Morning everyone. Cyclone Ilsa is smashing north-west Western Australia after setting a new record for sustained wind speed on our continent. Meanwhile, Peter Dutton has claimed that his decision to oppose the voice referendum formed after talking to Indigenous elders “on the ground” in Leonora and elsewhere. But locals told Guardian Australia he mostly talked about other issues.
And overseas, a 21-year-old man has been arrested and accused of leaking highly sensitive Pentagon documents to an online chat group that dubbed itself Thug Shaker Central.
