Morning Mail: Labor group’s alarm at US military in Australia; food price warnings amid El Niño; and Radiohead return

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. While the government has defended the growing presence of the US military in Australia, the Labor Against War group is urging it to chart a foreign policy independent “from the American war machine”.There are warnings the impacts of the predicted record-strength El Niño weather event could spill into supermarket aisles by increasing food prices for Australian households already struggling to make ends meet.‘Chart a new course’ | After revelations US military and weapons manufacturers control or have access to more than 100 bases across Australia, Labor Against War is urging the government to move its foreign policy away from “fading guarantees of the past”.El Niño impacts | The most severe El Niño weather event on record threatens to push food prices higher this year, experts say, piling pressure on households already grappling with a cost-of-living crisis.Baja trial | The alleged killers of Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, and their American friend Jack Carter Rhoad, at a Mexican surfing hotspot in 2024 have gone on trial in Baja California.Stolen Generations | Indigenous Australians who were forcibly removed under assimilation policies have far greater physical and health challenges than the wider Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, a report reveals.Parliamentary scrutiny | Top bureaucrats want the government to ban video footage from parliamentary hearings being edited and shared on social media, in a bid to stop online ridicule and abuse.Everything in its right place | British band Radiohead will return to Australia to play a series of 16 shows in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney next year, marking the band’s first tour of the country in 15 years. Continue reading...