Morning Mail: Trump marks 100 days with car flip-flop, music festivals under threat, recipe plagiarism claim

Washed out? | The climate crisis could kill off Australian music festivals already struggling to survive because of rising insurance and production costs, mass cancellations and shifts in consumer buying habits, a new report warns today.

Exclusive | Two threatened mammal species could be wiped out at the site of a proposed industrial development at Middle Arm on Darwin harbour backed by $1.5bn in federal funding, according to a leaked environmental assessment.

Macquarie ‘pride’ | Macquarie Bank bank has said it is “very proud” of its record of owning Thames Water, the British utility that it sold in 2017 and loaded with so much debt that it is now on the verge of collapse.

Curriculum critique | The Coalition has refused to detail changes it would make to the national curriculum after Peter Dutton said students were being “indoctrinated”.

Baking news | The founder of food website RecipeTin Eats, Nagi Maehashi, has accused an influencer and fellow author, Brooke Bellamy, of plagiarising her recipes in a bestselling Australian cookbook. Bellamy denies the accusation and said she created the recipes for caramel slice and baklava “over many years”.

Car trouble | Donald Trump will sign an executive order today giving carmakers building vehicles in the US relief from part of his new 25% vehicle tariffs to allow them time to bring parts supply chains back to the US after a lobbying operation by the industry. In another tariff dispute, the White House accused Amazon of a “hostile” act after it reportedly planned to publish the cost of tariffs on its website. You can follow all the news live along with his Michigan rally, which begins at 8am AEDT.

‘US won’t break us’ | Canada’s newly re-elected prime minister, Mark Carney, gave a stirring victory speech evoking the country’s former, mutually productive relationship with the US but now he has to deliver on his pledge to restore those days. Here’s our explainer on what his anti-Trump triumph win means. Meanwhile, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre not only lost an election that at one point had looked unlosable, he also lost his seat.

Blair fuels fire | Tony Blair has warned that any strategy based on phasing out fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is doomed to fail, and called for a reset of action on climate change.

Blackout question | Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has vowed to “get to the bottom” of the unprecedented power cut that hit the Iberian peninsula on Monday, as questions emerged about whether renewables played a part in causing the outage.

Heathcliff, mate | Kharmel Cochrane, the casting director of Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, has defended the choice of Australians Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi for the leading roles.