Morning everyone. Only three public hospitals in New South Wales are routinely providing abortions, according to new research from the University of Sydney revealed exclusively in Guardian Australia this morning. We have the full story, plus: the latest Essential poll, containing some good and bad news for Anthony Albanese and what’s going to be in the mid-year economic update later, as well as news on Bashar al-Assad, who says he wanted to fight on in Syria but was forced by Russia to evacuate.
