Today's headlines include:

• The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has kept interest rates on hold for the first time this year.
• An Australian World Cup referee has been cleared of wrongdoing after he was accused of making a hand gesture resembling a white supremacist sign.
• The Bureau of Meteorology has announced an El Niño is underway in the tropical Pacific.
• And today’s good news: A once locally extinct kangaroo-like marsupial has been released back into the far northwestern NSW desert.

Hosts: Emma Gillespie and Lucy Tassell
Producer: Rosa Bowden

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