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Morning Mail: PM hits the road in election blitz, Ukraine launches surprise offensive, drug resistance warning

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Good morning. Welcome to the first Morning Mail for 2025 – thank you for reading, we love having you with us. Today we lead with news the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is embarking on a blitz of battleground seats as he tries to build momentum ahead of this year’s election, having ended 2024 with a series of lacklustre poll results.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces have launched a surprise new push into Russia’s Kursk region with footage showing troops on the offensive.

And there’s renewed alarm over the rise of antimicrobial resistance around the world – amid warnings it could claim tens of millions of lives over the next 25 years.

Karima Hazim on how to cook for a crowd

Whether we like it or not, some of us will have to host friends and family at home this holiday season. Karima Hazim, co-author of cookbook Sofra: Lebanese Recipes to Share, takes Reged Ahmad through her essential hacks for putting on a spread to impress – without all the stress.

Victorians have long been known as the biggest devotees of the Sunshine Coast resort town of Noosa. But in recent years the Queensland coastal paradise has been grappling with traffic snarls, a population boom and rising rents – so why are these interstate tourists still clamouring to visit? Joe Hincliffe looks at how even in the face of overtourism and a housing crunch, Noosa continues to keep its magic.

In the latest of our Away with weekly interviews with prominent Australians about travel, the TV and radio presenter Zan Rowe reveals the pasta dish from a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Rome that took her to “heaven”, how she resets while on holiday, the destination that had her in tears every day, and a famed culinary region she’s keen to visit but hasn’t quite made it to – yet.

Soaring caravan park rates at some of Victoria’s most popular holiday destinations are putting camping out of reach for families, reports the Age. The botched launch of a new health records system in NT emergency departments has put patients at risk, according to the NT News. The largest mass digitisation of a natural history collection in the southern hemisphere has been completed at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney after five painstaking years, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Australian researchers say social media is driving the “explosion” in popularity – and increased risks – of Antarctic tourism, reports ABC News.

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