Morning everyone. A tense day lies ahead as the world awaits the expiration of Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to accept his demands at 10am AEST today, with the US president threatening to destroy “a whole civilisation” if Tehran does not yield.
Former Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather says the party can use “progressive populism” to take on One Nation, government analyis has exposed the weakness of its own gambling ad reforms, and Kanye West has been banned from entering the UK.
Australia
‘Blood on your hands’ | An RMIT University student faces potential suspension over a video accusing the institution of being “complicit in genocide” in Gaza because of its defence and aerospace research centre’s ties to weapons companies.
‘Progressive populism’ | Max Chandler-Mather says the Greens can use “progressive economic populism” to win over Australians deserting the major parties for One Nation, as the firebrand former MP accused the political class of thumbing its nose at the concerns of everyday voters.
Gambling flop | The government’s plans to restrict gambling advertising will reduce Australia’s annual gambling expenditure by $62.7m a year – or just 0.8% – according to a government report which said a full ad ban would have had “a higher net benefit” but a large burden on media and sporting codes.
Pump priming | Anthony Albanese will fly to Singapore this week and spoke to the Chinese premier last night as the government mounts an international bid to keep fuel prices from rising.
Greste’s warning | A court case attempting to thwart animal activists from sharing covertly recorded acts of alleged animal cruelty has profound and grave consequences for press freedom, the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom’s Peter Greste has warned.
World
Moon shot | Nasa’s Artemis II astronauts have described the powerful emotion felt when soaring over the moon as they photographed impact craters, cracks and ridges and began their long journey home.
‘Civilisation will die’ | Trump warned that “a whole civilisation will die tonight” if Tehran does not accept his demands, amid a wave of bombing as Israel told Iranians their lives would be at risk if they used the country’s railways. Democrats reacted with outrage, but will bombing Iran “back to the stone ages” achieve any war objectives? Meanwhile, the head of the International Energy Agency has said the oil and gas crisis triggered by the blockade of the strait of Hormuz is “more serious than the ones in 1973, 1979 and 2022 together”.
West ban | The rapper formerly known as Kanye West has been banned from entering the UK and performing at the Wireless festival in July amid concern about his history of antisemitic remarks.
Meta investigation | A former worker at Meta in the UK is under criminal investigation on suspicion of downloading about 30,000 private Facebook images.
First Nation plea | A First Nation in Alberta has said that a separatist push for the province to secede from Canada is “consummately irresponsible and dishonourable” and should be shut down.
Full Story
The arrest of Australia’s most decorated war hero Ben Roberts-Smith
Ben Doherty speaks to Nour Haydar about the charges facing the Victoria Cross recipient, what we know about the arrest and what could happen next. In a separate analysis, Doherty looks at how the former soldier’s previous defamation trial presents the rare situation of there being hours of evidence of his alleged crimes already on the public record.
In-depth
Ahead of Sunday’s election in Hungary, our video team went to Budapest to see if this could be the end of Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian rule. JD Vance arrived in the country overnight to give a boost to Trump-loving Orbán, and accused the EU of trying to interfere in the poll. It also emerged that the Hungarian prime minister offered to go to great lengths to help Vladimir Putin, telling the Russian leader in a call in October that “I am at your service”.
Not the news
Alan Menken wrote the soundtrack for millennials’ childhoods with a series of animation scores, winning eight Oscars in the process. So the Disney composer has great stories to tell Dee Jefferson as he embarks on a live autobiographical solo show – A Whole New World of Alan Menken – in Australia next month.
Sport
Surfing | There are some new faces on the World Surfing tour this year – the children of competitors such as Connor O’Leary and Carissa Moore as the competition becomes family friendly.
Cricket | David Warner, one of Australia’s most decorated cricketers, will face court in Sydney next month after alleging blowing twice the legal limit in a random breath test on Easter Sunday.
Football | Follow the Champions League quarter-finals live as Real Madrid take on Bayern Munch and Sporting Lisbon entertain Arsenal.
Media roundup
A witness in one of Sydney’s biggest gangland murder trials has died suddenly, two months before the case returns to court, the Daily Telegraph reports. According to the ABC, severe Tropical Cyclone Maila is expected to cross the Cape York Peninsula from Sunday. There’s not one AFL player among Australia’s top 50 highest-earning sports people, the Age reveals. Canberra’s famous concrete bus shelters could be heritage-listed in a move to protect the bunker-like structures, the Canberra Times reports.
What’s happening today
Canberra | Nationals leader Matt Canavan will speak at the National Press Club.
Sydney | Alleged Bondi terrorist Naveed Akram is due in court at 2pm.
Arts | The Australian Book Industry awards shortlist is announced at 2pm.
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