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Morning everyone. As pre-election campaigning heats up, some Liberal supporters are paying $10,000 a head to attend a fundraising dinner with Peter Dutton next week in the key Sydney marginal of Bennelong.
Elsewhere, Sam Kerr has appeared in court in London overnight ahead of a trial next month for alleged racially aggravated harassment of a police officer; Los Angeles is braced for “extreme” fire danger today as winds pick up again; and it’s no problem for the Australian Open’s main character, Alex de Minaur.
A history-making moment at the Australian Open
After winning through to the second round of the Australian Open today, Hady Habib found time to talk to Nour Haydar about how his success has been a source of celebration for Lebanese Australians amid months of war and devastation.
A history-making moment at the Australian Open
The rescue of Hadi Nazari from dense bushland in the national park captured the nation’s imagination. Kate Lyons has been talking to one of the people who led the rescue, how they ran the operation and how it turned out to be one of the longest-ever to result in a happy ending.
It’s the time of year when many people take a look at how much they’re drinking and decide that it’s too much. Our resident GP columnist, Ranjana Srivastava, writes today that although she has not met a patient who doesn’t know that smoking causes cancer not so many know that boozing, too, much carries “a higher absolute risk of a cancer diagnosis”.
There has been a “massive” number of failures in the Australian citizenship test, according to the Adelaide Advertiser. The owner of a house on the Mornington Peninsula destroyed by a landslide has told the Age he feels “bloody lucky” given his family’s near miss. Four subjects have been axed, along with 91 jobs, under a shakeup at the University of Wollongong according to the Illawarra Mercury.
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