Good morning. Penny Wong says recognition of a Palestinian state is “the only hope to break the endless cycle of violence” in the Middle East – and that a two-state solution would help ensure Israel’s long-term security while undermining Hamas. The foreign minister used her speech to the ANU National Security College conference to again urge Israel to abandon plans for a ground invasion of Rafah and warned of imminent starvation among besieged Palestinians.

Meanwhile, the security agency Asio has informed a Senate inquiry of an uptick in activity from rightwing hate groups “who want to trigger a so-called ‘race war’” in Australia.

And: groundbreaking archaeological research may have upended the longstanding belief that Aboriginal Australians did not make pottery.

Liability, imputations and truth: when Justice Michael Lee hands down his decision in the Bruce Lehrmann v Ten & Ors defamation case, it will say whether the defendant has established, on the balance of probabilities, that Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in then defence minister Linda Reynolds’ office in 2019. We take a look at the steps he must take to reach a verdict.

While hitchhiking to Darwin in 1987, Anna Broinowski was kidnapped and assaulted by truckies drunk and high on amphetamines along a desolate stretch of road known as Death Highway. For 30 years she saw the attack as character-building, and didn’t identify as a victim. But the author of Datsun Angel shares how #MeToo gave her a crucial new perspective.

Insolvencies in the retail sector have more than doubled in the past two years, with more retailers shutting up shop for good as the cost-of-living crisis cripples household spending, reports ABC News. A man who lost his nose to cancer has been given a “new sense of freedom” after doctors in Sydney harnessed 3D printing technology to create a prosthesis for him, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. A long-awaited investor compensation scheme offering up to $150,000 to consumers who have experienced misconduct is now operating, reports the Age.

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