Morning mail: Frydenberg faces citizenship drama Friday: Energy minister says claims he is a citizen of Hungary are 'absurd'. Plus: LNP revives controversial youth justice policies Energy minister Josh Frydenberg says his family was stateless when they arrived as refugees from Hungary. Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian Graham Russell @G_J_Russell Good morning, this is Graham Russell bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Friday 3 November. Top stories Cabinet minister Josh Frydenberg has dismissed as "absurd" speculation that he is a dual citizen of Hungary, saying his family were stateless when they arrived in Australia after the second world war. Responding to a report in the Australian that he may have the citizenship by descent, the environment and energy minister said his grandparents and mother were stateless refugees when they arrived in Australia. Under Hungarian law, anyone born in the country between 1941 and 1945 is automatically a citizen, in a bid to address the plight of stateless Jews who fled the Holocaust, the newspaper reported. Frydenberg's mother was born in Hungary in 1943 and arrived in Australia with her parents when she was seven after spending time in a refugee camp. It came as constitutional experts warned that even taking reasonable steps to renounce foreign citizenship might not be enough to escape disqualification. This interpretation of the court's unanimous decision leaves MPs who made applications to renounce their citizenship but whose renunciation was not processed or confirmed until after nomination vulnerable to challenge. A judge in Madrid has ordered eight members of the deposed Catalan government to be remanded in custody pending possible charges over last week's declaration of independence. Spanish prosecutors are now seeking a European arrest warrant for the region's ousted president, Carles Puigdemont, who is in Brussels. He had been summoned to attend Spain's national court to give evidence on Thursday and Friday. A judge at Spain's national court jailed the eight former ministers – including Puigdemont's deputy, Oriol Junqueras – while they are investigated on possible charges of sedition, rebellion and misuse of public funds. A ninth, who resigned the day before the Catalan parliament voted to declare independence, was granted bail. Despite the Newman government suffering the biggest swing against it in Queensland's history, the LNP is not afraid to give some of its policies a rerun. Queensland's Liberal National party has ignored previous warnings of breaching the United Nations convention on rights of the child by vowing to again scrap the principle of jail as a last resort for repeat youth offenders. The LNP would also restore "name and shame" provisions and enforce a blanket 10pm curfew on children in Townsville while lobbying the federal government to cut youth payments to parents of children in detention. The derision of academic research by tabloid newspapers in Australia risks undermining the industry's capabilities, the head of the Group of Eight, which represents elite universities, has warned. This week the education minister, Simon Birmingham, announced the rollout of long-mooted plans to make the $3.5bn in funding that the Australian Research Council dishes out each year more focused on "impacts". The Daily Telegraph has labelled some academic projects as "nutty", a response that Vicki Thomson, the Group of Eight chief executive, said risked undermining the value of basic research. Archaeologists have uncovered a mysterious enclosure hidden inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It is the first major structure found in the pyramid since the 19th century. The cavity stretches for at least 30 metres and lies above the grand gallery, a corridor that connects the Queen's chamber to the King's in the heart of the historic monument. It could have similar dimensions to the grand gallery but the role it played remains unclear. Sport Former Australia opener Justin Langer has called on his fast bowler Nathan Coulter-Nile to "inflict a few early psychological scars" on England in the opening tour match at the Waca this weekend. The Western Australia coach urged Coulter-Nile, who is bidding for an Ashes place at the Gabba, to worry England's batsmen and make a name for himself. Susan Alberti's patronage of women's football, as well as her tenure as vice-president of the Western Bulldogs, are just two examples of a life led trailblazing in a man's world. "When I was made to stop playing I was so angry, frustrated and upset," she tells Guardian Australia. "There was nowhere for me to go. But it came about [later in life] that I was in a position to truly make a difference. I'm an action person and I love solutions." Thinking time Humanoid Robot 'Sophia' at the UN in 'conversation' with with UN deputy secretary-general Amina Mohammed. Photograph: Lohr-J/REX/Shutterstock The technology of robots grows ever more advanced. We know that almost half of our jobs will cease to exist within the next 20 years. Other reports suggest that AI and robots could replace 6% of US jobs in the next three years. These numbers revive old social terrors worsened by the present employment instabilities, writes Van Badham. "When our Australian workplace is already so denuded of protections, anxiety around automation is valid and understandable. But what's telling in the debate around robots and jobs is the discourse is framed in the manner of a fait accompli – as if the mere capitalist desire to squeeze literally the last remnants of humanity from its workforce is enough to make it so." She says we can beat the robots – with democracy. If you are inside the "alt-right" information bubble, you might be anticipating the start of a civil war this Saturday. Since late September, the idea has been swirling around on social media and leading conspiracy media outlets that anti-fascist groups will begin a violent insurrection tomorrow. Some websites say antifa groups are "planning to kill every single Trump voter, Conservative and gun owner" this weekend. The number of Facebook posts on this issue shows how seriously consumers of such media are taking the news. But antifa groups have no plans to protest that day, and the small leftist groups who are planning protests have only dubious connections to the antifa movement. So what gives? Britain's disgraced defence secretary has claimed the sexual harassment incident that cost him his role were more acceptable 15 years ago – but what defines this "different era" in people's minds? It depends on how the human brain perceives and processes a sense of time. And it's way more fluid and chaotic than you might think. Many things can alter it, like emotions, age or doing things that are particularly stimulating. It can also be determined by events in the world around us, and it is fair to say that society can undergo some fairly rapid shifts in relatively little time. What's he done now? The US president has doubled down his call for the New York attack suspect to receive the death penalty, a move legal experts say could jeopardise his wishes at a future trial. "Making a broad statement that he deserves the death penalty before he has stood trial is something that absolutely influences jurors – this is coming from the most powerful person in the United States," said Anna Cominsky, a law professor at New York Law School. "It's very disappointing and it's not how the system works. I think the legal community is surprised and it's this particular comment that's alarming." Media roundup The Age reports that dozens of teachers are being investigated over what a union says are "innocuous" incidents such as telling a student they don't know how to use a dictionary or letting pupils mention body parts in a sex education class. They are being reported under a scheme intended to address child abuse but the Independent Education Union says an "overabundance of caution" is distracting from what the scheme is meant to be doing. The ABC has a story on what might be appropriately called drone stalking. It says a group of women on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula are being harassed by a drone filming through their windows at night. "I feel violated, feel it's intrusive and feel scared," said one woman. The Courier-Mail wins today's award for mentioning the word "bludgers" on the front, revealing plans by the Greens to create four public holidays to honour Naidoc, International Women's Day, national parks and State of Origin's game III. The headline is "Federal bludgers' day off" and uses the font reminiscent of Matthew Broderick's only good film, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Coming up As asylum seekers on Manus Island finish their third night with no running water or electricity in the now officially closed detention centre the final hearing on the detainees' $70m class action settlement will be before the court in Melbourne. Approval is being sought to begin distributing the payments. 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