Australia news live: poll puts One Nation ahead of Labor; free public transport ends in Victoria

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1 dead after house fire in Melbourne

A person has died and another seriously injured after an early morning house fire in Melbourne, Australian Associated Press reports.

Emergency services were called to Newbury Street in Werribee, in Melbourne’s southwest, after reports of a fire just after midnight.

One resident died at the scene and another was taken to hospital with serious injuries, Victoria police said.

Fire crews arrived at the scene within three minutes, by which time its tiled roof was fully alight, Fire Rescue Victoria said.

A 40-year-old man was treated for burns. Authorities have not yet confirmed the age of the person who died, but media reports say it may have been a young child.

The circumstances surrounding the fire are being investigated and an arson chemist will attend the scene, police said.

Shadow treasurer says Coalition still major player amid stagnant polling

Tim Wilson, the shadow treasurer, said the Coalition needed to be “better” in light of the One Nation polling, but said any notion the opposition was now a minor party was “cute”, but untrue.

Wilson told RN:

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What Australians are right now is despairing of the state of this government. … We need to be better and make sure that we clearly communicate to the Australian community what we’re going to do. But I’m absolutely convinced that, not just we will be here in the next parliament, but we will go on to win. …

I think there’s a chunk of voters who are just going into the orange paddock of despair because there’s a lot of noise and attention there, but we need to actually make it clear where we want to take the country.

Wilson said the Coalition still needed to ensure that “we’ve got ways to connect with people where they are, and particularly to speak to key constituencies”.

Health minister says don’t read ‘too much’ into polls showing surging One Nation

Mark Butler, the federal health minister, said he wouldn’t “read too much into the numbers” showing surging support for One Nation, noting the country is two years out from the next election.

He spoke to RN Breakfast this morning, saying:

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There’ll be a million polls between now and the election day, which will determine future government.

I think we all understand that households are under enormous pressure right now. They have been for a period of time. We saw even before the war in Iran that our economy was pretty hot, building a lot of price pressures in the system, but that’s been greatly aggravated by the impact of this war in Iran. So I think you see that in the polls, you see it in private research.

People are just wanting government to deliver more relief.

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is the most popular political party in the country, a survey suggests.

AAP reports the Redbridge Group/Accent Research poll, published on Monday by The Australian Financial Review, shows support for One Nation has risen four points to 31%.

Labor’s primary vote is at 28%, down three points since the poll firm’s last survey a month ago and the government’s budget that was announced on 12 May, and the coalition dropped two points to 20%.

Support for the Greens dipped one point to 12% and backing for the “other” category of parties rose two points to 9%.

Labor leads One Nation 51% to 49% on the Redbridge poll’s two-party-preferred basis, calculated by asking respondents how they would direct their preferences.

The poll of 1005 voters was conducted between Monday and Thursday, and has a 3.4% margin of error.

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Aged care waiting times coming down, Labor says

Amid persistent delays and funding challenges, some aged care wait times have started coming down, according to the federal government.

The aged care minister, Sam Rae, said every person classified as urgent priority for the Support at Home program is getting funding within one month.

High-priority case wait times have dropped by a fortnight to between one and two months while medium-priority wait times have dropped from between eight and nine months to between six and seven months. Standard priority cases currently wait seven to eight months, down from 10 to 11 months in November last year.

Rae said the median wait for an assessment is consistently under one month, and the time for in-hospital assessments remains under one day.

“While we know there’s much more to do, these numbers are encouraging signs our methodical work to secure more care for more older Australians than ever is shifting the dial,” he said.

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Older people told us they want care they can trust, close to home and at a fair price. We have listened, and Labor’s getting things moving in the right direction to ensure every older Australian can get the care they deserve, sooner. Good morning

Happy Monday: Nick Visser here to take you through the news as we start off the week. Here’s what’s on deck:

One Nation is the most popular political party in the country, a new survey suggests. The poll, published Monday by the Australian Financial Review, shows support for Pauline Hanson’s party has risen four points, to 31%. Labor’s primary vote is at 28% and the Coalition sits at 20%.

Victorians are now eligible for two cost of living measures meant to help during the ongoing fuel crisis: 20% off vehicle registration and half-price public transportation until the end of the year. The state had instituted free public transport for the past two months, which ended on Sunday.

Stick with us, there’s more to come.