Good morning, this is Helen Sullivan bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Monday 27 May.

Top stories

Scott Morrison has revealed the winners and losers in his new-look ministry, breaking his commitment to retain Melissa Price as environment minister and replacing her with Sussan Ley. Barnaby Joyce has lost his role as special drought envoy, a tweet yesterday suggesting that he only learnt he had lost the role via Sky News. Morrison said Price had “asked for a new challenge” and would now serve as defence industry minister. Morrison has given the energy minister, Angus Taylor, responsibility for “meeting the 2030 emissions targets”, suggesting a role beyond the electricity sector. In addition to vacancies created by the retirement of senior ministers including Kelly O’Dwyer and Nigel Scullion, Morrison created room in cabinet by offering Mitch Fifield the role of ambassador to the UN and Arthur Sinodinos ambassador to the US.

Counting is under way in the EU elections, with the first exit polls projecting major losses for centrist blocs. The 40-year stranglehold of the coalition of centrist parties over the levers of power in Brussels looks set to be broken as voters in the turned out in record numbers to bolster radical alternatives including the Greens and the far right. A populist Eurosceptic surge failed to emerge on Sunday but they were on track to be returned to the European parliament in larger numbers than ever before, with Marine Le Pen’s National Rally celebrating a narrow symbolic victory over Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche in France. There were also signs of major success for the Greens, with the party jumping from 50 MEPs in 2014 to as many as 71 and almost doubling its result in Germany to leapfrog the Social Democratic party second place with 22%, the exit polls suggested. The results fire a starting gun on what will be tortuous negotiations over the top jobs in the EU institutions, including Jean-Claude Juncker’s replacement as European commission president, as the vote for the centre parties fell away. Follow the results and analysis live.

Integrity campaigners, senior legal figures and political experts have called for government to intervene to stop the worst cases of deceptive political advertising, after signs mimicking the Australian Electoral Commission’s colours told Chinese voters that the “correct” way to vote was to put a “1” next to the Liberal party. The signs have been described by the activist group Anticolonial Asian Alliance as a “condescending”, “cowardly” and “predatory” attempt to trick voters but the AEC, which is bound by highly prescriptive laws, said it was powerless to act. The Australia Institute executive director, Ben Oquist, has called for an inquiry into how truth in political advertising laws could be implemented in a way that is constitutional and fair. Michael Maley, a former AEC official, said there were “real issues with trying to define truth” – particularly in relation to statements about the future.

World

Donald Trump boards Air Force One after addressing a rally in Montoursville, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

Democrats considering whether to impeach Donald Trump “can sing and dance at the same time just like Beyoncé”, a member of party leadership said on Sunday as debate on the issue raged on. On Sunday the New York congressman Hakeem Jeffries, chair of the House Democratic caucus, made the Beyoncé analogy when he told NBC’s Meet the Press the party could check Trump and serve its voters at the same time.

Germany’s government commissioner on antisemitism has suggested Jews should not always wear the traditional kippah cap in public, in the wake of a rise in anti-Jewish attacks.

Hardcore devotees of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, have taken to the streets across the country in their first major show of force since his landslide election victory last October.

The prime minister of Papua New Guinea, Peter O’Neill, has resigned after weeks of high-level defections from his ruling party. Opponents mustered enough support in parliament to oust him over a range of grievances including his unilateral handling of a multibillion-dollar gas deal that opponents said was a poor outcome for PNG.

Russia has launched a nuclear-powered icebreaker in a bid to open up the Arctic, part of an ambitious program to renew and expand its fleet of the vessels as it readies for more traffic via Northern Sea Route due to warmer climate cycles.

Opinion and analysis

The Liberal MP for Wentworth, Dave Sharma. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

The new Wentworth MP, Dave Sharma, sold himself as “a modern Liberal” in the federal election campaign. But in an interview with Anne Davies, he says disappointment in the Liberals’ policy on climate is more an issue of communication than substance. The former diplomat also has strong views about the growing tensions between Iran and the US, describing Iran as a “problematic and destabilising actor in the region” that is seeking to rewrite the rules in the Middle East.

“Americans don’t always like what government does but they overwhelmingly support the American system of government,” writes the former US secretary of labour Robert Reich. “They want to improve it, not destroy it.” Reich writes that Donald Trump has turned this distinction on its head and that his directive to his attorney general, William Barr, to find evidence of “treason” against specific people who investigated him threatens the neutrality of the entire US system of justice, as does Barr’s assertion of “no limit” on the president’s authority to direct law enforcement investigations, including those he is personally interested in.

Sport

Sporting a helmet styled in the same design as Niki Lauda’s final championship-winning season for McLaren in 1984, Lewis Hamilton delivered the win at the Monaco Grand Prix – a victory he so dearly wanted to honour his friend.

After four years away, Roger Federer has made a winning return to the French Open. “The old and the new shone on the first day of the refurbished Open, but Federer’s win grabbed most insistently at the heartstrings of the faithful on Court Philippe Chatrier,” Kevin Mitchell writes.

Thinking time: Tattoos, cultural identity and immigration stories

Artist, tattooist and curator Stanislava Pinchuk. Photograph: Beth Wilkinson

Stanislava Pinchuk’s artwork has appeared in the campaigns of Tiffany & Co, Louis Vuitton, Nike and Chanel, and is inked on to the bodies of singers Sam Smith and Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine, among others. That gives the Ukraine-born artist the sort of hot profile that’s irresistible to brands, but it’s her sensitive and abstract data-mapping of war and conflict zones that made her the perfect curator for her curatorial debut at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum, part of the larger Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks exhibition.

The larger exhibition is completed by two related blockbuster shows from overseas, Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World; and Tatau: Marks of Polynesia. Pinchuk’s guest-curated section, Documenting the Body, highlights the works of four artists, including Brook Andrew and herself, who are concerned with the intersection of immigration stories and art, particularly body art.

Media roundup

The Australian reports that Morrison is On a mission to rebuff China and will “move rapidly to mark the Pacific as his top ­strategic priority, making an early trip to the Solomon Islands next week to counter growing Chinese influence over Australia’s regional neighbours”. The Sydney Morning Herald’s front page marks the launch of a campaign for constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians, and the paper reveals that Morrison “has ‘committed to getting an outcome’ on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples”, but that he has “given no timeframe on how long the process might take”. The Australian Financial Review’s headline on their cabinet reshuffle analysis is Climate and energy back together. A 27-year-old man has been charged by Melbourne police with the murder of Courtney Herron, the ABC reports.

Coming up

Sydney’s new north-west Metro line faces its first peak-hour test this morning after it was opened on Sunday.

Amber Holt, who allegedly tried to egg Scott Morrison at a Country Women’s Association function in Albury, is due to face court.

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