Morning mail: Liberal MP apologises, far-right recruitment, inmate wrongly released

Friday: Queensland Liberal MP Andrew Laming apologises ahead of reports two women accused him of online abuse. Plus: diabetes drug may help women who have repeated miscarriages

Good morning - it's Friday 26 March and the government's difficulty confronting issues of women's safety and treatment in Canberra and beyond continues to make headlines. Extremist views are taking a deeper hold in Australia via social media. And that boat is still stuck.

The prime minister is insisting Christian Porter and Linda Reynolds will continue to play an important role" in his cabinet. Scott Morrison also declared he would not condone" any negative briefing against formal Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins, who made a formal complaint to the prime minister's chief of staff, asking him to examine whether government staff backgrounded against her or her loved ones as she went public with a sexual assault allegation. He was accused of historically keeping women down" on Q+A last night - though Stan Grant took Australia to task for double standards, suggesting the country only mobilises around issues of sexual assault when it becomes a white middle-class issue".