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Good morning. A fake eyelash remover has been removed from sale on Amazon and was banned from parties during Sydney WorldPride after its use as a party drug emerged. Guardian Australia understands that police confiscated revellers’ bottles of the product, which was being used like the drug GBL – a precursor to GHB – and could be sold under a loophole that allows for industrial use.
Elsewhere, Vladimir Putin visits the wreckage of Mariupol in occupied Ukraine, the Swiss government has brokered a deal to save Credit Suisse by selling it to UBS amid fears for the stability of the global banking system, and Dominic Perrottet tells our reporter why he risked his career on gambling reforms.
Australia
Party drugs | “Be mindful that this source of GBL has caused some overdose incidents,” warned the Aids Council of New South Wales of a cosmetic product that was banned from the WorldPride festival after its use as a party drug was revealed.
Super showdown | The Coalition’s superannuation changes in 2017 will ultimately affect three times as many people as Labor’s new package, according to figures compiled by the Albanese government.
NSW election | Dominic Perrottet explains why he put his career on the line over cashless pokies in an interview with Guardian Australia’s Michael McGowan. There were “moments of weakness” when he felt he would fail, the premier said. Meanwhile, the ACT plans to move on sports gambling ads.
Iraq war | The defence minister, Richard Marles, says opponents of the Iraq war have been vindicated and any decision to engage in armed conflict should be better debated and scrutinised. The story is part of a Guardian series reflecting on the war 20 years after it began.
Workplace fears | Half of all migrant workers in Australia feel unsafe at work, experiencing discrimination, bullying, and verbal abuse, while 58% experienced wage theft, new research has found.
World
Ukraine war | Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to the occupied Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for him on war crimes charges. Here’s how Ukraine’s “kidnapped” children led to his arrest warrant.
Banking crisis | The Swiss government has brokered a deal for UBS to buy its banking rival Credit Suisse, amid fears the latter’s failure would trigger more instability in a nervous global banking system.
Donald Trump | The Manhattan district attorney widely expected to bring an indictment against Donald Trump this week vowed his staff would not be intimidated after the former US president called for his supporters to protest any action against him.
Climate crisis | The world must step back from the brink of climate disaster to save the people of the Pacific from obliteration, the prime minister of Samoa urged, on the eve of a landmark report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which is expected to deliver a scientific “final warning” on the climate emergency.
French pensions | The French government will face a no-confidence vote tonight, as MPs said they feared for their safety, strike action intensified and police banned demonstrators from parts of central Paris after Emmanuel Macron’s decision to push through an unpopular rise in the pension age.
Full Story
The BBC’s spectacular own goal
A tweet by Gary Lineker led to his suspension by the BBC and set off a weekend of chaos in its schedules. Now with a truce agreed, the Guardian’s Archie Bland talks to Michael Safi about whether it can hold – as well as on lingering questions remain about the BBC’s attitude to impartiality and to whom those rules apply, and the corporation’s relationship with the Conservative government.
In-depth
The creeping dread some of us feel at the end of the weekend – known as the “Sunday scaries” – is a real phenomenon, according to researchers, who found the effect particularly pronounced among people who frequently checked their emails during the weekend, had tasks left over from the previous week, and had unreasonably high expectations of themselves. André Spicer writes that the solution could lie with healthy boundaries between home and work.
Not the news
A Florida man answering a knock at his front door was promptly bitten by a 9ft long alligator when he opened it to see who was there. Scot Hollingsworth was not expecting the visitor. “It was just total surprise and shock,” he said. “I suspect I surprised the alligator as much as he surprised me.”
The world of sport
Australian cricket | Mitchell Starc ripped through India’s lineup with five wickets to lay the platform for a crushing 10-wicket Australia win in the second one-day international in Visakhapatnam.
Formula One | Sergio Pérez won the Saudi Arabian GP with Verstappen second. Here’s our live report.
AFL concussions | Gary Ablett Sr, one of the greatest players in AFL history, spoke of his concerns that he has suffered brain damage from concussions during his on-field career.
Media roundup
Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming is set to be expelled from the party over her involvement in an anti-transgender rally which was attended by neo-Nazis, the ABC reports. The Sydney Morning Herald highlights cases of 82 Australian children whose parents say they have been abducted by their former spouses in Japan, in some cases with years of no contact. And vulnerable psychiatric patients are being intubated in Australian hospitals and during medical flights because of increasing pressure on mental health services, according to an investigation by NT News.
What’s happening today
Election countdown | It’s the last week of the NSW election campaign with pre-polling now open. These are the big issues, and here are the key dates and how to vote.
Budget statement | The NSW Parliamentary Budget Office is due to issue a final budget impact statement showing all the costed policies and a summary of their net total financial impact.
Extradition case | Former US military pilot Daniel Edmund Duggan, who once worked in China as a flight instructor and now faces extradition to the United States over unknown charges, will appear in court.
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Brain teaser
And finally, here are the Guardian’s crosswords to keep you entertained throughout the day – with plenty more on the Guardian’s Puzzles app for iOS and Android. Until tomorrow.
