And with that, I bid you farewell for the day. Thanks for spending some, or all of your day with me. 

From what has come into my inbox today, it's looking like tomorrow is going to get busy! I'll be back bright and early in the morning to bring you all the latest news. 

Here's what we learned today:

• Six current or former politicians in corruption watchdog sights
  
• The government will move to close an AUKUS  loophole to make it clear in legislation that Australia will not accept nuclear waste from the US, UK 
• Greens issue key demand in Reserve Bank negotiations
• There were some new tax vibes for your Wednesday morning
• Unis Australia takes aim at Albanese, Dutton
• Lobster on the menu at a gathering of the Australia China Business Council
  

Before I wrap up the blog for the day, I want to leave you with this contribution from new independent senator Fatima Payman, who today tried to make skibidi happen in the Senate. 

To the sigmas of Australia, I say that this goofy ahh government have been capping, not just now but for a long time.

A few of you may remember when they said, 'there'll be no fanum tax under the government I lead.' They're capaholics. They're also yapaholics.

They yap non-stop about how their cost of living measures are changing lives for all Australians. Just put the fries in the bag, lil bro.

They tell us that they're locked in on improving the housing situation in this country. They must have brain rot from watching too much Kai Cenat, and forgot about their plans to ban social media for kids under 14.

If that becomes law, you can forgor skull emoji all about watching Duke Dennis or catching a dub with the bros on Fort.

Chat, is this prime minister serious? Even though he's the prime minister of Australia, sometimes it feels like he's the CEO of Ohio.

I would be taking an 'L' if I did not mention the opps, who want to cut WA's Gyats and Services tax.

The decision voters will be making in a few months' time will be between a mid government, a dogwater opposition, or a crossbench that will mog both of them.

Though some of you can not yet vote, I hope when you do it will be in a more goated Australia, for a government with more aura. Skibidi.

Was this a slay? Let me know in the comments. 

Independent MP Zoe Daniel says she's not convinced the systems exists for a social media ban for children to be effective. 

Speaking with ABC's Afternoon Briefing, she described the proposal as feeling like "the cart before he horse". 

"There are a lot of concerns about potential privacy risks, and also young people don't want it, and it might be difficult to enforce," she says. 

The independent says she wants a system where social media platforms are required by legislation to do no harm.

And if that is the case, she says, then people might not have to verify their age. 

Independent MP Dai Le is also on the panel today. She says the issue of an age limit is a "contentious issue". 

"For me, we need a restriction," she says. 

"I don't know the total ban will work because we don't want to totally ban it but at the end of the day, legislation alone will not stop it.

"It has to be the family environment, education and awareness as well."

Labor's Louise Miller-Frost says social media is changing how "your brain works". 

"Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield has been doing research on this for decades. The more that people are involved in that short-term snippets of information rather than reading a whole text, it changes the way your brain works," she says. 

"Thinking that your child is well-adjusted doesn't mean that they won't be exposed to the terrible content that we know does circulate (online). 

"And by the time it's happened, it's too late. They've been exposed to it, they've been bullied."

Anthony Albanese's social media ban has been criticised as "half-baked," as the opposition continues to pile the pressure on the prime minister to act. 

Shadow Communications Minister David Coleman told ABC's Afternoon Briefing the prime minister was "getting run over on the issue" by the Coalition and the states. 

"He has gone to Minister (Michelle) Rowland and said 'we're going to do it, we will work out the details later'. That's what's happened," he says. 

"Because how can you have an age verification policy when you don't know what the age will be? 

"Pretty fundamental."

Asked how he is confident families want the government to have the power to ban children from social media, Coleman says that's what the data is pointing to. 

"I think there is a correlation between what we are seeing in data, disturbing data about mental health impacts on kids, especially girls and what Australian families are experiencing everyday," he says. 

A host of business bigwigs and officials will gather tonight and tomorrow in the national capital for the Australia China Business Council's annual Canberra Networking Day.

There's plenty to discuss. 

We might never get back to the heady days of the 2010s, but the recent thaw in Australia-China ties and Beijing's decision to strip away (almost) all the trade barriers it erected when the Coalition was in power, has given a new burst of enthusiasm to companies that do business with China.

There are opportunities aplenty. 

The federal government may be increasingly pessimistic about China's political trajectory, but it remains the world's key economic engine and by far our biggest export market.

Australian businesses see huge opportunities across a host of industries, including in clean energy and within the massive net zero transition that Beijing is engineering at home.

ACBC chair David Olsson will strike a fairly optimistic tone at a major dinner tonight, declaring there are "many global challenges that can only be addressed if nations work together, if they collaborate".

"In areas such as climate change, health and food security, Australia and China are almost uniquely compatible. We have a track record as trading partners; we can now become partners in solving common problems," he's expected to say.

And while the event is trying to stay sharply focussed on the future, not the past, there will still be at least one pointed reference to a lingering hangover from the era of mutual recrimination and economic coercion.

The dinner menu will not just include Australian wine (which is now flowing back into China), but also Australian rock lobsters, which remain off limits – at least for now.

I just wanted to quickly circle back to Question Time, where Anthony Albanese gave his strongest defence yet of the government's approach to gambling advertising. 

He pushed back at the calls for more regualation by anti-gambling advocates. 

"The truth of their position, and that is a legitimate position for them to take, but it is not one that I have in terms of stopping all racing for example, stopping all gambling right across the board," Albanese said.

"I think that would have an impact and an intrusion into people's personal liberties which is not appropriate in my view.

"I do not believe the state has an absolute right to determine the behaviour of individuals across the board."

He argued he wanted to restrict the damage harmful advertising can have. 

"I think we need to make sure that adults can be adults but children can be children," Albanese said. 

"And the connection as well between sport and gambling needs to be broken because sport should be enjoyed for what it is – sport. 

"That is an important focus of why we are undertaking these reforms."

We couldn't just let the MPs have all the fun could we?

Some of us at the ABC took one for the team - it's such a struggle - to go cuddle some cute endangered critters.