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. Talks with Denmark and Greenland on Donald Trump’s demands to take over the latter have ended in Washington, with the Danish foreign minister saying Denmark and US perspectives “continue to differ” and that a US acquisition of Greenland “is absolutely not necessary”. At home, Tony Burke may have made it clear that the hate speech laws could target the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, but it has no plans to disband before the bill is introduced. We also report on the agony of Australia’s Iranian diaspora amid the escalating mass anti-regime demonstrations, a call centre’s desperate attempts to boost staff morale, the joy of tennis’s One Point Slam and why a large flat white is an oxymoron. Logging halt | A former New South Wales Labor environment minister has called on the government to halt imminent logging in a forest on the state’s south coast after citizen scientists recorded 102 trees that they say are home to endangered greater gliders. ‘Violence threshold’ | The Australian chapter of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir has said it has no plans to disband before Labor’s hate speech legislation is brought to parliament, a day after the country’s largest neo-Nazi group claimed it would so. The Coalition is set to vote against Labor’s legislation despite the opposition leader, Sussan Ley, calling for urgent legislative action for weeks. ‘Keen to rebuild’ | In the fire-devastated Victorian town of Harcourt, Catie McLeod meets people trying to make sense of the random destruction and hears how the community is rallying to help people rebuild their homes and lives. Detention ‘torture’ | Australia exposed an Iranian asylum seeker to torture and ill-treatment during his years in detention, a UN committee has found , amounting to a breach of international obligations. Tough call | The company running a Centrelink call centre in Perth is using incentives such as lucky dip cash draws and sausage sizzles to boost low morale and reduce staff turnover, according to interviews with workers. Continue reading...