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Paul Gallagher

Morning Mail: police investigate violent arrest; Aukus fight in Labor ranks; Indigenous Vietnam veterans identified

Footage shows an 18-year-old man being thrown to the ground by an officer while he is handcuffed.
Footage shows an 18-year-old man being thrown to the ground by an officer while he is handcuffed. Photograph: Snapchat

Good morning. An investigation is underway after footage circulating on social media showed the violent arrest of an Aboriginal man with a disability in New South Wales. A video shows the 18-year-old being walked along a driveway by an officer in Taree before stumbling and falling to the ground, where he begins having a seizure. A second clip shows the teenager – handcuffed – being violently thrown to the ground by the officer.

Meanwhile, Labor is seeking to ward off widespread dissent over the Aukus nuclear submarine deal at its national party conference in Brisbane.

Plus: the service of First Nations soldiers has long been hidden from official histories. But as the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war is commemorated, researchers are shining a light on Indigenous servicemen who fought there.

Australia

Anthony Albanese speaks at the Labor party national conference in Brisbane yesterday.
Anthony Albanese speaks at the Labor party national conference in Brisbane on Thursday. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

World

A man in Fass Boye walks past pirogues, the type of fishing boat which capsized off the coast of Cape Verde.
A man in Fass Boye walks past pirogues, the type of fishing boat which capsized off the coast of Cape Verde. Photograph: Seyllou/AFP/Getty Images

Full Story

Fans at Federation Square react after Australia scores during their Fifa Women’s World Cup campaign.
Fans at Federation Square react after Australia scores during their Fifa Women’s World Cup campaign. Photograph: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images

Australia’s love affair with football – is this a new beginning?

Australia has fallen in love with the Matildas. Despite bowing out in the World Cup semi-finals to England, football fever has spread across the nation and sparked hope that this tournament is just the beginning of a bright future for women’s sport. Gabrielle Jackson speaks to Mike Ticher and Mike Hytner about how Australia must capitalise on the Matildas’ World Cup success.

In-depth

The core module of the world’s first commercial small modular reactor (SMR) installed this month in Hainan, China.
The core module of the world’s first commercial small modular reactor (SMR) installed this month in Hainan, China. Photograph: China News Service/Getty Images

The Coalition appears to have landed on a neat solution to decarbonising Australia’s electricity grid – just swap out the coal plants for nuclear. The shadow climate change and energy minister, Ted O’Brien, says such a plan would reduce the need to spend billions on connecting solar and windfarms to the grid. But what O’Brien has failed to mention is the cost of a new plant to build – and that the pace at which you could deploy the small modular reactors he advocates means sitting on our hands until at least the end of the decade.

Not the news

Australian author Angela O’Keeffe alongside the cover for The Sitter, available through UQP.
Australian author Angela O’Keeffe alongside the cover for The Sitter. Composite: UQP / The Guardian

The Sitter by Angela O’Keeffe is a compelling and playful novel narrated from beyond the grave by Marie-Hortense Fiquet Cézanne, wife and frequent subject of the French painter. It is, in many ways, a book about looking and being looked at, about depiction and all that it might mean. That its opening scene places the reader somewhere ambiguous and slippery, simultaneously within and external to what is being observed, is a skilful gambit – and one that resonates across the rest of the novel.

The world of sport

Australia fans celebrate Sam Kerr’s stunner in the Matildas’ game against England in Sydney.
Australia fans celebrate Sam Kerr’s stunner in the Matildas’ game against England in Sydney. Photograph: Maddie Meyer/FIFA/Getty Images

Media roundup

Amid a worsening housing crisis, NSW will need to build 75,000 homes each year for five years – twice as many as the state is forecast to deliver – to reach its share of the federal government’s ambitious new housing targets, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. There are warnings that Victoria may not be prepared for the hot and dry summer ahead after the state’s water bombing capabilities were slashed by almost a third, reports the Age. Plans to build a private hospital in Tasmania have been abandoned after projected costs doubled to more than $120m, reports the Mercury.

What’s happening today

  • ACT | Commemorations will mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam war.

  • Queensland | The Labor party national conference continues in Brisbane.

  • New South Wales | Hearing scheduled in the case of a climate protester arrested in a police raid in the Colo Valley.

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Brain teaser

And finally, here are the Guardian’s crosswords to keep you entertained throughout the day – with plenty more on the Guardian’s Puzzles app for iOS and Android. Until tomorrow.

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