Morning Mail: ‘extreme version’ of rental crisis, disabled boy’s convictions quashed, mining exports set to plunge

Harrison Hein in the van he called home for 12 weeks while he looked for a room to rent. The Victorian tourist town of Bright has plenty of homes for sale but no available rentals. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian

Good morning. A small Victorian tourist town has scores of houses for sale but almost none for rent – forcing local workers to live out of vans. What is going on in Bright?

A 14-year-old Queensland boy with a severe intellectual disability was sentenced to nine months’ detention – despite not verbalising a plea in court.