News headlines

• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expresses thanks to emergency responders and defence personnel servicing the community over the festive season
• Charity Wesley Mission: Cost of living pressures and rising rents make Christmas a tough and painful time for a number of Australians
• Russia re-intensifies the bombing of Ukraine on the Christmas eve
• Clashes in Paris after three people killed in shooting at Kurdish centre
• Residents in South Australia brace themselves to see the full extent of the damage from rising floodwaters