A Nation Divided: Australia Briefing

Good morning, it’s Ed here in a very smoky Sydney. Here’s the news you need to start your day.

Today’s must-reads:
• Vote on Indigenous rights looms
• Carbon capture needs to prove it can work, fast
• CBA sees fierce competition for home loans

With the historic vote on Indigenous rights looming, opposition to giving First Australians an official voice in politics is growing. The nation, and even Indigenous communities that are suffering, remain deeply divided on such constitutional change. My colleague Ben Westcott takes a deeper look at the issues ahead of the Oct. 14 referendum.

Carbon capture technology, seen in one of the world’s biggest such projects on Australia’s remote Barrow Island, is winning new backing as a crucial climate fix. It's also running out of time to prove it can work.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia expects the severe competition for home loans that’s eroding its market share to endure into next year, piling further pressure on its largest business.

Chevron’s requests for a regulator to intervene in its liquefied natural gas labor dispute in Australia will be heard on Sept. 22, as workers threaten to ramp up strikes this week.

The airline industry, one of the first to start selling climate-conscious products to its consumers, may be one of the last to actually decarbonize. The technology just isn’t there yet, writes David Fickling.