Morning Mail: Alarm at Nauru detention contract price rise; LIV golf course plan threatens Indigenous site; Albanese backs Starmer

MTC’s amended contract with the Australian government to run offshore processing in Nauru will lift its value by $365m to $787m and extend it to 2027. Composite: AP/Australian Government

Good morning. We lead today with revelations that a US private prisons operator will be paid $790m to hold just over 100 people on Nauru after the government expanded its contract in a decision called “absurd” by critics.

In South Australia, a proposal to upgrade a golf course for the Saudi-backed LIV tournament threatens to disturb a significant Indigenous ceremonial and burial site.