Good morning. A new Guardian Essential poll suggests that only one-third of Australian voters want a treaty, truth-telling commission or Indigenous voice. It comes as Anthony Albanese faces heat over his decision not to push ahead with a makarrata commission despite funding being set aside for it in the budget.
There are calls for stricter regulations targeting nutritional quality and deceptive labelling after a study found that no baby or toddler foods in Australian supermarkets meet World Health Organization standards.
Eight years out from the Brisbane Olympics we take a look at eight athletes who might pull on the green and gold to compete on home soil. And: a new discovery has scientists raising new hope of finding life on Mars.
Australia
Infant nutrition | Not a single baby or toddler food product stocked in Australian supermarkets meets standards set by the World Health Organization, a study has found.
Guardian Essential poll | Just one-third of voters want a treaty with Indigenous Australians, a truth-telling commission or a legislated Indigenous voice, according to new polling data.
Exclusive | Some patients who fall seriously ill or die from common respiratory viruses have abnormally high levels of a crucial enzyme, new Australian-led research has found.
Victoria | A Melbourne lawyer, John O’Brien, received 15% of a former client’s estate and obtained more than $250,000 from a will he urged a cognitively impaired 91-year-old to sign, tribunal finds.
Defamation trial | The Liberal senator Linda Reynolds believed Bruce Lehrmann’s rape trial was politically motivated and Peter Dutton undermined her, a psychologist’s notes have revealed.
World
Online safety | The tech billionaire Elon Musk should face the threat of arrest if he is found to have incited UK rioters on his social media platform, a former Twitter executive has said.
Middle East crisis | Hamas says one Israeli hostage has been killed and two others injured in Gaza; the US is deploying a guided-missile submarine to the region as Israel prepares for a likely retaliatory attack by Iran; the US will resume sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia.
US politics | The New York Times says it has received hacked Donald Trump campaign documents; a former Republican House speaker has urged Trump to “stop questioning” the size of Kamala Harris’s crowds.
Life on Mars? | Vast amounts of water could be trapped deep within the crust of Mars, scientists have said, raising fresh questions about the possibility of life on the red planet.
Russia invaded | Ukraine’s borderland refugees have praised their country’s incursion into Russia, with a widespread feeling that the attack is a justified form of defence.
Full Story
Higgins v Reynolds: a very political defamation trial
Senator Linda Reynolds is suing Brittany Higgins in the supreme court of Western Australia over social media posts. The former minister’s legal team claims that after Higgins alleged she was raped in Parliament House, she and her now husband, David Sharaz, cast Reynolds as the “villain” and damaged her reputation on social media. But Higgins’ legal team says this case is about the power discrepancy between a then 24-year-old with limited job security and the minister for defence. Sarah Basford Canales discusses the trial with Hannah Parkes.
In-depth
The report from parliament’s inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and children is due this week, and for one Bourke family it’s another step on a long road for police accountability. Cindy Smith, a Wangkumara girl, and her cousin Mona Lisa Smith, a Murrawarri and Kunja girl, were both killed in a car crash in 1987. A drunk, white predator survived. Family members are still seeking justice for the girls after a decades-long struggle to discover the truth about the crash – and the investigation into it.
Not the news
Justin Kurzel’s film Ellis Park, about the Bad Seeds and Dirty Three musician Warren Ellis and the animal sanctuary he founded in Indonesia with the activist Femke den Haas, is richly cinematic. The Australian auteur was never going to direct a paint-by-numbers talking heads fest. Instead, Guardian Australia’s film reviewer, Luke Buckmaster, finds that this documentary – much like its subject – moves to the beat of its own drum.
The world of sport
Olympics | Jack Snape shares eight Australian athletes to watch, eight years out from Brisbane 2032; Rachael “Raygun” Gunn continues to break out moves as officials condemn online mockery.
Football | Julián Álvarez leaves Manchester City for Atlético Madrid in club-record sale; Chelsea’s chaos threatens to destabilise another season, writes Jonathan Wilson.
Cycling | The Dutch rider Charlotte Kool sprints to victory in stage one of Tour de France Femmes.
Rugby union | The wounded Wallabies will be forced to rebuild on the run after the Springboks exposed their flaws.
Media roundup
Three rare plants and an iconic whale species are on their way back from the brink of extinction, reports the Mercury. Sydney councils spent more than $23m on legal action in the land and environment court last year amid claims some developers are “jumping the queue”, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
What’s happening today
ACT | Bill Shorten will give an address to the National Press Club, speaking about government services in the next decade.
ABS | The latest wage price index figures are to be released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
NT | Yipirinya school’s principal, Gavin Morris, is to appear before an Alice Springs court charged with five counts of aggravated assault.
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Brain teaser
And finally, here are the Guardian’s crosswords to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow.
