Morning everyone. The long-awaited ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war is due to begin later today and the first group of hostages should be released under the truce deal later tonight. At home, the Productivity Commission has answered the government’s request to design an affordable, accessible, high-quality, universal early education system. That’s our top Australian story but we’re also looking at how King Charles is using an ancient Latin concept known as bona vacantia to profit from the assets of dead citizens, the OpenAI program that staff feared could “threaten humanity”, and Australia lose a sensational T20 against India.
