As it happened: RBA warns rate relief may be temporary; Security around Australian cricket team tightened ahead of Headingley Test

That’s where we’ll leave today’s live blog. Thanks for reading.

Here’s a wrap of the biggest stories of the day:

• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed the RBA’s decision to pause interest rate rises, calling it a “good thing” rates were being held at 4.1 per cent.
• Indonesian President Joko Widodo departed Australia after a three-day trip to the country. While the Sydney weather was not ideal, Matthew Knott wrote that “the drizzle did not detract from what is clearly a friendly and productive personal relationship”.
• Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney outlined the priorities for the Voice to Parliament in an address to the National Press Club, citing health, education, jobs and housing as the key focus areas.
• Burney also spoke out strongly against the No campaign, claiming Opposition Leader Peter Dutton was engaging in “bully boy tactics”.

• Insiders host David Speers has been appointed to the newly created position of ABC News national political lead, following the departure of former political editor Andrew Probyn.
• The UN declared an El Nino weather event, but BOM held off, citing their different metrics for making the decision.
• The Seven Network and a private company owned by media magnate Kerry Stokes will have to hand over their lawyers’ invoices related to the failed defamation suit brought by war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith, in a significant setback to their claim that they should not have to bear the costs of those proceedings.

Caroline Schelle will be back bright and early tomorrow. Until then, have a lovely evening.

In an excellent piece of analysis, Eryk Bagshaw explains how an abstract map in the trailer for the new Barbie movie became a diplomatic incident and led to the banning of the film in Vietnam.

Africa is barely recognisable. Asia is tipped on its side, with a second line emerging like a tail from somewhere that could be China but might not be. A giant turtle covers parts of South-East Asia. On Monday, Vietnam’s censors became so incensed by some doodles on the map that they banned the $150 million blockbuster.”

The “nine-dash line” covers almost three million square kilometres of the South China Sea. It is an arbitrary claim for territory made by China over the world’s most contested maritime area that has been rejected by the United Nations.

The Chinese government uses it to justify harassment of foreign navy ships, claims to the Spratly Islands and the Scarborough Shoal, fishing and other resources in the world’s busiest shipping routes.”

Read the full analysis piece here.

The Bureau of Meteorology has kept warning levels for an El Nino event on alert, despite the UN officially declaring the weather event on Tuesday.

In a press conference this afternoon, BOM explained that it uses different metrics to the World Meteorological Organisation, a specialised agency of the UN.

While ocean temperatures had reached BOM’s El Nino levels, the tropical atmosphere had not. The tropical atmosphere is measured by a certain level of air pressure difference between Tahiti and Darwin over three months.

As environment reporter Laura Chung explains, BOM’s models show that by August an El Nino event will be well under way across Australia, with the expectation being it will confirm the weather event in the coming weeks.

David Speers, host of ABC’s flagship political program Insiders, has been named the broadcaster’s News national political lead, a newly created position, following the departure of former political editor Andrew Probyn.

Speers, who joined the ABC from Sky News Australia in 2019 as replacement for inaugural host Barrie Cassidy, recently relocated to Canberra with Insiders, broadcasting its first episode in the nation’s capital last weekend.

Probyn’s political editor role was made redundant by ABC management in a recent round of cuts, which could eventually see up to 120 staff move on from the broadcaster.

Read the full story here.