Morning everyone. Our top story today focuses on One Nation – we look at the party’s recent financial reports and find they raise questions about its fitness to govern.More US strikes on Iran appear to be imminent after Donald Trump accused Iran of playing the US “for suckers”, thousands of Australian women face uncertainty about obtaining vital breast cancer and endometriosis medicine and, with less than a day before the starting whistle in the World Cup, our writers have a stab at picking the winner.AustraliaAsio’s headquarters in Canberra. Photograph: AAP
Spying U-turn | Labor has quietly backed down on moves to make spy agency Asio’s powers for compulsory questioning permanent, but will expand offences covered by the rules to include promotion of communal violence and attacks on Australia’s defence system.
Revealed | One Nation’s financial returns, obtained by Guardian Australia, are “sloppy and unprofessional” according to an accounting expert, and raise questions about the party’s fitness to govern. In more than six years of filed financial reports, the party reported more than $1m in missing and worthless assets. It has not filed annual returns since 2022.
Zoladex questions | Thousands of women could be left without vital breast cancer and endometriosis medicine when AstraZeneca removes its treatment from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and the private market, experts warn.
