Morning Mail: Harm risk in NDIS cuts, Trump confronts Netanyahu, unrecyclable ‘franken-can’ trashed

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here , and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletter Morning everyone. Barnaby Joyce told a crowd of anti-abortion activists in Sydney last night to “keep the fires burning”, and our Full Story podcast asks whether One Nation could be fuelling an abortion culture war. The Albanese government’s own NDIS advisory committee is raising the alarm over Labor’s plans to scale back the NDIS, we have a winner in the first annual awards for worst plastic packaging and Donald Trump reportedly had a quite sweary argument with Benjamin Netanyhau. Pack it in | A single-use plastic and metal drinking vessel which cannot be easily recycled and has been dubbed a “franken-can” has been given the dubious honour of the nation’s worst plastic packaging. Cigarette lighters that look like toys, gel blasters, flick knives and fake tongue studs are among the “frightening” number of unsafe and potentially banned products being sold to Australians on online marketplaces, a Choice investigation has found . ‘Material harm’ | The national disability insurance scheme’s proposed overhaul will cause “material harm” to Australians with disabilities, undermine its original intentions and hand unprecedented power to the health minister, the federal government’s own reform advisory committee warns. ‘Keep fire burning’ | One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce has joined pro-life campaigners to pile pressure on Nationals MPs to vote to criminalise some abortions ahead of a tight vote in New South Wales. Gas opening | Santos could begin new drilling for gas in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo basin within weeks after the Finocchiaro government granted approval for up to 12 wells. Surgeon suspended | The Queensland health ombudsman has suspended the registration of prominent surgeon Vahid Reza Adib – the partner of former premier Annastacia Palaszczuk – who was charged last month with rape . Continue reading...