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8.38am GMT

I know we said we'd leave it there, but NSW politics has happened.

NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian has just announced that upperhouse Liberal MP Catherine Cusack has been sacked as parliamentary secretary after she voted to send the Local Land Services Bill to committee. This is the legislation which came out of a fight that threatened to tear apart the NSW government over koalas.

Following her decision today to move a non-Government amendment to a Government bill, I have made the decision to immediately remove Ms Catherine Cusack as a Parliamentary Secretary.

8.14am GMT

This is where we will leave our live coverage for the day. Here is where things stand: