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Independent candidate Kylea Tink has launched her campaign against Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman for the seat of North Sydney in the upcoming federal election, pledging to restore “integrity, accountability and transparency” to politics.

AAP reports that independent Kylea Tink has promised voters action on climate change, support for parents, the release of refugees in indefinite detention and a federal corruption watchdog if elected.

Tink addressed hundreds of supporters gathered at a Longueville bowling club wearing coral coloured T-shirts emblazoned with the message: “Let’s change the climate in Canberra”.

“You want urgent action on climate led by facts and not politics,” she said to applause.

“I will push for more ambitious binding carbon reduction targets for Australia.”

Tink said she had received support – including upwards of $680,000 in campaign donations – from the same community who were closing the margin between an independent and Liberal member in the nearby state by-election for the seat of Willoughby.

A chunk of her donations, she estimates around 30%, were from the Climate 200 non-profit, non-partisan group led by clean energy analyst and investor Simon Holmes à Court.

Zimmerman has held the seat since 2015 after his predecessor, Joe Hockey, retired from parliament.

Tink has a background in corporate communications and worked as chief executive officer of breast cancer charity the McGrath Foundation and then cancer charity Camp Quality.

Of the 229 new cases, 222 are locally acquired and seven are travel-related. This brings the total number of active cases across the state to 1,044.

The cases include 11 self-reported positive RATs.

There are two people in hospital with the virus, and no patients in the ICU.

With that, I shall pass you back over to the wonderful Justine Landis-Hanley.

Labor is backing the government hard when it comes to condemning China’s action after a laser was pointed at a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft last week.

Leader of the opposition in the Senate, Penny Wong, has called it a “reckless act, which potentially endangered Australian lives,” stating that China was not a “responsible actor” and Labor would support a “strong bipartisan condemnation to Beijing”.

This comes after a fortnight of the defence minister and prime minister accusing Labor of somehow being in cahoots with the Chinese Communist party, despite there being no evidence to support this claim.

Good day all! Matilda Boseley here for the next little while.

Just sharing this tweet because, who in Scott Morrison’s media team let him – a man about to go up for re-election – get photographed looking forlorn in front of a “departures” sign? You are just giving the internet trolls things to work with!

In what could be an interesting sign of what is to come in Australia, the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, is set to announce the end of the legal duty to self-isolate after testing positive for Covid-19 next week.

Downing Street said Johnson will lay out his intentions to repeal all pandemic regulations that restrict public freedoms in England as part of his “living with Covid” plan on Monday.

Read the full story abou the UK’s expected announcement here: