Good morning. With the loss of the outer east Melbourne electorate of Aston in Saturday’s byelection, the Liberal party now holds just 14 of 79 federal urban seats. It has led to renewed calls for a strategy overhaul and raised questions about Peter Dutton’s leadership – including from the former PM Malcolm Turnbull, who says the party must move back to centre. But he’s warning that doing so will prove difficult. Polling shows support for the Coalition has fallen again.
Elsewhere, Russia’s most influential pro-war blogger has been killed in a St Petersburg bomb blast, and the Oscar-winning musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has died aged 71.
