Morning Mail: Police officers let off over racist comments; catastrophic floods in Libya; Morocco quake death toll rises

Good morning. Queensland’s police commissioner Katarina Carroll said at a press conference last year that she believed officers making racist comments “should not be in the organisation”. However, today we reveal that officers recorded making “sickening” remarks while working inside a Brisbane watch house have escaped punishment.

Overseas, there are early reports from Libya where a powerful storm led to the collapse of two ageing dams, which unleashed catastrophic floods that may have drowned as many as 2,000 people in the city of Derna. And in quake-hit Morocco, small mountain villages are still waiting for help to arrive as the death toll continues to rise.

Sarah Cox was admitted to hospital and placed on a feeding tube because she was malnourished, yet hospital staff discharged her with a weight-loss plan. Her eating disorder began after she was told by her GP to lose weight and that her BMI was too high at multiple appointments – despite displaying no indicators of poor health, such as blood test abnormalities or high or low blood pressure. Experts say her case shows that official dietary guidelines are contributing to eating disorder risk, and that health – not weight loss – needs to be the focus of public health messaging.

Strawberry season is in full swing, with affordable prices and strong supply coming from Queensland and Western Australia. From berry-crowned tarts and fruit ketchup, to a refreshing granita and the classic milkshake option: there’s something for everyone in our 11 recipes to help make the most of every $2 punnet.

Anti-voice volunteers have been told not to identify themselves upfront as no campaigners and to deploy fear and doubt instead of facts as they make hundreds of thousands of calls to persuadable voters, reports the Age. Lawyer and academic Dr Anna Cody, the new sex discrimination commissioner, says Australia should no longer take a single-issue approach to equality as she flags a focus on LGBTQI+ issues, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Indigenous Australians and First Nations people are being offered ticket discounts of up to $170 under concessions provided by the nation’s elite ballet, musical, arts, cultural and sporting bodies and institutions, reports the Australian.

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