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Morning everyone. Donald Trump has doubled down on his outlandish suggestion about taking over the Gaza Strip by telling reporters that “everybody loves” the idea. That doesn’t quite tally with our reporting. Sam Kerr has told a court in London that she was treated differently by police because of her skin colour, Labor is trying to toughen up anti-hate laws, and why Coles is going to dump 2,500 products.
Parliament is back: how much for the long lunch?
Political reporter Dan Jervis-Bardy tells Nour Haydar what’s on the government’s agenda leading into an election year.
Parliament is back: how much for the long lunch?
This year’s election will swing, just like so many others round the world last year, on the cost of living and whether people feel better off or not than they did when they last voted. It’s one of the reasons Labor are struggling in the polls but, as our columnist Greg Jericho argues today, the government has done much to tame the inflation demon without getting much credit.
Five years after the black summer fires, Rachel Mounsey, a photographer and Mallacoota resident, revisits those who lost their homes and much more in the devastated Victorian town. One of them, Christy Bryar, pictured, says: “We are still talking about the fires every day and having to explain every day why we aren’t in our house yet. People move on at different rates but until we have a home, we can’t put the fires in the past.”
A man’s body has been found after a fire on Chapel Street in Melbourne’s St Kilda, the ABC reports. Also on the ABC overnight, New South Wales rail workers are planning more industrial action from next Wednesday. The Financial Review says drivers are still sceptical about EVs despite steep price cuts. And a small team of Australian scientists will see their drug to treat river blindness go into action after they short-circuited the big pharma pathway, the Age reports.
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