7.08amWill the Coalition do a deal with One Nation? ‘Of course we would be pragmatic’By Christopher HarrisOpposition housing spokesperson Andrew Bragg has said his party would be pragmatic when it comes to forming a coalition with One Nation.“So if the numbers were the numbers and we had to be in coalition with others, then of course we would be pragmatic,” he told Channel Nine’s Today breakfast program.Opposition housing spokesman Andrew Bragg.Alex Ellinghausen“Well, we would definitely like work out whoever would be interested in being in a coalition with us if that’s what the numbers were.”One Nation has seen a surge in the polls this year.Support for the party was around 26 per cent earlier this month, according to a Resolve Poll.Support for the Coalition stood at 23 per cent. Labor support was steady at 28 per cent while the Greens were unchanged at 12 per cent.6.40amBerlin Pride attack suspect shot dead by policeBy The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured was shot and killed by police during a confrontation in a suburb of the city, authorities said.Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed following a search that lasted nearly 24 hours after the attack in downtown Berlin. Prosecutors said he had previously sought to join the militant Islamic State group.Police stand in a garden house colony in Berlin’s Spandau district, where authorities said the suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride van attack was shot dead in a confrontation on Sunday.Getty ImagesInterior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the attack occurred a few hundred metres from a party near the Brandenburg Gate that was supposed to close out the city’s Pride festival.Ballout, 21, was tracked down about 6pm Sunday (German time) at a garden in Spandau, a Berlin suburb, the city’s police department wrote on X. They said he apparently ran towards officers with a sharp instrument, and police fired at least one shot. He died at the scene.Read more here. AP6.37amIran to halt strikes if US bombing pause holdsBy Dubai: Iran will halt its own attacks as long as the US does the same, a senior Iranian official said.The US pressed pause on its bombing campaign after President Donald Trump’s advisers told him they were running out of targets and expressed worries about depleting the US arsenal.After 13 nights of intensifying US airstrikes on Iran, the Pentagon suspended the campaign late on Friday, with no US attacks reported on either Saturday or Sunday.President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday.AP Photo/Rod LamkeyIran, which had been following each night of US attacks with its own strikes on neighbouring countries that host US bases, has also so far held fire for two days.The Iranian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that Tehran’s position remains that if the attacks stop, Iran will also halt its operations. “That message has already been conveyed to the United States,” the official said.The US ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, told US media on Sunday that Trump had decided to pause attacks to allow more time for diplomacy.Reuters6.35amNational warning system to be testedBy The new “AusAlert” national warning system is scheduled to sound on up to 25 million phones across Australia at 2pm (AEST) this afternoon, with a text message that reads: “This is a TEST alert of AusAlert, Australia’s new emergency warning system. NO ACTION IS REQUIRED.”Years of planning have gone into the 10-second alarm due to sound in hours, which will use the same broadcast technology that operates in more than 30 countries across the world.The new national alert system will be used to issue a wide range of warnings, including for natural disasters, threats to public safety such as shooting incidents, as well as health and biosecurity threats such as a disease outbreak.Read more here. 1 of 1