Morning everyone. Households could begin receiving free solar power for a few hours each day, even if they don’t have panels installed, under a new federal government plan.

Plus: Sussan Ley has no good choices in the net zero stoush, a Queensland professor wins the prime minister’s science prize for her work on Covid, Melbourne Cup punts remain popular, and Jennifer Lawrence reveals why she’s not going to “fuel the fire” over Donald Trump.

Australia

‘Pioneering’ | Prof Lidia Morawska, an expert in air quality and health at Queensland University of Technology, has won the top $250,000 prime minister’s science prize for her “pioneering research” that helped change the way the world treated the Covid pandemic.

Free power | Australian households in three states will get access to at

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