Australia news live: magnitude 7.6 Indonesia earthquake rocks Darwin, felt as far south as Tennant Creek

The Bureau of Meteorology says there is no tsunami threat for Australia. Follow the day’s news live

Government to unveil more details on support for industry transition to net zero

The government is also expected to announce changes to the safeguard mechanism, which is a centrepiece of Labor’s plan to cut emissions. Watt says he is in Gladstone today with the energy minister, Chris Bowen, where they will have more to say about how the government will provide support to assist industry in the transition.

The way the safeguards mechanism will work is, essentially, requiring some of the largest emitting facilities in our country to reduce their emissions over time.

This is something that we went to the election saying we would do. It’s something supported by the business council of Australia, the Australian Industry Group [and] the Chamber of Commerce. It’s a sensible measure to ensure our largest emitting facilities, things like smelters and mines, do gradually bring down their emissions over time.

Obviously that’s a pretty scary incident for people to have to go through in Darwin. But at this stage we haven’t heard of any reports of damage on the Australian mainland.