, 87% of Australian small business owners are concerned about the impact on their cash flow.

That's why Xero is encouraging them to prepare sooner rather than later.

I spoke with Xero's Managing Director of Australia and New Zealand, Angad Zoyn, about that and his other tips for business owners before the transition.

Stay listening at the end of the podcast for that chat.

A big change was announced by World Aquatics yesterday.

For the first time in four years, Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to compete in events under their own flags.

No, it says its athletes are still training under fire from Russia and, in its words, against this background, any talk about neutrality looks shameful and disconnected from reality.

Some Aussie scientists have just made a pretty sizeable discovery in more ways than one.

They've just confirmed that giant echidnas existed in Victoria.

As you can imagine, scientists are excited by this discovery.

They've also found the fossil bones of larger slender echidnas in Victoria and South Australia.

So they're working out now whether they're also Owen's giant echidnas, as those ones are called, or whether they're from another species altogether.

Whatever the case, Andrew, I'm sure they'll nose it out.

Love that.

Squeeze the day now.

One big thing to keep an eye out for today is a decision in a long-running court case between Australia's richest person, Gina Reinhart, and the family of her late father's former business partner.

It's a case that's been running for years now and it's also drawn in two of Reinhart's children.