Alan Jones charged over 24 alleged offences, Senate votes to censure Lidia Thorpe: Australia news live

Plenty of you witnessed lightning strikes last night and Weatherzone has revealed the remarkable number of times lightning struck on Sunday.

According to their data, approximately 2.5 million lightning strikes were recorded across the country. A striking map shared by Weatherzone shows a red blanket indicating where the lightning strikes were.

"At the peak of the storm activity on Sunday afternoon, 3000 pulses per minute were detected Australia-wide," Weatherzone said on Monday.

"And just to prove that the NSW outback opal mining town of Lightning Ridge was well named, 25,000 lightning strikes occurred within 50 km of town."

We can now bring you images of Alan Jones being transferred to Day Street Police Station this morning. Media surrounded the vehicle as police took the 83-year-old for questioning following his arrest.

Jones is facing allegations of indecently assaulting, groping or inappropriately touching young men over a two-decade period.

The corporate regulator has sued NAB for failing hundreds of customers facing financial hardship. More Aussies are reaching out to their banks for relief due to rising cost-of-living pressures and higher interest rates.

ASIC has alleged that NAB and its subsidiary AFSH Nominees Pty Ltd did not respond to 345 hardship applications made by customers within the required 21-day timeframe. The failures are alleged to have occurred between 2018 and 2023.

Read more here over at Yahoo Finance.

NSW's Minister for Education Prue Car has apologised to parents of Year Six students at a Sydney primary school after a staff member allegedly engaged in a graphic conversation with students during a sex education activity.

Member for Miranda Eleni Petinos said she "audibly gasped" when she learned of what was discussed, the ABC reported.

The school's principal has been stood aside while the Department of Education investigate the matter.

Things are heating up as Labor continues to trade barbs with the Coalition over Australia's future when Donald Trump returns to the White House.

The Opposition has been putting the pressure on the Albanese government to reach out to Trump in a bid to establish positive ties with the incoming president.

Following a weekend poll published by the Australian Financial Review that found 47 per cent of voters thought Dutton was “better placed to engage and negotiate with President-elect Donald Trump", the Opposition leader agreed.

But as it has done with China, Labor stands by its measured diplomacy and Treasurer Jim Chalmers took aim at Dutton this morning.

"I think when it comes to Peter Dutton, I think he has a kind of a reckless arrogance which doesn’t lend itself to foreign policy and maintaining and managing some of these complex relationships," he told the Today show.

“I think he would be a risk to our economy and that’s because that reckless arrogance, which has been a defining feature of his time as a politician over a long period of time now ... that kind of reckless arrogance doesn’t lend itself to managing these relationships, which are so important to us.”

Reports of these sorts of incidents seem to be coming thick and fast from firies across the country as they repeatedly warn about the dangers of lithium-ion batteries.

An apartment block in Sydney's inner-west was evacuated overnight as a fire broke out in one unit in Camperdown.

Forty firefighters rushed to the site where a fire was triggered by a lithium-ion battery "believed to belong to a power tool or similar device". Fire and Rescue NSW said the battery was charging on a sofa and caught alight.

Read about the extent of the issue here.

The search is on for the mystery winner of $2.5 million in Saturday's Lotto Draw. The winning ticket that shared the division one prize was bought in The Entrance on the Central Coast.

The newsagent who sold the ticket said it was the first time his family business had sold a division one ticket in 10 years of operating.

“Our elusive winner is likely oblivious to the fact they became a multi-millionaire in the weekend’s Saturday Lotto draw,” The Lott spokesperson Matt Hart said, urging players to check their tickets.

A young boy is fighting for his life in hospital after he was pulled from a Sydney public pool on Sunday.

The two-year-old was rushed to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in a serious condition after he was located unconscious at the Whitlam Leisure Centre in Liverpool shortly after 1.30pm.

A NSW Police spokeswoman said officers attended the scene and have began an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.

The boy was removed from the water after being spotted by patrons before lifeguards began CPR.

“Bystanders helped the 2-year-old boy before he was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics,” the spokeswoman said. “He was taken to hospital in a stable condition for further treatment.”

The Whitlam Leisure Centre was evacuated and shared on social media they were closed on Sunday afternoon.

Read more here.

Alan Jones has been arrested by police over the allegations the radio broadcaster and former Wallabies coach indecently assaulted, groped or inappropriately touched young men.

The 83-year-old was arrested at his home in Circular Quay by specialist detectives about 7.45am on Monday and taken to Day Street Police Station.

Detectives from the State Crime Command Child Abuse Squad established Strike Force Bonnefin in March to investigate numerous alleged indecent assault and sexual touching incidents between 2001 and 2019.

“Following extensive inquiries, about 7.45am today, strike force detectives executed a search warrant at a unit in Circular Quay where they arrested an 83-year-old man,” a statement from NSW Police read.

“The search warrant is underway.”

The radio broadcast has denied the allegations, releasing a video in March responding to the accusations.

“The get-Jones campaign is nothing new in my life,” he said per ADH TV.

“I am not going to dwell, here, on the allegations made about me other than to say that I refute them entirely and the inferences associated with them.”

No charges have been laid.

- NCA NewsWire