Morning Mail: ‘Mind blowing’ El Niño forecasts, smoking hits record low, and where did the AFL’s Steves go?

A BoM map showing areas with a chance of unusually high temperatures from now until October. Illustration: Bureau of Meteorology

Morning everyone. The forecasts coming out of the Bureau of Meteorology’s climate models in the coming months are “mind blowing” and “astounding” as they predict the newly formed El Niño could make 2027 the hottest year ever.

We look at how the killings of two women and two girls in Australia last week show that there is so much more to do to tackle domestic violence, and that we keep failing to learn important lessons.