Good morning. An Aboriginal teenager with an intellectual disability was likely locked in solitary confinement for more than 500 days at Queensland’s troubled Cleveland youth detention centre, in a situation described to a court as a “major failure in our system”, Guardian Australia can report. The teenager’s predicament was largely due to staffing issues at the centre, which were covered earlier this year by a Guardian Australia investigation that found cell-block lockdowns of young people were common and widespread.
Meanwhile, Yevgeny Prigozhin makes a rockstar’s exit from Rostov-on-Don after a bizarre weekend of revolt in Russia, and tributes have rolled in for Labor leader Simon Crean, who died suddenly after his morning exercise on a trade mission to Berlin.
