Morning Mail: Indigenous school inequality, El Niño threat, Trump predicts his arrest over January 6

Government funding of public schools in the Northern Territory has fallen 7.75% in real terms. Photograph: JohnnyGreig/Getty Images

Morning, everyone. Not much lays bare the inequality in Australia’s education system more than our main story this morning which focuses on the disparity in funding between mainly Indigenous public schools and mainly white private equivalents, in Alice Springs. It’s shocking stuff, as is the very real prospect of a scorching summer in Australia as El Niño gathers strength. In the US, Donald Trump says he has been told he faces federal investigation over the Capitol riot. And Australia’s women cricketers have lost the one-day leg of their England tour 2-1, despite retaining the Ashes – their first series loss in the format in ten years.

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