Daughter’s plea to save father from Nauru, Kuwait airport hit, the Popovic ‘machine’

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. An Australian woman whose father faces deportation to Nauru after having his visa cancelled is pleading with the authorities to save him from a “final and lifelong punishment”. She tells us her story, which is also the subject of today’s Full Story podcast. Overseas, Donald Trump appears to have confirmed reports of a testy phone call with Israel’s prime minister, and Iran has attacked Kuwait airport. Diphtheria fear | A remote Aboriginal community at the centre of the Northern Territory’s diphtheria outbreak is struggling to cope with rising case numbers, with locals saying there is no hand sanitiser at the health clinic and limited information about how to avoid the disease or what to do if you test positive. Tariff threat | Australia is among dozens of countries facing a 12.5% trade tariff from the Trump administration for allegedly failing to prevent imports of goods made by slave labour. NDIS critique | Labor’s plans to slash social participation budgets for NDIS participants in half is “blunt and inequitable” , “underpinned by dubious logic” and could lead to “absurd” outcomes, an influential thinktank says. Burning issue | Australians are consuming more nicotine than they were eight years ago but are spending less, new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows , as 80% of the cigarettes smoked by the nation last year were cheaper illegal products. Clear road | Motorists who use medicinal cannabis may soon be able to drive on New South Wales roads without fear of a severe penalty as the Minns government announces long-awaited reforms. Continue reading...