Australia news live: Coalition reveals plan to criminalise helping Australians leave Syria; health warning as measles spreads in Melbourne

Measles transmission has been detected among people with no recent overseas travel or known public exposure. Follow today’s news liveLarge parts of the country in for stormy, wet start to the weekCommunities could be cut off and large parts of Australia disrupted by severe thunderstorms forecast to dump hundreds of millimetres of rain, but the big wet is not all bad news, AAP reports. Continue reading...