Good morning. Queen Elizabeth II has been laid to rest alongside her husband at Windsor Castle after mourners bid farewell in a state funeral decades in the planning and watched around the world. Back in Australia the government is facing a massive class action over the alleged unlawful exclusion of over-65s from the national disability insurance scheme. And Donald Trump has made arguably his most visible display to date of a growing alignment to the far-right QAnon group.
Queen Elizabeth II has been laid to rest in Windsor Castle after a grand state funeral. King Charles, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex were among those who marched solemnly behind her coffin as it was slowly drawn through London past hundred of thousands of mourners from all over the world. Here are the best pictures of the key moments.
Australians are divided over whether King Charles III should be the country’s head of state, with the latest Guardian Essential poll suggesting a 50-50 split between those who support the new UK monarch and those who do not. The survey of 1,075 people, taken after Queen Elizabeth II’s death, gives little hope to the republican cause as fewer than half of the respondents (43%) support Australia becoming a republic – a figure that has barely moved over the past five years.
The Australian government is facing a massive class action – predicted to be on the same scale as the robodebt debacle – for the alleged unlawful exclusion of over-65s from the national disability insurance scheme. The case, proposed by Mitry lawyers, could see the commonwealth on the hook for an estimated $800m a year for denying support to seriously and permanently disabled people based on their age.
Donald Trump made one of his highest-profile embraces to date of the extremist conspiracy group QAnon at a political rally in Ohio, making the apparently deliberate choice to play music that is virtually indistinguishable from the cult organisation’s adopted anthem. Trump delivered a fiery address to the background of a song his team insisted was a royalty-free tune from the internet, but to many ears it was nearly identical to the 2020 instrumental track Wwg1wga.
Australia
Labor is being urged to axe nearly $2bn in handouts to fossil fuel developments that the Parliamentary Budget Office found were promised under the Coalition but have not been contracted.
New South Wales taxpayers will feel “rightly dudded” by the sale of an ageing coal-fired power station that likely netted the private owners hundreds of millions of dollars in profit, critics including the state opposition have said.
Qantas has stopped offering vegetarian meals on some domestic flights, leaving one irate traveller to suggest it is a further sign the airline is in decline.
The housing crisis, cost-of-living pressures and language barriers are prompting university students to turn to “contract cheating”, where bespoke essays and assignments can be bought online, experts say.
The world
Ukraine has recaptured a village close to the eastern city of Lysychansk, in a small but symbolic victory that means Russia no longer has full control of the Luhansk region, one of Vladimir Putin’s key war aims.
Most of Puerto Rico was still without power or safe drinking water on Monday, with remnants of a category 1 hurricane that struck there a day earlier forecast to bring more heavy rain and flooding.
Feminists and anti-domestic violence campaigners in France have reacted angrily after politicians jumped to the defence of an MP who admitted slapping his wife.
A judge has ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed’s conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee – a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast Serial.
Researchers have located fresh craters on Mars using shock waves caused by lumps of space rock as they tear through the sky and slam into the ground.
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Sport
Rugby Australia has written to the sport’s global governing body to reiterate concerns about refereeing, after the Rugby Championship test against New Zealand in Melbourne was tarnished by a contentious time-wasting decision.
Media roundup
The Liberal party will hold off on releasing its federal post-election review until after the Victorian state election in November, in a move designed to avoid any potentially damaging public revelations before the poll, the Brisbane Times reports. The AFL has made a major shift in player trading this year, officially allowing clubs to “salary dump”, or trade out players on big contracts for minimal draft return, according to the Age.
Coming up
A public hearing will be held on the Australia-UK free trade agreement. The 2022 Asia‐Pacific ministerial conference on disaster risk reduction will be held in Brisbane.
And if you’ve read this far …
From a spider cameo and to Tindall’s medals – here’s the best social media reaction to the quirky side of the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
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