Radio National Breakfast

When Phoebe Britten started her law degree three years ago, moving from a small coastal town to the big smoke, she experienced culture shock.

The defining moment came when a former High Court Justice asked her class to raise their hand if they went to a public school.

Out of a room of about 400, only a dozen hands went up.

Still a teenager, Phoebe realised the significance of privilege and decided to do something to help bridge the gap to higher education.

Today, at just 21 years of age, she leads a not-for-profit helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds with tutoring and scholarship application support, with the goal of helping to equalise the playing field.

• Guest: Phoebe Britten, founder of Inspire Tomorrow Education

It was a good day for Commonwealth Bank shareholders yesterday. 

The big bank booked a record half-year profit of $5.4 billion a 5 per cent jump that defied analysts' expectations.

But the bank's boss Matt Comyn acknowledged conditions remain challenging for some customers and warned the Reserve Bank could hike interest rates again in the next few months.

• GUEST: CBA CEO Matt Comyn
• PRODUCER: Jason Whittaker 

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has introduced legislation to parliament to double the tax rate on superannuation accounts with balances over three million dollars and raise the tax rate on super balances of more than 10 million dollars to 40 per cent.

Last year the government changed its proposed superannuation reforms to index the thresholds to inflation and to exclude unrealised capital gains from the measure.

• GUEST: Nick McKim, Greens spokesperson for Economic Justice & Treasury
• PRODUCER: Isadora Bogle and Joe Sullivan

Liberal leadership aspirant Angus Taylor has quit the opposition frontbench ahead of an expected challenge to Sussan Ley.

Mr Taylor did not declare his intention to call a spill and challenge Ms Ley but last night he said the party "can't ignore" the position the Liberal Party finds itself in.

• GUEST: Andrew Wallace, Shadow Attorney-General
• PRODUCER: Isadora Bogle 

The critical Triple Zero call made by 13-year-old Austin Appelbee to alert authorities after he and his family were swept out to sea south of Perth has been released.

Muslim community leaders are calling for an apology over the actions of some police officers at Monday night's protests during the Israeli president's visit to Sydney.  

Footage from the Town Hall rally appears to show police officers forcefully disrupting a group of men praying and dragging some of them away. The Australian National Imams Council alongside dozens of Muslim groups are calling for a public apology as well as an independent investigation.

• GUEST: Bilal Rauf, senior advisor to the Australian National Imams Council 
• PRODUCER: Eddy Diamond 

An area three times the size of the ACT has been cleared in New South Wales in recent years - and it's threatening hundreds of native species.

That's according to new research from the Wentworth Group for Concerned Scientists. The group says almost 700-thousand hectares have been cleared across the state between 2010 and 2023.

Concerned environmentalists say there needs to be more regulation around land clearing.

• GUEST: Keny Henry, Chair of Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation and former Treasury Secretary
• PRODUCER: Brooke Young

More than 127 million people in Bangladesh are expected to vote today to pick the country's next leader and government, in what has been described as the first proper poll since 2008.

Today's vote will also include a referendum for political reforms that include stronger checks on executive power.

• Guest: Ali Riaz, Special Assistant to the Chief Advisor of the interim government of Bangladesh, Professor Muhammad Yunus
• Producer: Eddy Diamond and Pip Cook

The Israeli Prime Minister is in Washington again, to discuss Iran's nuclear program with the US President Donald Trump.

It's the seventh time the pair have met since President Trump returned to office over a year ago, and comes as tensions continue to rise across the Middle East.

• Guest: Matt Duss is Executive Vice President at the Centre for International Policy, and former foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders
• Producer: Pip Cook and Eddy Diamond

Today the Breakfast Wrap features an interview with former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, exploring two major stories. 

We hear his response to protests in Sydney against the Israeli President's visit to Australia, and speculation of a leadership challenge in the Liberal Party. 

Then, we follow his comments, hearing from the NSW government and the Deputy Foreign Minister to Israel Sharren Haskel. 

Recap the morning's news, politics and global affairs with the Breakfast Wrap.