Australia news live: man charged with murder after discovery of remains believed to be missing Queensland woman

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has failed to guarantee the party will cost all of its policies ahead of the election after the Coalition claimed the rightwing party’s agenda would destroy the budget and drive up interest rates.

The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, last week used a major speech to argue Hanson’s platform would cost more than $۱tn over a decade, force the Reserve Bank to lift rates and even risk a sovereign debt crisis.

Appearing on Sky News, Joyce – who is now One Nation’s treasury spokesperson – brushed off Taylor’s attack.

Sky News host Andrew Clennell asked Joyce if the party would submit all of its policies to the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) for costings, to which he replied:

We will do it to the best of our ability.

Pressed for a guarantee, Joyce said:

I’m not going to give a sort of guarantee like that, Andrew, because that means I have the resources to do it.

And if I get the promise that we’re going to have the resources to do it, it certainly makes it a lot easier.

It is important to note that One Nation’s staffing numbers should have no bearing on its capacity to submit costings to the PBO. The budget office is available to all MPs – including independents – to provide independent analysis of their proposals.

Asked by Clennell if One Nation would be prepared to fund additional staff itself, Joyce said:

We’ll have to.

Queensland police say they have charged a ۴۸-year-old man with domestic violence murder after finding a body believed to be missing mother Jana Armstrong.

Police said human remains were found overnight in bushland off Esk Hampton Road in Redbank Creek, northeast of Toowoomba, and they have declared the area a crime scene.

While the remains were yet be formally identified as of ۷.۳۰am this morning, police said believed they they were Armstrong’s and that they were in contact with her family.

Armstrong had been reported missing from Newtown after she was last seen on ۷ July.

Police said Darling Downs district detectives arrested a ۴۸-year-old man using a search warrant at a property on West St in nearby Harristown, and charged him with one count of murder (domestic violence offence).

The man is due to appear at the Toowoomba Magistrates Court tomorrow, police said.

As part of their ongoing investigation, police have asked anyone with information, or relevant CCTV, dashcam or other vision to contact them.

Police say investigators are particularly interested in dashcam or CCTV vision between Toowoomba and Esk, along Esk Hampton Road and the New England Highway, taken between ۱۰.۳۰pm on ۷ July and ۱.۳۰am on ۸ July.

Welcome

Catie McLeod

Hello, I hope you’re having a nice weekend. I’m Catie McLeod and I’ll take you through today’s breaking news.

A man has been charged with murder after the discovery of remains believed to be a missing Queensland woman. Details on that shortly.