Good morning. Federal police say the vandalism of a defence manufacturer in July last year is being investigated as an act of terrorism by “far-left extremists”.

Meanwhile, Aboriginal community police officers are suing Northern Territory authorities after years of alleged racial abuse, discrimination and underpayment left them “numb” and dreading putting on their uniforms.

The world’s oil companies are facing calls to stop “cashing in on human misery”. And we take a look at sexual enhancement supplements – do they work?

AustraliaThe former Aboriginal community police officer who leads the NT class action says decades on the job left him dreading putting on the uniform. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

‘It was systemic’ | Aboriginal community police officers are suing the NT government and police force alleging discrimination, underpayment and the widespread use of racist slurs.

Lovitt Technologies | Protesters who vandalised a defence manufacturer and set vehicles alight in Melbourne could face life imprisonment, with the incident investigated as an act of terrorism.

‘Real challenges’ | Reading and writing scores are going backwards in almost every age group in Australia’s national standardised school tests, with one in three students failing to meet Naplan benchmarks.

Site scrubbed | References to “gender equality” have been removed from the Queensland Office for Women’s website, amid claims the state government wants to “dewokify” the public service.

Analysis | The last five minutes of former finance minister Damien Tudehope’s examination before the Independent Commission Against Corruption delivered a bombshell, Anne Davies writes.

WorldOn 23 July, more than 2,000 Israelis from the religious right stormed the compound around al-Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock. Photograph: Ilia Yefimovich/AFP/Getty ImagesFull Story Composite: Carly Earl

The ‘extremely effective’ campaigns undermining support for renewables

Despite most Australians supporting clean technology, the campaign against wind and solar infrastructure has proven to be effective in remote and rural areas. So how do we bring everyone along on the transition to a renewable energy-focused future? And who’s putting up roadblocks? Graham Readfearn joins Reged Ahmad to unpack Australia’s relationship with renewables.

In-depthThe Jocko Graves statue in Maitland, New South Wales has been in the town’s main street since some time between 1881 and 1891. Photograph: Percy Sternbeck/Coalfields Local History Association

A 150-year-old statue of an enslaved American child in a regional NSW town has ignited a furore over race, censorship and what defines art. The statue became a Maitland landmark – with its image put on postcards, teaspoons and other memorabilia. Now, the council has condemned an art exhibit challenging the statue, which the artist says “does not represent Black skin with any dignity”.

Not the newsThe six books up for the 2026 Miles Franklin award: Little World, My Heart in Evening, Discipline, You Must Remember This, Fierceland and First Name Second Name. Composite: Guardian Design/Black Inc, Evercreech, UQP, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Books Australia

Australian fiction has long been interested in the relationship between the local and the global – and the six books shortlisted for this year’s Miles Franklin award range across time and place, engaging with histories of empire, environmental ruin, migration, ageing, political activism and war. Take a look at our guide to this year’s shortlist.

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Gambling influencers are flooding social media with videos but so far only one has been disciplined, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Almost one in five Australian bird and mammal species is at high, very high or extreme risk from the H5 bird flu virus, the Age reports.

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Corruption inquiry | Icac hearing into the NSW Liberal party continues.

Courts | The Alan Jones trial continues.

Literature | Miles Franklin literary award winner announced.

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