Good morning. The new federal attorney general has been asked to use his mercy powers for two wrongly convicted Indonesian children who spent years in maximum security prisons. The Scott Morrison’s secret ministries scandal rumbles on with legal experts warning a constitutional crisis could have been triggered. A new government plan would see big polluters forced to cut emissions. And many are feared dead after a huge explosion ripped though a mosque in Kabul.
Australia’s big polluting industries are likely to have to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by between 3.5% and 6% a year from next July under the Albanese government’s plan to respond to the climate crisis. The “safeguard” mechanism introduced by Tony Abbott’s Coalition government would be reformed to close loopholes that saw pollution and carbon emissions continue to rise.
