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Australia politics live: tech giants face law to pay for news content; Australia joins call for Iran to end death penalty

Good morning and welcome to our live politics blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it will be Krishani Dhanji with the main action.

The news bargaining incentive, which will see tech companies forced to make more deals with news publishers to compensate them for using their material, will be introduced to parliament today. More coming up.

New investor home loans have plummeted since the May budget but the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, insists house prices will continue to grow over the next two years.

And overnight Australia has joined more than 30 nations, including France, the United Kingdom and Canada, in condemning Iran’s use of capital punishment.

Read original at The Guardian

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