Morning Mail: following One Nation’s money trail; UK investigates suspected bomb plot; and legal help for NSW sexual assault survivors

Good morning. In episode three of The Populist podcast, out today, senior correspondent Sarah Martin follows the money to find out why former insiders have accused the party of losing donations and lax financial oversight.

Meanwhile, a new programme is being launched in New South Wales to help survivors of sexual assault navigate the complexities of the legal system as they seek to have their abusers brought to justice.

Elsewhere, UK authorities are investigating a suspected bomb plot after explosives were found on vans near an airbase used by the US military. And, we look at the impossible juggle facing millennial mothers.

Australia

• Survivors’ support | A dedicated service to provide free support to help sexual assault victim-survivors navigate the “very isolating” legal system as they seek justice is being launched in NSW.

• Exclusive | One Nation’s general manager, Kelvin Morton – brought in by the party to improve its vetting processes – referred to David Farley as an “asshole” just days before Farley won the historic Farrer byelection for the party in May.

• AI threat | Ageing computer systems used throughout Australia’s government and economy are easily exploited by AI agents, Australia’s former chief UN cyber negotiator has warned.

• ‘There’s always a risk’ | Australia’s educational institutions find themselves confronted with a fork in the road. Is using AI for marking a welcome aid for overworked staff or a sloppy shortcut?

• Rates hike looms? | The Reserve Bank is poised to hike the cash rate to 4.6% this week, which could drag down house prices and add more than $100 to typical monthly mortgage repayments.

• Analysis | In the face of celebrity anger, the UK government backtracked on plans to let AI firms use copyright-protected work without permission. Now they have a warning for Australia.

In Australia, domestic and family violence counselling is available from Full Stop Australia on 1800 385 578.

World

• Suspected bomb plot | Counter-terrorism police are investigating whether Iran is behind a suspected bomb plot after explosives were found on vans parked near a UK airbase used by the US military.

• War debris | Gaza’s aid workers face the delicate task of scouring millions of tonnes of rubble concealing up to 10,000 bodies and unexploded Israeli bombs, in one of the largest clearance operations in history.

• Orange Order march | There is a tense standoff over a loyalist march in Northern Ireland as protesters blocked the contentious parade route; the standoff shows Northern Ireland’s troubled past still threatens its peace.

• ‘Hell on earth’ | Ukrainian forces are airdropping supplies to Russian-occupied Oleshky, where residents eat weeds to survive and bodies are left to be eaten by dogs because of the deadly threat of drones.

• Middle East crisis | Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations said the US rejected Iran’s proposal to end the ongoing war because Iranian negotiators “were asking for everything upfront”.

• Peru search | Loved ones of a missing Australian trekker, Jordan Yap, who was last seen nearly two weeks ago on a remote South American hiking trail, are urging local authorities to help with the search.

Full Story

The Populist: Money nation | Episode 3

One Nation receives millions in public funding, but former members have accused the party of leaving candidates out of pocket, “funny-money deals” and letting donations get “lost in the system”. When senior correspondent Sarah Martin followed the money, she discovered even those on the inside are asking questions about accountability, and why some are saying that the man brought in to improve the system might be making it worse.

In-depth

Millennial mothers are more educated, more employed and more engaged in childcare than the generations before them. Faced with an impossible juggle, within minutes of meeting one another on the sidelines of football games, at daycare drop-offs and pickup from afterschool care, they pepper each other with questions. How are you doing it? What balls do you drop? Why does it feel like this?

Not the news

In the latest of our Kindness of Strangers series, we hear from a reader who found herself with her three-year-old son waving as hard as possible at a coastguard helicopter as it flew past. Instead of carrying on up the coast, the helicopter suddenly looped and came back around. It then circled around them, with both pilots waving and mouthing “Hi!” from the cockpit – leaving the small boy beside himself with joy.

Sport

• AFL | Brisbane’s AFL dynasty is built on sheer talent, a loyal coach and their love of a dire situation, Jonathan Horn writes.

• Cricket | South Africa power to an ODI series win as Australia’s middle order struggles again in Johannesburg.

• Rugby union | The Wallabies held off the world champion Springboks in Perth, leading Jack Snape to explore the four minutes that lasted a lifetime as the Aussies won an all-time chaos classic.

• Rugby league | Penrith’s Nathan Cleary has suffered a compound fracture in the NRL preliminary final against Newcastle.

• Football | Tony Pulis says he and Stoke were “cheated” in 2011 FA Cup final after the Manchester City verdict.

• Motorsport | Lando Norris has been targeted by online abuse after calling for Franco Colapinto F1 ban.

A clinical director at St Vincent’s hospital asked a Sydney court to stop sending people accused of crimes to their overwhelmed emergency department, the Sydney Morning Herald reveals. The federal government is facing pressure to approve an experimental sea lion vaccine to help combat the H5 bird flu threat, ABC News says. An award-winning botanist has called the axing of his Tasmanian Herbarium role “insane”, the Mercury reports. International students are exploiting Australia’s student visas system through “course hopping”, according to the Advertiser.

What’s happening today

• NSW | The trial of murder-accused Beau Lamarre-Condon is set to continue in the supreme court of NSW.

• NSW | Hearings are set to continue in a lawsuit against Rebel Wilson over the alleged blocking of a film’s release.

• TAS | A three-day special hearing is set down in Hobart for Nicolaas Bester over the alleged online harassment of Grace Tame.

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