Morning. It passed a stack of new laws last week but the Albanese government is in election peril if our latest Guardian Essential poll is anything to go by. Voters are underwhelmed by Labor’s performance in the two critically important policy areas of housing affordability and improving wages.
We’re also reporting on the father who complained to Spotify about his children being exposed to gambling ads, the News Corp “scoops” on gas-fired power, some Democrats turning on Joe Biden for pardoning his son, and there are renewed hostilities between Lebanon and Israel less than a week after the ceasefire began.
