Good morning. China’s foreign minister is urging Australia to approach the diplomatic relationship anew. A new poll shows female voters continuing to drift from the Coalition. And a major investigation has shed new light on one of Silicon Valley’s most famous exports.
A leaked trove of confidential files has revealed the inside story of how the tech giant Uber flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion. The unprecedented leak to the Guardian of more than 124,000 documents – known as the Uber files – lays bare the ethically questionable practices that fuelled the company’s transformation.