Morning, everyone. First it was delayed by the Coalition’s climate wars, then the actual war in Ukraine. But a UN-backed mission has finally declared that the Great Barrier Reef should be placed on a list of sites in danger – more than a year after the Morrison government succeeded in persuading the world heritage committee not to do so.
As the final parliamentary week of the year builds to a possible censure of a former prime minister, Anthony Albanese is riding high, according to our latest poll. And media organisations have come together to urge the US not to prosecute the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange.