The Last Post ceremony is back at the War Memorial: The Last Post Ceremony to take place at 4.55pm on 1 July will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the amphibious landings of the Australian 7th Division at Balikpapan in New Guinea during the second world war. The ceremony will honour Private Leslie James Hanlon of the 2/27th Australian Infantry Battalion, who was killed during Operation Oboe Two. Director of the Australian War Memorial Matt Anderson said that he was looking forward to welcoming the public back to the daily ceremony and urged people who wished to attend to book a free ticket online. On the planned protests in Australia in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, Scott Morrison says: In terms of some of the violence we’re seeing around the world today, for those Australians who find themselves in those situations, I would urge them to show great caution. Already we have had to provide support for those in the media sector, for journalists who have found themselves in those situations, and of course we will continue to provide that support. But I would urge people to be extremely cautious. These are dangerous situations and people should exercise great care in where they’re placing themselves.” Labor’s Jason Clare says he can’t imagine “too many battlers” have a lazy $150,000 around to renovate. It reminds of the movie the Wizard of oOz. Remember when they get to the Emerald City and they hear the big, booming voice of the Oz. And Toto pulls the curtain away and you find that he is not that great and powerful afterwards. The same with the housing package – all week we were told how big and old, and powerful it was going to be. Turns out it is not that big and powerful at all. In these extraordinary times, the Guardian’s editorial independence has never been more important. 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The last time the ‘R’ word was mentioned was during the election campaign, when Morrison hinted Labor’s tax plan could plunge the nation into an economic contraction. This is what he said, then, during the AFR conference in March 2019: Whether you are in business, whether you are raising a family, whether you’re in retirement or entering into retirement, or whether you’re a young person coming out of university, I was one of those who entered the economy under Labor in the 1990s that went into recession. We can’t go back to that, we must go forward and we have the plans to take Australia there … I’m saying the economy will be weaker under Labor – that’s exactly what I’m saying, because they’re going to put $200bn worth of taxes and take Australia’s industrial relations system back to the times when we had recessions in this country. I’m being very clear with Australians. No use on the other side going, ‘Oh, I didn’t really realise that it would have that impact.’ It will have that impact.” Speaking at the HouseBuilder launch today, where Sky’s Thomas O’Brien says a neighbour yelled at people to get off his lawn, Morrison said delivering the news of a recession (which was Josh Frydenberg’s job yesterday) was “heartbreaking”. As a government we worked so hard to bring the budget back into balance ... to see Covid-19 hit it like a torpedo is absolutely devastating. Where we find ourselves now is heartbreaking. Here are the HomeBuilder numbers as the government sees them: From today until 31 December 2020, HomeBuilder will provide all eligible owner-occupiers (not just first home buyers) with a grant of $25,000 to build a new home or substantially renovate an existing home. Construction must be contracted to commence within three months of the contract date. HomeBuilder applicants will be subject to eligibility criteria, including income caps of $125,000 for singles and $200,000 for couples based on their latest assessable income. A national dwelling price cap of $750,000 will apply for new home builds, and a renovation price range of $150,000 up to $750,000 will apply to renovating an existing home with a current value of no more than $1.5 million. The program is expected to provide around 27,000 grants at a total cost of around $680 million. This increase in residential construction will help to fill the gap in construction activity expected in the second half of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In doing so, HomeBuilder will help to support the 140,000 direct jobs and another 1,000,000 related jobs in the residential construction sector including businesses and sole-trader builders, contractors, property developers, construction materials manufacturers, engineers, designers and architects.