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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the best overnight stories and then Nick Visser will pick up the reins.
Swathes of southern and eastern Australia are bracing for extreme temperatures in the first of several days in what is expected to be the worst heatwave since the Black Summer bushfires. More details in a moment.
The first economic snapshot of the year comes at 11.30am today, which is expected to show a slowdown in inflation from 3.8% to 3.6% – but perhaps not enough to prevent the Reserve Bank increasing interest rates. More coming up.
And human remains have washed up on a Western Australian beach, believed to be a snorkeller who went missing on New Year’s Day.