Morning Mail: Coalition don in polls, global cyber attack Monday, Macron inaugurated as French president

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Guardian Australia's Morning Mail Monday 15 May 2017 g Global ransomare attack not over yet Good morning, and welcome to the Morning Mail. Among the stories leading our website this morning: Health and security chiefs have warned of possible fresh disruption from a global ransomware attack when workers switch on their computers for the first time at the start of the working week. The ransomware cyber-attack, which may have originated from the theft of "cyber weapons" linked to the US government's National Security Agency, hobbled hospitals in England as more than 45,000 attacks in 99 countries were recorded on Friday. The ransomware wreaked havoc on organisations including FedEx and Telefónica, as well as the UK's National Health Service, where operations were cancelled, X-rays, test results and patient records became unavailable and phones did not work. The cyber-attack is estimated to have hit more than 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries, including Australia. An "accidental hero" halted the global spread of the unprecedented ransomware attack by registering a garbled domain name hidden in the malware, but warned the attack could be rebooted. The anonymous hero is a 22-year-old self-taught computer expert known as Malware Tech. Keep reading for the rest of the top stories this morning, with more news from around Australia and the world.

Headlines Coalition budget fails to deliver gains as Labor takes six-point lead in Newspoll • Ipsos and Newspoll surveys put Labor on 53% and Coalition on 47% • Turnbull increases lead over Bill Shorten as preferred PM in Newspoll 'They'll get rich and go': Glencore's McArthur River mine could take 300 years to clean up Locals are divided on proposals to extend mining at the Northern Territory site for another 20 years. Jobs are available – but Indigenous groups living downstream say it will poison their land Show of military might as Emmanuel Macron is inaugurated as president France's new leader promises to rebuild nation's self-confidence and relaunch European Union as he takes power Dion Lee's show echoes opera house at opening of Australian fashion week Designer takes influence from Utzon's sails in a collection that covers all the bases Labor using NDIS and Medicare levy 'to play politics', disability groups say Disability Advocacy Network says levy already paid as a proportion of income and political games won't help scheme Australian news and politics Soaring female Indigenous imprisonment rate obstructing Closing the Gap targets, says report Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are the fastest growing segment of the prisoner population, report finds Housing affordability: Bill Shorten accuses Coalition of releasing 'contaminated' land Scott Morrison says release of former defence land in Melbourne is proof Coalition serious about affordable housing US far-right figure Mike Enoch says he will visit Australia for nationalist conference DingoCon, run by rightwing group the Dingoes, which calls itself 'politically-incorrect larrikins', announces host of The Daily Shoah podcast will speak Deaths in custody: second man dies at Canberra jail in less than a year Police investigating death at Alexander Maconochie Centre and a coronial inquest will be held Scott Morrison admits banks will find 'any way they can' to make customers pay for tax Treasurer acknowledges he cannot guarantee banks won't pass on the $6.2bn tax in budget to customers 'It's public housing or my car': Longriver and the caravan park residents facing homelessness Wantirna caravan park residents say the developer is driving out hundreds of people who previously had stable housing Cardinal George Pell accused of sexually abusing two choirboys, book claims Vatican's financial chief, who has always denied wrongdoing, faces fresh allegations of abuse, relating to his time as archbishop of Melbourne Around the world China's Xi lays out $900bn Silk Road vision amid claims of empire-building Global leaders attend 'Belt and Road' infrastructure summit to praise plan Xi Jinping says will bring a new 'golden age' of globalisation Merkel's Christian Democrats set to beat rivals in German state election North Rhine-Westphalia vote is blow to Social Democrats' Martin Schulz, Merkel's rival in upcoming national poll James Clapper: democratic institutions are 'under assault' by Trump Former national intelligence director hammers the president's actions, calling James Comey's firing 'another victory for Russia' Emmanuel Macron races to train would-be MPs France's new president has promised to field candidates from his new party – En Marche! – in all but one of the country's 577 constituencies – and he is 148 short Austrian chancellor expects snap election this year Christian Kern says poll likely due to fracturing coalition, raising prospect of far-right Freedom party entering government

One last thing Great Australian photographs: Something More by Tracey Moffatt – an audio essay The fourth instalment in our audio-visual series on celebrated Australian photographs. This week we look at the cinematic works of Tracey Moffatt Have an excellent day and if you spot something I've missed, let me know on Twitter at @earleyedition.

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