Morning mail: Rennick’s Facebook posts ‘dangerous’, petrol price rises, HG’s sports fairytales

Wednesday: Senator's posts about vaccine side-effects spark concerns for public confidence. Plus: HG Nelson's three beloved items

Good morning. Health experts claims Liberal MP Gerard Rennick's Facebook posts about vaccines could be dangerous". Covid cases continue to rise across Europe. And petrol and rental prices are putting financial pressure on Australians.

Senator Gerard Rennick's use of Facebook to push unverified stories about vaccine side-effects is potentially dangerous, a top health expert has warned, as fresh doubt is cast on the legitimacy of a story he helped promote. Rennick conceded to Guardian Australia that he does not verify the accuracy of the dozens of third-party claims he has published about severe vaccine side-effects. Associate professor and head of the AusVaxSafety program, Nick Wood, said: The fact that he has admitted he hasn't checked them and he's just posted them on, that's a problem. I think that is a danger because it feeds into: is there a cover-up here, we're not being told things'. That can potentially impact public confidence."