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Morning Mail: Woolworths increased prices during ‘freeze’; Abbott weighs in on Hastie cartoon; and turning the algorithm off

A woman walks holding a Woolworths shopping bag
Woolworths’s ‘Price Freeze’ is under scrutiny. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

Good morning. Woolworths raised prices for popular items – including a 33% mark-up on chicken fillets – within days of promising to freeze prices on 300 “family staples” for three months to help customers with the cost of living.

Tony Abbott has joined in widespread condemnation of an “offensive” cartoon posted on social media by One Nation. And our reporter Caitlin Cassidy explores what it’s like to turn the algorithm off.

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