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Sarah Basford Canales, Harley Dennett Dan Jervis-Bardy

Estimates live blog: news and updates from Parliament House

It's day of three of the latest Budget estimates hearings in the Senate. We can expect a lot of questions about borders, vaccine rollout, treatment of women in parliamentary workplaces and the gagging of DPS staff.

Up in estimates hearings today are the Finance, Attorney-General, ASC, ANAO and the ABC. You can find a full list of hearings here.

We'll be bringing you all the updates from the hearings in our live blog. It appears just below this sentence, but it can sometimes take a moment to appear.

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