Australia news live: security chiefs fire warning shot at social media over encryption; immigration points system up for reform

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Asio boss Mike Burgess will say companies must do more to help unlock encrypted messages for investigators. Follow the day’s news live

Good morning and welcome again to our rolling news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be running through some of the top overnight stories before my colleague Emily Wind takes the chair.

Our top story today: a secret report into sexism and bullying in the Australian Border Force reaches the shocking conclusion that its marine unit is “not safe for women”. The Australian Human Rights Commission, in a report commissioned by the ABF, revealed that 100% of women in the unit who responded to a survey “witnessed sex discrimination, sexual … and/or sex-based harassment” and 78% had personally experienced that behaviour.

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