Morning everyone. Anthony Albanese will dangle a big childcare subsidy to voters today in his government’s latest bid to wrestle the cost-of-living beast to the ground.
Plus: the Israeli military said it had struck most of the strategic weapons stockpiles in Syria in the past 48 hours, as well as two Syrian navy facilities. Back home, Peter Dutton has copped flak from a former CSIRO director for “politicising” the agency, and police had to intervene when an entire taxi rank refused to take metered fares – because they wanted to charge more.
