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Martin Farrer

Morning Mail: Matildas surge into last 16, Ashes drawn, reef threatened but not ‘in danger’

Hayley Raso (second left) celebrates with her Matildas teammates after scoring her second goal on Monday night.
Hayley Raso (second left) celebrates with her Matildas teammates after scoring her second goal on Monday night. Photograph: Joel Carrett/EPA

Morning everyone. Phew. The Ashes may have been merely retained, but the Matildas are still on track to enter Australia’s sporting pantheon after they progressed to the knockout stages in fine style. We’ve got news and reaction to the football – and the cricket as Australia lost the final Test to draw a pulstating series 2-2. Away from the sporting world, UN advisers say the Great Barrier Reef remains under “serious threat”, the nation waits for the Reserve Bank’s latest rates decision, and how Australian law influenced a landmark murder case in Cyprus.

Australia

UN scientific advisors noted Labor’s legislation on net zero emissions but said the Great Barrier Reef needed further protection from the climate crisis.
UN scientific advisors noted Labor’s legislation on net zero emissions but said the Great Barrier Reef needed further protection from the climate crisis. Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images
  • Reef reprieve | UN scientific advisers have recommended the Great Barrier Reef not be placed on a list of world heritage sites “in danger” but stressed the planet’s biggest coral reef system remains under “serious threat” from global heating and water pollution.

  • Yes ‘failing’ | The yes campaign for the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum is outspending voice opponents on social media, but has been criticised for failing to counter the no camp’s more targeted tactics.

  • Doctor’s orders | The peak body for training GPs is considering streamlining its system for approving medical graduates from overseas to help tackle the growing doctor shortage.

  • Seven order | Seven West Media chairman Kerry Stokes and his commercial director Bruce McWilliam have been ordered by a court to hand over thousands of emails exchanged with Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team and other documents relating to the soldier’s failed defamation action.

  • Rate split | Analysts are split over the prospect of another increase in the cash rate at today’s Reserve Bank monthly meeting today, amid fresh signs the property price rebound is losing steam.

World

A Penny store in Frankfurt. The ‘wahre Kosten’ scheme will cover all 2,150 German branches.
A Penny store in Frankfurt. The ‘wahre Kosten’ scheme will cover all 2,150 German branches. Photograph: Armando Babani/EPA/Shutterstock

Full Story

‘Ugly’ produce rescued by imperfect box delivery company Farmers Pick.
‘Ugly’ produce rescued by imperfect fruit and vegetable box delivery company Farmers Pick. Photograph: Nadir Kinani/The Guardian

Why ugly food can help save the planet (and your pennies)

Nick Evershed and Mostafa Rachwani look at why it’s not necessarily cheaper to shop at the big two supermarket chains, and food waste researcher Lukas Parker on how “ugly food” can save you money.

In-depth

David Hunter, second from left, with his defence team, right, and Michael Polak, the director of Justice Abroad.
David Hunter, second from left, with his defence team, right, and Michael Polak, the director of Justice Abroad. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

A British retired miner, David Hunter, has been sentenced to two years in prison for the manslaughter of his seriously ill wife in Cyprus but has been released from custody due to time already served. Lawyers for David Hunter used case law from all over the world – including Australia – to argue that he was not guilty of murder in a case that has forced the former British colony to confront euthanasia.

Not the news

‘It was all a bit of a farce really’: police shut down a screening of Larry Clark’s Ken Park, hosted by Margaret Pomeranz in 2003.
‘It was all a bit of a farce really’: police shut down a screening of Larry Clark’s Ken Park, hosted by Margaret Pomeranz in 2003. Photograph: EPA

Twenty years ago, Sydney police raided Balmain Town Hall and prevented the screening of the American film Ken Park, which had been deemed unfit for classification because of its sexual content. Simon Miraudo explains why the protest screening by revered film critic Margaret Pomeranz is a centrepiece of his book on film censorship in Australia.

The world of sport

Pat Cummins of Australia lifts the Ashes urn.
Pat Cummins of Australia lifts the Ashes urn. Photograph: Alex Davidson/Getty Images

Media roundup

There’s a generational split on immigration, the Australian reports, with a poll showing the over-55s favour cutting the intake. Commuters on Sydney’s troubled Bankstown line face a whole year of replacement buses while it is converted to take driverless trains, the Sydney Morning Herald says. Police in Tasmania have appealed for help in identifying the remains of 71 people kept in a facility in the state – some of them for decades – the Mercury says. Herald Sun sticks the boot into the Logies, calling it a “four-hour snoozefest” with “D-list celebrities in rented ball gowns to incoherent presenters to hapless has-beens”.

What’s happening today

  • Economy | RBA board meeting and rate announcement at 2.30pm.

  • Canberra | Northern Territory chief minister Natasha Fyles speaks at the National Press Club.

  • Darwin | A man and women are in court over the death of an Indigenous pedestrian.

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Brain teaser

And finally, here are the Guardian’s crosswords to keep you entertained throughout the day – with plenty more on the Guardian’s Puzzles app for iOS and Android. Until tomorrow.

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