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Paul Gallagher

Morning Mail: pharmacies defy 60-day script warnings, Australian ‘not bitcoin creator’, EV sales boom

The Australian government received 87 applications to open new pharmacies in the months after the announcement of 60-day prescriptions.
The Australian government received 87 applications to open new pharmacies in the months after the announcement of 60-day prescriptions. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Good morning. We lead today with news that 60-day prescriptions have not led to the predicted wave of pharmacy closures across Australia. Despite the doom and gloom warnings from lobby groups, there’s been a significant boost in applications to open new pharmacies since the announcement.

Meanwhile, concerns have been raised about the use of solitary confinement in youth detention centres after the deaths of two disabled First Nations boys who experienced extensive periods of “separation” while in overcrowded and understaffed facilities in Queensland.

And London’s high court has ruled that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is not in fact Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin.

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The future of Australia’s alliance with the US

Fresh speculation has erupted over Australia’s plan for nuclear powered submarines – and whether it will ever happen. Has the government made a strategic mistake in the region by tying itself so closely to the US? What could the upcoming presidential election mean for Australia’s defence plans? Jane Lee talks with Mike Ticher and Patrick Keneally about what’s next in the US-Australia relationship.

In-depth

The state political landscape looks increasingly grim for Steven Miles’s government amid housing pressures and the cost-of-living crisis. Labor’s most vulnerable seats are in regional Queensland, but its majority is underpinned by its dominance of Greater Brisbane, where it holds all but four seats. Ben Smee predicts that Labor could find itself under attack on two fronts on Saturday – falling behind the Greens across Brisbane and battling to keep its heartland seats from the LNP.

Not the news

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The world of sport

Media roundup

The AFL is keen to scan the brains of players when they are drafted, as one of a series of measures to reduce the risks associated with concussions, reports the Age. The Great Barrier Reef is being hit by its fifth mass coral bleaching event in the past eight years with 200-year-old corals left devastated, reports ABC News. Sydney scientists kept two human livers alive outside the body for a week – and in a world-first have tested powerful new gene therapies on the donated organs, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

What’s happening today

  • Queensland | Opposition leader Peter Dutton is scheduled to address the Australian Pharmacy Professional conference on the Gold Coast.

  • ABS | The Australian Bureau of Statistics is set to release its latest criminal courts data, covering the 2022-23 financial year.

  • New South Wales | A public hearing is scheduled in the NSW parliament’s inquiry into the planning system and the impacts of climate change on the environment and communities

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And finally, here are the Guardian’s crosswords to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow.

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