Your morning Briefing: Morrison records post-election Newspoll surge

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Hello readers. ScoMo gets a post-election bounce in first Newspoll and muscle drug sinks an upcoming Aussie swim star.

PM Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese after attending the Church Service to mark the start of the 46th Parliament, at St Christopher's Cathedral in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Post-election poll surge for PM

Scott Morrison has spearheaded a post-election surge in support for the Coalition, according to the first post-election Newspoll. Keep up with the latest from parliament in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Dutton’s Five Eyes fightback

Australia will lead a global push to target online child exploitation with member countries of the Five Eyes intelligence network.

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CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA - JULY 4: An exhausted Shayna Jack during the Australian Dolphins team training camp at Tobruk Memorial Pool on July 4, 2019 in Cairns, Australia. (Photo by Delly Carr/Getty Images)

Muscle drug sinks Aussie swim star

Australian swimmer Shayna Jack will almost certainly be suspended for next year’s Tokyo Olympics and possibly beyond. Wally Mason says Mack Horton has been hung out to dry by Swimming Australia’s handling of the case.

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Waleed Aly, Carrie Bickmore, Lisa Wilkinson and Pete Helliar. Supplied: Ten

Is Lisa The Project’s fourth banana?

A well-intentioned line appeared to highlight Lisa Wilkinson’s real status on The Project. Nick Tabakoff has more in Media Diary.

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Tech titans to feel ACCC’s bite

ACCC chairman Rod Sims has promised his proposed code of conduct will have ‘real teeth’.

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Traders work after the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on July 16, 2019, in New York City. - Wall Street stocks edged down from records early Tuesday following mixed banking earnings and worrisome manufacturing data contrasted with strong US retail sales. Shares of JPMorgan Chase, the largest US bank by assets, were slightly negative despite reporting record quarterly earnings as investors focused on the bank's lowered forecast for net interest income in anticipation of Federal Reserve moves to cut interest rates. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP)

Shares on brink of new high

The Australian sharemarket may blow through its 2007 peak after Wall Street set new records on Friday, notwithstanding concern about high valuations and potential volatility from the corporate profit reporting season and US-China trade talks this week.

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Johannes Leak’s view

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