Morning everyone. The Liberal party last night chose a management consultant called Simon to contest the byelection in Scott Morrison’s former seat of Cook – missing a chance to boost its relatively small number of women MPs. We have the full story, plus how we are further away from eradicating fire ants than we were five years ago.
Overseas, the US supreme court says Donald Trump was wrongly removed from the Colorado primary ballot, and there’s been an historic vote in France.