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Great Barrier Reef
Scientists have warned that the government’s plan for protecting the Great Barrier Reef does nothing to address the leading threat of climate change and is likely to prove largely ineffectual.
Ebola
The Abbott government is considering whether western-run hospitals in west Africa would be able to cater for Australian volunteers who contract Ebola.
Greens leader Christine Milne says the government is not doing enough to help and must stop dragging its heels.
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has praised exceptional healthcare workers and criticised the restrictions being placed on those returning to the US after treating Ebola patients.
The American nurse who had been placed in 21-day quarantine despite testing negative for the virus is to be released after being transferred to her home state of Maine.
We have an interactive map showing how the outbreak has spread.
Australian news and politics
• An asylum seeker who had an eye gouged and lost several teeth during unrest at Manus Island detention centre in February has written to the UN in a plea to receive proper medical treatment; he says he will lose his eye and is being kept from specialist care.
• 11-year-old Sydney girl Michelle Levy, who was found safe and well yesterday after two days missing, was looked after by an unknown man, her father says.
• Tony Abbott has urged a rethink of the GST as part of a wider debate over reforming federalism.
• Clive Palmer has called Campbell Newman “little Hitler” after a demand that his party supply Queensland’s electoral commission with a list of 500 members.
• Australia’s sportswomen will remain “second-class citizens” as long as women are poorly represented on sports governing bodies, a conference was told.
Around the world
• Prosecutors will appeal the verdict and sentencing of Oscar Pistorius, raising the prospect that his culpable homicide conviction could be upgraded to murder.
• The British prime minister has been “shoved by a jogger”, prompting a security review.
• Toronto is voting to replace Mayor Rob Ford, a bombastic figure who shot to international fame after revelations about his use of crack cocaine, and who dropped out of the race after announcing he had a rare form of cancer.
• Fake clown attacks have prompted a spate of vigilante anti-clown violence in France.
More from around the web
• Among the most read on the Guardian this morning: the extraordinary story of the big-eyed children, an epic art fraud in which Walter Keane made millions from art secretly produced by his wife Margaret.
• A man has been shot in the chest by Sydney police after a confrontation, the Daily Telegraph reports.
• Rupert Murdoch has warned of generational inequality and social polarisation in the wake of the GFC, the Australian reports.
• Goldman Sachs has warned that the worst is ahead for Australia and slowing jobs growth and inflation will take precedence over housing as a key concern, Fairfax reports.
• Labor MP Melissa Parke has broken ranks to defend the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions campaign against Israel, New Matilda reports.
One last thing
We’re on the hunt for spectacular design fails to compete with a British supermarket’s unique design for buttermilk.
Have an excellent day – and if you spot anything I’ve missed, let me know in the comments here or on Twitter @newsmary.
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