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.AustraliaThe inaugural Unpackit Award for Australia’s worst packaging went to a plastic–metal hybrid drinking vessel. Photograph: Unpackit Awards
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.
