Australia news live: Victorian premier to seek advice on plan for US weapons stockpile; Dfat lowers Middle East travel warning from ‘do not’ to ‘reconsider’

Returning to Victorian premier Jacinta Allan’s press conference earlier this morning. She’s been asked about the US military’s plan for a permanent, war-ready weapons stockpile for its Marine Corps in the state. When asked if she was aware of the plan, Allan said: double quotation mark I’ll need to take some advice on that. Pressed on whether the stockpile could put Victoria at risk from other countries in the region, she said: double quotation mark I don’t think you could necessarily extrapolate that from, if that scenario was to come about, we have already here in Victoria, and indeed in [and] around the country, we have many partnerships through the defence industry sector with other countries, companies, whether it’s the US, whether it’s South Korea with Hanwha down at Avalon, so these arrangements are not necessarily unusual, but we would get some advice on that. Allan said questions were best put to the federal government.