ALP national conference 2021: Anthony Albanese to announce $15bn Covid recovery fund – live

Australian Labor party gathers online to endorse slimmed-down election platform and debate industrial relations, trade and foreign affairs. Follow all the latest updates, live

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7.44am BST

There is an evening session, from about 7.30pm - but it is basically people in their PJs sitting at home, listening to Labor's true believers give speeches.

7.30am BST

Here was Penny Wong on the foreign affairs platform:

I think our relationship with China is one we have to approach with discipline, with a great clarity about our national interest; with a willingness to recognise where we can engage but also where we will have differences. And I think this platform recognises that we will never walk away from those issues where it is clearly in Australia's national interest to keep prosecuting, whether it's on the South China Sea, on the principles of international law - which are reflected in the platform - whether they are on human rights or the Law of the Sea. These are matters in our national interest.

We also recognise the importance of continuing to engage with China notwithstanding those differences and the approach the Australian Labor party will take were we elected is one that would be characterised by maturity and by discipline.

Look, there's been a lot written and a bit said about this provision for platform and I want to make this crystal clear. The platform now reflects precisely the same position as the Labor party national conference reached under Bill Shorten in 2018. There's no lesser or greater weight and the position is replicated. It is a position which recognises the views of the conference in relation to statehood. It's a position which recognises that any such decision would be made by a future Labor government. And it's a position which reinforces our collective commitment to a just and fair two-state solution.

I recognise that that is an assessment some parliaments have made. Obviously, one of the answers in Senate estimates was that's a matter for international tribunals". I think what is more important though is for us to say this: these are systemic and serious violations of human rights and they are not the actions of a responsible global power. And we would say to the Chinese government: having great power, with that comes some great responsibilities, including to respect the human rights provisions to which you have previously committed.