Morning Mail: Albanese calls Whitlam dismissal ‘calculated plot’, Trump threatens to sue BBC for US$1bn, plan for more Melbourne trains

Morning everyone. Fifty years to the day after the infamous dismissal of Gough Whitlam, Anthony Albanese has spoken out, calling it a “calculated plot”.
Also today there are calls for a massive expansion of Melbourne’s public transport system, and NSW has a new tactic in the fight against illegal tobacco.
Overseas, Donald Trump is threatening to sue the BBC for more than a billion dollars and has pardoned close political allies including Rudy Giuliani for their roles in a plot to steal the 2020 election.
Australia

Dismissal ‘plot’ | Gough Whitlam’s dismissal was not a constitutional crisis but “a calculated plot” to remove a democratically elected government via partisan ambush, Anthony Albanese has said on the 50th anniversary of the infamous decision by Sir John Kerr. Check out our picture gallery of those fateful events.
Ley losses | Our chief political correspondent, Dan Jervis-Bardy, writes that Sussan Ley faces a lose-lose-lose scenario as she tries to balance National and rightwing opposition to net zero with the prospect of losing moderates.
Exclusive | Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price backed out as the headlining speaker at an upcoming anti-immigration protest spanning several of Australia’s cities that was inspired by rightwing protests in the UK in September.
Line call | The Victorian government should ramp up train services in Melbourne’s north and west, extend eight tram routes and create six new express bus services within the next five years, according to the state’s independent adviser.
Tobacco fines | Landlords who knowingly allow their tenants to sell illicit tobacco and illegal vapes could be fined up to $165,000, sentenced to up to a year in prison or both, under legislation planned in NSW.

World

‘Never forgotten’ | Governments failing to shift to a low-carbon economy will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and will face stagnation and rising inflation at home, the UN’s climate chief warned overnight at the start of the Cop30 climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belém.
Trump threat | Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC and welcomed the resignations of two of its most senior figures after the broadcaster’s chair said the misleading splicing of a speech by the US president was an “error of judgment”. Read our explainer on the affair and watch our side-by-side video of the speech edit.
Shutdown shout | Parts of the Democratic caucus have reacted with fury after seven of the party’s senators backed a bill that will end the federal shutdown. They are accused of abandoning the party’s negotiating stance and surrendering leverage to the Trump administration.
Delhi bomb | A car has exploded near the historic Red Fort in India’s capital, killing at least eight people, injuring several others and triggering a fire that damaged several vehicles parked nearby.
Woolly thinking | Seasoned Shetlanders have demanded an apology from the UK’s Channel 4 for its reality show Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter, which is based on Shetland’s Fair Isle technique. They said it was littered with errors and amounted to cultural appropriation.

Full Story
Is Roblox an ‘X-rated paedophile hellscape’?
Sarah Martin joins Nour Haydar to talk about her chilling experience posing as a teenager on the popular online platform.

In-depth
When the plan to build a mosque for Bendigo’s Muslim community became a rallying point for rightwing extremists more than a decade ago, it made international headlines. But now worshippers are preparing for the formal opening of a building that has been built with “a lot of love, a lot of heart”.
Not the news
As part of her mechanism to deal with ADHD, Matilda Boseley describes how she has designed a survival strategy consisting of a checklist of essentials taped to her door, a portable-power bank charging station next to the spot where she keeps her sunglasses, and a designated corner for her bag. It is, she writes in this extract from her new book, “an executive-functioning burden I’ve managed to take off my brain’s plate”.
Sport

Cricket | Former Australian Test players Simon Katich and Damien Fleming have helped to lead an all-star judging panel to decide the 100 best Ashes players of all time as the build-up to the series continues. And England’s players have now all arrived in Perth’s picturesque Lilac Hill to prepare for the opening Test next Friday.
Formula One | Lando Norris has played down title expectations having taken a 24-point world championship lead over Oscar Piastri after the São Paulo Grand Prix as the circuit now heads to Las Vegas.
Olympics | The International Olympic Committee is edging closer towards implementing a ban on transgender women competing in the female category in time for the Los Angeles Olympics.

Media roundup
Half of voters fear the transition to renewables will push up energy bills, according to a “Mood of the Nation” poll cited in the Australian. “Beloved” Adelaide newsreader Kate Collins has been axed by Nine, the Advertiser reports, while the Courier Mail reports a similar story of cuts in the newsroom in Brisbane. A woman and a child have drowned in Dandenong Creek, the Herald Sun reports.
What’s happening today

Courts | Closing submissions at the NSW supreme court in a class action over alleged water mismanagement of the Murray Darling.
Canberra | James Elder, global spokesperson for Unicef Australia, will address the National Press Club.
Melbourne | Bagpipers will pay homage to AC/DC’s It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll) music video in a bid to smash the record for the largest ever bagpipe ensemble.

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