Morning Mail: Coalition’s lowest-ever poll rating; homeowners reel after rate hike; and a Socceroos thriller

Morning everyone. Weeks of discussion about tougher immigration rules appears to have damaged rather than benefited the opposition as our latest Essential poll shows Angus Taylor’s Coalition languishing on its lowest-ever primary vote.

Senior Greens figures say the party’s new leader will have to take the fight to the government on fossil fuel expansion, we talk to homeowners who fear being squeezed by the latest interest rate hike, the Socceroos go down fighting against Brazil, and Thunderbirds are go, again.

Australia

• Greens gambit | The former Greens leader Adam Bandt says the party’s new leadership team, which could be chosen as early as today, will face mounting pressure from grassroots members to block the Labor government from approving any new coal and gas projects “by whatever means”.

• Exclusive | The Coalition has failed to capitalise on growing criticism of the Albanese Labor government, with the opposition stuck at its lowest-ever primary vote of 22% in the Guardian Essential poll – down four points from last month despite a tough few weeks for the prime minister.

• Imam ‘concerns’ | Australia’s peak body for imams says it is “deeply concerned” about reports a Melbourne-based Islamic preacher called for followers to “take up arms against his enemies” and not take “Jews and the Christians for friends”.

• ‘Credible risks’ | The government has conceded it implemented the “world-leading” under-16s social media ban before there was scientific consensus on the link between mental health harms and social media use, but argued the “credible risks” about addictive behaviours and anxiety justify the policy.

• ‘Theatre of the absurd’ | After 10 weeks and allegations likened to a “three-tentacled octopus”, the NSW anti-corruption hearings into political donations have finished. Penry Buckley looks at what has been achieved.

World

• Burnham pledge | Andy Burnham has promised a new “long-term” relationship with the EU in an emotional UK Labour conference speech in which he also confirmed the end of guaranteed above-inflation increases for state pensions and floated the possibility of electoral reform.

• French clashes | French teenagers blockading their schools in protest at class sizes, teacher shortages and long timetables have clashed with police, as politicians traded verbal blows over how to respond.

• Saudi price | Saudi Arabia is being urged to reconcile with the United Arab Emirates over Yemen as the price Riyadh must pay to form a military alliance capable of driving the Houthis back.

• Bill blocker | A Republican senator has blocked a bipartisan bill that would have prevented Donald Trump from demolishing the Kennedy Center without the approval of Congress.

• ‘Love letter’ | A JMW Turner painting of Rome that has been described as his “great love letter” to the city and has fleetingly returned there after almost 200 years is expected to set a new record when it goes up for sale in December.

Full Story

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In-depth

The latest increase in interest rates will pile financial pressure on households across Australia. Sydney man Shane McClymont tells Achol Arok he’s worried he can’t afford his son’s upcoming birthday dinner, while Ann Mureithi, a mother of two from Pakenham, south-east of Melbourne, says she feels like “there’s a threat waiting for me”.

Not the news

More than 60 years after the first episodes were made, Thunderbirds remains an incomparable piece of TV, writes Paul F Verhoeven, with the Tracy brothers’ famous futuristic vehicles, Parker and Lady Penelope, and a bewildering array of sets and plots.

Sport

• Football | Australia lost its second friendly against Brazil 4-2 in Brisbane last night but the scoreline masks the ups and downs of an open and often fiery encounter that saw the Socceroos leading 2-1 before being pegged back. There’s Nations League action under way in Europe, including Czechia v England and Spain v Croatia.

• NRL | Newcastle’s run to the grand final is a great moment for their veterans like Tyson Frizell and youngsters like Fletcher Sharpe, writes Jack Snape.

• Premier League | Manchester City’s chief executive has said the guilty verdicts against the club for breaches of financial rules – confirmed overnight – are based on a “conspiracy theory”. Wayne Rooney says City should not be stripped of its titles, but Jonathan Liew thinks the case shows how the mega-rich think they can act with impunity.

The Sydney Morning Herald claims researchers at Monash was discovered a new form of antibiotic resistance which could be the “ultimate superbug”. Closed theatres and empty beds are among the problems plaguing Melbourne’s new $1.5bn hospital in Footscray, according to the Age. A Knights rookie, Diesel Hagan, could become the first player in NRL history to make his debut in a grand final, the Newcastle Herald claims. Grampians Health doctors will strike again tomorrow over unsustainable working hours, fatigue and threat to patient safety, the Ballarat Courier reports.

What’s happening today

• Economy | Monthly inflation and housing approval figures released at 11.30am

• Brisbane | National Press Club address by Queensland treasurer David Janetzki

• Rugby league | The NRL’s Dally M Awards in Sydney starting from 6pm

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