Good morning. Letters sent by the Australian Taxation Office are causing alarm, with recipients told they have an “on hold” tax debts that may be decades old and will be taken from future refunds. But recipients say some of the debts are from periods so long ago that they are now near impossible to contest. As the temporary ceasefire in Gaza continues to hold, Israel has released more Palestinians from its prisons after another group of hostages – including Israelis and foreign nationals – were freed by Hamas. But some former hostages face a fresh horror: finding out their loved ones were killed in the 7 October attack. Found out more in our latest live blog. Meanwhile, the Labor government has committed more than a quarter of a billion dollars to a joint federal police and border force operation to monitor people released from indefinite detention. And an affidavit obtained by Guardian Australia reveals the real reasons why David McBride, the “war crimes whistleblower” who last week pleaded guilty to three charges, went to the media. |