Good morning. A year since the Donald Trump administration abruptly slashed foreign aid funding, Australian charities still grappling with the impacts say the cuts have resulted in preventable deaths.

Closer to home, Anthony Albanese is set to push states over the looming gun buyback scheme prompted by the Bondi beach terror attack – despite staunch opposition to the plan from Queensland and the Northern Territory.

In international news, Donald Trump has warned Tehran that “time is running out” as a massive US naval fleet moves closer to Iran. And the US federal agents involved in the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have been placed on administrative leave.

AustraliaDespite Australia’s two-decade-plus volatile public fight over carbon pricing, the Superpower Institute expects its ‘polluter pays levy’ idea to be popular. Photograph: redbrickstock.com/Alamy

  • ‘Not radical, it’s fair’ | The government could make deep emissions cuts and restructure an ailing federal budget by taxing polluting companies for the damage they cause to the planet, new analysis claims.

  • Foreign aid cuts | A year ago, the Trump administration ripped billions of dollars from aid projects around the world. The loss of critical funding is having an ongoing effect on Australian aid groups.

  • Gun buybacks | Albanese will push the national cabinet to thrash out details of the looming gun buyback program on Friday – even as Queensland and the NT refuse to sign up. The government has also offered to delay the start of a $2bn scheme for early intervention autism services in a bid to secure an overdue deal at the national cabinet meeting from states on hospitals and disability funding.

  • Coalition breakup | Sussan Ley has said David Littleproud turned down her offer for last-minute peace talks ahead of parliament’s return next week, but the Nationals leader says a time will be scheduled after the party’s upcoming leadership contest.

  • Protests | Sources say the New South Wales government is considering further changes aiming to curtail protests in the Sydney CBD – as the premier, Chris Minns, points to the “unnecessary burden” demonstrations place on public safety.

  • ‘Not Writer’s Week’ | A grassroots group in Adelaide has scrambled to pull together an entirely new literary festival for the city in just two weeks after this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week was cancelled amid controversy.

WorldTrump has said the US fleet headed by USS Abraham Lincoln is larger than the fleet sent to Venezuela before the removal of Nicolás Maduro. Photograph: US NavyFull StoryA wild pure-bred dingo roaming the beaches of
K’gari. Composite: Leamus/Getty Images

How can humans and dingoes co-exist on K’gari?

A preliminary assessment has found that 19-year-old Piper James was bitten by dingoes before and after she died on the island K’gari, and that there was “evidence consistent with drowning”. Officials have ordered that the 10 dingoes linked to her death be euthanised. Graham Readfearn speaks with Nour Haydar about why the culling has sparked outrage – and what it means for the survival of the protected species.

In-depthThe inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, is reflecting on how to put power back into the hands of users. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Reuters

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989, his vision was clear: it would be used by everyone, filled with everything and, crucially, it would be free. Today, the British computer scientist’s creation bears little resemblance to the democratic force for humanity he intended. In Australia to promote his book This is for Everyone, he reflects on what his invention has become – and the “battle for the soul of the web”.

Not the newsWilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, a children’s story by Mem Fox, is part in Guardian Australia’s reader poll of the best Australian children’s picture books. Photograph: Scholastic Australia

Mem Fox’s 1984 picture book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, illustrated by Julie Vivas, is competing in our reader poll of the best Australian children’s picture book of all time. It’s about a boy called Wilfrid climbing through the fence to visit the aged care home next door. “I’ve read this picture book so many times,” Guardian Australia’s editor, Lenore Taylor, writes, “but only 25 years later with my dad in a nursing home do I really understand it.”

SportJannik Sinner during his Australian Open quarter final match against Ben Shelton. Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters

Renewable energy supplied more power than fossil fuels across Australia for the first time in a three-month period last quarter, ABC News reports. The Labor health minister who led the campaign to establish VicHealth 40 years ago has urged the Allan government to reverse its decision to scrap it, the Age reports. And the Daily Telegraph reports that a fundraiser to repatriate the bodies of two men who drowned in a NSW river to India gathered more than $100,000 in a single day.

What’s happening today

  • Sport | All the action continues at the Australian Open in Melbourne.

  • Diplomacy | Anthony Albanese continues his official visit to Timor-Leste.

  • NSW | An inquest into death of a teen pilot who crashed a plane in his first solo flight continues in Lidcombe.

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