Good morning. At the Olympics, a relay team led by Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O’Callaghan has dominated the marquee 4x200m freestyle event to take gold – and set a new Olympic record. Earlier, Jemima Montag had a late surge to take bronze in the 20km race walk. And the Simone Biles show continues with the US gymnastics superstar winning her second gold of the Paris Games with a dazzling all-round performance.
In our Degrees Devalued series: critics claim that the dependence of Australian universities on international student fees has fuelled an unstable business model and a culture of “revenue, profit and competition” – as the institutions struggle to make up for lost government funding.