Eureka moment | A team of researchers at the University of Sydney’s have been awarded this year’s Eureka prize for environmental research for their work on how to protect crops and endangered species by using odours to confuse predators.

‘Information gaps’ | Some of Australia’s major health institutes have called for the government to reverse its position on questions relating to transgender and gender diverse people in the next census, saying the decision could lead to “information gaps” that affect the ability to address the health needs of these populations.

Gambling losses | Australians lose almost twice as much from gambling as people in the US, and poker machines – the biggest single source of losses – are more common in the nation’s suburbs than public toilets, ATMs and post boxes, a report has found.

Exclusive | The Australian government is seeking to create some distance from its new special envoys on antisemitism and Islamophobia, suggesting they do not characterise their comments as official government policy.

No ‘hierarchy’ | A lawyer for a Victorian lesbian group that wants to exclude transgender and bisexual women from its public events has compared its request to a Melbourne gay bar that was granted the right to refuse heterosexual people.

Grenfell ‘failure’ | The Grenfell Tower disaster was the result of “decades of failure” by the British government to stop the spread of combustible cladding combined with the “systematic dishonesty” of companies whose products spread the fire that killed 72 people, a seven-year public inquiry has found.

Georgia shooting | At least four people have been killed and nine people injured after a mass shooting incident at a high school north of Atlanta, Georgia.

Russian ‘interference’ | The Biden administration has accused Russia of carrying out a disinformation campaign targeted at American voters and meant to influence the outcome of November’s presidential elections. The latest polling shows Kamala Harris ahead in the national polls but state-level data has the race on a knife-edge.

Kyiv shuffle | Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has resigned as part of a wide-ranging government reshuffle designed to give what Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called “new strength” to the embattled country.

Amazon clash | At least two loggers have been shot dead with arrows, one has been injured and two more are missing after a confrontation with the “uncontacted” Mashco Piro people in the Peruvian Amazon.

Tennis | Alex de Minaur fell in straight sets to Britain’s Jack Draper in the quarter-finals of the US Open in New York. You can see how the action unfolded here.

Cycling | Australian Kaden Groves won the latest stage of the Vuelta and helped his compatriot Ben O’Connor to hold on to the overall lead by five seconds from Primož Roglič.

T20 cricket | Travis Head and Mitch Marsh smashed a world record 113 off the six powerplay overs as Australia launched their white-ball UK tour by thrashing Scotland by seven wickets.

Economy | RBA governor Michele Bullock speaks at the Anika Foundation in Sydney.

Aged care | Federal minister Anika Wells will make a speech updating the government’s policies at the International Dementia Conference.

Queensland | Parliamentary inquiry into the transition to electric vehicles.

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