Australia News Live: Full fire bans across parts of Victoria, NSW and SA amid burst of autumn heat

Good morning and happy Saturday. Is graham readfearn here to take you through our live news coverage with many of us feeling this blast of autumn heat.

There are total fire bans in parts of Victory, NSW, South Australia and extreme fire danger ratings for many areas. A little more detail on that to come.

There is some heat on the way for Melbourne with a high forecast of 37C, with 33C for Brisbane and Sydney with 30C.

There’s also news this morning that much loved Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill is being treated for stage three blood cancer.

Before going into today, a brief recap of yesterday.

• Millions of fish are dead. in another massacre on the lower Darling-Baaka River near Menindee in far western New South Wales.

• The US Department of State approved the sale of up to 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles to Australia, for a sum of 1.3 billion dollars.

• Former Minister of Labor and leader of Midnight Oil peter garrett said the $368 billion Aukus nuclear submarine deal was the “more expensive and risky” never done by an Australian government.

• Treasurer jim chalmers saying Australian banks are “well placed” to withstand some vulnerability.

• He Productivity Commission saying in their five-year report that “the often-touted ‘four-day week’ is much more difficult to achieve.”

• Four people were arrested after climate protesters occupied by Dominic Perrottet office.

• time magazine released his list of the best places in the world for 2023 and the only Australian capital to make the list was brisbane.

OK Saturday, let’s see what you got.