Good morning. The US is reeling after the worst school shooting since Sandy Hook a decade ago. Australia’s foreign relations are looking up, but Anthony Albanese has some tricky economic problems to get into at home. Here are the headlines to lead you into the day.
America is still absorbing the shock of another bloody mass shooting, a day after an 18-year-old man wearing body armour and carrying assault rifles entered a primary school in Texas and gunned to death at least 19 children and two adults. The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, said at a press conference that the shooter had posted on Facebook three times before his attack. The rightwing Abbott has presided over a weakening of gun regulations in Texas, despite repeated mass shootings in the state. He was confronted by the Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke, who called out: “You are doing nothing. You are all doing nothing.” As the gun control debate rages on, the international press has responded scathingly.
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