Hamas accept ceasefire, police sack First Nations advisers, Australia’s heaviest oyster

‘You wouldn’t eat her’ | Bernie Connell, an oyster farmer from Batemans Bay in southern New South Wales, has spent ten years nurturing Jill, Australia’s heaviest oyster, who weighs in at 3kg. But he says she’s not for consumption.

Gag doubt | The Queensland police service has sacked a formal advisory group of First Nations community leaders and elders, six weeks after the group refused to sign a gag clause.

Poll backing | Voters have indicated strong backing for government intervention to counter online harm, including enforcing age verification for pornography, gambling and social media, according to our latest Essential poll.

Jewish fears | Jewish students are afraid to go to class amid pro-Palestinian campus protests, their peers allege, as the education minister comes under growing pressure to condemn the encampments. With a resolution up before the general assembly this week, Australia’s government may soon have to decide where it officially stands on Palestinian statehood.

Knife crackdown | Police will be able to scan people for knives without a warrant in crowded places under new laws being developed by the New South Wales government after stabbings at Bondi Junction, Wakeley and Coffs Harbour.

Gaza ‘bloodbath’ warning | Hamas says it has accepted a ceasefire proposal in three phases, with the first stage featuring an Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swap. Israel is under huge pressure to accept a ceasefire from western governments led by the US, amid widespread fears that an attack on Rafah could be a “bloodbath”. As thousands of desperate Palestinians earlier streamed out of the city to seek shelter elsewhere, France said Israel would be committing a war crime under international law if it sought to forcibly displace Palestinian civilians. Follow the developments live.

Ukraine loss | The weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko, who finished fourth in the 85kg light-heavyweight category at the Rio Games in 2016, has become the first Olympian to die in the war in Ukraine. Russia has ordered nuclear drills in response to what it called “provocative remarks” by the UK and French governments.

Trump warned – again | The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial held him in criminal contempt for the 10th time and warned he could face jail for continued violations of a gag order. The trial itself heard evidence on how Trump signed the cheques to his alleged “fixer”.

Sunak hope | The UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has said the general election result is not a “foregone conclusion” despite disastrous local election results and the Tories struggling to close the gap with Labour in the polls.

A new angle | Two American students who found a new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry – which mathematicians for generations thought was impossible – have now uncovered more such proofs.

Premier League | Ange Postecoglou has reinvented Tottenham Hotspur, but four straight defeats leaves the Australian coach under pressure, while David Moyes will leave West Ham at the end of the season. On the pitch, Crystal Palace are hoping to continue their good run at home to Manchester United this morning.

Cycling | Belgian sprinter Tim Merlier raced to victory in the third stage of the Giro d’Italia after race leader Tadej Pogacar had threatened to steal a march on the sprinters.

Boxing | Japan’s Naoya Inoue bolstered his claim as the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter when he came off the floor to retain his undisputed junior featherweight championship with a technical knockout of Luis Nery.

Economy | The Reserve Bank makes its announcement about interest rates at 2.30pm.

Sydney | Sentencing for a man who placed a fake bomb on a car flying a Palestinian flag.

Victoria | The state budget is handed down in Melbourne.

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