Australia news live: Nicole Kidman files for divorce from Keith Urban; Ley lays down the law to frontbench

Soon after news of their separation went public, the actress filed for divorce in a US court. Follow today’s news live

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 to take over.

Union bosses have reacted angrily to what they call an attempt by the boss of Optus’s parent company to “scapegoat” workers for the recent triple-zero outage. More coming up.

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