Mortgage holders will soon be forking out record-high repayments as the Reserve Bank of Australia warns a pause on interest rates doesn’t mean further hikes are off the table.

The federal Liberal Party will actively campaign against enshrining an Indigenous Voice to parliament, in a major decision that sets up the referendum as a personal political contest between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton.

A rugby league referee was kicked in the neck after blowing a penalty with less than a minute to play in a park footy game on the weekend.

Queensland is holding up the Inland Rail, which has doubled in cost to $31bn in the past two years alone and will not be finalised this decade despite previous promises, a damning new report has found.