Morning Mail: Coalition backs One Nation policy, Bashar al-Assad sentenced to death, and what the RBA really believes

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletter Good morning. Despite pledging to fight Pauline Hanson’s insurgent rightwing movement, the Coalition is now backing One Nation’s policy of barring overseas Australians with terror links from returning home. Overseas, a Syrian court has sentenced its former president, Bashar al-Assad, to death in absentia for war crimes. We interpret what the RBA is saying – and what it might really mean – about future rates hikes. And we look back at Malcolm Turnbull’s time in power to see what lessons it has for Labor in the face of rising populism. Analysis | Parents make threats to get their kids to behave – and hope they won’t have to follow through. There’s more than a whiff of this in the RBA’s messaging, Patrick Commins writes. ‘We’ll work with them’ | The Coalition will back a plan by Pauline Hanson’s One Nation to prevent Australian citizens with links to overseas terror groups from returning home. ‘Industry-wide safety net’ | Delivery drivers in Australia will be paid a minimum rate of $31.30 an hour and insured for injuries on the job under a landmark