Budget looms | Labor has found more than $2bn in budget savings as it spruiks its record in cutting and redirecting former Coalition government spending to fund its agenda. So, what do we know so far?

‘Not on our watch’ | Environment organisations have abruptly suspended advertising campaigns attacking the Coalition’s plan to introduce nuclear power – to instead fund ads accusing Anthony Albanese of signing “the death warrant” of an endangered species.

Track and feud | Queensland will soon announce its third 2032 Olympic stadium plan in four years, with a vision of a new 60,000-seat venue near Brisbane’s inner city. Will this be the plan that sticks?

Measles risk | Experts say Australia could become “fertile ground” for measles to take hold if the disease is brought into the country amid outbreaks in the US and south-east Asia.

Methanol deaths | An alcohol safety campaign targeting young travellers will be launched next month, as the families of Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles – who died after drinking tainted alcohol while in Laos – continue to seek answers.

Canada to vote | The Canadian PM, Mark Carney, has called a snap election for 28 April – firing the starting gun on a contest expected to focus on the strained relations with the US.

Gaza crisis | Malnutrition is spreading in Gaza, medics and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory are warning, as a total Israeli blockade of all supplies enters its fourth week.

Ekrem İmamoğlu | An Istanbul court has formally arrested the city’s mayor on corruption charges, on the day he was expected to receive his party’s nomination to run for Turkish president.

US politics | Democrat Chuck Schumer has defied calls to step down after backing a Republican-led funding bill; Donald Trump’s defiance of court orders is “testing the fences” of the rule of law, Sam Levine writes; Trump’s expansionism threatens the rules-based order in place since second world war, Peter Beaumont writes.

Return to health | Pope Francis has greeted a crowd of pilgrims gathered outside Gemelli hospital in Rome in his first public appearance in more than five weeks, before being discharged from the hospital.

Motorsport | Australian driver Oscar Piastri has won the F1 Chinese GP – but there was woe for Ferrari as Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc were disqualified.

AFL | North Melbourne finally have their day, Jonathan Horn writes. Could it herald a successful era?

Basketball | Illawarra Hawks clinched a fairytale NBL title after a thrilling finals defeat of Melbourne United.

Cricket | Travis Head did his bit as Jofra Archer was smashed for 76 in the IPL’s most expensive ever bowling spell.

NSW | A public hearing is scheduled in the NSW parliamentary inquiry into the impacts of harmful pornography.

NSW | A 21-day hearing is due to begin in Sydney in ACCC’s case against Mastercard.

NSW | The Lowy Institute is hosting its Owen Harries Lecture, focusing on nuclear arms in the 21st century.

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