Morning Mail: Victoria’s female MPs ‘on high alert’; Snowy Hydro’s $25bn bill; and Tour de France routes revealed

Victorian upper-house MP Georgie Purcell, whose region partly overlaps with Helen Haines’s federal electorate, was told by a constituent: ‘You should be scared.’ Photograph: Stuart Walmsley/The Guardian

Good morning. With just five weeks until the Victorian election, female MPs say they are “on high alert” over potential threats after the alleged attack on independent MP Helen Haines.

International students across Australia say they fear disruption to their lives as they are forced to navigate the impacts of Labor’s sudden visa changes.