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 Good morning. As missile strikes continue, Tehran is warning that it will deem energy and desalination infrastructure across the Middle East a legitimate target if Donald Trump follows through on threats to bomb Iran’s power plants. Meanwhile, there has been disbelief as a former police detective is appointed to Queensland’s Legal Aid board – despite having been described in federal court documents as a “principal antagonist” in events surrounding the Palm Island riots in 2004. Exclusive | Queensland’s government has been accused of “opening old wounds” by appointing a former police detective who was heavily criticised for his role in events before and after the 2004 death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee and subsequent rioting in the Palm Island community to the state’s Legal Aid board. ‘Like battery hens’ | Former workers at the ATO’s private debt collector, Recoveriescorp, claim they faced much worse conditions than those in public service amid high rates of resignations. War fears | A new study by the Australian National University suggests that nearly half of Australians believe a foreign military will attack their country within the next five years . Analysis | Amid the oil shock caused by the Iran war, Australia is quietly considering ways to exert leverage on countries that buy our resources – gas, coal and more – to guarantee our future oil supplies . SA elections | One Nation will win at least one South Australian lower house seat , and is leading in others, as the Liberals consider “sobering lessons” from a thumping election loss to Labor. Continue reading...