Monday, November 7, 2016

Morning Mail: US election live, including Australia's guide, Labor support at highest levels since Turnbull PM, Naomi Klein rebukes Coalition on Q&A


View in browser
Guardian Australia's Morning Mail
Tuesday 8 November 2016
g
Trump calls FBI 'disgraceful' on final day of campaign

 Donald Trump on stage in Sarasota, Florida. With less than 24 hours until election day, the Republican is on a whirlwind schedule of swing states. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Good morning, and welcome to the Morning Mail. Sign up here for our Guardian Today email, sent every day at noon, and you can sign up to our new Guardian Australia sport email here.

Among the stories leading our website this morning is the latest from the US presidential election as the hours count down to voting day. On the final day of the campaign, Donald Trump has called the FBI 'disgraceful' for clearing Hillary Clinton's emails again. Find all the news on our home page, today's US election live blog below, and get live presidential election results right on the lock screen of your Guardian app in an innovative new alert format from the Guardian.

Keep reading for the rest of the top stories this morning, with more news from around Australia and the world.

Headlines

Labor support jumps to highest level since Turnbull became PM, Newspoll shows
The Coalition trails the ALP 47-53 on two-party preferred basis, while Malcolm Turnbull still performing poorly on satisfaction and preferred PM rating

US election: Trump and Clinton in tight race on campaign's final day – live
Follow live updates on the final day in the US presidential campaign

Q&A: Naomi Klein criticises Institute of Public Affairs over climate interventions
Writer says the rightwing thinktank is the 'foremost organ in Australia for spreading climate change denial and doubt'

Australia's guide to the US election: everything you need to know
US-born Guardian Australia columnist Kristina Keneally on red, blue and – yes – purple states, how the electoral college works, and when we'll find out who's won

Australian unions call for 'just transition' from coal-generated electricity
ACTU seek federal body to manage move to a clean energy economy and to support workers and communities that rely on fossil fuel-related jobs

Australian news and politics

Pauline Hanson damages Australia's standing in Asia, Penny Wong to warn
The shadow foreign minister will use a speech to say that One Nation's 'monocultural myth' must be rejected

Labor proposes to further tighten superannuation tax concessions
Bill Shorten says changes, including lowering the annual cap on non-concessional contributions to $75,000, would raise $1.4bn over four years

Marriage equality plebiscite bill voted down in Senate
Labor, Greens and Xenophon senators combine to condemn the plan for a popular vote to history

Drug dealers cut friend's head off with chainsaw and kept it in ute, Perth jury told
Gary David Jackson accused of murdering Wade Dunn, who was allegedly lured to the home of Mark David Corbett under the pretext of collecting a drug debt

Rod Culleton and Bob Day referred to high court – as it happened
The Senate starts debating the plebiscite bill as cartoonist Bill Leak meets MPs to talk about Racial Discrimination Act. As it happened

Ken Wyatt 'leaning towards' supporting a review of section 18C
Comments by the Liberals' only Indigenous MP about rethinking the controversial Racial Discrimination Act will be seized on by conservatives

Pauline Hanson agrees Rod Culleton's eligibility case should go to high court
Hanson essentially cuts loose her One Nation senator by supporting the referral of his eligibility to be validly elected

Around the world

Hong Kong pro-democracy politicians banned by China as crisis grows
Beijing makes landmark ruling on future of former British colony, barring two pro-democracy parliamentarians from office

Glossary of graft lays bare Mexico's lexicon of corruption
Corruption is so endemic it has generated a vocabulary of its own. A new book, the Corrupcionario Mexicano, hopes to make people stop seeing it as normal

Top French offices stop work in support of gender pay gap protest
Institutions including Paris City Hall stop work amid spontaneous demonstations to highlight wage disparity between men and women

Daniel Ortega poised for third successive term as Nicaraguan president
Former guerrilla wins 70% of vote in early counting as opponents hit out at 'family dictatorship'

Janet Reno, first female US attorney general, dies aged 78
One of the highest profile figures of President Clinton's presidency, whose tenure included the Waco raid and Lewinsky scandals


One last thing

 Naomi Klein with her son Toma and John Rumney from the Great Barrier Reef Legacy project

Climate change is intergenerational theft. That's why my son is part of this story Naomi Klein: by including Toma in my film at the Great Barrier Reef I want to show how environmental disasters are creating a lonely world for our children.Watch our exclusive Guardian film with Naomi Klein, Under the Surface, where the writer and environmental campaigner travels with her son,to see the impact of coral bleaching caused by climate change. Have an excellent day and if you spot something I've missed, let me know on Twitter at @earleyedition.
The Guardian
 
Get more Guardian emails
Manage your email preferences

One-click unsubscribe
You are receiving this email because you are a Guardian Australia's Morning Mail subscriber.

Guardian News & Media Limited - a member of Guardian Media Group PLC. Registered Office: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9GU. Registered in England No. 908396

No comments:

Post a Comment