Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletterGood morning. Today we reveal how organised online networks are “gamifying” violence and encouraging self-harm, targeting children in games including Roblox and Minecraft. With cases before the courts in Australia and around the world, experts want parents to know the warning signs.We’re also reporting on how Seven pitched a Spotlight show about “uncontrolled immigration” to Pauline Hanson, Iran says it is in “full-scale war” with the US again, and Andy Burnham promises to be the UK “circuit-breaker” as he moves into No 10 and picks his new cabinet.Hanson ‘pitch’ | A Seven producer urged Pauline Hanson to travel to Britain to meet Nigel Farage and film a Spotlight special highlighting so-called “uncontrolled immigration”, according to a pitch posted to social media by the One Nation leader.Tax system ‘rigged’ | A new tax rate for the highest income earners, introducing wealth and inheritance taxes and extracting more revenue from gas companies form part of a new leftwing manifesto circulating before the Labor party’s national conference.‘One in 15 million’ | A 34-year-old woman from Brisbane has defied the odds and delivered naturally conceived, identical quadruplets in what is believed to be an Australian first.Exclusive | Australian researchers have found that antibiotic resistance – when bacteria are no longer killed by antimicrobial medicines – has increased in every region of the world.Down slope | Alpine ski resorts in New South Wales and Victoria saw climate records shattered on the weekend with maximum temperatures up to 12C above average. Continue reading...
Source: The Guardian Australia
