Morning Mail: Labor’s budget faces poll test, Trump takes health test, tinned tomatoes get taste test

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 Morning everyone. The Albanese government has work to do convincing voters that this month’s budget measures are the right ones with our latest Guardian Essential poll showing only a third or fewer voters back negative gearing and CGT changes. We also report on an apparently misguided campaign by the anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe, and the anti-corruption commission is investigating a media leak about the arrest of Ben Roberts-Smith. Plus: tinned tomatoes get a taste test, and a spectacular Australian win at Roland Garros. Image problem | An image posted on social media by anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe claiming to show aborted twin girls called “Ruth” and “Emma” appears to be from a TikTok video of newborn sugar gliders. Polled tax | Labor’s key budget measures on housing and tax have failed to win over Australians, with only a third or fewer voters backing negative gearing and CGT changes. Many doubt the changes will make things easier for first home buyers, according to the latest Guardian Essential poll. Syria return | A g

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