Good morning. In a rallying cry for unity one year on from the bruising experience of referendum rejection, key proponents of the Indigenous voice to parliament have challenged Australians to come together to forge a more “authentic Australia”.

We also report this morning that Queensland’s premier, Steven Miles, has promised to hold a plebiscite on nuclear power if he wins the upcoming state election.

Business leaders are laying the blame for Australia’s housing supply crisis on local government delays on application decisions. And UN peacekeepers say Israeli tanks forcibly entered their base in southern Lebanon in a “shocking violation”.

The voice was never going to be a magic bullet, no matter how much the Albanese government attempted to sell it as such, Celeste Liddle writes. But the reality was that what was on the table was a smidgen better than nothing. “I don’t want to revisit the fallout of the voice referendum,” she writes, “but I do want to look at how Australia can move forward: we cannot maintain the status quo.”

This month then comedian Geraldine Hickey went looking for tawny frogmouths, a charismatic bird with a frog-like beak and mottled feathers. While she forgot her binoculars and didn’t know she was in the right spot, after a couple of minutes she spotted one. And then another. “I just felt like a bird god,” she says. This week Hickey is among thousands of Australians taking up the opportunity to try 20 minutes of birdwatching as part of BirdLife Australia’s annual Aussie Bird Count.

The Victorian government’s compensation offer to former foster care children has been described as an “insult” to victims, ABC News reports. Australia’s first defence intelligence chief has been appointed as the next Australian Border Force commissioner, the Australian reports. A five-year study run out of the University of Tasmania is showing drops of 25% in the dementia risk of its study participants, the Mercury reports. Teachers are shunning incentive payments of up to $50,000 to take up hard-to-fill roles in regional Victoria, the Age reports.

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