Morning everyone. Our exclusive top story this morning is that Indonesia’s ambassador requested a meeting this week with Australian government officials as a row between the major parties about a potential Russian military base in the east of the country engulfed the election campaign.
We also have an exclusive survey showing most Australians are hostile to nuclear power on their doorstep; Trump says Ukraine’s president is jeopardising what the US president claimed was an imminent peace deal with Russia; and a photographer is turning outback mining “skimpy bars” into art.