Prime Minister Albanese has announced that Australia will provide an additional $60 million in support for Ukraine following a high-level meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

During the meeting, Albanese emotionally praised Zelenskyy’s leadership, referring to him as “my friend,” and signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement. The new support package allocates $45 million in ADF defense equipment, $10 million for Ukraine’s energy support fund, and $5 million in humanitarian aid. This brings Australia’s total commitments to Ukraine to $1.9 billion since the 2022 Russian invasion. The agreement also outlines long-term security cooperation, including enhanced military training and joint production initiatives for drones, missiles, and air defense systems.

Speaking in New York, Prime Minister Albanese said an OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to the Medicare statistics reporting service portal administered by Services Australia on June 18.

The AI agent accessed both public and non-public files, but Albanese said it did not appear anyone’s personal Medicare details were accessed.

It is known that OpenAI accessed non-public aggregate health statistics and internal files from an old Australian government website that carried Medicare statistics.

It is also understood an AI crawler, which is an automated program that scans websites and collects information from them, was able to find a security workaround to access the data.

Albanese also said he had a “frank” discussion with OpenAI’s chief executive Sam Altman, saying the company took three months to notify the government of the breach and, when it did, the notification was in an email sent to the Services Australia public inbox.

Shadow Housing Minister Andrew Bragg has again entered the political fray over super, re-litigating the argument that the retirement savings scheme should be used to help people buy a home — but has stopped short of announcing any policies.

Bragg will give a speech later today where he is expected to float ideas about how super could be used to boost home ownership ahead of retirement. While some of his colleagues support the discussion, Opposition Leader Angus Taylor stressed that no policy decisions had been made.

Senator Bragg said the Coalition had canvassed multiple options, including using super as collateral for a loan or withdrawing a lump sum for a house deposit.

“You could keep the money in the system, and it could operate as a collateral or an offset,” Bragg told ABC News Radio. “You could take it out to pay off a mortgage or to pull together a first home loan.” But he also remarked he was not advocating for any particular solutions for now, ahead of a speech he will give at the Financial Services Council later today.

The Coalition’s policy at the last two elections was to allow people to withdraw $50,000 from their super to put towards a house deposit. Opposition leader Angus Taylor said that was no longer the Coalition’s stance, and refused to engage with Bragg’s idea.