Morning Mail: Endangered turtles ‘at risk’ from gas drilling; Jacinda Ardern’s Sydney job; and Star Trek actor dies

Morning everyone. Our exclusive top story reveals that the environment watchdog has warned about the threat to coral and wildlife posed by Woodside’s plan to develop a gasfield off the Western Australian coast – piling pressure on state and federal ministers to reject the project.

Jacinda Ardern will start lecturing in leadership and social cohesion at the University of Sydney this week, Australians have been warned to prepare for outages to online services, all you need to know about today’s election in Israel, and why Anthony LaPaglia fell out with Quentin Tarantino.

Australia

• ‘Thoughtful teacher’ | The former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern will lecture and mentor at the University of Sydney from this week, focusing on empathic leadership, social cohesion and civic trust based in the university’s school of public health.

• Exclusive | Woodside Energy’s plan to drill for gas off Western Australia’s north-west coast could significantly damage “exceptional” coral reefs and it may be impossible to reduce the risk of an oil spill to an acceptable level, according to advice from the state’s independent environmental watchdog.

• Security warning | Australians should prepare for more basic and important online services to go offline unexpectedly, the Australian Signals Directorate has warned, urging that “system security must be prioritised over system availability”.

• ‘Vindictive’ attack | The Queensland government has been accused of using public money in a “vindictive” attack on one of its chief critics after it stripped funding from a 45-year-old community legal centre for children.

• Fatal floods | A man’s body has been found in flood waters in Queensland after an unusual weather system that delivered multiple storms and a days-long deluge to parts of the country.

World

• ‘Democracy always’ | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has vowed that dictatorship and fascism will never return to Brazil after winning a historic fourth term in power by defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro. We look at how the power of the streets and social media helped him to victory.

• Brexit fail | Brexit has not “played out” like it was promised, has weakened the economy and the current deal is not good enough, the UK prime minister, Andy Burnham, has said, but adding that “the British public are the bosses”.

• Serbia | Serbia’s triumphant but untested Student List movement is preparing to start talks on forming a government capable of reversing 14 years of increasingly authoritarian nationalist rule after a seismic weekend election win.

• Anthropic listing | Anthropic has filed for a public listing on the US stock market with the projected valuation of more than $1.5tn expected to make it one of the largest in market history.

• Star Trek | Walter Koenig, the actor known for playing Pavel Chekov throughout the Star Trek franchise, has died, his representative confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter. He was 90.

Full Story

Will Australia ever get Snowy Hydro 2.0?

Our climate and environment editor, Adam Morton, talks to Reged Ahmad about the long, expensive wait for Snowy Hydro 2.0.

In-depth

The most consequential election in Israel’s history will be held on Tuesday. Our correspondent in Jerusalem, Emma Graham-Harrison, explains what’s at stake, what the polls are saying, and who can and cannot vote under the country’s electoral system.

Not the news

In his juicy new memoir, Anthony LaPaglia opens up about why he doesn’t like his home city of Adelaide (“bad energy”), his love of cocaine (“the Gollum of drugs”), falling out with Quentin Tarantino (“I don’t think he was used to being turned down”), and confronting Harvey Weinstein (“It’ll catch up with you sooner or later”).

Sport

• Cricket | As the third Test starts today in Cape Town, former Australia player Usman Khawaja has revealed why he kept the rheumatoid arthritis that threatened his playing future a secret for his entire Test career.

• Football | Michael Carrick has been at Manchester United’s training ground as elsewhere club chiefs deliberated on whether to sack the head coach. Jonathan Wilson explains why a horse is at the root of Manchester United’s problems.

• Tennis | More than 150 doubles players on the men’s ATP tour have signed an open letter addressed to the ATP board imploring the governing bodies to reconsider their controversial doubles reforms and “protect” the format.

The Sydney Morning Herald says James Packer will testify in the Benjamin Netanyahu alleged corruption case. The Fin Review claims that David Jones is “minutes from midnight”, while the Geelong Advertiser reports on more retail pain with Market Square down to just one tenant on its second level. A group dubbed the “Antarctic Avengers” has protested against Norway’s krill harvesting industry as a Hobart hotel hosts an international conference, the Mercury reports.

What’s happening today

• Technology | CEDA AI leadership summit in Sydney from 7.30am.

• Melbourne | Ben Carroll and Jess Wilson speak at a Victorian election forum at the Melbourne convention and exhibition centre from 12pm.

• Arts | Adelaide festival program is launched at 6.15pm.

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