Australia news live: NSW police make 993 arrests in four-day domestic violence sweep

With that, we will wrap the blog for the evening. Here were today’s major developments:

Jim Chalmers is blaming an “unhinged scare campaign” for fuelling some of the backlash to the government’s proposed crackdown on negative gearing, capital gains tax and trusts.

Murray Watt , the federal environment minister, says he expects Australian health officials will be working with other countries as the world responds to the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.

The judge hearing the case of a pianist who alleges the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra unlawfully discriminated against him because of his views on Israeli forces killing Palestianian journalists says the matter will not be a “roving inquiry” over conflict in the Middle East.

The federal government has announced a major housing investment in Queensland, a deal between the Albanese government and the state government to build 50,000 homes for Queenslanders.

New South Wales police charged nearly 1,000 people during a four-day, statewide operation targeting offenders with a history of domestic violence.

Sydney will get a new trial electric ferry after the state government signed contracts to build the locally designed, Australian-made vessel.

A New Zealand man has been detained in Tahiti after an incident in which a Qantas flight attendant was allegedly bitten on an international flight.

The Australian share market has fallen to its lowest point since March as a steady resurgence in oil prices spooks investors.

A former US fighter pilot is appealing a decision that greenlit his extradition over claims he illegally trained Chinese military personnel.

Northern Territory police are urging the families of missing men to come forward after more details emerged about the remains of an Aboriginal man, believed to have died in the 1970s or 1980s, which were found more than a decade ago.