Australia politics live: Ryan says Coalition may face oblivion; police pepper spray protesters and make arrests outside Sydney weapons expo

Several hundred protesters cordoned into a fenced-in area at Sydney’s Tumbalong Park. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMelissa McIntosh wants Liberals to ‘get their act together’Internal divisions haven’t stopped Coalition MPs fronting up to their morning interviews today, including shadow communications minister Melissa McIntosh, who tells ABC RN Breakfast the public want her party to “get their act together”.This is not an ideological thing that we don’t believe in climate change or any of that sort of stuff. They’re just really struggling. Their power prices are up … Dan Tehan has been very consultative with colleagues for weeks now, and there’s been a number of working groups, a number of meetings, a number of sessions for people to be involved with I think we’ll come to a position relatively soon.At the moment all [Liberals] seem to care about is their own political prospects, which are heading to oblivion if they continue to behave this way.I don’t think [Ley’s] been particularly impressive herself, to be honest, but, you know, people want the conservative side of politics to have a policy platform. We’ve seen in Victoria for many years what happens when you don’t have an effective Opposition. What you have is a poor government that can do what it likes and Australians deserve better. They need to have an effective Opposition. So I would hope that the Coalition can pull itself together in some shape or form so it can do that. Continue reading...