Morning everyone. Coalition MPs groping for a way forward on net zero policy have been helped on their way by a slide presentation seen by Guardian Australia that argued “heat deaths are not a thing” and that renewables were unlikely to produce low-cost energy. Meanwhile, our monthly poll shows many more voters support a net zero target than not.
Elsewhere, Israel has ordered Gaza strikes after Hamas allegedly violated the ceasefire agreement, Hurricane Melissa has been called the “storm of the century”, the Matildas are in action against England – and the supermarket taste test is chocolate ice-cream.
