Morning Mail: Australians buried in unmarked graves; proposal to nationalise supermarkets; and revisiting Sandpapergate
Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Morning everyone. Today, a Guardian Australia investigation reveals how impoverished Australians are being buried in unmarked communal graves, a practice described by grieving relatives as “unspeakable”. We also report on a Greens proposal to nationalise some supermarkets to drive down food prices, we examine Anthony Albanese’s predicament at the climate summit in Fiji, and what does Sandpapergate mean as Australia return to the scene of the crime?
Plus France is braced for more student unrest, and a lockdown in Siberia after a lab worker dies of suspected plague. Green grocers | More than 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets would be nationalised and hundreds of government-owned grocery stores opened under a $25bn proposal put forward by former Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather, channelling a similar scheme pioneered by New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
Exclusive | Hundreds of impoverished Australians, including rough sleepers, migrants and veterans, are being sent into unmarked and communal graves , most of which hold the remains of four or more people. The practice has outraged the homelessness sector and shocked relatives and friends of the dead, who say they were denied the chance to intervene and fund a proper burial. Cop drama | Anthony Albanese landed in Fiji yesterday to attend his first UN climate summit since becoming prime...
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