Morning everyone. We continue our Descendants series today with a report from Bootenal Springs in Western Australia about how the families of Indigenous people and white settlers came together for a reckoning about a massacre 171 years ago – and calls for the release of diaries that could shed light on colonial-era killings.
Plus: we examine claims and counter-claims about the size of the Sydney pro-Palestine march, we have plenty on an extraordinary game of cricket in England – and will it all go wrong for Sydney Sweeney now that she’s been outed as a Republican?
Australia
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Glacial change | Glaciers on a remote Australian sub-Antarctic island are shrinking rapidly, losing almost a quarter of their size in just 70 years, with researchers fearing glaciers on a neighbouring peninsula may have already disappeared.
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The Descendants | The descendants of those who committed a massacre at Bootenal Springs near Geraldton in Western Australia – the wealthy Drummond and Criddle families – and the surviving Naaguja have come together to reckon with this bloody history. Guardian Australia sat down with both sides as part of The Descendants project. Plus: Naaguja traditional owners have called for the diaries of the prominent colonist Major Logue to be published in full, after we revealed that coded entries from the diary in the 1850s described the killing of Naaguja Yamatji people.
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Bridge divide | The police estimated the crowd at the Harbour Bridge protest to be 90,000 but Palestine Action Group say the figure was closer to 300,000. Who was right?
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Airport chaos | Passengers were evacuated from Brisbane domestic airport and flights delayed after a fault with a single metal detector prompted travellers and staff to be re-screened by security.
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App appeal | Giggle for Girls and Sall Grover have begun their appeal to overturn a landmark court decision that found the women-only social media app and its boss had unlawfully discriminated against Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman.
World
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Israeli pushback | Hundreds of former Israeli security officials, including previous heads of the Mossad and the military, have signed an open letter to Donald Trump urging him to pressure the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to end the war in Gaza. A UN expert who warned of the starvation crisis last year says “no one should act surprised” about the calamity.
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US visitor bonds | The US state department has prepared plans to impose bonds as high as US$15,000 for some tourism and business visas, according to a draft of a temporary final rule. Elsewhere in the Magaverse, Marjorie Taylor Greene has told an interviewer that she feels the Republican party has lost touch with its base. And Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, will arrive in Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin tomorrow.
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Activist arrested | The far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson has been arrested by British police on suspicion of grievous bodily harm after a man was allegedly assaulted at a London railway station
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Musk gets richer | Tesla’s board has approved the award of $US29bn worth of shares to its chief executive, Elon Musk, after a US court ruled against a previous pay deal for the world’s richest person.
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Sydney sider | We write a fair bit about the politics of Sydney, but the politics of Sydney Sweeney are causing a big stir after the ubiquitous actor was revealed as a registered Republican.
Full Story
Is Australia a conspiracy-theory nation?
Conspiracy theories and fringe ideas are now increasingly a visible part of Australian politics and public life. But what pushes people to abandon our shared reality, and what is responsible for the rapid rise in false truths?
Reged Ahmad talks to Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson about the threat conspiracy theories pose to Australia.
In-depth
Business owners in Bali are in despair about the destruction of 48 cliffside establishments at Bingin beach. The dispute symbolises the struggle between mass tourism and the desire to retain the island’s special appeal.
Not the news
What’s your favourite Sam Neill performance? Is it The Dish? Is it Dead Calm? Or is it even his turn in Peaky Blinders? Luke Buckmaster gets it sorted.
Sport
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Cricket | Ben Stokes has praised his England players despite India completing one of the most dramatic Test match victories ever seen at the Oval, squaring the series with a stunning six-run victory after Chris Woakes attempted to carry his team over the line with a dislocated shoulder. Our writer Barney Ronay captures the game’s “moments of beauty, fun and impossible drama”.
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Formula One | After Oscar Piastri missed out on winning the Hungarian grand prix, our correspondent assesses the season so far as the teams take their mid-season break.
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Rugby league | The Penrith Panthers have defended the actions of trainer Corey Bocking after the NRL proposed huge penalties for a controversial incident at the climax of Saturday’s clash against the Gold Coast.
Media roundup
Ten Victorian towns are going to lose piped gas because the operator says it’s too expensive, the Age reports. Forecasting Australia’s weather has become harder thanks to Donald Trump, according to Matt Kean writing in the Sydney Morning Herald. The Daily Telegraph dissects the NRL’s “trainer-gate” and what it calls one of the league’s most significant sanctions in recent history.
What’s happening today
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Economy | Car sales figures for July at 11am followed by ABS release on monthly household spending.
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Courts | Bakers Delight v Fair Work Commission in the federal court.
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Fashion | Country to Couture fashion collections from Indigenous designers.
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