Morning Mail: Woolworths increased prices during ‘freeze’; Abbott weighs in on Hastie cartoon; and turning the algorithm off

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Politics, really newsletter. Good morning. Woolworths raised prices for popular items – including a 33% mark-up on chicken fillets – within days of promising to freeze prices on 300 “family staples” for three months to help customers with the cost of living.Tony Abbott has joined in widespread condemnation of an “offensive” cartoon posted on social media by One Nation. And our reporter Caitlin Cassidy explores what it’s like to turn the algorithm off.Brain freeze: The southern hemisphere’s only cryonics facility, Southern Cryonics, is selling people “a chance of life extension” for more than $200,000. Experts say there’s no way it will work.Woolies counter: Pricing data compiled by CW Scanner and provided to Guardian Australia shows the supermarket chain increasing the prices of at least four key products after starting its three-month “Price Freeze” promotion.Hastie takedown: The former prime minister Tony Abbott has called on One Nation to remove a cartoon labelling the Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie a “traitor” or accept that it’s playing a double standard.Granted: Anthony Albanese is under fire after an invite-only grant program allocated millions to marginal Labor seats and his old local golf club. What went wrong – and is this sports rorts all over again? Continue reading...