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Trump supporters outside the venue in Warren, Michigan, where Donald Trump will speak later today
Trump supporters outside the venue in Warren, Michigan, where Donald Trump will speak today. Photograph: Rebecca Cook/Reuters

US president to hold celebratory rally in Michigan after tariff concession to car industry; climate crisis could be costly for fans, report warns

Morning everyone. Donald Trump will mark the first 100 days of his second presidential term with a rally in Michigan today, having already marked it perhaps less intentionally by performing a big flip-flop on tariffs for carmakers.

Our Full Story podcast today answers all your election questions and we report on what links a Western Australian marginal and the Singapore election. Plus, music festivals are falling victim to the climate crisis and will casting two Aussies ruin Wuthering Heights?

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Your election questions answered: the price of eggs, Kirribilli House and memorable moments

In a special Ask Me Anything election edition, our political reporter Krishani Dhanji and economics editor Patrick Commins give you the answers from energy policy to where the prime minister should live and how your preferences work.

In-depth

Tasmania is one of the most fascinating battlegrounds in the federal election. Our state resident, Adam Morton, writes that “anything could happen” in four of the five seats. A state Labor star, Rebecca White, is hoping to take Lyons while sitting MP Julie Collins faces an anti-salmon farming independent in Franklin. There’s also an interesting battle in Western Australia, in the knife-edge Tangney, where the Liberal candidate, Howard Ong, will challenge sitting Labor MP and former dolphin trainer Sam Lim in Saturday’s election on the same day as Ong’s little brother – Singapore’s health minister – goes to the polls.

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A fashionable therapy for dealing with heightened stress is to reduce your cortisol, the body’s main stress hormone. A so-called “cortisol detox” is touted as an antidote to stress and exhaustion but, in our latest Antiviral column, Natasha May hears from experts who say some “detox” tips such as cold plunges or cold water immersion could be dangerous for some people.

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One Nation will be “the story” of this election, an analyst says, as Pauline Hanson tells the Sydney Morning Herald she expects to pick up Senate seats around the country thanks to Coalition preferences. Meanwhile, a poll in the Age gives Labor a “clear” 53-47 lead over the Coalition and a route to majority rule. The Fin Review reports that James Packer has made a $39m loss on his Beverly Hills mansion after the sale was wrapped up this week.

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