One Nation reveals gas policy – as it happened

What we learned today, Thursday 21 May

That’s where we’ll leave things. Thanks for reading, and have a good night. Until tomorrow, here were today’s top stories:

• One Nation announced its new resources policy; a Norway-inspired government equity scheme in prospective offshore oil and gas projects.

• Queensland’s Olympics minister, Tim Mander, stood down from his cabinet position after being referred to the federal police over claims he may have committed a “potential criminal offence” by enrolling to vote at a staffer’s house.

• Australia recorded a surprise jump in unemployment, with the jobless rate lifting to 4.5% in April.

• Australia’s foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, condemned the actions of a far-right Israeli minister who posted a video of himself abusing bound activists captured while trying to sail an aid flotilla to Gaza.

• The federal health minister, Mark Butler, announced a $7.2m package to address the growing diphtheria outbreak. Later in the day, South Australia’s chief public health officer, Nicola Spurrier, confirmed a number of people have tested positive to diphtheria in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands.

• Paul Keating rubbished claims from the Coalition and the startup sector that Labor’s reforms to capital gains tax will undermine entrepreneurship.

• Australia’s national science agency confirmed at a staff town hall meeting that it is sacking 92 staff in its environment research team.

• New South Wales prison officers walked off the job across the state in solidarity with a local strike at Goulburn Correctional Centre, and in frustration over record prisoner numbers.

• Elon Musk’s X was fined $650,000 after failing to comply with an Australian child safety notice.

• And Victoria’s Avalon airport was sent into a partial lockdown, causing a series of flight delays after a security scare that police said was caused by a laser removal hair device.