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Morning, everyone. Police have said “10 or so” people have been killed and at least five others wounded in a campus shooting in the southern Swedish city of Örebro, in what Sweden’s prime minister has described as the worst mass shooting in the country’s history.
Amid a scramble by Australian officials to reorientate policy in the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, Kevin Rudd seemed to sum it up best. “Interesting times. Too interesting,” he said in an email which is part of FoI cache obtained by our reporters.
The full story is coming up, plus the latest on the Sam Kerr trial, what Australians really think about migration and the definitive corn chip taste test.
Australian imports allegedly linked to Uyghur forced labour in China
Our chief investigations correspondent, Christopher Knaus, tells Nour Haydar how goods have been imported into Australia from companies blacklisted in the US for alleged links to the forced labour of Uyghur people.
Australian imports allegedly linked to Uyghur forced labour
Residents in Townsville have been allowed back to their homes after two days in makeshift centres set up as the town faced being inundated after days of torrential rain. But they tell Joe Hinchliffe they know they were lucky this time – they “dodged a bullet” in the words of Queensland’s premier, David Crisafulli – after a downpour that Sonia Pollock (pictured) says “came from nowhere”.
What makes a good corn chip? Given Australia’s predilection for pre-prandial platters, this is a key question. Jess Ho crunches through the evidence to find the best brand available in our supermarkets.
The Courier-Mail has a further dispatch from “inside the Ingham armageddon” after the flood-hit north Queensland town was left without electricity and facing a shortage of diesel and groceries. A Sydney council will spend $20,000 on a two-night workshop at the luxurious Hydro Majestic hotel in the Blue Mountains, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. And despite her legal troubles, Sam Kerr is on track for a Matildas return but, asks the Age, will it be as captain?
