Morning everyone. Angus Taylor’s big moment arrives today, as the opposition leader steps up to deliver his first budget reply speech. He’s expected to outline a plan to restrict the number of people coming to Australia by how many houses were built the previous year. As the budget wash-up continues, we ask whether it spells the end of “rent-vesting”.
Overseas, Donald Trump has arrived in China for his summit with Xi Jinping, and another cruise ship is in quarantine (this time it’s norovirus).
Plus, the Stella prize has its first non-binary winner, and the NFL is coming to Melbourne.
Australia
‘Elegant artistry’ | The Melbourne-born writer Lee Lai has become the first non-binary person and first graphic novelist to win the Stella prize after her book Cannon was praised for its “elegant artistry”.
Immigration plan | The Coalition will directly link Australia’s temporary immigration intake to the number of new homes built around the country, using housing completion figures as a hard ceiling for overseas arrivals.
Prison death | A 19-year-old man has died in a unit at Sydney’s Long Bay prison that an independent watchdog previously recommended be closed because it “simply cannot provide a safe environment”.
Palestinians ‘excluded’ | Palestinian voices are being excluded from the debate on social cohesion, the peak body for Palestinians in Australia has said after it was refused leave to appear before the royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion.
Rugby union | Japan have suspended their head coach, Eddie Jones, for four games and cut his salary for “verbal abuse directed at local officials” during a Japan under-23 team tour of Australia last month.
World
Trump landing | Donald Trump has landed in Beijing, the first visit to China by a US president in nearly a decade, as he seeks to mend power and prestige weakened by the war in Iran. On the streets of the Chinese capital there is tight security and wariness about Trump’s visit.
Streeting challenge? | Allies of the UK health secretary, Wes Streeting, have said he is preparing to stand down from the cabinet and mount a formal challenge for Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership as early as tomorrow. Another contender, Andy Burnham, has told Labour MPs they should hold the line and that he has options to return to parliament.
Docked in France | French authorities have confined more than 1,700 passengers and crew members to a cruise ship docked in Bordeaux after an outbreak of suspected norovirus, officials have said.
Low bid | The fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low, a central figure in the multibillion-dollar scandal at the state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad, is reportedly seeking a pardon from the US president, Donald Trump.
Senate shots | Gunshots have been fired in the Philippine senate, as a senator who is wanted by the international criminal court remained holed up in the building to evade arrest.
Full Story
Will renaming PCOS lead to better care for women?
Assistant science editor Donna Lu speaks to Nour Haydar about why polycystic ovary syndrome has been renamed polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome – or PMOS – in the hope it will reduce confusion and lead to better care.
In-depth
Young Australians will find it more difficult to benefit from “rent-vesting” after the budget, according to some experts, and loans might become harder to come by. And while the rhetoric of the era-defining budget might not match the reality, our economics editor judges that it will make the tax system fairer.
Not the news
Art critics love to fulminate against the “deliberately bad” portraiture of the Archibald prize. But as decision time comes around again, Dee Jefferson surveys the finalists and the rejects and concludes there is something “beautifully daggy” about it all.
Sport
Basketball | As he receives a top sports award in Victoria, Dyson Daniels reflects on his breakout NBA season, missing three-pointers, and Matthew Dellavedova’s investment tips.
NFL | The San Francisco 49ers will play the Los Angeles Rams at the MCG on the morning of 11 September as part of an expansion of gridiron to Australia and several other countries.
Football | Hearts could win their first league title for 66 years if they beat Falkirk this morning and Celtic slip up at Motherwell. In the Premier League, Manchester City must beat Crystal Palace.
Media roundup
The Australian gives a voice to wealth managers who are condemning the budget for “entrenching socialism”, while WAtoday reports on how investors are braced for falling property values after Jim Chalmers’ tax changes. The Sydney Morning Herald says the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, is calling for an overhaul of tobacco excise after the federal budget revealed a $62bn collapse in revenue from legal sales.
What’s happening today
Business | Judgment at federal court in Melbourne in ACCC v Coles over allegedly fake discounts.
Politics | Angus Taylor makes his budget reply speech in parliament at 7.30pm.
Sport | Women’s State of Origin game two.
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