Good morning. Victims’ rights groups say the Queensland government must remove children from police watch houses after a Guardian Australia investigation revealed confronting footage showing the “brutal” treatment of children in adult holding cells.

The cost of arts degrees in Australia is poised to soar past the $50,000 mark for the first time – amid warnings that some students may never be able to pay off their debts.

And, as the US Republican national convention gears up to hear Donald Trump’s address, there are reports that Joe Biden is becoming more open to calls from his party to step aside.

There was a time when would-be poets, historians and writers could expect to pay off an arts degree at an Australian university within the decade, if they were able to find stable employment. Fast forward to now and arts degrees in Australia are poised to cost more than $50,000 for the first time. This places Australia on par with the UK and public colleges in the US, and experts are warning that some students will never be able to pay off their debts.

A locked chest sits at the end of a jetty in a small island town. The key to open it lies on a nearby bench. The town’s citizens believe the chest to be full of valuable coins. Should they open it? The playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer’s debut novel The End and Everything Before It is an intergenerational saga that explores how fostering a strong sense of community brings happiness and harmony – offering a dreamy alternative to the world we live in.

The number of refugees being held on Nauru has increased sixfold in six months, raising questions about the future of the detention centre that was empty at one stage last year, ABC News reports. With the roads to the Jenolan Caves world heritage site closed for 18 months, a 1.5km funicular is being considered to transport tourists up and down its steep hills, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Victorians are being urged to create “sex bubbles” and maintain contact details of all their sexual partners to help curb an outbreak of mpox, the Age reports.

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