Morning Mail: One Nation election finances face scrutiny, Trump’s new Iran threats, why your super already invests in AI
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Good morning. One Nation’s finances are in the spotlight as we reveal that the Australian Electoral Commission is examining whether the party breached laws in its public funding claim after the last election.
Overseas, Donald Trump has again threatened Iran with devastation as escalating strikes undermine the truce. And mortuaries are being overwhelmed in Venezuela as the quake death toll rises.
In the World Cup, the round of 32 is underway. And in cricket, Ben Stokes has marked his retirement test in style and Australia have dumped rivals India out of the Women’s T20 World Cup in spectacular fashion.
Australia
AI boom | Unbeknownst to most Australians, AI technology stocks are a growing part of their retirement savings – now making up as much as 12% of most balanced super funds.
The Agenda | It’s the last week of parliament before the winter break, and not a minute too soon. But, Josh Butler writes, Labor may make one more gamble in their push for reform.
Explainer | A bump to minimum wage, a change to how often superannuation is paid and more paid parental leave days are among changes coming into effect on 1 July.
Eyes in the sky | Shark-spotting drones will fly from dawn to dusk throughout the year at 70 beaches in NSW under an expanded $34m monitoring program aiming to restore confidence to beachgoers.
Feeling the heat | Poland, Czechia and Slovakia are braced for record temperatures of over 40C as a heatwave linked to hundreds of deaths in western Europe spreads east.
Skydiving tragedy | A skydiving plane has crashed after falling suddenly near an aerodrome north-eastern France, killing all 11 people onboard, according to the region’s prefect.
World Cup
Socceroos latest | Marketing stunts, murals and bandwagon-jumping politicians point to one thing: Australia is invested in football (for a few weeks at least), Jack Snape writes.
Meet Cathy Tie: serial entrepreneur, self-described “Biotech Barbie”, and the woman aiming to revolutionise reproduction by using Crispr to edit human embryos. But, as Jenny Kleeman tells Helen Pidd, all is not quite as it seems.
In-depth
The Victorian Greens’ idea for a new land tax bracket on investment property holdings worth more than $5m is straight out of the Zohran Mamdani playbook. State leader Ellen Sandell says her party offers a “hopeful and bold” alternative for voters – but will it combat rising rightwing populism?
Not the news
As a teenager in the mid 2000s, Billy Bain would ride waves around Sydney’s northern beaches, having travelled the world watching his champion surfer father. But he was often made to feel an unwelcome outsider. For a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Dharug artist has made sculptures that represent a counter-image to the bronzed Aussie beachgoer.
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