Good morning. We lead today with news that 60-day prescriptions have not led to the predicted wave of pharmacy closures across Australia. Despite the doom and gloom warnings from lobby groups, there’s been a significant boost in applications to open new pharmacies since the announcement.

Meanwhile, concerns have been raised about the use of solitary confinement in youth detention centres after the deaths of two disabled First Nations boys who experienced extensive periods of “separation” while in overcrowded and understaffed facilities in Queensland.

And London’s high court has ruled that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is not in fact Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin.

The state political landscape looks increasingly grim for Steven Miles’s government amid housing pressures and the cost-of-living crisis. Labor’s most vulnerable seats are in regional Queensland, but its majority is underpinned by its dominance of Greater Brisbane, where it holds all but four seats. Ben Smee predicts that Labor could find itself under attack on two fronts on Saturday – falling behind the Greens across Brisbane and battling to keep its heartland seats from the LNP.

Memoir is a self-conscious, reflexive mode by definition but in The Cancer Finishing School, this feels doubly true. As a “doctor-writer”, Peter Goldsworthy (pictured left) is both physician and patient; observer and observed, all at once. The result is a very personal story told with remarkable objectivity. His account of being diagnosed with, treated for and recovering from myeloma is rich and compelling, says Adele Dumont.

The AFL is keen to scan the brains of players when they are drafted, as one of a series of measures to reduce the risks associated with concussions, reports the Age. The Great Barrier Reef is being hit by its fifth mass coral bleaching event in the past eight years with 200-year-old corals left devastated, reports ABC News. Sydney scientists kept two human livers alive outside the body for a week – and in a world-first have tested powerful new gene therapies on the donated organs, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

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