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. An Israeli missile attack on senior Hamas figures in Doha for ceasefire talks has killed at least five members of the Palestinian group and threatens another major escalation of the war in the Middle East. We have live coverage and reports. Also, NSW plans to fine childcare providers up to $500,000 if they breach new safety directives. Plus we look at why Queensland officials are arguing about unauthorised flagpoles, and how a novelty cheque has become the latest thing to link Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein. Flag dispute | Queensland transport officials will meet Aboriginal groups this week to resolve a standoff over unauthorised flagpoles flying the Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Palestinian flags on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). ‘Nation-leading’ | Large childcare providers found in breach of safety directives will face $500,000 fines – an increase of 900% – under new laws to be introduced by New South Wales parliament today. Stokes’ bill | Seven West Media’s chair, Kerry Stokes, has been ordered to pay $13.5m in legal costs to the media companies unsuccessfully sued for defamation by disgraced former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith. ANU questions | David Pocock, the independent ACT senator, has called on the federal government to urgently intervene in the leadership crisis at the Australian National University as pressure mounts on the chancellor, Julie Bishop, and vice-chancellor, Prof Genevieve Bell, to resign. Groth mistake | The Herald Sun failed to seek a response from Brittany Groth, the wife of Sam Groth, the Victorian Liberal deputy leader and former tennis star, before wrongly outing her as a victim of child sexual assault, the couple allege in federal court documents. Continue reading...