Morning Mail: Family plea for more Nepal aid; the scourge of sexual choking; and Keating’s legacy

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A Sydney man whose parents are missing in Nepal fears Australia is losing interest in the aftermath of the devastating flooding disaster and has pleaded for more help from the Albanese government.

We also pick out the three main takeaways from the national accounts, Hannah Ferguson writes about the scourge of sexual choking (also the subject of our Full Story podcast), and Paul Keating talks about meeting the Queen, Trump and his “big vision”. ‘Unfathomable’ suffering | Family members of the Australians missing in Nepal are continuing their agonising wait for information, including Akash Venkatraman, a student in Sydney who hopes to hear from his missing parents and four family friends.

His uncle has travelled to Nepal to try to find out more but Akash tells Kat Wong and Cait Kelly he fears “Australian attention is falling away” and called for more help from the government.

Our south Asia correspondent, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, has travelled to the disaster-hit districts of northern Nepal, where she has found suffering on an “unfathomable scale” .

Taking account | Yesterday’s national accounts revealed three key points about the economy : that growth is slowing but not collapsing, that we spent on new EVs rather than overseas holidays, and that population growth is still driving GDP rather than productivity.

Greg Jericho writes that, with growth so weak, the RBA must think hard before raising rates.

AI onslaught | Chairs of key federal parliamentary committees have warned that an onslaught of AI-generated material is introducing “hallucinated” information into policymaking, cautioning MPs to be vigilant about the veracity of material.

Herzog protest | A Palestinian Australian man who alleges he was punched in the face when trying to stop police from harassing Muslim men praying during an anti-Isaac Herzog protest is suing New South Wales over “a series of [alleged] false accusations” .

Sydney shooting | NSW police are investigating the death of a man who was shot dead in a home in Sydney’s west as a potential case of mistaken identity, marking the second fatal shooting incident in as many days.

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