Morning everyone. Iranian attacks on shipping in the strait of Hormuz have ratcheted up the stakes in the Middle East conflict and prompted a massive release of oil reserves. And a preliminary investigation has reportedly determined that the US was responsible for a deadly February strike on an Iranian school that killed scores of children.
At home, the royal commission into antisemitism and the Bondi attack has suffered a blow after former spy chief Dennis Richardson quit the inquiry two weeks after it started. Plus how government subsidies are encouraging fossil fuel use, an exclusive on senators calling for an inquiry into “overt” racism in parliament, and the forgotten “genius” of Australian art.
