Morning everyone. Anthony Albanese is expected to announce the date of the Indigenous voice referendum next week, and the controversy surrounding the campaign shows no sign of abating. Today we report how a New Zealand activist’s views are being co-opted by far-right groups in Australia which could spread “dangerous falsehoods” about the vote. A sharp rise in dangerous strep A infections in children is causing alarm, as are the Naplan results which show one in 10 students falling below numeracy and literacy standards. And there has been drama overnight as eight people left dangling in a damaged cable car high above a remote valley in Pakistan were rescued.
