Morning, everyone. After so much discussion of super reforms, we’re launching our coverage of International Women’s Day with a report flagging the huge difference in lifetime pay and retirement balances between women and men. Elsewhere, Lidia Thorpe says lawyers acting for her former party the Greens made her say she was dating a former bikie boss.
Overseas the UK government has announced a rather familiar-sounding “stop the boats” policy preventing people arriving from across the Channel by boat from claiming asylum. And, on the lighter side of things: we investigate why desserts are turning purple.