Australia news live: PM says he shouldn’t have gone on Bush Deep podcast; home sales to overseas buyers plunge

Albanese said now-infamous interview, dubbed ‘melon-gate’, taught him he needs ‘to do better every day’.

Follow today’s news live

• Get our https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email, https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app or https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast

Good morning and welcome to our live news blog.

I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it will be Nick Visser with the main action.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has branded the AFL’s initial response to the Sydney Swans scandal “completely unacceptable”.

He also said he should not have appeared on a podcast where he engaged in a joke about the Japanese prime minister’s gift of melons.

More coming up.