Good morning. Schools set up by the Exclusive Brethren sect have spent millions of dollars with businesses owned by church members on major building projects, a Guardian Australia investigation has found.

US president Joe Biden’s press conference at the Nato summit in Washington DC later today is certain to be scrutinised for any signs of slip-up – as calls continue to grow for him to step down from the US election race.

And tributes are flowing for Shelley Duvall, the star of films including The Shining and Annie Hall, who has died aged 75.

Data from the Victorian Crime Statistics Agency released in June showed a 20% increase in youth offender incidents over a 12-month period. After high-profile incidents, the figure has been used by media commentators to prop up claims of a “youth crime crisis”. But youth justice experts say the data is open to interpretation – and they are in fact dealing with a “small group of kids” in a “small number of postcodes”.

It’s rare these days to see crowds of movie patrons lined up around the block, waiting to congregate in front of the big screen. But you can bet on it happening during the 72nd Melbourne international film festival in August. Our film critic, Luke Buckmaster, shares 10 picks to see – including the body horror auteur David Cronenberg’s latest, Cate Blanchett as a hapless German chancellor, India’s first film to compete at Cannes in three decades and a restored Wake in Fright.

The network of offshore oil and gas platforms launched more than 50 years ago in the Bass Strait turned Victoria into an Australian energy powerhouse – but now a battle is looming on how to dismantle them, ABC News reports. The NSW government has been urged to resuscitate a long-lost railway line from Port Kembla to south-west Sydney – or risk wasting the potential of the city’s new airport, the Sydney Morning Herald says.

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